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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–HQ–OPP–2006–0620; FRL–8085–7]
Nominations to the FIFRA Scientific
Advisory Panel: Request for
Comments
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: This notice provides the
names, addresses, professional
affiliations, and selected biographical
data of persons nominated to serve on
the Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP)
established under section 25(d) of the
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and
Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). The Panel was
created on November 28, 1975, and
made a statutory Panel by amendment
to FIFRA, dated October 25, 1988. The
Agency expects to select one new
member to serve on the panel as a result
of a vacancy that will occur during the
current calendar year. Public comment
on the nominations is invited, as these
comments will be used to assist the
Agency in selecting the new chartered
Panel member.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before September 15, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by docket identification (ID)
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number EPA–HQ–OPP–2006–0620, by
one of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
on-line instructions for submitting
comments.
• Mail: Office of Pesticide Programs
(OPP) Regulatory Public Docket (7502P),
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington,
DC 20460–0001.
• Delivery: OPP Regulatory Public
Docket (7502P), Environmental
Protection Agency, Rm. S-4400, One
Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S.
Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA. Deliveries
are only accepted during the Docket’s
normal hours of operation 8:30 a.m. to
4 p.m., Monday through Friday,
excluding legal holidays. Special
arrangements should be made for
deliveries of boxed information. The
Docket telephone number is (703) 305–
5805.
Instructions: Direct your comments to
docket ID number EPA–HQ–OPP–2006–
0620. EPA’s policy is that all comments
received will be included in the docket
without change and may be made
available on-line 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 regulations.gov or email. The Federal regulations.gov
website 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 regulations.gov, your email address will be automatically
captured and included as part of the
comment that is placed in the 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.
Docket: All documents in the docket
are listed in the docket index. Although
listed in the index, some information is
not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other
information whose disclosure is
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restricted by statute. Certain other
material, such as copyrighted material,
is not placed on the Internet and will be
publicly available only in hard copy
form. Publicly available docket
materials are available either in the
electronic docket at https://
www.regulations.gov, or, if only
available in hard copy, at the OPP
Regulatory Public Docket in Rm. S-4400,
One Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777
S. Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA. The
hours of operation of this Docket
Facility are from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, excluding legal
holidays. The Docket telephone number
is (703) 305–5805.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Myrta R. Christian, Designated Federal
Official (DFO), Office of Science
Coordination and Policy (7201M),
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington,
DC 20460–0001; telephone number:
(202) 564–8498; fax number: (202) 564–
8382; e-mail address:
christian.myrta@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. General Information
A. Does this Action Apply to Me?
This action is directed to the public
in general. This action may, however, be
of interest to persons who are or may be
required to conduct testing of chemical
substances under the Federal Food,
Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA),
FIFRA, and the Food Quality Protection
Act of 1996 (FQPA). Since other entities
may also be interested, the Agency has
not attempted to describe all the specific
entities that may be affected by this
action.
If you have any questions regarding
the applicability of this action to a
particular entity, consult the person
listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT.
B. What Should I Consider as I Prepare
My Comments for EPA?
Tips for preparing your comments.
When submitting comments, remember
to:
i. Identify the document by docket ID
number and other identifying
information (subject heading, Federal
Register date, and page number).
ii. Follow directions. The Agency may
ask you to respond to specific questions
or organize comments by referencing a
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part
or section number.
iii. Explain why you agree or disagree;
suggest alternatives and substitute
language for your requested changes.
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iv. Describe any assumptions and
provide any technical information and/
or data that you used.
v. If you estimate potential costs or
burdens, explain how you arrived at
your estimate in sufficient detail to
allow for it to be reproduced.
vi. Provide specific examples to
illustrate your concerns and suggest
alternatives.
vii. Explain your views as clearly as
possible, avoiding the use of profanity
or personal threats.
viii. Make sure to submit your
comments by the comment period
deadline identified.
II. Background
Amendments to FIFRA enacted
November 28, 1975, include a
requirement under section 25(d) that
notices of intent to cancel or reclassify
pesticide registrations pursuant to
section 6(b)(2), as well as proposed and
final forms of regulations pursuant to
section 25(a), be submitted to a
Scientific Advisory Panel prior to being
made public or issued to a registrant. In
accordance with section 25(d), the SAP
is to have an opportunity to comment
on the health and environmental impact
of such actions. The Panel shall also
make comments, evaluations, and
recommendations for operating
guidelines to improve the effectiveness
and quality of analyses made by Agency
scientists.
In accordance with the statute, the
SAP is composed of a permanent panel
of seven members, selected and
appointed by the Deputy Administrator
of EPA from nominees submitted by
both the National Science Foundation
and the National Institutes of Health.
The Agency expects to select one new
member to serve on the panel as a result
of a vacancy that will occur during the
current calendar year. The Agency
requested nominations of experts to be
selected from the field of ecotoxicology
and ecological risk assessment
(including probabilistic ecological risk
assessment). Nominees should be well
published and current in their fields of
expertise. The statute further stipulates
that the name, address, and professional
affiliation of each nominee be published
in the Federal Register.
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III. Charter
A Charter for the FIFRA Scientific
Advisory Panel dated October 25, 2004
was issued in accordance with the
requirements of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, 86
Stat. 770 (5 U.S.C. App. I).
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A. Qualifications of Members
Members are scientists who have
sufficient professional qualifications,
including training and experience, to
assess the impact of pesticides on health
and the environment. No persons are
ineligible to serve on the Panel by
reason of their membership on any other
advisory committee to a Federal
department or agency or their
employment by a Federal department or
agency (except the EPA). The Deputy
Administrator appoints individuals to
serve on the Panel for staggered terms of
4 years. Panel members are subject to
the provisions of 40 CFR part 3, subpart
F, Standards of Conduct for Special
Government Employees, which include
rules regarding conflicts of interest.
Each nominee selected by the Deputy
Administrator, before being formally
appointed, is required to submit a
confidential statement of employment
and financial interests, which shall fully
disclose, among other financial
interests, the nominee’s sources of
research support, if any.
In accordance with section 25(d)(1) of
FIFRA, the Deputy Administrator shall
require all nominees to the Panel to
furnish information concerning their
professional qualifications, educational
background, employment history, and
scientific publications.
B. Applicability of Existing Regulations
With respect to the requirements of
section 25(d) of FIFRA that the
Administrator promulgate regulations
regarding conflicts of interest, the
Charter provides that EPA’s existing
regulations applicable to Special
Government Employees, which include
advisory committee members, will
apply to the members of the SAP. These
regulations appear in 40 CFR part 3,
subpart F. In addition, the Charter
provides for open meetings with
opportunities for public participation.
C. Process of Obtaining Nominees
In accordance with the provisions of
section 25(d) of FIFRA, in March 2006,
EPA requested the National Institutes of
Health (NIH) and that the National
Science Foundation (NSF) nominate
scientists to fill one vacancy occurring
on the Panel. The Agency requested
nominations of experts in the field of
ecotoxicology and ecological risk
assessment including probabilistic
ecological risk assessment. NIH and
NSF responded by letter, providing the
Agency with a total of 12 nominees.
Seven of the 12 nominees are interested
and available to actively participate in
SAP meetings (see IV Nominees). The
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following five nominees are not
available.
1. Barnthouse, Lawrence, Ph.D., LWB
Environmental Services, Inc., Oak
Ridge, TN.
2. Harrahy, Elisabeth, Ph.D.,
Wisconsin Department of Natural
Resources, Madison, WI.
3. Kelly, Elizabeth, Ph.D., Los Alamos
National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM.
4. Oberdorster, Eva, Ph.D., Southern
Methodist University, Dallas, TX.
5. Piegorsch, Walter, Ph.D., University
of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
IV. Nominees
The following are the names,
addresses, professional affiliations, and
selected biographical data of the seven
nominees being considered for
membership on the FIFRA Scientific
Advisory Panel. The Agency expects to
select one of the nominees to fill a
vacancy occurring this year.
1. Nominee: Autenrieth, Robin L.,
Ph.D., P.E., Professor, and Assistant
Department Head, Department of Civil
Engineering, Texas A and M University,
College Station, TX.
i. Expertise: Biological sciences and
environmental engineering.
ii. Education: B.S., Biological
Sciences, University of Maryland; M.S.,
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Clarkson University; Ph.D., Civil and
Environmental Engineering, Clarkson
University.
iii. Professional Experience: Dr. Robin
L. Autenrieth is a Professor in the
Division of Environmental and Water
Resources of the Zachry Department of
Civil Engineering at Texas A and M
University. She also has a joint
appointment in the Department of
Environmental and Occupational Health
of the Health Science Center’s School of
Rural Public Health. Dr. Autenrieth
teaches classes in environmental
engineering related to biological
processes, human health risk
assessment, and sustainable practices.
Her research addresses the fate of
chemicals in the environment, notably
biological degradation, and improving
estimates of exposure and human health
risk estimates. Dr. Autenrieth received a
B.S. in biological sciences from the
University of Maryland, a M.S. and
Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering
from Clarkson University. As a professor
for over 20 years, Dr. Autenrieth
integrates her background in biological
sciences with engineering. Her early
research focused on biodegradation of
xenobiotic and hazardous chemicals
with particular emphasis on
hydrocarbons released in nearshore
environments. She was one of the
principals in one of the few programs
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allowed to exercise controlled releases
of oil to wetlands to study natural
recovery and remediation strategies.
Other biodegradation work with
explosives and chemical warfare agents
led to collaborations with colleagues in
the former Soviet Union. More recently
she has been using quantitative
structural analysis techniques to relate
both biodegradability and toxicity to
generate factors that can be used in
predicting the behavior of
uncharacterized compounds for their
fate in the environment or potential
human health impact upon exposure.
Laboratory studies to evaluate
biodegradation kinetics of a range of
chemicals have led to current studies on
estrogenic compounds (e.g. hormones)
and antibiotics released from confined
animal operations and their impact on
exposed environments. She is serving
on a National Academy of Sciences
committee to evaluate secondary wastes
from the destruction of chemical
warfare agents and has served on similar
committees in the past. In Civil
Engineering she serves as the Assistant
Department Head.
2. Nominee: Chandler, G. Thomas,
Ph.D., Professor and Chairman,
Department of Environmental Health
Sciences, University of South Carolina,
Columbia, SC.
i. Expertise: Ecotoxicology,
toxicology, aquatic/marine ecology.
ii. Education: B.Sc., Biology and
Marine Biology, University of North
Carolina at Wilmington; M.Sc., Zoology,
Louisiana State University; Ph.D.,
Zoology (Statistics Minor), Louisiana
State University.
iii. Professional Experience: Dr.
Chandler received his Ph.D. in Zoology
with a minor in Applied Statistics from
Louisiana State University in 1986,
where he studied soft-sediment benthic
ecology, ecotoxicology, and developed
novel methods for sediment-based
culture of meiobenthos. He was
awarded a Fulbright Post-Doctoral
fellowship in 1987 to study with
Professor Olav Giere of the University of
Hamburg. Dr. Chandler’s research in
Germany characterized ecological
interactions among sediment-associated
bacteria, foraminifera and copepods
inhabiting estuaries of the North Sea
Wattenmeer. From 1991 to the present,
Dr. Chandler has been affiliated with the
Arnold School of Public Health at the
University of South Carolina, where he
has published more than 70 articles, and
progressed from assistant to full
professor in 7 years. His competitive
research support has totaled more than
30 projects for over $9-million, with
primary support from the EPA, NOAA,
and the NSF. Dr. Chandler’s present
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research focus is in estuarine
ecotoxicology with an emphasis on
developing rapid screens for
environmental detection of endocrine
disruption in crustaceans using copepod
models, and evaluating/modeling
population-level risks of pesticide and
ED exposure. He recently authored the
ASTM E2317-04 standard method for
lifecycle bioassay of sublethal
developmental and reproductive
toxicants using a 96-well microplate
format. This method is presently being
validated by the OECD for rapid Tier 2
evaluation of chemicals’ endocrine
disrupting potentials. He has published
extensively on effects, fate and behavior
of pesticides used in coastal
environments of the southeastern US. In
collaboration with the NOAA Center for
Coastal Environmental Health and
Biomolecular Research, Charleston, SC,
Dr. Chandler performs extensive
research on the toxicological impacts of
urban-use pesticides on sedimentdwelling fauna exposed to golf-course
and sewage effluents in salt-marsh
estuaries. Dr. Chandler is presently
professor and chairman of the
Department of Environmental Health
Sciences, US delegate to the
Environmental Directorate of the OECD
(Paris), and member of the Bilateral
Biomarker Working Group, Office of
Science, French Embassy.
3. Nominee: deFur, Peter L., Ph.D.,
President, Environmental Stewardship
Concepts; and Affiliate Associate
Professor, Center for Environmental
Studies, Virginia Commonwealth
University, Richmond, VA.
i. Expertise: Risk assessment and
ecological risk assessment.
ii. Education: B.S. and M.A., Biology,
The College of William and Mary; Ph.D.,
Biology, University of Calgary.
iii. Professional Experience: Dr. Peter
L. deFur is president of Environmental
Stewardship Concepts, an independent
private consultant, and an Affiliate
Associate Professor and Graduate
Coordinator in the Center for
Environmental Studies at Virginia
Commonwealth University where he
conducts research on environmental
health and ecological risk assessment.
He served a term on the National
Research Council Board on
Environmental Studies and Toxicology
(BEST) and has served on several NRC
study committees. Dr. deFur has served
on federal advisory committees and
works with professional associations.
Dr. deFur received B.S. and M.A.
degrees in Biology from the College of
William and Mary in Virginia, and a
Ph.D. in Biology (1980) from the
University of Calgary, Alberta. He was a
postdoctoral fellow in neurophysiology
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in the Department of Medicine at the
University of Calgary. Dr. deFur held
faculty positions at George Mason
University and Southeastern Louisiana
University before joining the staff of the
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) in
Washington, DC. At EDF, Dr. deFur was
involved in policy issues that include
habitat preservation and quality,
wetlands regulations, water quality
analysis and risk assessment.
Dr. deFur has extensive experience in
risk assessment and ecological risk
assessment regulations, guidance and
policy. He served on the NAS/NRC Risk
Characterization Committee that
released its report, Understanding Risk,
in June 1996. Dr. deFur served on
numerous scientific reviews of EPA
ecological and human health risk
assessments, including the assessment
for the WTI incinerator in Ohio and
EPA’s Ecological Risk Assessment
Guidelines. Dr. deFur has served on
three federal advisory committees for
EPA’s Endocrine Disruptor Screening
and Testing Program. Dr. deFur
presently serves as technical advisor to
citizen organizations concerning the
cleanup of contaminated sites at
Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS),
Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability
Act (CERCLA) and Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
sites.
4. Nominee: Harwell, Mark A., Ph.D.,
Principal, Harwell Gentile and
Associates, LC, Palm Coast, FL.
i. Expertise: Ecological risk
assessments and ecosystem
management.
ii. Education: B.S., Biology, Emory
University; M.S., Marine Ecology,
University of Miami; Ph.D., Systems
Ecology, Emory University.
ii. Professional Experience: Dr.
Harwell is an ecosystems ecologist with
expertise in ecological risk assessments
and ecosystem management. He (with
colleague Dr. Jack Gentile) is currently
a Partner in Harwell Gentile and
Associates, LC, following a 25–year
career in academia at Cornell
University, the University of Miami
Rosenstiel School, and Florida A and M
University. Drs. Harwell and Gentile
were leaders in the development of the
EPA ecological risk assessment
framework, and have led several large
risk assessments, including comparative
ecological risk assessments of oil spills
in Tampa Bay and the Bay of Fundy; an
ecological risk assessment of the effects
of climate change and the South Florida
ecosystem restoration on the Everglades
and Biscayne Bay; an ecotoxicological
risk assessment of the Coeur d’Alene
River watershed; and an assessment of
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the current ecological significance of
effects from the Exxon Valdez oil spill
on Prince William Sound. Dr. Harwell
led a series of interdisciplinary studies
on human interactions with the South
Florida environment, including field,
mesocosm, and modeling studies in
Biscayne Bay and the Florida Keys
National Marine Sanctuary. He
coordinated interdisciplinary studies in
five National Estuarine Research
Reserves, developing conceptual models
of coupled human-environment
systems, and contributing to ecological
assessments using remote sensing and
hyperspectral imagery. Dr. Harwell
served for more than a decade as a
member of the EPA Science Advisory
Board (SAB), including two terms as
Chair of the Ecological Processes and
Effects Committee. He led the ecological
risk component of the EPA Unfinished
Business Project, and was a member of
the EPA SAB Reducing Risk project. He
chaired the U.S. Man and the Biosphere
Human-Dominated Systems Directorate,
and led its project on ecological
sustainability, ecosystem management,
and an ecosystem integrity report card
framework. He led the Scientific
Committee on Problems of the
Environment (SCOPE) 5–year
international study to assess the global
environmental consequences of nuclear
war (ENUWAR), with emphasis on
ecological responses to climate change.
He directed the PAN-EARTH Project, a
series of national-level case studies on
the ecological and agricultural effects of
climate variability on Venezuela, India,
Japan, China, and Sub-Saharan Africa;
he was a member of the U.S. Global
Change Research Program’s National
Assessment working group on coastal
resources effects; and he serves as an
expert reviewer for the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change. He served on the National
Academy of Sciences panel on
ecological risks in the U.S. and Poland,
and was a member of the NAS panel on
risk communications. Dr. Harwell also
served as a member of the National
Academy of Sciences Board on
Environmental Studies and Toxicology,
and was elected a Fellow of AAAS.
5. Nominee: Hooper, Michael, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor, The Institute of
Environmental and Human Health,
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX.
i. Expertise: Environmental
toxicology.
ii. Education: B.S., Biochemistry,
California Polytechnic State University;
Ph.D., Pharmacology and Toxicology,
University of California at Davis.
iii. Professional Experience: Dr.
Michael Hooper is an associate
professor in the Environmental
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Toxicology Department and a member
of The Institute of Environmental and
Human Health at Texas Tech
University. He received his B.S. degree
in Biochemistry at California
Polytechnic State University in 1981
and his Ph.D. in Pharmacology and
Toxicology at the University of
California at Davis in 1988. After a
research faculty position at Western
Washington University’s Huxley
College, he moved to Clemson
University in 1989 where he was a
member of the graduate faculty of
Environmental Toxicology and The
Institute of Wildlife and Environmental
Toxicology. He moved to his current
position at Texas Tech University in
1997. His area of expertise is the
impacts of chemical contaminants on
the health of wildlife inhabiting
environments contaminated with
pesticides or chemical wastes, with an
emphasis on the use of such data in
regulatory or remediation decision
making. His current research
investigates the bioaccumulation and
effects of chemicals from mixtures that
occur on contaminated sites, studying
animals that inhabit these sites and
working to develop assay methods that
allow assessments of vertebrate species
risk through food and water exposure
routes. Dr. Hooper was an advisor for
the Avian Effects Dialog Group, served
on the EPA’s ECOFRAM panel to
establish probabilistic risk assessment
guidelines for pesticides, and is
currently a member of the EPA Science
Advisory Board panel on Aquatic Life
Criteria. His research program is funded
through grants from NIEHS, EPA,
USFWS and USGS.
6. Nominee: Klaine, Stephen J., Ph.D.,
Professor, Department of Biological
Sciences, Clemson University,
Pendleton, SC.
i. Expertise: Aquatic toxicology,
Ecological Risk Assessment.
ii. Education: B.S., Biology,
University of Cincinnati; M.S.,
Environmental Science, Rice University;
Ph.D., Environmental Science, Rice
University.
iii. Professional Experience: Stephen
J. Klaine is a Professor in the
Department of Biological Sciences and
the Graduate Program of Environmental
Toxicology at Clemson University. His
research interest involves quantifying
the impact of land use on aquatic
ecosystems and developing strategies by
which economically viable land-use can
coexist with good environmental
quality. He received his doctorate from
the Department of Environmental
Science and Engineering, Rice
University in 1982 and has spent the
last 24 years conducting environmental
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research and educating graduate
students. He joined the Department of
Biology, University of Memphis, in 1982
where he developed an undergraduate
concentration in toxicology, an
extramurally-funded research program
in environmental toxicology, and a
graduate program that produced 8 M.S.
and 4 Ph.D. graduates. In 1991, he
moved his laboratory to Clemson
University to help found the graduate
program in environmental toxicology.
Since then, he has graduated over 25
M.S. and 20 Ph.D. students from
Clemson University. Current research in
his laboratory focuses on characterizing:
i. The bioavailablity of metals and
pesticides in aquatic systems; ii. the
comparative phytotoxicity of pesticides;
iii. the response of aquatic organisms to
episodic contaminant exposures; iv. the
water quality consequences of land use;
v. the effects of pharmaceuticals on fish
behavior; vi. the bioavailability of
single-walled carbon nanotubes in
aquatic systems; and vii. the
bioavailability of PCBs in aquatic
systems and the movement of PCBs
through the aquatic and terrestrial food
chain. In addition, he is principal
investigator on several proposals and
projects that focus on integrating natural
and social scientists to solve problems
regarding natural resource management.
He has served as principle investigator
or co-principle investigator on over $8million in research funding. He has
previously served on the board of
directors for the Society of
Environmental Toxicology and is
currently an aquatic toxicology editor
for the journal Environmental
Toxicology and Chemistry. In the last
decade, he has served on several EPA
Science Advisory Panels and
Workshops involving pesticide and
metal fate, effects and risk.
7. Nominee: Schlenk, Daniel, Ph.D.,
Professor, Department of Environmental
Sciences, University of California,
Riverside, CA.
i. Expertise: Aquatic ecotoxicology.
ii. Education: B.S., Toxicology,
Northeast Louisiana University; Ph.D.,
Toxicology, Oregon State University.
iii. Professional Experience: Dr.
Daniel Schlenk is Professor of Aquatic
Ecotoxicology and Environmental
Toxicology at the University of
California Riverside. Dr. Schlenk
received his Ph.D. in Toxicology from
Oregon State University in 1989. He was
supported by a National Institute of
Environmental Health Science
postdoctoral fellowship at Duke
University from 1989–1991. Since 2003,
he has been a member of the Board of
Directors for the North American
Society of Environmental Toxicology
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and Chemistry and has been a visiting
Scholar in the Department of
Biochemistry, Chinese University of
Hong Kong; a recipient of the Ray
Lankester Investigatorship of the Marine
Biological Association of the United
Kingdom; a visiting Scholar of the
Instituto Del Mare, Venice Italy; and a
Visiting Scientist at the CSIRO Lucas
Heights Laboratory, in Sydney
Australia. He has served on the EPA
Science Advisory Board for Aquatic Life
Criteria Guidelines and on proposal
review panels for the EPA, NOAA, and
the National Institutes of Health. He is
the co-editor-in chief of Aquatic
Toxicology and serves on the editorial
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Environmental Toxicology and
Chemistry, The Asian Journal of
Ecotoxicology and Marine
Environmental Research. He has coedited a 2 volume series entitled ‘‘Target
Organ Toxicity in Marine and
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more than 115 peer reviewed journal
articles. His research interests revolve
around the fate and effects of pesticides
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hypersaline water on the
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toxicity of endocrine-modulating
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0620; FRL-8085-7]
Nominations to the FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel: Request for
Comments
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice provides the names, addresses, professional
affiliations, and selected biographical data of persons nominated to
serve on the Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) established under section
25(d) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
(FIFRA). The Panel was created on November 28, 1975, and made a
statutory Panel by amendment to FIFRA, dated October 25, 1988. The
Agency expects to select one new member to serve on the panel as a
result of a vacancy that will occur during the current calendar year.
Public comment on the nominations is invited, as these comments will be
used to assist the Agency in selecting the new chartered Panel member.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before September 15, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification
(ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0620, by one of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the on-line instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) Regulatory Public
Docket (7502P), Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001.
Delivery: OPP Regulatory Public Docket (7502P),
Environmental Protection Agency, Rm. S-4400, One Potomac Yard (South
Bldg.), 2777 S. Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA. Deliveries are only
accepted during the Docket's normal hours of operation 8:30 a.m. to 4
p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. Special
arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed information. The
Docket telephone number is (703) 305-5805.
Instructions: Direct your comments to docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPP-
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in the docket without change and may be made available on-line 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
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consider to be CBI or otherwise protected through regulations.gov or e-
mail. The Federal regulations.gov website is an ``anonymous access''
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information unless you provide it in the body of your comment. If you
send an e-mail comment directly to EPA without going through
regulations.gov, your e-mail address will be automatically captured and
included as part of the comment that is placed in the 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.
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Although listed in the index, some information is not publicly
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restricted by statute. Certain other material, such as copyrighted
material, is not placed on the Internet and will be publicly available
only in hard copy form. Publicly available docket materials are
available either in the electronic docket at https://
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Regulatory Public Docket in Rm. S-4400, One Potomac Yard (South Bldg.),
2777 S. Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA. The hours of operation of this
Docket Facility are from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday,
excluding legal holidays. The Docket telephone number is (703) 305-
5805.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Myrta R. Christian, Designated Federal
Official (DFO), Office of Science Coordination and Policy (7201M),
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone number: (202) 564-8498; fax
number: (202) 564-8382; e-mail address: christian.myrta@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. General Information
A. Does this Action Apply to Me?
This action is directed to the public in general. This action may,
however, be of interest to persons who are or may be required to
conduct testing of chemical substances under the Federal Food, Drug,
and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), FIFRA, and the Food Quality Protection Act of
1996 (FQPA). Since other entities may also be interested, the Agency
has not attempted to describe all the specific entities that may be
affected by this action.
If you have any questions regarding the applicability of this
action to a particular entity, consult the person listed under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
B. What Should I Consider as I Prepare My Comments for EPA?
Tips for preparing your comments. When submitting comments,
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i. Identify the document by docket ID number and other identifying
information (subject heading, Federal Register date, and page number).
ii. Follow directions. The Agency may ask you to respond to
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iv. Describe any assumptions and provide any technical information
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v. If you estimate potential costs or burdens, explain how you
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reproduced.
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profanity or personal threats.
viii. Make sure to submit your comments by the comment period
deadline identified.
II. Background
Amendments to FIFRA enacted November 28, 1975, include a
requirement under section 25(d) that notices of intent to cancel or
reclassify pesticide registrations pursuant to section 6(b)(2), as well
as proposed and final forms of regulations pursuant to section 25(a),
be submitted to a Scientific Advisory Panel prior to being made public
or issued to a registrant. In accordance with section 25(d), the SAP is
to have an opportunity to comment on the health and environmental
impact of such actions. The Panel shall also make comments,
evaluations, and recommendations for operating guidelines to improve
the effectiveness and quality of analyses made by Agency scientists.
In accordance with the statute, the SAP is composed of a permanent
panel of seven members, selected and appointed by the Deputy
Administrator of EPA from nominees submitted by both the National
Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. The Agency
expects to select one new member to serve on the panel as a result of a
vacancy that will occur during the current calendar year. The Agency
requested nominations of experts to be selected from the field of
ecotoxicology and ecological risk assessment (including probabilistic
ecological risk assessment). Nominees should be well published and
current in their fields of expertise. The statute further stipulates
that the name, address, and professional affiliation of each nominee be
published in the Federal Register.
III. Charter
A Charter for the FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel dated October 25,
2004 was issued in accordance with the requirements of the Federal
Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, 86 Stat. 770 (5 U.S.C. App.
I).
A. Qualifications of Members
Members are scientists who have sufficient professional
qualifications, including training and experience, to assess the impact
of pesticides on health and the environment. No persons are ineligible
to serve on the Panel by reason of their membership on any other
advisory committee to a Federal department or agency or their
employment by a Federal department or agency (except the EPA). The
Deputy Administrator appoints individuals to serve on the Panel for
staggered terms of 4 years. Panel members are subject to the provisions
of 40 CFR part 3, subpart F, Standards of Conduct for Special
Government Employees, which include rules regarding conflicts of
interest. Each nominee selected by the Deputy Administrator, before
being formally appointed, is required to submit a confidential
statement of employment and financial interests, which shall fully
disclose, among other financial interests, the nominee's sources of
research support, if any.
In accordance with section 25(d)(1) of FIFRA, the Deputy
Administrator shall require all nominees to the Panel to furnish
information concerning their professional qualifications, educational
background, employment history, and scientific publications.
B. Applicability of Existing Regulations
With respect to the requirements of section 25(d) of FIFRA that the
Administrator promulgate regulations regarding conflicts of interest,
the Charter provides that EPA's existing regulations applicable to
Special Government Employees, which include advisory committee members,
will apply to the members of the SAP. These regulations appear in 40
CFR part 3, subpart F. In addition, the Charter provides for open
meetings with opportunities for public participation.
C. Process of Obtaining Nominees
In accordance with the provisions of section 25(d) of FIFRA, in
March 2006, EPA requested the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and
that the National Science Foundation (NSF) nominate scientists to fill
one vacancy occurring on the Panel. The Agency requested nominations of
experts in the field of ecotoxicology and ecological risk assessment
including probabilistic ecological risk assessment. NIH and NSF
responded by letter, providing the Agency with a total of 12 nominees.
Seven of the 12 nominees are interested and available to actively
participate in SAP meetings (see IV Nominees). The following five
nominees are not available.
1. Barnthouse, Lawrence, Ph.D., LWB Environmental Services, Inc.,
Oak Ridge, TN.
2. Harrahy, Elisabeth, Ph.D., Wisconsin Department of Natural
Resources, Madison, WI.
3. Kelly, Elizabeth, Ph.D., Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los
Alamos, NM.
4. Oberdorster, Eva, Ph.D., Southern Methodist University, Dallas,
TX.
5. Piegorsch, Walter, Ph.D., University of South Carolina,
Columbia, SC.
IV. Nominees
The following are the names, addresses, professional affiliations,
and selected biographical data of the seven nominees being considered
for membership on the FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel. The Agency
expects to select one of the nominees to fill a vacancy occurring this
year.
1. Nominee: Autenrieth, Robin L., Ph.D., P.E., Professor, and
Assistant Department Head, Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A and
M University, College Station, TX.
i. Expertise: Biological sciences and environmental engineering.
ii. Education: B.S., Biological Sciences, University of Maryland;
M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Clarkson University; Ph.D.,
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Clarkson University.
iii. Professional Experience: Dr. Robin L. Autenrieth is a
Professor in the Division of Environmental and Water Resources of the
Zachry Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A and M University. She
also has a joint appointment in the Department of Environmental and
Occupational Health of the Health Science Center's School of Rural
Public Health. Dr. Autenrieth teaches classes in environmental
engineering related to biological processes, human health risk
assessment, and sustainable practices. Her research addresses the fate
of chemicals in the environment, notably biological degradation, and
improving estimates of exposure and human health risk estimates. Dr.
Autenrieth received a B.S. in biological sciences from the University
of Maryland, a M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from
Clarkson University. As a professor for over 20 years, Dr. Autenrieth
integrates her background in biological sciences with engineering. Her
early research focused on biodegradation of xenobiotic and hazardous
chemicals with particular emphasis on hydrocarbons released in
nearshore environments. She was one of the principals in one of the few
programs
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allowed to exercise controlled releases of oil to wetlands to study
natural recovery and remediation strategies. Other biodegradation work
with explosives and chemical warfare agents led to collaborations with
colleagues in the former Soviet Union. More recently she has been using
quantitative structural analysis techniques to relate both
biodegradability and toxicity to generate factors that can be used in
predicting the behavior of uncharacterized compounds for their fate in
the environment or potential human health impact upon exposure.
Laboratory studies to evaluate biodegradation kinetics of a range of
chemicals have led to current studies on estrogenic compounds (e.g.
hormones) and antibiotics released from confined animal operations and
their impact on exposed environments. She is serving on a National
Academy of Sciences committee to evaluate secondary wastes from the
destruction of chemical warfare agents and has served on similar
committees in the past. In Civil Engineering she serves as the
Assistant Department Head.
2. Nominee: Chandler, G. Thomas, Ph.D., Professor and Chairman,
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of South
Carolina, Columbia, SC.
i. Expertise: Ecotoxicology, toxicology, aquatic/marine ecology.
ii. Education: B.Sc., Biology and Marine Biology, University of
North Carolina at Wilmington; M.Sc., Zoology, Louisiana State
University; Ph.D., Zoology (Statistics Minor), Louisiana State
University.
iii. Professional Experience: Dr. Chandler received his Ph.D. in
Zoology with a minor in Applied Statistics from Louisiana State
University in 1986, where he studied soft-sediment benthic ecology,
ecotoxicology, and developed novel methods for sediment-based culture
of meiobenthos. He was awarded a Fulbright Post-Doctoral fellowship in
1987 to study with Professor Olav Giere of the University of Hamburg.
Dr. Chandler's research in Germany characterized ecological
interactions among sediment-associated bacteria, foraminifera and
copepods inhabiting estuaries of the North Sea Wattenmeer. From 1991 to
the present, Dr. Chandler has been affiliated with the Arnold School of
Public Health at the University of South Carolina, where he has
published more than 70 articles, and progressed from assistant to full
professor in 7 years. His competitive research support has totaled more
than 30 projects for over $9-million, with primary support from the
EPA, NOAA, and the NSF. Dr. Chandler's present research focus is in
estuarine ecotoxicology with an emphasis on developing rapid screens
for environmental detection of endocrine disruption in crustaceans
using copepod models, and evaluating/modeling population-level risks of
pesticide and ED exposure. He recently authored the ASTM E2317-04
standard method for lifecycle bioassay of sublethal developmental and
reproductive toxicants using a 96-well microplate format. This method
is presently being validated by the OECD for rapid Tier 2 evaluation of
chemicals' endocrine disrupting potentials. He has published
extensively on effects, fate and behavior of pesticides used in coastal
environments of the southeastern US. In collaboration with the NOAA
Center for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research,
Charleston, SC, Dr. Chandler performs extensive research on the
toxicological impacts of urban-use pesticides on sediment-dwelling
fauna exposed to golf-course and sewage effluents in salt-marsh
estuaries. Dr. Chandler is presently professor and chairman of the
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, US delegate to the
Environmental Directorate of the OECD (Paris), and member of the
Bilateral Biomarker Working Group, Office of Science, French Embassy.
3. Nominee: deFur, Peter L., Ph.D., President, Environmental
Stewardship Concepts; and Affiliate Associate Professor, Center for
Environmental Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
i. Expertise: Risk assessment and ecological risk assessment.
ii. Education: B.S. and M.A., Biology, The College of William and
Mary; Ph.D., Biology, University of Calgary.
iii. Professional Experience: Dr. Peter L. deFur is president of
Environmental Stewardship Concepts, an independent private consultant,
and an Affiliate Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator in the
Center for Environmental Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University
where he conducts research on environmental health and ecological risk
assessment. He served a term on the National Research Council Board on
Environmental Studies and Toxicology (BEST) and has served on several
NRC study committees. Dr. deFur has served on federal advisory
committees and works with professional associations.
Dr. deFur received B.S. and M.A. degrees in Biology from the
College of William and Mary in Virginia, and a Ph.D. in Biology (1980)
from the University of Calgary, Alberta. He was a postdoctoral fellow
in neurophysiology in the Department of Medicine at the University of
Calgary. Dr. deFur held faculty positions at George Mason University
and Southeastern Louisiana University before joining the staff of the
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) in Washington, DC. At EDF, Dr. deFur
was involved in policy issues that include habitat preservation and
quality, wetlands regulations, water quality analysis and risk
assessment.
Dr. deFur has extensive experience in risk assessment and
ecological risk assessment regulations, guidance and policy. He served
on the NAS/NRC Risk Characterization Committee that released its
report, Understanding Risk, in June 1996. Dr. deFur served on numerous
scientific reviews of EPA ecological and human health risk assessments,
including the assessment for the WTI incinerator in Ohio and EPA's
Ecological Risk Assessment Guidelines. Dr. deFur has served on three
federal advisory committees for EPA's Endocrine Disruptor Screening and
Testing Program. Dr. deFur presently serves as technical advisor to
citizen organizations concerning the cleanup of contaminated sites at
Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS), Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) and Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) sites.
4. Nominee: Harwell, Mark A., Ph.D., Principal, Harwell Gentile and
Associates, LC, Palm Coast, FL.
i. Expertise: Ecological risk assessments and ecosystem management.
ii. Education: B.S., Biology, Emory University; M.S., Marine
Ecology, University of Miami; Ph.D., Systems Ecology, Emory University.
ii. Professional Experience: Dr. Harwell is an ecosystems ecologist
with expertise in ecological risk assessments and ecosystem management.
He (with colleague Dr. Jack Gentile) is currently a Partner in Harwell
Gentile and Associates, LC, following a 25-year career in academia at
Cornell University, the University of Miami Rosenstiel School, and
Florida A and M University. Drs. Harwell and Gentile were leaders in
the development of the EPA ecological risk assessment framework, and
have led several large risk assessments, including comparative
ecological risk assessments of oil spills in Tampa Bay and the Bay of
Fundy; an ecological risk assessment of the effects of climate change
and the South Florida ecosystem restoration on the Everglades and
Biscayne Bay; an ecotoxicological risk assessment of the Coeur d'Alene
River watershed; and an assessment of
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the current ecological significance of effects from the Exxon Valdez
oil spill on Prince William Sound. Dr. Harwell led a series of
interdisciplinary studies on human interactions with the South Florida
environment, including field, mesocosm, and modeling studies in
Biscayne Bay and the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. He
coordinated interdisciplinary studies in five National Estuarine
Research Reserves, developing conceptual models of coupled human-
environment systems, and contributing to ecological assessments using
remote sensing and hyperspectral imagery. Dr. Harwell served for more
than a decade as a member of the EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB),
including two terms as Chair of the Ecological Processes and Effects
Committee. He led the ecological risk component of the EPA Unfinished
Business Project, and was a member of the EPA SAB Reducing Risk
project. He chaired the U.S. Man and the Biosphere Human-Dominated
Systems Directorate, and led its project on ecological sustainability,
ecosystem management, and an ecosystem integrity report card framework.
He led the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE)
5-year international study to assess the global environmental
consequences of nuclear war (ENUWAR), with emphasis on ecological
responses to climate change. He directed the PAN-EARTH Project, a
series of national-level case studies on the ecological and
agricultural effects of climate variability on Venezuela, India, Japan,
China, and Sub-Saharan Africa; he was a member of the U.S. Global
Change Research Program's National Assessment working group on coastal
resources effects; and he serves as an expert reviewer for the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He served on the National
Academy of Sciences panel on ecological risks in the U.S. and Poland,
and was a member of the NAS panel on risk communications. Dr. Harwell
also served as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Board on
Environmental Studies and Toxicology, and was elected a Fellow of AAAS.
5. Nominee: Hooper, Michael, Ph.D., Associate Professor, The
Institute of Environmental and Human Health, Texas Tech University,
Lubbock, TX.
i. Expertise: Environmental toxicology.
ii. Education: B.S., Biochemistry, California Polytechnic State
University; Ph.D., Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of
California at Davis.
iii. Professional Experience: Dr. Michael Hooper is an associate
professor in the Environmental Toxicology Department and a member of
The Institute of Environmental and Human Health at Texas Tech
University. He received his B.S. degree in Biochemistry at California
Polytechnic State University in 1981 and his Ph.D. in Pharmacology and
Toxicology at the University of California at Davis in 1988. After a
research faculty position at Western Washington University's Huxley
College, he moved to Clemson University in 1989 where he was a member
of the graduate faculty of Environmental Toxicology and The Institute
of Wildlife and Environmental Toxicology. He moved to his current
position at Texas Tech University in 1997. His area of expertise is the
impacts of chemical contaminants on the health of wildlife inhabiting
environments contaminated with pesticides or chemical wastes, with an
emphasis on the use of such data in regulatory or remediation decision
making. His current research investigates the bioaccumulation and
effects of chemicals from mixtures that occur on contaminated sites,
studying animals that inhabit these sites and working to develop assay
methods that allow assessments of vertebrate species risk through food
and water exposure routes. Dr. Hooper was an advisor for the Avian
Effects Dialog Group, served on the EPA's ECOFRAM panel to establish
probabilistic risk assessment guidelines for pesticides, and is
currently a member of the EPA Science Advisory Board panel on Aquatic
Life Criteria. His research program is funded through grants from
NIEHS, EPA, USFWS and USGS.
6. Nominee: Klaine, Stephen J., Ph.D., Professor, Department of
Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Pendleton, SC.
i. Expertise: Aquatic toxicology, Ecological Risk Assessment.
ii. Education: B.S., Biology, University of Cincinnati; M.S.,
Environmental Science, Rice University; Ph.D., Environmental Science,
Rice University.
iii. Professional Experience: Stephen J. Klaine is a Professor in
the Department of Biological Sciences and the Graduate Program of
Environmental Toxicology at Clemson University. His research interest
involves quantifying the impact of land use on aquatic ecosystems and
developing strategies by which economically viable land-use can coexist
with good environmental quality. He received his doctorate from the
Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Rice University in
1982 and has spent the last 24 years conducting environmental research
and educating graduate students. He joined the Department of Biology,
University of Memphis, in 1982 where he developed an undergraduate
concentration in toxicology, an extramurally-funded research program in
environmental toxicology, and a graduate program that produced 8 M.S.
and 4 Ph.D. graduates. In 1991, he moved his laboratory to Clemson
University to help found the graduate program in environmental
toxicology. Since then, he has graduated over 25 M.S. and 20 Ph.D.
students from Clemson University. Current research in his laboratory
focuses on characterizing: i. The bioavailablity of metals and
pesticides in aquatic systems; ii. the comparative phytotoxicity of
pesticides; iii. the response of aquatic organisms to episodic
contaminant exposures; iv. the water quality consequences of land use;
v. the effects of pharmaceuticals on fish behavior; vi. the
bioavailability of single-walled carbon nanotubes in aquatic systems;
and vii. the bioavailability of PCBs in aquatic systems and the
movement of PCBs through the aquatic and terrestrial food chain. In
addition, he is principal investigator on several proposals and
projects that focus on integrating natural and social scientists to
solve problems regarding natural resource management. He has served as
principle investigator or co-principle investigator on over $8-million
in research funding. He has previously served on the board of directors
for the Society of Environmental Toxicology and is currently an aquatic
toxicology editor for the journal Environmental Toxicology and
Chemistry. In the last decade, he has served on several EPA Science
Advisory Panels and Workshops involving pesticide and metal fate,
effects and risk.
7. Nominee: Schlenk, Daniel, Ph.D., Professor, Department of
Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA.
i. Expertise: Aquatic ecotoxicology.
ii. Education: B.S., Toxicology, Northeast Louisiana University;
Ph.D., Toxicology, Oregon State University.
iii. Professional Experience: Dr. Daniel Schlenk is Professor of
Aquatic Ecotoxicology and Environmental Toxicology at the University of
California Riverside. Dr. Schlenk received his Ph.D. in Toxicology from
Oregon State University in 1989. He was supported by a National
Institute of Environmental Health Science postdoctoral fellowship at
Duke University from 1989-1991. Since 2003, he has been a member of the
Board of Directors for the North American Society of Environmental
Toxicology
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and Chemistry and has been a visiting Scholar in the Department of
Biochemistry, Chinese University of Hong Kong; a recipient of the Ray
Lankester Investigatorship of the Marine Biological Association of the
United Kingdom; a visiting Scholar of the Instituto Del Mare, Venice
Italy; and a Visiting Scientist at the CSIRO Lucas Heights Laboratory,
in Sydney Australia. He has served on the EPA Science Advisory Board
for Aquatic Life Criteria Guidelines and on proposal review panels for
the EPA, NOAA, and the National Institutes of Health. He is the co-
editor-in chief of Aquatic Toxicology and serves on the editorial
boards of Toxicological Sciences, Environmental Toxicology and
Chemistry, The Asian Journal of Ecotoxicology and Marine Environmental
Research. He has co-edited a 2 volume series entitled ``Target Organ
Toxicity in Marine and Freshwater Teleosts'' and has published more
than 115 peer reviewed journal articles. His research interests revolve
around the fate and effects of pesticides in aquatic organisms. In
particular, his laboratory has focused on the impacts of hypersaline
water on the biotransformation and enantioselective toxicity of
endocrine-modulating pesticides to aquatic organisms.
List of Subjects
Environmental protection, Pesticides and pests.
Dated: August 8, 2006.
Elizabeth Resek,
Acting Director, Office of Science Coordination and Policy
[FR Doc. E6-13344 Filed 8-15-06; 8:45 am]
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