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reporting and record keeping 

requirements associated with reporting 

to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), 

which appear in 40 CFR part 372. The 

location for the Document Control 

Office (DCO), where comments may be 

submitted in person or by courier was 

incorrectly listed. Also, this notice 

announces that the TSCA 

Nonconfidential Information Center, 

North East Mall, Room B–607, 

Waterside Mall, 401 M Street, SW, 

Washington, D.C., will be closed from 

August 12–27, 2002. 

The Center will move to the EPA West 

Building basement, 1301 Constitution 

Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. This 

center contains the public version of the 

official record which is available for 

inspection. Because of these corrections, 

EPA is extending the comment period 

by 7 days. Comments concerning EPA’s 

notice announcing its plan to submit the 

following continuing Information 

Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

pursuant to the procedures described in 

5 CFR 1320.12: Toxic Chemical Release 

Reporting (EPA ICR No. 1363.12, OMB 

No. 2070–0093) are due on or before 

September 6, 2002. The comment period 

for the proposed rule was initially 

scheduled to close on August 30, 2002. 

The following is the corrected 

information on how to submit 

comments for EPA’s ICR renewal notice. 

A. How and To Whom Do I Submit 

Comments? 

You may submit comments through 

the mail, in person, or electronically. Be 

sure to identify the appropriate docket 

control number (i.e., ‘‘OEI–10015’’) in 

your correspondence. 

1. By mail. All comments should be 

sent in triplicate to : Document Control 

Office (7407), Office of Pollution 

Prevention and Toxics (OPPT), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Ariel Rios 

Building, Washington, DC 20460.

2. In person or by courier. Comments 

may be delivered in person or by courier 

to: OPPT Document Control Office 

(DCO) in the EPA East Building, Room 

6428, 1201 Constitution Avenue, NW, 

Washington, DC. The DCO is open from 

8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, excluding legal holidays. The 

telephone number for the DCO is (202) 

564–8930. 

3. Electronically. Submit your 

comments electronically by e-mail to: 

‘‘oppt.ncic@epa.gov.’’ Please note that 

you should not submit any information 

electronically that you consider to be 

CBI. Electronic comments must be 

submitted as an ASCII file avoiding the 

use of special characters and any form 

of encryption. Comments and data will 

also be accepted on standard computer 

disks in WordPerfect 6.1/8.0 or ASCII 

file format. All comments and data in 

electronic form must be identified by 

the docket control number OEI–10015. 

Electronic comments on this document 

may also be filed online at many Federal 

Depository Libraries. 

B. How Should I Handle CBI 

Information That I Want To Submit to 

the Agency? 

All comments which contain 

information claimed as CBI must be 

clearly marked as such. Three sanitized 

copies of any comments containing 

information claimed as CBI must also be 

submitted and will be placed in the 

public record for this document. 

Persons submitting information on any 

portion of which they believe is entitled 

to treatment as CBI by EPA must assert 

a business confidentiality claim in 

accordance with 40 CFR 2.203(b) for 

each such portion. This claim must be 

made at the time that the information is 

submitted to EPA. If a submitter does 

not assert a confidentiality claim at the 

time of submission, EPA will consider 

this as a waiver of any confidentiality 

claim and the information may be made 

available to the public by EPA without 

further notice to the submitter.

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 372 

Environmental protection, 

Information collection requests, 

Reporting and record keeping 

requirements.

Dated: July 5, 2002. 

Elaine G. Stanley, 

Director, Office of Information Analysis and 

Access, Office of Environmental, Information.

[FR Doc. 02–17686 Filed 7–12–02; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OEI–10016; FRL–6723–9] 

Toxic Chemical Release Reporting; 

Alternate Threshold for Low Annual 

Reportable Amounts; Request for 

Comment on Renewal Information 

Collection; Correction; Extension of 

Comment Period

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Technical correction; extension 

of comment period. 

SUMMARY: This notice corrects an error 

published in the Federal Register of 

July 1, 2002, (67 FR 44197) (FRL–6723–

9) concerning a notice announcing that 

EPA is planning to submit the following 

continuing Information Collection 

Request (ICR) to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

pursuant to the procedures described in 

5 CFR 1320.12: Alternate Threshold for 

Low Annual Reportable Amounts, Toxic 

Chemical Release Reporting (EPA ICR 

No. 1704.06, OMB No. 2070–0143). This 

ICR covers the reporting and record 

keeping requirements associated with 

reporting under the alternate threshold 

for reporting to the Toxics Release 

Inventory (TRI), which appear in 40 

CFR part 372. The location for the 

Document Control Office (DCO), where 

comments may be submitted in person 

or by courier, was incorrectly listed. 

Also, this notice announces that the 

TSCA Nonconfidential Information 

Center, North East Mall, Room B–607, 

Waterside Mall, 401 M Street, SW., 

Washington, DC, will be closed from 

August 12–27, 2002. The Center will 

move to the EPA West Building 

basement, 1301 Constitution Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC. This center 

contains the public version of the 

official record which is available for 

inspection. Because of these corrections, 

EPA is extending the comment period 

by 7 days until September 6, 2002. The 

comment period for the proposed rule 

was initially scheduled to close on 

August 30, 2002.

DATES: Comments, identified by the 

docket control number OEI–10016, must 

be received by EPA on or before 

September 6, 2002.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted by mail, electronically, or in 

person. Please follow the detailed 

instructions for each method as 

provided in Unit III. of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: For general 

information, contact The Emergency 

Planning and Community Right-toKnow Hotline at (800) 424–9346 or 

(703) 412–9810, TDD (800)553–7672, 

http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hotline/.

For technical information about this 

Notice and the ICR renewal, contact: 

Judith Kendall, Toxics Release 

Inventory Program Division, OEI 

(2844T), Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20460, Telephone: 

202–566–0750; Fax: 202–566–0727; 

email: kendall.judith@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Does This Notice Apply to Me? 

A. Affected Entities: Entities that will 

be affected by this action are those 

facilities that manufacture, process, or 

otherwise use certain toxic chemicals 

listed on the Toxics Release Inventory 

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(TRI) and which are required under 

section 313 of the Emergency Planning 

and Community Right-to-Know Act of 

1986 (EPCRA), to report annually to 

EPA their environmental releases of 

such chemicals. 

Currently, those industries with the 

following SIC code designations (that 

meet all other threshold criteria for TRI 

reporting) must report toxic chemical 

releases and other waste management 

activities:

• 20–39, manufacturing sector 

• 10, metal mining (except for SIC 

codes 1011, 1081, and 1094) 

• 12, coal mining (except for SIC code 

1241 and extraction activities) 

• 4911, 4931 and 4939, electrical 

utilities that combust coal and/or oil 

for the purpose of generating power 

for distribution in commerce 

• 4953, RCRA Subtitle C hazardous 

waste treatment and disposal facilities 

• 5169, chemicals and allied products 

wholesale distributors 

• 5171, petroleum bulk plants and 

terminals 

• 7389, solvent recovery services, and 

• Federal facilities in any SIC code 

To determine whether you or your 

business is affected by this action, you 

should carefully examine the 

applicability provisions at 40 CFR part 

372 and section 4(a) of the Supporting 

Statement of the information collection. 

If you have any questions regarding the 

applicability of this action to a 

particular entity, consult the person(s) 

listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section. 

II. How Can I Get Additional 

Information or Copies of This 

Document and Other Support 

Documents 

A. Electronic Availability: Electronic 

copies of this Notice and the ICR are 

available from the EPA Home Page at 

the Federal Register—Environmental 

Documents entry for this document 

under ‘‘Laws and Regulations’’ (http://

www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/). An electronic 

copy of the collection instrument 

referenced in this ICR and instructions 

for its completion are available at

http://www.epa.gov/triinter/#forms.

B. In Person: The Agency has 

established an official record for this 

action under docket control number 

OEI–10016. The official record consists 

of the documents specifically referenced 

in this action, any public comments 

received during an applicable comment 

period, and other information related to 

this action, including any information 

claimed as Confidential Business 

Information (CBI). This official record 

includes the documents that are 

physically located in the docket, as well 

as the documents that are referenced in 

those documents. The public version of 

the official record does not include any 

information claimed as CBI. The public 

version of the official record, which 

includes printed, paper versions of any 

electronic comments submitted during 

an applicable comment period, is 

available for inspection in the TSCA 

Nonconfidential Information Center, 

North East Mall Rm. B–607, Waterside 

Mall, 401 M St., SW., Washington, DC. 

The Center is open from noon to 4 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The telephone number of the 

Center is (202) 260–7099. The TSCA 

Nonconfidential Information Center will 

close from August 12–27, 2002. The 

Center will move to the EPA West 

Building basement at 1301 Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC. For 

more information on how to access the 

information, contact James Wanzer at 

(202) 566–0729. 

III. What Does This Notice Do? 

This Notice corrects an error 

published in the Federal Register of 

July 1, 2002, (67 FR 44197) (FRL–6723–

9), concerning a notice announcing that 

EPA is planning to submit the following 

continuing Information Collection 

Request (ICR) to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

pursuant to the procedures described in 

5 CFR 1320.12: Alternate Threshold for 

Low Annual Reportable Amounts, Toxic 

Chemical Release Reporting (EPA ICR 

No. 1704.06, OMB No. 2070–0143). This 

ICR covers the reporting and record 

keeping requirements associated with 

reporting under the alternate threshold 

for reporting to the Toxics Release 

Inventory (TRI), which appear in 40 

CFR part 372. The location for the 

Document Control Office (DCO), where 

comments may be submitted in person 

or by courier was incorrectly listed. 

Also, this notice announces that the 

TSCA Nonconfidential Information 

Center, North East Mall, Room B–607, 

Waterside Mall, 401 M Street, SW, 

Washington, DC, will be closed from 

August 12–27, 2002. The Center will 

move to the EPA West Building 

basement, 1301 Constitution Avenue, 

NW, Washington, DC. This center 

contains the public version of the 

official record which is available for 

inspection. Because of these corrections, 

EPA is extending the comment period 

by 7 days. Comments concerning EPA’s 

notice announcing its plan to submit the 

following continuing Information 

Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

pursuant to the procedures described in 

5 CFR 1320.12: Alternate Threshold for 

Low Annual Reportable Amounts, Toxic 

Chemical Release Reporting (EPA ICR 

No. 1704.06, OMB No. 2070–0143) are 

due on or before September 6, 2002. The 

comment period for the proposed rule 

was initially scheduled to close on 

August 30, 2002. The following is the 

corrected information on how to submit 

comments for EPA’s ICR renewal notice. 

A. How and to Whom Do I Submit 

Comments? 

You may submit comments through 

the mail, in person, or electronically. Be 

sure to identify the appropriate docket 

control number (i.e., ‘‘OEI–10016’’) in 

your correspondence. 

1. By mail. All comments should be 

sent in triplicate to: Document Control 

Office (7407), Office of Pollution 

Prevention and Toxics (OPPT), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Ariel Rios 

Building, Washington, DC 20460. 

2. In person or by courier. Comments 

may be delivered in person or by courier 

to: OPPT Document Control Office 

(DCO) in the EPA East Building, Room 

6428, 1201 Constitution Avenue, NW, 

Washington, DC. The DCO is open from 

8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, excluding legal holidays. The 

telephone number for the DCO is (202) 

564–8930. 

3. Electronically. Submit your 

comments electronically by e-mail to: 

oppt.ncic@epa.gov. Please note that you 

should not submit any information 

electronically that you consider to be 

CBI. Electronic comments must be 

submitted as an ASCII file avoiding the 

use of special characters and any form 

of encryption. Comments and data will 

also be accepted on standard computer 

disks in WordPerfect 6.1/8.0 or ASCII 

file format. All comments and data in 

electronic form must be identified by 

the docket control number OEI–10016. 

Electronic comments on this document 

may also be filed online at many Federal 

Depository Libraries. 

B. How Should I Handle CBI 

Information That I Want to Submit to 

the Agency? 

All comments which contain 

information claimed as CBI must be 

clearly marked as such. Three sanitized 

copies of any comments containing 

information claimed as CBI must also be 

submitted and will be placed in the 

public record for this document. 

Persons submitting information on any 

portion of which they believe is entitled 

to treatment as CBI by EPA must assert 

a business confidentiality claim in 

accordance with 40 CFR 2.203(b) for 

each such portion. This claim must be 

made at the time that the information is 

submitted to EPA. If a submitter does 

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not assert a confidentiality claim at the 

time of submission, EPA will consider 

this as a waiver of any confidentiality 

claim and the information may be made 

available to the public by EPA without 

further notice to the submitter.

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 372 

Environmental protection, 

Information collection requests, 

Reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements.

Dated: July 5, 2002. 

Elaine G. Stanley, 

Director, Office of Information Analysis and 

Access, Office of Environmental Information.

[FR Doc. 02–17687 Filed 7–12–02; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–7245–4] 

EPA Science Advisory Board, 

Notification of Public Advisory 

Committee Meetings; Metals 

Assessment Panel 

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, Public Law 92–463, 

notice is hereby given of three 

conference call meetings of Metals 

Assessment Panel of the US EPA 

Science Advisory Board (SAB). These 

conference call meetings are preparatory 

for a face-to-face meeting to be held 

September 10–12 in or near Washington 

DC. Once the location is known, the 

face-to-face meeting will be the subject 

of a separate announcement. The Panel 

will hold conference calls on the dates 

and times noted below. All times noted 

are Eastern Time. All meetings are open 

to the public, however, seating is 

limited and available on a first come 

basis. For teleconference meetings, 

available lines may also be limited. 

Important Notice: Documents that are 

the subject of SAB reviews are normally 

available from the originating EPA office 

and are not available from the SAB 

Office—information concerning 

availability of documents from the 

relevant Program Office is included 

below. 

Background 

The EPA Science Advisory Board 

(SAB, Board) announced in 67 FR 

38957–38959, June 6, 2002 that it had 

been asked to undertake a review of 

EPA’s draft Action Plan for the 

‘‘Framework for Metals Assessment and 

Cross-Agency Guidance for Assessing 

Metals-Related Hazard and Risk.’’ The 

background, charge, and description of 

the review documents appear in the 

above referenced Federal Register

notice and are also available at the SAB 

website (www.epa.gov/sab). The notice 

also included a call for nominations for 

members of the panel in certain 

technical expertise areas needed to 

address the charge and described the 

process to be used in forming the panel. 

A Short List of individuals from which 

the panel will be chosen has been 

posted at the SAB’s website. 

The following three teleconference 

meetings will be hosted out of 

Conference Room 6013, USEPA, Ariel 

Rios Building North, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20004. 

The meetings are all open to the public, 

but, due to limited space, seating will be 

on a first-come basis. The SAB Staff 

encourages members of the public who 

plan to attend any or all of the three 

meetings in person to call a few days in 

advance of that meeting and to arrive at 

least 15 minutes before the scheduled 

start time so that the necessary building 

security requirements can be 

accommodated before the start of the 

meeting. The public may also attend the 

teleconference meetings via telephone, 

however, lines may be limited. For 

further information concerning the 

meetings or how to obtain the 

teleconference phone number, please 

contact the individuals listed at the end 

of this FR notice. 

1. Metals Assessment Panel—August 8, 

2002 Teleconference 

The Metals Assessment Panel will 

meet on August 8, 2002 by 

teleconference from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. 

Eastern Time. 

Purpose of the Meeting—The purpose 

of this public teleconference meeting is 

to: (a) Discuss the charge and review 

materials provided to the Metals 

Assessment Panel; (b) to clarify any 

questions relating to the charge and the 

review materials; (c) to discuss specific 

charge assignments to the panelists; and 

(d) to clarify specific points of interest 

raised by the Panelists in preparation for 

the face-to-face meeting to be held on 

September 10–12, 2002. 

See below for availability of review 

materials, the charge to the review 

panel, and contact information. 

2. Metals Assessment Panel—August 15, 

2002 Teleconference 

The Metals Assessment Panel will 

meet on August 15, 2002 by 

teleconference from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. 

Eastern Time. 

Purpose of the Meeting—The purpose 

of this public teleconference meeting is 

to: (a) Hear invited presentations; (b) to 

hear public comment; (c) to provide an 

opportunity for panel discussion; and 

(d) to identify areas where the Panel 

would welcome additional input. 

See below for availability of review 

materials, the charge to the review 

panel, and contact information. 

3. Metals Assessment Panel—August 29, 

2002 Teleconference 

The Metals Assessment Panel will 

meet on August 29, 2002 by 

teleconference from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. 

Eastern Time.

Purpose of the Meeting—The purpose 

of this public teleconference meeting is 

to: (a) Allow panelists to identify points 

they think should be addressed in the 

Panel’s report; (b) provide other 

panelists with an opportunity to add to 

or correct those points; and (c) identify 

for the Agency and the Public any areas 

where the panel would welcome 

additional information or comment. 

See below for availability of review 

materials, the charge to the review 

panel, and contact information.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Persons desiring information about 

public participation in the meetings 

identified above must contact Kathleen 

White, Designated Federal Officer, 

Metals Assessment Panel, USEPA 

Science Advisory Board (1400A), Suite 

6450Z, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 

Washington, DC 20460; telephone/voice 

mail at (202) 564–4559; fax at (202) 501–

0582; or via e-mail at 

white.kathleen@epa.gov. Requests for 

oral comments must be made in writing

(e-mail, fax or mail) and received by Ms. 

White no later than noon Eastern Time 

on the following dates: for the August 8 

teleconference call, requests must be 

received by August 1st; for the August 

15 teleconference call, requests must be 

received by August 8; for the August 29 

conference call, requests must be 

received by August 22. 

The public is encouraged to provide 

written comments. Those who prefer to 

provide oral comments are encouraged 

to schedule them for August 15. The 

oral public comment period will be 

limited and divided among the speakers 

who register. Additional opportunities 

for public comment will be available at 

the face to face meeting to be held 

September 10–12. Registration is on a 

first come basis. Speakers who have 

been granted time on the agenda may 

not yield their time to other speakers. 

Speakers who are unable to register in 

time may provide their comments in 

writing. 

Members of the public desiring 

additional information about the 

meeting locations or the call-in number 

for the teleconference before June 30, 

2002, must contact Ms.Zisa LubarovWalton, Management Assistant, EPA