Document ID: EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0879-0003
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Meetings: Exposure Modeling
Posted Date: 2010-07-07T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 129 (Wednesday, July 7, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 39014]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-16323]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0879; FRL-8834-3]

Exposure Modeling Public Meeting; Notice of Public Meeting

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: An Exposure Modeling Public Meeting (EMPM) will be held for 1 
day on July 27, 2010. This notice announces the location and time for 
the meeting and sets forth the tentative agenda topics.

DATES: The meeting will be held on July 27, 2010, from 9 a.m. to 4 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 the Environmental Protection 
Agency, Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP), One Potomac Yard (South 
Building), Fourth Floor, South Conference Room (S-4370/80), 2777 S. 
Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA 22202.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Chuck Peck, Environmental Fate and 
Effects Division (7507P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-
0001; telephone number: (703) 347-8064; fax number: (703) 305-6309; e-
mail address: peck.charles@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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?

    EPA has established a docket for this action under docket ID number 
EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0879. 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 Dr., 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's telephone number is 
(703) 305-5805.

II. Background

    On a biannual interval, an Exposure Modeling Public Meeting is held 
for presentation and discussion of current issues in modeling pesticide 
fate, transport, and exposure 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 confidential business 
information. Requests to participate in the meeting, identified by 
docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0879, must be received on or before 
July 22, 2010.

IV. Topics for the Meeting

     Topics for the meeting will include presentations related to 
ground water modeling and pesticide modeling refinements in 
agricultural and urban environs. Specifically, presentations will 
include the following:
      Prospective groundwater monitoring studies and their 
utility for leaching model development.
     Design and testing of a process-based groundwater 
vulnerability assessment (P-GWAVA) system.
     Screening approaches for predicting pesticide 
concentrations in groundwater.
     Using modern watershed and cropping data for estimating 
percentage crop treatment.
     Comparison of models for estimating the removal of 
pesticides by vegetative buffer strips.
     Advances in modeling urban/residential pesticide runoff.
     Spray drift exposure refinements for salmonid off-channel 
habitat.
     Mechanistic ground spray boom drift model development.
     Spatially-distributed watershed models for chemical 
exposure assessments.

List of Subjects

    Environmental protection, Modeling, Monitoring, Pesticides.

    Dated: June 28, 2010.
Donald J. Brady,
Director, Environmental Fate and Effects Division, Office of Pesticide 
Programs.

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