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Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Clean Air Scientific
Advisory Committee (CASAC) Notification of Advisory Committee Meeting
of the CASAC Particulate Matter Review Panel
[Federal Register: August 25, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 164)]
[Notices]
[Page 52255-52256]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Clean Air Scientific
Advisory Committee (CASAC) Notification of Advisory Committee Meeting
of the CASAC Particulate Matter Review Panel
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory
Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a public teleconference of the Clean
Air Scientific Advisory Committee's (CASAC) Particulate Matter (PM)
Review Panel to discuss follow-on matters related to its ongoing peer
review of the EPA Air Quality Criteria Document for Particulate Matter
(Fourth External Review Draft).
DATES: The teleconference meeting will be held September 20, 2004, from
11 a.m. to 3 p.m. (Eastern Time).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any member of the public who wishes to
obtain the teleconference call-in numbers and access codes; would like
to submit written or brief oral comments (5 minutes or less); or wants
further information concerning this meeting, must contact Mr. Fred
Butterfield, Designated Federal Officer (DFO), EPA Science Advisory
Board (1400F), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; via telephone/voice mail: (202) 343-
9994; fax: (202) 233-0643; or e-mail at: butterfield.fred@epa.gov.
General information concerning the CASAC or the EPA Science Advisory
Board can be found on the EPA Web site at: http://www.epa.gov/sab.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Summary: The CASAC, which comprises seven members appointed by the
EPA Administrator, was established under section 109(d)(2) of the Clean
Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7409) as an independent scientific advisory
committee, in part to provide advice, information and recommendations
on the scientific and technical aspects of issues related to air
quality criteria and national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS)
under sections 108 and 109 of the Act. The CASAC is a Federal advisory
committee chartered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), as
amended, 5 U.S.C., App. The CASAC PM Review Panel will comply with the
provisions of FACA and all appropriate SAB Staff Office procedural
policies.
The teleconference is a continuation of the PM Review Panel's peer
review of the EPA Air Quality Criteria for Particulate Matter (Fourth
External Review Draft). Specifically, this meeting will be held to
discuss the revisions to Chapter 9 (Integrative Synthesis) of the
Fourth External Review Draft of the Air Quality Criteria Document
(AQCD) for PM. The report from the CASAC PM Review Panel's last meeting
to review this draft document, held on July 20-21, 2004, will soon be
posted on the SAB Web site at: http://www.epa.gov/sab.
Background: EPA is in the process of updating, and revising where
appropriate, the AQCD for PM as issued in 1996. Section 109(d)(1) of
the Clean Air Act (CAA) requires that EPA carry out a periodic review
and revision, where appropriate, of the air quality criteria and the
National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ``criteria'' air
pollutants such as PM. On June 30, 2003, the National Center for
Environmental Assessment (NCEA), within EPA's Office of Research and
Development, made available for public review and comment a Fourth
External Review Draft of a revised document, EPA Air Quality Criteria
for Particulate Matter. Under CAA sections 108 and 109, the purpose of
the revised document is to provide an assessment of the latest
scientific information on the effects of airborne PM on the public
health and welfare, for use in EPA's current review of the NAAQS for
PM. Detailed summary information on the history of the current draft
AQCD for PM is contained in a previous Federal Register notice (68 FR
36985, June 20, 2003). The EPA Air Quality Criteria for Particulate
Matter (Fourth External Review Draft), and the revised chapters of this
draft document, can be viewed and downloaded from the NCEA Web site at:
http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/cfm/partmatt.cfm.  Any questions
concerning the draft document should be directed to Dr. Robert Elias,
NCEA-RTP, via telephone: (919) 541-1818; or e-mail at:
elias.robert@epa.gov.
Availability of Additional Meeting Materials: A copy of the agenda
for this teleconference meeting will be posted on the SAB Web site at:
http://www.epa.gov/sab (under the ``Agendas'' subheading) in advance of
the CASAC PM Review Panel teleconference. Other materials that may be
available will also be posted on the SAB Web site during this time-
frame.
Providing Oral or Written Comments at SAB Meetings: It is the
policy of the SAB Staff Office to accept written public comments of any
length and to accommodate oral public comments whenever possible. The
SAB Staff Office expects that public statements presented at its
meetings will not be repetitive of previously-submitted oral or written
statements. Oral Comments: In general, each individual or group
requesting an oral presentation at a meeting or teleconference will be
limited to a total time of five minutes (unless otherwise indicated).
Requests to provide oral comments must be in writing (preferably via e-
mail) and received by Mr. Butterfield no later than noon Eastern Time
five business days prior to the meeting in order to reserve time on the
meeting agenda. Written Comments: The SAB Staff Office accepts written
comments until the date of the meeting or teleconference (unless
otherwise stated). Copies of both oral and written public comments
should be provided to Mr. Butterfield (preferably via e-mail) at the
address/contact information noted above, as follows: one hard copy with
original signature, and one electronic copy via e-mail (acceptable file
format: Adobe Acrobat PDF, WordPerfect, Word, or Rich Text files (in
IBM-PC/Windows 95/98 format)). All comments should be received in the
SAB Staff Office no later than noon Eastern Time five business days
prior to the meeting or teleconference so that these comments may be
made available to the CASAC PM Review Panel for their consideration.
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Dated: August 13, 2004.
Vanessa T. Vu,
Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office.
[FR Doc. 04-19438 Filed 8-24-04; 8:45 am]]
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