FYI, for anyone who may be interested. Wendy T. --------------------- Forwarded message: From: [log in to unmask] (envsubset) Sender: [log in to unmask] Reply-to: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] (Multiple recipients of list) Date: 96-11-18 15:30:48 EST [Federal Register: November 18, 1996 (Volume 61, Number 223)] [Notices] [Page 58683-58684] >From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [FRL-5652-8] Science Advisory Board; Notification of Public Advisory Committee Meeting Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, notice is hereby given that the Integrated Human Exposure Committee (IHEC) of the Science Advisory Board (SAB) will meet on December 19-20, 1996 at the Environmental Protection Agency's Waterside Mall Complex, 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460 in Room M2103. For convenient access, members of the public should use the EPA entrance next to the Safeway store. The meeting will start at 9:00 a.m. and end no later that 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) each day. All meetings are open to the public. Due to limited space, seating at meetings will be on a first-come basis. Purpose of the Meeting--The main purpose of the meeting is to discuss and review the EPA Office of Research and Development's (ORD) draft Exposure Factors Handbook, which is intended to revise the extant (published in March 1990) version of the Handbook. The Handbook is intended to encourage consistency in exposure assessments, while allowing risk assessors the flexibility to tailor assessment approaches to specific situations. This Handbook provides a summary of the available data on consumption of drinking water; consumption of fruits, vegetables, beef, dairy products, and fish, soil ingestion; inhalation rates; skin surface area; lifetime; activity patterns; and body weight. Since publication of the 1990 document, new data on exposure factors have become available, and revision was necessary to update the Handbook. The Committee is being asked to review the revised Handbook, addressing: a) its consistency with EPA's published Exposure Guidelines; b) usefulness of its data presentation to exposure assessors; c) the way in which supporting studies have been grouped vis-a-vis the exposure factors being evaluated; and d) data interpretation and characterization of uncertainty. For Further Information--Single copies of the review document can be obtained by contacting the ORD Center for Environmental Research Information (CERI) at (513) 569-7562. The EPA document numbers are: EPA/600/P-95/002Ba (for volume I); EPA/600/P-95/002Bb (for volume II); and EPA/600/P-95/002Bc (for volume III). PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS DOCUMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE FROM THE SAB. Members of the public desiring additional technical information about the draft Handbook should contact Ms. Jacqueline Moya (8623), US EPA, 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460, telephone (202) 260-2385, or by sending a request via Internet to [log in to unmask] Members of the public desiring additional information about the meeting, including a draft agenda, should contact Ms. Dorothy Clark, Staff Secretary, Science Advisory Board (1400), US EPA, 401 M Street, SW, Washington DC 20460, telephone (202) 260-8414, fax (202) 260-7118, or Internet at: [log in to unmask] Anyone wishing to make an oral presentation at the meeting must contact Mr. Samuel Rondberg, Designated Federal Official for the IHEC, in writing at the above address no later than 4:00 p.m., December 10, 1996 via fax (202) 260- 7118 or via Internet at: [log in to unmask] The request should identify the name of the individual who will make the presentation and an outline of the issues to be addressed. At least 35 copies of any written comments to the Committee are to be given to Mr. Rondberg no later than the time of the presentation for distribution to the Committee and the interested public. Mr. Rondberg may be contacted by telephone at (202) 260-2559. [[Page 58684]] Dated: November 7, 1996. Donald G. Barnes, Staff Director, Science Advisory Board. [FR Doc. 96-29453 Filed 11-15-96; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560-50-P