

[Federal Register: October 3, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 191)]
[Notices]               
[Page 56340-56341]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-0965; FRL-8151-1]

 
Exposure Modeling Public Meeting

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: An Exposure Modeling Public Meeting (EMPM) will be held for 
one day on October 30, 2007. This notice announces the location and 
time for the meeting and sets forth the tentative agenda topics.

DATES: The meeting will be held on October 30, 2007 from 9:00 am to 
3:00 pm.
    To request accommodation of a disability, please contact the person 
listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATON CONTACT, preferably at least 10 
days prior to the meeting, to give EPA as much time as possible to 
process your request.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at Environmental Protection Agency, 
Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP), One Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 
1\st\ Floor South Conference Room, 2777 S. Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA 
22202.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: R. David Jones, Environmental Fate and 
Effects Division (7507P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-
0001; telephone number: (703) 305-6725; fax number: (703) 305-6309; e-
mail address: jones.rdavid@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. General Information

A. Does this Action Apply to Me?

    You may be potentially affected by this action if you are required 
to conduct testing of chemical substances under the Toxic Substances 
Control Act (TSCA), the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), or 
the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). Since 
other entities may also be interested, the Agency has not attempted to 
describe all the specific entities that may be affected by this action. 
If you have any questions regarding the applicability of this action to 
a particular entity, consult the person listed under FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT.

B. How Can I Get Copies of this Document and Other Related Information?

    1. Docket. EPA has established a docket for this action under 
docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-0965 Publicly 
available docket materials are available either in the electronic 
docket at http://www.regulations.gov, or, if only available in hard 

copy, at the Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) Regulatory Public 
Docket in Rm. S-4400, One Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S. Crystal 
Dr., Arlington, VA 22202. The hours of operation of this Docket 
Facility are from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding 
legal holidays. The Docket Facility telephone number is (703) 305-5805.
    2. Electronic access. You may access this Federal Register document 
electronically through the EPA Internet under the ``Federal Register'' 
listings at http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr.


II. Background

    On a triannual interval, an Exposure Modeling Public Meeting will 
be held for presentation and discussion of current issues in modeling 
pesticide fate, transport, and exposure in support of risk assessment 
in a regulatory context. Meeting dates and abstract requests are 
announced through the ``empmlist'' forum on the LYRIS list server at: 
https://lists.epa.gov/read/all_forums/


III. How Can I Request to Participate in this Meeting?

    You may submit a request to participate in this meeting to the 
person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Do not submit any 
information in your request that is considered CBI. Requests to 
participate in the meeting, identified by docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPP-
2007-0965, must be received on or before October 18, 2007.

IV. Tentative Agenda

    9:00 am Welcome and Introductions
    9:15 am Brief Updates:
    New versions of GENEEC/FIRST (R. Parker)
    New version of PE4/PRZM/EXAMS (G. Orrick)
    Scenarios for BSS and CRLF (R. D. Jones)
    Evaluation of EXPRESS (M. Barrett)
    Presentations:
    9:45 am Simulating Residential Watersheds Using PRZM and EXAMS -R. 
D. Jones - EPA (30 minutes)
    10:15 am Estimating Pesticide Exposure for a Karst Watershed in 
Texas-M. Corbin - EPA (30 min)
    10:45 am Break
    11:00 am Environmental Exposure Modeling in Antimicrobials 
Division-J. Breithaupt - EPA (30 min)
    11:30 am A Platform for Modeling Rice Using RiceWQ and EXAMS-M. 
William - Waterborne Environmental (60 min)
    12:00 pm Lunch
    1:00 pm Urban Use of Pesticides and Water Exposure- B. L. Bhaduri - 
Oak Ridge (60 min)
    2:00 pm GIS Applications for Exposure Modeling - Drinking Water 
Watersheds, New PCAs, Turf- M Thawley - EPA (30 min)
    2:30 pm Discussion and Wrap up

List of Subjects

    Environmental protection, Modeling, Pesticides, Pest.


    Dated: September 25, 2007.
Arthur-Jean Williams,
Acting Director, Environmental Fate and Effects Division, Office of 
Pesticide Programs.
[FR Doc. E7-19521 Filed 10-2-07; 8:45 am]

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