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Board of Scientific Counselors, Executive Committee Meeting-- February 2006

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[Federal Register: January 23, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 14)]
[Notices]
[Page 3509-3510]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-ORD-2006-0031; FRL-8023-6]
 
Board of Scientific Counselors, Executive Committee Meeting--
February 2006

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-
463, the Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and 
Development (ORD), gives notice of one meeting of the Board of 
Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Executive Committee.

DATES: The meeting will be held on Monday, February 13, 2006 from 8:30 
a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The meeting will continue on Tuesday, February 14, 
2006 from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. All times noted are eastern time. The 
meeting may adjourn early if all business is finished. Requests for the 
draft agenda or for making oral presentations at the meeting will be 
accepted up to 1 business day before the meeting.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Grand Hyatt Washington 
hotel, 1000 H Street, NW., Washington, DC 20001. Submit your comments, 
identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2006-0031, by one of the 
following methods:
    ? http://www.regulations.gov: Exit Disclaimer Follow the on-line 
instructions for submitting comments.
    ? E-mail: Send comments by electronic mail (e-mail) to: 
ORD.Docket@epa.gov, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2006-0031.
    ? Fax: Fax comments to: (202) 566-0224, Attention Docket ID 
No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2006-0031.
    ? Mail: Send comments by mail to: Board of Scientific 
Counselors, Executive Committee Meeting--February 2006 Docket, 
Mailcode: 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC, 20460, 
Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2006-0031.
    ? Hand Delivery or Courier. Deliver comments to: EPA Docket 
Center (EPA/DC), Room B102, EPA West Building, 1301 Constitution 
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2006-0031.

    Note: This is not a mailing address. Such 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-2006-

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0031. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included in 
the public docket without change and may be made available online at 
http://www.regulations.gov, Exit Disclaimer 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 
http://www.regulations.gov Exit Disclaimer or e-mail. The http://www.regulations.gov 
Exit Disclaimer Web site is an ``anonymous access'' system, which means EPA will not 
know your identity or contact information unless you provide it in the 
body of your comment. If you send an e-mail comment directly to EPA 
without going through http://www.regulations.gov, Exit Disclaimer 
your e-mail 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, EPA recommends that you include your name and other contact 
information in the body of your comment and with any disk or CD-ROM you 
submit. If EPA cannot read your comment due to technical difficulties 
and cannot contact you for clarification, 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 EPA's public docket visit the 
EPA Docket Center homepage at http://www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm
    Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the 
http://www.regulations.gov Exit Disclaimer 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 http://www.regulations.gov Exit Disclaimer or in hard copy at the Board of 
Scientific Counselors, Executive Committee--February 2006 Docket, EPA/
DC, EPA West, Room B102, 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 via 
mail at: Lorelei Kowalski, Mail Code 8104-R, Office of Science Policy, 
Office of Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency, 
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; via phone/voice 
mail at: (202) 564-3408; via fax at: (202) 565-2911; or via e-mail at: 
kowalski.lorelei@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

General Information

    Any member of the public interested in receiving a draft BOSC 
agenda or making a presentation at the meeting may contact Lorelei 
Kowalski, the Designated Federal Officer, via any of the contact 
methods listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section above. In 
general, each individual making an oral presentation will be limited to 
a total of three minutes.
    Proposed agenda items for the meeting include, but are not limited 
to: discussion of draft reports from the Global Change and Land 
Subcommittees, and draft letter report from the Management Multi-Year 
Plan Workgroup; update on subcommittees for the Water Quality, Science 
to Achieve Results (STAR)/Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) 
Fellowship, and Technology for Sustainability program reviews; update 
on the Computational Toxicology Subcommittee; update on the BOSC risk 
assessment workshop held in February 2005; briefing on ORD's technology 
for sustainability research program; presentation of ORD responses to 
four recent BOSC reports; update on EPA's Science Advisory Board 
activities; discussion of emerging science issues; and future issues 
and plans. The meeting is open to the public.
    Information on Services for Individuals with Disabilities: For 
information on access or services for individuals with disabilities, 
please contact Lorelei Kowalski at (202) 564-3408 or 
kowalski.lorelei@epa.gov. To request accommodation of a disability, 
please contact Lorelei Kowalski, preferably at least 10 days prior to 
the meeting, to give EPA as much time as possible to process your request.

    Dated: January 13, 2006.
Mary Ellen Radzikowski,
Acting Director, Office of Science Policy.
[FR Doc. E6-726 Filed 1-20-06; 8:45 am]
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