Document ID: EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0648-0001
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Meetings: Board of Scientific Counselors Executive Committee
Posted Date: 2008-08-26T04:00Z

[Federal Register: August 26, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 166)]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0648; FRL-8708-7]

 
Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC), Executive Committee 

Meeting--September 2008

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-

463, the Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and 

Development (ORD), gives notice of a meeting of the Board of Scientific 

Counselors (BOSC) Executive Committee.

DATES: The meeting will be held on Thursday, September 18, 2008, from 2 

p.m. to 5:15 p.m., and will continue on Friday, September 19, 2008, 

from 9 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. All times noted are Eastern Standard Time. 

The meeting may adjourn early if all business is finished. Requests for 

the draft agenda or for making oral presentations at the meeting will 

be accepted up to one business day before the meeting.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Key Bridge Marriott, 401 Lee 

Highway, Arlington, Virginia 22209. Submit your comments, identified by 

Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0648, by one of the following methods:

      http://www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line 

instructions for submitting comments.

      E-mail: Send comments by electronic mail (e-

mail) to: ORD.Docket@epa.gov, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-

0648.

      Fax: Fax comments to: (202) 566-0224, Attention 

Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0648.

      Mail: Send comments by mail to: Board of 

Scientific Counselors (BOSC), Executive Committee Meeting--September 

2008 Docket, Mailcode: 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0648.

      Hand Delivery or Courier: Deliver comments to: 

EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), Room B102, EPA West Building, 1301 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-

HQ-ORD-2008-0648. Note: this is not a mailing address. Such deliveries 

are only accepted during the docket's normal hours of operation, and 

special arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed 

information.

     Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-

2008-0648. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included 

in the public docket without change and may be made available online at 

http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information 

provided, unless the comment includes information claimed to be 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose 

disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not submit information that you 

consider to be CBI or otherwise protected through http://

www.regulations.gov or e-mail. The http://www.regulations.gov Web site 

is an ``anonymous access'' system, which means EPA will not know your 

identity or contact information unless you provide it in the body of 

your comment. If you send an e-mail comment directly to EPA without 

going through http://www.regulations.gov, your e-mail address will be 

automatically captured and included as part of the comment that is 

placed in the public docket and made available on the Internet. If you 

submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends that you include your name 

and other contact information in the body of your comment and with any 

disk or CD-ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read your comment due to 

technical difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, EPA 

may not be able to consider your comment. Electronic files should avoid 

the use of special characters, any form of encryption, and be free of 

any defects or viruses. For additional information about EPA's public 

docket visit the EPA Docket Center homepage at http://www.epa.gov/

epahome/dockets.htm.

     Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the http://

www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some 

information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such 

as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard copy. 

Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically 

in http://www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the Board of 

Scientific Counselors (BOSC), Executive Committee Meeting--September 

2008 Docket, EPA/DC, EPA West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC. The Public Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 

p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone 

number for the Public Reading Room is (202) 566-1744, and the telephone 

number for the ORD Docket is (202) 566-1752.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The Designated Federal Officer via 

mail at: Lorelei Kowalski, Mail Code 8104-R, Office of Science Policy, 

Office of Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency, 

1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; via phone/voice 

mail at: (202) 564-3408; via fax at: (202) 565-2911; or via e-mail at: 

kowalski.lorelei@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

General Information

    Any member of the public interested in receiving a draft BOSC 

agenda or making a presentation at the meeting may contact Lorelei 

Kowalski, the Designated Federal Officer, via any of the contact 

methods listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section above. In 

general, each individual making an oral presentation will be limited to 

a total of three minutes.

    Proposed agenda items for the meeting include, but are not limited 

to: ORD responses to the BOSC Science and Technology for Sustainability 

program review report, BOSC Human Health Risk Assessment program review 

report, and BOSC National Center for Environmental Research letter 

report; Executive Committee review of the Homeland Security 

Subcommittee and Land Mid-Cycle Subcommittee draft reports; update on 

the BOSC mid-cycle review subcommittees (Water Quality and Science and 

Technology for Sustainability); update on the BOSC

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program review subcommittees (Human Health and Endocrine Disrupting 

Chemicals); update on the BOSC standing subcommittees (National Center 

for Environmental Research and National Exposure Research Lab); 

discussions on: (1) ORD efficiency measures, and (2) ORD and Value of 

Information; briefing on ORD's biofuels program; update on BOSC 

workgroups; an ORD update; an update on EPA's Science Advisory Board 

activities; and future issues and plans. The meeting is open to the 

public.

     Information on Services for Individuals with Disabilities: For 

information on access or services for individuals with disabilities, 

please contact Lorelei Kowalski (202) 564-3408 or 

kowalski.lorelei@epa.gov. To request accommodation of a disability, 

please contact Lorelei Kowalski, preferably at least 10 days prior to 

the meeting, to give EPA as much time as possible to process your 

request.

    Dated August 19, 2008.

Fred Hauchman,

Director, Office of Science Policy.

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