                 UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
                    SCIENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON CHEMICALS
             List of Candidates (including Biographical Sketches)
                     Docket Number: EPA-HQ-OPPT-2022-0843

NOTE: This list of candidates includes all interested and available nominees under consideration for appointment to the Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC) established under the 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). No nominees have been excluded from the list based on prescreening using the selection criteria described in the Federal Register.
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              Nicholas Albergo, PE, DEE, D. WRE, F. ASCE, F. EWRI
Affiliation:                                                                                Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida; Senior Advisor, GHD Services, Incorporated, Tampa, Florida
Expertise:                                                                                Environmental, Geochemical, Process; and Environmental and Chemical Engineering, including Advanced Reaction Kinetics; Chemical Fate and Transport and Risk assessment;  Specific expertise with Persistent Organic Pesticides and Emerging Chemical Contaminants (Analysis, Assessment, and Remediation)
Education:                                                                                PhD candidate in Chemical Engineering (Admitted 08/05), University of South Florida; MS in Civil Engineering, University of South Florida; BS in Engineering Science, University of South Florida
Experience Summary:                                                                                Mr. Nicholas Albergo is a senior advisor to GHD and a professor in the Engineering Department at the University of South Florida. Mr. Albergo was the founder and CEO of HSA Engineers & Scientists (1989), a Florida-based engineering consulting firm that he successfully grew to more than 400 professionals. The firm was sold to GHD in 2013.  He has had a distinguished career as an inventor and author of over 185 professional publications. Mr. Albergo has been working within the field of environmental and chemical engineering and water resources for over 35 years with specific emphasis working with persistent organic pesticides and emerging contaminants. He was one of the primary authors of the American Society of Tool and Manufacturing Engineers (ASTME) 1527 Standard Practice for Environmental Site Assessments. He also assisted the Governmental Accounting Standard's Board in development of Statement No. 49 (Accounting & Financial Reporting for Pollution Remediation). Beyond his domestic efforts as a consultant to industry, he has worked abroad as an advisor to other foreign governments, private sector corporations and international lending institutions. Examples include working with the World Bank, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, World Health Organization, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy, and donor agencies including the U.S. Agency for International Development, the European Union, the Food and Agricultural Organization  of the United Nations, and the United Nation Environment Programme. He has also served as a consultant and advisor to foreign ministries on policy-making issues and persistent organic pollutants.

                    El'gin W. Avila, PhD (ABD), MPH, CPH

Affiliation:
Director, Environmental and Occupational Health & Equity, BlueGreen Alliance, Tucson, Arizona; Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (Remote); University of Minnesota- NIOSH Research Fellow (Remote)

Expertise:
Industrial Hygiene; Occupational Health; Environmental Health; Exposure Assessment; Risk Management and Evaluation; Environmental Justice and Equity; Mixed Methods Approaches; Expertise in comprehensive and holistic approaches to environmental and occupational health

Education:
PhD (All But Dissertation (ABD) expected in 2023) in Industrial Hygiene, University of Minnesota; MPH in Environmental Health Science & Policy, George Washington University; BS in Psychology, Eastern Michigan University

Experience Summary:
Mr. El'gin Avila has over eight years of experience in environmental health sciences and serves on various councils and committees for local, not-for-profit, and academic organizations including Network for Energy, Water and Health in Affordable Buildings'  Stewardship council, and has served as a consultant on occupational exposure control projects for Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration's  COVID respiratory protection program, and environmental health assessment and evaluation projects for local agencies in Minnesota and Arizona. Mr. Avila's research interests include cumulative exposures, industrial hygiene, and holistic approaches to improving health and wellness for historically disadvantaged and marginalized working populations. Additionally, he focuses on improving access to resources via technical assistance programs and establishing community partnerships to improve community resiliency.

                              Gerald Bachler, PhD
Affiliation:                                                                                Lead Specialist Product Stewardship and Regulatory Affairs, DuPont de Nemours, Wilmington, Delaware
Expertise:                                                                                Human Health and Environmental Exposure and Risk Assessment; Industrial Hygiene; Occupational Safety and Health; Consumer Products; Physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) Modelling
Education:                                                                                PhD in Nanotoxicology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland; MSc in Healthcare Engineering, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria; MSc in Health and the Environment, Cranfield University, Cranfield, United Kingdom; BSc in Biomedical Engineering, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. Gerald Bachler is a senior exposure and risk assessor with DuPont de Nemours. In his role, Dr. Bachler is responsible for carrying out and overseeing regulatory and product stewardship and risk assessments for chemical products and articles globally. Prior to joining DuPont de Nemours, Dr. Bachler held similar roles with Shell International, Vitis Regulatory, and International Flavors and Fragrances. In these positions, he gained extensive hands-on experience in the risk assessment, hazard communication and chemical registration of a wide variety of products, including industrial chemicals, food and feed additives, pesticides, personal care products, and Do-It-Yourself (DIY) products. Furthermore, Dr. Bachler developed various exposure and PBPK models to support the risk assessment of these products.
Until 2020, Dr. Bachler was a member of the European Chemical Agency  Exchange Network on exposure scenarios. In this capacity, he supported the standardization of exposure scenarios for chemical substances and mixtures. He also led and supported the development of industrial hygiene best practice guidance documents for various chemical products, including catalysts and enzymes. Additionally, Dr. Bachler supported the National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health  with a PBPK model to assess silver nanomaterials.
Dr. Bachler is a member of the International Society of Exposure Science, where he leads several task forces, and the European Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals  Targeted Risk Assessment  Working Group.

                             Frank A. Barile, PhD
Affiliation:                                                                                Science Advisor, Humane Society of the United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland; Professor of Toxicology and Chair (retired), Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, St. John's University College of Pharmacy, New York, New York
Expertise:                                                                                Research on epigenetic modeling and induced pluripotent stem cells in toxicology testing, with a focus on biomarkers
Education:                                                                                PhD in Toxicology, St. John's University; MS in Pharmacology, St. John's University; BS in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Pharmacy), St. John's University
Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. Frank Barile is professor of toxicology (retired) and past chair in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, St. John's University, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, New York, New York (2000-2020). Previously Dr. Barile was associate professor of Health Sciences at City University of New York  (1984-2000). Currently he is a science advisor in the Animal Research Issues group at the Humane Society (2022-present). Dr. Barile's postdoctoral research experience included Department of Pathology, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Medical Center, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Department of Pediatrics; Albert Einstein College of Medicine; and, Dept. Pediatrics, Long Island Jewish MC. He is Past President of the In Vitro & Alternative Methods (IVAM) Specialty Section, U.S. Society of Toxicology (2008-2009); Vice President, IVAM Specialty Section, U.S. Society of Toxicology (2007-2008); Editor-in-Chief, Toxicology In Vitro (2012-2018); Editorial Board, Toxicology In Vitro (2007-present). He has received several National Institutes of Health grants, published 75 articles, abstracts, and several books in toxicology. Dr. Barile's research interests include development of in vitro models as alternatives for animal toxicology testing, and epigenetic modeling in stem cells in toxicology testing, with a focus on biomarkers.

                             Carla A. Baumel, PhD
Affiliation:                                                                                Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Expertise:                                                                                Development of Physiologically Based Toxicokinetic (PBTK) Models for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS); PFAS Bioaccumulation and Tissue Distribution; Evaluating and Predicting PFAS-Protein Binding Through in vitro Methods and Molecular Simulations
Education:                                                                                PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University; MSc in Chemical Engineering, The State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo; BSc in Chemical Engineering, SUNY at Buffalo
Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. Carla Ng Baumel is an associate professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering with more than 13 years of experience in research and teaching on the environmental fate and bioaccumulation of persistent organic chemicals. Dr. Ng Baumel has secondary appointments in Environmental and Occupational Health and in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering. She is an editor at Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (since 2022); an Editorial Advisory Board member at Environmental Science and Technology (since 2021); an Editorial Board Member at the Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters, and Subject Matter Expert on the International Board of Environmental Risk Assessors Exam Committee (since 2021). Dr. Ng Baumel's primary research interests include mechanistic modeling of PFAS bioaccumulation and tissue distribution, work that has led to new models and understanding of the influence of protein binding on PFAS fate across different species; linking chemical accumulation in agricultural and aquatic ecosystems (including fish farms) to human exposure to flame retardants, PFAS, and pesticides; and understanding and modeling the implications of chemical persistence on hazard and risk assessment, including of chemical transformation products.

                             Shannon M. Bell, PhD
Affiliation:                                                                                Research Training Institute (RTI) International, Durham, North Carolina
Expertise:                                                                                Application of Computational Approaches; Biological Systems Modeling; and Data Integration to Support Knowledge Discovery of Chemical-Biological Interactions
Education:                                                                                PhD (dual) in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology with Quantitative Biology (System Biology), Michigan State University; BSc in BioResource Research (Applied Genetics; Biotechnology), Oregon State University; BSc in Bioengineering (Minor: Chemistry), Oregon State University
Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. Shannon Bell is a computational toxicologist at RTI International with over 20 years of experience in data analysis and integration to support knowledge discovery. Dr. Bell has developed and led multiple trainings, continuing education courses, and workshops that focus on the use of computational approaches and alternatives to aid in chemical assessment. Dr. Bell was the technical lead of The National Toxicology Program Interagency Center for the Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods Integrated Chemical Environment from 2016-2021, leading efforts to make alternative toxicity testing methods and data more broadly accessible. Her research interests center around how we can use computational approaches to better understand biology. This includes applying computational tools and data integration methods to better understand chemical-biological interactions and developing accessible tools and resources to aid risk assessors in evidence integration.

                            Susanne M. Brander, PhD
Affiliation:                                                                                Associate Professor, Oregon State University , Corvallis Oregon
Expertise:                                                                                Toxicology; Pharmacology; Environmental Science; Marine Biology; Molecular Biology; and Endocrinology.
Education:                                                                                PhD in Toxicology, University of California, Davis; MS in Environmental Science and Policy, Johns Hopkins University; BS in Business Administration, Elizabethtown College
Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. Susanne Brander is an associate professor of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences with 10 years of teaching and research experience as an ecotoxicologist. Dr. Brander also serves as a senior contributing scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund (2022-present); as a member of the California Department of Toxic Substance Control's Green Ribbon Science Panel (2020-present); as a member of several working groups for the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project (2020-present); as an invited expert for the San Francisco Estuary Institute (2019-present); as a board member of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (2018-2021); as co-lead of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry microplastics interest group (2018-2023); and most recently as an associate editor for Science of the Total Environment (2023-present), with guest editor roles at Toxics, Frontiers in Water, and Limnology and Oceanography Letters (2019-present). Dr. Brander also serves as an account executive for Science of the Total Environment.
Dr. Brander's primary research interests are in ecotoxicology, physiology, marine biology, endocrinology, and molecular biology. Prior to her current position at Oregon State University, Dr. Brander was faculty in Biology and Marine Biology at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington for four years (2013-2017).

                         Eric N. Brown, DrPH, CIH, CSP
Affiliation:                                                                                Owner, Indoor Environments, LLC, Long Beach, California; Chemical Hygiene Program Manager, Tesla, Long Beach, California; Part time faculty, California State University, Northridge, California
Expertise:                                                                                Industrial Hygiene; Risk and Exposure Assessment; Toxicology; Control Methodologies; Indoor Air Quality; Heat Stress
Education:                                                                                DrPH in Public Health (specialization in Industrial Hygiene), The University of California, Los Angeles; MPH in Public Health (specialization in Occupational and Environmental Health), Medical College of Ohio; BA in Philosophy, University of Toledo
Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. Eric Brown has over 25 years of experience in health and safety and in industrial hygiene. Dr. Brown holds the Certified Industrial Hygienist and Certified Safety Professional credentials. He has held senior health and safety management positions in large corporations and has conducted thousands of site investigations around the world. Dr. Brown has been designated as an industrial hygiene expert in hundreds of legal cases. Dr. Brown is also a part-time faculty member at the California State University, Northridge in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health.

                           Andres Cardenas, PhD, MPH
Affiliation:                                                                                Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University, Stanford, California
Expertise:                                                                                Environmental Epidemiology; Epigenetics and Environmental Health Sciences
Education:                                                                                PhD in Environmental Health, Oregon State University; MPH in Biostatistics, Oregon State University; BS in Biochemistry and Biophysics, Oregon State University
Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. Andres Cardenas is an environmental epidemiologist with training in biostatistics, epigenetics, and biochemistry. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology & Population Health at Stanford University. Dr. Cardenas' research examines the impact of the environment on molecular and epigenetic biomarkers and the extent to which these alterations contribute to disease risk throughout the life course. Dr. Cardenas' expertise is in environmental epigenetics where he has evaluated exposure to common environmental pollutants such as metals, air pollution, diet and tobacco smoke and their impact on the epigenome. His work has demonstrated that the epigenome of different tissues is sensitive to environmental exposures and that some epigenetic modifications are malleable and associated with disease risk. The overall goal of his research is to quantify the extent to which our environment influences health and development using epigenetic biomarkers. Dr. Cardenas has years of experience working with human cohorts to investigate the environmental influences on the human epigenome, a focus of his Outstanding New Environmental Scientist award from National Institute of Environmental Sciences Health.

                              Yongsheng Chen, PhD

Affiliation:
Bonnie W. and Charles W. Moorman IV Professor and Director of The Nutrients-Energy-Water Center for Agriculture Technology at Georgia Institute of Technology

Expertise:
Environmental Nanotechnology and sustainability with focuses on three topics, including: 1) smart manufacturing novel membranes and nanomaterials for fit-for-purpose water reuse, nutrients recovery, and removal of environmental contaminants using machine learning and artificial intelligence; 2) sustainable energy production using algal biomass to sequestrate CO2, and 3) stability, fate, transport, and biological effects of pollutants including nanomaterials and PFAS in the environment

Education:
PhD in Environmental Chemistry, Nankai University: BS in Chemical Engineering, North China Institute of Technology

Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. Yongsheng Chen is the Bonnie W. and Charles W. Moorman IV Professor in School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Chen is currently a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Environmental Science & Technology (2021-present); He has served as Editor-in-Chief for Energy Materials. His research interests focus on engineering of interfacial properties, processes, and materials; and fundamental understanding of the transport properties of interfacial systems to address chemical process efficiency and sustainable resource utilization.

                          Stephanie M. Eick, PhD, MPH

Affiliation:                                                                                Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Expertise:                                                                                Epidemiology; Maternal and Child Health; Health Disparities; Reproductive Toxicology; Perinatal Health; Biostatistics; Environmental Health; Non-Chemical Stressors
Education:                                                                                PhD in Epidemiology, University of Georgia; MPH in Epidemiology, Emory University; BS in Human Biology, Michigan State University
Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. Stephanie Eick is an assistant professor of Environmental Health and Epidemiology with nine years of experience of teaching and research on reproductive and environmental epidemiology and environmental health disparities. She was a postdoctoral fellow with the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment at the University of California, San Francisco from 2019-2021. Dr. Eick is affiliated with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences P30 Health and Exposome Research Center: Understanding Lifetime Exposures (2021-Present). Her research focuses on the health effects of chemical and non-chemical stressors during pregnancy and underlying biological mechanisms, including oxidative stress, inflammation, and untargeted metabolomics, that link chemical and non-chemical stressors to adverse pregnancy and child health outcomes. Dr. Eick's work has adapted multiple methods for assessing chemical exposure mixtures to incorporate non-chemical stressors. Her work primarily focuses on persistent organic pollutants (e.g., Per- and Polyfluorinated Substances (PFAS), Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs)).

                           Adam M. Finkel, ScD, CIH

Affiliation:                                                                                Clinical Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Expertise:                                                                                Quantitative Risk Assessment; Cost-Benefit Analysis; and Regulatory Design (to reduce risks in the environment and the workplace from chemicals, radiation, repetitive head impacts, and other stressors, with emphasis on uncertainty and human interindividual variability in exposure and susceptibility)
Education:                                                                                ScD in Environmental Health Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health;  MPP in Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; AB in Biology, Harvard College;  Certified Industrial Hygienist (1998-present)
Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. Adam Finkel is currently clinical professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.  He also works as a plaintiffs' expert witness in various cases involving occupational and community exposures to toxicants.  Dr. Finkel was previously employed as a faculty member at the following universities: University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (2004-2011); Princeton University, Public Administration (2004-2007), and The University of Pennsylvania, School of Law (2008-2017). From 1995-2000, Dr. Finkel was Director of Health Standards Programs (SES-2) at the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and led the development of several of OSHA's current regulations and ongoing public-private partnerships. In 2000, Dr. Finkel worked in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (USEPA) Office of Air and Radiation on a Senior Executive Service (SES) rotational assignment. From 2000-2004, he was OSHA's Regional Administrator in Region VIII (Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming). From 1987-1995, he was a Fellow at the Center for Risk Management at Resources for the Future. Dr. Finkel's research interests span several disciplines (risk analysis, regulatory design, cost-benefit analysis, benefits valuation, risk perception, etc.) and focus on the quantification of uncertainty and human interindividual variability and the resulting design of policies that are efficient, ethical, and just.

                             Mary A. Fox, PhD, MPH

Affiliation:
Assistant Professor and Co-Director, Risk Sciences and Public Policy Institute Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland

Expertise:
Human Health Risk Assessment: Applying epidemiological methods and data to understand combined exposures to chemical and non-chemical stressors for cumulative risk assessment

Education:
PhD in Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, Johns Hopkins University; MPH in Environmental Studies, University of Rochester; BS in Biology, State University of New York at Albany

Experience Summary:
Dr. Mary Fox is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management and the co-director of the Risk Sciences and Public Policy Institute at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has 18 years of experience teaching as core faculty of the Risk Sciences certificate program leading courses in quantitative risk assessment methods and risk policy, management, and communication. Dr. Fox's research is focused on human health risk assessment as a part of environmental policy making, particularly approaches to cumulative and chemical mixtures risk assessment. Dr. Fox has made key contributions to the development and application of cumulative risk methods to inform community environmental health and environmental justice and occupational health policies. Dr. Fox has expertise in risk assessment of air toxics, metal mixtures, phthalates, volatile organic solvents, and PCBs. Dr. Fox has served on four National Academies' committees: Veterans and Agent Orange, Update 11 (2017-2018); Gulf War and Health, Volume 10: Update of Health Effects of Serving in the Gulf War (2014-2016); Long-Term Health Consequences of Exposure to Burn Pits in Iraq and Afghanistan (2010-2011); and Phthalates and Cumulative Risk Assessment: The Tasks Ahead (2007-2008).

                              Cynthia Graham, PhD

Affiliation:                                                                                Independent Toxicology Consultant, Denver, Colorado; Part time Consultant, Huntsman Corporation, The Woodlands, Texas

Expertise:                                                                                Respiratory and Dermal Sensitization; Occupational Health; Occupational Asthma; Immunotoxicology

Education:                                                                                PhD in Toxicology, University of Pittsburgh; MS in Toxicology, University of Pittsburgh;  BS in Biology, Chatham University.

Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. Cynthia Graham is currently a toxicology consultant to chemical manufacturers. She has 23 years of experience in industry: Huntsman Corporation (2004-2016);  Bayer Material Science (1999-2004); and as an Independent Consultant (2016-present). Dr. Graham's expertise in respiratory sensitization and occupational asthma has been most appropriately used in assessing the mechanism of diisocyanate sensitization and effects. Dr. Graham has worked on American Chemistry Council's Panel on Aromatic Diisocyanates (2004-present) and the Center for Polyurethanes Industries (2004-present).

                     Maeve Howett, PhD, APRN, CPNP-PC, CNE
Affiliation:                                                                                Professor and Associate Dean, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland
Expertise:                                                                                Pediatrics; Human Lactation; Vulnerable Children; Translation of Toxicant Research to High-Risk Communities
Education:                                                                                PhD in Nursing (Certificate in Women's Studies), Emory University, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing; Woodruff Scholar; MS in Nursing (Magna Cum Laude), Emory University; Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Emory University; BSN in Nursing (Summa Cum Laude), Emory University
Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. Maeve Howett is a professor and associate dean of nursing with over 20 years teaching nurses and clinical care of children made vulnerable by poverty. Dr. Howett's work includes development of curriculum on social determinants of health and the ways in which at risk populations bear a disproportionate burden of toxicant exposures. Professional positions include faculty and Director of Accelerated Programs at Emory University (2006-2016); Dean at University of Massachusetts (2016-2020) and Co-Director of the Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (2010-2016). She was twice appointed to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (USEPA) Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee (2014-2019) and co-authored letters advising on risk to migrant farmworker families. Dr. Howett's research includes over six million in funding and core lead of Community and Translational Research on the Center for Children's Health, the Exposome, the Microbiome, and Metabolomics funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the USEPA. She has produced well over 50 scholarly journals, book chapters, and international, national, and regional presentations and received multiple awards for excellence in teaching and professional service.

                               Carly Hyland, PhD

Affiliation:                                                                                Assistant Professor, School of Public and Population Health, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho
Expertise:                                                                                Neurodevelopment; Children's Health; Farmworker Health; Community-Based Participatory Work; Global Health
Education:                                                                                PhD in Environmental Health Sciences, University of California (UC), Berkeley; MS in Global Health and the Environment, UC Berkeley; BA in Environmental Studies, Carthage College
Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. Carly Hyland is an exposure scientist and environmental epidemiologist with seven years of teaching and research on the neurodevelopmental effects of prenatal and early-life exposure to pesticides and other environmental chemicals; farmworker health; and global health. Dr. Hyland is currently a postdoctoral scholar and will be an assistant professor in the School of Public and Population Health (beginning Summer 2023). Her work focuses on collaborating with community members and stakeholders to identify interventions to reduce exposure to environmental and occupational hazards.

                            Allison F. Jenkins, MPH
Affiliation:                                                                                Senior Toxicologist and Work Leader, in the Toxicology, Risk Assessment, and Research Division, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Austin, Texas
Expertise:                                                                                Regulatory Toxicology; Human Health Risk Assessment; Toxicity Factor Development; Public Health; Groundwater Contamination; Water Quality; and Remediation
Education:                                                                                BS in Toxicology, The University of Louisiana at Monroe; MPH in Environmental Health, The University of Hawaii at Manoa
Experience Summary:                                                                                Ms. Allison Jenkins is a regulatory toxicologist and risk assessor with more than 30 years of wide-ranging experience in all facets of regulatory toxicology. She is a senior toxicologist and work leader in the Toxicology, Risk Assessment, and Research Division of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). Her major responsibilities are to evaluate air monitoring data collected throughout the state, conduct toxicity assessments to develop acute and chronic inhalation toxicity factors; review remediation site risk assessments; review air permit applications; and address human health issues concerning drinking water. Ms. Jenkins participated with other staff toxicologists in writing TCEQ Guidelines for Developing Toxicity Factors. She developed chemical-specific Development Support Documents (technical documents that outline the hazard identification and dose-response procedures for development of their toxicity factors) and acute and chronic inhalation toxicity factors for acrolein and ammonia. Before joining the TCEQ, Ms. Jenkins worked for consulting firms in Virginia and Louisiana, conducting risk assessments for pesticides, solvents, and PCBs and at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, managing the investigation of Air Force remediation sites.

                              David Kriebel, ScD

Affiliation:                                                                                Director of the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Lowell Massachusetts Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell Massachusetts
Expertise:                                                                                Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology; Exposure Assessment; Biostatistics
Education:                                                                                ScD in Epidemiology and Occupational Health, Harvard School of Public Health; MS in Physiology, Harvard School of Public Health; BS in Human Biology, University of Wisconsin
Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. David Kriebel is Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell with 30 years of teaching and research experience in occupational and environmental epidemiology, exposure assessment and related topics. He is also the Director of the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production, which collaborates with industries government agencies, unions, and community organizations on the redesign of systems of production to make them healthier and more environmentally sound. His research interests include occupational and environmental causes of cancer, non-malignant respiratory diseases, and other health outcomes.

                           Jagdish Khubchandani, PhD

Affiliation:                                                                                Professor of Public Health, New Mexico State University
Expertise:                                                                                Epidemiology; Risk Assessment; Evaluation; Research Design
Education:                                                                                PhD in Health Education and Epidemiology, University of Toledo; MPH in Public Health Education, Western Kentucky University
Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. Jagdish Khubchandani is a professor of Public Health at New Mexico State University. Within the past decade, Dr. Khubchandani has coauthored more than 200 research articles in prestigious journals such as the Lancet, Journal of American Medical Association, and the New England Journal of Medicine with emphasis on global health, social epidemiology, and injury and violence prevention. More recently, Dr. Khubchandani's research has received widespread attention from prominent media outlets such as Fox News, MSN, Bloomberg News, Chicago Tribune, Wall Street Journal, and Huffington Post. Dr. Khubchandani has also served as an elected Director of the World Association of Medical Editors.

                           Juleen Lam, PhD, MHS, MS

Affiliation:                                                                                Assistant Professor, California State University, East Bay, Hayward, California
Expertise:                                                                                Environmental chemical exposures and links to adverse reproductive and developmental health outcomes
Education:                                                                                PhD in Environmental Health Policy, Johns Hopkins University; MHS in Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University; MS in Environmental Engineering Management, George Washington University; BS in Mathematics University of California, Davis, BS in Environmental Toxicology University of California, Davis
Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. Juleen Lam is an assistant professor at California State University, East Bay, with over a decade of experience researching topics related to environmental health. Her work focuses on developing and applying analytic methods to issues within epidemiology and risk assessment as it pertains to maternal and fetal exposures to industrial chemicals in the environment.

                              Woo H. Lee, PhD, PE

Affiliation:                                                                                Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida
Expertise:                                                                                Water Quality Monitoring Sensor; Electrochemical Sensors for Detecting Emerging Water Contaminants; Nanotechnology for Treating Emerging Contaminants; Renewable Energy Production from Wastes; Oil-In-Water Emulsion; Greywater Reuse; Biofilm and Corrosion in Drinking Water
Education:                                                                                PhD in Environmental Engineering, University of Cincinnati; MSc in Environmental Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea; BSc in Environmental Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea
Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. Woo Hyoung Lee is an associate professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering at the University of Central Florida (UCF). Dr. Lee previously was an Office of Naval Research (ONR) summer faculty fellow from 2014 - 2018. He was an associate editor of Water Environment Research (WER) (2017 - 2019) and currently is an editorial board member of WER, Sensors and Actuators Reports; and the Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering Technology. He is a symposium organizer in the conference session "Per‐ and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Sensing in Water" at the Pittcon Conference and Exposition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2023). Dr. Lee was also a conference organizing committee member for the World Congress on Biosensors and Bioelectronics Conference, Chicago, Illinois, (2018). His research interests focus on the development and use of electrochemical sensor technology to detect and monitor emerging water pollutants such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), heavy metals, and harmful algal toxins. Another research interest is renewable bioenergy production from wastes including microbial fuel cell technology and photo-algal biohydrogen production for environmental sustainability and net zero-carbon emissions. Dr. Lee is a registered professional engineer (PE).

                            Silvia I. Maberti, PhD

Affiliation:                                                                                Senior Exposure Scientist, ExxonMobil Biomedical Sciences, Incorporated, Spring, Texas
Expertise:                                                                                Exposure assessment (quantitative and models) for occupational & consumer; Sample collection & analysis; and statistical analysis. Occupational Exposure Level derivation; Hierarchy of controls, prevention through design; Near- and far-field and dispersion models; Human health risk assessment; Risk management and control
Education:                                                                                PhD in Environmental Sciences and Occupational Health, The University of Texas, School of Public Health; MS in Environmental Sciences and Occupational Health, The University of Texas, School of Public Health; Chemical Engineer, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. Silvia Maberti is a senior exposure scientist at ExxonMobil Biomedical Sciences, Inc. with more than 20 years of experience in occupational and community health studies. Within ExxonMobil, Dr. Maberti led a variety of projects ranging from industrial hygiene and technology evaluation to assessment, quantification, and modeling of occupational exposures. In the past eight years, Dr. Maberti has worked in community and consumer exposure modeling and assessment, as well as supporting the organization on regulatory compliance, including Registration, Evaluation, Authorization, and Restriction of Chemicals (REACh) and Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) risk evaluations. She participates in multiple groups (i.e., The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, The European Chemical Industry Council - Long Rang Research Initiative, and the American Chemical Council ) that foster or carry out research to advance science in support of regulatory requirements. As a consultant (2005-2009), Dr. Maberti derived risk-based values in support of site remediation activities and carried out training in Risk-Based Corrective Action in Europe and Central and South America. In collaboration with Universidad Javeriana, she helped design and implement the exposure assessment strategy for Ecopetrol, a Colombian petroleum company. Dr. Maberti is an active volunteer at the American Industrial Hygiene Association, where she is finishing her term as chair of the Content Portfolio Advisory Group, among other volunteer groups.

                           Joseph R. Manuppello, MS

Affiliation:                                                                                Senior Research Analyst, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Washington, District of Columbia
Expertise:                                                                                Advocacy for reducing animal use in testing chemical substances by promoting adoption of alternative methods and strategies in toxicology; specifically, measuring animal use to identify opportunities for reduction.
Education:                                                                                MS in Molecular Genetics, University of Pennsylvania; BS in Genetics, University of Delaware
Experience Summary:                                                                                Mr. Joseph Manuppello is a research analyst at the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. From 2005-2018, he was a research associate at the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. At both organizations, Mr. Manuppello's research and advocacy focused on implementing animal protection provisions in the assessment of new and existing chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act.

                          Keeve E. Nachman, PhD, MHS

Affiliation:                                                                                Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
Expertise:                                                                                Human Health Risk Assessment; Computational Toxicology; Epidemiology; Exposure Science; Soil; Dust; Environmental Justice; Consumer Products; Systematic Review; Environmental and Occupational Health Policy; Food Safety; Agriculture; Biosolids; Toxic Substances Control Act
Education:                                                                                PhD in Health Policy and Management with specialization in Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, Johns Hopkins University; MHS in Environmental Health Sciences with specialization in Radiation Health Sciences and Medical Physics, Johns Hopkins University; BA in Writing Seminars, Johns Hopkins University
Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. Keeve Nachman is an associate professor and associate chair of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with nearly 20 years of experience conducting research and teaching in the field of environmental health and risk assessment. He is the co-director of the Risk Sciences and Public Policy Institute and the director of the Food Production and Public Health Program at the Center for a Livable Future. Dr. Nachman's research focus is the application of the risk sciences to decision-making in the context of diet, drinking water, soils, dust, biosolids, and other human exposures. He has published on an array of environmental health topics, including food- and water-borne chemical and microbiological hazards, epidemiologic investigations of agricultural communities, soil exposure factors, and the use of epidemiology in risk assessment. Dr. Nachman is an associate editor for the peer reviewed journals: Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology; Exposure and Health; and Current Environmental Health Reports. He also serves on the Editorial Review Board for Environmental Health Perspectives.

                       Francheska M. Merced-Nieves, PhD

Affiliation:                                                                                Assistant Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
Expertise:                                                                                Pediatric Environmental Health; Endocrine Disruptors; Mixtures Analyses; Neurotoxicology; Epidemiology
Education:                                                                                PhD in Neuroscience, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; BS in Biology, Universidad del Turabo, Caguas, Puerto Rico
Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. Francheska Merced-Nieves is a dually trained neuroscientist and environmental epidemiologist. She serves as an assistant professor in the departments of Pediatrics & Environmental Medicine and Public Health at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She is also a member of the Mount Sinai Institute for Exposomic Research and a Guest Editor in the Neurotoxicology and Teratology journal. Dr. Merced-Nieves' primary research focus is to investigate the impacts of prenatal exposure to environmental factors (chemical and nonchemical) on children's cognitive and behavioral development.

                            Mary Ann Ottinger, PhD

Affiliation:                                                                                Professor Emeritus and Research Professor, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas
Expertise:                                                                                Endocrinology; Ecological Toxicology; Developmental Toxicology
Education:                                                                                PhD in Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, University of Maryland (UMD), College Park; MS in Ecology and Endocrinology, UMD, College Park; BS in Zoology, UMD, College Park
Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. Mary Ann Ottinger is an emeritus professor and research professor in the Department of Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Houston. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health, studying developmental endocrine processes in non-human primates. Dr. Ottinger's research interests focused on understanding fundamental neuroendocrine function over the lifespan and the impacts of endocrine disrupting chemicals over the life cycle. Dr. Ottinger's research spans molecular endocrinology and neuroendocrinology to ecotoxicology, with emphasis on ecotoxicology and comparative field and lab studies to characterize adverse outcomes from exposure to environmental chemicals. Her research in endocrine function in non-human primates and comparative biology of aging provide insights into conserved biological processes across vertebrates. Dr. Ottinger is a dual Fellow of the Society for Study of Reproduction, Poultry Science Association; and the American Association for Advancement of Science. Dr. Ottinger is a recipient of the UMD Sigma Xi Research Award; the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Fellowship for study at Roslin Institute, Scotland, United Kingdom; and Gamma Sigma Delta (National Capitol Area Chapter) Research Award of Merit.  Dr. Ottinger mentored over 50 graduate students and postdoctoral students during her tenure as professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she is Emeritus Professor.

                           Julia E. Rager, PhD, MSEE

Affiliation:                                                                                Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Expertise:                                                                                Human toxicology; Computational methods and bioinformatics; In vitro modeling; Multi-Omics; Mixtures; Respiratory health; Maternal and fetal health; Risk assessment
Education:                                                                                PhD in Environmental Sciences and Engineering, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; MSEE in Environmental Engineering, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Pre-Medicine, The University of Texas at Austin
Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. Julia Rager is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Sciences and Engineering with five years of teaching and mentoring at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). Prior to her experience at UNC, Dr. Rager was a toxicology consultant at ToxStrategies, LLC, (2015-2018) and a postdoctoral fellow at the USEPA (2014-2015) leading computational toxicology and exposure science research. Dr. Rager is an Associate Editor at the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, and an Editorial Board Member of Toxicological Sciences, Frontiers in Toxicology: Computational Toxicology and Informatics, and Frontiers in Big Data: Medicine and Public Health. Her research interests span human toxicology; computational methods and bioinformatics; in vitro models; multi-omics; mixtures; respiratory health; maternal and fetal health; and risk assessment.

                              Diego Rua, PhD, MBA

Affiliation:                                                                                Senior Toxicologist. U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), White Oak, Maryland
Expertise:                                                                                Molecular Biology; Human health and Toxicology; Alternative methods to testing in animals; Risk assessments including protection of patient/consumer subpopulations
Education:                                                                                MBA in Strategic Management, Davenport University; PhD in Biological Sciences, Wayne State University
Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. Diego Rua is a research/regulatory scientist working at FDA (2008-present). Previous to FDA, his 6-year work experience in industry (2002-2008) focused on safety and toxicological risk assessments related to FDA regulated products. Dr. Rua has lead research labs as well as acted as technical representative in government contracts. His primary research interests focus on alternative methods to animal testing in hazard and risk assessments. Dr. Rua is a current member of the Skin Sensitization and Read-across Working Groups in the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods.  Dr. Rua has authored or co-authored over 25 peer reviewed articles.

                             Rainbow A. Rubin, PhD

Affiliation:                                                                                Director of Science, Breast Cancer Prevention Partners
Expertise:                                                                                Research on understanding the environmental exposures that contribute to susceptibility and development of chronic disease during sensitive life stages; biology; environmental health; epidemiology; environmental exposure; nutrition and chronic disease prevention; science writing and translation
Education:                                                                                PhD in Nutritional Biology, University of California, Davis;  MPH in Environmental Health, University of California, Berkeley; BA in Biology, Oberlin College
Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. Rainbow Rubin is the Director of Science at Breast Cancer Prevention Partners (2022-present) where she translates science to support previous environmental causes of breast cancer. Previously, she was the Director of the Health Science Program at St. Mary's College of California (2014-2022) where she taught two upper division science courses including Environmental Health and Nutrition. Dr. Rubin was a Research Associate with the Office of Environmental Exposure and Hazard Assessment in the California Department of Public Health (2014) where she assessed the impact of perchlorate exposure on birth outcomes. Dr. Rubin was the principal editor at the University of California, Davis Office of Research (2011-2013) where she assisted in successfully funding $23 million in research. Dr. Rubin received a Fellowship in Reproductive and Environmental Health from the University of California, San Francisco from 2010-2011, where she worked with the USEPA's Office of Children's Health on recommendations to incorporate women of childbearing age and pregnant women as sensitive populations within its risk assessment processes. Dr. Rubin was a Post-doctoral Researcher at Stanford University Prevention Center in 2007 where she evaluated a chronic disease prevention project.

           Marc J. Rumpler, MS, PhD, NRCC, DABCC, FAACC, DLM(ASCP)SC

Affiliation:                                                                                Director, Chemistry, Toxicology and Newborn Screening, Public Health Laboratory, State of Tennessee Department of Health
Expertise:                                                                                Environmental Toxicology, Human Health Assessment, Risk Assessment, Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Modeling, Chemical Exposure Monitoring, Environmental Exposure Monitoring, Clinical Diagnostics, Laboratory Methods, Clinical Chemistry, Molecular Pathology, Newborn Screening
Education:                                                                                PhD in Toxicology, University of Florida, Gainesville; MS in Toxicology, University of Florida, Gainesville; BS, in Toxicology, Northeastern University
Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. Marc Rumpler has previous experience as a bench level chemist, toxicologist, and environmental scientist. He has instructed courses in chemical toxicology, risk assessment and drug pharmacokinetics. He is an experienced and licensed clinical laboratory director and often consults with physicians, medical examiners and authorities regarding drug and chemical intoxications. His previous research has focused on drug pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics as well as chemical and biological characterization of drugs and chemical compounds. Presently Dr. Rumpler directs the Tennessee Public Health Laboratory's Environmental Health Program, which focuses in five key areas including aquatic toxicology, radiochemistry, organic/inorganic chemistry, chemical toxicology, and biomonitoring. His research is focused on biomonitoring and public health surveillance of drugs and chemical compounds. He also directs the Tennessee Newborn Screening Laboratory.
Dr. Rumpler holds board certification each in toxicology, chemistry, and molecular pathology from the American Board of Clinical Chemistry and the National Registry of Certified Chemists. He is a Fellow of the American Association of Clinical Chemistry and an active member of several professional trade organizations.

                        Jill E. Ryer-Powder, PhD, DABT

Affiliation:                                                                                Principal Toxicologist, Environmental Health Decisions, Coronado, California
Expertise:                                                                                Toxicology; Exposure Assessment; Human Health Risk Assessment
Education:                                                                                PhD, in Toxicology, Rutgers University; MS, in Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University; BS, in Nutrition, Cornell University
Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. Jill Ryer-Powder is the principal toxicologist at Environmental Health Decisions. She has 30 years of experience in human health risk assessment, hazard assessment, occupational toxicology, and exposure assessment. Dr. Ryer-Powder is responsible for strategic preparation and evaluation of chemical toxicity for risk assessment and product hazard evaluation projects. She is also involved in the investigation and analysis of legal and regulatory issues regarding chemical causation of diseases in humans. Dr. Ryer-Powder helped develop safe exposure levels for petroleum fuels and ammonia. She extensively researched the toxicological issues surrounding human exposures to metals, petroleum hydrocarbons, ammonia, and chlorinated hydrocarbons. She has worked extensively with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), California EPA, Regional Water Quality Control Board, and state and local health care agencies.  Dr. Ryer-Powder has managed and performed hundreds of human health risk assessments, including vapor intrusion risk assessment, Proposition 65 evaluations, and risk assessments for federal and state Superfund sites, Manufactured Gas Plant Resource and Conservative Recovery Act, and Brownfields sites. She has extensive experience in preparation and review of Safety Data Sheets. Dr. Ryer-Powder has lectured on several occasions on the subject of risk assessment to students in the University of California system.

                           Darius D. Sivin, PhD, MES

Affiliation:                                                                                Principal Investigator, International Union, United Auto Workers (UAW), Washington, District of Columbia; Editor-in-Chief, NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy
Expertise:                                                                                Industrial Hygiene; Epidemiology; Risk Assessment
Education:                                                                                PhD in Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health; MES in Environmental Sustainability, The Evergreen State College; AB in Politics/Economic, University of Chicago
Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. Darius Sivin is an industrial hygienist at the United Auto Workers and is the principal investigator of their Hazardous Waste Worker Training Program grant from National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. He has more than 20 years of experience in occupational exposure assessment, epidemiology, dose-response modeling, human health risk assessment, and systematic reviews of workplace environments. Dr. Sivin also serves as the editor-in-chief of NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy that publishes peer-reviewed articles on environmental and occupational health. From 2004-2021, he served on the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists' Chemical Substances Threshold Limit Value Committee that recommends occupational chemical exposure limits after reviewing existing scientific data. At the UAW, Dr. Sivin has key responsibilities for issues related to chemical materials, risk assessments and policy direction for the more than 400,000 UAW members employed in more than 2,000 workplaces. These members work in workplaces ranging from manufacturing to casinos to higher education. His professional activities include providing chemical assessment of products used in workplaces; conducting risk assessments related to chemical exposures; and developing and delivering training for both workers and safety professionals.

                    Robert S. Skoglund PhD, DABT, CIH, CPPS

Affiliation:
Head of Product Safety and Regulatory Affairs for Covestro LLC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Expertise:
Toxicology, Ecotoxicology, Environmental chemistry, and Risk assessment

Education:
PhD in Environmental Chemistry from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health; MS in Toxicology, University of Minnesota

Experience Summary:
Dr. Robert Skoglund has over 35 years of experience in the Environment, Health, and Safety field including chemical safety, global chemical management regulations, stewardship, and sustainability. Dr. Skoglund serves as an adjunct professor in the Schools of Public Health at the University of Minnesota and Indiana University; has served as an advisor to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, the European Chemicals Agency; and on the editorial board of the journal Toxicology and Industrial Health.

                              Joseph R. Shaw, PhD

Affiliation:                                                                                Associate Dean for Research and Associate Professor of Environmental Genomics and Toxicology in the O'Neill School, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

Expertise:                                                                                Genomic Tools, coupled with evolutionary theory; Statistics, and informatics, to integrate toxic response across levels of biological organization; Toxicity Pathways; New approach methodologies (NAMS); Precision Toxicology; Next Generation Risk Assessment; Response Variation/Susceptibility

Education:                                                                                PhD in Toxicology, University of Kentucky; BS in Biology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. Joseph Shaw has over 15 years of teaching and research experience in the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University (IU), where he also serves as the schools Associate Dean for Research. He holds an adjunct appointment in the IU School of Public Health. Dr. Shaw was recognized as an exceptional talent in the environmental sciences by the Royal Society, United Kingdom in 2013. He co-founded the Environment Care Consortium in 2016, which seeks to apply 21st century technologies to fingerprint complex environmental exposures and predict their physiological effects with the goal of using this information to defend people's rights to a healthful environment. Dr. Shaw was recognized for his work in environmental global health with an appointment to the Lancet Commission for Pollution and Health in 2020, where he contributed to their second global assessment of pollution's health impacts that was released in 2022. He also co-developed and serves as the U.S. lead for the European Commission Horizon 2020 Precision Toxicology project, which seeks to replace traditional animal testing with an evolutionary diverse suite of model organisms. Dr. Shaw's research seeks to develop New Approach Methodologies that reveal biomolecular pathways resulting from complex environmental exposures. This work incorporates development, sex, and genetic variability to identify susceptible life-stages and populations. As part of this work, he collaborates with regulators and other key stakeholders to ensure Precision Toxicology is providing data that can be incorporated in next generation risk assessments, policy, and law.

                            Mitchell J. Small, PhD

Affiliation:                                                                                Professor Emeritus, Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Expertise:                                                                                Chemical Fate; Transport and Exposure Assessment; Environmental Statistics and Uncertainty Analysis; Human Health Risk Assessment; Integrated Assessment of Environmental Systems and Human Behavior; Value of Information and Decision Support
Education:                                                                                PhD and MS in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; BS in Civil Engineering and Engineering and Public Affairs, Carnegie Mellon University
Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. Mitchell Small has served as a professor of Civil and Environment Engineering, and Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University (1982-2022), and as an Emeritus Professor since 2022. Dr. Small has led several research, education, and professional roles, including, Associate Editor, Environmental Science and Technology (1995-2011) where he oversaw a major portion of the submitted papers on environmental modeling, statistics, and policy analysis; and the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) where he was elected Fellow (2003).
Reflecting the breadth of his research, Dr. Small has served on nine National Research Council committees ranging from: Hazardous Wastes in Highway Rights-of-Way (1990-1993); Risk Characterization, leading to publication of the book, Understanding Risk (1994-1996); and Risk Management and Governance Issues in Shale Gas Extraction, Chair (2012  -  2014). The Shale Gas Committee is of note, bringing together a distinguished multidisciplinary panel and producing a highly cited special issue of Environmental Science & Technology with 13 papers. Refer to website:                                       https://pubs.acs.org/toc/esthag/48/15.

    Ponisseril Somasundaran, PhD, MS, BE, BS; NAE, FCAE, FRSC, FINAE, FRNSA

Affiliation:                                                                                LaVon Duddleson Krumb Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York
Expertise:                                                                                Solids and Hazardous Waste Handling; Mining and Mineral Engineering; Space Exploration for Mining; Nanoparticles and Nanotoxicity
Education:                                                                                PhD in Engineering, University of California, Berkeley; MS in Engineering, University of California, Berkeley; BE in Engineering; Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India; BSc in Engineering, Kerala University, India
Experience Summary:
Dr. Ponisseril Somasundaran is a Professor of Mineral Engineering in the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia University with decades of teaching and research experience in solids and hazardous waste treatment, nanoparticles and nanotoxicity, and effects of smoke. He is currently a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)/Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) for several years. He was a member of the Center for Studies and Research in Neuro-Psychoanalysis; National Science Foundation (NSF)/USEPA Center of Environmental impact of Nanoparticles based at University of California, Los Angeles.

                        Jessica A. Trowbridge, PhD, MPH

Affiliation:                                                                                Associate Professional Researcher, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), California
Expertise:                                                                                Environmental Health Sciences; Epidemiology; Occupational Health
Education:                                                                                PhD in Environmental Health Sciences, University of California (UC), Berkeley; MPH in Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Berkeley; BS in Molecular Environmental Biology, University of California, Berkely
Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. Jessica Trowbridge is an Associate Professional Researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, with the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment. Dr. Trowbridge has over 12 years of experience in research and program management at UC Berkeley and UCSF. Dr. Trowbridge's PhD work focused on the first exposure study of exclusively women firefighters. Her research interests are in evaluating occupational and environmental exposures to toxic chemicals and understanding their impact on biomarkers of effect and adverse health outcomes particularly in vulnerable and underserved groups.

                       Tania Carreón-Valencia, PhD, MS

Affiliation:                                                                                Senior Scientist, World Trade Center (WTC) Health Program, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health(NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cincinnati, Ohio; Volunteer Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati
Expertise:                                                                                Epidemiologist with a focus on Environmental and Occupational Health; Occupational Chemical Exposures and Cancer
Education: PhD in Epidemiology, University of Cincinnati; MS in Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health of Mexico; BS in Biology, School of Sciences of the National Autonomous, University of Mexico
Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. Tania Carreón-Valencia has conducted studies of workers exposed to aromatic amines and bladder cancer, and of rural residents exposed to agricultural chemicals and brain cancer. Currently, Dr. Carreón-Valencia provides scientific and policy advice to the WTC Health Program's Administrator and oversees special analytic studies conducted by the Program's Data Centers. She has developed white paper and policy documents including an Inventory of 9/11 Agents. She also serves as Designated Federal Officer of the WTC Health Program Scientific/Technical Advisory Committee and as member of the Secondary Review Committee that evaluates NIOSH Research Grant Applications. Dr. Carreón-Valencia has served on domestic and international expert workgroups, including Working Groups of the International Agency for Research on Cancer Monographs that evaluated the carcinogenicity of several agents. She also served as technical advisor of the National Toxicology Program's Report on Carcinogens.

                         Julia R. Varshavsky, PhD, MPH

Affiliation:                                                                                Assistant Professor of Environmental Health in the Departments of Health Sciences and Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts
Expertise:                                                                                Environmental Exposures; Maternal Child Health; Biomonitoring, Risk Assessment; Nonchemical Stressors; Health Disparities; Occupational Health
Education:                                                                                PhD in Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health; MPH in Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley; BS in Molecular Environmental Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. Julia Varshavsky is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Health with extensive experience and training in environmental health science and epidemiology/biostatistics over the last 20 years. She previously worked at the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment in the California Environmental Protection Agency as a research scientist to conduct biomonitoring studies of health-related chemical exposures (2020 - 2021); and as a postdoctoral researcher for the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment at the University of California, San Francisco, where she conducted biologically-based population-level studies on exposure and health risks associated with endocrine-disrupting chemicals, including polybrominated diphenyl ethers, per- and poly-fluorinated alkyl substances, and organophosphate flame retardants (2017 - 2020).  Primary research interests include maternal-child health outcomes related to chemical exposures and mixtures, with the overarching goal to identify opportunities to reduce harmful exposures in susceptible groups. Her dissertation research focused on cumulative phthalates exposure method development. Prior to graduate school, Dr. Varshavsky worked for at the Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE) on translating environmental health science to diverse stakeholders (2005 - 2010).

                            Elizabeth M. Ward, PhD

Affiliation:                                                                                Senior Vice President, Intramural Research, American Cancer Society, Atlanta Georgia (retired), Captain, US Public Health Service (retired)
Expertise:                                                                                Cancer Epidemiology; Cancer Prevention and Control; Occupational Health; Chemical Carcinogens; Carcinogen Evaluation
Education:                                                                                PhD in Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania; MS in Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania;  BA, in Biology, State University of NY at Buffalo
Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. Elizabeth Ward has over 40 years of experience in conducting and managing epidemiologic research. For 21 years she was one of the leading cancer epidemiologists at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), in Cincinnati Ohio; her research at NIOSH was instrumental in recognition of beryllium and ortho-toluidine by International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as human carcinogens. Dr. Ward also led studies of serum organochlorines and breast cancer, cancer incidence among vinyl chloride workers, and association of chlorinated naphthalenes with cancer and liver disease. She was Chief at the Industrywide Studies Branch of National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) for six years in which she supervised studies on diverse exposures and outcomes. During her tenure at NIOSH, she was assigned for one year as a liaison/guest researcher with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, (1992-93) and as a Visiting Scientist at IARC in Lyon, France, (1998-1999).  During her subsequent 14-year career at the American Cancer Society, Dr. Ward continued to serve as a national and international expert on occupational cancer and was Senior Vice President of Intramural Research from 2010-2016. She has  published over 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals and several book chapters related to occupational and environmental cancer.

                             Michael J. Wright, MS

Affiliation:                                                                                Former Director of Health, Safety and Environment, United Steelworkers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Retired, 2021)

Expertise:                                                                                Environmental Health Sciences; Industrial Hygiene; Occupational Safety; Chemical Process Safety Management; The Safe Workplace Handling of Highly Hazardous Chemicals; Hazard Communication; Public Health

Education:                                                                                MS in Environmental Health Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health; BS in Engineering, Cornell University

Experience Summary:                                                                                Mr. Michael Wright is the former Director of Health, Safety and Environment for the United Steelworkers, a labor union representing more than 600,000 workers in steel, ferrous and non-ferrious metals, oil, chemicals, rubber and plastics, general manufacturing, mining, health care and other industries. He joined the union as an industrial hygienist in 1977 and became the Health, Safety and Environment director in 1984. Mr. Wright has investigated several hundred workplace accidents, many involving hazardous chemicals. For example, Mr. Wright was part of an international team that traveled to Bhopal, India, to investigate the 1983 release of methyl isocyanate, the worst such accident in history. The department he directed investigates many more industrial accidents. Mr. Wright is a former representative of the International Labor Organization (ILO) to the Internal Programme on Chemical Safety and was part of the international Coordinating Committee that oversaw the development of the hazard communication and labelling aspects of the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (1994-2002). He was the chair of the Workers Group in the negotiations leading to the ILO Chemicals Convention (No.170, 1989-1990).

                        William C. Zamboni, PharmD, PhD

Affiliation:                                                                                Professor, Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Expertise:                                                                                Translational Pharmacology; Pharmacokinetics; Biomarkers, and Pharmacodynamics Study; Translational Drug Development; Exposures of Hazardous Drugs in the Environment and Workplace
Education:                                                                                PhD in Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Pittsburgh; Post-doctoral Fellowship, Pharmaceutical Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital; Pharmacy Residency, National Institute of Health: PharmD, University of Pittsburgh; BS in Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh
Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. William Zamboni is a tenured Professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics in the University of North Carolina (UNC) Eshelman School of Pharmacy (ESOP) and UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center (LCCC) with 25 years of teaching and research experience. Dr. Zamboni is the Director of the UNC Advanced Translational Pharmacology and Analytical Chemistry Lab in the UNC ESOP, UNC LCCC, and the Carolina Institute of Nanomedicine. Dr. Zamboni's research interest focuses on the application of pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic, biomarker, and pharmacogenetic principles in the optimization of the drug treatment of cancer and other diseases. His independent and collaborative preclinical and clinical research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute (NCI), U.S. Food and Drug Administration, foundations, and pharmaceutical companies. He is also the founder of MediGLO Pharmaceutical Consulting, LLC (2002-present); ChemoGLO, LLC (2012 -- present), and Glolytics, LLC (2016-present), which are analytical chemistry or pharmacology-based companies.

                              Huichun Zhang, PhD

Affiliation:                                                                                Frank H. Neff Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
Expertise:                                                                                Environmental Chemistry; Environmental Data Science; Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Modeling of Chemical Reactivity; Reduction-Oxidation Processes and Sorption of Chemicals in Complex Mixtures; Transformation and Fate of Contaminants; Advanced Oxidation Processes; Interfacial Reactions
Education:                                                                                PhD in Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology; BS and MS in Environmental Chemistry, Nanjing University (China)
Experience Summary:                                                                                Dr. Huichun Zhang is the Frank H. Neff professor of Environmental Engineering at Case Western Reserve University. She is a Topic Editor for American Chemical Society (ACS) ES&T Water (2022-present). She was Associate Editor for Environmental Research (2019-2022), Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering (2013-2022), and Journal of Environmental Engineering ASCE (2019-2022). Dr. Zhang has (co)organized a number of workshops for Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP), ACS national meetings and Gordon research Conferences. Dr. Zhang's research focuses on the fate and transformation of environmental contaminants in natural and engineered aquatic environments and the removal of organic contaminants from contaminated water. Her recent research areas also include predictive modeling for contaminant reactivity and sorption using both classical models and machine learning tools. Dr. Zhang is currently a member of the AEESP Education committee (2018-present), the AEESP Global Jr. faculty mentoring program (2022-present), the ACS Environmental Chemistry Student Award Committee (2021-present), and the ACS Environmental Chemistry Executive Committee (2021-present). Dr. Zhang has also served on numerous international, state and foundation review panels and committees, including Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (2014); Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund - The US-Israel Agricultural Research & Development Fund (2014-2015); Research Grants for University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (2015-2020); New Jersey Water Resources Research Institute (2018-2019); and New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium (2017).


[Federal Register: August 31, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 169)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 50302-50303]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

29 CFR Parts 1910, 1915, 1917 and 1918

[Docket No. OSHA-2007-0044]
RIN 1218-AC08

Updating OSHA Standards Based on National Consensus Standards;
Personal Protective Equipment; Notice of Informal Public Hearing

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Labor.

ACTION: Proposal; notice of informal public hearing.

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SUMMARY: This notice schedules an informal public hearing on OSHA's
proposed rule updating its personal protective equipment (PPE) design
standards, which was published on May 17, 2007. It also establishes a
date to file notices of intention to appear at the informal public
hearing and sets requirements for submitting hearing testimony and
documentary evidence in advance of the hearing.

DATES: Informal public hearing. OSHA will hold an informal public
hearing in Washington, DC, beginning at 9 a.m. on December 4, 2007.
    Notices of intention to appear. Parties who intend to present
testimony at the informal public hearing must notify OSHA in writing of
their intention to do so no later than October 1, 2007.
    Hearing testimony and documentary evidence. Parties who request
more than 10 minutes for their presentations at the informal public
hearing and parties who will submit documentary evidence at the hearing
must submit the full text of their testimony and all documentary
evidence no later than November 1, 2007.

ADDRESSES: You may submit notices of intention to appear, hearing
testimony, and documentary evidence--identified by docket number (OSHA-
2007-0044) or RIN number (1218-AC08)--by any of the following methods.
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
     Fax: If your written submission is 10 pages or fewer, you
may fax it to the OSHA Docket Office at<PHONE_NUMBER>.
     Regular mail, express delivery, hand delivery, and courier
service: Submit three copies to the OSHA Docket Office, Docket No.
OSHA-2007-0044, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW.,
Room N2625, Washington, DC 20210; telephone<PHONE_NUMBER>. (OSHA's TTY
number is<PHONE_NUMBER>.) OSHA Docket Office hours of operation are
8:15 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., e.t.
    Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name
and docket number or Regulatory Information Number (RIN) for this
rulemaking. All submissions received will be posted without change to
http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information
provided. For additional information on submitting notices of intention
to appear, the text of testimony, and documentary evidence, see the
Informal Public Hearing heading of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
section of this document.
    Docket: For access to the docket to read comments and background
documents that can be posted go to http://www.regulations.gov. Written
comments received, notices of intention to appear, and all other
material related to the development of the proposed standard will be
available for inspection and copying in the public record in the Docket
Office at the address listed previously.
    Hearing: The hearing will be held in the auditorium of the U.S.
Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC
20210.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: General information and press
inquiries: Mr. Kevin Ropp, Director, Office of Communications, Room
N3647, OSHA, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20210; telephone<PHONE_NUMBER>. Technical information:
Mr. Ted Twardowski, Office of Systems Safety, Room N3609, OSHA, U.S.
Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC
20210; telephone<PHONE_NUMBER> or fax<PHONE_NUMBER>. Hearings: Ms.
Veneta Chatmon, Office of Communications, Room N3647; OSHA, U.S.
Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC
20210; telephone<PHONE_NUMBER>.
    Electronic copies of this Federal Register notice, as well as news,
are available at OSHA's Web page on the Internet at http://
www.osha.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 17, 2007, OSHA published a proposal
that would update OSHA standards related to certain types of personal
protective equipment (72 FR 27771). Interested parties were given until
July 16, 2007, to submit comments on the proposal. The 3M Company, the
American National Standards Institute (ANSI), ASTM International, and
the International Safety Equipment Association (ISEA) all requested an
informal public hearing on the proposal.

1. Issues

    OSHA has proposed to update its standards requiring that certain
types of personal protective equipment (PPE) meet specifically
identified ANSI standards. OSHA proposed deleting the references to the
ANSI standards from the regulatory text, replacing them with a
requirement to use PPE constructed in accordance with good design
standards, and adding criteria for determining what constitutes a good
design standard within the meaning of the proposed standard. The
proposed rule also included a non-mandatory appendix listing those
national consensus standards that OSHA has determined meet the criteria
of a good design standard.
    ISEA has objected to OSHA's proposal because they believe that
modifying the PPE design standards in this way would eliminate baseline
performance requirements for PPE, potentially reducing employee
protection and making compliance more difficult for employers. The 3M
Company, ANSI and ASTM International also requested an informal public
hearing.

2. Informal Public Hearing

    In response to the objections received, OSHA is convening an
informal public hearing on the proposed rule. The hearing will convene
at 9 a.m. on December 4, 2007. OSHA invites interested parties to
provide oral testimony and documentary evidence at the informal public
hearing. This section describes the procedures the public must use to
participate in the hearing.
    The legislative history of section 6 of the OSH Act, as well as
OSHA's regulation governing public hearings (29 CFR 1911.15), establish
the purpose and procedures of informal public hearings. Although the
presiding officer of such hearings is an ALJ, and questioning by
interested parties is allowed on crucial issues, the proceeding is
informal and legislative in purpose. Therefore, the hearing provides
interested parties with an opportunity to make effective and
expeditious oral presentations in the absence of procedural restraints
or rigid procedures that could impede or protract the rulemaking
process. In addition, the hearing is an informal administrative
proceeding, rather than adjudicative one in which the technical rules
of evidence would apply, because its primary purpose is to gather and
clarify information. The regulations that govern public hearings, and
the prehearing guidelines issued for this hearing, will ensure
participants fairness and due process, and also will

facilitate the development of a clear, accurate, and complete record.
Accordingly, application of these rules and guidelines will be such
that questions of relevance, procedure, and participation generally
will favor development of the record.
    Conduct of the hearing will conform to the provisions of 29 CFR
part 1911, ``Rules of Procedure for Promulgating, Modifying, or
Revoking Occupational Safety and Health Standards.'' The regulation at
29 CFR 1911.4, ``Additional or Alternative Procedural Requirements,''
specifies that the Assistant Secretary may, on reasonable notice, issue
alternative procedures to expedite proceedings or for other good cause.
Although the ALJs who preside over these hearings make no decision or
recommendation on the merits of OSHA's proposal, they do have the
responsibility and authority to ensure that the hearing progresses at a
reasonable pace and in an orderly manner.
    To ensure that interested parties receive a full and fair informal
hearing as specified by 29 CFR part 1911, the ALJ has the authority and
power to: Regulate the course of the proceedings; dispose of procedural
requests, objections, and comparable matters; confine the presentations
to matters pertinent to the issues raised; use appropriate means to
regulate the conduct of the parties who are present at the hearing;
question witnesses, and permit others to question witnesses; and limit
the time for such questioning. At the close of the hearing, the ALJ
will establish a post-hearing comment period for parties who
participated in the hearing. During the first part of this period, the
participants may submit additional data and information to OSHA; during
the second part of this period, they may submit briefs, arguments, and
summations.
    Notice of Intention to Appear to Provide Testimony at the Informal
Public Hearing. Interested parties who intend to provide oral testimony
at the informal public hearings must file a written notice of intention
to appear by October 1, 2007. In addition to containing the information
required by the ADDRESSES section above, this notice must also provide
the: name, address, and telephone number of each individual who will
provide testimony; capacity (for example, the name of the establishment
or organization the individual is representing and the individual's
occupational title and position) in which each individual will testify;
approximate amount of time required for each individual's testimony; a
brief statement of the position that the individual will take with
respect to the issue identified in this Notice; and a brief summary of
any documentary evidence the individual intends to present.
    OSHA emphasizes that the hearings are open to the public, and that
interested parties are welcome to attend. However, only a party who
files a complete notice of intention to appear may ask questions and
participate fully at the hearing. If time permits and at the presiding
ALJ's discretion, a party who did not file a notice of intention to
appear may be allowed to testify at the hearing.
    Hearing Testimony and Documentary Evidence. Parties who request
more than 10 minutes for their presentations at the informal public
hearing and parties who will submit documentary evidence at the hearing
must submit the full text of their testimony and all documentary
evidence no later than November 1, 2007. The Agency will review each
submission and determine if the information it contains warrants the
amount of time requested. If OSHA believes the requested time is
excessive, it will allocate an appropriate amount of time to the
presentation, and will notify the participant of this action, and the
reasons for the action, before the hearing. The Agency may limit to 10
minutes the presentation of any participant who fails to comply
substantially with these procedural requirements; in such instances,
OSHA may request the participant to return for questioning at a later
time.
    Certification of the Record and Final Determination after the
Informal Public Hearing. Following the close of the hearing and post-
hearing comment period, the presiding ALJ will certify the record to
the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health;
the record will consist of all of the written comments, oral testimony,
and documentary evidence received during the proceeding. However, the
ALJ does not make or recommend any decisions as to the content of the
final standard. Following certification of the record, OSHA will review
the proposed provisions in light of all the evidence received as part
of the record, and then will issue the final rule based on the entire
record.

Authority and Signature

    This document was prepared under the direction of Edwin G. Foulke,
Jr., Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health,
200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210. This action is
taken pursuant to sections 4, 6, and 8 of the Occupational Safety and
Health Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. 653, 655, 657), Secretary of Labor's
Order No. 5-2007 (72 FR 31160), and 29 CFR part 1911.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 27th day of August 2007.
Edwin G. Foulke, Jr.,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health.
 [FR Doc. E7-17183 Filed 8-30-07; 8:45 am]

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