Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 181 / Monday, September 21, 2009 / Notices 48069 

Dakota, as noted above. The purpose of 

the scoping meeting is to provide 

information about Western’s Federal 

action and Basin Electric’s Groton 

Generating Station, display maps, 

answer questions, and take written 

comments from interested parties. 

Attendees are welcome to come and go 

at their convenience and to speak oneon-one with Western and Basin Electric 

representatives. 

The public will have the opportunity 

to provide written comments at the 

meeting. In addition, attendees may 

provide written comments by fax, 

e-mail, or mail as discussed under 

DATES above. To help define the scope 

of the EIS, comments should be received 

by Western no later than October 23, 

2009. 

Dated: August 27, 2009. 

Timothy J. Meeks, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. E9–22612 Filed 9–18–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8955–5] 

Tentative Approval and Solicitation of 

Request for a Public Hearing for Public 

Water System Supervision Program 

Revision for New Jersey 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the State of New Jersey is revising its 

approved Public Water System 

Supervision Program to adopt EPA’s 

National Primary Drinking Water 

Regulations for one major rule and six 

minor revisions and/or corrections. The 

EPA has determined that these revisions 

are no less stringent than the 

corresponding Federal regulations. 

Therefore, the EPA intends to approve 

these program revisions. All interested 

parties may request a public hearing. 

DATES: This determination to approve 

New Jersey’s primacy program revision 

application is made pursuant to 40 CFR 

142.12(d)(3). It shall become final and 

effective unless (1) a timely and 

appropriate request for a public hearing 

is received or (2) the Regional 

Administrator elects to hold a public 

hearing on his own motion. Any 

interested person, other than Federal 

Agencies, may request a public hearing. 

A request for a public hearing must be 

submitted to the Regional Administrator 

at the address shown below by October 

21, 2009. If a substantial request for a 

public hearing is made within the 

requested thirty day time frame, a 

public hearing will be held and a notice 

will be given in the Federal Register 

and a newspaper of general circulation. 

Frivolous or insubstantial requests for a 

hearing may be denied by the Regional 

Administrator. If no timely and 

appropriate request for a hearing is 

received and the Regional Administrator 

does not elect to hold a hearing on his 

own motion, this determination shall 

become final and effective October 21, 

2009. 

ADDRESSES: Any request for a public 

hearing shall include the following 

information: (1) Name, address and 

telephone number of the individual, 

organization or other entity requesting a 

hearing; (2) a brief statement of the 

requesting person’s interest in the 

Regional Administrator’s determination 

and a brief statement on information 

that the requesting person intends to 

submit at such hearing; (3) the signature 

of the individual making the requests or, 

if the request is made on behalf of an 

organization or other entity, the 

signature of a responsible official of the 

organization or other entity. Requests 

for Public Hearing shall be addressed to: 

Regional Administrator, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency— 

Region 2, 290 Broadway, New York, 

New York 10007–1866. 

All documents relating to this 

determination are available for 

inspection between the hours of 9 a.m. 

and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

at the following offices: 

New Jersey Department of 

Environmental Protection, P.O. Box 

CN–426, 401 East State Street, Floor 3, 

Trenton, New Jersey 08625–0426. 

U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency—Region 2, 24th Floor 

Drinking Water Ground Water 

Protection Section, 290 Broadway, 

New York, New York 10007–1866. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael J. Lowy, Drinking Water 

Ground Water Protection Section, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency— 

Region 2, (212) 637–3830. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

hereby given that the United States 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

has determined to approve an 

application by the State of New Jersey 

Department of Environmental Protection 

to revise its Public Water Supply 

Supervision Primacy Program to 

incorporate regulations no less stringent 

than the EPA’s National Primary 

Drinking Water Regulations (NPDWR) 

for Arsenic and Clarifications to 

Compliance and New Source 

Contaminants Monitoring; Final Rule; 

promulgated by EPA January 22, 2001 

(66 FR 6976), Revision to IESWTR/Stage 

1 DBPR, Revision to State Primacy 

Requirement to Implement SDWA 

Amendments; promulgated by EPA 

February 12, 2001 (66 FR 9903), 

Methods Update Final Rule; Final Rule; 

promulgated by EPA October 23, 202 

(67 FR 65220), National Primary 

Drinking Water Regulations Minor 

Revisions to PN Rule, CCR Rule, 

Primacy Rule; Final Rule; promulgated 

by EPA November 27, 2002 (67 FR 

70850), Approval of Additional 

Methods for the Detection of Coliforms 

and E. coli; Final Rule; promulgated by 

EPA February 13, 2004 (69 FR 7156), 

Minor Corrections and Clarification to 

Drinking Water Regulations, National 

Primary Drinking Water Regulations for 

Lead and Copper Rule; Final Rule; 

promulgated by EPA June 29, 2004 (69 

FR 38850), Analytical Method for 

Uranium; Final Rule; promulgated by 

EPA August 25, 2004 (69 FR 52176). 

The application demonstrates that 

New Jersey has adopted drinking water 

regulations which satisfy the NPDWRs 

for the above. The USEPA has 

determined that New Jersey’s 

regulations are no less stringent than the 

corresponding Federal Regulations and 

that New Jersey continues to meet all 

requirements for primary enforcement 

responsibility as specified in 40 CFR 

142.10. 

Authority: (Section 1413 of the Safe 

Drinking Water Act, as amended, 40 U.S.C. 

300g–2, and 40 CFR 142.10, 142.12(d) and 

142.13). 

Dated: August 17, 2009. 

Barbara Finazzo, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region 2. 

[FR Doc. E9–22619 Filed 9–18–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Notice 

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING: Equal 

Employment Opportunity Commission. 

‘‘FEDERAL REGISTER’’ CITATION OF

PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENT: 74 FR 46992, 

Monday, September 14, 2009. 

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED TIME AND DATE OF

MEETING: Thursday, September 17, 2009, 

9:30 a.m. (Eastern Time). 

CHANGE IN THE MEETING: The meeting has 

been cancelled. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Stephen Llewellyn, Executive Officer on 

(202) 663–4070. 

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