
[Federal Register: March 17, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 52)]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0204; FRL-8542-9]

 
Board of Scientific Counselors, Land Research Program Mid-Cycle 
Review Meetings--Spring 2008

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of meetings.

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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) Land Mid-Cycle Subcommittee.

DATES: The first meeting (a teleconference call) will be held on 
Friday, April 18, 2008, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. EDT. The second meeting 
(a teleconference call) will be held on Thursday, April 24, 2008, from 
10 a.m. to 12 p.m. EDT. The third meeting (face-to-face meeting) will 
be held on Thursday, May 8, 2008 from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. CDT. The 
meetings may adjourn early if all business is finished. Requests for 
the draft agenda or for making oral presentations at the meetings will 
be accepted up to 1 business day before each meeting.

ADDRESSES: Participation in the conference calls will be by 
teleconference only--meeting rooms will not be used. Members of the 
public may obtain the call-in number and access code for the calls from 
Heather Drumm, whose contact information is listed under the FOR 
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this notice. The face to face 
meeting will be held at the Springhill Suites, 24 Via de Luna, 
Pensacola Beach, FL 32561. Submit your comments, identified by Docket 
ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0204, 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-2008-0204.
     Fax: Fax comments to: (202) 566-0224, Attention Docket ID 
No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0204.
     Mail: Send comments by mail to: Board of Scientific 
Counselors, Land Mid-Cycle Subcommittee Meeting--Spring 2008 Docket, 
Mailcode: 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC, 20460, 
Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0204.
     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-2008-
0204. 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-
2008-0204. 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

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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, Land Mid-Cycle Subcommittee Meeting--Spring 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: Heather Drumm, Mail Drop 8104-R, Office of Science Policy, 
Office of Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency, 
1300 Pennsylvania Ave. 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 either 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 meetings include, but are not limited 
to: Teleconference #1: the objectives of the review; a summary of major 
changes in the Land research program since 2005; update on the revised 
Land Multi-Year Plan; Teleconference #2: update on Long Term Goal 
progress since 2005; Face-to-Face meeting: the Land research program's 
progress in response to recommendations from its 2005 BOSC review and 
other activities, subcommittee discussions. The meetings 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, 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: March 11, 2008.
Jeff Morris,
Acting Director, Office of Science Policy.
[FR Doc. E8-5286 Filed 3-14-08; 8:45 am]

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