[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 50 (Wednesday, March 14, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 15099]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-6051]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0879; FRL-9341-4]
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 March 20, 2012. This notice announces the location and time
for the meeting and sets forth the tentative agenda topics.
DATES: The meeting will be held on March 20, 2012, from 9 a.m. to 4
p.m. Requests to participate in the meeting must be received on or
before March 19, 2012.
To request accommodation of a disability, please contact the person
listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATON CONTACT, preferably at least 5 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: Katrina White, Environmental Fate and
Effects Division (7507P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460-
0001; telephone number: (703) 308-4536; fax number: (703) 305-6309;
email address: white.katrina@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, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, or the Federal
Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. 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 EMPM will be held for presentation and
discussion of current issues related to modeling pesticide fate,
transport, and exposure of 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 Confidential Business
Information. Requests to participate in the meeting, identified by
docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0879, must be received on or before
March 19, 2012.
IV. Tentative Topics for the Meeting
North American Free Trade Agreement Guidance for
Calculating Degradation Kinetics in Environmental Media
Pesticide Root Zone Model--Ground Water (PRZM-GW) Update
Measuring and Estimating Concentrations in Drinking Water:
A Historical Perspective
Improved Characterization of the Temporal and Spatial
Variability of Potential Surface Water Drinking Water Exposure by Using
Environmental and Historic Monitoring Databases
Estimating Upper Centrile Pesticide Concentrations and
Sample Size Requirement
Estimation of Upper Percentiles of Chlorpyrifos Surface
Water Concentration from Yearly Monitoring Program Data
Sampling Plans for Water Quality Assessment
Update on Development of Drinking Water Intake Watershed
PCAs
Exposure Assessment for Pronamide Drinking Water Residues
in California Central Coast Lettuce Production Areas
Hybrid PRZM: ``Filling in the Gaps'' in Field Sampling
Data Using Realistic Simulation Modeling
List of Subjects
Environmental protection, Degradation kinetics, Exposure
assessment, Pesticide models, Pronamide, PRZM, Watershed PCAs.
Dated: March 7, 2012.
D.J. Brady,
Director, Environmental Fate and Effects Division, Office of Pesticide
Programs.
[FR Doc. 2012-6051 Filed 3-13-12; 8:45 am]
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