Document ID: EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0872-0001
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC), Executive Committee Meeting--December 2008
Posted Date: 2008-11-26T05:00Z

[Federal Register: November 26, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 229)]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0872; FRL-8745-1]

 
Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC), Executive Committee 
Meeting--December 2008

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of meetings.

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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 one meeting of the Board of 
Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Executive Committee.

DATES: The meeting (a teleconference) will be held on Wednesday, 
December 17, 2008, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. EDT. 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 via teleconference only. Submit 
your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0872, by one 
of the following methods:
     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-2008-0872.
     Fax: Fax comments to: (202) 566-0224, Attention Docket ID 
No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0872.
     Mail: Send comments by mail to: Board of Scientific 
Counselors (BOSC), Executive Committee Meeting--2008 Docket, Mailcode: 
28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, Attention 
Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0872.
     Hand Delivery or Courier. Deliver comments to: EPA Docket 
Center (EPA/DC), Room B102, EPA West Building, 1301 Constitution Ave., 
NW., Washington, DC, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0872. 
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-
2008-0872. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included 
in the public docket without change and may be made available online at

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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 www.regulations.gov or e-mail. 
The 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 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 
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 www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the Board of Scientific 
Counselors (BOSC), Executive Committee Meeting--December 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: Heather Drumm, 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) 564-8239; via fax at: (202) 565-2911; or via e-mail at: 
drumm.heather@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 Heather 
Drumm, 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 teleconference include, but are not 
limited to: Discussion of what charge question(s) should be asked 
regarding investment efficiency in BOSC program reviews, and what 
materials should be provided by ORD in order for the BOSC to make an 
assessment of efficiency. 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 Heather Drumm at (202) 564-8239 or 
drumm.heather@epa.gov. To request accommodation of a disability, please 
contact Heather Drumm, preferably at least ten days prior to the 
meeting, to give EPA as much time as possible to process your request.

    Dated: November 20, 2008.
Mary Ellen Radzikowski,
Acting Director, Office of Science Policy.
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