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H. Existing Tolerances

There are no known existing

tolerances for the use of Citronellol as

a pesticide.

I. International Tolerances

The Council of Europe listed

Citronellol in 1970 giving it an

allowable daily intake (ADI) of 5

milligrams/kilograms bodyweight/day.

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Nutrient Criteria Development; Notice

of Nutrient Criteria Technical Guidance

Manual: Lakes and Reservoirs, First

Edition

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of nutrient criteria

technical guidance manual: Lakes and

reservoirs, first edition.

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA) announces the

availability of a nutrient criteria

technical guidance manual for lakes and

reservoirs. This document provides

State and Tribal water quality managers

and others with guidance on how to

develop numeric nutrient criteria for

lakes and reservoirs. This document

does not contain site-specific numeric

nutrient criteria for any lake or

reservoir. This guidance was principally

developed to assist States and Tribes in

their efforts to establish nutrient criteria.

States and Tribes are clearly in the best

position to consider site-specific

conditions in developing nutrient

criteria. While this guidance contains

EPA’s scientific recommendations

regarding defensible approaches for

developing regional nutrient criteria,

this guidance is not regulation; thus it

does not impose legally binding

requirements on EPA, States,

Territories, Tribes, or the public, and

might not apply to a particular situation

based upon the circumstances. States,

Territories, and authorized Tribes retain

the discretion to adopt, where

appropriate, other scientifically

defensible approaches to developing

regional or local nutrient criteria that

differ from these recommendations.

We have decided to issue technical

guidance in a manner similar to that

which we are using to issue new and

revised criteria (see Federal Register,

December 10, 1998, 63 FR 68354 and in

the EPA document titled, National

Recommended Water Quality—

Correction EPA 822–Z–99–001, April

1999). Therefore, we invite the public to

provide scientific views on this

guidance. We will review and consider

information submitted by the public on

significant scientific issues that might

not have otherwise been identified by

the Agency during development of this

guidance. This guidance has been

through external peer review, and a

summary of these comments is available

on the Nutrient website (http://www.

EPA.gov/OST/standards/nutrient.html)

After review of the submitted significant

scientific information, we will publish a

revised document, or publish a notice

indicating its decision not to revise the

document.

This document has been prepared for

publication by the Office of Science and

Technology, Office of Water, U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency.

Mention of trade names or commercial

products does not constitute

endorsement or recommendation for

use.

DATES: All significant scientific

information must be submitted to the

Agency by July 24, 2000. Any scientific

information submitted should be

adequately documented and contain

enough supporting information to

indicate that acceptable and

scientifically defensible procedures

were used and that the results are likely

reliable.

ADDRESSES: This notice contains a

summary of the Nutrient Criteria

Technical Guidance Manual: Lakes and

Reservoirs, First Edition. Copies of the

complete document may be obtained

from EPA’s Water Resource Center by

phone at 202–260–7786, or by e-mail to:

center.water-resource@epa.gov, or by

conventional mail to EPA Water

Resource Center, RC–4100, Ariel Rios

Building, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW,

Washington, DC 20460. The document

is also available electronically at http:/

/www.epa.gov/OST/standards/

nutrient.html.

An original and two copies of written

significant scientific information should

sent to Robert Cantilli (MC–4304), U.S.

EPA, Ariel Rios Building, 1200

Pennsylvania Ave., NW , Washington,

DC 20460. Written significant scientific

information may be submitted

electronically in ASCII or Word Perfect

5.1, 5.2, 6.1, or 8.0 formats to OWGeneral@epa.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.

George Gibson, USEPA, Health and

Ecological Criteria Division (4304),

Office of Science and Technology, Ariel

Rios Building, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave.,

NW, Washington, DC 20460; or call

(410) 305–2618; fax (410) 305–3093; or

e-mail gibson.george@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Introduction

On March 24, 1998, the President’s

Clean Water Action Plan was presented

in the Federal Register. The Clean

Water Action Plan specifically stated

that EPA will establish recommended

water quality criteria for nutrients that

reflect the different types of water

bodies and different ecoregions of the

country and that will assist States and

Tribes in adopting numeric water

quality standards for nutrients.

Consistent with the objectives of the

Clean Water Action Plan, the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency

presented a National Strategy for the

Development of Regional Nutrient

Criteria on June 25, 1998, that described

the approach the Agency would follow

in developing nutrient information and

working with States and Tribes to adopt

nutrient criteria as part of State/Tribal

water quality standards. The major

focus of the strategy is the development

of waterbody-type technical guidance

and recommended ecoregion-specific

nutrient criteria by the year 2000. Once

EPA develops waterbody-type guidance

and recommended nutrient criteria, EPA

intends to assist States and Tribes in

adopting numeric nutrient criteria into

water quality standards by the end of

2003.

Overview of the Problem

Cultural eutrophication (i.e.,that

associated with humans) of United

States surface waters is a long-standing

problem; approximately half of the

reported impairments in National

waters are attributable to excess

nutrients. Nitrogen and phosphorus are

the primary cause of eutrophication,

and algal blooms are often a response to

enrichment. Within lakes and

reservoirs, chronic symptoms of

overenrichment include low dissolved

oxygen, fish kills, increased sediment

accumulation, and species and

abundance shifts of flora and fauna. The

problem is National in scope, but varies

in nature from one region of the country

to another due to geographical

variations in geology and soil types. For

these reasons, EPA has decided to

develop its recommend nutrient criteria

on an ecoregional basis for use by States

and Tribes.

Summary of Nutrient Criteria

Technical Guidance Manual for Lakes

and Reservoirs

EPA initiated the National Strategy to

Develop Regional Nutrient Criteria to

address enrichment problems. The

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Nutrient Criteria Technical Guidance

Manual: Lakes and Reservoirs, First

Edition is the first of a series of

waterbody-type specific manuals

produced to assist EPA Regions, States,

and Tribes in establishing ecoregionally

appropriate nutrient criteria. EPA is also

developing manuals for rivers and

streams, estuarine and coastal waters,

and wetlands. EPA expects States and

Tribes to use these manuals as the basis

for developing State water quality

standards for nutrients, to help identify

water quality impairments, and to

evaluate the relative success in reducing

cultural eutrophication. In addition to

developing these waterbody-type

specific manuals, EPA is developing

nutrient criteria guidance under section

304(a) for each of the 14 ecoregions it

has identified in the continental United

States. EPA expects States and Tribes to

use the manuals, other information and

local expertise to refine EPA’s 304(a)

nutrient criteria guidance so that the

nutrient water quality criteria

eventually adopted by States and Tribes

are tailored to more localized

conditions. In order to assist States and

Tribes in this undertaking, as well as to

verify section 304 (a) nutrient criteria

guidance, and to provide national

consistency wherever possible, EPA has

established Regional Technical

Assistance Groups (RTAGs). RTAGs are

a collection of EPA, State, Tribal

representatives who are working

together to take EPA’s forthcoming

section 304(a) nutrient criteria guidance

as a starting point to develop more

refined ecoregional nutrient criteria.

(EPA is also using data and expertise

provided by the RTAGs in the

development of its section 304(a)

nutrient criteria guidance for the 14

ecoregions it has identified.) EPA

expects the RTAGs to use the processes

set forth in the waterbody-type specific

manuals to develop recommended

nutrient criteria on an ecoregional basis

or a more refined basis (such as

subecoregion, State or Tribe-level, more

defined class of lakes/reservoirs).

Today’s manual for lakes and reservoirs

also explains how States or Tribes can

adopt nutrient water quality standards

based on the ecoregional criteria values

recommended by the EPA and/or

RTAGs.

The key parameters addressed in

Nutrient Criteria Technical Guidance

Manual: Lakes and Reservoirs, First

Edition are total phosphorus, total

nitrogen, chlorophyll a, and Secchi

depth. As set forth in the manual, the

elements that EPA expects States and

Tribes to consider in developing a

nutrient criterion are:

(1) Historical data and other

information to establish perspective;

(2) Current reference site information;

(3) Models used to simulate or

validate the empirical relationships

established between causal (nutrients)

and response (biological indicators)

variables; and

(4) Evaluation of downstream

consequences before finalizing criteria

values. EPA also expects the States or

Tribes (or the RTAG when developing

criteria guidance) to use their best

professional judgement when examining

the information and establishing

criteria.

EPA expects the criteria development

and implementation process

(undertaken by EPA, the RTAGs and

others) to proceed as follows:

• Data acquisition and review, as well

as additional data gathering and

processing methods.

• Classification of the lakes and

reservoirs by physical characteristics.

• Reference site selection and data

reduction to identify reference

conditions.

• Development of defensible nutrient

criteria, verified by an RTAG and

evaluated for potential downstream

effects.

• Adoption of nutrient criteria by

States and Tribes into their water

quality. Standards, ideally taking into

account the reference condition data

and designated uses.

• Implementation of EPA-approved

nutrient criteria by EPA, States, and

Tribes to identify areas of water quality

impairment due to nutrients and to

respond appropriately.

These subjects are described in detail

in the Nutrient Criteria Technical

Guidance Manual: Lakes and Reservoirs,

First Edition.

The manual concludes with chapters

describing data models and

management options that actively

protect or restore lake and reservoir

resources. Case histories illustrating

nutrient criteria development

experiences are appended with the

names of individual specialists to

contact for more information.

The Nutrient Criteria Technical

Guidance Document: Lakes and

Reservoirs, First Edition that is being

announced in this Notice was

developed after consideration of public

comment and peer review. A draft

Technical Guidance Manual: Lakes and

Reservoirs was placed on the EPA

Nutrient website (http://www.EPA.gov/

OST/standards/nutrient.html) on

September 8, 1999, and EPA accepted

correspondences and comments until

November 16, 1999. In addition, a peer

review of the proposed criteria

document was conducted by a panel of

five external reviewers.

Dated: May 4, 2000.

Geoffrey H. Grubbs,

Director, Office of Science and Technology.

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