Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 95 / Tuesday, May 16, 2000 / Notices 31171

Dated: May 9, 2000.

D. Brenner,

Acting Assistant Administrator for Air and

Radiation.

[FR Doc. 00–12303 Filed 5–15–00; 8:45 am]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6700–3]

Public Meetings on Electronic

Submission of Environmental Reports

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of public meetings.

SUMMARY: EPA will hold approximately

four public meetings to solicit

comments on the Agency’s proposed

rule for the electronic submission of

environmental reports and the CrossMedia Electronic Reporting and Recordkeeping Rule (CROMERRR). The

meeting will also obtain feedback on the

design of the Central Receiving Facility

(CRF), the system the Agency will use

to receive reports electronically. In

addition, the Agency’s Integrated Error

Correction Process (IECP) will be

discussed. This notice announces two

upcoming meetings. Additional meeting

dates will be announced through

Federal Register notices.

DATES: The meetings will take place:

1. Tuesday, June 6, 2000, 9 am to 4

pm (CST) at the Ralph H. Metcalfe

Federal Building, 3rd Floor, 77 West

Jackson Street, Chicago, IL.

2. Tuesday, July 11, 2000. 9 am to 4

pm (EST) at Resolve, Inc., 1255 23rd

Street NW, Suite 275, Washington, DC.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Magdalena Evi Huffer (Mail Stop 2823),

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington,

DC 20460; telephone: (202) 260–8791;

fax number (202) 401–0182; e-mail—

huffer.evi@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

CROMERRR will provide the legal

framework for electronic reporting and

record-keeping under EPA’s

environmental regulations. CROMERRR

will apply to most, if not all, reporting

and record-keeping activities currently

required of companies covered by EPA

regulations and will remove legal

obstacles to electronic reporting and

record-keeping under most EPA

regulations. It will ensure that these

electronic documents will have the

same legal and evidentiary force as their

paper counterparts.

The (CRF) will be the point of entry

for all environmental data submitted to

the Agency, electronic and paper. The

CRF will enable automated computer-tocomputer data transfer for companies

with automated environmental systems.

It will provide quicker access for

industry and the public to higher

quality data. It will offer timesaving

efficiencies by offering a single point of

entry and common procedures for all

reporting transactions.

The IECP for environmental data will

build upon existing error correction

processed in EPA data systems. It will

make error correction easier, more

prominent and accountable. The IECP

will improve EPA’s accountability to

individuals and entities that report data

to the Agency while also improving the

Agency’s service to the public, which

relies on the Agency for information

about the state of our environment.

Dated: May 1, 2000.

Joseph D. Retzer,

Director, Collection Services Division, Office

of Information Collection, Office of

Environmental Information.

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FEDERAL EMERGENCY

MANAGEMENT AGENCY

[FEMA–1327–DR]

Kansas; Major Disaster and Related

Determinations

AGENCY: Federal Emergency

Management Agency (FEMA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This is a notice of the

Presidential declaration of a major

disaster for the State of Kansas (FEMA–

1327-DR), dated May 3, 2000, and

related determinations.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 3, 2000

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Madge Dale, Response and Recovery

Directorate, Federal Emergency

Management Agency, Washington, DC

20472, (202) 646–3772.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is

hereby given that, in a letter dated May

3, 2000, the President declared a major

disaster under the authority of the

Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and

Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C.

5121 et seq.), as follows:

I have determined that the damage in

certain areas of the State of Kansas, resulting

from severe storms and tornadoes on April

19–20, 2000, is of sufficient severity and

magnitude to warrant a major disaster

declaration under the Robert T. Stafford

Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance

Act, P.L. 93–288, as amended (‘‘the Stafford

Act’’). I, therefore, declare that such a major

disaster exists in the State of Kansas.

In order to provide Federal assistance, you

are hereby authorized to allocate from funds

available for these purposes, such amounts as

you find necessary for Federal disaster

assistance and administrative expenses.

You are authorized to provide Individual

Assistance and Hazard Mitigation in the

designated areas and any other forms of

assistance under the Stafford Act you may

deem appropriate. Consistent with the

requirement that Federal assistance be

supplemental, any Federal funds provided

under the Stafford Act for Hazard Mitigation

will be limited to 75 percent of the total

eligible costs. If Public Assistance is later

requested and warranted, Federal funds

provided under that program will also be

limited to 75 percent of the total eligible

costs.

Further, you are authorized to make

changes to this declaration to the extent

allowable under the Stafford Act.

The time period prescribed for the

implementation of section 310(a),

Priority to Certain Applications for

Public Facility and Public Housing

Assistance, 42 U.S.C. 5153, shall be for

a period not to exceed six months after

the date of this declaration.

Notice is hereby given that pursuant

to the authority vested in the Director of

the Federal Emergency Management

Agency under Executive Order 12148, I

hereby appoint Louis H. Botta of the

Federal Emergency Management Agency

to act as the Federal Coordinating

Officer for this declared disaster.

I do hereby determine the following

areas of the State of Kansas to have been

affected adversely by this declared

major disaster:

Crawford, Labette, and Neosho Counties

for Individual Assistance.

All counties within the State of

Kansas are eligible to apply for

assistance under the Hazard Mitigation

Grant Program.

(The following Catalog of Federal Domestic

Assistance Numbers (CFDA) are to be used

for reporting and drawing funds: 83.537,

Community Disaster Loans; 83.538, Cora

Brown Fund Program; 83.539, Crisis

Counseling; 83.540, Disaster Legal Services

Program; 83.541, Disaster Unemployment

Assistance (DUA); 83.542, Fire Suppression

Assistance; 83.543, Individual and Family

Grant (IFG) Program; 83.544, Public

Assistance Grants; 83.545, Disaster Housing

Program; 83.548, Hazard Mitigation Grant

Program.)

James L. Witt,

Director.

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