[Federal Register: March 11, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 48)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of a Public
Teleconference and Face-to-Face Meeting of the Drinking Water Committee
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory
Board (SAB) Staff Office announces two meetings of the SAB Drinking
Water Committee (DWC): A public teleconference to discuss the
Waterborne Diseases--Measures to Link Drinking Water Programs to Public
Health Outcomes (Measures) and a face-to-face meeting to review
Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List 3 (CCL3) Draft document.
DATES: The SAB will hold the public teleconference on April 2, 2008.
The teleconference will begin at 1 p.m. and end at 5 p.m. (Eastern
Time). A face-to-face meeting will be held on April 23, 2008 from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. (Eastern Time) and will continue on April 24, 2008 from
9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (Eastern Time).
ADDRESSES: The April 2, 2008 teleconference will be conducted by phone
only. The April 23-24, 2008 face-to-face meeting will be held at the
SAB Conference Center, 1025 F Street, NW., Suite 3700, Washington, DC
20004.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any member of the public wishing to
obtain general information concerning this public teleconference or
meeting should contact Dr. Sue Shallal, Designated Federal Officer
(DFO), EPA Science Advisory Board (1400F), U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460;
via telephone/voice mail: (202) 343-9977; fax: (202) 233-0643; or e-
mail at: shallal.suhair@epa.gov. General information concerning the EPA
Science Advisory Board can be found on the SAB Web Site at: http://
www.epa.gov/sab.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The SAB was established by 42 U.S.C. 4365 to
provide independent scientific and technical advice to the
Administrator on the technical basis for Agency positions and
regulations. The SAB is a Federal Advisory Committee chartered under
the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), as amended, 5 U.S.C., App.
The SAB will comply with the provisions of FACA and all appropriate SAB
Staff Office procedural policies. Pursuant to the Federal Advisory
Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, notice is hereby given that the EPA
SAB Drinking Water Committee will hold a public teleconference to
provide a consultation on the Waterborne Diseases--Measures to Link
Drinking Water Programs to Public Health Outcomes document and a face-
to-face meeting to review its Draft Drinking Water Contaminant
Candidate List 3 document.
Background: EPA's Office of Water has requested that the SAB
conduct a
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consultation for its Waterborne Diseases--Measures to Link Drinking
Water Programs to Public Health Outcomes (Measures) and review its
Draft Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List 3 (CCL3) document.
Measures--EPA's Office of Water (OW) produced a draft Measure
Development Plan in October, 2004. The purpose of the plan is to
develop long-term measures that describe changes over time of disease
due to drinking water contamination or changes in the occurrence of
indicators of waterborne disease. The objective of the measures is to
demonstrate the effectiveness of drinking water programs on epidemic
and endemic, acute and chronic disease related to microbes or other
water contaminants. The SAB is being asked to comment on the
effectiveness of this plan to produce outcome measures.
CCL3--The 1996 Safe Drinking Water Act amendments (SDWA) require
EPA to (1) publish every five years a list of currently unregulated
contaminants in drinking water that may pose risks (the Contaminant
Candidate List or ``CCL''), and (2) make determinations on whether or
not to regulate at least five contaminants from that list on a
staggered five year cycle. SDWA requires EPA to publish a new list of
contaminants that are known or anticipated to occur in public water
systems every five years. The first CCL (CCL1) was published or
finalized on March 2, 1998 (63 FR 10273). CCL1 was developed based on
the review by technical experts of readily available information and
contained 50 chemicals and 10 microbial contaminants/groups. EPA
consulted with the scientific community, including the Science Advisory
Board, on a process for developing the first CCL. The second CCL (CCL2)
was published on February 24, 2005 (70 FR 9071). CCL2 carried forward
the remaining 51 chemical and microbial contaminants listed on CCL1.
The Agency is evaluating data and research on these chemicals and
microbes to make regulatory determinations on the contaminants listed
CCL2. The draft CCL3 includes 93 chemicals or chemical groups and 11
microbiological contaminants. The EPA is seeking comment from the SAB
DWC on the draft CCL3, the approach used to develop the list, and other
specific contaminants.
Availability of Meeting Materials: The meeting agendas and other
materials including a link to the Office of Water's draft Measures
document will be posted on the SAB Web Site at: (http://www.epa.gov/
sab) in advance of the meeting. The CCL3 draft can be found at: http://
www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-WATER/2008/February/Day-21/w3114.pdf. For
questions and information concerning the Agency's documents, please
contact Ms. Valerie Blank for Measures at 202-564-1720 or
blank.valerie@epa.gov. Please contact Mr. Thomas Carpenter for CCL3 at
202-564-4885 or carpenter.thomas@epa.gov.
Procedures for Providing Public Input: Interested members of the
public may submit relevant written or oral information for the Drinking
Water Committee to consider throughout the advisory process. Oral
Statements: In general, individuals or groups requesting an oral
presentation at a public SAB teleconference will be limited to three
minutes per speaker, with no more than a total of one-half hour for all
speakers. At the face-to-face meeting, presentations will be limited to
five minutes, with no more than a total of one hour for all speakers.
To be placed on the public speaker list, interested parties should
contact Dr. Sue Shallal, DFO, in writing (preferably via e-mail), by
March 26, 2008 for the teleconference and by April 16, 2008 for the
face-to-face meeting, at the contact information noted above. Written
Statements: Written statements should be received in the SAB Staff
Office by March 26, 2008, so that the information may be made available
to the SAB for their consideration prior to the teleconference or by
April 16, 2008 for their consideration prior to the face-to-face
meeting. Written statements should be supplied to the DFO via e-mail to
shallal.suhair@epa.gov (acceptable file format: Adobe Acrobat PDF,
WordPerfect, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, or Rich Text files in IBM-PC/
Windows 98/2000/XP format).
Accessibility: For information on access or services for
individuals with disabilities, please contact Dr. Sue Shallal at (202)
343-9977 or shallal.suhair@epa.gov. To request accommodation of a
disability, please contact Dr. Shallal preferably at least ten days
prior to the meeting, to give EPA as much time as possible to process
your request.
Dated: March 5, 2008.
Anthony F. Maciorowski,
Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office.
[FR Doc. E8-4828 Filed 3-10-08; 8:45 am]
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