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organizations interested in presenting
an oral statement should notify
Veronica Blette by telephone at 202–
564–4094 no later than November 7,
2007. Any person who wishes to file a
written statement can do so before or
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2007, will be distributed to all members
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Dated: October 25, 2007.
Nanci E. Gelb,
Deputy Director, Office of Ground Water and
Drinking Water.
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Notification of a Public Teleconference
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Drinking Water Committee
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory
Board (SAB) Staff Office is announcing
a public teleconference of the SAB
Drinking Water Committee (DWC) to
discuss advisory activities for the
coming year.
DATES: The SAB will hold a public
teleconference on November 13, 2007.
The teleconference will begin at 1 p.m.
and end at 3 p.m. (Eastern Time).
Location: The teleconference will be
conducted by telephone only.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any
member of the public wishing to obtain
general information concerning this
public teleconference or meeting should
contact Dr. Sue Shallal, Designated
Federal Officer (DFO), EPA Science
Advisory Board (1400F), U.S.
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Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20460; via telephone/
voice mail: (202) 343–9977; fax: (202)
233–0643; or e-mail at:
shallal.suhair@epa.gov. General
information concerning the EPA Science
Advisory Board can be found on the
EPA 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 to the 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: EPA’s Office of Water
has requested that the SAB DWC
evaluate three Agency activities in the
coming year. To acquaint the DWC with
these activities, EPA will provide
introductory briefings to the DWC on:
(1) The Aircraft Drinking Water Rule; (2)
the Drinking Water Draft Contaminant
Candidate List 3; and (3) Waterborne
Diseases: Measures to Link Drinking
Water Programs to Public Health
Outcomes. The Agency will offer these
briefings to acquaint the DWC with the
Agency’s activities in preparation for
future meetings. Preliminary
background information on these
activities follow.
Aircraft Drinking Water Rule—Under
the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA),
any interstate carrier conveyance (ICC)
that regularly serves drinking water to
an average of at least 25 individuals
daily, at least 60 days per year, is
subject to the National Primary Drinking
Water Regulations (NPDWR). An ICC is
a carrier which conveys passengers in
interstate commerce. The classes of ICCs
include airplanes, trains, buses, and
water vessels. The U.S. EPA is
responsible for developing and
implementing the NPDWRs for all
public water systems, including public
water systems on ICCs. The existing
NPDWRs were designed for traditional,
stationary public water systems, not
mobile aircraft water systems that are
operationally very different. EPA is
proposing an Aircraft Drinking Water
Rule (ADWR) that only addresses
aircraft within U.S. jurisdiction.
However, EPA is also supporting an
international effort led by the World
Health Organization to develop
international guidelines for aircraft
drinking water. The proposed ADWR
applies to the onboard water system
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only. The Food and Drug
Administration is responsible for
regulating the watering points that
include the water cabinets, carts, trucks,
and hoses from which aircraft board
water. The Office of Water has asked the
DWC to hold a future consultative
meeting on this topic.
Drinking Water Contaminant
Candidate List Draft Revisions—The
1996 Safe Drinking Water Act
Amendments (SDWA) require EPA to
(1) publish every five years a list of
currently unregulated contaminants in
drinking water that may pose risks (the
Contaminant Candidate List or ‘‘CCL’’),
and (2) make determinations on whether
or not to regulate at least five
contaminants from that list on a
staggered five year cycle. The list must
be published after consultation with the
scientific community, including the
SAB, after notice and opportunity for
public comment, and after consideration
of the occurrence database established
under section 1445(g) of the SDWA. The
unregulated contaminants considered
for the list must include, but are not
limited to, substances referred to in
section 101(14) of the Comprehensive
Environmental Response,
Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980
(CERCLA), and substances registered
under the Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
(FIFRA). Developing the Contaminant
Candidate List is part of the process of
identifying water-borne threats to public
health that need to be addressed by the
Agency. EPA published and finalized
the first CCL (CCL1) on March 2, 1998
(63 FR 10273). CCL1 contained 50
chemicals and 10 microbial
contaminants/groups and was
developed using technical experts who
reviewed readily available information.
EPA consulted with the scientific
community, including the SAB, on a
process for developing the first CCL.
EPA published and finalized the second
CCL (CCL2) on February 24, 2005 (70 FR
9071). CCL2 carried forward the
remaining 51 chemical and microbial
contaminants/groups listed on CCL1.
The Office of Water has asked the DWC
to peer review the draft CCL 3 at a
future meeting.
Waterborne Diseases: Measures to
Link Drinking Water Programs to Public
Health Outcomes—The EPA Office of
Water (OW) submitted a draft Measure
Development Plan to OMB in October,
2004. As identified in the plan, the
focus of OW’s activities is to develop a
health-based performance measure built
on sound scientific data that relates
program actions to potential decrease in
waterborne disease incidence. EPA’s
goal is to develop long-term measures
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that describe changes over time of
disease due to drinking water
contamination or changes in the
occurrence of indicators of waterborne
disease; the objective is to demonstrate
the effectiveness of drinking water
programs on acute and chronic disease
related to microbes or other drinking
water contaminants. The Office of Water
is currently developing approaches to
the health-based measure to include in
the Agency’s next Strategic Plan with
input from the National Drinking Water
Advisory Council and has asked the
DWC to hold a future consultative
meeting on this topic.
Availability of Materials: The draft
agenda and other materials will be
posted on the SAB Web Site at: https://
www.epa.gov/sab prior to the
teleconference.
Procedures for Providing Public Input:
Interested members of the public may
submit relevant written or oral
information for the SAB to consider
during the public teleconference and/or
meeting. Oral Statements: In general,
individuals or groups requesting an oral
presentation at a public SAB
teleconference will be limited to three
minutes per speaker, with no more than
a total of one-half hour for all speakers.
To be placed on the public speaker list,
interested parties should contact Dr. Sue
Shallal, DFO, in writing (preferably via
e-mail), by November 6, 2007, at the
contact information noted above.
Written Statements: Written statements
should be received in the SAB Staff
Office in accordance with the dates
mentioned above so that the information
may be made available to the SAB for
their consideration prior to each
teleconference. 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).
Accessibility: For information on
access or services for individuals with
disabilities, please contact Dr. Sue
Shallal at (202) 343–9977 or
shallal.suhair@epa.gov. To request
accommodation of a disability, please
contact Dr. Shallal preferably at least ten
days prior to the teleconference, to give
EPA as much time as possible to process
your request.
Dated October 25, 2007.
Anthony F. Maciorowski,
Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board
Staff Office.
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Science Advisory Board Staff Office;
Notification of Four Public
Teleconferences of the Science
Advisory Board Committee on Valuing
the Protection of Ecological Systems
and Services
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory
Board (SAB) Staff Office announces four
public teleconferences of the SAB
Committee on Valuing the Protection of
Ecological Systems and Services (C–
VPESS) to discuss components of a draft
report related to valuing the protection
of ecological systems and services.
DATES: The SAB will conduct four
public teleconferences. The public
teleconferences will occur on November
19, 2007, November 20, 2007, December
3, 2007, and December 10, 2007. All
calls will begin at 1 p.m. and end at 3
p.m. (eastern daylight time).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any
member of the public wishing to obtain
general information concerning the
public teleconferences may contact Dr.
Angela Nugent, Designated Federal
Officer (DFO), via telephone at: (202)
343–9981 or e-mail at:
nugent.angela@epa.gov. General
information concerning the EPA Science
Advisory Board can be found on the
EPA 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: Background on the SAB
C–VPESS and its charge was provided
in 68 FR 11082 (March 7, 2003). The
purpose of the teleconferences is for the
SAB C–VPESS to discuss components of
a draft advisory report calling for
expanded and integrated approach for
valuing the protection of ecological
systems and services. These activities
are related to the Committee’s overall
charge: To assess Agency needs and the
state of the art and science of valuing
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protection of ecological systems and
services and to identify key areas for
improving knowledge, methodologies,
practice, and research.
Availability of Meeting Materials:
Agendas and materials in support of the
teleconferences will be placed on the
SAB Web Site at: https://www.epa.gov/
sab/ in advance of each teleconference.
Procedures for Providing Public Input:
Interested members of the public may
submit relevant written or oral
information for the SAB to consider
during the public teleconferences. Oral
Statements: In general, individuals or
groups requesting an oral presentation
at a public SAB teleconference will be
limited to three minutes per speaker,
with no more than a total of one-half
hour for all speakers. To be placed on
the public speaker list, interested parties
should contact Dr. Angela Nugent, DFO,
in writing (preferably via e-mail) 5
business days in advance of each
teleconference. Written Statements:
Written statements should be received
in the SAB Staff Office 5 business days
in advance of each teleconference above
so that the information may be made
available to the SAB for their
consideration prior to each
teleconference. 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).
Accessibility: For information on
access or services for individuals with
disabilities, please contact Dr. Angela
Nugent at (202) 343–9981 or
nugent.angela@epa.gov. To request
accommodation of a disability, please
contact Dr. Nugent preferably at least
ten days prior to the teleconferences to
give EPA as much time as possible to
process your request.
Dated: October 22, 2007.
Anthony Maciorowski,
Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board
Staff Office.
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Notification of a Public Teleconference of the Science Advisory
Board Drinking Water Committee
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office is
announcing a public teleconference of the SAB Drinking Water Committee
(DWC) to discuss advisory activities for the coming year.
DATES: The SAB will hold a public teleconference on November 13, 2007.
The teleconference will begin at 1 p.m. and end at 3 p.m. (Eastern
Time).
Location: The teleconference will be conducted by telephone only.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any member of the public wishing to
obtain general information concerning this public teleconference or
meeting should contact Dr. Sue Shallal, 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) 343-9977; fax: (202) 233-0643; or e-
mail at: shallal.suhair@epa.gov. General information concerning the EPA
Science Advisory Board can be found on the EPA 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 to the
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: EPA's Office of Water has requested that the SAB DWC
evaluate three Agency activities in the coming year. To acquaint the
DWC with these activities, EPA will provide introductory briefings to
the DWC on: (1) The Aircraft Drinking Water Rule; (2) the Drinking
Water Draft Contaminant Candidate List 3; and (3) Waterborne Diseases:
Measures to Link Drinking Water Programs to Public Health Outcomes. The
Agency will offer these briefings to acquaint the DWC with the Agency's
activities in preparation for future meetings. Preliminary background
information on these activities follow.
Aircraft Drinking Water Rule--Under the Safe Drinking Water Act
(SDWA), any interstate carrier conveyance (ICC) that regularly serves
drinking water to an average of at least 25 individuals daily, at least
60 days per year, is subject to the National Primary Drinking Water
Regulations (NPDWR). An ICC is a carrier which conveys passengers in
interstate commerce. The classes of ICCs include airplanes, trains,
buses, and water vessels. The U.S. EPA is responsible for developing
and implementing the NPDWRs for all public water systems, including
public water systems on ICCs. The existing NPDWRs were designed for
traditional, stationary public water systems, not mobile aircraft water
systems that are operationally very different. EPA is proposing an
Aircraft Drinking Water Rule (ADWR) that only addresses aircraft within
U.S. jurisdiction. However, EPA is also supporting an international
effort led by the World Health Organization to develop international
guidelines for aircraft drinking water. The proposed ADWR applies to
the onboard water system only. The Food and Drug Administration is
responsible for regulating the watering points that include the water
cabinets, carts, trucks, and hoses from which aircraft board water. The
Office of Water has asked the DWC to hold a future consultative meeting
on this topic.
Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List Draft Revisions--The 1996
Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments (SDWA) require EPA to (1) publish
every five years a list of currently unregulated contaminants in
drinking water that may pose risks (the Contaminant Candidate List or
``CCL''), and (2) make determinations on whether or not to regulate at
least five contaminants from that list on a staggered five year cycle.
The list must be published after consultation with the scientific
community, including the SAB, after notice and opportunity for public
comment, and after consideration of the occurrence database established
under section 1445(g) of the SDWA. The unregulated contaminants
considered for the list must include, but are not limited to,
substances referred to in section 101(14) of the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980
(CERCLA), and substances registered under the Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). Developing the Contaminant
Candidate List is part of the process of identifying water-borne
threats to public health that need to be addressed by the Agency. EPA
published and finalized the first CCL (CCL1) on March 2, 1998 (63 FR
10273). CCL1 contained 50 chemicals and 10 microbial contaminants/
groups and was developed using technical experts who reviewed readily
available information. EPA consulted with the scientific community,
including the SAB, on a process for developing the first CCL. EPA
published and finalized the second CCL (CCL2) on February 24, 2005 (70
FR 9071). CCL2 carried forward the remaining 51 chemical and microbial
contaminants/groups listed on CCL1. The Office of Water has asked the
DWC to peer review the draft CCL 3 at a future meeting.
Waterborne Diseases: Measures to Link Drinking Water Programs to
Public Health Outcomes--The EPA Office of Water (OW) submitted a draft
Measure Development Plan to OMB in October, 2004. As identified in the
plan, the focus of OW's activities is to develop a health-based
performance measure built on sound scientific data that relates program
actions to potential decrease in waterborne disease incidence. EPA's
goal is to develop long-term measures
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that describe changes over time of disease due to drinking water
contamination or changes in the occurrence of indicators of waterborne
disease; the objective is to demonstrate the effectiveness of drinking
water programs on acute and chronic disease related to microbes or
other drinking water contaminants. The Office of Water is currently
developing approaches to the health-based measure to include in the
Agency's next Strategic Plan with input from the National Drinking
Water Advisory Council and has asked the DWC to hold a future
consultative meeting on this topic.
Availability of Materials: The draft agenda and other materials
will be posted on the SAB Web Site at: https://www.epa.gov/sab prior to
the teleconference.
Procedures for Providing Public Input: Interested members of the
public may submit relevant written or oral information for the SAB to
consider during the public teleconference and/or meeting. Oral
Statements: In general, individuals or groups requesting an oral
presentation at a public SAB teleconference will be limited to three
minutes per speaker, with no more than a total of one-half hour for all
speakers. To be placed on the public speaker list, interested parties
should contact Dr. Sue Shallal, DFO, in writing (preferably via e-
mail), by November 6, 2007, at the contact information noted above.
Written Statements: Written statements should be received in the SAB
Staff Office in accordance with the dates mentioned above so that the
information may be made available to the SAB for their consideration
prior to each teleconference. 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).
Accessibility: For information on access or services for
individuals with disabilities, please contact Dr. Sue Shallal at (202)
343-9977 or shallal.suhair@epa.gov. To request accommodation of a
disability, please contact Dr. Shallal preferably at least ten days
prior to the teleconference, to give EPA as much time as possible to
process your request.
Dated October 25, 2007.
Anthony F. Maciorowski,
Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office.
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