Request for Nominations of Experts To Consider for ad hoc Participation on Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP), 49091-49092 [2018-21196]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[FRL–9984–31–Region 9]
Public Water System Supervision
Program Revision for the State of
Hawaii
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of tentative approval.
AGENCY:
Notice is hereby given that
the State of Hawaii revised its approved
Public Water System Supervision
Program (PWSSP) under the federal Safe
Drinking Water Act (SDWA) by
adopting the Stage 1 Disinfectants and
Disinfection Byproducts Rule, Stage 2
Disinfectants and Disinfection
Byproducts Rule, Long Term 2
Enhanced Surface Water Treatment
Rule, Lead and Copper Rule Short-Term
Regulatory Revisions and Clarifications,
Revised Total Coliform Rule, and the
expanded Public Water System
definition. The Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) has
determined that these revisions by the
State of Hawaii are no less stringent
than the corresponding Federal
regulations and otherwise meet
applicable SDWA primacy
requirements. Therefore, EPA intends to
approve these revisions to the State of
Hawaii’s PWSSP.
DATES: Request for a public hearing
must be received on or before October
29, 2018.
ADDRESSES: All documents relating to
this determination are available for
inspection between the hours of 8:30
a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except official State holidays
(for the Hawaii location) and official
Federal holidays (for the two EPA
locations), at the following offices:
Hawaii Department of Health, Safe
Drinking Water Branch, 2385 Waimano
Home Road, Uluakupu Building 4, Pearl
City, Hawaii 96782; United States
Environmental Protection Agency,
Region 9, Pacific Islands Office, 300 Ala
Moana Blvd., Room 5124, Honolulu,
Hawaii 96850; and United States
Environmental Protection Agency,
Region 9, Drinking Water Management
Section, 75 Hawthorne Street (WTR–3–
1), San Francisco, California 94105.
Documents relating to this
determination are also available online
at https://health.hawaii.gov/sdwb/publicnotices/ for inspection.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Anna Yen, EPA Region 9, Drinking
Water Management Section, at the
address given above; telephone number:
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background. EPA approved the State of
Hawaii’s original application for PWSSP
primary enforcement authority which,
following the public notice period,
became effective on October 20, 1977
(42 FR 47244, no request for public
hearing received). EPA subsequently
approved and finalized revisions to the
State of Hawaii’s PWSSP on the
following dates: May 6, 1993 (58 FR
17892); July 19, 1993 (58 FR 33442);
September 29, 1993 (58 FR 45491);
March 13, 1995 (60 FR 7962); May 23,
1996 (61 FR 17892); July 31, 2015 (80
FR 45656), and December 8, 2017 (82 FR
57981).
Public process. Any interested party
may request a public hearing on this
determination. A request for a public
hearing must be submitted by October
29, 2018, to the Regional Administrator
at the EPA Region 9 address shown
above. The Regional Administrator may
deny frivolous or insubstantial requests
for a hearing. If a substantial request for
a public hearing is made by October 29,
2018, EPA Region 9 will hold a public
hearing. Any request for a public
hearing shall include the following
information: 1. The name, address, and
telephone number of the individual,
organization, or other entity requesting
a hearing; 2. A brief statement of the
requesting person’s interest in the
Regional Administrator’s determination
and a brief statement of the information
that the requesting person intends to
submit at such hearing; and 3. The
signature of the individual making the
request, or, if the request is made on
behalf of an organization or other entity,
the signature of a responsible official of
the organization or other entity.
If EPA Region 9 does not receive a
timely and appropriate request for a
hearing and the Regional Administrator
does not elect to hold a hearing on his
own motion, this determination shall
become final and effective on October
29, 2018, and no further public notice
will be issued.
[EPA–HQ–OPP–2018–0632; FRL–9983–92]
Authority: Section 1413 of the Safe
Drinking Water Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C.
300g–2 (1996), and 40 CFR part 142 of the
National Primary Drinking Water
Regulations.
Dated: August 24, 2018.
Deborah Jordan,
Acting Regional Administrator, EPA, Region
9.
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Request for Nominations of Experts To
Consider for ad hoc Participation on
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and
Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), Scientific
Advisory Panel (SAP)
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The EPA requests public
nominations of scientific experts to be
considered for ad hoc participation on
the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and
Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) Scientific
Advisory Panel (SAP) through
membership on the Food Quality
Protection Act (FQPA) Science Review
Board (SRB). All nominees will be
considered for ad hoc participation
providing independent scientific advice
to the EPA on health and safety issues
related to pesticides. The FIFRA SAP is
comprised of biologists, statisticians,
toxicologists and other experts and is
assisted in their reviews by members of
the FQPA SRB.
DATES: Nominations. Nominations
should be provided to the Designated
Federal Officer (DFO) listed under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT on or
before November 13, 2018.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Marquea D. King, DFO, Office of
Science Coordination and Policy
(7201M), Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW,
Washington, DC 20460–0001; telephone
number: (202) 564–3626; email address:
king.marquea@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
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 those who are or may be
required to conduct testing of chemical
substances and provide submissions to
the EPA 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 nominations for EPA?
1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit CBI
information to EPA through
regulations.gov or email. If your
nomination contains any information
that you consider to be CBI or otherwise
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protected, please contact the DFO listed
under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT to obtain special instructions
before submitting your nomination.
2. Request for nominations to be
considered for ad hoc participation on
the FIFRA SAP. As part of a broader
process for developing a pool of experts
known as the Food Quality Protection
Act (FQPA) Science Review Board
(SRB), Office of Science Coordination
and Policy (OSCP) staff solicits the
public and stakeholder communities
nominations of prospective candidates
for service as ad hoc participants on
FIFRA SAP reviews. Any interested
person or organization may nominate
qualified individuals to be considered
as prospective candidates. Individuals
may self-nominate. Individuals
nominated should have expertise in one
or more of the following areas:
Biochemistry; chemistry; epidemiology;
human health risk assessment;
pathology; PBPK modeling; aquatic
modeling; pharmacology; ecological risk
assessment; environmental exposure
and fate; environmental toxicology;
occupational, consumer, and general
exposure assessment; toxicology; dose
response modeling; environmental
engineering; statistics; water quality
monitoring; hydrologist; GIS specialist;
computational toxicology; entomology;
veterinary entomology; medical
entomology, insect ecology,
allergenicity, research veterinarian;
inhalation toxicology; volatile organics;
endocrinology, alternative testing
methods, high throughput testing
approaches, adverse outcome pathways,
cross species extrapolation, and
systematic review. Nominees should be
scientists who have sufficient
professional qualifications, including
training and experience, and can
provide expert comments on the
pesticide health and safety related
issues for a FIFRA SAP meeting.
Nominees should be identified by name,
occupation, position, address, email
address, and telephone number.
Nominations should be provided to the
DFO listed under FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT on or before
November 13, 2018. The Agency will
consider all nominations of prospective
candidates for service as ad hoc
participants on the FIFRA SAP that are
received on or before that date.
However, final selection of ad hoc
participants is at the discretion of the
Agency.
The selection of scientists to serve as
ad hoc participants of the FIFRA SAP is
based on the function of the Panel and
the expertise needed to address the
Agency’s charge to the Panel. No
interested scientists shall be ineligible
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to serve 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. Other factors
considered during the selection process
include availability of the prospective
candidate to fully participate in the
Panel’s reviews, absence of any conflicts
of interest or appearance of loss of
impartiality, independence with respect
to the matters under review, and lack of
bias. Although financial conflicts of
interest, the appearance of loss of
impartiality, lack of independence, and
bias may result in disqualification, the
absence of such concerns does not
assure that a candidate will be selected
to serve on FIFRA SAP. Often,
numerous available and qualified
candidates are identified for ad hoc
participation. Therefore, selection
decisions involve carefully weighing a
number of factors including the
candidates’ areas of expertise and
professional qualifications and
achieving an overall balance of different
scientific perspectives on the Panel.
FIFRA SAP members are subject to
the provisions of 5 CFR part 2634—
Executive Branch Financial Disclosure,
Qualified Trusts, and Certificates of
Divestiture, as supplemented by EPA in
5 CFR part 6401. In anticipation of this
requirement, prospective candidates for
service on FIFRA SAP will be asked to
submit confidential financial
information which shall fully disclose,
among other financial interests, the
candidate’s employment, stocks and
bonds, and where applicable, sources of
research support. EPA will evaluate the
candidates’ financial disclosure forms to
assess whether there are financial
conflicts of interest, appearance of a loss
of impartiality, or any prior involvement
with the development of the documents
under consideration (including previous
scientific peer review) before the
candidate is considered further for
service on FIFRA SAP. Those who are
selected from the pool of prospective
candidates will be asked to attend the
public meetings and to participate in the
discussion of key issues and
assumptions at these meetings. In
addition, they will be asked to review
and to help finalize the meeting
minutes. The list of ad hoc participants
and FIFRA SAP members participating
at each meeting will be posted on the
FIFRA SAP website at https://
www.epa.gov/sap or may be obtained
from the OPP Docket at https://
www.regulations.gov.
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II. Background
A. Purpose of FIFRA SAP
The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide,
and Rodenticide Act, Scientific
Advisory Panel (FIFRA SAP) serves as
a 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. FIFRA SAP is a Federal
advisory committee established in 1975
under FIFRA that operates in
accordance with requirements of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act (5
U.S.C. Appendix). FIFRA SAP is
composed of a permanent panel
consisting of seven members who are
appointed by the EPA Administrator
from nominees provided by the National
Institutes of Health and the National
Science Foundation. The FIFRA SAP is
assisted in their reviews by ad hoc
participation from members of the Food
Quality Protection Act (FQPA) Science
Review Board (SRB). As a scientific peer
review mechanism, FIFRA SAP
provides comments, evaluations, and
recommendations to improve the
effectiveness and quality of analyses
made by Agency scientists. The FIFRA
SAP is not required to reach consensus
in its recommendations to the Agency
but consensus is a preferred outcome
and possible under FACA.
At this time, EPA is seeking
nominations to augment the FQPA SRB,
a pool of experts who can be available
to the SAP on an ad hoc basis to assist
in peer reviews conducted by the Panel.
EPA anticipates selecting experts from
this pool, as needed, to assist the SAP
in their peer review of EPA’s issues
related to the health and safety of
pesticides.
Authority: 15 U.S.C. 2625 et seq.; 5 U.S.C.
Appendix 2 et seq.
Dated: September 19, 2018.
Stanley Barone Jr.,
Acting Director, Office of Science
Coordination and Policy.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OPP-2018-0632; FRL-9983-92]
Request for Nominations of Experts To Consider for ad hoc
Participation on Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
(FIFRA), Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP)
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The EPA requests public nominations of scientific experts to
be considered for ad hoc participation on the Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP)
through membership on the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) Science
Review Board (SRB). All nominees will be considered for ad hoc
participation providing independent scientific advice to the EPA on
health and safety issues related to pesticides. The FIFRA SAP is
comprised of biologists, statisticians, toxicologists and other experts
and is assisted in their reviews by members of the FQPA SRB.
DATES: Nominations. Nominations should be provided to the Designated
Federal Officer (DFO) listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT on
or before November 13, 2018.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Marquea D. King, DFO, Office of
Science Coordination and Policy (7201M), Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone
number: (202) 564-3626; email address: [email protected].
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 those who are or may be required to conduct
testing of chemical substances and provide submissions to the EPA 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 nominations for EPA?
1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit CBI information to EPA through
regulations.gov or email. If your nomination contains any information
that you consider to be CBI or otherwise
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protected, please contact the DFO listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT to obtain special instructions before submitting your
nomination.
2. Request for nominations to be considered for ad hoc
participation on the FIFRA SAP. As part of a broader process for
developing a pool of experts known as the Food Quality Protection Act
(FQPA) Science Review Board (SRB), Office of Science Coordination and
Policy (OSCP) staff solicits the public and stakeholder communities
nominations of prospective candidates for service as ad hoc
participants on FIFRA SAP reviews. Any interested person or
organization may nominate qualified individuals to be considered as
prospective candidates. Individuals may self-nominate. Individuals
nominated should have expertise in one or more of the following areas:
Biochemistry; chemistry; epidemiology; human health risk assessment;
pathology; PBPK modeling; aquatic modeling; pharmacology; ecological
risk assessment; environmental exposure and fate; environmental
toxicology; occupational, consumer, and general exposure assessment;
toxicology; dose response modeling; environmental engineering;
statistics; water quality monitoring; hydrologist; GIS specialist;
computational toxicology; entomology; veterinary entomology; medical
entomology, insect ecology, allergenicity, research veterinarian;
inhalation toxicology; volatile organics; endocrinology, alternative
testing methods, high throughput testing approaches, adverse outcome
pathways, cross species extrapolation, and systematic review. Nominees
should be scientists who have sufficient professional qualifications,
including training and experience, and can provide expert comments on
the pesticide health and safety related issues for a FIFRA SAP meeting.
Nominees should be identified by name, occupation, position, address,
email address, and telephone number. Nominations should be provided to
the DFO listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT on or before
November 13, 2018. The Agency will consider all nominations of
prospective candidates for service as ad hoc participants on the FIFRA
SAP that are received on or before that date. However, final selection
of ad hoc participants is at the discretion of the Agency.
The selection of scientists to serve as ad hoc participants of the
FIFRA SAP is based on the function of the Panel and the expertise
needed to address the Agency's charge to the Panel. No interested
scientists shall be ineligible to serve 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. Other
factors considered during the selection process include availability of
the prospective candidate to fully participate in the Panel's reviews,
absence of any conflicts of interest or appearance of loss of
impartiality, independence with respect to the matters under review,
and lack of bias. Although financial conflicts of interest, the
appearance of loss of impartiality, lack of independence, and bias may
result in disqualification, the absence of such concerns does not
assure that a candidate will be selected to serve on FIFRA SAP. Often,
numerous available and qualified candidates are identified for ad hoc
participation. Therefore, selection decisions involve carefully
weighing a number of factors including the candidates' areas of
expertise and professional qualifications and achieving an overall
balance of different scientific perspectives on the Panel.
FIFRA SAP members are subject to the provisions of 5 CFR part
2634--Executive Branch Financial Disclosure, Qualified Trusts, and
Certificates of Divestiture, as supplemented by EPA in 5 CFR part 6401.
In anticipation of this requirement, prospective candidates for service
on FIFRA SAP will be asked to submit confidential financial information
which shall fully disclose, among other financial interests, the
candidate's employment, stocks and bonds, and where applicable, sources
of research support. EPA will evaluate the candidates' financial
disclosure forms to assess whether there are financial conflicts of
interest, appearance of a loss of impartiality, or any prior
involvement with the development of the documents under consideration
(including previous scientific peer review) before the candidate is
considered further for service on FIFRA SAP. Those who are selected
from the pool of prospective candidates will be asked to attend the
public meetings and to participate in the discussion of key issues and
assumptions at these meetings. In addition, they will be asked to
review and to help finalize the meeting minutes. The list of ad hoc
participants and FIFRA SAP members participating at each meeting will
be posted on the FIFRA SAP website at https://www.epa.gov/sap or may be
obtained from the OPP Docket at https://www.regulations.gov.
II. Background
A. Purpose of FIFRA SAP
The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, Scientific
Advisory Panel (FIFRA SAP) serves as a 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. FIFRA SAP is a Federal advisory committee established in
1975 under FIFRA that operates in accordance with requirements of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. Appendix). FIFRA SAP is
composed of a permanent panel consisting of seven members who are
appointed by the EPA Administrator from nominees provided by the
National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. The
FIFRA SAP is assisted in their reviews by ad hoc participation from
members of the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) Science Review Board
(SRB). As a scientific peer review mechanism, FIFRA SAP provides
comments, evaluations, and recommendations to improve the effectiveness
and quality of analyses made by Agency scientists. The FIFRA SAP is not
required to reach consensus in its recommendations to the Agency but
consensus is a preferred outcome and possible under FACA.
At this time, EPA is seeking nominations to augment the FQPA SRB, a
pool of experts who can be available to the SAP on an ad hoc basis to
assist in peer reviews conducted by the Panel. EPA anticipates
selecting experts from this pool, as needed, to assist the SAP in their
peer review of EPA's issues related to the health and safety of
pesticides.
Authority: 15 U.S.C. 2625 et seq.; 5 U.S.C. Appendix 2 et seq.
Dated: September 19, 2018.
Stanley Barone Jr.,
Acting Director, Office of Science Coordination and Policy.
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