Document ID: EPA-HQ-OPP-2022-0602-0001
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Nominations to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory Panel
Posted Date: 2022-07-28T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 144 (Thursday, July 28, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45317-45319]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-16155]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2022-0602; FRL-10028-01-OCSPP]

Nominations to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and 
Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory Panel (FIFRA SAP); Request for 
Comments

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice provides the names, addresses, and professional 
affiliations of persons recently nominated to serve on the Scientific 
Advisory Panel (SAP) established under the Federal Insecticide, 
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). The Agency, at this time, 
anticipates selecting new members to serve on the panel because of the 
upcoming expirations of membership terms. Current members of the SAP 
are eligible for reappointment during this period. Therefore, the 
appointments completed over the next year may include a mix of newly 
appointed and reappointed members. Public comments on the current 
nominations are invited, as these comments will be used to assist the 
Agency in selecting the new members for the FIFRA SAP.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before August 29, 2022.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification 
(ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2022-0602, through the Federal eRulemaking 
Portal at https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions 
for submitting comments. Do not submit electronically any information 
you consider to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other 
information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Additional 
instructions on commenting and visiting the docket, along with more 
information about dockets generally, is available at https://www.epa.gov/dockets.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steven M. Knott, MS, Designated 
Federal Officer (DFO) and Chief of the Peer Review and Ethics Branch, 
Mission Support Division (7602M), Office of Program Support, Office of 
Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, Environmental Protection 
Agency; telephone number: (202) 564-0103; email address: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. General Information

A. Does this action apply to me?

    This action is directed to the public in general. This action may, 
however, be of interest to persons who are or may be required to 
conduct testing of chemical substances under the Federal Food, Drug, 
and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) and FIFRA. Given other entities may also be 
interested, the Agency has not attempted to describe all the specific 
entities that may be affected by this action. If you have any questions 
regarding the applicability of this action to a particular entity, 
consult the DFO listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.

B. What should I consider as I prepare my comments for EPA?

    1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit CBI information to EPA through 
regulations.gov or email. If your comments contain any information that 
you consider to be CBI or otherwise protected, please contact the DFO 
listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT to obtain special 
instructions before submitting your comments. Information properly 
marked as CBI will not be disclosed except in accordance with the 
procedures set forth in 40 CFR part 2.
    2. Tips for preparing your comments. When preparing and submitting 
your comments, see the commenting tips at https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets#tips.

C. What action is the Agency taking?

    This document identifies persons recently nominated to serve on the 
SAP, from which the Agency, at this time, anticipates selecting new 
members to serve on the panel because of the upcoming expirations of 
membership terms. Public comments on these current nominations are 
invited, as these comments will be used to assist the Agency in 
selecting the new members for the FIFRA SAP.

D. What is the Agency's authority for taking this action?

    The Panel is a federal advisory committee, established in 1975 
under FIFRA (7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.), that operates in accordance with 
requirements of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) (5 U.S.C. 
appendix 2). In accordance with FACA requirements, a Charter for the 
FIFRA SAP, dated October 17, 2020, provides for open meetings with 
opportunities for public participation.

II. Background

    The FIFRA SAP serves as a scientific peer review mechanism of EPA's 
Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP) and is 
structured to provide independent scientific advice, information, and 
recommendations to the EPA Administrator on pesticides and pesticide-
related issues as to the impact of regulatory actions on health and the 
environment. The FIFRA SAP is composed of a permanent panel consisting 
of seven members who are appointed by the EPA Administrator from 
nominees provided by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the 
National Science Foundation (NSF). Members serve staggered terms of 
appointment, generally of three to six years duration. FIFRA 
established a Science Review Board (SRB) consisting of at least 60 
scientists who are available to the FIFRA SAP on an ad hoc basis to 
assist in reviews conducted by the FIFRA SAP.
    As a scientific peer review mechanism, the FIFRA SAP provides 
comments, evaluations, and recommendations to improve the effectiveness 
and quality of analyses made by Agency scientists. Members of the FIFRA 
SAP are scientists who have sufficient professional qualifications, 
including training and experience, to provide expert advice and 
recommendations to the Agency.

III. Nominees

A. Qualifications of Members

    Members are scientists who have sufficient professional 
qualifications, including training and experience, to provide expert 
comments on the impact of pesticides on human health and the 
environment. In accordance with FIFRA section 25(d)(1), the 
Administrator shall require nominees to the FIFRA SAP to furnish 
information concerning their

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professional qualifications, including educational background, 
employment history, and scientific publications. No persons shall be 
ineligible to serve on the FIFRA SAP by reason of their membership on 
any other advisory committee to a federal department or agency, or 
their employment by a federal department or agency (except EPA). FIFRA 
further stipulates that the Agency publish the name, address, and 
professional affiliation of the nominees in the Federal Register.

B. Applicability of Existing Regulations

    With respect to the requirements of FIFRA section 25(d) that the 
Administrator promulgate regulations regarding conflicts of interest, 
FIFRA SAP members are subject to the provisions of the Standards of 
Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch at 5 CFR part 
2635, conflict of interest statutes in Title 18 of the United States 
Code, and related regulations. Each nominee selected by the 
Administrator, before being formally appointed, is required to submit a 
Confidential Financial Disclosure Form, which shall fully disclose, 
among other financial interests, the nominee's sources of research 
support, if any.

C. Process of Obtaining Nominees

    In accordance with the provisions of FIFRA section 25(d), on March 
24, 2022, EPA requested that the NIH and the NSF nominate scientists to 
fill vacancies occurring on the FIFRA SAP. The Agency requested 
nominations of experts in the fields of ecological and human health 
risk assessment with specific expertise in terrestrial ecotoxicology 
and environmental fate modeling; nano technologies (especially related 
to exposure and hazard assessments); and microbiology, including 
antimicrobial susceptibility of a broad range of microorganism types. 
The Agency noted that experts with specific experience in risk 
assessment, dose response analysis, computational toxicology (new 
approach methodologies and in vitro to in vivo extrapolation), 
allergenicity, population modeling, cheminformatics, bioinformatics, 
and genomics are preferred. NIH and NSF responded, providing the Agency 
with a total of 64 nominees. Of these nominees, 24 are interested and 
available to actively participate in FIFRA SAP meetings (see Unit 
III.D.). The following 40 individuals are not available to be 
considered further for membership at this time (numbered for 
convenience only):
    1. Lisa Cohen Alvarez, Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 
Berkeley, California.
    2. Pedro Alvarez, Ph.D., Rice University, Houston, Texas.
    3. Cesar Arias, MD, Ph.D., Houston Methodist Academic Institute, 
Houston, Texas.
    4. Alberto Ascherio, Ph.D., Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public 
Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
    5. Juliana Wardenburg Bubeck, MD, Ph.D., Washington University 
School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
    6. Jiu-Chiuan Chen, Ph.D., University of Southern California, Los 
Angeles, California.
    7. Weihsueh Chiu, Ph.D., Texas A&M University, College Station, 
Texas.
    8. Deborah Dean, MD, MPH, University of California- San Francisco, 
San Francisco, California.
    9. Francesca Dominici, Ph.D., Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public 
Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
    10. Mary Dunlop, Ph.D., Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.
    11. Ashlee Earl, Ph.D., Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
    12. Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, Ph.D., University of California-
Irvine, Irvine, California.
    13. Anthony Flores, MD, MPH, Ph.D., The University of Texas Health 
Science Center, Houston, Texas.
    14. David Greenberg, MD, Ph.D., University of Texas Southwestern 
Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
    15. Maria Hadjifrangiskou, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University Medical 
Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
    16. Mark Hahn, Ph.D., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods 
Hole, Massachusetts.
    17. Pam Hall, Ph.D., University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New 
Mexico.
    18. Mary Hausbeck, Ph.D., Michigan State University, East Lansing, 
Michigan.
    19. Christy Haynes, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 
Minnesota.
    20. Ron Hites, Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
    21. Robert Hurt, Ph.D., Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
    22. Rebecca Klaper, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin.
    23. Gyanu Lamichhane, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 
Maryland.
    24. Kim Lewis, Ph.D., Northeastern University, Boston, 
Massachusetts.
    25. Jose Ribot Lopez, Ph.D., University of Texas, San Antonio, 
Texas.
    26. Cole Matson, Ph.D., Baylor University, Waco, Texas.
    27. Gary W. Miller, Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, New York.
    28. Denise Monack, Ph.D., Stanford University, Stanford, 
California.
    29. Suzanne Noble, Ph.D., University of California- San Francisco, 
San Francisco, California.
    30. Kelli Palmer, Ph.D., University of Texas, Dallas, Texas.
    31. Lina Quesada-Ocampo, Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 
Raleigh, North Carolina.
    32. Gemma Reguera, Ph.D., Michigan State University, East Lansing, 
Michigan.
    33. David Reif, Ph.D., North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 
North Carolina.
    34. Elena Rustchenko, Ph.D., University of Rochester Medical 
Center, Rochester, New York.
    35. Noelle Selin, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
    36. Anna Selmecki, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 
Minnesota.
    37. Christine Smart, Ph.D., Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
    38. Pedro Tarafa, Ph.D., University of Puerto Rico, Mayag[uuml]ez, 
Puerto Rico.
    39. Katrina Waters, Ph.D., Department of Energy, Pacific Northwest 
National Laboratory, Richland, Washington.
    40. David Weis, Ph.D., Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.

D. Interested and Available Nominees

    The following are the names, addresses, and professional 
affiliations of current nominees being considered for membership on the 
FIFRA SAP (numbered for convenience only). Selected biographical data 
for each nominee is available in the docket identified under ADDRESSES 
and through the FIFRA SAP website at https://www.epa.gov/sap. The 
Agency, at this time, anticipates selecting new members to fill 
upcoming vacancies occurring on the Panel.
    1. Erin S. Baker, Ph.D., North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 
North Carolina.
    2. Dana Boyd Barr, Ph.D., Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
    3. Scott M. Belcher, Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 
Raleigh, North Carolina.
    4. Jose Cerrato, Ph.D., University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New 
Mexico.
    5. Deborah A. Cory-Slechta, Ph.D., University of Rochester Medical 
School, Rochester, New York.
    6. Christina Cuomo, Ph.D., Broad Institute, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts.
    7. Maurizio Del Poeta, MD, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New 
York.
    8. Upal Ghosh, Ph.D., University of Maryland Baltimore County, 
Baltimore, Maryland.

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    9. Claudia Gunsch, Ph.D., Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
    10. Nishad Jayasundara, Ph.D., Duke University, Durham, North 
Carolina.
    11. Jakub Kostal, Ph.D., George Washington University, Washington, 
District of Columbia.
    12. Raina M. Maier, Ph.D., University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
    13. Stefano Monti, Ph.D., Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.
    14. Ingrid Padilla, Ph.D., University of Puerto Rico, 
Mayag[uuml]ez, Puerto Rico.
    15. Beate R Ritz, MD, Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles, 
Los Angeles, California.
    16. Zeev Rosenzweig, Ph.D., University of Maryland Baltimore 
County, Baltimore, Maryland.
    17. Tara L Sabo-Attwood, Ph.D., University of Florida, Gainesville, 
Florida.
    18. Maria Reyes Sierra-Alvarez, Ph.D., University of Arizona, 
Tucson, Arizona.
    19. Elsie M. Sunderland, Ph.D., Harvard University, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts.
    20. Justin Teeguarden, Ph.D., Department of Energy, Pacific 
Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington.
    21. Lisa Truong, Ph.D., MBA, Oregon State University, Corvallis, 
Oregon.
    22. Paul Westerhoff, Ph.D., Arizona State University, Tempe, 
Arizona.
    23. Timothy R. Zacharewski, Ph.D., Michigan State University, East 
Lansing, Michigan.
    24. Hao Zhu, Ph.D., Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey.

    Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et. seq.; 21 U.S.C. 301 et seq.; 5 U.S.C. 
Appendix

    Dated: July 22, 2022.
Michal Freedhoff,
Assistant Administrator, Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution 
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2022-16155 Filed 7-27-22; 8:45 am]
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