[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 166 (Friday, August 26, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 53454]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-21954]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0879; FRL-8885-9]
Exposure Modeling Public Meeting; Notice of Public Meeting
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: An Exposure Modeling Public Meeting (EMPM) will be held for
one day on September 20, 2011. This notice announces the location and
time for the meeting and sets forth the tentative agenda topics.
DATES: The meeting will be held on September 20, 2011 from 9 a.m. to
4:30 p.m. Requests to participate in the meeting must be received on or
before September 6, 2011. To request accommodation of a disability,
please contact the person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATON CONTACT,
preferably at least 10 days prior to the meeting, to give EPA as much
time as possible to process your request.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Environmental Protection
Agency, Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP), One Potomac Yard (South
Building), Fourth Floor Conference Center (S-4370-80), 2777 S. Crystal
Drive, Arlington, VA 22202.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Andrew Shelby, Environmental Fate and
Effects Division (7507P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-
0001; telephone number: (703) 347-0119; fax number: (703) 305-6309; e-
mail address: shelby.andrew@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. General Information
A. Does this action apply to me?
You may be potentially affected by this action if you are required
to conduct testing of chemical substances under the Toxic Substances
Control Act (TSCA), the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA),
or the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (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. If you have any questions regarding the applicability of
this action to a particular entity, consult the person listed under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
B. How can I get copies of this document and other related information?
EPA has established a docket for this action under docket ID number
EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0879. Publicly available docket materials are available
either in the electronic docket at http://www.regulations.gov, or, if
only available in hard copy, at the Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP)
Regulatory Public Docket in Rm. S-4400, One Potomac Yard (South Bldg.),
2777 S. Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. The hours of operation of this
Docket Facility are from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday,
excluding legal holidays. The Docket Facility telephone number is (703)
305-5805.
II. Background
On a biannual interval, an Exposure Modeling Public Meeting will be
held for presentation and discussion of current issues related to
modeling pesticide fate, transport, and exposure in risk assessment in
a regulatory context. Meeting dates and abstract requests are announced
through the ``empmlist'' forum on the LYRIS list server at https://lists.epa.gov/read/all_forums/.
III. How can I request to participate in this meeting?
You may submit a request to participate in this meeting to the
person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Do not submit any
information in your request that is considered CBI. Requests to
participate in the meeting, identified by docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPP-
2009-0879, must be received on or before September 6, 2011.
IV. Tentative Topics for the Meeting
Tentative topics for the meeting will include presentations related
to aquatic exposure modeling and monitoring. Specifically,
presentations will include the following:
1. Use-Exposure Relationships of Pesticides for Aquatic Risk
Assessment.
2. Refinements to the USEPA Tier II Drinking Water Risk Assessment
Guidance: Addressing Atypical Use Patterns.
3. Generalized Haber's Law for Exponential Concentration Decline
with Application to Riparian-Aquatic Pesticide Ecotoxicity.
4. Pesticide Aquatic Exposure Scenarios and Modeling for Juvenile
Pacific Salmonid Flood Plain Habitat.
5. Regional Analysis of the Environmental Risk with the GIS-Base
Pesticide Risk Indicator SYNOPS.
6. Herbicide Volatilization Trumps Runoff Losses: A Multiyear
Investigation.
7. Implementation of Drift Fractions Generated by Spray Drift
Models for Exposure and Risk Assessments.
8. Percent Crop Area (PCA) Project Update.
9. Tier II Groundwater Model (PRZM-GW) Project Update.
10. Spatial Aquatic Model (SAM) Project Update.
11. Atrazine Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) Meeting Summary.
List of Subjects
Environmental protection, Modeling, Monitoring, Spray drift, Ground
water, Aquatic risk assessment, Salmonid, Atrazine, Spatial aquatic
model, Pesticides.
Dated: August 22, 2011.
Arthur-Jean Williams,
Acting Director, Environmental Fate and Effects Division, Office of
Pesticide Programs.
[FR Doc. 2011-21954 Filed 8-25-11; 8:45 am]
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