Application for Emergency Exemption: Exposure Modeling; Cancellation and Rescheduling, 860 [E9-31094]

Agencies

• ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[Federal Register: January 6, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 3)]
[Notices]               
[Page 859-860]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0879; FRL-8806-4]

 
Exposure Modeling Public Meeting

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of Cancellation and Rescheduling of meeting.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces that the Exposure Modeling Public 
Meeting (EMPM), scheduled for January 26, 2010, has been cancelled and 
that the next EMPM will be held in July 2010.

DATES: The next EMPM meeting will be held in July 2010. The specific 
date of the next meeting will be announced in a February 2010 issue of 
the Federal Register.

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ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at EPA's, Office of Pesticide 
Programs (OPP), One Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 1st Floor South 
Conference Room, 2777 S. Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA 22202.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Chuck Peck, Environmental Fate and 
Effects Division (7507P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-
0001; telephone number: (703) 347-8064; fax number: (703) 305-6309; e-
mail address: peck.charles@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. General Information

A. Does this Action Apply to Me?

    You may be potentially affected by this action if you are required 
to conduct testing of chemical substances under the Toxic Substances 
Control Act (TSCA), the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), or 
the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). 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. How Can I Get Copies of this Document and Other Related Information?

    EPA has established a docket for this action under docket ID number 
EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0879. As the meeting has been indefinitely postponed, 
no materials will be posted on the docket. Publicly available docket 
materials for future EMPM conferences are available either in the 
electronic docket at https://www.regulations.gov, or, if only available 
in hard copy, at the Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) Regulatory 
Public Docket in Rm. S-4400, One Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S. 
Crystal Dr., 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 Facility telephone number is (703) 305-5805.

II. Background

    The purpose of the Exposure Modeling Public Meetings is to share 
new information among stakeholders through presentations on current 
issues in modeling pesticide fate, transport, and exposure in support 
of pesticide exposure assessment in a regulatory context. The meetings 
began in 2002, with typically 5 to 10 presentations made at each 
meeting on topics such as assessing risks to non-target terrestrial 
invertebrates, drinking water well contamination, plans for national 
monitoring of streams and ground water, and examination of non-
agricultural pesticide use by means of GIS coverages. Meeting dates and 
abstract requests are announced in advance through the ``empmlist'' 
forum on the LYRIS list server at https://lists.epa.gov/read/all_
forums/ as well as through notice in the Federal Register. At the 
October 2009 meeting, EPA proposed to modify the frequency of the 
meetings from three to two meetings per year, to ensure a full agenda 
and the most productive use of the meeting time. Because of the timing 
of the January 2010 meeting and proposed presentations, EPA is 
cancelling that meeting and will hold the next EMPM in July 2010. The 
specific date of the next meeting will be announced in a February 2010 
issue of the Federal Register.

III. How Can I Request to Participate in this Meeting?

    You may submit a request to participate in future meetings to the 
person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Do not submit any 
information in your request that is considered CBI. Requests to 
participate in future meetings must be received on or before January 
21, 2010.

IV. Tentative Topics for the Meeting

     Presentations submitted for the January 2010 EMPM will be 
tentatively scheduled for the July 2010 EMPM, provided the presenters 
are available.

List of Subjects

    Environmental protection, Administrative practice and procedure, 
Agricultural commodities, Pesticides and pest.

    Dated: December 23, 2009.
D. J. Brady,
Director, Environmental Fate and Effects Division, Office of Pesticide 
Programs.
[FR Doc. 2010-31094 Filed 01-05-10; 8:45 a.m.]
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