[Federal Register: July 18, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 138)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-7530-6]
EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Request for Nomination
of Members for the EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB), Clean Air
Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC), and the Advisory Council on
Clean Air Compliance Analysis (COUNCIL)
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Science Advisory
Board (SAB) Staff Office is soliciting nominations for Members to serve
on the EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB), the Clean Air Scientific
Advisory Committee (CASAC), and the Advisory Council on Clean Air
Compliance Analysis (COUNCIL). Individuals responding to this annual
request for nominations will be considered for membership vacancies on
these three Congressionally mandated Federal advisory committees. This
process supplements other efforts to identify qualified candidates.
DATES: Nominations should be submitted in time to arrive no later than
August 18, 2003.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To submit a hard copy of the form
noted below (for those unable to submit the information in electronic
form), please contact Ms. Diana Pozun, U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board
Staff Office (Mail Code 1400A), 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20460 (FedEx/Courier address: U.S. EPA SAB, Suite 6450,
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington DC 20004), (202) 564-4544
(tel.), (202) 501-0323 (fax), or via email at pozun.diana@epa.gov. For further information concerning this nomination process, please
contact Mr. Robert Flaak, Acting Deputy Director for Management, U.S.
EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office, (202) 564-4546 (tel.), or via
email at: flaak.robert@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background--The SAB (42 U.S.C. 4365), CASAC (42 U.S.C. 7409) and
COUNCIL (42 U.S.C. 7612) are chartered Federal Advisory Committees that
report directly to the EPA Administrator. The mission of these Federal
advisory committees, as established by statute, is to provide
independent scientific and technical peer review advice, consultation,
and recommendations to the EPA Administrator on the technical bases for
EPA actions. Additional information about these Federal Advisory
Committee can be obtained on the SAB Web site (http://www.epa.sab/gov).
Members serve as Special Government Employees (SGEs) (40 CFR part
3, subpart F, or EPA Ethics Advisory 88-6 dated 7/6/88) and receive
compensation, in addition to reimbursement at the Federal government
rate for travel and per diem expenses while serving on the SAB, CASAC,
and COUNCIL. SGEs are subject to certain ethical standards common to
all Federal employees. In particular, prior to their appointment, SGEs
are required to complete an information package, including a
Confidential Financial Disclosure Report.
Expertise Sought--As part of the annual membership drive, the EPA
SAB Staff Office is seeking nominations for nationally and
internationally recognized non-Federal scientists, engineers,
economists, and social scientists with demonstrated research and
applied scientific experience and expertise in various disciplinary
areas that address ecological and/or environmental/public health
challenges, a multitude of stressors (e.g., physical, biological and
chemical agents and mixtures) impacting environmental media (e.g., air,
water, land), monitoring and characterizing sources of pollution,
assessing risk to ecosystem and/or human health, prevention and risk
management technologies, risk communication, environmental data
quality, assessing environmental social economic values and cost-
benefit analyses.
The selected experts will be appointed by the EPA Administrator to
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serve on the CASAC, COUNCIL, the SAB Executive Committee, and/or the
SAB's standing committees (e.g., Drinking Water Committee, Ecological
Processes and Effects Committee, Environmental Economics Advisory
Committee, Environmental Engineering Committee, Environmental Health
Committee, Integrated Human Exposure Committee, Radiation Advisory
Committee, and Research Strategies Advisory Committee).
How to Apply--Any interested person or organization may nominate
qualified persons to serve on the SAB. Individuals may self-nominate.
Nominees should be qualified by scientific education, training, and
experience to evaluate scientific, engineering and/or economics
information on issues referred to and addressed by the SAB. Successful
candidates have distinguished themselves professionally and should be
available to invest the time and effort to advance the cause of the
supporting the use of good science through the efforts of the SAB.
Nominations should be submitted in electronic format (which is
preferred over hard copy) through the Form for Nominating Individuals
to Panels of the EPA Science Advisory Board provided on the SAB Web
site. The form can be accessed through a link on the blue navigational
bar on the SAB Web site, http://www.epa.gov/sab/. To be considered, all
nominations should include the information requested on that form.
The nominating form requests contact information about the person
making the nomination; contact information about the nominee; the
disciplinary and specific areas of expertise of the nominee; the
nominee's resume; and a general biosketch of the nominee indicating
education, expertise, past research, recent service on other advisory
committees or with professional associations, and recent grant and/or
contract support.
Anyone who has any question concerning any aspect of the nomination
process may contact Mr Robert Flaak as indicated above in this FR
notice. Anyone who is unable to submit nominations through the SAB Web
site should contact Ms. Diana Pozun as indicated above in this FR
notice. Non-electronic submissions must follow the same format and
contain the same information as the electronic form.
The EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office will acknowledge
receipt of nominations. From the nominees identified by respondents to
this Federal Register notice and through other sources, the SAB Staff
Office will develop a list of recommended candidates to submit to the
EPA Administrator for selection as Members.
The EPA SAB seeks the inclusion of candidates who possess the
necessary domains of knowledge, the relevant scientific perspectives
(which, among other factors, can be influenced by work history and
affiliation), and the collective breadth of experience to adequately
address the issues facing the Agency. Specific criteria to be used in
evaluating potential Members include: (a) Scientific and/or technical
expertise, knowledge, and experience (primary factors); (b) absence of
financial conflicts of interest; (c) scientific credibility and
impartiality; (d) availability and willingness to serve; and (e)
ability to work constructively and effectively in committees.
Those candidates ultimately chosen to serve as Members will be
appointed as Special Government Employees. As a result, they will all
be required to fill-out the ``Confidential Financial Disclosure Form
for Special Government Employees Serving on Federal Advisory Committees
at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency'' (EPA Form 3110-48). This
confidential form allows Government officials to determine whether
there is a statutory conflict between that person's public
responsibilities as a Special Government Employee and private interests
and activities, or the appearance of a lack of impartiality, as defined
by Federal regulation. The form may be viewed and downloaded from the
following URL address: http://www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/epaform3110-48.pdf.
This form should not be submitted as part of a nomination.
Dated: July 10, 2003.
Vanessa T. Vu,
Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office.
[FR Doc. 03-18157 Filed 7-17-03; 8:45 am]
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