Invitation for Public Comment on the List of Candidates for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board May 19, 2021 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office announced in a Federal Register Notice (86 FR 17148-17149) on April 1, 2021, that it was inviting nominations of experts to be considered for the Administrator’s appointment to the Science Advisory Board (SAB). The chartered SAB provides scientific advice to the EPA Administrator on a variety of EPA science and research topics. The SAB Staff Office invited nominations of individuals to serve on the chartered SAB with expertise or extensive experience in the following scientific disciplines and topics as they relate to human health and the environment: Air quality; agricultural sciences and economics; analytical chemistry; atmospheric sciences; benefit-cost analysis; chemical safety; climate science; citizen science; community environmental health; dose-response assessment; drinking water; drinking water engineering; ecological sciences and ecological assessment; ecological risk assessment; ecosystem services; economics; energy and the environment; engineering; environmental justice; epidemiology; exposure assessment; forestry; geochemistry; health sciences; human health risk assessment; hydrology; hydrogeology; medicine; microbiology; modeling; pediatrics; pesticide risk assessment, public health; physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling; risk assessment; social, behavioral and decision sciences; statistics; sustainability; radiological risk assessment; toxicology; uncertainty analysis; water quality; water quantity and reuse; and waste management. The SAB Staff Office received nominations for the attached 351 candidates based on their expertise and willingness to serve. We hereby invite public comments on the attached List of Candidates under consideration for appointment to the SAB. Comments should be submitted to Dr. Thomas Armitage, Designated Federal Officer, at [email protected] no later than June 9, 2021. E-mail is the preferred mode of receipt. Please be advised that public comments are subject to release under the Freedom of Information Act. 1 List of Candidates for the FY2022 Chartered SAB Membership Abel, Troy Western Washington University Huxley Peninsulas Program Dr. Troy D. Abel is a Professor of Environmental Policy in Huxley College of the Environment, Western Washington University (WWU), and a co-recipient of the Lynton Keith Caldwell Award (2012) for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Press publication: "Coming Clean: Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance." His research and teaching interests focus on Environmental Justice (EJ), urban riskscapes, and industrial environmental performance. Between 2011 and 2019, Dr. Abel published a series of studies on environmental injustice in Seattle, Washington in the American Journal of Public Health, Interdisciplinary Environmental Review, the Routledge Handbook of Global Urban Health and Sustainability. He is currently the project director for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Assistance Agreement NE-01J78901–0 on an environmental justice science education program. Dr. Abel also recently collaborated on two EPA Collaborative Problem Solving projects with South Seattle communities (EPA Assistance Agreements 01J27101 and 00J91901 completed in 2018 and 2016). Dr. Abel has directed or co-directed extramurally funded research projects totaling more than 1.9 million dollars and is a recognized North American expert on environmental justice, the American Editor of the International Journal of Environment and Pollution and served as an expert panelist for the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board from 2013-2015. He received his Ph.D. in Public Policy in 1998 and a Master of Public Administration in 1994 from George Mason University and a Bachelor of Science in Public Health in 1990 from Indiana University. Dr. Abel was recognized in 2018 by the Western Washington University (WWU) Center for his Instructional Innovation and Assessment Teaching Showcase for social justice engagement, a recipient of WWU’s Teaching and Learning Academy award for “advancing the University’s values of sustainability and diversity” in 2009 and selected as a Teaching Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in 2002-2003. Adams, Craig Saint Louis University Dr. Craig D. Adams is the Oliver Parks Professor of Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering at Saint Louis University (SLU). He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Health Engineering from the University of Kansas. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and a registered professional engineer. He serves on the American Water Works Association Organic Contaminants Control Committee and Contaminant Candidate List (CCL) Workgroup. He served on the United States of America National Committee (USANC) of the International Water Association (IWA) as Chair from 2014 to 2016, and as Secretary/Treasurer from 2008 to 2014. He serves of faculty advisor/mentor for Engineers Without Borders and other student groups with projects in Kenya, Belize, and Honduras. In SLU’s Water Quality and Treatment Laboratory, he researches oxidation and sorption processes for drinking water contaminants (including pharmaceuticals, cyanotoxins, taste-and-odor compounds, disinfection byproducts, and others). His research group is focused on fundamental research that is used to develop actionable guidance for utilities in the United States and beyond. He co-authored the Hazen-Adams CyanoTOX software (freely downloadable from the American Water Works Association website) that helps utilities with complex cyanotoxin issues. His recent research is funded by agencies including the Water Research Foundation and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. His group also focuses on developing point-of-use treatment technology for developing nations. He was the recipient of the Eddy Wastewater Principles and Processes Medal (2008), the ASCE State-of-the-Art Civil Engineering Award (2003), and the ASCE Rudolph Hering Medal (2003), and was a National Science Foundation Young Investigator with research focused on water treatment using advanced oxidation processes. During the past two years Dr. Adams’ research has been funded by the Water Research Foundation, American Water Works Association, Missouri University of Science and Technology, and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Adams, Hunter Cypress Environmental Laboratory Mr. Hunter Adams is the Laboratory Supervisor, Deputy Quality Control Manager, and Technical Manager of Microbiology and Inorganic Chemistry for the Cypress Environmental Laboratory – City of Wichita Falls, TX. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and a Master of Science degree in Biology from Midwestern State University. He is a licensed Class A Water Operator and Class C Wastewater Treatment Operator by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. He is also a Certified Water Professional and certified in Infrastructure Protection and Infrastructure Disaster Management by the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service of Texas A&M University. He 2 has worked in the planning and implementation of microbiological and analytical testing for Direct Potable Reuse and Indirect Potable Reuse systems for the City of Wichita Falls, TX. He has also successfully implemented a Harmful Algal Bloom and Taste and Odor Monitoring Program that has completely eliminated customer complaints for over 4 years. Hunter received the Water Environment Federation Laboratory Analyst Excellence Award in 2020. He has authored and contributed to several American Water Works Association journal articles and manuals, Association of Public Health Laboratories’ Bridges, LCGC North America, and has worked to develop new methods for inclusion in Standard Methods. He has also presented research at many conferences. Mr. Adams serves as a National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program Microbiology Expert Committee Member, an Association of Public Health Laboratories Environmental Laboratory Sciences Committee Member, on many committees with American Water Works Association and Water Environment Federation, an Intrastate Technology & Regulatory Council Team Member for Strategies for Preventing and Managing Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms, and a Texas Commission on Environmental Quality EnviroMentor. He has extensive experience with Microbiology, ion chromatography, inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, gas chromatography, quantitative polymerase chain reaction, flow cytometry, and taxonomy. Adesanya, Babafemi Intellectual Concepts, LLC Dr. Babafemi A. Adesanya is Senior Vice President with Intellectual Concepts, a small Mobility-Engineering company focusing on public health particularly vaccine preventable diseases such as Polio and Mobility as a means of addressing community health. Dr. Adesanya obtained a B.S. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from University of Nebraska and Ph.D. from Clemson University in Chemical Engineering. Dr. Adesanya was a Chemical Engineering Professor at University of Wyoming, Lafayette College and Hampton University from 1982 to 1999. From 1994 to 1999, Dr. Adesanya, as the Executive Director, started and operated the Environmental Equity Information Institute at Hampton University which was funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and National Aeronautics