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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA or Agency)
Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff
Office is seeking nominations of
nationally recognized experts for
consideration of membership on two
new Clean Air Scientific Advisory
Committee (CASAC) Review Panels.
One Review Panel will provide advice
to EPA on primary (human healthbased) air quality standards for oxides of
nitrogen (NOX) and sulfur oxides (SOX),
while the second will focus on
secondary (welfare-based) standards.
DATES: New nominations should be
submitted by August 28, 2006.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any
member of the public wishing further
information regarding this Request for
Nominations may contact Mr. Fred
Butterfield, Designated Federal Officer
(DFO), EPA Science Advisory Board
(1400F), U.S. Environmental Protection
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Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW., Washington, DC 20460; via
telephone/voice mail: (202) 343–9994;
fax: (202) 233–0643; or e-mail at:
butterfield.fred@epa.gov. General
information concerning the CASAC or
the EPA Science Advisory Board can be
found on the EPA Web site at: https://
www.epa.gov/sab.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The Clean Air Scientific
Advisory Committee (CASAC) was
established under section 109(d)(2) of
the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act) (42
U.S.C. 7409) as an independent
scientific advisory committee. The
chartered CASAC provides advice,
information and recommendations on
the scientific and technical aspects of
air quality criteria and national ambient
air quality standards (NAAQS) under
sections 108 and 109 of the Act. Section
109(d)(1) of the Clean Air Act (CAA)
requires that EPA carry out a periodic
review and revision, as appropriate, of
the air quality criteria and the NAAQS
for the six criteria air pollutants. EPA is
currently preparing to review the air
quality criteria for NOX and SOX. The
SAB Staff Office is establishing two
separate CASAC NOX and SOX Review
Panels. One will provide advice to EPA
on primary (human health-based) air
quality standards for oxides of nitrogen
(NOX) and sulfur oxides (SOX), while
the second will focus on secondary
(welfare-based) standards. The CASAC
NOX and SOX Review Panels will
comply with the provisions of FACA
and all appropriate SAB Staff Office
procedural policies.
The CASAC NOX and SOX Review
Panels will each consist of the seven
members of the chartered CASAC
supplemented by additional subject
matter experts. This Federal Register
notice seeks nominations for the subject
matter experts described below. The
CASAC NOX and SOX Review Panels
will comply with the provisions of
FACA and all appropriate EPA
procedural policies.
Expertise Sought: The SAB Staff
Office requests nominees who are
nationally-recognized experts regarding
NOX and SOX in one or more of the
following disciplines.
(1) CASAC Primary (Health-Based)
Review Panel
(a) Atmospheric Science. Expertise in
physical and chemical properties of
nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides;
atmospheric processes involved in their
formation and transport on urban to
global scales; transformation of these
pollutants in the atmosphere; and
movement of the pollutants between
media through deposition and other
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such mechanisms. Also, expertise in the
evaluation of natural and anthropogenic
sources and emissions of nitrogen
oxides and sulfur oxides and resulting
ambient levels due to natural sources;
pertinent monitoring or measurement
methods for these pollutants; and
spatial and temporal trends in their
atmospheric concentrations.
(b) Human Health Exposure and Risk
Assessment/Modeling. Expertise in
measuring human population exposure
to nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides, or
in modeling human population
exposure to pollutants from ambient
and indoor sources. Expertise in human
health risk analysis modeling for
nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides
related to respiratory and other noncancer health effects.
(c) Dosimetry. Expertise in evaluation
of the dosimetry of animal and human
subjects, including identification of
factors determining differential patterns
of inhalation and/or deposition/uptake
in respiratory tract regions that may
contribute to differential susceptibility
of human population subgroups and
animal-to-human dosimetry
extrapolations.
(d) Toxicology. Expertise in
evaluation of experimental laboratory
animal studies and in vitro studies of
the effects of sulfur oxides and/or
oxides of nitrogen on pulmonary and
extra-pulmonary (e.g., cardiovascular,
immunological) endpoints.
(e) Controlled Human Exposure.
Expertise in evaluations of controlled
human exposure studies of the effects of
nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides on
healthy and compromised (e.g., having
pertinent preexisting disease such as
asthma) human adults and children,
including physicians with experience in
the clinical treatment of asthma and
chronic lung diseases.
(f) Epidemiology and Biostatistics.
Expertise in epidemiologic evaluation of
the effects of exposures to ambient
nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides and/
or other major air pollutants (e.g.,
particulate matter, ozone, carbon
monoxide) on human population
groups, including mortality and
morbidity effects (e.g., respiratory
symptoms, lung function decrements,
asthma medication use, emergency
department visits, respiratory-related
hospital admissions). Also, expertise in
associated biostatistics and/or health
risk analysis.
(2) CASAC Secondary (Welfare-Based)
Review Panel
(a) Atmospheric Science. Expertise in
physical and chemical properties of
nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides;
atmospheric processes involved in their
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formation and transport on urban to
global scales; transformation of these
pollutants in the atmosphere; and
movement of the pollutants between
media through deposition and other
such mechanisms. Also, expertise in the
evaluation of natural and anthropogenic
sources and emissions of nitrogen
oxides and sulfur oxides and resulting
ambient levels due to natural sources;
pertinent monitoring or measurement
methods for these pollutants; and
spatial and temporal trends in their
atmospheric concentrations.
(b) Ecological Effects. Expertise in
evaluation of the effects of exposure to
nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides, acid
deposition and nitrogen deposition, on
agricultural crops and natural
ecosystems and their components, both
flora and fauna, ranging from
biochemical/sub-cellular effects on
organisms to increasingly more complex
levels of ecosystem organization.
Appropriate expertise disciplines
include: aquatic chemistry; aquatic
ecology/biology; limnology; terrestrial
ecology; forest ecology; grassland
ecology; rangeland ecology; terrestrial/
aquatic biogeochemistry; terrestrial/
aquatic nutrient cycling; and terrestrial/
aquatic wildlife biology and soil
chemistry.
(c) Other Welfare Effects. Expertise in
the evaluation of the effects of nitrogen
oxides and sulfur oxides and acid
deposition on public welfare, including
impaired visibility and damage to
materials, and also the interactions of
these pollutants to affect global climate
conditions.
(d) Ecosystem Exposure and Risk
Assessment/Modeling. Expertise in
deposition modeling across a range of
scales from local watershed to
landscape to continental, static and
dynamic ecosystem response models,
integrated assessment models,
identification of bio-indicators useful
for tracking ecosystem change, methods
and approaches available to estimate
total loadings of sulfur and nitrogen
species to ecosystems, and the current
state of critical loads science and
application.
(e) Resource Valuation. Expertise in
ecological resources, other welfare
effects valuation, and/or economic
benefits assessment approaches and
models.
Process and Deadline for Submitting
Nominations: Any interested person or
organization may nominate qualified
individuals for consideration of
membership on the CASAC NOX and
SOX Review Panels in the areas of
expertise described above. Nominations
should be submitted in electronic
format through the SAB Web site at the
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following URL: https://www.epa.gov/sab;
or directly via the Form for Nominating
Individuals to Panels of the EPA Science
Advisory Board link found at URL:
https://www.epa.gov/sab/panels/
paneltopics.html. Please follow the
instructions for submitting nominations
carefully. 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. To
be considered, nominations should
include all of the information required
on the associated forms. Anyone unable
to submit nominations using the
electronic form and who has any
questions concerning the nomination
process may contact Mr. Fred
Butterfield, DFO, as indicated above in
this notice. Nominations should be
submitted in time to arrive no later than
August 28, 2006. The EPA SAB Staff
Office will acknowledge receipt of
nominations.
Qualified nominees will be included
in a smaller subset of nominees known
as the Short List. The Short List will be
posted on the SAB Web site at: https://
www.epa.gov/sab, and will include, for
each candidate, the nominee’s name and
their biosketch. Public comments on the
Short List will be accepted for a
minimum of 21 calendar days. During
this comment period, the public will be
requested to provide relevant
information or other documentation on
nominees that the SAB Staff Office
should consider in evaluating
candidates. CASAC Review Panel
members will be selected from the Short
List.
For the EPA SAB Staff Office, a
balanced subcommittee or review panel
includes candidates who possess the
necessary domains of knowledge, the
relevant scientific perspectives (which,
among other factors, can be influenced
by work history and affiliation), and the
collective breadth of experience to
adequately address the charge. In
establishing the final CASAC Review
Panels, the SAB Staff Office will
consider public responses to the Short
List, information provided by
candidates, and background information
independently gathered by the SAB
Staff Office on each candidate (e.g.,
financial disclosure information and
computer searches to evaluate a
nominee’s prior involvement with the
topic under review). Specific criteria to
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be used in evaluating Short List
candidates for Panel membership
include: (a) Scientific and/or technical
expertise, knowledge, and experience
(primary factors); (b) availability and
willingness to serve; (c) absence of
financial conflicts of interest; (d)
absence of an appearance of a lack of
impartiality; and (e) skills working in
committees, subcommittees and
advisory panels; and, for the Panel as a
whole, (f) diversity of and balance
among, scientific expertise, viewpoints.
Prospective candidates will also be
required to fill-out 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 Government officials to
determine whether there is a statutory
conflict between that person’s public
responsibilities (which includes
membership on an EPA Federal
advisory committee) 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 from
the following URL address: https://
www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/epaform3110–
48.pdf.
The approved policy under which the
EPA SAB Office selects subcommittees
and review panels is described in the
following document: Overview of the
Panel Formation Process at the
Environmental Protection Agency
Science Advisory Board (EPA–SAB–EC–
02–010), which is posted on the SAB
Web site at: https://www.epa.gov/sab/
pdf/ec02010.pdf.
Dated: August 1, 2006.
Anthony F. Maciorowski,
Associate Director for Science, EPA Science
Advisory Board Staff Office.
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EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office; Clean Air
Scientific Advisory Committee; Request for Nominations for CASAC Review
Panels for NOX and SOX
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency)
Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office is seeking nominations of
nationally recognized experts for consideration of membership on two
new Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) Review Panels. One
Review Panel will provide advice to EPA on primary (human health-based)
air quality standards for oxides of nitrogen (NOX) and
sulfur oxides (SOX), while the second will focus on
secondary (welfare-based) standards.
DATES: New nominations should be submitted by August 28, 2006.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any member of the public wishing
further information regarding this Request for Nominations may contact
Mr. Fred Butterfield, Designated Federal Officer (DFO), EPA Science
Advisory Board (1400F), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; via telephone/voice
mail: (202) 343-9994; fax: (202) 233-0643; or e-mail at:
butterfield.fred@epa.gov. General information concerning the CASAC or
the EPA Science Advisory Board can be found on the EPA Web site at:
https://www.epa.gov/sab.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background: The Clean Air Scientific
Advisory Committee (CASAC) was established under section 109(d)(2) of
the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act) (42 U.S.C. 7409) as an independent
scientific advisory committee. The chartered CASAC provides advice,
information and recommendations on the scientific and technical aspects
of air quality criteria and national ambient air quality standards
(NAAQS) under sections 108 and 109 of the Act. Section 109(d)(1) of the
Clean Air Act (CAA) requires that EPA carry out a periodic review and
revision, as appropriate, of the air quality criteria and the NAAQS for
the six criteria air pollutants. EPA is currently preparing to review
the air quality criteria for NOX and SOX. The SAB
Staff Office is establishing two separate CASAC NOX and
SOX Review Panels. One will provide advice to EPA on primary
(human health-based) air quality standards for oxides of nitrogen
(NOX) and sulfur oxides (SOX), while the second
will focus on secondary (welfare-based) standards. The CASAC
NOX and SOX Review Panels will comply with the
provisions of FACA and all appropriate SAB Staff Office procedural
policies.
The CASAC NOX and SOX Review Panels will each
consist of the seven members of the chartered CASAC supplemented by
additional subject matter experts. This Federal Register notice seeks
nominations for the subject matter experts described below. The CASAC
NOX and SOX Review Panels will comply with the
provisions of FACA and all appropriate EPA procedural policies.
Expertise Sought: The SAB Staff Office requests nominees who are
nationally-recognized experts regarding NOX and
SOX in one or more of the following disciplines.
(1) CASAC Primary (Health-Based) Review Panel
(a) Atmospheric Science. Expertise in physical and chemical
properties of nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides; atmospheric processes
involved in their formation and transport on urban to global scales;
transformation of these pollutants in the atmosphere; and movement of
the pollutants between media through deposition and other such
mechanisms. Also, expertise in the evaluation of natural and
anthropogenic sources and emissions of nitrogen oxides and sulfur
oxides and resulting ambient levels due to natural sources; pertinent
monitoring or measurement methods for these pollutants; and spatial and
temporal trends in their atmospheric concentrations.
(b) Human Health Exposure and Risk Assessment/Modeling. Expertise
in measuring human population exposure to nitrogen oxides and sulfur
oxides, or in modeling human population exposure to pollutants from
ambient and indoor sources. Expertise in human health risk analysis
modeling for nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides related to respiratory
and other non-cancer health effects.
(c) Dosimetry. Expertise in evaluation of the dosimetry of animal
and human subjects, including identification of factors determining
differential patterns of inhalation and/or deposition/uptake in
respiratory tract regions that may contribute to differential
susceptibility of human population subgroups and animal-to-human
dosimetry extrapolations.
(d) Toxicology. Expertise in evaluation of experimental laboratory
animal studies and in vitro studies of the effects of sulfur oxides
and/or oxides of nitrogen on pulmonary and extra-pulmonary (e.g.,
cardiovascular, immunological) endpoints.
(e) Controlled Human Exposure. Expertise in evaluations of
controlled human exposure studies of the effects of nitrogen oxides and
sulfur oxides on healthy and compromised (e.g., having pertinent
preexisting disease such as asthma) human adults and children,
including physicians with experience in the clinical treatment of
asthma and chronic lung diseases.
(f) Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Expertise in epidemiologic
evaluation of the effects of exposures to ambient nitrogen oxides and
sulfur oxides and/or other major air pollutants (e.g., particulate
matter, ozone, carbon monoxide) on human population groups, including
mortality and morbidity effects (e.g., respiratory symptoms, lung
function decrements, asthma medication use, emergency department
visits, respiratory-related hospital admissions). Also, expertise in
associated biostatistics and/or health risk analysis.
(2) CASAC Secondary (Welfare-Based) Review Panel
(a) Atmospheric Science. Expertise in physical and chemical
properties of nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides; atmospheric processes
involved in their
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formation and transport on urban to global scales; transformation of
these pollutants in the atmosphere; and movement of the pollutants
between media through deposition and other such mechanisms. Also,
expertise in the evaluation of natural and anthropogenic sources and
emissions of nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides and resulting ambient
levels due to natural sources; pertinent monitoring or measurement
methods for these pollutants; and spatial and temporal trends in their
atmospheric concentrations.
(b) Ecological Effects. Expertise in evaluation of the effects of
exposure to nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides, acid deposition and
nitrogen deposition, on agricultural crops and natural ecosystems and
their components, both flora and fauna, ranging from biochemical/sub-
cellular effects on organisms to increasingly more complex levels of
ecosystem organization. Appropriate expertise disciplines include:
aquatic chemistry; aquatic ecology/biology; limnology; terrestrial
ecology; forest ecology; grassland ecology; rangeland ecology;
terrestrial/aquatic biogeochemistry; terrestrial/aquatic nutrient
cycling; and terrestrial/aquatic wildlife biology and soil chemistry.
(c) Other Welfare Effects. Expertise in the evaluation of the
effects of nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides and acid deposition on
public welfare, including impaired visibility and damage to materials,
and also the interactions of these pollutants to affect global climate
conditions.
(d) Ecosystem Exposure and Risk Assessment/Modeling. Expertise in
deposition modeling across a range of scales from local watershed to
landscape to continental, static and dynamic ecosystem response models,
integrated assessment models, identification of bio-indicators useful
for tracking ecosystem change, methods and approaches available to
estimate total loadings of sulfur and nitrogen species to ecosystems,
and the current state of critical loads science and application.
(e) Resource Valuation. Expertise in ecological resources, other
welfare effects valuation, and/or economic benefits assessment
approaches and models.
Process and Deadline for Submitting Nominations: Any interested
person or organization may nominate qualified individuals for
consideration of membership on the CASAC NOX and
SOX Review Panels in the areas of expertise described above.
Nominations should be submitted in electronic format through the SAB
Web site at the following URL: https://www.epa.gov/sab; or directly via
the Form for Nominating Individuals to Panels of the EPA Science
Advisory Board link found at URL: https://www.epa.gov/sab/panels/
paneltopics.html. Please follow the instructions for submitting
nominations carefully. 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. To be considered,
nominations should include all of the information required on the
associated forms. Anyone unable to submit nominations using the
electronic form and who has any questions concerning the nomination
process may contact Mr. Fred Butterfield, DFO, as indicated above in
this notice. Nominations should be submitted in time to arrive no later
than August 28, 2006. The EPA SAB Staff Office will acknowledge receipt
of nominations.
Qualified nominees will be included in a smaller subset of nominees
known as the Short List. The Short List will be posted on the SAB Web
site at: https://www.epa.gov/sab, and will include, for each candidate,
the nominee's name and their biosketch. Public comments on the Short
List will be accepted for a minimum of 21 calendar days. During this
comment period, the public will be requested to provide relevant
information or other documentation on nominees that the SAB Staff
Office should consider in evaluating candidates. CASAC Review Panel
members will be selected from the Short List.
For the EPA SAB Staff Office, a balanced subcommittee or review
panel includes candidates who possess the necessary domains of
knowledge, the relevant scientific perspectives (which, among other
factors, can be influenced by work history and affiliation), and the
collective breadth of experience to adequately address the charge. In
establishing the final CASAC Review Panels, the SAB Staff Office will
consider public responses to the Short List, information provided by
candidates, and background information independently gathered by the
SAB Staff Office on each candidate (e.g., financial disclosure
information and computer searches to evaluate a nominee's prior
involvement with the topic under review). Specific criteria to be used
in evaluating Short List candidates for Panel membership include: (a)
Scientific and/or technical expertise, knowledge, and experience
(primary factors); (b) availability and willingness to serve; (c)
absence of financial conflicts of interest; (d) absence of an
appearance of a lack of impartiality; and (e) skills working in
committees, subcommittees and advisory panels; and, for the Panel as a
whole, (f) diversity of and balance among, scientific expertise,
viewpoints.
Prospective candidates will also be required to fill-out 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 Government officials to determine whether there is a
statutory conflict between that person's public responsibilities (which
includes membership on an EPA Federal advisory committee) 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
from the following URL address: https://www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/epaform3110-
48.pdf.
The approved policy under which the EPA SAB Office selects
subcommittees and review panels is described in the following document:
Overview of the Panel Formation Process at the Environmental Protection
Agency Science Advisory Board (EPA-SAB-EC-02-010), which is posted on
the SAB Web site at: https://www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/ec02010.pdf.
Dated: August 1, 2006.
Anthony F. Maciorowski,
Associate Director for Science, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff
Office.
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