UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY WASHINGTON, D.C. 20460 October 1, 2001 OFFICE OF THE ADMINISTRATOR SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD EPA-SAB-CASAC-CON-02-001 Honorable Christine Todd Whitman Administrator U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20460 Subj ect: Agency' s Proposed Methodology for Measuring Coarse Particulate Matter: A CAS AC Notification of a Consultation Dear Governor Whitman: The Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) of the EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) met via public Teleconference on October 1, 2001 to conduct a consultation with staff from the Office of Air and Radiation on the Agency's Proposed Methodology for Measuring Coarse Particulate Matter. The SAB has developed the Consultation as a mechanism to advise the Agency on technical issues that should be considered in the development of regulations, guidelines, or technical guidance before the Agency has taken a position. A Consultation is conducted under the normal requirements of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, which include advance notice of the public meeting in the Federal Register. As is our customary practice, there will be no formal report from the SAB as a result of this Consultation, nor do we expect any formal response from the Agency. However, the Committee looks forward to a full peer review of the subject matter in a few months. Sincerely, /Signed/ Dr. Philip K. Hopke, Chair Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee ------- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA Science Advisory Board Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee FY2001 Members CHAIR Dr. Philip Hopke, Robert A. Plane Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY Also Member: Research Strategies Advisory Committee Executive Committee FORMER CHAIR Dr. Joe Mauderly, Vice President, Senior Scientist, and Director, National Environmental Respiratory Center, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, NM SAB MEMBERS Dr. John Elston, Administrator, Office of Air Quality Management, State of New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and Energy, Trenton, NJ Dr. Frederick J. Miller, Director, Respiratory and Neurotoxicology Research Program, Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology, Research Triangle Park, NC Dr. Arthur C. Upton, Clinical Professor, CRESP-UMDNJ, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ Dr. Sverre Vedal, Professor of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Respiratory Division, Vancouver, BC Canada Dr. Barbara Zielinska, Research Professor, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD STAFF Mr. A. Robert Flaak, Designated Federal Officer, US EPA, EPA Science Advisory Board, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC Ms. Rhonda Fortson, Management Assistant, US EPA, EPA Science Advisory Board, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC ------- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA Science Advisory Board Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee CASAC Subcommittee on Particle Monitoring* CHAIR Dr. Philip Hopke, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY Also Member: Executive Committee Research Strategies Advisory Committee CASAC MEMBERS Dr. John Elston, State of New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and Energy, Trenton, NJ OTHER SAB MEMBERS Dr. Morton Lippmann, New York University Medical Center, Tuxedo, NY Member: Executive Committee CONSULTANTS Dr. Petros Koutrakis, Harvard University, Boston, MA Dr. Debra L. Laskin, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ Dr. JoAnn S. Lighty, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT Dr. Peter McMurry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Dr. Kimberly Prather, University of California, Riverside, CA Dr. Warren H. White, Washington University, St. Louis, MO Dr. George T. Wolff, General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI Mr. Melvin Zeldin, South Coast Air Quality Management District, Diamond Bar, CA SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD STAFF Mr. A. Robert Flaak, Designated Federal Officer, US EPA Science Advisory Board (1400A), Washington, DC Ms. Rhonda Fortson, Management Assistant, US EPA Science Advisory Board (1400A), Washington, DC * Members of this SAB Panel consist of a. SAB Members: Experts appointed by the Administrator to serve on one of the SAB Standing Committees. b. SAB Consultants: Experts appointed by the SAB Staff Director to a one-year term to serve on ad hoc Panels formed to address a particular issue. ------- NOTICE This report has been written as part of the activities of the EPA Science Advisory Board, a public advisory group providing extramural scientific information and advice to the Administrator and other officials of the Environmental Protection Agency. The Board is structured to provide balanced, expert assessment of scientific matters related to problems facing the Agency. This report has not been reviewed for approval by the Agency and, hence, the contents of this report do not necessarily represent the views and policies of the Environmental Protection Agency, nor of other agencies in the Executive Branch of the Federal government, nor does mention of trade names or commercial products constitute a recommendation for use. 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