The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expanding the scope of the request for nominations announced in the Federal Register on March 1, 2016. Requested nominations are for an external peer review of the draft Biologically Based Dose-Response (BBDR) model and the draft model support document for perchlorate in drinking water. The expanded scope will include the review of the application of the draft BBDR model to develop a perchlorate maximum contaminant level goal.
EPA is combining the two panels to achieve efficiency and transparency in evaluating the development and application of key scientific products for analyzing perchlorate in drinking water and invites the public to nominate scientific experts for the peer review. Persons nominated during the previous nomination period requested in the March 1, 2016, Federal Register notice do not need to be renominated under this notice and will be considered for selection for the interim and final list of peer reviewers. The nomination period for scientific experts ends on July 5, 2016.
Any interested person or organization may nominate scientific experts to be considered as peer reviewers. Nominations should be submitted in time to arrive no later than July 5, 2016. Self-nominations also will be accepted. Nominations should be submitted to the EPA contractor, Versar, Inc., using the following email address: perchlorate@versar.com (the subject line should read: BBDR Model Peer Review and Peer Review of Approach for Deriving a Perchlorate MCLG). Nominations also will be accepted via the US Postal Service mail or by an overnight/priority mail service. Mailed nominations should be addressed to Versar, Inc., 6850 Versar Center, Springfield, VA 22151 (Attention: David Bottimore). Further information on the nomination process is included in the Federal Register notice.