[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 87 (Thursday, May 4, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25920-25921]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-11143]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-6587-6]


Regulatory Reinvention (XL) Pilot Projects

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice to announce the signing of the International Paper 
Project XL Final Project Agreement.

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SUMMARY: EPA is announcing the signing of the Project XL Final Project 
Agreement (FPA) for International Paper and the availability of the 
agreement and related documents.

DATES: The FPA was signed on 20 April 2000 in Jay, Maine.

ADDRESSES: To obtain a copy of the Final Project Agreement, Test Plan 
or Fact Sheet, contact: Chris Rascher, EPA New England, 1 Congress 
Street (SPP), Boston, Massachusetts, or Ted Cochin, U.S. EPA, 1200 
Pennsylvania Avenue NW (Mail Code 1802), Washington, DC 20460. The FPA 
and related documents are also available via the Internet at the

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following location: http://www.epa.gov/ProjectXL. Public files on the 
project, including the FPA, are also available for review at the Town 
Hall, Town of Jay, Maine. Questions to EPA regarding the documents can 
be directed to Chris Rascher at (617) 918-1834 or Ted Cochin at (202) 
260-0880. To be included on the International Paper Project XL mailing 
list about future public meetings, XL progress reports and other 
mailings from International Paper on the XL project, contact Kimberly 
Thompson, International Paper, Androscoggin Mill, 207-897-1554. For 
information on all other aspects of the XL Program contact Christopher 
Knopes at the following address: Office of Policy and Reinvention, 
United States Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 
Avenue, NW (Mail Code 1802), Washington, DC 20460. Additional 
information on Project XL, including documents referenced in this 
document, other EPA policy documents related to Project XL, regional XL 
contacts, application information, and descriptions of existing XL 
projects and proposals, is available via the Internet at http://www.epa.gov/projectxl/inter/page1.htm.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Final Project Agreement (FPA) is a 
voluntary agreement developed by EPA, International Paper, the State of 
Maine, Town of Jay, and active stakeholders. Project XL, announced in 
the Federal Register on May 23, 1995 (60 FR 27282), gives regulated 
sources the flexibility to develop alternative strategies that will 
replace or modify specific regulatory requirements on the condition 
that they produce greater environmental benefits.
    On February 15, 2000, EPA announced the availability of the draft 
FPA and Test Plan in the Federal Register (65 FR 7546) and requested 
comments by March 16, 2000. No comments were received as a result of 
the announcement.
    International Paper will develop, test, and implement a computer 
model that can estimate pollutant emissions on a continuous basis. 
Currently, International Paper is required to measure some of these 
pollutants only once every year. If successfully developed and 
implemented, this computer model will provide the company and make 
available to the community, information on emissions that is continuous 
and reliable. To accomplish this, IP will be granted regulatory 
flexibility in two areas. The first is to allow potential minor 
exceedances above existing permit limits for the waste fuel incinerator 
to develop the computer model. However, as set forth more fully in the 
FPA, IP will offset any emission increases. The second area of 
flexibility will involve the frequency of stack testing and the 
replacement of continuous emission monitoring with the computer model, 
if the computer model proves successful.

Elizabeth Shaw,
Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of Reinvention Programs.
[FR Doc. 00-11143 Filed 5-3-00; 8:45 am]
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