[Federal Register: April 4, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 64)]
[Notices]
[Page 16349]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr04ap07-58]
[[Page 16349]]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-ORD-2006-1010; FRL-8294-9]
Board of Scientific Counselors, Technology for Sustainability
Subcommittee Meetings--April/May 2007
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of meetings.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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 two meetings (one face-to-face and
one via conference call) of the Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC)
Technology for Sustainability Subcommittee.
DATES: The first meeting (a two-day face-to-face meeting) will be held
on Wednesday, April 25, 2007, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Thursday,
April 26, 2007 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The second meeting (teleconference
call) will be held on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. All
times noted are eastern time. The meetings may adjourn early if all
business is finished. Requests for the draft agenda or for making oral
presentations at the meetings will be accepted up to 1 business day
before each meeting.
ADDRESSES: Participation in the conference call will be by
teleconference only--meeting rooms will not be used. Members of the
public may obtain the call-in number and access code for the call from
Clois Slocum, whose contact information is listed under the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this notice. The face-to-face meeting
will be held at the at the Andrew W. Breidenbach Environmental Research
Center (AWBERC) Facility, at 26 W. Martin Luther King Drive,
Cincinnati, OH 45268. Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No.
EPA-HQ-ORD-2006-1010, 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-2006-1010.
Fax: Fax comments to: (202) 566-0224, Attention Docket ID
No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2006-1010.
Mail: Send comments by mail to: Board of Scientific
Counselors, Technology for Sustainability Subcommittee Meetings--
Winter/Spring 2007 Docket, Mailcode: 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave.,
NW., Washington, DC 20460, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2006-
1010.
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-2006-
1010. 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-
2006-1010. 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, Technology for Sustainability Subcommittee Meetings--
Winter/Spring 2007 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: Clois Slocum, USEPA, 26 W. Martin Luther King Drive,
Cincinnati, OH 45268; via phone/voice mail at: (513) 569-7281; via fax
at: (513) 569-7549; or via e-mail at: slocum.clois@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
General Information
Any member of the public interested in receiving a draft BOSC
agenda or making a presentation at either meeting may contact Clois
Slocum, 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 meetings include, but are not limited
to: face-to-face meeting: presentations by key ORD staff in the
sustainability research program, poster sessions, development of the
draft report, and presentation of the subcommittee's draft responses to
the charge questions; teleconference: discussion of the draft report
from the review. The meetings are open to the public.
Information on Services for Individuals with Disabilities: For
information on access or services for individuals with disabilities,
please contact Clois Slocum (513) 569-7281 or slocum.clois@epa.gov. To
request accommodation of a disability, please contact Clois Slocum,
preferably at least 10 days prior to the meeting, to give EPA as much
time as possible to process your request.
Dated: March 28, 2007.
Jeffery Morris,
Acting Director, Office of Science Policy.
[FR Doc. E7-6237 Filed 4-3-07; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6560-50-P