Document ID: EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0994-0001
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Exposure Modeling; Notice of Public Meeting
Posted Date: 2007-02-14T05:00Z

[Federal Register: February 14, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 30)]
[Notices]               
[Page 7029-7030]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0994; FRL-8115-2]

 
Exposure Modeling; 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 
one day on February 27, 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 February 27, 2007 from 9:00 am to 
3:30 pm.
    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 Bldg.), 
Rooms S-4370 and S-4380, 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:

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

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identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPPT-2006-0994. 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 
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.

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-
2006-0994, must be received on or before March 1, 2007.

IV. Tentative Agenda

    9:00 am: Welcome, Introductions, and Brief Updates
    9:30 am: Development of MUSS (Jimmy Williams, USDA/ARS)
    10:15 am: Degradation Influenced by Soil Temperature under Cropped 
and Base Soil Conditions (Natalia Peranginangin, Syngenta Crop 
Protection, Inc.)
    10:45 am: Factors Impacting Pesticide Runoff from Warm-Season Turf 
(Joe Massey, MSU)
    11:30 am: Sediment Concentrations: Implications of the Current 
Conceptual Model (Paul Hendley, Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc.)
    12:00 pm: Lunch
    1:00 pm: Status Report on Field Evaluation and REMM Modeling of a 
Pesticide Runoff Buffer (Rob Everich, Makhteshim-Agan of North America)
    1:15 pm: Forest Canopy Delivery of Pesticides to a Riparian Buffer 
Area (Cliff Rice, USDA/ARS)
    1:45 pm: High Priority Changes for PRZM (Dirk Young, USEPA/EFED)
    2:00 pm: GeoSTAC: GEOSpatial Tools and ACcess (Patrick Havens, Dow 
AgroSciences LLC)
    2:45 pm: Kinetic Analysis of Metabolism Data (William Eckel, USEPA/
EFED)
    3:15 pm: Wrap-up

List of Subjects

    Environmental protection, Modeling, Pesticides, Pest.

    Dated: February 8, 2007.
Sidney Abel,
Acting Director, Environmental Fate and Effects Division, Office of 
Pesticide Programs
[FR Doc. E7-2561 Filed 2-13-07; 8:45 am]

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