

[Federal Register: February 20, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 34)]
[Notices]               
[Page 9326-9327]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2008-0102; FRL-8351-8]

 
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 March 11, 2008. This notice announces the location and time 
for the meeting and sets forth the tentative agenda topics.

DATES: The meeting will be held on March 11, 2008 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
    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 EPA, Office of Pesticide 
Programs (OPP), One Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 1\st\ Floor South 
Conference Room, 2777 S. Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA 22202.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Barrett, Environmental Fate 
and Effects Division (7507P), Office of Pesticide Programs, 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone number: (703) 305-6391; fax 
number: (703) 305-6309; e-mail address: barrett.michael@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 nay 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 ID number EPA-HQ-OPP-2008-0102. 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. 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

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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-
2008-0102, must be received on or before [15 days after date of 
publication in the Federal Register].

IV. Tentative Topics for the Meeting

    General Theme: Large-Scale Monitoring for Contaminant Modeling: 
Strategies, Results, and Future Directions
    Specific Topics
    Atrazine and Nitrate in Rural Drinking Water Wells
    Analysis of Long-Term Trends in Atrazine Occurrence in Raw Water of 
103 CWSs
    Aldicarb Potable Well Monitoring Program - Study Design, Collection 
of Ancillary Field Data, and Relevance for Dietary Risk Assessments
    Review of Monitoring Drinking Water Data from Surface Waters: Use 
in Dietary Risk Assessment; Site Selection and Auxilliary Data 
Collection Issues
    Inverse Model for Determining Agricultural Watershed N Balances 
from Stream Nitrate Data
    Implementation of Best Management Practices for Atrazine Herbicide 
in the Little Arkansas River Watershed
    Estimating the Effects of Pesticides on Macroinvertebrate 
Assemblage Composition Using Field Data
    Pathways for Drinking Water Well Contamination
    Source Water and Finished Drinking Water Quality
    Overview of NAWQA Status and Plans for National Monitoring of 
Streams and Ground Water

List of Subjects

    Environmental protection, Modeling, Monitoring, Pesticides, Pest.


    Dated: February 12, 2008.

Donald J. Brady,

Director, Environmental Fate and Effects Division.
[FR Doc. E8-3125 Filed 2-19-08; 8:45 am]

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