
[Federal Register: April 11, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 71)]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0268; FRL-8553-3]

 
Board of Scientific Counselors, Executive Committee Meeting--May 
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 Tuesday, May 6, 2008, from 8 a.m. to 
4:30 p.m., and will continue on Wednesday, May 7, 2008, from 8:30 a.m. 
until 3:30 p.m. All times noted are central 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 Office of Research and 
Development, National Health and Environmental Effects Research 
Laboratory, Gulf Ecology Division, 1 Sabine Island Drive, Gulf Breeze, 
Florida 32561. Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-
HQ-ORD-2008-0268, 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:

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ORD.Docket@epa.gov, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0268.
     Fax: Fax comments to: (202) 566-0224, Attention Docket ID 
No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0268.
     Mail: Send comments by mail to: Board of Scientific 
Counselors, Executive Committee Meeting--May 2008 Docket, Mailcode: 
28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, Attention 
Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0268.
     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-
0268. 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-
2008-0268. 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--May 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 Computational Toxicology Subcommittee and National 
Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL) Standing Subcommittee draft letter 
reports; review of the Global Change Mid-Cycle draft report; update on 
the BOSC mid-cycle review subcommittees (land and water quality); 
update on the BOSC program review subcommittees (homeland security, 
human health, and endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs)); update on the 
BOSC standing subcommittees ( National Center for Environmental 
Research); briefings on (1) The National Research Council of the 
National Academies: Report on Evaluating Research Efficiency in the 
U.S. EPA (report overview, ORD implementation plans, and implications 
for BOSC program reviews), (2) ORD's ecological research program, and 
(3) ORD/EPA nanotechnology activities; a site visit to the National 
Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory in Gulf Breeze, 
Florida; 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 April 3, 2008.
Jeff Morris,
Acting Director, Office of Science Policy.
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