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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
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EPA Science Advisory Board Staff
Office; Request for Nominations of
Candidates for the EPA Clean Air
Scientific Advisory Committee, the
Advisory Council on Clean Air
Compliance Analysis, and the Science
Advisory Board
AGENCY:
Environmental Protection
Agency.
Notice.
ACTION:
SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency’s (EPA) Science
Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office is
soliciting nominations for consideration
of membership on EPA’s Clean Air
Scientific Advisory Committee
(CASAC), the Advisory Council on
Clean Air Compliance Analysis
(Council), the chartered Science
Advisory Board (SAB or Board), and
SAB Standing Committees.
DATES: Nominations should be
submitted in time to arrive no later than
June 2, 2006.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Nominators who are unable to submit
nominations electronically as described
below, may submit a paper copy by
contacting Ms. Patricia L. Thomas, U.S.
EPA SAB Staff Office (Mail Code
1400F), 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW., Washington, DC 20460 (FedEx/
Courier address: U.S. EPA SAB, Suite
3600, 1025 F Street, NW., Washington
DC 20004), (202) 343–9974 (telephone),
(202) 233–0643 (fax), or via e-mail at
thomas.patricial@epa.gov. General
inquiries regarding the work of the SAB,
CASAC, and Council may be directed to
Dr. Anthony F. Maciorowski, Associate
Director for Science, U.S. EPA SAB Staff
Office, (202) 343–9983 (telephone), or
via e-mail at
maciorowski.anthony@epa.gov.
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Background
The SAB (42 U.S.C. 4365), CASAC (42
U.S.C. 7409) and Council (42 U.S.C.
7612) are chartered Federal Advisory
Committees that report directly to the
EPA Administrator. The mission of
these federal advisory committees, as
established by statute, is to provide
independent scientific and technical
peer review, advice, consultation, and
recommendations to the EPA
Administrator on the technical bases for
EPA actions. As Federal Advisory
Committees, the CASAC, Council, and
SAB conduct business in accordance
with the Federal Advisory Committee
Act (FACA) (5 U.S.C. App. C) and
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related regulations. Generally, CASAC,
Council, and SAB meetings are
announced in the Federal Register,
conducted in public view, and provide
opportunities for public input during
deliberations. Additional information
about these Federal Advisory
Committees can be obtained on the SAB
Web site at: https://www.epa.gov/sab.
Members of the CASAC, Council, SAB
and their standing committees
constitute a distinguished body of nonEPA scientists, engineers, economists,
and social scientists who are nationally
and internationally recognized experts
in their respective fields. Members are
appointed by the EPA Administrator for
a period of three years, with the
possibility of appointment to a second
three year term. These federal advisory
committees provide advice,
recommendations, and peer review on a
wide variety of EPA science activities.
This notice specifically requests
nominations for the chartered CASAC,
Council, and SAB, and SAB standing
committees.
The chartered CASAC has
responsibility to review and offer
technical and scientific advice to the
EPA Administrator on scientific aspects
of national ambient air quality standards
for criteria pollutants. The chartered
Council has the responsibility to review
and offer technical and scientific advice
to the EPA Administrator on the
impacts of the Clean Air Act on the
public health, economy, and
environment of the United States. The
SAB standing committees provide
independent scientific and technical
advice to the EPA Administrator
through the chartered Board. The SAB
Drinking Water Committee provides
advice on EPA’s national drinking water
criteria and standards program. The
SAB Ecological Processes and Effects
Committee provides advice on science
to protect, sustain and restore the
integrity of ecosystems. The SAB
Environmental Economics Advisory
Committee provides advice on methods
and analyses related to economics,
costs, and benefits of EPA
environmental programs. The SAB
Environmental Engineering Committee
provides advice on environmental
engineering, remediation, and control.
The SAB Environmental Health
Committee and the SAB Integrated
Human Exposure Committee provides
advice on the development and use of
guidelines for human health effects,
exposure assessment, and risk
assessment. The Radiation Advisory
Committee provides advice on radiation
protection, radiation science, and
radiation risk assessment. All the work
of the SAB standing committees are
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under the direction of the Board. The
Board reviews and approves SAB
standing committee reports, and
provides strategic advice to the EPA
Administrator on a variety of EPA
science and research issues and
programs. Additional information about
the CASAC, the Council, the SAB, and
SAB standing committees may be found
at the SAB Web site at: https://
www.epa.gov/sab.
Expertise Sought
The SAB Staff Office is seeking
nominations for nationally and
internationally recognized non-EPA
scientists, engineers, economists, and
social scientists. Nominees are sought
from a wide range of scientific and
technical areas that are relevant to EPA
research and science activities. General
areas of expertise and the specific
committees where such expertise is
desired follow.
(a) Exposure Assessment—
Specialized expertise in the
characterization, quantitative analysis,
sensor development and deployment,
monitoring, and modeling of sources,
emissions, environmental fate,
transport, and distribution of physical,
chemical, radiological, and biological
stressors and mixtures in various
environmental media (air, water, land,
tissue, etc.). Depending upon their
specific disciplinary expertise,
nominees will be considered for
appointment to the chartered CASAC,
chartered SAB, the SAB Drinking Water
Committee, the SAB Integrated Human
Exposure Committee, and the SAB
Radiation Advisory Committee.
(b) Human Health Risk Assessment—
Specialized expertise in public health,
environmental medicine, epidemiology,
mammalian toxicology, microbiology,
quantitative or statistical methods and
models to estimate the potential health
hazard and risk of physical, chemical,
radiological, and biological stressors
and mixtures in various environmental
media (air, water, land, tissue, etc.).
Depending upon their specific
disciplinary expertise, nominees will be
considered for appointment to the
chartered CASAC, chartered Council,
the chartered SAB, the SAB Drinking
Water Committee, the SAB
Environmental Health Committee, and
the SAB Radiation Advisory Committee.
(c) Ecological Assessment—
Specialized expertise in ecological
condition assessment, conservation
biology, landscape ecology, ecosystem
modeling, ecotoxicology, quantitative or
statistical methods and models to
estimate the ecological hazard and risk
to ecosystems, communities,
populations, and species to physical,
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chemical, radiological, and biological
stressors and mixtures. Depending upon
their specific disciplinary expertise,
nominees will be considered for
appointment to the chartered SAB, and
the SAB Ecological Processes and
Effects Committee.
(d) Risk Mitigation and Control—
Specialized expertise in civil, chemical,
environmental, or systems engineering
for the protection of public health and
the environment through sustainable
and green approaches, environmental
management systems, pollution
prevention, waste reduction and reuse,
and containment or control technologies
for environmental stressors in all
environmental media (e.g., air, land,
water). Depending upon their specific
disciplinary expertise, nominees will be
considered for appointment to the
chartered SAB and the SAB
Environmental Engineering Committee.
(g) Environmental Economics
Assessments—Specialized expertise in
cost-benefit analysis, uncertainty
analysis, energy sector and electricity
generation, modeling (e.g., emissions
fate and transport, emissions trading,
economy-environment interactions),
application of quantitative methods to
environmental policy (e.g., benefit-cost
assessment, valuation, cost effective
analysis, computable general
equilibrium modeling), market
mechanisms and incentives, or political
economy of policy instrument choices.
Depending upon their specific
disciplinary expertise, nominees will be
considered for appointment to the
chartered Council, chartered SAB, and
the SAB Environmental Economics
Advisory Committee.
(f) Behavioral and Decision Sciences
Assessments—Specialized expertise in
risk communication, and analytical
deliberative, collaborative, and
predictive approaches to environmental
decision-making. Depending upon their
specific disciplinary expertise,
nominees will be considered for
appointment to the chartered Council
and the chartered SAB.
How To Submit Nominations
Any interested person or organization
may nominate qualified persons to be
considered for appointment to these
chartered advisory committees and SAB
standing committees. Individuals may
self-nominate. Qualified nominees will
demonstrate appropriate scientific
education, training, and experience to
evaluate basic and applied science
issues addressed by these advisory
committees. Successful nominees will
have distinguished themselves
professionally and be available to invest
the time and effort in providing advice
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and recommendations on the
development and application of science
at EPA. Nominations should be
submitted in electronic format (which is
preferred over hard copy) through the
Form for Nomination to Chartered
Advisory Committees or SAB
Subcommittees provided on the SAB
Web site. The form can be accessed
through the SAB Nomination Form link
on the blue navigational bar on the SAB
Web site at: https://www.epa.gov/sab. To
be considered, all nominations should
include the information requested on
that form.
Nominators are asked to identify the
specific committee or committees for
which nominees would like to be
considered. The nominating form
requests contact information about: The
person making the nomination; contact
information about the nominee; the
disciplinary and specific areas of
expertise of the nominee; the nominee’s
curriculum vita; and a biographical
sketch of the nominee indicating current
position, educational background;
research activities; and recent service on
other national advisory committees or
national professional organizations.
Persons having questions about the
nomination procedures, or who are
unable to submit nominations through
the SAB Web site, should contact Ms.
Patricia L. Thomas as indicated above in
this notice. Non-electronic submissions
must follow the same format and
contain the same information as the
electronic form. The SAB Staff Office
will acknowledge receipt of
nominations.
Candidates will be asked to submit
the ‘‘Confidential Financial Disclosure
Form for Special Government
Employees Serving on Federal Advisory
Committees at the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency’’ (EPA Form 3110–
48). This confidential form allows EPA
to determine whether there is a statutory
conflict between that person’s public
responsibilities as a Special Government
Employee and private interests and
activities, or the appearance of a lack of
impartiality, as defined by Federal
regulation. The form may be viewed and
downloaded at the SAB Web site at:
https://www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/
epaform3110–48.pdf. This form should
not be submitted as part of a
nomination.
The SAB Staff Office seeks candidates
who possess the necessary domains of
knowledge, and relevant scientific
perspectives (which, among other
factors, can be influenced by work
history and affiliation) to adequately
address scientific issues facing the
Agency. The primary criteria to be used
in evaluating potential nominees will be
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scientific and/or technical expertise,
knowledge, and experience. Additional
criteria that will be used to evaluate
technically qualified nominees will
include: The absence of financial
conflicts of interest; scientific credibility
and impartiality; availability and
willingness to serve; and the ability to
work constructively and effectively on
committees. The selection of new
members will also include
consideration of the collective breadth
and depth of scientific perspectives; a
balance of scientific perspectives;
continuity of knowledge and
understanding of EPA missions and
environmental programs, and diversity
factors (e.g., geographical areas and
professional affiliations) for each of the
chartered committees, SAB
subcommittees.
Dated: April 27, 2006.
Vanessa Vu,
Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff
Office.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Request for Nominations
of Candidates for the EPA Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, the
Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis, and the Science
Advisory Board
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Science
Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office is soliciting nominations for
consideration of membership on EPA's Clean Air Scientific Advisory
Committee (CASAC), the Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance
Analysis (Council), the chartered Science Advisory Board (SAB or
Board), and SAB Standing Committees.
DATES: Nominations should be submitted in time to arrive no later than
June 2, 2006.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nominators who are unable to submit
nominations electronically as described below, may submit a paper copy
by contacting Ms. Patricia L. Thomas, U.S. EPA SAB Staff Office (Mail
Code 1400F), 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460
(FedEx/Courier address: U.S. EPA SAB, Suite 3600, 1025 F Street, NW.,
Washington DC 20004), (202) 343-9974 (telephone), (202) 233-0643 (fax),
or via e-mail at thomas.patricial@epa.gov. General inquiries regarding
the work of the SAB, CASAC, and Council may be directed to Dr. Anthony
F. Maciorowski, Associate Director for Science, U.S. EPA SAB Staff
Office, (202) 343-9983 (telephone), or via e-mail at
maciorowski.anthony@epa.gov.
Background
The SAB (42 U.S.C. 4365), CASAC (42 U.S.C. 7409) and Council (42
U.S.C. 7612) are chartered Federal Advisory Committees that report
directly to the EPA Administrator. The mission of these federal
advisory committees, as established by statute, is to provide
independent scientific and technical peer review, advice, consultation,
and recommendations to the EPA Administrator on the technical bases for
EPA actions. As Federal Advisory Committees, the CASAC, Council, and
SAB conduct business in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee
Act (FACA) (5 U.S.C. App. C) and related regulations. Generally, CASAC,
Council, and SAB meetings are announced in the Federal Register,
conducted in public view, and provide opportunities for public input
during deliberations. Additional information about these Federal
Advisory Committees can be obtained on the SAB Web site at: https://
www.epa.gov/sab.
Members of the CASAC, Council, SAB and their standing committees
constitute a distinguished body of non-EPA scientists, engineers,
economists, and social scientists who are nationally and
internationally recognized experts in their respective fields. Members
are appointed by the EPA Administrator for a period of three years,
with the possibility of appointment to a second three year term. These
federal advisory committees provide advice, recommendations, and peer
review on a wide variety of EPA science activities. This notice
specifically requests nominations for the chartered CASAC, Council, and
SAB, and SAB standing committees.
The chartered CASAC has responsibility to review and offer
technical and scientific advice to the EPA Administrator on scientific
aspects of national ambient air quality standards for criteria
pollutants. The chartered Council has the responsibility to review and
offer technical and scientific advice to the EPA Administrator on the
impacts of the Clean Air Act on the public health, economy, and
environment of the United States. The SAB standing committees provide
independent scientific and technical advice to the EPA Administrator
through the chartered Board. The SAB Drinking Water Committee provides
advice on EPA's national drinking water criteria and standards program.
The SAB Ecological Processes and Effects Committee provides advice on
science to protect, sustain and restore the integrity of ecosystems.
The SAB Environmental Economics Advisory Committee provides advice on
methods and analyses related to economics, costs, and benefits of EPA
environmental programs. The SAB Environmental Engineering Committee
provides advice on environmental engineering, remediation, and control.
The SAB Environmental Health Committee and the SAB Integrated Human
Exposure Committee provides advice on the development and use of
guidelines for human health effects, exposure assessment, and risk
assessment. The Radiation Advisory Committee provides advice on
radiation protection, radiation science, and radiation risk assessment.
All the work of the SAB standing committees are under the direction of
the Board. The Board reviews and approves SAB standing committee
reports, and provides strategic advice to the EPA Administrator on a
variety of EPA science and research issues and programs. Additional
information about the CASAC, the Council, the SAB, and SAB standing
committees may be found at the SAB Web site at: https://www.epa.gov/sab.
Expertise Sought
The SAB Staff Office is seeking nominations for nationally and
internationally recognized non-EPA scientists, engineers, economists,
and social scientists. Nominees are sought from a wide range of
scientific and technical areas that are relevant to EPA research and
science activities. General areas of expertise and the specific
committees where such expertise is desired follow.
(a) Exposure Assessment--Specialized expertise in the
characterization, quantitative analysis, sensor development and
deployment, monitoring, and modeling of sources, emissions,
environmental fate, transport, and distribution of physical, chemical,
radiological, and biological stressors and mixtures in various
environmental media (air, water, land, tissue, etc.). Depending upon
their specific disciplinary expertise, nominees will be considered for
appointment to the chartered CASAC, chartered SAB, the SAB Drinking
Water Committee, the SAB Integrated Human Exposure Committee, and the
SAB Radiation Advisory Committee.
(b) Human Health Risk Assessment--Specialized expertise in public
health, environmental medicine, epidemiology, mammalian toxicology,
microbiology, quantitative or statistical methods and models to
estimate the potential health hazard and risk of physical, chemical,
radiological, and biological stressors and mixtures in various
environmental media (air, water, land, tissue, etc.). Depending upon
their specific disciplinary expertise, nominees will be considered for
appointment to the chartered CASAC, chartered Council, the chartered
SAB, the SAB Drinking Water Committee, the SAB Environmental Health
Committee, and the SAB Radiation Advisory Committee.
(c) Ecological Assessment--Specialized expertise in ecological
condition assessment, conservation biology, landscape ecology,
ecosystem modeling, ecotoxicology, quantitative or statistical methods
and models to estimate the ecological hazard and risk to ecosystems,
communities, populations, and species to physical,
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chemical, radiological, and biological stressors and mixtures.
Depending upon their specific disciplinary expertise, nominees will be
considered for appointment to the chartered SAB, and the SAB Ecological
Processes and Effects Committee.
(d) Risk Mitigation and Control--Specialized expertise in civil,
chemical, environmental, or systems engineering for the protection of
public health and the environment through sustainable and green
approaches, environmental management systems, pollution prevention,
waste reduction and reuse, and containment or control technologies for
environmental stressors in all environmental media (e.g., air, land,
water). Depending upon their specific disciplinary expertise, nominees
will be considered for appointment to the chartered SAB and the SAB
Environmental Engineering Committee.
(g) Environmental Economics Assessments--Specialized expertise in
cost-benefit analysis, uncertainty analysis, energy sector and
electricity generation, modeling (e.g., emissions fate and transport,
emissions trading, economy-environment interactions), application of
quantitative methods to environmental policy (e.g., benefit-cost
assessment, valuation, cost effective analysis, computable general
equilibrium modeling), market mechanisms and incentives, or political
economy of policy instrument choices. Depending upon their specific
disciplinary expertise, nominees will be considered for appointment to
the chartered Council, chartered SAB, and the SAB Environmental
Economics Advisory Committee.
(f) Behavioral and Decision Sciences Assessments--Specialized
expertise in risk communication, and analytical deliberative,
collaborative, and predictive approaches to environmental decision-
making. Depending upon their specific disciplinary expertise, nominees
will be considered for appointment to the chartered Council and the
chartered SAB.
How To Submit Nominations
Any interested person or organization may nominate qualified
persons to be considered for appointment to these chartered advisory
committees and SAB standing committees. Individuals may self-nominate.
Qualified nominees will demonstrate appropriate scientific education,
training, and experience to evaluate basic and applied science issues
addressed by these advisory committees. Successful nominees will have
distinguished themselves professionally and be available to invest the
time and effort in providing advice and recommendations on the
development and application of science at EPA. Nominations should be
submitted in electronic format (which is preferred over hard copy)
through the Form for Nomination to Chartered Advisory Committees or SAB
Subcommittees provided on the SAB Web site. The form can be accessed
through the SAB Nomination Form link on the blue navigational bar on
the SAB Web site at: https://www.epa.gov/sab. To be considered, all
nominations should include the information requested on that form.
Nominators are asked to identify the specific committee or
committees for which nominees would like to be considered. The
nominating form requests contact information about: The person making
the nomination; contact information about the nominee; the disciplinary
and specific areas of expertise of the nominee; the nominee's
curriculum vita; and a biographical sketch of the nominee indicating
current position, educational background; research activities; and
recent service on other national advisory committees or national
professional organizations. Persons having questions about the
nomination procedures, or who are unable to submit nominations through
the SAB Web site, should contact Ms. Patricia L. Thomas as indicated
above in this notice. Non-electronic submissions must follow the same
format and contain the same information as the electronic form. The SAB
Staff Office will acknowledge receipt of nominations.
Candidates will be asked to submit the ``Confidential Financial
Disclosure Form for Special Government Employees Serving on Federal
Advisory Committees at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency'' (EPA
Form 3110-48). This confidential form allows EPA to determine whether
there is a statutory conflict between that person's public
responsibilities as a Special Government Employee and private interests
and activities, or the appearance of a lack of impartiality, as defined
by Federal regulation. The form may be viewed and downloaded at the SAB
Web site at: https://www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/epaform3110-48.pdf. This form
should not be submitted as part of a nomination.
The SAB Staff Office seeks candidates who possess the necessary
domains of knowledge, and relevant scientific perspectives (which,
among other factors, can be influenced by work history and affiliation)
to adequately address scientific issues facing the Agency. The primary
criteria to be used in evaluating potential nominees will be scientific
and/or technical expertise, knowledge, and experience. Additional
criteria that will be used to evaluate technically qualified nominees
will include: The absence of financial conflicts of interest;
scientific credibility and impartiality; availability and willingness
to serve; and the ability to work constructively and effectively on
committees. The selection of new members will also include
consideration of the collective breadth and depth of scientific
perspectives; a balance of scientific perspectives; continuity of
knowledge and understanding of EPA missions and environmental programs,
and diversity factors (e.g., geographical areas and professional
affiliations) for each of the chartered committees, SAB subcommittees.
Dated: April 27, 2006.
Vanessa Vu,
Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office.
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