[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 144 (Thursday, July 28, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45317-45319]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-16155]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OPP-2022-0602; FRL-10028-01-OCSPP]
Nominations to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and
Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory Panel (FIFRA SAP); Request for
Comments
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice provides the names, addresses, and professional
affiliations of persons recently nominated to serve on the Scientific
Advisory Panel (SAP) established under the Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). The Agency, at this time,
anticipates selecting new members to serve on the panel because of the
upcoming expirations of membership terms. Current members of the SAP
are eligible for reappointment during this period. Therefore, the
appointments completed over the next year may include a mix of newly
appointed and reappointed members. Public comments on the current
nominations are invited, as these comments will be used to assist the
Agency in selecting the new members for the FIFRA SAP.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before August 29, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification
(ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2022-0602, through the Federal eRulemaking
Portal at https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions
for submitting comments. Do not submit electronically any information
you consider to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other
information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Additional
instructions on commenting and visiting the docket, along with more
information about dockets generally, is available at https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steven M. Knott, MS, Designated
Federal Officer (DFO) and Chief of the Peer Review and Ethics Branch,
Mission Support Division (7602M), Office of Program Support, Office of
Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, Environmental Protection
Agency; telephone number: (202) 564-0103; email address:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. General Information
A. Does this action apply to me?
This action is directed to the public in general. This action may,
however, be of interest to persons who are or may be required to
conduct testing of chemical substances under the Federal Food, Drug,
and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) and FIFRA. Given other entities may also be
interested, the Agency has not attempted to describe all the specific
entities that may be affected by this action. If you have any questions
regarding the applicability of this action to a particular entity,
consult the DFO listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
B. What should I consider as I prepare my comments for EPA?
1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit CBI information to EPA through
regulations.gov or email. If your comments contain any information that
you consider to be CBI or otherwise protected, please contact the DFO
listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT to obtain special
instructions before submitting your comments. Information properly
marked as CBI will not be disclosed except in accordance with the
procedures set forth in 40 CFR part 2.
2. Tips for preparing your comments. When preparing and submitting
your comments, see the commenting tips at https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets#tips.
C. What action is the Agency taking?
This document identifies persons recently nominated to serve on the
SAP, from which the Agency, at this time, anticipates selecting new
members to serve on the panel because of the upcoming expirations of
membership terms. Public comments on these current nominations are
invited, as these comments will be used to assist the Agency in
selecting the new members for the FIFRA SAP.
D. What is the Agency's authority for taking this action?
The Panel is a federal advisory committee, established in 1975
under FIFRA (7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.), that operates in accordance with
requirements of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) (5 U.S.C.
appendix 2). In accordance with FACA requirements, a Charter for the
FIFRA SAP, dated October 17, 2020, provides for open meetings with
opportunities for public participation.
II. Background
The FIFRA SAP serves as a scientific peer review mechanism of EPA's
Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP) and is
structured to provide independent scientific advice, information, and
recommendations to the EPA Administrator on pesticides and pesticide-
related issues as to the impact of regulatory actions on health and the
environment. The FIFRA SAP is composed of a permanent panel consisting
of seven members who are appointed by the EPA Administrator from
nominees provided by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the
National Science Foundation (NSF). Members serve staggered terms of
appointment, generally of three to six years duration. FIFRA
established a Science Review Board (SRB) consisting of at least 60
scientists who are available to the FIFRA SAP on an ad hoc basis to
assist in reviews conducted by the FIFRA SAP.
As a scientific peer review mechanism, the FIFRA SAP provides
comments, evaluations, and recommendations to improve the effectiveness
and quality of analyses made by Agency scientists. Members of the FIFRA
SAP are scientists who have sufficient professional qualifications,
including training and experience, to provide expert advice and
recommendations to the Agency.
III. Nominees
A. Qualifications of Members
Members are scientists who have sufficient professional
qualifications, including training and experience, to provide expert
comments on the impact of pesticides on human health and the
environment. In accordance with FIFRA section 25(d)(1), the
Administrator shall require nominees to the FIFRA SAP to furnish
information concerning their
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professional qualifications, including educational background,
employment history, and scientific publications. No persons shall be
ineligible to serve on the FIFRA SAP by reason of their membership on
any other advisory committee to a federal department or agency, or
their employment by a federal department or agency (except EPA). FIFRA
further stipulates that the Agency publish the name, address, and
professional affiliation of the nominees in the Federal Register.
B. Applicability of Existing Regulations
With respect to the requirements of FIFRA section 25(d) that the
Administrator promulgate regulations regarding conflicts of interest,
FIFRA SAP members are subject to the provisions of the Standards of
Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch at 5 CFR part
2635, conflict of interest statutes in Title 18 of the United States
Code, and related regulations. Each nominee selected by the
Administrator, before being formally appointed, is required to submit a
Confidential Financial Disclosure Form, which shall fully disclose,
among other financial interests, the nominee's sources of research
support, if any.
C. Process of Obtaining Nominees
In accordance with the provisions of FIFRA section 25(d), on March
24, 2022, EPA requested that the NIH and the NSF nominate scientists to
fill vacancies occurring on the FIFRA SAP. The Agency requested
nominations of experts in the fields of ecological and human health
risk assessment with specific expertise in terrestrial ecotoxicology
and environmental fate modeling; nano technologies (especially related
to exposure and hazard assessments); and microbiology, including
antimicrobial susceptibility of a broad range of microorganism types.
The Agency noted that experts with specific experience in risk
assessment, dose response analysis, computational toxicology (new
approach methodologies and in vitro to in vivo extrapolation),
allergenicity, population modeling, cheminformatics, bioinformatics,
and genomics are preferred. NIH and NSF responded, providing the Agency
with a total of 64 nominees. Of these nominees, 24 are interested and
available to actively participate in FIFRA SAP meetings (see Unit
III.D.). The following 40 individuals are not available to be
considered further for membership at this time (numbered for
convenience only):
1. Lisa Cohen Alvarez, Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley,
Berkeley, California.
2. Pedro Alvarez, Ph.D., Rice University, Houston, Texas.
3. Cesar Arias, MD, Ph.D., Houston Methodist Academic Institute,
Houston, Texas.
4. Alberto Ascherio, Ph.D., Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public
Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
5. Juliana Wardenburg Bubeck, MD, Ph.D., Washington University
School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
6. Jiu-Chiuan Chen, Ph.D., University of Southern California, Los
Angeles, California.
7. Weihsueh Chiu, Ph.D., Texas A&M University, College Station,
Texas.
8. Deborah Dean, MD, MPH, University of California- San Francisco,
San Francisco, California.
9. Francesca Dominici, Ph.D., Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public
Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
10. Mary Dunlop, Ph.D., Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.
11. Ashlee Earl, Ph.D., Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
12. Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, Ph.D., University of California-
Irvine, Irvine, California.
13. Anthony Flores, MD, MPH, Ph.D., The University of Texas Health
Science Center, Houston, Texas.
14. David Greenberg, MD, Ph.D., University of Texas Southwestern
Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
15. Maria Hadjifrangiskou, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University Medical
Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
16. Mark Hahn, Ph.D., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods
Hole, Massachusetts.
17. Pam Hall, Ph.D., University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New
Mexico.
18. Mary Hausbeck, Ph.D., Michigan State University, East Lansing,
Michigan.
19. Christy Haynes, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
20. Ron Hites, Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
21. Robert Hurt, Ph.D., Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
22. Rebecca Klaper, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin.
23. Gyanu Lamichhane, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,
Maryland.
24. Kim Lewis, Ph.D., Northeastern University, Boston,
Massachusetts.
25. Jose Ribot Lopez, Ph.D., University of Texas, San Antonio,
Texas.
26. Cole Matson, Ph.D., Baylor University, Waco, Texas.
27. Gary W. Miller, Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, New York.
28. Denise Monack, Ph.D., Stanford University, Stanford,
California.
29. Suzanne Noble, Ph.D., University of California- San Francisco,
San Francisco, California.
30. Kelli Palmer, Ph.D., University of Texas, Dallas, Texas.
31. Lina Quesada-Ocampo, Ph.D., North Carolina State University,
Raleigh, North Carolina.
32. Gemma Reguera, Ph.D., Michigan State University, East Lansing,
Michigan.
33. David Reif, Ph.D., North Carolina State University, Raleigh,
North Carolina.
34. Elena Rustchenko, Ph.D., University of Rochester Medical
Center, Rochester, New York.
35. Noelle Selin, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
36. Anna Selmecki, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
37. Christine Smart, Ph.D., Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
38. Pedro Tarafa, Ph.D., University of Puerto Rico, Mayag[uuml]ez,
Puerto Rico.
39. Katrina Waters, Ph.D., Department of Energy, Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory, Richland, Washington.
40. David Weis, Ph.D., Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
D. Interested and Available Nominees
The following are the names, addresses, and professional
affiliations of current nominees being considered for membership on the
FIFRA SAP (numbered for convenience only). Selected biographical data
for each nominee is available in the docket identified under ADDRESSES
and through the FIFRA SAP website at https://www.epa.gov/sap. The
Agency, at this time, anticipates selecting new members to fill
upcoming vacancies occurring on the Panel.
1. Erin S. Baker, Ph.D., North Carolina State University, Raleigh,
North Carolina.
2. Dana Boyd Barr, Ph.D., Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
3. Scott M. Belcher, Ph.D., North Carolina State University,
Raleigh, North Carolina.
4. Jose Cerrato, Ph.D., University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New
Mexico.
5. Deborah A. Cory-Slechta, Ph.D., University of Rochester Medical
School, Rochester, New York.
6. Christina Cuomo, Ph.D., Broad Institute, Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
7. Maurizio Del Poeta, MD, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New
York.
8. Upal Ghosh, Ph.D., University of Maryland Baltimore County,
Baltimore, Maryland.
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9. Claudia Gunsch, Ph.D., Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
10. Nishad Jayasundara, Ph.D., Duke University, Durham, North
Carolina.
11. Jakub Kostal, Ph.D., George Washington University, Washington,
District of Columbia.
12. Raina M. Maier, Ph.D., University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
13. Stefano Monti, Ph.D., Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.
14. Ingrid Padilla, Ph.D., University of Puerto Rico,
Mayag[uuml]ez, Puerto Rico.
15. Beate R Ritz, MD, Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles,
Los Angeles, California.
16. Zeev Rosenzweig, Ph.D., University of Maryland Baltimore
County, Baltimore, Maryland.
17. Tara L Sabo-Attwood, Ph.D., University of Florida, Gainesville,
Florida.
18. Maria Reyes Sierra-Alvarez, Ph.D., University of Arizona,
Tucson, Arizona.
19. Elsie M. Sunderland, Ph.D., Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
20. Justin Teeguarden, Ph.D., Department of Energy, Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington.
21. Lisa Truong, Ph.D., MBA, Oregon State University, Corvallis,
Oregon.
22. Paul Westerhoff, Ph.D., Arizona State University, Tempe,
Arizona.
23. Timothy R. Zacharewski, Ph.D., Michigan State University, East
Lansing, Michigan.
24. Hao Zhu, Ph.D., Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey.
Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et. seq.; 21 U.S.C. 301 et seq.; 5 U.S.C.
Appendix
Dated: July 22, 2022.
Michal Freedhoff,
Assistant Administrator, Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2022-16155 Filed 7-27-22; 8:45 am]
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