[Federal Register: February 20, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 34)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OPP-2008-0102; FRL-8351-8]
Exposure Modeling Public Meeting
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: An Exposure Modeling Public Meeting (EMPM) will be held for
one day on March 11, 2008. This notice announces the location and time
for the meeting and sets forth the tentative agenda topics.
DATES: The meeting will be held on March 11, 2008 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
To request accommodation of a disability, please contact the person
listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATON CONTACT, preferably at least 10
days prior to the meeting, to give EPA as much time as possible to
process your request.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at EPA, Office of Pesticide
Programs (OPP), One Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 1\st\ Floor South
Conference Room, 2777 S. Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA 22202.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Barrett, Environmental Fate
and Effects Division (7507P), Office of Pesticide Programs,
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone number: (703) 305-6391; fax
number: (703) 305-6309; e-mail address: barrett.michael@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. General Information
A. Does this Action Apply to Me?
You may be potentially affected by this action if you are required
to conduct testing of chemical substances under the Toxic Substances
Control Act (TSCA), the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), or
the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). Since
other entities may also be interested, the Agency has not attempted to
describe all the specific entities that may be affected by this action.
If you have nay questions regarding the applicability of this action to
a particular entity, consult the person listed under FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT.
B. How Can I Get Copies of this Document and Other Related Information?
1. Docket. EPA has established a docket for this action under
docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPP-2008-0102. Publicly available docket
materials are available either in the electronic docket at http://www.regulations.gov
, or, if only available in hard copy, at the Office
of Pesticide Programs (OPP) Regulatory Public Docket in Rm. S-4400, One
Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S. Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. The
hours of operation of this Docket Facility are from 8:30 a.m. to 4
p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The Docket
Facility telephone number is (703) 305-5805.
2. Electronic access. You may access this Federal Register document
electronically through the EPA Internet under the ``Federal Register''
listings at http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr.
II. Background
On a triannual interval, an Exposure Modeling Public Meeting will
be held for presentation and discussion of current issues in modeling
pesticide fate, transport, and exposure in support of risk assessment
in a regulatory context. Meeting dates and abstract
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requests are announced through the ``empmlist'' forum on the LYRIS list
server at https://lists.epa.gov/read/all_forums/.
III. How Can I Request to Participate in this Meeting?
You may submit a request to participate in this meeting to the
person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Do not submit any
information in your request that is considered CBI. Requests to
participate in the meeting, identified by docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPP-
2008-0102, must be received on or before [15 days after date of
publication in the Federal Register].
IV. Tentative Topics for the Meeting
General Theme: Large-Scale Monitoring for Contaminant Modeling:
Strategies, Results, and Future Directions
Specific Topics
Atrazine and Nitrate in Rural Drinking Water Wells
Analysis of Long-Term Trends in Atrazine Occurrence in Raw Water of
103 CWSs
Aldicarb Potable Well Monitoring Program - Study Design, Collection
of Ancillary Field Data, and Relevance for Dietary Risk Assessments
Review of Monitoring Drinking Water Data from Surface Waters: Use
in Dietary Risk Assessment; Site Selection and Auxilliary Data
Collection Issues
Inverse Model for Determining Agricultural Watershed N Balances
from Stream Nitrate Data
Implementation of Best Management Practices for Atrazine Herbicide
in the Little Arkansas River Watershed
Estimating the Effects of Pesticides on Macroinvertebrate
Assemblage Composition Using Field Data
Pathways for Drinking Water Well Contamination
Source Water and Finished Drinking Water Quality
Overview of NAWQA Status and Plans for National Monitoring of
Streams and Ground Water
List of Subjects
Environmental protection, Modeling, Monitoring, Pesticides, Pest.
Dated: February 12, 2008.
Donald J. Brady,
Director, Environmental Fate and Effects Division.
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