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1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ~ 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 ) the next two days, we will be doing this review, hearing public comment and the Committee will be undergoing its deliberations. As has already been alluded to, the Committee will then draft a report which will be reviewed by the Committee in preparation for submission to the Executive Committee at their October meeting on the 27th and 28th of October, I believe it is. Yes, the last week in October. If everything goes well at the Committee level and the Executive Committee level, we would anticipate forwarding a report on this issue to the Administrator sometime in the month of November. OVERVIEW, INTRODUCTIONS AND DISCLOSURE MR. FLAAK: I'd like to make a couple of announcements relative to the conduct of the meeting today, some from an administrative standpoint and others from a procedural one. First of all, this a public meeting of the Board. We've requested, as is our common policy, the members of the press who have any requests for any information from us, please either see myself or Dave Ryan in the back of the room or one of my assistants who are sitting at the back table, Carolyn Osborne or Rasheed Tahir sitting at the back table. ogmezZca.n 4-Rrootteu Ze /2021 296-0261 rlGq /7031644-7636

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 r 1-12 Typically, Science Advisory Board meetings are not transcribed; however, today it is being transcribed at the request of an outside individual. This is consistent with the policy that we set at our last Executive Committee meeting to allow outside organizations who desire to have a transcript of the meeting made to conduct the transcript, with the understanding that it might be made available to others who so desire it. At the last page of the agenda for today's meeting is a statement regarding the transcript and who to contact regarding availability and the possibility of whatever fee might be involved. This is not an official Science Advisory Board transcript, and consequently, we have no control over the transcript itself. We probably will get a copy for the public record sometime after the meeting. Typically, these take a couple of weeks. I'd like to spend a couple of minutes going over the agenda to make sure that everyone is clear on what we're going to be doing. The primary function of this meeting, the sole function of this meeting, is to review an EPA draft document entitled "Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking: Lung Cancer and Other Disorders." This is a second look at a document this Committee looked at in December of. ~ ~ ~ ~ N a, W ) Anetican ~E~iottev. 17C /zoz/ zqb-ozbr qUo4 /7031 644-7636

1-13 ) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 1990, upon which this Committee filed a report with the Administrator in April of 1991. This report was made public, I believe, around the 22nd or so of June and made available to the Committee members at the same time. It has been made available for public information; however, the Agency has not been taking specific public comments as they did the last time. However, under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the Science Advisory Board accepts both written and oral comment on an issue before it. In this particular case, I suspect we have about six or seven inches worth of comments that have come in from various interested individuals, some as late as yesterday, and I anticipate some more coming in sometime today. All of these comments have been provided to the members cf the Committee in advance of the meeting. Copies of these comments have also been provided to the Agency staff as well as interested.members of the public who have desired them. Anybody who wishes copies of the comments that we've received, please see one of my assistants at the back table. They have mailing labels back there. If you put your name and address on a mailing label, we will be delighted to 4Am.EZi.can 4-Rootteu. Ze /zo2l zq6-oz6i q/c4 /7031644-7636

) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 1-14 send you a set of that material. However, it will probably be a week or so after the meeting before you get it. The stuff was too big for us to cart over here today. If you need to send a messenger over to our office, please contact one of us, and we can make arrangements to do that later in the week. As far as the agenda is concerned, we are going to have a brief overview by members of the EPA staff before we get started on the review and the rest of the meeting is going to be focused on the Committee's actual review and discussion of the various parts of the document. This afternoon we have scheduled a public comment period which is going to start at 3:00 p.m. I should point out that originally in the Federal Register notice for this meeting, the meeting was scheduled to end at 5:00 p.m. approximately. I suspect it will run later today because of the number of public commenters that requested time and the fact that most of them wanted more time that we originally allocated. We've made every effort to accommodate them in the additional time they've requested, and as you can see in looking at your agenda on page 2, we have some 14 or so public commenters who will be speaking. I've asked each of cAIZEZI.CRK GREl2o'LfE21 2~e Izozl z96-oz& q'df /703/ 644-7636

1-15 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 them to try to limit their comments to about 10 minutes, and in any case, no more than 15, to allow everybody an opportunity to speak. A couple of the speakers have said they would be here both days, and if necessary, we may ask them, rather than to push this into the later evening this evening, to come back in the morning and before we get started, wrap up the last two or so public comments. We'll see how it goes this afternoon, and we'll make a decision a little later on. Bear in mind if we do that tomorrow morning, that would mean the meeting would start just a little bit earlier than we had originally announced. Nine o'clock was the original announced time starting. We might move it up to 8:30 a.m. Again, we'll announce that later on today. What I'd like to do is turn my attention to the Committee members for a moment. One of the issues that we discuss at our meetings, and have done for the last couple of years, is what we call public disclosure. This is an opportunity for you to state publicly for the record your association on various issues that related to the issue at hand. This does not mean a disclosure of the confidential financial statements that are filed by members. However, it Pqq2E'LCCQ/2 G1 \E j7.04.& 7s 2~C /zo2J 2q6-o26, q,o4 /7031 644-7636

1-16 1 2 3 4 6 7. 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 does give you an opportunity to relate to a couple of issues. And there is a document which I sent to you prior to the meeting, of which there's also a copy in your folder, which you might want to glance at if you haven't thought about it already. Basically we're asking people to identify whether they've had research conducted on this particular issue, previous pronouncements made public on this issue, the interest of your employer in very specific areas of this environment tobacco smoke., any financial interest you might have in this issue and any links, such as research grants, perhaps from EPA even, related to research on this issue. Now, we're looking at things that are related to the issue at hand today, not thingsvare related in a very, very broad way. I'd like to, at the same time, ask the Committee members to introduce themselves since we haven't done that yet, and when they do that, to please identify any issues they think are relevant for the public record. I'm going to start -- Geoff, can I.start down at your end, please? Dr. Kabat? DR. KABAT: My name is Geoffrey Kabat. DR. LIPPMANN: That's not a public address microphone. That's just a microphone for recording. So if you leave it back there and speak so that they can hear you, og»zEZCcan lz~?E fso¢tEqs 25e /ZO21 296-oZ6l Nd{ /703/ 644-7636 ~ ~ N Ln

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 1-17 there will be enough volume in the recorder. DR. KABAT: My name is Geoffrey Kabat. I'm in the Division of Epidemiology at the American Health Foundation in New York. The American Health Foundation is a nonprofit institute devoted to research in the area of cancer, cause and prevention. I should mention that the American Health Wrnder , Foundation and its president, Dr. ind, have played an important, if not a leading role, in linking tobacco use to specific diseases and specific cancers. My own work has focused on a range of issues, including tobacco, alcohol, passive smoking, diet, and other factors in relation to individual cancers. I've gone on record as criticizing some of the methodological limitations of the epidemiologic studies of lung cancer and passive smoking. and this was including our own work on the topic. This was in the spirit of trying to alert people to pitfalls of this kind of research and to try to strengthen the design and the quality of research on this topic. I have no financial interest in the issue at hand, environmental tobacco smoke. I should mention that my funding for my current work comes almost exclusively from the Government, from the National Cancer Institute, and none of N ) 07n2E3.[.CQYL ::RE#O4.fEZd. 2~C /zozf 296-o26r q~v4 /703/ 64a-7636

I-18 1 it comes from MR. DR. University of Center. I'm in the areas toxicology. any tobacco company. Thank you. FLAAK: Dr. Laties. LATIES: My name is Victor Laties. I'm at the Rochester's Environmental Health Sciences an experimental psychologist by training working of behavior pharmacology and behavioral I have not worked ever on passive smoking, and 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 to the best of my knowledge and belief, I have nothing to disclose right now about any contact with any aspect of the problem. MR. FLAAK: Dr. Daisey. DR. DAISEY: I'm Joan Daisey. I'm the head of the Indoor Environment Program at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. The Indoor Environment Program conducts research on indoor air quality, ventilation and energy conservation in buildings. Since Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory is a national laboratory, much of our work is funded by the Department of Energy. At present, I have two research grants and am the principal investigator on two research grants having to do with environmental tobacco smoke. One is funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute on the physical chemical properties of environmental tobacco smoke, and thee cAnE2i.can eRElzo2tets. ZC /2oz/ p96-oz6r q~Vq 1703/ 644-7636

1-19 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 second one is funded by the State of California Tobacco Related Disease Research Program, and that has to do with the behavior of particles of ETS in buildings. I have no research funded by the Environmental Protection Agency, although there is some in our program, and I have no research supported by any of the tobacco companies or tobacco research institutes. MR. FLAAK: Thank you. Dr. Lioy? DR. LIOY: I'm Dr. Paul Lioy. I'm Director of the Human Exposure Division of the Environmental Occupational Health Sciences Institute of New Jersey. I have no vested interest in environmental tobacco smoke. In terms of my research with public pronouncements, I do conduct research on the human exposure pathways and human contact to environmentally-derived carcinogens and irritants and other pollutants, and I also do work on biological markers of exposure and participate and also conduct epidemiologic,studies primarily in prospective studies of human contact with pollution. That's it. MR. FLAAK: Dr. Eatough? DR. EATOUGH: Delbert Eatough. I'm Professor of Chemistry at Brigham Young University. Brigham Young University is a private university sponsored by the Church of d7me zi.can d-Re/i.o 3.te as. Ze /ZO2/ Z96-o261 q,6q 17031644-7636

s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 1-20 Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. My research efforts have been in the area of chemical characterization of atmospheric pollutants and what's referred to as source apportionment studies determining where materials in the environment came from. The bulk of our work, particularly more recently, has been in ambient studies related to visibility, and some of that work is supported by the EPA. We have had support in the past for the chemical characterization and apportionment of environmental tobacco smoke, and that work in the past was funded primarily by the 14s Center for Indoor Air Research, and prior to CtE'"s formation we had some support from Reynolds Tobacco in connection with that work. MR. FLAAK: Dr. Hammond? DR. HAMMOND: I'm Kathy Hammond. I'm on the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences. My research has focused on exposure assessment, in particular related to epidemiologic studies and most commonly in occupational exposures. I've had grants in the past from EPA involving environmental tobacco smoke, and from the March of Dimes. PTIf2E'LLCQn GRE#04fE'LS ZC /zoz/ zqb-ozb, q6q /703/ 644-7636