81 FR 75821 - Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Chemical Safety for Sustainability Subcommittee Meeting-November 2016

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 211 (November 1, 2016)

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92- 463, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development (ORD), gives notice of a meeting of the Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Chemical Safety for Sustainability Subcommittee.

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 211 (Tuesday, November 1, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 75821-75822]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-26371]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-ORD-2015-0635; FRL-9954-79-ORD]


Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Chemical Safety for 
Sustainability Subcommittee Meeting--November 2016

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 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and 
Development (ORD), gives notice of a meeting of the Board of Scientific 
Counselors (BOSC) Chemical Safety for Sustainability Subcommittee.

DATES: The meeting will be held on Wednesday, November 16, 2016, from 
8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Thursday, November 17, 2016, from 8:30 a.m. to 
6:00 p.m., and will continue on Friday, November 18, 2016, from 8:30 
a.m. to 3:30 p.m. All times noted are Eastern Time. Attendees must 
register by November 10, 2016, online at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/us-epa-bosc-chemical-safety-for-sustainability-subcommittee-tickets-28454076910. Requests for the draft agenda or for presenting written or 
oral statements at the meeting will be accepted up to November 14, 
2016.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the EPA's Main Campus Facility, 
109 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711.

INSTRUCTIONS: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
ORD-2015-0635, 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-2015-0635.
     Fax: Fax comments to: (202) 566-0224, Attention Docket ID 
No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2015-0635.
     Mail: Send comments by mail to: Board of Scientific 
Counselors (BOSC) Chemical Safety for Sustainability Subcommittee 
Docket, Mail Code: 2822T, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, DC 
20004, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2015-0635.
     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-2015-0635. 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.
    Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2015-0635. 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 and with any disk or CD-ROM you submit. 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) Chemical Safety for Sustainability 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 via 
mail at: Megan Fleming, 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) 564-6604; or via email at: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    General Information: The meeting is open to the public. Any member 
of the public interested in attending the meeting must register by 
November 10, 2016, online at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/us-epa-bosc-chemical-safety-for-sustainability-subcommittee-tickets-28454076910. 
Any member of the public interested in receiving a draft agenda, 
attending the meeting, or presenting written or oral statements at the 
meeting should contact Megan Fleming via any of the contact methods 
listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section above.
    For security purposes, all attendees must go through a metal 
detector, sign in with the security desk, 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. Proposed agenda items for the 
meeting include, but are not limited to, the following: Overview of 
materials provided to the subcommittee; Overview of ORD's Chemical 
Safety for Sustainability Research Program; A short update from ORD's 
Human Health Risk Assessment Research Program; Poster session; and 
Subcommittee discussion.
    Written Statements: Written statements for the public meeting 
should be received by Megan Fleming via email at the contact 
information listed above by November 14, 2016. Written statements 
should be supplied in one of the following electronic

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formats: Adobe Acrobat PDF, MS Word, MS Power Point, or Rich Text 
format.
    Oral Statements: In general, each individual making an oral 
statement at the public meeting will be limited to a total of three 
minutes. Each person 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 Megan 
Fleming in writing (preferably via email) at the contact information 
noted above by November 14, 2016, to be placed on the list of public 
speakers for the BOSC meeting.
    Information on Services for Individuals with Disabilities: For 
information on access or services for individuals with disabilities, 
please contact Megan Fleming at (202) 564-6604 or 
[email protected]. To request accommodation of a disability, please 
contact Megan Fleming, preferably at least ten days prior to the 
meeting, to give the EPA as much time as possible to process your 
request.

    Dated: October 25, 2016.
Fred S. Hauchman,
Director, Office of Science Policy.
[FR Doc. 2016-26371 Filed 10-31-16; 8:45 am]
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