U.S. EPA Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee Meeting | Oct. 30

Meeting Objectives:
• Provide updates on the EPA Office of Children’s Health Protection’s programmatic activities
• Present an overview of the EPA’s Cumulative Impacts activities and discuss CHPAC input on targeted children’s health considerations
• Discuss the Draft National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution, learn about the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution’s development of an international plastics treaty and present the CHPAC plastics charge
• Delve into the recent EPA regulations pertaining to lead: o Final Rule on Lead and Copper Rule Improvements o Dust-Lead Hazard Standards and Dust-Lead Post-Abatement Clearance Levels
• Report out on the CHPAC recommendations on lead information resources for low- and middle-income countries, per the joint EPA/UNICEF charge
• Discuss plans and opportunities for future EPA analyses and products on climate change and maternal health

Agenda (in Eastern Time):

10am — Welcome: Logistics Overview and Agenda Review
10:10am — Office of Children’s Health Protection Updates
10:30am — Session 1: Cumulative Impacts
EPA’s Consideration of Cumulative Impacts and Summary of NEJAC Recommendations
Cumulative Impact Assessments: Scientific Foundations
EPA Region 7’s Cumulative and Health Impact Assessment Activities with an Emphasis on the Two Tools
EPA Region 5’s Cumulative Impacts Applications
11:30am — Break
11:40am — Session 1: Cumulative Impacts Discussion
12pm — Public Comments
12:30pm — Break
2pm — Session 2: Plastic Pollution
Draft National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution
The Road to Busan: Status of the Global Negotiation on an International Instrument to Address Plastic Pollution
Draft Final Plastics Charge to CHPAC
Discussion
3:30pm Break
3:45pm — The National Toxicology Program Monograph on Fluoride Exposure and Neurodevelopment and Cognition: A Systematic Review and Discussion
4:45pm — Day 1 Wrap-Up

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