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[Notices]               
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-ORD-2006-0979; FRL-8253-5]

 
Board of Scientific Counselors, Safe Pesticides/Safe Products 
(SP2) Subcommittee Meetings--Winter 2007

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 three meetings of the Board of 
Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Safe Pesticides/Safe Products (SP2) 
Subcommittee.

DATES: Two conference call meetings will be held on: (1) Wednesday, 
January 17, 2007 from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m., and (2) Monday, January 29, 
2007 from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. One face-to-face meeting will begin on 
Wednesday, February 7, 2007 (8 a.m. to 5 p.m.), and conclude on Friday, 
February 9, 2007 (8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.). All times noted are eastern 
standard time. The meetings may adjourn early if all business is 
finished.
    Requests for the draft agenda or for making oral presentations at 
the meeting will be accepted up to 1 business day before the meeting.

ADDRESSES: The face-to-face meeting will be held at the EPA's RTP Main 
Campus Facility, 109 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, 
North Carolina 27711. Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. 
EPA-HQ-ORD-2006-0979, 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-2006-0979.

     Fax: Fax comments to: (202) 566-0224, Attention Docket ID 
No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2006-0979.
     Mail: Send comments by mail to: Board of Scientific 
Counselors, Safe Pesticides/Safe Products (SP2) Subcommittee Meetings--
Winter 2007 Docket, Mailcode: 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC, 20460, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2006-0979.
     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-2006-
0979.

    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-
2006-0979. 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, Safe Pesticides/Safe Products (SP2) Subcommittee Meetings--
Winter 2007 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: Heather Drumm, 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) 564-8239; via fax at: (202) 565-2911; or via e-mail at: 
drumm.heather@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 Heather 
Drumm, 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 conference calls include, but are not 
limited to: Charge questions, objective of program reviews, background 
on the U.S. EPA's SP2 research program, writing assignments, and 
planning for the face-to-face meeting. Proposed agenda items for the 
face-to-face meeting include, but are not limited to: Presentations by 
key EPA staff in the SP2 research program, poster sessions, writing the 
draft report, and presentation of the subcommittee's draft responses to 
the charge questions. The conference calls and face-to-face meeting are 
open to the public.
    Information on Services for Individuals with Disabilities: For 
information on access or services for individuals with disabilities, 
please contact Heather Drumm at (202) 564-8239 or 
drumm.heather@epa.gov. To request accommodation of a disability,


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please contact Heather Drumm, preferably at least 10 days prior to the 
meeting, to give EPA as much time as possible to process your request.

    Dated: December 1, 2006.
Jeff Morris
Director, Office of Science Policy.
[FR Doc. E6-20893 Filed 12-7-06; 8:45 am]

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