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Science Advisory Board Staff Office;
Notification of a Public Meeting of the
Advisory Council on Clean Air
Compliance Analysis (Council)
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory
Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a
public meeting of the Advisory Council
on Clean Air Compliance Analysis
(Council). The Council will conduct
quality reviews of three subcommittee
reports and review draft chapters of the
EPA Office of Air and Radiation’s
Second Section 812 Prospective
Analysis of the benefits and costs of the
Clean Air Act.
DATES: The meeting will be held on
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 and Wednesday,
May 5, 2010, beginning at 8:30 a.m. and
ending no later than 5 p.m. (Eastern
Time), each day.
ADDRESSES: The public meeting will be
held in the Science Advisory Board
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Conference Center, 1025 F Street, NW.,
Suite 3705, Washington, DC 20004.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Members of the public who wish to
obtain further information about this
meeting may contact Ms. Stephanie
Sanzone, Designated Federal Officer
(DFO), EPA Science Advisory Board
Staff Office (1400F), U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460;
by telephone/voice mail: (202) 343–
9697 or at sanzone.stephanie@epa.gov.
General information about the Council
may be found on the Council Web site
at
https://www.epa.gov/advisorycouncilcaa.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: Pursuant to the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (FACA), 5
U.S.C., App. 2, notice is hereby given
that the Advisory Council on Clean Air
Compliance Analysis (Council) will
hold a public meeting to review Council
subcommittee draft reports and to
review draft EPA documents prepared
for the Second Section 812 Prospective
Benefit-Cost Analysis of the Clean Air
Act. The Council was established in
1991 pursuant to the Clean Air Act
(CAA) Amendments of 1990 (see 42
U.S.C. 7612) to provide advice,
information and recommendations on
technical and economic aspects of
analyses and reports EPA prepares on
the impacts of the CAA on the public
health, economy, and environment of
the United States. The Council is a
Federal Advisory Committee chartered
under FACA. The Council, its
subcommittees (Air Quality Modeling
Subcommittee, Health Effects
Subcommittee, and Ecological Effects
Subcommittee) comply with the
provisions of FACA and all appropriate
SAB Staff Office procedural policies.
Pursuant to Section 812 of the 1990
Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA),
EPA conducts periodic studies to assess
benefits and costs of the EPA’s
regulatory actions under the Clean Air
Act. The Council has provided advice
on an EPA retrospective study
published in 1997 and an EPA
prospective study completed in 1999.
EPA initiated a second prospective
study to evaluate the benefits and costs
of EPA Clean Air programs for years
1990–2020. The Council has previously
provided advice on the analytical
blueprint for this study. EPA’s Office of
Air and Radiation (OAR) is now nearing
completion of the analytical work for
the second prospective study, and has
requested the Council’s review of the
draft study.
Quality Review: The Council will
conduct quality review of three Council
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Subcommittee reports prepared in
support of the Office of Air and
Radiation’s Second Section 812
Prospective Study: (1) Air Quality
Modeling Subcommittee (AQMS) draft
report, Review of Air Quality Modeling
for the Second Section 812 Prospective
Study of Benefits and Costs of the Clean
Air Act. The AQMS held meetings on
February 19 and March 15, 2010 to
review technical documents pertaining
to modeling of air quality for seven
emissions scenarios: a 1990 baseline
simulation; and simulations for 2000,
2010 and 2020 with and without the
CAAA. The analyses use the
Community Multiscale Air Quality
(CMAQ) model to simulate national and
regional-scale (western U.S. and eastern
U.S.) concentrations of ozone and fine
particulates (PM2.5). The CMAQ outputs
are adjusted using the Modeled
Attainment Test Software (MATS), and
projected differences in ambient
concentrations are inputs to the analysis
of benefits of the CAAA to human
health, welfare, and the environment.
Background information on this
advisory activity is available on the
Council Web site at https://yosemite.
epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/fedrgstr_
activites/2nd%20Prospective%
20812%20-%20AQMS?OpenDocument;
(2) Health Effects Subcommittee (HES)
draft report, Review of EPA’s DRAFT
Health Benefits of the Second Section
812 Prospective Study of the Clean Air
Act. The Subcommittee held meetings
on December 15–16, 2009 and March 2,
2010 to review technical assessments of
health benefits and uncertainty analyses
associated with air quality scenarios,
including decreases in ambient ozone
and particulate matter (PM)
concentrations. Background information
on this advisory activity is available on
the Council Web site at https://yosemite.
epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/fedrgstr_
activites/812%20-%202nd%20
Prospective%20-%20Health?Open
Document; and (3) Ecological Effects
Subcommittee (EES) draft report,
Review of Ecological Effects of Air
Pollutants for the Second Section 812
Prospective Study of Benefits and Costs
of the Clean Air Act. The Subcommittee
met on March 9–10, 2010 to review draft
materials that characterize ecological
effects associated with decreases in air
pollutants, primarily acidic deposition
and tropospheric ozone. The materials
included a review of scientific literature
on the ecological effects of air pollutants
regulated by the CAAA, case studies on
benefits of the CAAA for recreational
fishing and the timber industry in the
Adirondack Region of New York State,
and an estimation of physical benefits of
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the air quality scenarios for ozone on
agriculture and commercial forestry
productivity. Background information
on this advisory activity is available on
the Council Web site at https://
yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/
fedrgstr_activites/2nd%20
Prospective%20812%20-%20EES?Open
Document.
Council Review of Draft Section 812
Study. The Council will review draft
chapters from the integrated report,
Second Section 812 Prospective Study
of the Benefits and Costs of the Clean
Air Act. OAR is requesting that the
Council review (1) the data choices; (2)
methodological choices for analyzing
the data; and (3) the overall validity and
utility of the estimated direct costs and
benefits of changes in air quality
conditions between the with-CAAA90
and without-CAAA90 scenarios.
Background information on this
advisory activity is available on the
Council Web site at https://
yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/
fedrgstr_activites/2nd%20
Prospective%20812%20Study?Open
Document.
Technical Contacts: The Office of Air
and Radiation technical contact for the
Second Section 812 Benefit-Cost
Analysis of the Clean Air Act is Mr. Jim
DeMocker at (202) 564–1673 or
democker.jim@epa.gov.
Availability of Meeting Materials:
Draft EPA documents provided to the
Council are available at
https://www.epa.gov/oar/sect812/
prospective2.html. The meeting agenda
for May 4–5, 2010 and any background
materials, including the draft
subcommittee reports, will be posted on
the Council Web site (https://
www.epa.gov/advisorycouncilcaa) prior
to the meeting.
Procedures for Providing Public Input:
Interested members of the public may
submit relevant written information on
the group conducting the activity or
written or oral information for the
Council to consider on the topics of this
advisory activity. Oral Statements: In
general, individuals or groups
requesting an oral presentation at a
public meeting will be limited to five
minutes per speaker, with no more than
one hour for all speakers. Interested
parties should contact Ms. Sanzone at
the contact information provided above
by April 27, 2010, to be placed on the
public speaker list for the May 4–5,
2010 meeting. Written Statements:
Written statements should be received
in the SAB Staff Office by April 27,
2010, so that the information may be
made available to the Council for their
consideration prior to the meeting.
Written statements should be supplied
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to Ms. Sanzone in the following formats:
one hard copy with original signature
and one electronic copy via e-mail
(acceptable file format: Adobe Acrobat
PDF, MS Word, WordPerfect, MS
PowerPoint, or Rich Text files).
Submitters are asked to provide
electronic versions of each document
submitted with and without signatures,
because the SAB Staff Office does not
publish documents with signatures on
its Web sites.
Accessibility: For information on
access or services for individuals with
disabilities, please contact Ms. Sanzone
at (202) 343–9697, or via e-mail at
sanzone.stephanie@epa.gov, preferably
at least ten (10) days prior to the
meeting, to give EPA as much time as
possible to process your request.
Dated: April 9, 2010.
Vanessa T. Vu,
Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff
Office.
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Notification of a Public Teleconference
of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory
Committee (CASAC) Particulate Matter
Review Panel
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AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board
(SAB) Staff Office announces a public
teleconference on May 7, 2010 of the
Clean Air Scientific Advisory
Particulate Matter Review Panel to
discuss its draft letter on the review of
EPA’s Policy Assessment for the Review
of Particulate Matter National Ambient
Air Quality Standards—First External
Review Draft (March 2010).
DATES: The teleconference will be held
on May 7, 2010 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.,
(Eastern Time).
ADDRESSES: The May 7, 2010
teleconference will be conducted by
telephone only.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any
member of the public who wants further
information concerning the public
meeting or public teleconference may
contact Dr. Holly Stallworth, Designated
Federal Officer (DFO), EPA Science
Advisory Board (1400F), U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,
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Washington, DC 20460; via telephone/
voice mail (202) 343–9867; fax (202)
233–0643; or e-mail at
stallworth.holly@epa.gov. General
information concerning the CASAC can
be found on the EPA Web site at
https://www.epa.gov/casac.
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. 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. The CASAC is a
Federal advisory committee chartered
under the Federal Advisory Committee
Act (FACA), as amended, 5 U.S.C., App
2. The Panel will comply with the
provisions of FACA and all appropriate
SAB Staff Office procedural policies.
Section 109(d)(1) of the CAA requires
that the Agency periodically review and
revise, as appropriate, the air quality
criteria and the National Ambient Air
Quality Standard (NAAQS) for the six
‘‘criteria’’ air pollutants, including
particulate matter (PM). EPA conducts
scientific and policy assessments related
to both primary (health-based) and
secondary (welfare-based) standards for
each of these pollutants. As part of that
process, the CASAC Particulate Matter
Review Panel reviews a series of EPA’s
assessments that provide the basis for
EPA rulemaking.
The purpose of the May 7, 2010
teleconference is to discuss a draft
CASAC letter on EPA’s Policy
Assessment for the Review of the
Particulate Matter National Ambient Air
Quality Standards (March 2010). EPA’s
Office of Air and Radiation’s Office of
Air Quality Planning and Standards
requested CASAC’s review of the draft
Policy Assessment for the Review of the
Particulate Matter National Ambient Air
Quality Standards (Policy Assessment,
March 2010) as part of its review of the
National Ambient Air Quality Standard
(NAAQS) for particulate matter. The
Policy Assessment serves to ‘‘bridge the
gap’’ between the scientific information
and the judgments required of the
Administrator in determining whether it
is appropriate to retain or revise the
standards. The first draft Policy
Assessment builds upon the key
scientific and technical information
contained in the Agency’s Integrated
Science Assessment for Particulate
Matter (Final Report) (ISA, December
2009) as well as the two draft
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assessment documents titled Particulate
Matter Urban-Focused Visibility
Assessment: Second External Review
Draft (January 2010) and Quantitative
Health Risk Assessment for Particulate
Matter: Second External Review Draft
(March 2010).
Background information about the
formation of the CASAC Particulate
Matter Review Panel was published in
the Federal Register on March 8, 2007
(72 FR 10527–10528). The Panel
previously held a public teleconference
on November 30, 2007 (announced in 72
FR 63177–63178) to provide
consultative advice on EPA’s draft
Integrated Review Plan for the National
Ambient Air Quality Standards for
Particulate Matter (October 2007), the
first document in this review of the PM
NAAQS. On April 1–2, 2009, CASAC
reviewed the Integrated Science
Assessment for Particulate Matter—First
External Review Draft (December 2008),
and provided consultative advice on
Particulate Matter National Ambient Air
Quality Standards: Scope and Methods
Plan for Health Risk and Exposure
Assessment (February 2009) and
Particulate Matter National Ambient Air
Quality Standards: Scope and Methods
Plan for Urban Visibility Impact
Assessment (February 2009). The April
1–2, 2009 meeting was announced
February 19, 2009 in 74 FR 7688–7689.
As announced in 74 FR 46586–46587,
on October 5–6, 2009, CASAC reviewed
the Integrated Science Assessment for
Particulate Matter—Second External
Review Draft (July 2009) and Particulate
Matter Urban Focused Visibility
Assessment-External Review Draft
(September 2009) and Risk Assessment
to Support the Review of the PM
Primary National Ambient Air Quality
Standards-External Review Draft
(September 2009). As announced in 75
FR 8062–8063, the Panel reviewed
second drafts of these two documents
on March 10–11, 2010. The Panel also
held teleconferences (announced in 75
FR 8062–8063) on April 8, 2010 and
April 9, 2010 to discuss preliminary
responses to charge questions on the
Policy Assessment.
Technical Contacts: Any questions
concerning Policy Assessment for the
Review of Particulate Matter National
Ambient Air Quality Standards—First
External Review Draft (February 2010)
should be directed to Ms. Beth HassettSipple, OAR, at hassettsipple.beth@epa.gov or 919–541–4605.
Availability of Meeting Materials: All
meeting materials (agenda, charge
questions, preliminary comments and
other materials) for the May 7, 2010
teleconference will be placed on the
CASAC Web site on the Web pages for
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ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a
public meeting of the Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis
(Council). The Council will conduct quality reviews of three
subcommittee reports and review draft chapters of the EPA Office of Air
and Radiation's Second Section 812 Prospective Analysis of the benefits
and costs of the Clean Air Act.
DATES: The meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 4, 2010 and Wednesday,
May 5, 2010, beginning at 8:30 a.m. and ending no later than 5 p.m.
(Eastern Time), each day.
ADDRESSES: The public meeting will be held in the Science Advisory
Board
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Conference Center, 1025 F Street, NW., Suite 3705, Washington, DC
20004.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Members of the public who wish to
obtain further information about this meeting may contact Ms. Stephanie
Sanzone, Designated Federal Officer (DFO), EPA Science Advisory Board
Staff Office (1400F), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; by telephone/voice
mail: (202) 343-9697 or at sanzone.stephanie@epa.gov. General
information about the Council may be found on the Council Web site at
https://www.epa.gov/advisorycouncilcaa.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA),
5 U.S.C., App. 2, notice is hereby given that the Advisory Council on
Clean Air Compliance Analysis (Council) will hold a public meeting to
review Council subcommittee draft reports and to review draft EPA
documents prepared for the Second Section 812 Prospective Benefit-Cost
Analysis of the Clean Air Act. The Council was established in 1991
pursuant to the Clean Air Act (CAA) Amendments of 1990 (see 42 U.S.C.
7612) to provide advice, information and recommendations on technical
and economic aspects of analyses and reports EPA prepares on the
impacts of the CAA on the public health, economy, and environment of
the United States. The Council is a Federal Advisory Committee
chartered under FACA. The Council, its subcommittees (Air Quality
Modeling Subcommittee, Health Effects Subcommittee, and Ecological
Effects Subcommittee) comply with the provisions of FACA and all
appropriate SAB Staff Office procedural policies.
Pursuant to Section 812 of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments
(CAAA), EPA conducts periodic studies to assess benefits and costs of
the EPA's regulatory actions under the Clean Air Act. The Council has
provided advice on an EPA retrospective study published in 1997 and an
EPA prospective study completed in 1999. EPA initiated a second
prospective study to evaluate the benefits and costs of EPA Clean Air
programs for years 1990-2020. The Council has previously provided
advice on the analytical blueprint for this study. EPA's Office of Air
and Radiation (OAR) is now nearing completion of the analytical work
for the second prospective study, and has requested the Council's
review of the draft study.
Quality Review: The Council will conduct quality review of three
Council Subcommittee reports prepared in support of the Office of Air
and Radiation's Second Section 812 Prospective Study: (1) Air Quality
Modeling Subcommittee (AQMS) draft report, Review of Air Quality
Modeling for the Second Section 812 Prospective Study of Benefits and
Costs of the Clean Air Act. The AQMS held meetings on February 19 and
March 15, 2010 to review technical documents pertaining to modeling of
air quality for seven emissions scenarios: a 1990 baseline simulation;
and simulations for 2000, 2010 and 2020 with and without the CAAA. The
analyses use the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model to
simulate national and regional-scale (western U.S. and eastern U.S.)
concentrations of ozone and fine particulates (PM2.5). The
CMAQ outputs are adjusted using the Modeled Attainment Test Software
(MATS), and projected differences in ambient concentrations are inputs
to the analysis of benefits of the CAAA to human health, welfare, and
the environment. Background information on this advisory activity is
available on the Council Web site at https://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/fedrgstr_activites/2nd%20Prospective%20812%20-%20AQMS?OpenDocument; (2) Health Effects Subcommittee (HES) draft
report, Review of EPA's DRAFT Health Benefits of the Second Section 812
Prospective Study of the Clean Air Act. The Subcommittee held meetings
on December 15-16, 2009 and March 2, 2010 to review technical
assessments of health benefits and uncertainty analyses associated with
air quality scenarios, including decreases in ambient ozone and
particulate matter (PM) concentrations. Background information on this
advisory activity is available on the Council Web site at https://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/fedrgstr_activites/812%20-%202nd%20Prospective%20-%20Health?OpenDocument; and (3) Ecological
Effects Subcommittee (EES) draft report, Review of Ecological Effects
of Air Pollutants for the Second Section 812 Prospective Study of
Benefits and Costs of the Clean Air Act. The Subcommittee met on March
9-10, 2010 to review draft materials that characterize ecological
effects associated with decreases in air pollutants, primarily acidic
deposition and tropospheric ozone. The materials included a review of
scientific literature on the ecological effects of air pollutants
regulated by the CAAA, case studies on benefits of the CAAA for
recreational fishing and the timber industry in the Adirondack Region
of New York State, and an estimation of physical benefits of the air
quality scenarios for ozone on agriculture and commercial forestry
productivity. Background information on this advisory activity is
available on the Council Web site at https://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/fedrgstr_activites/2nd%20Prospective%20812%20-%20EES?OpenDocument.
Council Review of Draft Section 812 Study. The Council will review
draft chapters from the integrated report, Second Section 812
Prospective Study of the Benefits and Costs of the Clean Air Act. OAR
is requesting that the Council review (1) the data choices; (2)
methodological choices for analyzing the data; and (3) the overall
validity and utility of the estimated direct costs and benefits of
changes in air quality conditions between the with-CAAA90 and without-
CAAA90 scenarios. Background information on this advisory activity is
available on the Council Web site at https://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/fedrgstr_activites/2nd%20Prospective%20812%20Study?OpenDocument.
Technical Contacts: The Office of Air and Radiation technical
contact for the Second Section 812 Benefit-Cost Analysis of the Clean
Air Act is Mr. Jim DeMocker at (202) 564-1673 or democker.jim@epa.gov.
Availability of Meeting Materials: Draft EPA documents provided to
the Council are available at https://www.epa.gov/oar/sect812/prospective2.html. The meeting agenda for May 4-5, 2010 and any
background materials, including the draft subcommittee reports, will be
posted on the Council Web site (https://www.epa.gov/advisorycouncilcaa)
prior to the meeting.
Procedures for Providing Public Input: Interested members of the
public may submit relevant written information on the group conducting
the activity or written or oral information for the Council to consider
on the topics of this advisory activity. Oral Statements: In general,
individuals or groups requesting an oral presentation at a public
meeting will be limited to five minutes per speaker, with no more than
one hour for all speakers. Interested parties should contact Ms.
Sanzone at the contact information provided above by April 27, 2010, to
be placed on the public speaker list for the May 4-5, 2010 meeting.
Written Statements: Written statements should be received in the SAB
Staff Office by April 27, 2010, so that the information may be made
available to the Council for their consideration prior to the meeting.
Written statements should be supplied
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to Ms. Sanzone in the following formats: one hard copy with original
signature and one electronic copy via e-mail (acceptable file format:
Adobe Acrobat PDF, MS Word, WordPerfect, MS PowerPoint, or Rich Text
files). Submitters are asked to provide electronic versions of each
document submitted with and without signatures, because the SAB Staff
Office does not publish documents with signatures on its Web sites.
Accessibility: For information on access or services for
individuals with disabilities, please contact Ms. Sanzone at (202) 343-
9697, or via e-mail at sanzone.stephanie@epa.gov, preferably at least
ten (10) days prior to the meeting, to give EPA as much time as
possible to process your request.
Dated: April 9, 2010.
Vanessa T. Vu,
Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office.
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