[Federal Register: March 17, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 52)]
[Notices]
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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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