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Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of a Public Meeting of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) Carbon Monoxide Review Panel 

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[Federal Register: April 3, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 63)]
[Notices]
[Page 15265-15266]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of a Public Meeting of the
Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) Carbon Monoxide Review Panel

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory
Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a public meeting of the Clean Air
Scientific Advisory Committee Carbon Monoxide Review Panel to peer
review EPA's Integrated Science Assessment for Carbon Monoxide: First
External Review Draft and conduct a consultation on EPA's planning
document entitled Carbon Monoxide National Ambient Air Quality
Standards: Scope and Methods Plan for Risk and Exposure Assessment.

DATES: The public meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. (Eastern Time) and Wednesday, May 13, 2009 from 8 a.m.
to 2 p.m. (Eastern Time).

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Carolina Inn, 211 Pittsboro
Street, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27516.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any member of the public who wants
further information concerning the CASAC public meeting may contact Dr.
Ellen Rubin, 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-
9975; fax (202) 233-0643; or e-mail at rubin.ellen@epa.gov. General
information concerning the CASAC can be found on the EPA Web site at
http://www.epa.gov/casac.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Background: The Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) was
established under section 109(d)(2) of the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act)
(42 U.S.C. 7409) as an independent scientific advisory committee. CASAC
provides advice, information and recommendations on the scientific and
technical aspects of air quality criteria and National Ambient Air
Quality Standards (NAAQS) under sections 108 and 109 of the Act. The
CASAC is a Federal advisory committee chartered under the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (FACA), as amended, 5 U.S.C., App. The Panel
will comply with the provisions of FACA and all appropriate SAB Staff
Office procedural policies.
    Section 109(d)(1) of the CAA requires that the Agency periodically
review and revise, as appropriate, the air quality criteria and the
National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for the six ``criteria''
air pollutants, including carbon monoxide (CO). EPA is conducting
scientific assessments to review the primary (health-based) NAAQS of
CO. As part of this review, EPA's Office of Research and Development
(ORD) has completed a draft document, Integrated Science Assessment for
Carbon Monoxide (First External Review Draft, March 2009) and requested
that CASAC peer review the document. EPA's Office of Air and Radiation
(OAR) will also release a planning document entitled Carbon Monoxide
National Ambient Air Quality Standards: Scope and Methods Plan for Risk
and Exposure Assessment (April 2009). OAR has requested that the CASAC
provide consultative advice on this plan.
    The purpose of the May 12-13, 2009 meeting is to review these two
documents. Background information about the formation of the CASAC
Carbon Monoxide Review Panel was published in the Federal Register on
October 12, 2007 (72 FR 58078-58080). The CASAC Panel previously held a
public teleconference on April 8, 2008 (announced in 73 FR 12998) to
provide consultative advice on EPA's Plan for Review of the National
Ambient Air Quality Standards for Carbon Monoxide, the first document
in this review of the CO NAAQS. The CASAC panel report was made
available at http://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/
AB0ED61CDF9F37DF8525746A005C12EC/$File/EPA-CASAC-08-013-unsigned.pdf.
    Technical Contacts: Any questions concerning EPA's Integrated
Science Assessment for Carbon Monoxide should be directed to Dr. Tom
Long at long.tom@epa.gov at (919) 541-1880. Any questions concerning
EPA's Carbon Monoxide National Ambient Air Quality Standard: Scope and
Methods Plan for Risk and Exposure Assessment should be directed to Dr.
Dave McKee at mckee.dave@epa.gov at (919) 541-5288.
    Availability of Meeting Materials: A meeting agenda, charge
questions and other materials for the meeting will be placed on the
CASAC Web site at http://www.epa.gov/casac. Select the calendar link on
the left and click on May 12-13. The Integrated Science Assessment for
Carbon Monoxide: First External Review Draft (March 2009) is available
at http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/cfm/recordisplay.cfm?deid=203935. The

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CO NAAQS Scope and Methods Plans (April 2009) will be available at
http://www.epa.gov/ttn/naaqs/standards/co/s_co_cr_pd.html.
    Procedures for Providing Public Input: Interested members of the
public may submit relevant written or oral information for
consideration on the topics included in this advisory activity. Oral
Statements: To be placed on the public speaker list for the May 12-13,
2009 meeting, interested parties should notify Dr. Ellen Rubin, DFO, by
e-mail no later than April 27, 2009. Individuals making oral statements
will be limited to three minutes per speaker. Written Statements:
Written statements for the May 12-13, 2009 meeting should be received
in the SAB Staff Office by April 27, 2009, so that the information may
be made available to the CASAC Panel for its consideration prior to
this meeting. Written statements should be supplied to the DFO in the
following formats: one hard copy with original signature and one
electronic copy via e-mail (acceptable file format: Adobe Acrobat PDF,
MS Word, WordPerfect, MS PowerPoint, or Rich Text files in IBM-PC/
Windows 98/2000/XP format). Submitters are asked to provide versions of
each document submitted with and without signatures, because the SAB
Staff Office does not publish documents with signatures on its Web sites.
    Accessibility: For information on access or services for
individuals with disabilities, please contact Dr. Rubin at the phone
number or e-mail address noted above, preferably at least ten days
prior to the teleconference, to give EPA as much time as possible to
process your request.

    Dated: March 27, 2009.
Anthony F. Maciorowski,
Deputy Director, Science Advisory Board Staff Office.
[FR Doc. E9-7434 Filed 4-2-09; 8:45 am]
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