[Federal Register: September 3, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 171)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0200; FRL-8710-3]
Board of Scientific Counselors, Water Quality Mid-Cycle
Subcommittee Meeting--2008
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
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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 a meeting of the Board of Scientific
Counselors (BOSC) Water Quality Mid-Cycle Subcommittee.
DATES: The meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 from 9
a.m. to 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. The meeting may adjourn early if
all business is finished. Requests for the draft agenda or for making
oral presentations at the conference call will be accepted up to one
business day before the meeting.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Key Bridge Marriott, 1401
Lee Highway, Arlington, Virginia 22209. Submit your comments,
identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0200, 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-2008-0200.
Fax: Fax comments to: (202) 566-0224, Attention: Docket ID
No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0200.
Mail: Send comments by mail to: Board of Scientific
Counselors, Water Quality Mid-Cycle Subcommittee--2008
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Docket, Mailcode: 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC
20460, Attention: Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0200.
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-2008-
0200.
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-
2008-0200. 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, Water Quality Mid-Cycle Subcommittee--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: Susan Peterson, 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) 564-1077; via fax at: (202) 565-2911; or via e-mail at:
peterson.susan@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 Susan
Peterson, 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 meeting include, but are not limited
to: overview of the charge to the subcommittee, discussion of the
bibliometric analysis, report on wrap-up of the 2003 Water Quality
Multi-Year Plan (MYP), and research survey results. 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 Susan Peterson at (202) 564-1077 or
peterson.susan@epa.gov. To request accommodation of a disability,
please contact Susan Peterson, preferably at least ten days prior to
the meeting, to give EPA as much time as possible to process your
request.
Dated: August 26, 2008.
Fred Hauchman,
Director, Office of Science Policy.
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