81 FR 59621 - Request for Nominations of Experts To Augment the Science Advisory Board Ecological Processes and Effects Committee To Provide Advice on Methods for Deriving Water Quality Criteria for the Protection of Aquatic Life
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 168 (August 30, 2016)
Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 168 (August 30, 2016)
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[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 168 (Tuesday, August 30, 2016)] [Notices] [Pages 59621-59622] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2016-20851] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [FRL-9951-65-OA] Request for Nominations of Experts To Augment the Science Advisory Board Ecological Processes and Effects Committee To Provide Advice on Methods for Deriving Water Quality Criteria for the Protection of Aquatic Life AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), SAB Staff Office is requesting public nominations of scientific experts to augment the SAB Ecological Processes and Effects Committee (EPEC) for review of a draft EPA document entitled ``Scope and Approach for Revising USEPA's Guidelines for Deriving National Water Quality Criteria to Protect Aquatic Life.'' DATES: Nominations should be submitted by September 20, 2016 per the instructions below. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any member of the public wishing further information regarding this Notice and Request for Nominations may contact the Designated Federal Officer, as identified below. Nominators unable to submit nominations electronically as described below may contact the Designated Federal Officer for assistance. General information concerning the EPA SAB can be found at the EPA SAB Web site at http://www.epa.gov/sab. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background: The SAB (42 U.S.C. 4365) is a chartered Federal Advisory Committee that provides independent scientific and technical peer review, advice, consultation, and recommendations to the EPA Administrator on the technical basis for EPA actions. As a Federal Advisory Committee, the SAB conducts business in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) (5 U.S.C. App. 2) and related regulations. The SAB Ecological Process and Effects Committee (EPEC) is a subcommittee of the SAB that provides advice through the chartered SAB on technical issues related to EPA environmental programs and the supporting science and research to protect, sustain, and restore the health of ecosystems. The SAB and the EPEC, augmented with additional experts, will comply with the provisions of FACA and all appropriate SAB Staff Office procedural policies. The augmented EPEC will provide advice through the chartered SAB on scientific and technical issues related to the Agency's proposed methods for revising and updating water quality criteria, as described in the Agency's draft scoping document, entitled ``Scope and Approach for Revising USEPA's Guidelines for Deriving National Water Quality Criteria to Protect Aquatic Life.'' This draft document provides an overview of the framework EPA proposes to use for the phased revision of the 1985 Guidelines for Deriving Numerical Water Quality Criteria for the Protection of Aquatic Organisms and Their Uses by outlining the planned scope and approach of the Guidelines revision process and introducing new and alternative methods to be considered for deriving aquatic life criteria based on the latest and most appropriate science available. EPA's Office of Water (OW) requested an SAB consultation (i.e., early advice) on their draft approach for updating and revising the EPA's 1985 methodology for deriving national Ambient Water Quality Criteria to protect aquatic life, as described in the draft scoping document. The SAB Staff Office is seeking experts to augment the SAB EPEC for this advisory activity. EPA's OW has also requested reviews of two subsequent and related draft documents: ``Draft Expedited Methodologies for Deriving Water Quality Criteria for the Protection of Aquatic Life'' and ``Draft Revised USEPA Guidelines for Deriving Numeric Water Quality Criteria for the Protection of Aquatic Life.'' These draft documents are currently scheduled for completion as drafts in late 2017 and mid-2019. Technical Contact for EPA's Draft Report: For information concerning the draft EPA report, ``Scope and Approach for Revising USEPA's Guidelines for Deriving National Water Quality Criteria to Protect Aquatic Life,'' please contact Mike Elias, Ecological Risk Assessment Branch, Health and Ecological Criteria Division, Office of Water, U.S. EPA, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460, phone (202) 566-0120 or via email at [email protected]. Request for Nominations: The SAB Staff Office is seeking nominations of nationally and internationally recognized scientists with demonstrated expertise and research to augment the EPEC for the consultation and subsequent reviews of methods for revising Water Quality Criteria. For this effort, the SAB Staff Office seeks experts in one or more of the following areas: Aquatic toxicology; ecotoxicology; aquatic ecology; ecological risk assessment; ecological effects modeling; and statistics, especially as applied to developing robust computational methods for estimating acute and chronic effects of water pollutants on aquatic life and aquatic-dependent wildlife. Additional information about this advisory activity is available on the SAB Web site at http://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/fedrgstr_activites/1985%20WQ%20Criteria%20Guidelines%20Revision?OpenDocument. Questions regarding this advisory activity should be directed to Iris Goodman, Designated Federal Officer (DFO), SAB Staff Office, by telephone/voice mail at (202) 564-2164, by fax at (202) 565-2098, or via email at [email protected]. Process and Deadline for Submitting Nominations: Any interested person or organization may nominate qualified individuals in the areas of expertise described above for possible service on the augmented EPEC panel described above. Nominations should be submitted in electronic format (preferred over hard copy) using the online nomination form under the ``Nomination of Experts'' category at the bottom of the SAB home page at http://www.epa.gov/sab. To receive full consideration, nominations should include all of the information requested below. EPA's SAB Staff Office requests contact information about the person making the nomination; contact information about the nominee; the disciplinary and specific areas of expertise of the nominee; the nominee's resume or curriculum vitae; sources of recent grant and/or contract support; and a biographical sketch of the nominee indicating current position, educational background, research activities, and recent service on other national advisory committees or national professional organizations. Persons having questions about the nomination procedures, or who are unable to submit nominations through the SAB Web site, should contact Iris Goodman as indicated above in this notice. Nominations should be [[Page 59622]] submitted in time to arrive no later than September 20, 2016. EPA values and welcomes diversity. In an effort to obtain nominations of diverse candidates, EPA encourages nominations of women and men of all racial and ethnic groups. The EPA SAB Staff Office will acknowledge receipt of nominations. The names and biosketches of qualified nominees identified by respondents to this Federal Register notice, and additional experts identified by the SAB Staff, will be posted in a List of Candidates for the EPEC Augmented for Review of Aquatic Life Water Quality Criteria Methods on the SAB Web site at http://www.epa.gov/sab (see links under ``Public Input on Membership'' at the bottom of the SAB home page). Public comments on the List of Candidates will be accepted for 21 days. The public will be requested to provide relevant information or other documentation on nominees that the SAB Staff Office should consider in evaluating candidates. For the EPA SAB Staff Office a balanced review panel includes candidates who possess the necessary domains of knowledge, the relevant scientific perspectives (which, among other factors, can be influenced by work history and affiliation), and the collective breadth of experience to adequately address the charge. In forming the augmented EPEC, the SAB Staff Office will consider public comments on the List of Candidates, information provided by the candidates themselves, and background information independently gathered by the SAB Staff Office. Selection criteria to be used for panel membership include: (a) Scientific and/or technical expertise, knowledge, and experience (primary factors); (b) availability and willingness to serve; (c) absence of financial conflicts of interest; (d) absence of an appearance of a loss of impartiality; (e) skills working in committees, subcommittees and advisory panels; and, (f) for the panel as a whole, diversity of expertise and scientific points of view. The SAB Staff Office's evaluation of an absence of financial conflicts of interest will include a review of the ``Confidential Financial Disclosure Form for Environmental Protection Agency Special Government Employees'' (EPA Form 3110-48). This confidential form allows government officials to determine whether there is a statutory conflict between a person's public responsibilities (which include membership on an EPA federal advisory committee) and private interests and activities, or the appearance of a loss of impartiality, as defined by federal regulation. The form may be viewed and downloaded from the following URL address http://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/Web/ethics?OpenDocument. The approved policy under which the EPA SAB Office selects members for subcommittees and review panels is described in the following document: Overview of the Panel Formation Process at the Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board (EPA-SAB-EC-02-010), which is posted on the SAB Web site at http://www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/ec02010.pdf. Dated: August 24, 2016. Christopher S. Zarba, Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office. [FR Doc. 2016-20851 Filed 8-29-16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560-50-P
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docket(s). For assistance with any FERC Advisory Committee Act (FACA) (5 566–0120 or via email at elias.mike@
Online service, please email U.S.C. App. 2) and related regulations. epa.gov.
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call The SAB Ecological Process and Effects Request for Nominations: The SAB
(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call Committee (EPEC) is a subcommittee of Staff Office is seeking nominations of
(202) 502–8659. the SAB that provides advice through nationally and internationally
Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern the chartered SAB on technical issues recognized scientists with demonstrated
Time on September 14, 2016. related to EPA environmental programs expertise and research to augment the
and the supporting science and research EPEC for the consultation and
Dated: August 24, 2016.
to protect, sustain, and restore the subsequent reviews of methods for
Kimberly D. Bose,
health of ecosystems. The SAB and the revising Water Quality Criteria. For this
Secretary. EPEC, augmented with additional effort, the SAB Staff Office seeks experts
[FR Doc. 2016–20753 Filed 8–29–16; 8:45 am] experts, will comply with the provisions in one or more of the following areas:
BILLING CODE 6717–01–P of FACA and all appropriate SAB Staff Aquatic toxicology; ecotoxicology;
Office procedural policies. The aquatic ecology; ecological risk
augmented EPEC will provide advice assessment; ecological effects modeling;
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION through the chartered SAB on scientific and statistics, especially as applied to
AGENCY and technical issues related to the developing robust computational
Agency’s proposed methods for revising methods for estimating acute and
[FRL–9951–65–OA]
and updating water quality criteria, as chronic effects of water pollutants on
Request for Nominations of Experts To described in the Agency’s draft scoping aquatic life and aquatic-dependent
Augment the Science Advisory Board document, entitled ‘‘Scope and wildlife. Additional information about
Ecological Processes and Effects Approach for Revising USEPA’s this advisory activity is available on the
Committee To Provide Advice on Guidelines for Deriving National Water SAB Web site at http://
Methods for Deriving Water Quality Quality Criteria to Protect Aquatic Life.’’ yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/
Criteria for the Protection of Aquatic This draft document provides an fedrgstr_activites/1985%20
Life overview of the framework EPA WQ%20Criteria%20Guidelines%20
proposes to use for the phased revision Revision?OpenDocument. Questions
AGENCY: Environmental Protection of the 1985 Guidelines for Deriving regarding this advisory activity should
Agency (EPA). Numerical Water Quality Criteria for the be directed to Iris Goodman, Designated
ACTION: Notice. Protection of Aquatic Organisms and Federal Officer (DFO), SAB Staff Office,
Their Uses by outlining the planned by telephone/voice mail at (202) 564–
SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection scope and approach of the Guidelines 2164, by fax at (202) 565–2098, or via
Agency (EPA), SAB Staff Office is revision process and introducing new email at goodman.iris@epa.gov.
requesting public nominations of and alternative methods to be Process and Deadline for Submitting
scientific experts to augment the SAB considered for deriving aquatic life Nominations: Any interested person or
Ecological Processes and Effects criteria based on the latest and most organization may nominate qualified
Committee (EPEC) for review of a draft appropriate science available. individuals in the areas of expertise
EPA document entitled ‘‘Scope and EPA’s Office of Water (OW) requested described above for possible service on
Approach for Revising USEPA’s an SAB consultation (i.e., early advice) the augmented EPEC panel described
Guidelines for Deriving National Water on their draft approach for updating and above. Nominations should be
Quality Criteria to Protect Aquatic Life.’’ revising the EPA’s 1985 methodology submitted in electronic format
DATES: Nominations should be for deriving national Ambient Water (preferred over hard copy) using the
submitted by September 20, 2016 per Quality Criteria to protect aquatic life, online nomination form under the
the instructions below. as described in the draft scoping ‘‘Nomination of Experts’’ category at the
document. The SAB Staff Office is bottom of the SAB home page at http://
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any
seeking experts to augment the SAB www.epa.gov/sab. To receive full
member of the public wishing further consideration, nominations should
EPEC for this advisory activity. EPA’s
information regarding this Notice and OW has also requested reviews of two include all of the information requested
Request for Nominations may contact subsequent and related draft documents: below. EPA’s SAB Staff Office requests
the Designated Federal Officer, as ‘‘Draft Expedited Methodologies for contact information about the person
identified below. Nominators unable to Deriving Water Quality Criteria for the making the nomination; contact
submit nominations electronically as Protection of Aquatic Life’’ and ‘‘Draft information about the nominee; the
described below may contact the Revised USEPA Guidelines for Deriving disciplinary and specific areas of
Designated Federal Officer for Numeric Water Quality Criteria for the expertise of the nominee; the nominee’s
assistance. General information Protection of Aquatic Life.’’ These draft resume or curriculum vitae; sources of
concerning the EPA SAB can be found documents are currently scheduled for recent grant and/or contract support;
at the EPA SAB Web site at http:// completion as drafts in late 2017 and and a biographical sketch of the
www.epa.gov/sab. mid-2019. nominee indicating current position,
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Technical Contact for EPA’s Draft educational background, research
Background: The SAB (42 U.S.C. Report: For information concerning the activities, and recent service on other
4365) is a chartered Federal Advisory draft EPA report, ‘‘Scope and Approach national advisory committees or
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Committee that provides independent for Revising USEPA’s Guidelines for national professional organizations.
scientific and technical peer review, Deriving National Water Quality Criteria Persons having questions about the
advice, consultation, and to Protect Aquatic Life,’’ please contact nomination procedures, or who are
recommendations to the EPA Mike Elias, Ecological Risk Assessment unable to submit nominations through
Administrator on the technical basis for Branch, Health and Ecological Criteria the SAB Web site, should contact Iris
EPA actions. As a Federal Advisory Division, Office of Water, U.S. EPA, Goodman as indicated above in this
Committee, the SAB conducts business 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., notice. Nominations should be
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submitted in time to arrive no later than impartiality, as defined by federal parties should monitor the
September 20, 2016. EPA values and regulation. The form may be viewed and Subcommittee Web site (above) for the
welcomes diversity. In an effort to downloaded from the following URL latest logistical information.
obtain nominations of diverse address http://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/ FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
candidates, EPA encourages sabproduct.nsf/Web/ethics?Open Courtney McCubbin, Designated Federal
nominations of women and men of all Document. Officer, Transportation and Climate
racial and ethnic groups. The approved policy under which the Division, Mailcode 6406A, U.S. EPA,
The EPA SAB Staff Office will EPA SAB Office selects members for 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.,
acknowledge receipt of nominations. subcommittees and review panels is Washington, DC 20460; Ph: 202–564–
The names and biosketches of qualified described in the following document: 2436; email: mccubbin.courtney@
nominees identified by respondents to Overview of the Panel Formation epa.gov.
this Federal Register notice, and Process at the Environmental Protection Background on the work of the
additional experts identified by the SAB Agency Science Advisory Board (EPA– Subcommittee is available at: https://
Staff, will be posted in a List of SAB–EC–02–010), which is posted on www.epa.gov/caaac/mobile-sources-
Candidates for the EPEC Augmented for the SAB Web site at http:// technical-review-subcommittee-mstrs-
Review of Aquatic Life Water Quality www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/ec02010.pdf. caaac Individuals or organizations
Criteria Methods on the SAB Web site wishing to provide comments to the
Dated: August 24, 2016.
at http://www.epa.gov/sab (see links Subcommittee should submit them to
Christopher S. Zarba,
under ‘‘Public Input on Membership’’ at Ms. McCubbin at the address above by
the bottom of the SAB home page). Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff
Office. October 4, 2016. The Subcommittee
Public comments on the List of
[FR Doc. 2016–20851 Filed 8–29–16; 8:45 am] expects that public statements presented
Candidates will be accepted for 21 days.
at its meetings will not be repetitive of
The public will be requested to provide BILLING CODE 6560–50–P
previously submitted oral or written
relevant information or other
statements.
documentation on nominees that the
SAB Staff Office should consider in ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: During the
evaluating candidates. AGENCY meeting, the Subcommittee may also
For the EPA SAB Staff Office a [FRL–9951–66–OAR] hear progress reports from some of its
balanced review panel includes workgroups as well as updates and
candidates who possess the necessary Meeting of the Mobile Sources announcements on activities of general
domains of knowledge, the relevant Technical Review Subcommittee interest to attendees.
scientific perspectives (which, among For Individuals With Disabilities: For
other factors, can be influenced by work AGENCY: Environmental Protection
information on access or services for
history and affiliation), and the Agency (EPA).
individuals with disabilities, please
collective breadth of experience to ACTION: Notice of meeting. contact Ms. McCubbin (see above). To
adequately address the charge. In SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal request accommodation of a disability,
forming the augmented EPEC, the SAB Advisory Committee Act, Public Law please contact Ms. McCubbin,
Staff Office will consider public 92–463, notice is hereby given that the preferably at least 10 days prior to the
comments on the List of Candidates, Mobile Sources Technical Review meeting, to give EPA as much time as
information provided by the candidates Subcommittee (MSTRS) will meet on possible to process your request.
themselves, and background
October 18, 2016. The MSTRS is a Dated: August 23, 2016.
information independently gathered by
subcommittee under the Clean Air Act Benjamin Hengst,
the SAB Staff Office. Selection criteria
Advisory Committee. This is an open Acting Director, Office of Transportation and
to be used for panel membership
meeting. The meeting will include Air Quality.
include: (a) Scientific and/or technical
discussion of current topics and [FR Doc. 2016–20852 Filed 8–29–16; 8:45 am]
expertise, knowledge, and experience
presentations about activities being
(primary factors); (b) availability and BILLING CODE 6560–50–P
conducted by EPA’s Office of
willingness to serve; (c) absence of
Transportation and Air Quality. The
financial conflicts of interest; (d)
preliminary agenda for the meeting and
absence of an appearance of a loss of FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
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committees, subcommittees and be posted on the Subcommittee’s Web
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agenda is available on the Commission Under Delegated
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‘‘Confidential Financial Disclosure the MSTRS listserv, send an email to AGENCY: Federal Communications
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statutory conflict between a person’s scheduled to be held at The Willard to reduce paperwork burdens, and as
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| Dates | Nominations should be submitted by September 20, 2016 per the instructions below. | |
| Contact | Any member of the public wishing further information regarding this Notice and Request for Nominations may contact the Designated Federal Officer, as identified below. Nominators unable to submit nominations electronically as described below may contact the Designated Federal Officer for assistance. General information concerning the EPA SAB can be found at the EPA SAB Web site at http://www.epa.gov/sab. | |
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