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from the external peer-review
workshop.
DATES: The peer-review panel workshop
will begin on June 6, 2006, at 8:30 a.m.
and end at Noon on June 7, 2006.
ADDRESSES: The peer-review workshop
will be held at Hyatt Regency on Capitol
Hill, 400 New Jersey Avenue, NW. The
EPA contractor, Eastern Research
Group, Inc., is organizing, convening,
and conducting the peer review
workshop. To attend the workshop,
register by May 31, 2006, by calling
Eastern Research Group, Inc. at 781–
674–7374, sending a facsimile to 781–
674–2906, or sending an e-mail to
meetings@erg.com. You may also
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conferences/ncea/childhra.htm.
Members of the public may attend the
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The draft ‘‘A Framework for Assessing
Health Risks of Environmental
Exposures to Children’’ is available
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‘‘A Framework for Assessing Health
Risks of Environmental Exposures to
Children’’. Copies are not available from
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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I. Information About the Document
Science Advisory Board Staff Office;
Notification of a Meeting of the Science
Advisory Board
Over the past decade there has been
a dramatic increase in the recognition
and public health concern for the
vulnerability of children to exposure to
environmental agents. Children have
unusual patterns of exposure and have
vulnerabilities to chemical agents that
are quite distinct from those of adults,
and thus require special consideration
in risk assessment. Children often have
disproportionately higher exposures to
certain environmental toxicants
because, pound-for-pound of body
weight, children have higher food and
water intake and breathe more air than
adults. Metabolic pathways in the
young, especially in the first few
months after birth, are immature, and
the ability to detoxify environmental
agents is different from that of adults. In
addition, behavior and activity patterns
of children often magnify their
exposures. These factors imply that
children are likely to have more
substantial exposures than adults to
certain environmental agents. This
document attempts to organize and
present current knowledge and practices
in a programmatic framework for
assessing human health risks from
exposures to environmental agents from
prior to conception through
adolescence.
It describes this framework within the
current Agency risk assessment
paradigm, and includes problem
formulation, analysis and risk
characterization as discrete steps in the
process. Moreover, this document
focuses on mode of action as a context
for considering the toxicokinetic and
toxicodynamic differences between
children and adults, and considers
approaches for risk assessment in the
context of uncertainty and variability in
exposure and critical windows of
development.
Dated: May 18, 2006.
Peter W. Preuss,
Director, National Center for Environmental
Assessment.
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Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory
Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a
public face-to-face meeting of the
chartered SAB to discuss EPA Regional
science programs, review and approve
one or more draft SAB Committee
reports, and continue the planning of
upcoming SAB meetings.
DATES: The dates for the meeting are
Thursday, June 22, 2006, from 8:30
a.m.–5:30 p.m. through Friday, June 23,
2006, from 8 a.m.–12 noon (Eastern
Time).
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
the U.S. EPA Region 2 Headquarters
Office, 290 Broadway, Room 27A, New
York, NY 10007.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Members of the public who wish to
obtain further information about this
meeting may contact Mr. Thomas O.
Miller, Designated Federal Officer
(DFO), by mail at EPA SAB Staff Office
(1400F), U.S. EPA, 1200 Pennsylvania
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460;
by telephone at (202) 343–9982; by fax
at (202) 233–0643; or by e-mail at:
miller.tom@epa.gov. The SAB mailing
address is: U.S. EPA, Science Advisory
Board (1400F), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave.,
NW., Washington, DC, 20460. General
information about the SAB, as well as
any updates concerning the meeting
announced in this notice, may be found
on the SAB Web site at: https://
www.epa.gov/sab.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The SAB
was established by 42 U.S.C. 4365 to
provide independent scientific and
technical advice, consultation, and
recommendations to the EPA
Administrator on the technical basis for
Agency positions and regulations. The
SAB is a Federal advisory committee
chartered under the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (FACA), as amended, 5
U.S.C., App. The SAB will comply with
the provisions of FACA and all
appropriate SAB Staff Office procedural
policies.
Background: At this meeting, the
Science Advisory Board will: (a)
Receive briefings from Regional
management and scientists about
regional science programs and identify
opportunities for SAB and Regional
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office interactions; and (b) review at
least one draft SAB report. Any
additional items to be discussed, as well
as any draft reports to be reviewed, will
be posted on the SAB Web site at
https://www.epa.gov/sab prior to the
meeting.
Availability of Meeting Materials:
Materials in support of this meeting will
be placed on the SAB Web site at
https://www.epa.gov/sab in advance of
this meeting.
Procedures for Providing Public Input:
Interested members of the public may
submit relevant written or oral
information for the SAB to consider
during the advisory process.
Oral Statements: In general,
individuals or groups requesting an oral
presentation at a public meeting will be
limited to five minutes per speaker,
with no more than one hour for all
speakers. Interested parties should
contact Mr. Miller, DFO, at the contact
information provided above, by June 15,
2006, to be placed on the public speaker
list for the June 22, 2006 meeting.
Written Statements: Written
statements should be received in the
SAB Staff Office by June 15, 2006, so
that the information may be made
available to the SAB for their
consideration prior to this meeting.
Written statements should be supplied
to the DFO in the following formats:
One hard copy with original signature,
and one electronic copy via e-mail
(acceptable file format: Adobe Acrobat
PDF, WordPerfect, MS Word, MS
PowerPoint, or Rich Text files in IBM–
PC/Windows 98/2000/XP format).
Meeting Accommodations: For
information on access or services for
individuals with disabilities, please
contact Mr. Thomas Miller at (202) 343–
9982, or via e-mail at
miller.tom@epa.gov. To request
accommodation of a disability, please
contact Mr. Miller, preferably at least 10
days prior to the meeting, to give EPA
as much time as possible to process
your request.
Dated: May 18, 2006.
Anthony Maciorowski,
Associate Director for Science, EPA Science
Advisory Board Staff Office.
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[EPA–HQ–ORD–2006–0460; FRL–8174–2]
Board of Scientific Counselors
Computational Toxicology
Subcommittee Meeting—June 2006
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
AGENCY:
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 one
meeting of the Board of Scientific
Counselors (BOSC) Computational
Toxicology Subcommittee.
DATES: The meeting will be held on
Monday June 19, 2006 from 9:30 a.m. to
5:30 p.m. The meeting will continue on
Tuesday, June 20, 2006 from 9 a.m. to
3:15 p.m. All times noted are eastern
time. The meeting may adjourn early if
all business is finished. Requests for the
draft agenda or for making oral
presentations at the meeting will be
accepted up to 1 business day before the
meeting.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
the U.S. EPA Research Triangle Park
(RTP) Campus, EPA Main Building
(Room C113), 109 T. W. Alexander Dr.,
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
27711. Submit your comments,
identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–
ORD–2006–0460, by one of the
following methods:
• https://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–2006–0460.
• Fax: Fax comments to: (202) 566–
0224, Attention Docket ID No. EPA–
HQ–ORD–2006–0460.
• Mail: Send comments by mail to:
Board of Scientific Counselors
Computational Toxicology Meeting—
June 2006 Docket, Mailcode: 28221T,
1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC, 20460, Attention
Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2006–
0460.
• 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–2006–0460. 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.
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Instructions: Direct your comments to
Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2006–
0460. EPA’s policy is that all comments
received will be included in the public
docket without change and may be
made available online at https://
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 https://
www.regulations.gov or e-mail. The
https://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 https://
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 https://
www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.
Docket: All documents in the docket
are listed in the https://
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 https://
www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at
the Board of Scientific Counselors
Computational Toxicology
Subcommittee Meeting—June 2006
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
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Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of a Meeting of
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AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a
public face-to-face meeting of the chartered SAB to discuss EPA
Regional science programs, review and approve one or more draft SAB
Committee reports, and continue the planning of upcoming SAB meetings.
DATES: The dates for the meeting are Thursday, June 22, 2006, from 8:30
a.m.-5:30 p.m. through Friday, June 23, 2006, from 8 a.m.-12 noon
(Eastern Time).
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the U.S. EPA Region 2
Headquarters Office, 290 Broadway, Room 27A, New York, NY 10007.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Members of the public who wish to
obtain further information about this meeting may contact Mr. Thomas O.
Miller, Designated Federal Officer (DFO), by mail at EPA SAB Staff
Office (1400F), U.S. EPA, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC
20460; by telephone at (202) 343-9982; by fax at (202) 233-0643; or by
e-mail at: miller.tom@epa.gov. The SAB mailing address is: U.S. EPA,
Science Advisory Board (1400F), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC, 20460. General information about the SAB, as well as
any updates concerning the meeting announced in this notice, may be
found on the SAB Web site at: https://www.epa.gov/sab.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The SAB was established by 42 U.S.C. 4365 to
provide independent scientific and technical advice, consultation, and
recommendations to the EPA Administrator on the technical basis for
Agency positions and regulations. The SAB is a Federal advisory
committee chartered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), as
amended, 5 U.S.C., App. The SAB will comply with the provisions of FACA
and all appropriate SAB Staff Office procedural policies.
Background: At this meeting, the Science Advisory Board will: (a)
Receive briefings from Regional management and scientists about
regional science programs and identify opportunities for SAB and
Regional
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office interactions; and (b) review at least one draft SAB report. Any
additional items to be discussed, as well as any draft reports to be
reviewed, will be posted on the SAB Web site at https://www.epa.gov/sab
prior to the meeting.
Availability of Meeting Materials: Materials in support of this
meeting will be placed on the SAB Web site at https://www.epa.gov/sab in
advance of this meeting.
Procedures for Providing Public Input: Interested members of the
public may submit relevant written or oral information for the SAB to
consider during the advisory process.
Oral Statements: In general, individuals or groups requesting an
oral presentation at a public meeting will be limited to five minutes
per speaker, with no more than one hour for all speakers. Interested
parties should contact Mr. Miller, DFO, at the contact information
provided above, by June 15, 2006, to be placed on the public speaker
list for the June 22, 2006 meeting.
Written Statements: Written statements should be received in the
SAB Staff Office by June 15, 2006, so that the information may be made
available to the SAB for their consideration prior to this meeting.
Written statements should be supplied to the DFO in the following
formats: One hard copy with original signature, and one electronic copy
via e-mail (acceptable file format: Adobe Acrobat PDF, WordPerfect, MS
Word, MS PowerPoint, or Rich Text files in IBM-PC/Windows 98/2000/XP
format).
Meeting Accommodations: For information on access or services for
individuals with disabilities, please contact Mr. Thomas Miller at
(202) 343-9982, or via e-mail at miller.tom@epa.gov. To request
accommodation of a disability, please contact Mr. Miller, preferably at
least 10 days prior to the meeting, to give EPA as much time as
possible to process your request.
Dated: May 18, 2006.
Anthony Maciorowski,
Associate Director for Science, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff
Office.
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