
[Federal Register: September 15, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 179)]
[Notices]               
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0649; FRL-8715-6]

 
Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC), Human Health Subcommittee 
Meetings--Fall 2008 and Winter 2009

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) Human Health Subcommittee.

DATES: The first meeting (a teleconference call) will be held on 
Friday, October 10, 2008, from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. EDT. The second 
meeting (a teleconference call) will be held on Monday, December 1, 
2008, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. EST. The third meeting (face-to-face) will 
begin on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 and conclude on Thursday, January 
15, 2009. The meetings may adjourn early if all business is finished. 
Requests for the draft agendas or for making oral presentations at the 
meetings will be accepted up to one business day before each 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-2008-0649, 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-2008-0649.
     Fax: Fax comments to: (202) 566-0224, Attention Docket ID 
No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0649.
     Mail: Send comments by mail to: Board of Scientific 
Counselors (BOSC), Human Health Subcommittee

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Meetings--Fall 2008 and Winter 2009 Docket, Mailcode: 28221T, 1200 
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, Attention Docket ID No. 
EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0649.
     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-
0649.

    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-
2008-0649. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included 
in the public docket without change and may be made available online at 
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 www.regulations.gov or e-mail. 
The 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 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 
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 www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the Board of Scientific 
Counselors (BOSC), Human Health Subcommittee Meetings--Fall 2008 and 
Winter 2009 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 any of the meetings 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 first teleconference include, but are 
not limited to: Overview of materials provided to the subcommittee; 
Overview of ORD; Overview of ORD's Human Health Program; Subcommittee 
discussion. Proposed agenda items for the second teleconference 
include, but are not limited to: Overviews of each of the four Long 
Term Goals for the Human Health Research Program. Proposed agenda items 
for the face-to-face meeting include, but are not limited to: 
Overviews, poster sessions and client testimonials for each of the long 
term goals; 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 ten days prior to the 
meeting, to give EPA as much time as possible to process your request.

    Dated: September 4, 2008.
Fred Hauchman,
Director, Office of Science Policy.
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