Document ID: EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-0319-0001
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Exposure Modeling Public Meeting
Posted Date: 2007-05-16T04:00Z

[Federal Register: May 16, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 94)]
[Notices]               
[Page 27558-27559]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-0319; FRL-8129-9]

 
Exposure Modeling Public Meeting

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: An Exposure Modeling Public Meeting (EMPM) will be held for 
one day on June 12, 2007. This notice announces the location and time 
for the meeting and sets forth the tentative agenda topics.

DATES: The meeting will be held on June 12, 2007 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
    To request accommodation of a disability, please contact the person 
listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATON CONTACT, preferably at least 10 
days prior to the meeting, to give EPA as much time as possible to 
process your request.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at Environmental Protection Agency, 
Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP), One Potomac Yard (South Building), 
1\st\ Floor South Conference Room, 2777 S. Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA 
22202.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Greg Orrick, Environmental Fate and 
Effects Division, Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-
0001; telephone number: (703) 305-6140; fax number: (703) 305-6309; e-
mail address: orrick.greg@epa.gov

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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I. General Information

A. Does this Action Apply to Me?

    You may be potentially affected by this action if you are required 
to conduct testing of chemical substances under the Toxic Substances 
Control Act (TSCA), the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), or 
the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). Since 
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 person listed under FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT.

B. How Can I Get Copies of this Document and Other Related Information?

    1. Docket. EPA has established a docket for this action under 
docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-0319. Publicly 
available docket materials are available either in the electronic 
docket at http://www.regulations.gov, or, if only available in hard 

copy, at the Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) Regulatory Public 
Docket in Rm. S-4400, One Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S. Crystal 
Drive Arlington, VA. The hours of operation of this Docket Facility are 
from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal 
holidays. The Docket Facility telephone number is (703) 305-5805.
    2. Electronic access. You may access this Federal Register document 
electronically through the EPA Internet under the ``Federal Register'' 
listings at http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr.

II. Background

    On a triannual interval, an Exposure Modeling Public Meeting will 
be held for presentation and discussion of current issues in modeling 
pesticide fate, transport, and exposure in support of risk assessment 
in a regulatory context. Meeting dates and abstract requests are 
announced through the ``empmlist'' forum on the LYRIS list server at: 
https://lists.epa.gov/read/all_forums/.

III. How Can I Request to Participate in this Meeting?

    You may submit a request to participate in this meeting to the 
person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Do not submit any 
information in your request that is considered CBI. Requests to 
participate in the meeting, identified by docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPP-
2007-0319, must be received on or before May 31, 2007.

IV. Tentative Agenda

    9 a.m. Welcome, Introductions, and Brief Updates
    9:30 a.m. Model Review and Scenario Development for Urban Pesticide 
Runoff Model (Scott Jackson, CLA; Mark Cheplick, Amy Ritter and Marty 
Williams, WEI)
    10 a.m. Urban Models: Concepts, Questions and Opportunities 
(Tharacad Ramanarayanan, Bayer and Paul Hendley, Syngenta)
    10:45 a.m. Examination of Non-Agricultural Pesticide Use by means 
of GIS Coverages (Roy W. Meyer & Curtis Brown, New Jersey Department of 
Environmental Protection)
    11:15 a.m. A Comparison of PRZM, RZWQM, AND TURFPQ for Modeling 
Turf Pesticides (Qingli Ma and Stuart Cohen, Environmental & Turf 
Services, Inc.)
    11:45 a.m. Lunch
    1 p.m. Methods for Estimating Spatial Distributions of Turf 
(Michelle Thawley, USEPA/EFED)
    1:30 p.m. National PCA assessment for turf (Gerco Hoogeweg, Raghu 
Vamshi, and Marty Williams, Waterborne Environmental, Inc.)
    2:15 p.m. Update on the Drift Reduction Technology (DRT) project 
(Faruque Khan and Norm Birchfield, USEPA/EFED)
    2:45 p.m. Wrap-up

List of Subjects

    Environmental protection, Modeling, Pesticides, Pest.

    Dated: May 8, 2007.
Steven Bradbury,
Director, Environmental Fate and Effects Division, Office of Pesticide 
Programs.
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