Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Request for Nominations of Experts for Review of EPA's Draft Technical Report Pertaining to Uranium and Thorium In-Situ Leach Recovery and Post-Closure Stability Monitoring, 71702-71703 [2010-29635]
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Persons having questions about the
nomination procedures, or who are
unable to submit nominations through
the SAB Web site, should contact Mr.
Thomas Carpenter. DFO, as indicated
above in this notice. Nominations
should be submitted in time to arrive no
later than December 15, 2010. EPA
values and welcomes diversity. In an
effort to obtain nominations of diverse
candidates, EPA encourages
nominations of women and men of all
racial and ethnic groups.
The EPA SAB Staff Office will
acknowledge receipt of nominations.
The names and bio-sketches of qualified
nominees identified by respondents to
this Federal Register notice, and
additional experts identified by the SAB
Staff, will be posted in a List of
Candidates on the SAB Web site at
https://www.epa.gov/sab. Public
comments on this List of Candidates
will be accepted for 21 calendar days.
The public will be requested to provide
relevant information or other
documentation on nominees that the
SAB Staff Office should consider in
evaluating candidates.
For the EPA SAB Staff Office, a
review panel includes candidates who
possess the necessary domains of
knowledge, the relevant scientific
perspectives (which, among other
factors, can be influenced by work
history and affiliation), and the
collective breadth of experience to
adequately address the charge. In
forming this expert panel, the SAB Staff
Office will consider public comments
on the List of Candidates, information
provided by the candidates themselves,
and background information
independently gathered by the SAB
Staff Office. Selection criteria to be used
for Panel membership include:
(a) Scientific and/or technical expertise,
knowledge, and experience (primary
factors); (b) availability and willingness
to serve; (c) absence of financial
conflicts of interest; (d) absence of an
appearance of a lack of impartiality; and
(e) skills working in committees,
subcommittees and advisory panels;
and, (f) for the Panel as a whole,
diversity of expertise and viewpoints.
The SAB Staff Office’s evaluation of
an absence of financial conflicts of
interest will include a review of the
‘‘Confidential Financial Disclosure Form
for Special Government Employees
Serving on Federal Advisory
Committees at the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency’’ (EPA Form 311048). This confidential form allows
Government officials to determine
whether there is a statutory conflict
between that person’s public
responsibilities (which includes
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membership on an EPA Federal
advisory committee) and private
interests and activities, or the
appearance of a lack of impartiality, as
defined by Federal regulation. The form
may be viewed and downloaded from
the following URL address https://
www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/epaform311048.pdf.
The approved policy under which the
EPA SAB Office selects subcommittees
and review panels is described in the
following document: Overview of the
Panel Formation Process at the
Environmental Protection Agency
Science Advisory Board (EPA–SAB–EC–
02–010), which is posted on the SAB
Web site at https://www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/
ec02010.pdf.
Dated: November 16, 2010.
Anthony F. Maciorowski,
Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board
Staff Office.
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Science Advisory Board Staff Office;
Request for Nominations of Experts for
Review of EPA’s Draft Technical
Report Pertaining to Uranium and
Thorium In-Situ Leach Recovery and
Post-Closure Stability Monitoring
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The EPA Science Advisory
Board (SAB) Staff Office is requesting
public nominations for technical experts
to augment the SAB’s Radiation
Advisory Committee (RAC) to review
and provide advice on EPA’s draft
scientific and technical report on Health
and Environmental Protection
Standards for Uranium and Thorium
Mill Tailings.
DATES: Nominations should be
submitted by December 15, 2010 per
instructions below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any
member of the public wishing further
information regarding this Notice and
Request for Nominations may contact
Dr. K. Jack Kooyoomjian, Designated
Federal Officer (DFO), SAB Staff Office,
by telephone/voice mail at (202) 564–
2064, or via e-mail at
kooyoomjian.jack@epa.gov. General
information concerning the EPA Science
Advisory Board can be found at the EPA
SAB Web site at https://www.epa.gov/
sab.
SUMMARY:
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The SAB (42 U.S.C.
4365) is a chartered Federal Advisory
Committee that provides independent
scientific and technical peer review,
advice, consultation, and
recommendations to the EPA
Administrator on the technical basis for
EPA actions. As a Federal Advisory
Committee, the SAB conducts business
in accordance with the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (FACA)
(5 U.S.C. App. 2) and related
regulations. The SAB will comply with
the provisions of FACA and all
appropriate SAB Staff Office procedural
policies.
EPA is conducting a review of its
regulatory standards in 40 CFR Part
192—Health and Environmental
Protection Standards for Uranium and
Thorium Mill Tailings. In accordance
with UMTRCA section 206, EPA is
authorized to develop standards for the
protection of public health, safety, and
the environment from radiological and
non-radiological hazards associated
with residual radioactive materials. The
Agency is currently undertaking a
review to determine if the existing
standards, last revised by EPA in 1995,
should be updated. The expectation is
that In-Situ Leach Recovery (ISL/ISR)
operations will be the most common
type of new uranium extraction facility
in the U.S.. These facilities can affect
groundwater. Accordingly, EPA is
seeking scientific advice and relevant
technical criteria to establish standards
and procedures, including the relevant
period of monitoring for ISL/ISR
facilities, once uranium extraction
operations are completed, in order to
provide reasonable assurances of aquifer
stability and groundwater protection.
The EPA Office of Radiation and
Indoor Air (ORIA) has requested the
SAB to review a draft technical
document pertaining to ISL/ISR post
closure stability monitoring and
evaluate what criteria, including site
characteristics and integrity features, as
well as other relevant factors and
specific procedures that should be
considered, to establish a specific
period of monitoring for ISL/ISR
facilities, once uranium extraction
operations are completed. Among the
issues to be considered is whether a
time frame can be established, whether
specific site characteristics, features or
benchmarks can be used to aid in
establishing a post-closure monitoring
time period, and if there are other
technical approaches EPA should
consider in order to provide reasonable
assurances of aquifer stability and
groundwater protection.
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The SAB Staff Office will form an
expert panel by augmenting the RAC to
review the EPA’s draft technical report,
which will be used as a basis to evaluate
the technical and scientific issues
pertaining to standards in 40 CFR part
192—Health and Environmental
Protection Standards for Uranium and
Thorium Mill Tailings.
Request for Nominations: The SAB
Staff Office is seeking nominations of
nationally and internationally
recognized scientists and engineers with
demonstrated expertise and experience
in one or more of the following areas:
environmental statistics, geochemistry,
geology, geostatistics, hydrogeology,
environmental monitoring, and
radiation health science.
Technical Contact: Technical
background information pertaining to
Uranium In-Situ Leach Recovery—PostClosure Stability Monitoring can be
found at the following hotlink: https://
epa.gov/radiation/tenorm/,
and, information pertaining to EPA’s
regulatory standards in 40 CFR part
192—Health and Environmental
Protection Standards for Uranium and
Thorium Mill Tailings can be found at
https://yosemite.epa.gov/opei/
rulegate.nsf/byRIN/2060AP43?opendocument. For questions
concerning this topic, please contact Dr.
Mary E. Clark of the U.S. EPA, ORIA by
telephone at (202) 343–9348, fax at (202)
243–2395, or e-mail at
clark.marye@epa.gov.
Process and Deadline for Submitting
Nominations: Any interested person or
organization may nominate qualified
individuals in the areas of expertise
described above for possible service on
this expert Panel. Nominations should
be submitted in electronic format
(which is preferred over hard copy)
following the instructions for
‘‘Nominating Experts to Advisory Panels
and Ad Hoc Committees Being Formed’’
provided on the SAB Web site. The
instructions can be accessed through the
‘‘Nomination of Experts’’ link on the
blue navigational bar on the SAB Web
site at https://www.epa.gov/sab. To
receive full consideration, nominations
should include all of the information
requested below.
EPA’s SAB Staff Office requests
contact information about the person
making the nomination; contact
information about the nominee; the
disciplinary and specific areas of
expertise of the nominee; the nominee’s
curriculum vita; sources of recent grant
and/or contract support; and a
biographical sketch of the nominee
indicating current position, educational
background, research activities, and
recent service on other national
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advisory committees or national
professional organizations.
Persons having questions about the
nomination procedures, or who are
unable to submit nominations through
the SAB Web site, should contact Dr. K.
Jack Kooyoomjian, DFO, as indicated
above in this notice. Nominations
should be submitted in time to arrive no
later than December 15, 2010. EPA
values and welcomes diversity. In an
effort to obtain nominations of diverse
candidates, EPA encourages
nominations of women and men of all
racial and ethnic groups.
The EPA SAB Staff Office will
acknowledge receipt of nominations.
The names and bio-sketches of qualified
nominees identified by respondents to
this Federal Register notice, and
additional experts identified by the SAB
Staff, will be posted in a List of
Candidates on the SAB Web site at
https://www.epa.gov/sab. Public
comments on this List of Candidates
will be accepted for 21 calendar days.
The public will be requested to provide
relevant information or other
documentation on nominees that the
SAB Staff Office should consider in
evaluating candidates.
For the EPA SAB Staff Office, a
review panel includes candidates who
possess the necessary domains of
knowledge, the relevant scientific
perspectives (which, among other
factors, can be influenced by work
history and affiliation), and the
collective breadth of experience to
adequately address the charge. In
forming this expert panel, the SAB Staff
Office will consider public comments
on the List of Candidates, information
provided by the candidates themselves,
and background information
independently gathered by the SAB
Staff Office. Selection criteria to be used
for Panel membership include:
(a) Scientific and/or technical expertise,
knowledge, and experience (primary
factors); (b) availability and willingness
to serve; (c) absence of financial
conflicts of interest; (d) absence of an
appearance of a lack of impartiality; and
(e) skills working in committees,
subcommittees and advisory panels;
and, (f) for the Panel as a whole,
diversity of expertise and viewpoints.
The SAB Staff Office’s evaluation of
an absence of financial conflicts of
interest will include a review of the
‘‘Confidential Financial Disclosure Form
for Special Government Employees
Serving on Federal Advisory
Committees at the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency’’ (EPA Form 311048). This confidential form allows
Government officials to determine
whether there is a statutory conflict
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between that person’s public
responsibilities (which includes
membership on an EPA Federal
advisory committee) and private
interests and activities, or the
appearance of a lack of impartiality, as
defined by Federal regulation. The form
may be viewed and downloaded from
the following URL address https://
www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/epaform3110–
48.pdf.
The approved policy under which the
EPA SAB Office selects subcommittees
and review panels is described in the
following document: Overview of the
Panel Formation Process at the
Environmental Protection Agency
Science Advisory Board (EPA–SAB–EC–
02–010), which is posted on the SAB
Web site at https://www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/
ec02010.pdf.
Dated: November 18, 2010.
Vanessa T. Vu,
Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff
Office.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-9230-9]
Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Request for Nominations of
Experts for Review of EPA's Draft Technical Report Pertaining to
Uranium and Thorium In-Situ Leach Recovery and Post-Closure Stability
Monitoring
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office is
requesting public nominations for technical experts to augment the
SAB's Radiation Advisory Committee (RAC) to review and provide advice
on EPA's draft scientific and technical report on Health and
Environmental Protection Standards for Uranium and Thorium Mill
Tailings.
DATES: Nominations should be submitted by December 15, 2010 per
instructions below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any member of the public wishing
further information regarding this Notice and Request for Nominations
may contact Dr. K. Jack Kooyoomjian, Designated Federal Officer (DFO),
SAB Staff Office, by telephone/voice mail at (202) 564-2064, or via e-
mail at kooyoomjian.jack@epa.gov. General information concerning the
EPA Science Advisory Board can be found at the EPA SAB Web site at
https://www.epa.gov/sab.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The SAB (42 U.S.C. 4365) is a chartered Federal
Advisory Committee that provides independent scientific and technical
peer review, advice, consultation, and recommendations to the EPA
Administrator on the technical basis for EPA actions. As a Federal
Advisory Committee, the SAB conducts business in accordance with the
Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) (5 U.S.C. App. 2) and related
regulations. The SAB will comply with the provisions of FACA and all
appropriate SAB Staff Office procedural policies.
EPA is conducting a review of its regulatory standards in 40 CFR
Part 192--Health and Environmental Protection Standards for Uranium and
Thorium Mill Tailings. In accordance with UMTRCA section 206, EPA is
authorized to develop standards for the protection of public health,
safety, and the environment from radiological and non-radiological
hazards associated with residual radioactive materials. The Agency is
currently undertaking a review to determine if the existing standards,
last revised by EPA in 1995, should be updated. The expectation is that
In-Situ Leach Recovery (ISL/ISR) operations will be the most common
type of new uranium extraction facility in the U.S.. These facilities
can affect groundwater. Accordingly, EPA is seeking scientific advice
and relevant technical criteria to establish standards and procedures,
including the relevant period of monitoring for ISL/ISR facilities,
once uranium extraction operations are completed, in order to provide
reasonable assurances of aquifer stability and groundwater protection.
The EPA Office of Radiation and Indoor Air (ORIA) has requested the
SAB to review a draft technical document pertaining to ISL/ISR post
closure stability monitoring and evaluate what criteria, including site
characteristics and integrity features, as well as other relevant
factors and specific procedures that should be considered, to establish
a specific period of monitoring for ISL/ISR facilities, once uranium
extraction operations are completed. Among the issues to be considered
is whether a time frame can be established, whether specific site
characteristics, features or benchmarks can be used to aid in
establishing a post-closure monitoring time period, and if there are
other technical approaches EPA should consider in order to provide
reasonable assurances of aquifer stability and groundwater protection.
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The SAB Staff Office will form an expert panel by augmenting the
RAC to review the EPA's draft technical report, which will be used as a
basis to evaluate the technical and scientific issues pertaining to
standards in 40 CFR part 192--Health and Environmental Protection
Standards for Uranium and Thorium Mill Tailings.
Request for Nominations: The SAB Staff Office is seeking
nominations of nationally and internationally recognized scientists and
engineers with demonstrated expertise and experience in one or more of
the following areas: environmental statistics, geochemistry, geology,
geostatistics, hydrogeology, environmental monitoring, and radiation
health science.
Technical Contact: Technical background information pertaining to
Uranium In-Situ Leach Recovery--Post-Closure Stability Monitoring can
be found at the following hotlink: https://epa.gov/radiation/tenorm/, and, information pertaining to EPA's regulatory standards
in 40 CFR part 192--Health and Environmental Protection Standards for
Uranium and Thorium Mill Tailings can be found at https://yosemite.epa.gov/opei/rulegate.nsf/byRIN/2060-AP43?opendocument. For
questions concerning this topic, please contact Dr. Mary E. Clark of
the U.S. EPA, ORIA by telephone at (202) 343-9348, fax at (202) 243-
2395, or e-mail at clark.marye@epa.gov.
Process and Deadline for Submitting Nominations: Any interested
person or organization may nominate qualified individuals in the areas
of expertise described above for possible service on this expert Panel.
Nominations should be submitted in electronic format (which is
preferred over hard copy) following the instructions for ``Nominating
Experts to Advisory Panels and Ad Hoc Committees Being Formed''
provided on the SAB Web site. The instructions can be accessed through
the ``Nomination of Experts'' link on the blue navigational bar on the
SAB Web site at https://www.epa.gov/sab. To receive full consideration,
nominations should include all of the information requested below.
EPA's SAB Staff Office requests contact information about the
person making the nomination; contact information about the nominee;
the disciplinary and specific areas of expertise of the nominee; the
nominee's curriculum vita; sources of recent grant and/or contract
support; and a biographical sketch of the nominee indicating current
position, educational background, research activities, and recent
service on other national advisory committees or national professional
organizations.
Persons having questions about the nomination procedures, or who
are unable to submit nominations through the SAB Web site, should
contact Dr. K. Jack Kooyoomjian, DFO, as indicated above in this
notice. Nominations should be submitted in time to arrive no later than
December 15, 2010. EPA values and welcomes diversity. In an effort to
obtain nominations of diverse candidates, EPA encourages nominations of
women and men of all racial and ethnic groups.
The EPA SAB Staff Office will acknowledge receipt of nominations.
The names and bio-sketches of qualified nominees identified by
respondents to this Federal Register notice, and additional experts
identified by the SAB Staff, will be posted in a List of Candidates on
the SAB Web site at https://www.epa.gov/sab. Public comments on this
List of Candidates will be accepted for 21 calendar days. The public
will be requested to provide relevant information or other
documentation on nominees that the SAB Staff Office should consider in
evaluating candidates.
For the EPA SAB Staff Office, a review panel includes candidates
who possess the necessary domains of knowledge, the relevant scientific
perspectives (which, among other factors, can be influenced by work
history and affiliation), and the collective breadth of experience to
adequately address the charge. In forming this expert panel, the SAB
Staff Office will consider public comments on the List of Candidates,
information provided by the candidates themselves, and background
information independently gathered by the SAB Staff Office. Selection
criteria to be used for Panel membership include: (a) Scientific and/or
technical expertise, knowledge, and experience (primary factors); (b)
availability and willingness to serve; (c) absence of financial
conflicts of interest; (d) absence of an appearance of a lack of
impartiality; and (e) skills working in committees, subcommittees and
advisory panels; and, (f) for the Panel as a whole, diversity of
expertise and viewpoints.
The SAB Staff Office's evaluation of an absence of financial
conflicts of interest will include a review of the ``Confidential
Financial Disclosure Form for Special Government Employees Serving on
Federal Advisory Committees at the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency'' (EPA Form 3110-48). This confidential form allows Government
officials to determine whether there is a statutory conflict between
that person's public responsibilities (which includes membership on an
EPA Federal advisory committee) and private interests and activities,
or the appearance of a lack of impartiality, as defined by Federal
regulation. The form may be viewed and downloaded from the following
URL address https://www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/epaform3110-48.pdf.
The approved policy under which the EPA SAB Office selects
subcommittees and review panels is described in the following document:
Overview of the Panel Formation Process at the Environmental Protection
Agency Science Advisory Board (EPA-SAB-EC-02-010), which is posted on
the SAB Web site at https://www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/ec02010.pdf.
Dated: November 18, 2010.
Vanessa T. Vu,
Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office.
[FR Doc. 2010-29635 Filed 11-23-10; 8:45 am]
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