[Federal Register: April 7, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 66)]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Science Advisory Board; Notification of Public Meetings

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Pub. L. 92-
463, notification is hereby given that several committees of the 
Science Advisory Board (SAB) will meet on the dates and times described 
below. All times noted are Eastern Time. All meetings are open to the 
public, however, due to limited space, seating at meetings will be on a 
first-come basis. For further information concerning specific meetings, 
please contact the individuals listed below. Documents that are the 
subject of SAB reviews are normally available from the originating EPA 
office and are not available from the SAB Office.

1. Quality Management Subcommittee of the Environmental Engineering 
Committee (EEC)--Public Meeting April 27-29, 1998

    The Quality Management Subcommittee of the Science Advisory Board's 
(SAB) Environmental Engineering Committee, will meet Monday through 
Wednesday April 27-29, 1998 in the SAB Conference Room,

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Room 3709 (third floor of the Mall), U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency Headquarters Building, 401 M Street SW, Washington, DC 20460. 
The meeting will begin at 8:30 am on April 27 and adjourn no later than 
3:30 pm on April 29. For further information, please contact the 
individuals listed below.

Purpose

    The purpose of this meeting is to begin the SAB's review of the 
Agency-Wide Quality Management Program. This review was requested by 
the National Center for Environmental Research and Quality Assurance 
(NCERQA) in EPA's Office of Research and Development.
    In 1984, EPA established a mandatory Agency-wide quality assurance 
(QA) program. EPA requires that organizations implement a quality 
management system to assure that the environmental data the Agency uses 
for decision making is the type, quality, and quantity needed. This 
quality management system includes the planning, implementation, and 
assessment of data collection activities. NCERQA's Quality Assurance's 
Quality Assurance Division (QAD) serves as the central management 
authority for the Agency's Quality System and develops QA procedures 
and policies for implementation Agency-wide
    The tentative charge for this review is to review the fundamental 
elements of the QA program for completeness, rationality, and relevance 
to environmental measurement and decision-making programs. To meet this 
charge, the Subcommittee will review quality management program 
definition, documents, and implementation. The Subcommittee anticipates 
2 or 3 three-day meetings will be required to complete this review. At 
the April 27-29 meeting, the Subcommittee expects to hear briefings on 
the Agency's quality management program, draft a letter report on 
program definition, begin review of selected program documents, and 
schedule subsequent meetings.

For Further Information

    Copies of the review documents and background materials for the 
review are not available from the SAB. The review documents are 
available on the Internet on the home page for NCERQA's QAD, under the 
heading: QAD Requirements and Guidance Documents. The address for the 
home page is: http://es.epa.gov/ncerqa/qa/index.html. Single copies of 
the documents can also be obtained from QAD's Ms. Betty Waldron who can 
be reached at (202) 564-6830.
    Copies of the agenda are available from Mrs. Dorothy Clark, 
Committee Operations Staff, Science Advisory Board (1400), U.S. EPA, 
401 M Street SW., Washington DC 20460, telephone (202) 260-4126, fax 
(202) 260-7118, or via Email at clark.dorothy@epa.gov.
    Any member of the public wishing to submit comments must contact 
Mrs. Kathleen White Conway, Designated Federal Officer (DFO) for the 
Environmental Engineering Committee, in writing no later than noon 
Thursday April 23rd at Science Advisory Board (1400), Room 3702L, U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency, Washington DC 20460; FAX (202) 260-
7118; or Email at conway.kathleen@epa.gov. The request should identify 
the name of the individual who will make the presentation and an 
outline of the issues to be addressed. At least 35 copies of any 
written comments to the Committee are to be given to the DFO no later 
than the time of the presentation; these will be distributed to the 
Subcommittee and the interested public. To discuss technical aspects of 
the meeting, please contact Mrs. Conway by telephone at (202) 260-2558.

2. Environmental Health Committee (EHC)--Public Meeting April 30--
May 1, 1998

    The Environmental Health Committee (EHC) of the Science Advisory 
Board (SAB) will meet on Thursday April 30 and Friday May 1, 1998, 
beginning no earlier than 8:30 am and ending no later than 5:00 pm on 
each day. The meeting will be held in North Conference Room 3 at US 
Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters, Waterside Mall (street 
level), 401 M. Street, SW, Washington, DC. For convenient access, 
members of the public should use the main entrance to the Waterside 
Mall commercial area on the M Street side of the complex. Once inside 
the Mall, make a right in the center of the mall and proceed toward the 
Washington Information Center sign. Then follow the sign to the North 
Conference Center on the left.

Purpose

    The purpose of the meeting is to review the draft Health Risk 
Assessment of 1,3-Butadiene which was developed by the U.S. EPA, Office 
of Research and Development (ORD), National Center for Environmental 
Assessment (NCEA). During the afternoon of May 1, the Committee expects 
to begin preparation of its draft report on the 1,3-Butadiene review. 
This session is also open to the public.
    The EHC has been asked to respond to the following Charge 
questions: a) Review the health risk assessment for technical quality, 
comprehensiveness and clarity; b) Is the classification of ``known'' 
human carcinogen adequately supported by science?; c) Are the 
approaches taken to characterize plausible cancer risks reasonable 
given the science?; and d) Are the conclusions and quantitative 
estimations for reproductive/developmental effects adequately 
supported?

Background

    ORD published its first risk assessment of 1,3-Butadiene in 1985. 
The first document covered cancer and mutagenicity and was prepared in 
response to a request from the Office of Air Quality Planning and 
Standards to support the classification of 1,3-Butadiene as a Hazardous 
Air Pollutant. The recently published 1,3-Butadiene draft document was 
written in response to a request from the Agency's Office of Mobile 
Sources. The final document will be used to support a future Air Toxics 
Rule. This document focuses on mutagenicity, carcinogenicity, and 
reproductive/developmental effects. The 1,3-Butadiene document which 
will be reviewed at this meeting presents the Agency's first benchmark 
dose analysis for reproductive/developmental factors. The review 
document includes many new studies which have been published since 
1985. This new information has changed the weight of evidence for 
cancer. In addition, there are exposure data available in an 
occupational study which is used to derive the cancer slope factor. The 
review document is not intended to be a comprehensive health 
assessment. It contains an overview of the ambient exposure and 
exposure to populations adjacent to emissions sources, without any 
actual exposure assessment as such.

For Further Information

    Copies of the review document and any background materials for the 
review are not available from the SAB. The draft 1,3-Butadiene document 
is available on the NCEA home page at the following address: http://
www.epa.gov/ncea. The document also is available for inspection at the 
EPA's Information Resource Center, Room M2904, 401 M Street, SW, 
Washington, DC 20460. The Center is open between 8:00 am and 5:00 pm, 
Monday through Friday, except for Federal holidays. Requests for 
individual copies of the 1,3-Butadiene review document may also be 
directed to the Technical Information Staff by telephone (202) 564-
3261, by fax (202) 565-0050 or via Email at: koppikar.aparna@epa.gov.
    For general information about the 1,3-Butadiene document, contact 
the NCEA

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Technical Information Staff (8623D), U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency, 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460; telephone: (202) 564-
3261. Technical questions should be directed to Dr. Aparna M. Koppikar, 
National Center for Environmental Assessment (8623D), U.S. EPA, 401 M 
St.,SW, Washington, DC 20460. Dr. Koppikar may be contacted by 
telephone (202) 564-3242; by fax (202) 565-0078; or via E-mail at: 
koppikar.aparna@epa.gov.
    Members of the public desiring additional information about the 
meeting, including an agenda, should contact Ms. Mary Winston, 
Committee Operations Staff, Science Advisory Board (1400), US EPA, 401 
M Street, SW, Washington DC 20460, by telephone (202) 260-4126; fax 
(202) 260-7118; or via Email at: winston.mary@epa.gov.
    Anyone wishing to make an oral presentation at the meeting must 
contact Ms. Roslyn Edson, Acting Designated Federal Officer for the 
EHC, in writing, no later than 12:00 noon Eastern Time on April 17, 
1998, by fax (202) 260-7118, or via Email at: edson.roslyn@epa.gov The 
request should identify the name of the individual who will make the 
presentation and an outline of the issues to be addressed. At least 35 
copies of any written comments to the Committee are to be given to Ms. 
Edson no later than the time of the presentation for distribution to 
the Committee and the interested public. For questions concerning the 
review, Ms. Edson can be contacted at (202) 260-3823.

3. Environmental Modeling Subcommittee (EMS)--Public Meeting May 5-
6, 1998

    The Environmental Modeling Subcommittee of the Science Advisory 
Board's (SAB) Executive Committee, will meet Tuesday and Wednesday May 
5-6, 1998 in the SAB Conference Room (Room 3709--Mall level) at the 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M Street SW, Washington, DC 
20460. The meeting will begin at 8:30 am on May 5th and adjourn no 
later than 3:00 pm on May 6th.

Purpose

    The purpose of this meeting is to: a) hold a consultation with 
EPA's Models-2000 Steering/Implementation Team (S/IT) on the Agency-
Wide Modeling Program; and b) conduct an Advisory on the Total Risk 
Integrated Methodology (TRIM) for the Office of Air and Radiation 
(OAR).

SAB Consultation on the Modeling Program

    The Agency develops, evaluates, and applies a wide variety of 
highly complex environmental models. These models are used to 
coordinate and/or predict the environmental consequences of a wide 
range of activities. Frequently, they become the basis for 
environmental cleanup, protection, or regulation. In order to ensure 
the adequacy of these models in their development, evaluation and 
application, it is imperative that the Agency adopt some basic 
principles that will guide the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 
modeling community. The SAB has been asked to work with EPA to help 
them define and implement improvements to the way in which the Agency 
develops and uses modeling.
    The tentative charge for the SAB Consultation is to work with the 
newly created (December 1997) Models-2000 Steering/ Implementation Team 
(S/IT), Dr. Gary Foley, Team Leader, to provide advice on the 
development, application, characterization, ``validation'', and peer 
review, etc. of models at EPA. (Please note that it is anticipated the 
S/IT Team will become a standing Agency Committee to be named 
``Committee on Regulatory Modeling'' or CREM.) The EMS will begin this 
process with by working with two of the ten Action Teams established by 
the Models-2000 S/IT on what are currently the issues of highest 
priority to the S/IT: (a) Models QA, Peer Review, and Acceptability 
Criteria (Linda Kirkland, Action Team Leader); and (b) Multimedia 
Multipathway Modeling Systems (Stephen Kroner, Action Team Leader). It 
is anticipated that in a series of meetings over time there will be 
presentations by and discussions with the other eight Action Teams, as 
well as follow-on discussions with these two Action Teams. During the 
consultation the EMS will consider the goals and objectives of the two 
Action Teams in their designated topic areas, and provide comments and 
suggestions on: the Action Team draft charter; the planned approach for 
implementation (gaps, likelihood of success, simplification, etc.); 
perceived barriers and suggestions for overcoming them; how have other 
researchers/agencies dealt with similar issues; and any other 
discussion items germane to the topic. The Subcommittee expects to meet 
3 or 4 times over the next one to two years.

SAB Advisory on TRIM

    The TRIM Advisory was requested by the Office of Air Quality 
Planning and Standards within the Office of Air and Radiation. In this 
Advisory the EMS has been charged to address:
    (a) Is the overall conceptual TRIM approach appropriate, given the 
underlying science, EPA policy, and regulatory needs (i.e., what are 
the strengths and the weaknesses)?
    (b) The TRIM approach is designed for the explicit treatment of 
uncertainty and variability, including both model uncertainty and 
parameter uncertainty. Is the spatial compartmental mass-balance 
approach commensurate with quantifying uncertainty and variability in a 
scientifically defensible manner?
    (c) The TRIM.FaTE Module is the environmental fate, transport, and 
exposure component of TRIM. Is the overall conceptual approach 
represented in the TRIM.FaTE Module appropriate, given the underlying 
science, EPA policy, and regulatory needs (i.e., what are the strengths 
and weaknesses of the approach)?
    (d) The TRIM approach is designed to be flexible and to allow for a 
tiered approach, to function as a hierarchy of models, from simple to 
complex, as needed.
    (1) As implemented at this time, is the TRIM.FaTE Module, with its 
3-dimensional, spatial compartmental mass-conserving approach to 
predicting the movement of pollutant mass over time, appropriate from a 
scientific perspective?
    (2) Is the TRIM.FaTE Module, as designed, an appropriate tool, when 
run either at a screening level or for a more refined analysis, for use 
in providing information for regulatory decision making? Given the 
modular design (i.e., the potentially large number of parameters and 
associated uncertainty and variability), is TRIM.FaTE suitable to 
support regulatory decisions?
    (e) Does the TRIM.FaTE Module, as it has been conceptualized, 
address some of the limitations associated with other models (e.g., 
non-conservation of mass, steady state approach, inability to quantify 
uncertainty and variability, limited range of receptors and processes 
considered)? Are there other limitations that the TRIM.FaTE model 
should address?
    (f) Does the TRIM.FaTE Module, as it has been conceptualized and 
demonstrated to date, facilitate future integration with appropriate 
data sources (e.g., GIS) and applications (e.g., multi-pathway exposure 
assessment for humans)?

For Further Information

    Copies of the review documents and any background materials for the 
review are not available from the SAB. The review documents are 
available from the

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respective program offices. For material related to the consultation on 
the Modeling Program, please contact Mr. Johnny Pearson at (919) 541-
0572; by fax at (919) 541-0445; or by Email at pearson.johnnie@epa.gov. 
For material related to the TRIM Advisory, please contact Ms. Amy Vasu 
at (919) 541-0107; by fax at (919) 541-0840; or by Email at 
vasu.amy@epa.gov.
    Any member of the public wishing further information concerning the 
meeting should contact Dr. Jack Fowle, Designated Federal Officer for 
the Environmental Models Subcommittee, Science Advisory Board (1400), 
Room 3702F, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington DC 20460 
at (202) 260-8325; by fax (202) 260-7118; or by Email at 
fowle.jack@epa.gov.
    Anyone wishing to make an oral presentation at the meeting must 
contact Dr. Fowle, in writing no later than 4:00 pm, April 29th, at the 
above address, fax or Email. The request should identify the name of 
the individual who will make the presentation and an outline of the 
issues to be addressed. At least 35 copies of any written comments to 
the Committee are to be given to Dr. Fowle no later than the time of 
the presentation for distribution to the Committee and the interested 
public. Copies of the draft meeting agenda are available from Ms. 
Priscilla Tillery-Gadson, Committee Operations Staff at (202) 260-4126; 
by fax at (202) 260-7118; or by Email at tillery.priscilla@epa.gov.

4. Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC)--Public Meeting 
May 5, 1998

    The Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) of the Science 
Advisory Board (SAB) will meet on Tuesday, May 5, 1998 at the Radisson 
Governor's Inn, 1919 East Highway 54 (Intersection of Hwy 54 and 
Interstate-40--Exit #280/Davis Drive), Research Triangle Park, NC, 
27709. The hotel phone number is (919) 549-8631. The meeting will begin 
at 9:00 am and end no later than 12:00 pm. At this meeting, the 
Committee will be briefed by staff from the Agency's National Center 
for Environmental Assessment (NCEA) concerning the PM Development Plan 
for preparation of the Air Quality Criteria Document for Particulate 
Matter (PM), which will serve as the scientific basis for the next 
periodic review of the PM National Ambient Air Quality Standards 
(NAAQS). This briefing will help set the stage for subsequent meetings 
of the Committee as it begins its review responsibilities for the PM 
NAAQS. The review schedule for the PM NAAQS is contained in 62 Federal 
Register 55201, dated October 23, 1997.

Availability of the PM Development Plan and Solicitation of Public 
Comments by the Agency on the PM Development Plan

    Interested parties may obtain a copy of the PM Development Plan by 
writing to the PM Project Manager, USEPA, Office of Research and 
Development, NCEA, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 or by sending a 
request via fax (919-541-1818) or e-mail (ray.diane@epa.gov). Please be 
sure to include your name and return address and state that you are 
requesting a copy of the PM Development Plan. Public comments will not 
be solicited by separate FR notice but notice is hereby given that 
comments on the PM Development Plan will be accepted for 30 days 
beginning with the date of this FR Notice. Comments should be sent to 
the PM Project Manager at the address, fax or Email address given 
above.
    For information about this meeting (including obtaining information 
on presenting comments), please contact the Designated Federal Officer 
(DFO) for CASAC, Mr. Robert Flaak, at the address given below under the 
meeting information for the CASAC Diesel Review Panel.

5. Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) Diesel Review 
Panel--Public Meeting May 5-6, 1998

    The CASAC Diesel Review Panel will meet on Tuesday and Wednesday, 
May 5-6, 1998 at the Radisson Governor's Inn, 1919 East Highway 54 
(Intersection of Hwy 54 and Interstate-40--Exit #280/Davis Drive), 
Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709. The hotel phone number is (919) 549-
8631. The meeting will be conducted from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm on May 5th 
and from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm on May 6th.
    The purpose of the meeting is to conduct a review of the Agency's 
revised draft Health Assessment Document for Diesel Engine Emissions 
prepared by the Agency's National Center for Environmental Assessment 
(NCEA)--Washington, DC Office. The Committee previously reviewed an 
earlier draft of this document in 1995.

Availability of the Draft Diesel Document and Solicitation of Public 
Comments by the Agency on the Draft Diesel Document

    EPA's distribution of the draft ``Health Assessment Document for 
Diesel Engine Emissions'' (February 1998, EPA/600/8-90/057C) will be 
accomplished in two ways: a) via NCEA's (National Center for 
Environmental Assessment) Internet Homepage (www.epa.gov/ncea) under 
``What's New''; and b) via NTIS (National Technical Information 
Service--US Department of Commerce, 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, 
VA 22161; (703) 487-4650). As of March 30, 1998 the Assessment was 
available from these two sources. The NTIS (document #PB98-124308) has 
the complete document, while the NCEA Homepage version has everything 
except 13 figures from Appendix C: Models for Calculating Lung Burden. 
Those wishing the figures may obtain them by getting the NTIS document 
or contacting EPA as described below. Public comments will not be 
solicited by separate FR notice but notice is hereby given that 
comments on the draft Assessment will be accepted over a 70-day period 
beginning with the date of this FR Notice. Four copies of any comments 
should be sent to: Dr. William Pepelko, US EPA; NCEA (8623-D); 
Washington, DC 20460. For general information or to obtain copies of 
the 13 figures for Appendix C, please telephone NCEA @ (202) 564-3261.

For Further Information on the Meeting

    Members of the public desiring additional information about either 
the CASAC meeting or the CASAC Diesel Review Panel meeting should 
contact Mr. Robert Flaak, Designated Federal Officer, Clean Air 
Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC), Science Advisory Board (1400), 
Room 3702G, U.S. EPA, 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460; 
telephone/voice mail at (202) 260-5133; fax at (202) 260-7118; or via 
Email at flaak.robert@epa.gov. Those individuals requiring a copy of 
the draft Agenda for either meeting should contact Ms. Dorothy Clark, 
Committee Operations Staff, at (202) 260-4126 or by FAX at (202) 260-
7118 or via Email at clark.dorothy@epa.gov. Members of the public who 
wish to make a brief oral presentation to CASAC at either meeting must 
contact Mr. Flaak in writing (by letter or by fax--see previously 
stated information) no later than 12 noon Eastern Time, Tuesday, April 
28, 1998 in order to be included on the respective meeting Agenda. 
Public comments will be limited to five minutes per speaker or 
organization. The request should identify the name of the individual 
who will make the presentation, the organization (if any) they will 
represent, the name of the committee (CASAC or the CASAC Diesel Review 
Panel) they wish to address, any requirements for audio visual 
equipment (e.g., overhead projector, 35mm projector, chalkboard, etc), 
and at least 35 copies of an outline of the issues to be addressed or 
the presentation itself. Public comments

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should focus on scientific or technical aspects of the matters before 
the respective Committee at its meeting. There will be time allocated 
for public comment at subsequent meetings when the CASAC begins its 
formal review of the documents that are used in support of the PM 
NAAQS.

6. Radiation Advisory Committee (RAC) Federal Guidance Report 
Review Subcommittee (FGRRS)--Public Meeting May 7-8, 1998

    The Science Advisory Board's (SAB's) Radiation Advisory Committee 
(RAC's) Federal Guidance Report Review Subcommittee (FGRRS) will 
conduct a public meeting on Thursday, May 7 and Friday, May 8, 1998. 
The meeting will convene at 9:00 am in the Administrator's Conference 
Room 1103 West Tower, U.S. EPA Headquarters, 401 M Street, SW, 
Washington, DC 20460 and adjourn no later than 5:30 pm each day. At 
this meeting, the RAC's FGRRS will review the Interim Version of 
Federal Guidance Report Number 13, Part I, Health Risks From Low-Level 
Environmental Exposure to Radionuclides. The RAC received a briefing on 
Federal Guidance Report 13 Part I, at its January 24, 1997 and March 3, 
1998 meetings (see FR Vol. 63, N. 28, Wednesday, February 11, 1998, pp. 
6927-6929). Other initiatives of the RAC, such as a proposed self-
initiated commentary on the Agency's Radiation Quality Assurance 
Program (RADQA) may be discussed as time permits.

Charge to the Committee

    The Subcommittee has been asked to review and comment on the 
Agency's Interim Version of Federal Guidance Report (FGR) Number 13, 
Part I, Health Risks From Low-Level Environmental Exposure to 
Radionuclides. This report provides cancer mortality and morbidity risk 
coefficients for internal and external exposures to about 100 
radionuclides. The methodology combines the radiogenic cancer risk 
models previously reviewed by the SAB (EPA-SAB-RAC-LTR-93-004) with 
dose rates from radionuclide intakes or external exposures to calculate 
health risks to the public. The dose rates for inhaled and ingested 
radionuclides are calculated using age-specific biokinetic and 
dosimetric models published by the International Commission on 
Radiological Protection (ICRP). The dose rates for external exposures 
to radionuclides are the same as those calculated for FGR-12, External 
Exposure to Radionuclides in Air, Water, and Soil.
    The Subcommittee is being asked to focus on the following charge 
questions: a) Is the methodology employed for calculating health risks 
from radionuclide intakes and external exposure acceptable? b) In light 
of available scientific information, have the major uncertainties been 
identified and put into proper perspective? c) Is the proposed method 
for extending the list of radionuclides to include all those tabulated 
in Federal Guidance Reports 11 and 12 reasonable?
    For information about this meeting, please contact the Designated 
Federal Officer (DFO) for the RAC, Dr. Jack Kooyoomjian, at the address 
given below under the meeting information for the Federal Guidance 
Report Review Subcommittee (FGRRS), Public Teleconference, June 2, 1998

7. Radiation Advisory Committee (RAC) Federal Guidance Report 
Review Subcommittee (FGRRS)--Public Teleconference, June 2, 1998

    On Tuesday, June 2, 1998 from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm Eastern time, the 
Federal Guidance Report Review Subcommittee (FGRRS) of the Science 
Advisory Board's (SAB) Radiation Advisory Committee (RAC) plans to 
conduct a closure teleconference on its draft report, which is 
anticipated to be prepared following the FGRRS meeting of May 7 & 8, 
1998. For those individuals wishing to be physically present, the SAB 
staff has arranged to conduct the teleconference at the U.S. EPA 
Headquarters, 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460 from the SAB's 
Conference Room (Room 3709) in Waterside Mall. The FGRRS plans to 
prepare a draft report, and anticipates that the draft report will be 
made available to the interested Agency and the public sometime prior 
to the teleconference, if it reaches consensus on this topic in this 
time frame. It is not certain that the Subcommittee will, in fact, 
reach consensus in this time frame. Should consensus not be achieved, 
then the teleconference will be utilized for this purpose, and the 
draft report prepared following the teleconference would be shared with 
the interested Agency and the public when consensus has been achieved.

For Further Information

    Members of the public desiring additional information about the 
meeting should contact Dr. K. Jack Kooyoomjian, Designated Federal 
Officer, Radiation Advisory Committee (RAC), Federal Guidance Report 
Review Subcommittee (FGRRS), Science Advisory Board (1400), Room 3702J, 
U.S. EPA, 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460; telephone/ voice mail 
at (202) 260-2560; fax at (202) 260-7118; or via Email at 
kooyoomjian.jack@epa.gov. For a copy of the draft meeting agenda or a 
copy of the SAB/FGRRS draft consensus report, please contact Ms. Diana 
Pozun, Committee Operations Staff at (202) 260-4126 or by FAX at (202) 
260-7118 or via Email at pozun.diana@epa.gov. Materials from the Office 
of Radiation and Indoor Air (ORIA) that are the subject of this review 
are available from Mr. Brian Littleton of ORIA. Mr. Littleton can be 
reached on (202) 564-9216 or via Email at littleton.brian@epa.gov.
    Members of the public who wish to make a brief oral presentation to 
the Subcommittee at its May 7 & 8, 1998 public meeting must contact Dr. 
K. Jack Kooyoomjian or Mrs. Diana L. Pozun in writing (by letter or by 
fax--see previously stated information) no later than 12 noon, 
Thursday, April 30, 1998 in order to be included on the Agenda. For the 
June 2, 1998 public teleconference meeting, members of the public who 
wish to make a brief oral presentation must contact Dr. K. Jack 
Kooyoomjian or Mrs. Diana L. Pozun in writing (by letter or by fax--see 
previously stated information) no later than 12 noon, Wednesday, May 
27, 1998. Public comments will generally be limited to five minutes per 
speaker or organization for the May 7 & 8, 1998 public meeting and to 
three minutes per speaker or organization for the June 2, 1998 public 
teleconference. The request should identify the name of the individual 
who will make the presentation, the organization (if any) they will 
represent, any requirements for audio visual equipment (e.g., overhead 
projector, 35mm projector, chalkboard, etc) for the May 7& 8, 1998 
meeting, and at least 35 copies of an outline of the issues to be 
addressed or the presentation itself.

Providing Oral or Written Comments at SAB Meetings

    The Science Advisory Board expects that public statements presented 
at its meetings will not repeat previously submitted oral or written 
statements. In general, each individual or group making an oral 
presentation will be limited to a total time of ten minutes. This time 
may be reduced at the discretion of the SAB, depending on meeting 
circumstances. Oral presentations at teleconferences will normally be 
limited to three minutes per speaker or organization. Written comments 
(at least 35 copies) received in the SAB Staff Office sufficiently 
prior to a meeting date, may be mailed to the relevant SAB committee or 
subcommittee prior to its meeting;

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comments received too close to the meeting date will normally be 
provided to the committee at its meeting. Written comments, which may 
of any length, may be provided to the relevant committee or 
subcommittee up until the time of the meeting.
    Copies of SAB prepared reports mentioned in this FR Notice may be 
obtained from the SAB's Committee Evaluation and Support Staff at (202) 
260-4126, or via fax at (202) 260-1889. Please provide the SAB report 
number when making a request.
    Individuals requiring special accommodation at SAB meetings, 
including wheelchair access, should contact the appropriate DFO at 
least five business days prior to the meeting so that appropriate 
arrangements can be made.

    Dated: April 1, 1998.
Donald G. Barnes, Ph D,
Staff Director, Science Advisory Board.
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