[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 171 (Thursday, September 3, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53308-53309]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-21918]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-ORD-2015-0611; FRL-9933-55-ORD]
Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Sustainable and Healthy
Communities Subcommittee Meeting--September 2015
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of
Research and Development (ORD), gives notice of a meeting of the Board
of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Sustainable and Healthy Communities
(SHC) Subcommittee.
DATES: The meeting will be held on Thursday, September 24, 2015, from
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and will continue on Friday, September 25,
2015, from 8:30 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. All times noted are Eastern
Daylight Time and are approximate. Attendees should register by
September 16, 2015, at the following Eventbrite Web site: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/us-epa-bosc-sustainable-and-healthy-communities-subcommittee-tickets-17480310078. Requests for the draft agenda or for
submitting written comments will be accepted up to September 22, 2015.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the EPA's Main Campus Facility,
C111-C, 109 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, North
Carolina 27711. Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-
HQ-ORD-2015-0611, by one of the following methods:
www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line instructions for
submitting comments.
Email: Send comments by electronic mail (email) to:
[email protected], Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2015-0611.
Fax: Fax comments to: (202) 566-0224, Attention Docket ID
No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2015-0611.
Mail: Send comments by mail to: Board of Scientific
Counselors (BOSC) Sustainable and Healthy Communities Subcommittee
Docket, Mail Code: 2822T, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, DC
20004, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2015-0611.
Hand Delivery or Courier: Deliver comments to: EPA Docket
Center (EPA/DC), Room 3334, William Jefferson Clinton West Building,
1301 Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, DC, Attention Docket ID No.
EPA-HQ-ORD-2015-0611. Note: This is not a mailing address. Deliveries
are only accepted during the docket's normal hours of operation, and
special arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed
information.
Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-
2015-0611. The EPA's policy is that all comments received will be
included in the public docket without change and may be made available
online at www.regulations.gov, including any personal information
provided, unless the comment includes information claimed to be
Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose
disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not submit information that you
consider to be CBI or otherwise protected through www.regulations.gov
or email. The www.regulations.gov Web site is an ``anonymous access''
system, which means the EPA will not know your identity or contact
information unless you provide it in the body of your comment. If you
send an email comment directly to the EPA without going through
www.regulations.gov, your email address will be automatically captured
and included as part of the comment that is placed in the public docket
and made available on the Internet. If you submit an electronic
comment, the EPA recommends that you include your name and other
contact information in the body of your comment. If the EPA cannot read
your comment due to technical difficulties and cannot contact you for
clarification, the EPA may not be able to consider your comment.
Electronic files should avoid the use of special characters, any form
of encryption, and be free of any defects or viruses. For additional
information about the EPA's public docket visit the EPA Docket Center
homepage at http://www.epa.gov/dockets/.
Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the
www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some
information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such
as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard copy.
Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically
in www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the Board of Scientific
Counselors (BOSC) Sustainable and Healthy Communities Subcommittee
Docket, EPA/DC, William Jefferson Clinton West Building, Room 3334,
1301 Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, DC. The Public Reading Room is
open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding
legal holidays. The telephone number for the Public Reading Room is
(202) 566-1744, and the telephone number for the ORD Docket is (202)
566-1752.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The Designated Federal Officer (DFO)
via mail at: Jace Cuj[eacute], Mail Code 8104R, Office of Science
Policy, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460;
via phone/voice mail at: (202) 564-1795; via fax at: (202) 565-2911; or
via email at: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: General Information: The BOSC was
established by the EPA to provide advice, information, and
recommendations regarding the ORD research programs. The BOSC is
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 BOSC SHC Subcommittee will hold
a meeting to deliberate on the future direction of ORD's SHC research
program.
This meeting is open to the public. Any member of the public
interested in receiving a draft agenda, attending the meeting, or
making a presentation at the meeting may contact Jace Cuj[eacute], DFO,
via any of the contact methods listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section above. Proposed agenda items for the meeting include,
but are not limited to, the following: Overview of materials provided
to the subcommittee; Overview of ORD; Overview of ORD's SHC Research
Program; Poster sessions; SHC Tools Caf[eacute]; Program and Regional
Office perspectives; Public comments; and Subcommittee discussion.
Members of the public wishing to provide comment in person should
register by September 16, 2015, via the Eventbrite site noted above and
contact the DFO directly.
Written Statements: Written statements for the public meeting
should be received by the DFO via email at the contact information
listed above by September 21, 2015. Written statements should be
supplied in one of the following electronic formats: Adobe Acrobat PDF,
MS Word, MS Power Point, or Rich Text format.
Oral Statements: In general, each individual making an oral
presentation at the public meeting will be limited to a total of three
minutes. Each person
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making an oral statement should also consider providing written
comments so that the points presented orally can be expanded upon in
writing. Interested parties should contact the DFO in writing
(preferably via email) at the contact information noted above by
September 16, 2015, to be placed on the list of public speakers for the
BOSC meeting.
For security purposes, all attendees must provide their names to
the DFO and register online at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/us-epa-bosc-sustainable-and-healthy-communities-subcommittee-tickets-17480310078 by September 16, 2015. Upon entering the EPA building,
attendees will be required to sign in with the security desk, go
through a metal detector, and show government-issued photo
identification to enter the building. Attendees are encouraged to
arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the start of the meeting to allow
sufficient time for security screening.
Information on Services for Individuals with Disabilities: For
information on access or services for individuals with disabilities,
please contact Jace Cuj[eacute] at (202) 564-1795 or [email protected].
To request accommodation of a disability, please contact Jace
Cuj[eacute], preferably at least ten days prior to the meeting, to give
the EPA as much time as possible to process your request.
Dated: August 27, 2015.
Fred S. Hauchman,
Director, Office of Science Policy.
[FR Doc. 2015-21918 Filed 9-2-15; 8:45 am]
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