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Science Advisory Board Staff Office;
Notification of Public Teleconferences
of the Science Advisory Board
Radiation Advisory Committee
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The EPA Science Advisory
Board (SAB) Staff Office announces two
teleconferences of the SAB Augmented
Radiation Advisory Committee (RAC) to
discuss the draft advisory report related
to uranium and thorium in-situ leach
recovery and post-closure stability
monitoring.
SUMMARY:
The public teleconferences will
be conducted on Tuesday, September 6,
2011 and Wednesday, October 5, 2011,
from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. (Eastern Daylight
Time).
ADDRESSES: The public teleconferences
will be conducted by telephone only.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any
member of the public wishing further
information regarding this Notice may
contact Dr. K. Jack Kooyoomjian,
Designated Federal Officer (DFO), SAB
Staff Office (1400R), 1200 Pennsylvania
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460;
or 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 http//www.epa.gov/sab.
Technical Contact: Technical
background information pertaining to
the Uranium In-Situ leach recovery—
Post-Closure Stability Monitoring can be
found at https://www.epa.gov/radiation/
tenorm/pubs.html. 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 the technical aspects of this
topic, please contact Dr. Mary E. Clark
of the U.S. EPA, ORIA by telephone at
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Background: The SAB was
established pursuant to the
Environmental Research, Development,
and Demonstration Authorization Act
(ERDAA), codified at 42 U.S.C. 4365, to
provide independent scientific and
technical peer review advice,
consultation and recommendations to
the EPA Administrator on the technical
basis for Agency actions, positions and
regulations. 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.
Pursuant to FACA and EPA policy,
notice is hereby given that the
augmented RAC will hold two public
teleconferences. The SAB will comply
with the provisions of FACA and all
appropriate EPA and SAB Staff Office
procedural policies.
The EPA has requested the SAB
review the Agency draft technical
document on ISL/ISR post closure
stability monitoring to evaluate what
criteria 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 are
whether specific site characteristics,
features or benchmarks can be used to
aid in establishing a post-closure
monitoring time period; and if other
technical approaches should be
considered by EPA to provide
reasonable assurances of aquifer
stability and groundwater protection.
The Agency’s draft technical document
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. The SAB RAC
augmented with additional experts held
an initial public teleconference of July
12, 2011 and a two-day meeting on July
18 and 19, 2011 to discuss advisory
comments on the EPA’s June 2011 draft
technical document entitled
‘‘Considerations Related to Post-Closure
Monitoring of Uranium In-Situ Leach/
In-Situ Recovery (ISL/ISR) Sites’’. These
previous meetings were announced in
the Federal Register on Thursday, June
23, 2011 (Vol. 76, No. 121, pp. 36918–
36919). The purpose of the September 6,
2011 and October 5, 2011 public
teleconferences is for the augmented
RAC to discuss its draft advisory report
on this topic.
Availability of Meeting Materials: The
Agenda, roster of the augmented RAC,
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the charge to the SAB for the
consultation, and other supplemental
materials in support of the two public
teleconferences will be placed on the
SAB Web site at http//www.epa.gov/sab
in advance of the teleconference and
meeting.
Procedures for Providing Public Input:
Public comment for consideration by
EPA’s federal advisory committees and
panels has a different purpose from
public comment provided to EPA
program offices. Therefore, the process
for submitting comments to a federal
advisory committee is different from the
process used to submit comments to an
EPA program office.
Federal advisory committees and
panels, including scientific advisory
committees, provide independent
advice to EPA. Members of the public
can submit comments for a federal
advisory committee to consider as it
develops advice for EPA. Input from the
public to the SAB will have the most
impact if it provides specific scientific
or technical information or analysis for
SAB panels to consider or if it relates to
the clarity or accuracy of the technical
information. Members of the public
wishing to provide comment should
contact the Designated Federal Officer
directly at the contact information
provided.
Oral Statements: In general,
individuals or groups requesting an oral
presentation at a teleconference will be
limited to three minutes. Those
interested in being placed on the public
speakers list for either the September 6
and October 5, 2011 teleconferences
should contact Dr. Kooyoomjian at the
contact information provided above no
later than noon on September 2, 2011
for the September 6, 2011
teleconference, and no later than
October 3, 2011 for the October 5, 2011
teleconference.
Written Statements: Written
statements should be supplied to the
DFO via e-mail at the contact
information noted by noon September 2,
2011 for the September 6, 2011
teleconference, and no later than
Monday, October 3, 2011 for the
October 5, 2011 teleconference, so that
the information may be made available
to the members of the augmented RAC
and the public for their consideration.
Written statements should be supplied
in one of the following electronic
formats: Adobe Acrobat PDF, MS Word,
MS PowerPoint, or Rich Text files in
IBM–PC/Windows98/2000/XP format. It
is the SAB Staff office general policy to
post written comments on the Web page
for the advisory meeting or
teleconference. Submitters are requested
to provide an unsigned version of each
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document, because the SAB Staff Office
does not publish documents with
signatures on its Web sites. Members of
the public should be aware that their
personal contact information, if
included in any written comments, may
be posted to the SAB Web site.
Copyrighted material will not be posted
without explicit permission of the
copyright holder.
Accessibility: For information on
access or services for individuals with
disabilities, please contact Dr.
Kooyoomjian at (202) 564–2064, or email kooyoomjian.jack@epa.gov. To
request accommodation of a disability,
please contact Dr. Kooyoomjian
preferably at least ten days prior to the
teleconference or meeting to give as
much time as possible to process your
request.
Dated: August 9, 2011.
Vanessa T. Vu,
Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff
Office.
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Science Advisory Board Staff Office;
Notification of a Public Teleconference
of the Chartered Science Advisory
Board
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The EPA Science Advisory
Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a
public teleconference of the Chartered
SAB on September 7, 2011 to conduct
a quality review of a draft SAB report,
Peer Review of EPA’s Draft NationalScale Mercury Risk Assessment (08/04/
11) Draft.
DATES: The public teleconference will
be held on September 7, 2011 from 12
p.m. to 3 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time).
ADDRESSES: The public teleconference
will be conducted by telephone only.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any
member of the public wishing to obtain
general information concerning the
public teleconference may contact Dr.
Angela Nugent, Designated Federal
Officer (DFO). Dr. Nugent may be
contacted at the EPA Science Advisory
Board (1400R), U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460;
or by telephone/voice mail at (202) 564–
2218; fax at (202) 565–2098; or e-mail at
nugent.angela@epa.gov. General
SUMMARY:
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information concerning the EPA Science
Advisory Board can be found on the
EPA Web site at https://www.epa.gov/
sab.
The SAB
was established pursuant to the
Environmental Research, Development,
and Demonstration Authorization Act
(ERDAA), codified at 42 U.S.C. 4365, to
provide independent scientific and
technical advice 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), 5 U.S.C., App.
2. Pursuant to FACA and EPA policy,
notice is hereby given that the SAB will
hold a public teleconference to conduct
a quality review of an SAB draft report
entitled Peer Review of EPA’s Draft
National-Scale Mercury Risk
Assessment (08/04/1 Draft). The SAB
will comply with the provisions of
FACA and all appropriate SAB Staff
Office procedural policies.
Background: EPA is considering
regulating the emissions of hazardous
air pollutants (HAPs) released from
coal-burning electric generating units in
the United States (U.S. EGUs) under
Section 112(n)(1)(A) of the Clean Air
Act (CAA). EPA developed a draft risk
assessment for mercury, entitled
Technical Support Document: Nationalscale Mercury Risk Assessment. The
draft assessment considers the nature
and magnitude of the potential risk to
public health posed by current U.S.
EGU mercury emissions and the nature
and magnitude of the potential risk
posed by U.S. EGU mercury in the
future, once all anticipated CAA-related
regulations potentially reducing
mercury from U.S. EGUs are in place.
EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation
requested peer review of this draft
document. The SAB Mercury Review
Panel has prepared a review report on
EPA’s draft technical document. The
Charted SAB will conduct a quality
view of the SAB Panel’s draft review
report.
Background information about the
SAB advisory activity can be found on
the SAB Web site at https://
yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/
fedrgstr_activites/
Oil%20Spill%20Research%
20Strategy?OpenDocument.
Availability of Meeting Materials: The
agenda and other materials in support of
the teleconference will be placed on the
SAB Web site at https://www.epa.gov/sab
in advance of the teleconference.
Procedures for Providing Public Input:
Public comment for consideration by
EPA’s federal advisory committees and
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of Public
Teleconferences of the Science Advisory Board Radiation Advisory
Committee
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office announces
two teleconferences of the SAB Augmented Radiation Advisory Committee
(RAC) to discuss the draft advisory report related to uranium and
thorium in-situ leach recovery and post-closure stability monitoring.
DATES: The public teleconferences will be conducted on Tuesday,
September 6, 2011 and Wednesday, October 5, 2011, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
(Eastern Daylight Time).
ADDRESSES: The public teleconferences will be conducted by telephone
only.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any member of the public wishing
further information regarding this Notice may contact Dr. K. Jack
Kooyoomjian, Designated Federal Officer (DFO), SAB Staff Office
(1400R), 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; or 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 http//
www.epa.gov/sab.
Technical Contact: Technical background information pertaining to
the Uranium In-Situ leach recovery--Post-Closure Stability Monitoring
can be found at https://www.epa.gov/radiation/tenorm/pubs.html.
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 the
technical aspects of this topic, please contact Dr. Mary E. Clark of
the U.S. EPA, ORIA by telephone at (202) 343-9348, or via e-mail at
clark.marye@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The SAB was established pursuant to the Environmental
Research, Development, and Demonstration Authorization Act (ERDAA),
codified at 42 U.S.C. 4365, to provide independent scientific and
technical peer review advice, consultation and recommendations to the
EPA Administrator on the technical basis for Agency actions, positions
and regulations. 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. Pursuant to FACA and EPA
policy, notice is hereby given that the augmented RAC will hold two
public teleconferences. The SAB will comply with the provisions of FACA
and all appropriate EPA and SAB Staff Office procedural policies.
The EPA has requested the SAB review the Agency draft technical
document on ISL/ISR post closure stability monitoring to evaluate what
criteria 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 are whether specific
site characteristics, features or benchmarks can be used to aid in
establishing a post-closure monitoring time period; and if other
technical approaches should be considered by EPA to provide reasonable
assurances of aquifer stability and groundwater protection. The
Agency's draft technical document 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. The SAB RAC augmented with additional experts
held an initial public teleconference of July 12, 2011 and a two-day
meeting on July 18 and 19, 2011 to discuss advisory comments on the
EPA's June 2011 draft technical document entitled ``Considerations
Related to Post-Closure Monitoring of Uranium In-Situ Leach/In-Situ
Recovery (ISL/ISR) Sites''. These previous meetings were announced in
the Federal Register on Thursday, June 23, 2011 (Vol. 76, No. 121, pp.
36918-36919). The purpose of the September 6, 2011 and October 5, 2011
public teleconferences is for the augmented RAC to discuss its draft
advisory report on this topic.
Availability of Meeting Materials: The Agenda, roster of the
augmented RAC,
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the charge to the SAB for the consultation, and other supplemental
materials in support of the two public teleconferences will be placed
on the SAB Web site at http//www.epa.gov/sab in advance of the
teleconference and meeting.
Procedures for Providing Public Input: Public comment for
consideration by EPA's federal advisory committees and panels has a
different purpose from public comment provided to EPA program offices.
Therefore, the process for submitting comments to a federal advisory
committee is different from the process used to submit comments to an
EPA program office.
Federal advisory committees and panels, including scientific
advisory committees, provide independent advice to EPA. Members of the
public can submit comments for a federal advisory committee to consider
as it develops advice for EPA. Input from the public to the SAB will
have the most impact if it provides specific scientific or technical
information or analysis for SAB panels to consider or if it relates to
the clarity or accuracy of the technical information. Members of the
public wishing to provide comment should contact the Designated Federal
Officer directly at the contact information provided.
Oral Statements: In general, individuals or groups requesting an
oral presentation at a teleconference will be limited to three minutes.
Those interested in being placed on the public speakers list for either
the September 6 and October 5, 2011 teleconferences should contact Dr.
Kooyoomjian at the contact information provided above no later than
noon on September 2, 2011 for the September 6, 2011 teleconference, and
no later than October 3, 2011 for the October 5, 2011 teleconference.
Written Statements: Written statements should be supplied to the
DFO via e-mail at the contact information noted by noon September 2,
2011 for the September 6, 2011 teleconference, and no later than
Monday, October 3, 2011 for the October 5, 2011 teleconference, so that
the information may be made available to the members of the augmented
RAC and the public for their consideration. Written statements should
be supplied in one of the following electronic formats: Adobe Acrobat
PDF, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, or Rich Text files in IBM-PC/Windows98/
2000/XP format. It is the SAB Staff office general policy to post
written comments on the Web page for the advisory meeting or
teleconference. Submitters are requested to provide an unsigned version
of each document, because the SAB Staff Office does not publish
documents with signatures on its Web sites. Members of the public
should be aware that their personal contact information, if included in
any written comments, may be posted to the SAB Web site. Copyrighted
material will not be posted without explicit permission of the
copyright holder.
Accessibility: For information on access or services for
individuals with disabilities, please contact Dr. Kooyoomjian at (202)
564-2064, or e-mail kooyoomjian.jack@epa.gov. To request accommodation
of a disability, please contact Dr. Kooyoomjian preferably at least ten
days prior to the teleconference or meeting to give as much time as
possible to process your request.
Dated: August 9, 2011.
Vanessa T. Vu,
Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office.
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