Nominations to the FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel; Request for Comments, 4158-4163 [2014-01367]

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• ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 16 (Friday, January 24, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4158-4163]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-01367]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2013-0776; FRL-9904-66]


Nominations to the FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel; Request for 
Comments

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice provides the names, addresses, professional 
affiliations, and selected biographical data of persons recently 
nominated to serve on the Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) established 
under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). 
The Agency, at this time, anticipates selecting two new FIFRA SAP 
members to serve, as a result of membership terms that expire in 2014. 
Public comments on the current nominations are invited. These comments 
will be used to assist the Agency in selecting the new FIFRA SAP 
members.

DATES: Comments, identified by docket identification (ID) number EPA-
HQ-OPP-2013-0776, must be received on or before February 10, 2014.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket ID number EPA-

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HQ-OPP-2013-0776, by one of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the online instructions for submitting comments. Do not submit 
electronically any information you consider to be Confidential Business 
Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted 
by statute.
     Mail: OPP Docket, Environmental Protection Agency Docket 
Center (EPA/DC), (28221T), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 
20460-0001.
     Hand Delivery: To make special arrangements for hand 
delivery or delivery of boxed information, please follow the 
instructions at https://www.epa.gov/dockets/contacts.html.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fred Jenkins, Designated Federal 
Officer (DFO), Office of Science Coordination and Policy (7201M), 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 
Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone number: (202) 564-3327; fax 
number: (202) 564-8382; email address: jenkins.fred@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

 I. General Information

A. Does this action apply to me?

    This action is directed to the public in general. This action may, 
however, be of interest to persons who are or may be required to 
conduct testing of chemical substances under the Federal Food, Drug, 
and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) and 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.

B. What should I consider as I prepare my comments for EPA?

    When submitting comments, remember to:
    1. Identify the document by docket ID number and other identifying 
information (subject heading, Federal Register date and page number).
    2. Follow directions. The Agency may ask you to respond to specific 
questions or organize comments by referencing a Code of Federal 
Regulations (CFR) part or section number.
    3. Explain why you agree or disagree; suggest alternatives and 
substitute language for your requested changes.
    4. Describe any assumptions and provide any technical information 
and/or data that you used.
    5. If you estimate potential costs or burdens, explain how you 
arrived at your estimate in sufficient detail to allow for it to be 
reproduced.
    6. Provide specific examples to illustrate your concerns and 
suggest alternatives.
    7. Explain your views as clearly as possible, avoiding the use of 
profanity or personal threats.
    8. Make sure to submit your comments by the comment period deadline 
identified.

II. Background

    The FIFRA SAP serves as the primary scientific peer review 
mechanism of EPA's Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention 
(OCSPP) and is structured to provide scientific advice, information, 
and recommendations to the EPA Administrator on pesticides and 
pesticide-related issues as to the impact of regulatory actions on 
health and the environment. The FIFRA SAP is a Federal advisory 
committee, established in 1975 under FIFRA, that operates in accordance 
with requirements of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). The 
FIFRA SAP is composed of a permanent panel consisting of seven members 
who are appointed by the EPA Deputy Administrator from nominees 
provided by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National 
Science Foundation (NSF). FIFRA, as amended by the Food Quality and 
Protection Act (FQPA), established a Science Review Board consisting of 
at least 60 scientists who are available to the FIFRA SAP on an ad hoc 
basis to assist in reviews conducted by the FIFRA SAP. As a peer review 
mechanism, the FIFRA SAP provides comments, evaluations, and 
recommendations to improve the effectiveness and quality of analyses 
made by Agency scientists. Members of the FIFRA SAP are scientists who 
have sufficient professional qualifications, including training and 
experience, to provide expert advice and recommendation to the Agency.
    The Agency, at this time, anticipates selecting two new members to 
serve on the panel as a result of membership terms that expire in 2014. 
The Agency requested nominations of experts in the fields of human 
toxicology, environmental toxicology, pathology, risk assessment, and/
or environmental biology with demonstrated experience and expertise in 
all phases of the risk assessment process including: Planning, scoping, 
and problem formulation; analysis; and interpretation and risk 
characterization (including the interpretation and communication of 
uncertainty). Nominees should be well published and current in their 
field of expertise. FIFRA stipulates that we publish the name, address, 
and professional affiliation of the nominees in the Federal Register.

III. Charter

    A Charter for the FIFRA SAP, dated October 19, 2012, was issued in 
accordance with the requirements of FACA (5 U.S.C. App. I).

A. Qualifications of Members

    FIFRA SAP members are scientists who have sufficient professional 
qualifications, including training and experience, to be capable of 
providing expert comments as to the impact of pesticides on health and 
the environment. No persons shall be ineligible to serve on FIFRA SAP 
by reason of their membership on any other advisory committee to a 
Federal department or agency or their employment by a Federal 
department or agency (except EPA). The EPA Deputy Administrator 
appoints individuals to serve on FIFRA SAP for staggered terms of 3 
years. FIFRA SAP members are subject to all ethics requirements 
applicable to Special Government Employees, which include rules 
regarding conflicts of interest. Each nominee selected by the EPA 
Deputy Administrator, before being formally appointed, is required to 
submit a confidential statement of employment and financial interests, 
which shall fully disclose, among other financial interests, the 
nominee's sources of research support, if any.
    In accordance with FIFRA section 25(d)(1), all nominees considered 
for appointment to FIFRA SAP shall furnish information concerning their 
professional qualifications, educational background, employment 
history, and scientific publications.

B. Applicability of Existing Regulations

    With respect to the requirements of FIFRA section 25(d) that the 
EPA Administrator promulgate regulations regarding conflicts of 
interest, EPA's existing ethics regulations applicable to Special 
Government Employees, which include advisory committee members, will 
apply to the members of FIFRA SAP.

C. Process of Obtaining Nominees

    In accordance with FIFRA section 25(d), EPA, on September 27, 2013, 
requested that NIH and NSF nominate scientists to fill vacancies 
occurring on FIFRA SAP. The Agency requested nominations of experts in 
the fields of human toxicology, environmental toxicology, pathology, 
risk assessment, and/or environmental biology with demonstrated 
experience and expertise in all phases of the risk assessment

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process including: Planning, scoping, and problem formulation; 
analysis; and interpretation and risk characterization (including the 
interpretation and communication of uncertainty). NIH and NSF responded 
by letter, providing the Agency with a total of 21 nominees. Copies of 
these letters, with the listed nominees, are available in the docket at 
docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPP-2013-0776. Of the 21 nominees, 10 are 
interested and available to actively participate in FIFRA SAP meetings 
(see Unit IV.). In addition to the current nominees interested, at 
EPA's discretion, nominees who were interested and available during the 
previous nomination process (see the Federal Register of July 29, 2011 
(76 FR 45555) (FRL-8882-2) may also be considered. Of the current 21 
nominations, the following 11 individuals are not available:
    1. Asa Bradman, Ph.D., University of California--Berkeley, 
Berkeley, CA.
    2. Aaron Blair, Ph.D., National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD.
    3. William Bradshaw, Ph.D., University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
    4. Carlos Davidson, Ph.D., San Francisco State University, San 
Francisco, CA.
    5. Vincent Hand, Ph.D., HandCompass Consulting LLC, Oxford, OH.
    6. Lawrence M. Hanks, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana--
Champaign, Urbana, IL.
    7. Charles Lynch, M.D., University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
    8. Thomas A.E. Platts-Mills, M.D., University of Virginia, 
Charlottesville, VA.
    9. Alvaro Puga, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, College of 
Medicine, Cincinnati, OH.
    10. Theodore Slotkin, Ph.D., Duke University School of Medicine, 
Durham, NC.
    11. Rick Relyea, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.

IV. Nominees

    Following are the names, addresses, professional affiliations, and 
selected biographical data of current nominees being considered for 
membership on the FIFRA SAP. The Agency anticipates selecting two 
individuals to fill vacancies occurring in 2014.
    1. Dana Boyd Barr, Ph.D., Emory University, Atlanta, GA--i. 
Expertise: Exposure science and environmental health.
    ii. Education: B.S. in Biology from Brenau College and Ph.D. in 
Analytical Chemistry from Georgia State University.
    iii. Professional Experience: Dr. Barr is a Professor of Exposure 
Science and Environmental Health at Emory University's Rollins School 
of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health. Although she has 
been in academia for just 3 years, she has worked to successfully 
establish a team of cohort studies evaluating maternal-child health, 
paternal reproductive health, and farmworker safety in Thailand. She is 
also collaborating on several child and farmworker cohorts in the 
United States. In addition, she just received funding to evaluate 
brominated flame retardant exposures and thyroid function in small 
children. Prior to joining Emory, Dr. Barr was employed at the Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for 23 years. During her 
tenure at CDC, she devoted much of her time to the development of 
methods for assessing human exposure to a variety of environmental 
toxicants including current-use pesticides, phthalates, organochlorine 
chemicals (pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)), 
phytoestrogens, diethylene glycol, methyl eugenol, vinyl chloride, and 
others. Dr. Barr has authored or coauthored over 300 peer-reviewed 
publications, book chapters, and many published abstracts. Some of 
these papers have been landmark papers showing human exposure to 
pesticides in the general population and determining appropriate 
matrices for biomonitoring at each life stage. She is the past 
President of the International Society of Exposure Science (ISES; 
formerly ISEA) and previously served as its Treasurer; she just 
completed a 5-year term as Editor-in-Chief of ISES's official journal, 
Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology. She is also 
an Associate Editor of Environmental Health Perspectives and serves on 
the editorial board of the Journal of Chromatography & Separation 
Techniques, Journal of Health Research, and Advances in Medicine. She 
is also an active member of the International Society of Environmental 
Epidemiology, Society of Toxicology, American Chemical Society, 
American Society for Mass Spectrometry, and the Association of Official 
Analytical Chemists. She has served many important roles in the field 
of exposure assessment including serving on EPA review boards such as 
the FIFRA SAP, chairing and co-chairing sessions at international and 
domestic meetings, serving on the National Children's Study Working 
Group for chemical exposures, serving as an international expert in 
pesticide methodology and exposure assessment, serving on the German 
Research Foundation's Committee for Standardizing Analytical Methods 
for Occupational and Environmental Chemistry, and serving on 
International Life Sciences Institute/Health and Environmental Sciences 
Institute's steering and technical committees for the Integration of 
Biomonitoring Data into Risk Assessment. As a result of her efforts, 
Dr. Barr has received many awards including International Society of 
Exposure Science's Daisey Award for Outstanding Investigator, two 
Health and Human Services Secretary's awards for exposure-health 
investigations involving diethylene glycol and methyl parathion 
poisoning, 2004 Federal Scientific Employee of the Year, CDC's Mackel 
Award for outstanding collaboration among epidemiology and laboratory, 
and EPA's Silver Medal for outstanding contributions to the development 
of protocols for the National Children's Study.
    2. Paul D. Blanc, M.D., University of California San Francisco 
(UCSF), San Francisco, CA--i. Expertise: Occupational and environmental 
medicine.
    ii. Education: B.A. from Goddard College, M.S. in Public Health 
from Harvard School of Public Health, and M.D. from Albert Einstein 
College of Medicine.
    iii. Professional Experience: Dr. Blanc, is Professor of Medicine 
and holds the Endowed Chair in Occupational and Environmental Medicine 
at UCSF, where he has been on the faculty since 1988. He received his 
B.A. from Goddard College, where he first became interested in health 
and the environment, later training at the Harvard School of Public 
Health (in industrial hygiene), the Albert Einstein School of Medicine, 
and Cook County Hospital (in a joint Occupational Medicine and Internal 
Medicine Residency). He was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at 
UCSF from 1985-1987 and a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar at the Ben 
Gurion University of the Negev in 1987-1988. He has been a resident 
scholar at the Rockefeller Bellagio Center (Bellagio, Italy) and the 
American Academy in Rome. In 2011, he was elected as a fellow of the 
Collegium Ramazzini, an international honorific society of occupational 
health leaders. In 2013-2014 he is a Mellon Fellow at the Center for 
Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He 
has authored numerous scholarly publications in his field and is also 
the author of ``How Everyday Products Make People Sick'' (University of 
California Press, 2009). He posts a blog, Household Hazards, hosted by 
the journal, Psychology Today (https://

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www.psychologytoday.com/blog/household-hazards).
    3. Rachel M. Bowden, Ph.D., Illinois State University, Normal, IL--
i. Expertise: Ecological Physiology and Endocrinology
    ii. Education: B.A. in Environmental, Population & Organismal 
Biology from University of Colorado-Boulder and Ph.D. in Evolution, 
Ecology and Behavior from Indiana University-Bloomington.
    iii. Professional Experience: Dr. Bowden is currently a Professor 
in the School of Biological Sciences at Illinois State University. She 
has received broad training in the biological sciences, but her 
specific expertise is in ecological physiology with a focus on 
endocrinology. She has been interested in maternal resource 
provisioning to offspring, particularly yolk steroids and the 
consequences of those maternal resources on offspring, for nearly 20 
years. Her research has evolved from simply documenting patterns 
related to yolk steroids to trying to understand how, mechanistically, 
embryos respond to and cope with the presence of exogenous, 
biologically active agents during development. More recently, her 
research group has been working with bisphenol-A. Their interest in 
this compound lies in its ability to induce estrogen-like properties, 
and they are currently examining the effects of exposure to bisphenol-A 
during early development using the red-eared slider turtle (Trachemys 
scripta) as a model system.
    4. Richard Thomas Di Giulio, Ph.D., Duke University, Durham, NC--i. 
Expertise: Environmental toxicology.
    ii. Education: B.A. in Comparative Literature from University of 
Texas at Austin, M.S. in Wildlife Biology from Louisiana State 
University, and Ph.D. in Environmental Toxicology from Virginia 
Polytechnic Institute and State University.
    iii. Professional Experience: Dr. Di Giulio is Professor of 
Environmental Toxicology in the Nicholas School of the Environment at 
Duke University where he also serves as Director of the Integrated 
Toxicology and Environmental Health Program, Director of the Superfund 
Research Center, and Co-Principal Investigator for the Center for the 
Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology. Dr. Di Giulio has 
published extensively on subjects including biochemical and molecular 
mechanisms of adaptation and toxicity, biomarkers for chemical exposure 
and toxicity, and effects of chemical mixtures and multiple stressors. 
His current work focuses on mechanisms by which polycyclic aromatic 
hydrocarbons (PAHs) and nanomaterials perturb embryonic development in 
fish models (zebrafish and killifish), the evolutionary consequences of 
hydrocarbon pollution on fish populations, and the ecological and human 
health impacts of mountaintop coal mining in Appalachia. Additionally, 
he has organized symposia and workshops, and written on the broader 
subject of interconnections between human health and ecological 
integrity. Dr. Di Giulio serves as an advisor for the Science Advisory 
Board of EPA, is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board, U.S. 
Department of Defense, Strategic Environmental Research and Development 
Program, is Associate Editor for Environmental Health Perspectives, and 
recently served on the National Academy of Science Committee on 
Exposure Assessment in the 21st Century. He is an active member of the 
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), where he 
previously served on the Board of Directors, and the Society of 
Toxicology (SOT).
    5. Hilary Godwin, Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles 
(UCLA), Los Angeles, CA--i. Expertise: Chemistry and environmental 
health.
    ii. Education: B.S. in Chemistry from University of Chicago; Ph.D. 
in Physical Chemistry from Stanford University.
    iii. Professional Experience: Professor Godwin joined the UCLA 
faculty in 2006 and is currently a Professor in the Environmental 
Health Sciences Department and in the Institute of the Environment and 
Sustainability. She conducted postdoctoral research from 1994-1996 at 
the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Department of 
Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, where she was a National 
Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow. Prior to joining the faculty 
at UCLA, Dr. Godwin was on the faculty of the Department of Chemistry 
at Northwestern University, where she was an Assistant Professor (1996-
2000), Associate Professor (2000-2006), Associate Chair (2003-2004), 
and Chair (2004-2006) of Chemistry. She has served as Chair of the 
Department of Environmental Health Sciences (2007-2008) and Associate 
Dean for Academic Programs (2008-2011) in the School of Public Health 
at UCLA as well as Faculty Director for the Global Bio Lab at UCLA 
(2009-2011 and 2013-present). Dr. Godwin has received several awards, 
including a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, an Alfred P. Sloan 
Research Fellowship, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, a 
Burroughs Wellcome Fund Toxicology New Investigator Award, and a 
Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award. She was a Howard Hughes 
Medical Institute Professor from 2002-2006 and was elected as a fellow 
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2009. Dr. 
Godwin is a Luskin Scholar and is coPI and Director for Education and 
Outreach Activities for the University of California Center for 
Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology. Dr. Godwin's research 
focuses on elucidating the molecular toxicology of engineered 
nanomaterials and development of assays for detection and analysis of 
infectious diseases. She collaborates with Professor Tim Malloy in the 
UCLA School of Law on the development and analysis of new approaches to 
nanoregulatory policy and assessment of alternatives for hazardous 
substances. She also works actively with local organizations and 
community groups to prepare for and diminish the impact of climate 
change on public health.
    6. Jane A. Hoppin, Sc.D., North Carolina State University (NCSU), 
Raleigh, NC--i. Expertise: Environmental health and epidemiology.
    ii. Education: B.S. in Environmental Toxicology from University of 
California, Davis; M.S. in Environmental Health Sciences and Sc.D. in 
Environmental Health and Epidemiology from Harvard School of Public 
Health.
    iii. Professional Experience: Dr. Hoppin is an Associate Professor 
in the Department of Biological Sciences and Deputy Director of the 
Center for Human Health and the Environment at NCSU. Dr. Hoppin's 
research focuses on the human health effects of pesticides and other 
agricultural exposures. Prior to joining NCSU in August 2013, Dr. 
Hoppin was a Staff Scientist at the National Institute of Environmental 
Health Sciences (NIEHS) where she was one of the principal 
investigators of the Agricultural Health Study, a federally funded 
prospective study of farmers and their spouses in North Carolina and 
Iowa. During her tenure at NIEHS, Dr. Hoppin focused her research on 
the adult respiratory health effects of pesticides and other 
agricultural exposures. In 2010, she was awarded the NIEHS Staff 
Scientist of the Year award. Dr. Hoppin has published over 170 peer 
reviewed publications in the field of environmental health and 
epidemiology. Dr. Hoppin has served on the editorial boards of the 
American Journal of Epidemiology and the Journal of Occupational 
Medicine and Toxicology; in 2010, she guest edited a special edition of 
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of Environmental Research and Public Health focused on pesticides and 
health. Dr. Hoppin also focuses on the respiratory and allergic health 
effects of phthalates and the related exposure assessment issues.
    7. David Alan Jett, Ph.D., National Institutes of Health (NIH), 
Bethesda, MD--i. Expertise: Neuropharmacology and toxicology.
    ii. Education: B.A. in Biology from Hampton Institute; M.S. in 
Zoology/Toxicology from University of Maryland; and Ph.D. in 
Neuropharmacology and Toxicology from University of Maryland School of 
Medicine.
    iii. Professional Experience: Dr. Jett is a Program Director at the 
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) where 
he directs the NIH Countermeasures Against Chemical Threats 
(CounterACT) Program designed to develop new drugs and diagnostic tools 
for treating victims of chemical exposures during an emergency, among 
other duties. Dr. Jett conducted postdoctoral research and subsequently 
joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of 
Public Health Department of Environmental Health Sciences where he 
conducted research as a university professor for several years. Dr. 
Jett's scientific interest is in the impact of pesticides on nervous 
system function, including the molecular and cellular mechanisms of 
cognitive and neural development. Specifically, he has expertise and 
experience with organophosphorus pesticides and nerve agents, and the 
heavy metal lead. Dr. Jett's other interests at NINDS are programs 
designed to increase diversity in the neuroscience research workforce, 
and translational research programs.
    8. Kurunthachalam Kannan, Ph.D., New York State Department of 
Health, Albany, NY and State University of New York at Albany, NY--i. 
Expertise: Environmental chemistry and ecotoxicology.
    ii. Education: B.S. in Agricultural Sciences and M.S. in 
Agricultural Microbiology from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University; M.S. 
and Ph.D. in Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology from Ehime 
University.
    iii. Professional Experience: Dr. Kannan is a Research Scientist at 
Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health in Albany, NY, 
where he is Chief of the Organic Analytical Laboratory at the Center. 
He also holds a joint appointment as a Professor at the Department of 
Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, State 
University of New York at Albany. He also holds visiting professorships 
at Ehime University, Japan and Harbin Institute of Technology and 
Nankai University, China. Dr. Kannan's research is focused on 
environmental distribution, bioaccumulation, human exposure, food 
contamination, and fate of toxicants. His current research interests 
are in understanding human exposure to environmental toxicants 
including pesticides and health effects associated with such exposures. 
Dr. Kannan has published more than 400 research articles in peer-
reviewed journals, 20 book chapters, and edited a book. Dr. Kannan is 
one of the top 10 most highly cited researchers (ISI (Highly Cited)) in 
ecology/environment in the world. He is ranked top two globally on the 
list of Thompson ISI's most highly cited researchers in environment/
ecology domain. Dr. Kannan is a recipient of several international 
awards and honors throughout his career and to name a few, Governor's 
Gold Medal in 1986 and Society of Environmental Toxicology and 
Chemistry's Weston F. Roy Environmental Chemistry award in 1999. Dr. 
Kannan is the Editor-in-Chief of Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 
and serves as an Associate Editor of several professional journals and 
on the editorial board of several international journals. Dr. Kannan is 
a recipient of Super Reviewer Award for his scholarly and timely 
reviews of manuscripts submitted to Environmental Science and 
Technology, the American Chemical Society journal. He is a frequent 
reviewer of research proposals submitted for funding agencies in 
several countries throughout the world. Dr. Kannan has mentored more 
than 10 masters and doctoral level students and advised more than 20 
postdoctoral research associates in his laboratory. He secured more 
than $15 million in research grants in the past 10 years.
    9. Coby Schal, Ph.D., North Carolina State University (NCSU), 
Raleigh, NC--i. Expertise: Entomology.
    ii. Education: B.S. in Biology from State University of New York at 
Albany; Ph.D. in Entomology from University of Kansas.
    iii. Professional Experience: Dr. Schal is the Blanton J. Whitmire 
Distinguished Professor of Structural Pest Management at NCSU, where he 
is also co-founder and member of the Executive Committee of the W. M. 
Keck Center for Behavioral Biology and member of the Agromedicine 
Institute and the Genetics Graduate Program. Between 1984-1993, he was 
Assistant and Associate Professor and Extension Specialist of Urban 
Entomology at Rutgers University, NJ. He is a leading authority on 
cockroach and bed bug behavior, chemical ecology, physiology, 
toxicology, biochemistry, and molecular biology. His research has 
resulted in publications, patents, and tools for pest management. His 
research on chemical ecology has delineated pheromone-mediated 
communication in cockroaches, oviposition attractants in mosquitoes, 
and the evolution of pheromone communication in moths. His team also 
characterized the role that juvenile hormone plays in regulating sexual 
behavior and sexual maturation in insects and studies the function and 
regulation of cuticular waxes in various insects. Research in urban 
entomology in the last decade has concentrated on the biology of 
cockroach-produced allergens and intervention strategies to mitigate 
their pervasiveness in the indoor environment; profiles and mechanisms 
of insecticide resistance that form the basis for recommendations to 
the pest control industry; optimization of bait delivery systems, 
developing and testing repellents against urban pests, and assessing 
the impact of these approaches on pest behavior, humans, and the 
environment; and practical integrated solutions (IPM) to cockroach 
problems in livestock production facilities that emphasize reduced-risk 
approaches. Dr. Schal's research has been funded by EPA, U.S. 
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), National Institutes 
of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S. Department of 
Agriculture (USDA), private foundations and industry and he has 
published over 230 peer-reviewed papers. He has served as subject 
editor of the Journal of Economic Entomology and Pest Management 
Science, and on the editorial boards of Archives of Insect Biochemistry 
and Physiology, Journal of Chemical Ecology, Journal of Insect Science, 
and Psyche. He also served on several EPA and NSF panels and as 
panelist and panel manager for USDA grants panels, and has been an 
active volunteer with the Entomological Society of America, the 
Entomological Foundation, and the International Society of Chemical 
Ecology. He has mentored 28 graduate students and 32 postdoctoral 
researchers, as well as high school and undergraduate students. Dr. 
Schal teaches a graduate course in insect behavior, graduate seminars 
in urban entomology and chemical ecology, and contributes to a team-
taught professional development course and insect physiology course. 
Recent honors include Lifetime Honorary Membership in the North 
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Achievement Award in Urban Entomology from the National Conference on 
Urban Entomology, elected Fellow of the Entomological Society of 
America, elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement 
of Science, NCSU's Research Friend of Extension Award, NCSU's Alumni 
Association Outstanding Research Award, the 2011 Silverstein-Simeone 
Award from the International Society for Chemical Ecology, and a 
Distinguished Member of Sigma Xi.
    10. Judith Zelikoff, Ph.D., New York University School of Medicine, 
Tuxedo, NY--i. Expertise: Toxicology.
    ii. Education: B.S. in Biology from Upsala College, M.S. in 
Microbiology from Farleigh Dickinson University, and Ph.D. in 
Experimental Pathology from University of Medicine and Dentistry of New 
Jersey--New Jersey Medical School.
    iii. Professional Experience: Dr. Zelikoff, a tenured full 
professor and Principal Investigator, has more than 25 years experience 
using animal models for assessing the toxicology of inhaled pollutants 
including metals, nanomaterials, and pollution mixtures from 
combustible tobacco products, as well as that from wood burning and 
diesel exhaust. Recently, studies in her laboratory have focused on the 
fetal basis of adult disease associated with prenatal exposure of mice 
to inhaled nanomaterials, ambient particulate matter (PM), and 
cigarette smoke (CS). Results from the cigarette smoke publications 
demonstrated that in utero exposure to a maternal dose of CS equivalent 
to smoking <1 pack of cigarettes/day increases risk factors in the 
offspring associated with cardiovascular disease, asthma, immune 
dysfunction, and attention-deficit hyperreactivity disorder later in 
life and in a sex-dependent manner. Her tobacco studies have recently 
been extended to examine toxicity of smokeless tobacco (ST) using a 
mouse model of oral mucosal exposure, as well as toxicity of smoke from 
e-cigarettes and hookah. Studies with ST, like those with CS, examined 
the reproductive/developmental, immunological, cardiovascular, renal, 
and neurological/behavioral effects of repeated exposure during 
pregnancy. Earlier in her career, Dr. Zelikoff focused on environmental 
toxicology and published a significant number of papers on the toxicity 
of metals and pesticides on different fish species. Many of these 
publications were used to help inform policy and set regulations. In 
addition, immune biomarkers of effects, developed in these same fish 
species, were also used as indicators of aquatic pollution and efficacy 
of remediation. Dr. Zelikoff also has extensive experience as a 
scientific leader which is reflected by her many leadership roles. She 
currently serves on the Executive Board of the Society of Toxicology 
(SOT, 8,000 member society) as Council Secretary and previously as 
president of both the Metals and Immunotoxicology Society of Toxicology 
Specialty Sections where she received a Lifetime Achievement Award. In 
addition, she served as a full member on two National Institute of 
Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Study Sections and continues to 
serve as an ad hoc member for numerous NIH Special Emphasis Panels 
where she has also served as Chair. Currently, she is an editorial 
board member for Environmental Health Perspectives and serves as 
Associate Editor on numerous toxicological journals. As the New York 
University NIEHS Center Outreach Director, Dr. Zelikoff has led 
numerous community-guided and enrichment initiatives that have served 
to set public policy and improve public health by better informing 
local communities of the latest knowledge in environmental health.

List of Subjects

    Environmental protection, Administrative practice and procedure, 
Pesticides and pests.

    Dated: January 8, 2014.
David J. Dix,
Director, Office of Science Coordination and Policy.
[FR Doc. 2014-01367 Filed 1-23-14; 8:45 am]
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