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Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill Hotel at 400

New Jersey Avenue, NW, Washington,

D.C. Information on the room location of

the plenary sessions will be provided

upon registration.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Carlos Lago, (703–308–8642), or Mike

Fitzpatrick (703–308–8411), Office of

Solid Waste, Mail Code 5303W, U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency, Ariel

Rios Building, 1200 Pennsylvania

Avenue, NW, Washington D.C. 20460.

You may also contact them by e-mail at

‘‘lago.carlos@epamail.epa.gov’’ Or

‘‘fitzpatrick.mike@epamail.epa.gov’’.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Status

The public is invited only to the two

plenary sessions at the National

Meeting. At the plenary sessions,

federal, state, and tribal officials, and

representatives from industry and

public interest groups, will discuss

current topics related to the RCRA

program and the latest Agency

initiatives. The public is invited to

attend all the Environmental Indicator

Forum sessions.

Preregistration is required for the

plenary and the Environmental

Indicator Forum sessions. There is no

cost to register. No registration will

occur at the door. Seating is limited, so

early registration is recommended. To

reduce costs and minimize paper, we

encourage everyone to register

electronically for the meetings and at

the Hyatt hotel using the meeting web

site: <www.epa.gov/osw/meeting/

index.htm>. If electronic registration is

not possible, please contact Christine

Milerson at HAZMED, (301) 577–9339,

ext. 234. The address is Hazmed, 10001

Derekwood Lane, Suite 115, Lanham,

MD 20706.

Dated: June 6, 2000.

Elizabeth Cotsworth,

Director, Office of Solid Waste.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[OPPTS–00294; FRL–6591–3]

Forum on State and Tribal Toxics

Action (FOSTTA); June Meeting

Planned for Work Groups

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

SUMMARY: The Tribal Affairs Work

Group and the Environmental Justice

Work Group will meet during the Forum

on State and Tribal Toxics Action

(FOSTTA) session in June. The three

FOSTTA projects: Chemical

Management, Pollution Prevention, and

Toxics Release Inventory will not meet

at this time. These projects met in

October and March of this fiscal year.

The next meeting of the entire FOSTTA

membership will be in October 2000.

OPPT will issue a Federal Register

notice in late September to announce

the details of the October meeting.

DATES: The Tribal Affairs Work Group

and the Environmental Justice Work

Group will meet concurrently on June

22, 2000, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on

June 23, 2000, from 9 a.m. to noon.

ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held at

the Holiday Inn Old Town, 480 King

Street, Alexandria, VA.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

George Hagevik, National Conference of

State Legislatures, 1560 Broadway, Suite

700, Denver, CO 80202; telephone: (303)

839–0273; fax: (303) 863–8003; e-mail:

george.hagevik@ncsl.org or Darlene

Harrod, Liaison Branch, Environmental

Assistance Division, Office of Pollution

Prevention and Toxics, Environmental

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania

Ave., NW., Washington, DC; telephone:

(202) 260–6904; fax: (202) 260–2219; email: harrod.darlene@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Does this Action Apply to Me?

This action is directed to the public

in general. All parties interested in

FOSTTA and hearing more about the

perspectives of the States and Tribes on

EPA programs and the information

exchange regarding important issues

related to human health and

environmental exposure to toxics are

invited and encouraged to attend. The

public is encouraged to attend the

proceedings as observers. However, in

the interest of time and efficiency, the

meetings are structured to provide

maximum opportunity for State, Tribal,

and EPA participants to discuss items

on the predetermined agenda. At the

discretion of the chair of the work

group, an effort will be made to

accommodate participation by observers

attending the proceedings.

II. How Can I Get Additional

Information, Including Copies of this

Document and Other Related

Documents?

1. Electronically. You may obtain

electronic copies of minutes, and certain

other related documents that might be

available electronically, from the

National Conference of State

Legislatures (NCSL) Web site at http://

www.ncsl.org/programs/esnr/fostta/

fostta.htm. To access this document on

the EPA Internet Home Page go to http:/

/www.epa.gov and select ‘‘Laws and

Regulations’’ and then look up the entry

for this document under the ‘‘Federal

Register Environmental Documents.’’

You can also go directly to the Federal

Register listings at http://www.epa.gov/

fedrgstr/FOSTTA.

2. Facsimile. Notify the contacts listed

above if you would like any of the

documents sent to you via fax.

III. Background

The NCSL and the EPA co-sponsor

the meetings. As part of a cosponsorship agreement, NCSL facilitates

ongoing efforts of the States and Tribes

to identify, discuss, and address toxicsrelated issues, and to continue the

dialogue on how Federal environmental

programs can best be implemented.

FOSTTA, a group of State and Tribal

toxics environmental managers, is

intended to foster the exchange of

toxics-related program and enforcement

information among the States, Tribes,

EPA’s Office of Prevention, Pesticides

and Toxic Substances (OPPTS), and the

Office of Enforcement and Compliance

Assurance (OECA). In addition to the

two work groups, FOSTTA currently is

composed of the Coordinating

Committee and three issue-specific

projects: the Chemical Management,

Pollution Prevention, and Toxics

Release Inventory.

The Tribal Affairs Work Group will

focus on issues of particular interest to

the Tribal representatives as well as on

OPPT orientation and organizational

matters. FOSTTA will also host a

stakeholder meeting on logistical issues

associated with the implementation of

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act in the

States.

IV. Purpose of Meeting

Tentative agenda items identified by

NCSL, the States, and the Tribes for the

Tribal Affairs Work Group meeting:

1. AIEO’s Baseline Assessment

project.

2. OECA’s American Indian Land

Environmental Support project.

3. Subsistence Food Assessment

project.

4. OPPT 101.

The tentative agenda item identified

for the Environmental Justice Work

Group meeting:

Logistical issues associated with the

implementation of Title VI of the Civil

Rights Act in the States.

List of Subjects

Environmental protection.

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Dated: June 8, 2000.

Clarence O. Lewis, III,

Acting Director, Environmental Assistance

Division, Office of Pollution Prevention and

Toxics.

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AGENCY

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Notice of Superfund Recycling Equity

Act Stakeholders Public Meeting

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of Public Meeting.

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA) will hold a public

meeting to examine whether or not to

issue guidance dealing with prospective

(i.e., post-enactment) recycling

transactions covered by the Superfund

Recycling Equity Act (SREA). To

address this question, EPA will hear

views on whether such guidance is

needed, what type of guidance might be

needed, and what the content of any

such guidance should be. More

specifically, attendees will be given an

opportunity to share their views with

EPA on the issue of what constitutes

‘‘reasonable care’’ as contemplated by

sections 127(c)(5), (6) of the SREA.

Accordingly, EPA is seeking relevant

factual information on standard

practices in the recycling industry,

quantity and quality of publicly

available environmental compliance

information, and information useful to

the agency and industry to implement

the reasonable care standard

contemplated in the SREA. This notice

identifies a contact person for

registration, and includes information

on the topic, place, date and time of the

meeting.

DATES: The public meeting will be held

on July 17, 2000, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. If

you would like to attend the meeting,

you must notify the Agency by July 10,

2000. Any written comments you wish

to submit, whether or not you attend the

meeting, must be submitted as set forth

below and before July 10, 2000.

ADDRESSES: The public meeting will be

held at U.S. EPA Headquarters, Ariel

Rios Building, 1200 Pennsylvania

Avenue, N.W. (entrance on 12th Street

N.W.), in the NETI Conference Room

No. 6226, Washington, DC 20004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Sherry Green, Environmental Protection

Agency, Office of Site Remediation

Enforcement, Subject: Recycling

Meeting, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue,

NW, Mailcode 2272A, Washington, DC

20460, 202–564–4303, Fax 202–564–

0461, or e-mail: green.sherry@epa.gov.

Registration: there is no registration fee

for this public meeting, but, to assure

room capacity for all those attending,

notice of your intention to attend must

be received by July 10, 2000. Due to

possible limitations on space in the

meeting room, up to two participants

per organization is requested, unless

special arrangements are made with the

Agency in advance of the meeting. All

interested persons may give notice of

their intention to attend via email to:

green.sherry@epa.gov, Subject:

Recycling Meeting, Fax 202–564–0461,

or regular mail to the address noted

above, and should provide the following

information: Name, Affiliation (if

applicable), Address, Phone, Fax, and

Email address (if available). All timely

comments, both oral and written, will

be considered.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

The Superfund Recycling Equity Act

(SREA) was enacted on November 29,

1999, amending the Comprehensive

Environmental Response, Compensation

and Liability Act (CERCLA) 42 U.S.C.

§ 9601 et seq. SREA may also in some

uses be referenced as the ‘‘D.C.

Appropriations Act 2000, § 6001,’’ the

‘‘Consolidated Appropriations Act for

FY 2000, § 6001,’’ or P.L. 106–113,

Section 6001, and is codified at 42

U.S.C. § 9627. The purpose of this

meeting is to listen to the views of all

concerned on the issues raised by the

SREA pertaining to post-enactment

transactions, in particular, the issue of

the reasonable care standard under

sections 127(c)(5), (6) of the Act.

Accordingly, the questions listed below

have been provided to serve as the

framework for the dialogue and

information exchange at the meeting on

July 17, 2000. To assure adequate time

for all participants, oral remarks will be

limited to seven minutes per individual

or organization. Oral remarks may be

supplemented with a written statement.

All written statements (whether you

plan to attend the meeting or not) must

be received in electronic format by EPA

by July 10, 2000 (seven days before the

meeting). Written statements will be

made available for public access at

www.epa.gov/oeca/osre/recycle.html,

once received by EPA. We encourage all

persons planning to attend the meeting

to read as many of these statements as

have been posted before attending the

meeting since it will inform the group

dialogue. Copies of written statements

are likely to be too voluminous to be

provided by EPA at the meeting, so

please bring your own copies if you

intend to refer to them during the

meeting. Following the presentations, if

time permits, EPA will invite group

discussion of the issues raised to further

assist it in considering the questions to

be addressed.

II. Questions To Be Addressed at the

Public Meeting

(1) How does a generator of scrap

material currently exercise reasonable

care in determining whether a

consuming facility has been in

compliance with substantive provisions

of Federal, State or local environmental

laws?

(2) What factors does a generator of

scrap material currently take into

account when evaluating the

compliance status of a consuming

facility?

(3) What prevailing industrial

practices are used when assessing a

facility’s compliance status?

(4) How much inquiry does a

generator of scrap material generally

believe is needed to be reasonably

comfortable that it has sufficient

information to make a decision about a

consuming facility’s compliance status?

(5) As part of the assessment of what

constitutes sufficient information, how

much weight should standard industrial

practices or prior business relationships

with a particular facility or company be

given in determining an individual

consuming facility’s behavior and

compliance status?

(6) How do the criteria contained in

section 127(c)(6) regarding ‘‘reasonable

care’’ shape or direct the type of inquiry

that is necessary to determine that a

consuming facility is in compliance

with substantive provisions of Federal,

State or local environmental laws?

(7) Under what circumstances should

site visits be required?

(8) What compliance information is

available from state and local

authorities? From other authorities?

(9) How often/frequently should

generators be required to re-check the

compliance status of consuming

facilities?

(10) Under what circumstances is it

appropriate/sufficient to rely on a

consuming facility’s checklist or selfcertification to satisfy the ‘‘reasonable

care’’ standard?

Dated: June 8, 2000.

Barry Breen,

Office Director, Office of Site Remediation

Enforcement.

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