Meeting 1: Review of the IRIS Process

Meeting Information

Project Title:	Review of the IRIS Process
PIN:	DELS-BEST-11-04
Major Unit:	Division on Earth and Life Studies
Sub Unit:	Board on Environmental Studies & Toxicology
RSO:	Mantus, Ellen

Subject/Focus Area:	Environment and Environmental Studies

1st Meeting for the Review of the IRIS Process September 17, 2012 - September 18, 2012 Keck Center 500 5th Street, NW Washington D.C. 20001

If you would like to attend the sessions of this meeting that are open to the public or need more information please contact:
Contact Name: Craig Philip
Email: cphilip@nas.edu
Phone: 202-334-1942
Fax: 202-334-2752

Agenda: Online registration of the meeting is now closed. If you would like to attend the meeting you will have to register at the Keck Center at the start of the open session meeting. NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL FIRST MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE TO REVIEW THE IRIS PROCESS Open Session: September 17, 2012 National Academies Keck Center, Room 201 500 Fifth Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 PH: 202-334-2017 / FAX 202-334-2752 AGENDA 1:00 Purpose of Open Session and Introduction of Committee Members Jon Samet Chair, Committee to Review the IRIS Process Professor and Flora L. Thornton Chair, Department of Preventive Medicine Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California 1:15 EPA’s IRIS Program Kenneth Olden Director of the National Center for Environmental Assessment U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1:30 Recent Changes in IRIS Assessment Development and Anticipated Future Changes Vincent Cogliano Acting Director of the Integrated Risk Information System Program U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 2:00 Workshop on Weight of Evidence – Discussion Session EPA Staff and Committee to Review the IRIS Process 3:00 Open Microphone – Comments from the Audience 4:00 END PUBLIC SESSION Note: If you are not able to attend the public session in person and would like to participate via teleconference, please contact Craig Philip at cphilip@nas.edu
Closed Session Summary Posted After the Meeting The following committee members were present at the closed sessions of the meeting: Jonathan Samet (chair) Scott Bartell Lisa Bero Ann Bostrom Kay Dickersin David Dorman David Eaton Joe Garcia Miguel Hernán James House Margaret MacDonell Richard Scheines Leonard Siegel Robert Wallace (via teleconference) Yiliang Zhu The following topics were discussed in the closed sessions: 1) Standard NRC discussion of policies, procedures, bias, and conflict of interest. 2) Committee’s statement of task and its approach to its task. 3) Information presented in the open session and submitted to the committee. 4) Schedule and agendas for future meetings and weight-of-evidence workshop. The following materials (written documents) were made available to the committee in the closed sessions: 1. EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System Program: Progress Report and Report to Congress. Sent to Ellen Mantus from Norman Birchfield, EPA. Received on August 20, 2012. 2. EPA’s Path Forward for the Integrated Risk Information System Program. Sent to Ellen Mantus from Norman Birchfield, EPA. Received on August 20, 2012. 3. Appendix E: Documentation of Implementation of the 2011 National Research Council Recommendations. From EPA 2012: Toxicological Review of Ammonia. Sent to Ellen Mantus from Norman Birchfield, EPA. Received on August 20, 2012. 4. Appendix D: Documentation of Implementation of the 2011 National Research Council Recommendations. From EPA 2012: Toxicological Review of Trimethylbenzene. Sent to Ellen Mantus from Norman Birchfield, EPA. Received on August 20, 2012. 5. Modernizing and Refocusing Human Health Risk Assessment. A PowerPoint presentation to the Committee to Review the IRIS Process by Dr. Kenneth Olden, EPA, on September 17, 2012, in Washington, DC. 6. Recent Changes in IRIS Assessment Development and Anticipated Future Changes. A PowerPoint presentation to the Committee to Review the IRIS Process by Dr. Vincent Cogliano, EPA, on September 17, 2012, in Washington, DC. 7. Letter from Kimberly Wise and Rick Becker, American Chemistry Council, to Ellen Mantus, dated September 13, 2012, with two appendices. 8. Notes for NRC Committee Meeting on IRIS from Richard Belzer, Regulatory Checkbook. Comments made to the Committee to Review the IRIS Process on September 17, 2012, in Washington, DC. 9. Extended Remarks by Charles Elkins made to the Committee to Review the IRIS Process on September 17, 2012, Washington, DC. 10. Comments for Review of the IRIS Process, submitted by Angus Macbeth, Sibley Austin, LLP, to Ellen Mantus on September 24, 2012. Date of posting of Closed Session Summary: September 25, 2012