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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-1200; FRL-8513-3]

 
Board of Scientific Counselors, Executive Committee Meeting--
January 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 one meeting of the Board of 
Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Executive Committee.

DATES: The meeting will be held on Thursday, January 24, 2008, from 
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., and will continue on Friday, January 25, 2008, 
from 8:30 a.m. until 12 noon. All times noted are eastern time. The 
meeting 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 meeting will be held at the Renaissance M Street Hotel, 
1143 New Hampshire Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20037, Tel: (202) 775-

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0800. Submit your comments identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-
1200, 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-2007-1200.

     Fax: Fax comments to: (202) 566-0224, Attention Docket ID 
No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-1200.
     Mail: Send comments by mail to: Board of Scientific 
Counselors, Executive Committee Meeting--January 2008 Docket, Mailcode: 
28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC, 20460, Attention 
Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-1200.
     Hand Delivery or Courier. Deliver comment to: EPA Docket 
Center (EPA/DC), Room B102, EPA West Building, 1301 Constitution 
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-
1200. 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-
2007-1200. 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, Executive Committee Meeting--January 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: Lorelei Kowalski, 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) 564-3408; via fax at: (202) 565-2911; or via e-mail at: 
kowalski.lorelei@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 Lorelei 
Kowalski, 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: review of the revised Technology for Sustainability Subcommittee 
draft report, Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals Mid-Cycle draft report, 
Particulate Matter/Ozone (Air) Mid-Cycle draft report, and National 
Center for Environmental Research draft letter report; ORD response to 
the BOSC Safe Pesticides/Safe Products program review report 
recommendations; ORD responses to the BOSC Human Health, Eco, and 
Drinking Water Mid-Cycle report recommendations; update on the BOSC 
mid-cycle review subcommittees (Global Change and Land); update on the 
BOSC program review subcommittees (Human Health Risk Assessment and 
Homeland Security); update on the BOSC standing subcommittees 
(Computational Toxicology, National Exposure Research Lab, and National 
Center for Environmental Research); discussion of BOSC performance 
material requests and rating tool guidance; update on BOSC workgroups; 
ORD update; an update on EPA's Science Advisory Board activities; and 
future issues and plans. 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 Lorelei Kowalski (202) 564-3408 or 
kowalski.lorelei@epa.gov. To request accommodation of a disability, 

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

    Dated: December 27, 2007.
Connie Bosma,
Acting Director, Office of Science Policy.
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