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751–4510. At its July meeting, the

Subcommittee discussed an iron and

steel compliance problems report that

had been prepared by EPA’s Office of

Enforcement and Compliance Assurance

and the Iron and Steel sector. A small

group was formed to work with EPA to

review the data presentation and

identify what inferences may be made

based on the data. The Subcommittee

also discussed at the July meeting the

development of potential sector goals. It

decided that each stakeholder group

would identify specific goals that it

hoped to achieve out of CSI and what

it was willing to give in order to achieve

them. These goals would then be shared

among the entire Subcommittee to see

what agreements can be made and

worked towards.

At the October 8 and 9, 1997, meeting,

the Subcommittee will review the

findings of the compliance group and

determine the next steps it wants to

take. It will also discuss the goals that

have been identified, areas where CSI

can promote those goals, and projects to

carry out in support of those goals. Task

groups will be created as necessary to

carry out the projects. The

Subcommittee will also hear brief

reports on any major events in the

ongoing projects (Brownsfields, Iron and

Steel Web Site, Community Advisory

Committee, Consolidated Reporting, and

Alternative Compliance Strategy) and,

time permitting, may continue

discussions on the economic

environment in which the industry

operates. Several hours will also be

devoted to allowing the newly formed

task forces time to organize and begin

work.

For further information concerning

this Iron and Steel Sector Subcommittee

Meeting, please call Ms. Judith Hecht at

EPA in Washington, DC on (202) 260–

5682, Mr. Bob Tolpa at EPA Region 5 in

Chicago, Illinois, on (312) 886–6706, or

Dr. Mahesh Podar at EPA, Washington,

DC on (202) 260–5387.

INSPECTION OF SUBCOMMITTEE

DOCUMENTS: Documents relating to the

above Sector Subcommittee

announcements, will be publicly

available at the meeting. Thereafter,

these documents, together with the

official minutes for the meetings, will be

available for public inspection in room

2821M of EPA Headquarters, Common

Sense Initiative Staff, 401 M Street, SW,

Washington, DC 20460, telephone

number (202) 260–7417. Common Sense

Initiative information can be accessed

electronically on our web site at http./

/www.epa.gov/commonsense.

Dated: August 20, 1997.

Gregory Ondich,

Acting Designated Federal Officer.

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Stakeholders Meeting on Drinking

Water Regulation Action

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Announcement of Stakeholders

meeting on EPA’s revision to the public

notification rule under the 1996 Safe

Drinking Water Act (SDWA)

amendments.

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency (EPA) will hold a

public meeting on September 18, 1997

in Washington, D.C. The purpose of the

meeting will be to gather information

and collect opinions from parties who

will be affected by provisions of the

Public Notification Rule of the new Safe

Drinking Water Act (SDWA), amended

in 1996. Comments and views expressed

will be used to help develop the new

Federal and State program

requirements. EPA is seeking input from

State drinking water programs, the

regulated community (public water

systems), public health and safety

organizations, environmental and public

interest groups, and other stakeholders

on a number of issues related to

developing the drinking water

regulation. EPA encourages the full

participation of all stakeholders

throughout this process.

DATES: The stakeholder meeting on the

drinking water regulation for public

notification will be held on September

18, 1997, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Eastern Daylight Savings Time.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at

the Holiday Inn Central; 1501 Rhode

Island Ave., N.W.; Washington, D.C.

20005; Phone No.: (800) 248–0016/(202)

483–2000. For information on meeting

logistics or if you want to register for the

meeting, please contact the EPA Safe

Drinking Water Hotline at 1–800–426–

4791, or Carl Reeverts of EPA’s Office of

Ground Water and Drinking Water at

(202) 260–7273. Participants registering

in advance will be mailed a packet of

materials before the meeting.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carl

Reeverts, U.S. EPA, at (202) 260–7273.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Environmental Protection Agency is

developing revised Public Notification

regulations (under existing 40 CFR

141.32) to incorporate the new

provisions enacted under the 1996 Safe

Drinking Water Amendments (SDWA),

specifically the amended sections 1414

(c)(1) and (c)(2) of the SDWA. The 1996

SDWA amendments completely

replaced the language in the statute

under 1414(c). There is no statutory

deadline for implementing the amended

sections 1414 (c)(1) and (c)(2).

The Administrator is required by

statute to prescribe by regulation the

manner, frequency, form, and content

that public water systems must follow

for giving public notice. The 1996

SDWA amendments amended this EPA

obligation to require consultation with

the States prior to rulemaking. Public

Water Systems are currently required to

notify their customers whenever: (1) A

violation of any drinking water

regulation occurs (including MCL,

treatment technique, and monitoring/

reporting requirements); (2) a variance

or exemption (V&E) to those regulations

is in place or the conditions of the V&E

are violated; (3) or results from

unregulated contaminant monitoring

required under section 1445 of the

SDWA are received. This coverage was

not changed by the 1996 SDWA

Amendments.

The current rule sets different

requirements based on the type of

violation and type of system. The 1996

SDWA amendments substantially alter

what is currently in place: (1) SDWA

section 1414(c)(2)(C) requires notice

within 24 hours and sets other new,

more prescriptive notice requirements

for violations with ‘‘Potential to Have

Serious Adverse Health Risks to Human

Health’’; (2) SDWA section 1414(c)(2)(D)

gives EPA more discretion to set less

prescriptive notice requirements for all

other violations, including requiring the

notice in an annual report; and (3)

SDWA section 1414(c)(2)(B) allow the

State to prescribe alternative

notification requirements by rule to the

form and content of the notice,

consistent with the current primacy

requirements.

To meet the letter and spirit of the

new statutory provisions, EPA will hold

three or more public stakeholder

meetings prior to drafting the regulation.

This is the second of the scheduled

stakeholder meetings that are planned

over the next several months, to

exchange information on our mutual

experience with the current regulation

and the elements needed in the new

regulation to meet the intent of

Congress. The legislative changes

provide an excellent opportunity to

streamline the existing regulations by

focusing the notices on situations that
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have potential to have serious adverse

effects on human health. EPA will also

solicit from the stakeholders existing

public notification programs that work,

and seek to share these experiences

through our rulemaking

communication. The reports from these

meetings will be presented to the public

notification workgroup to define the

issues and to develop options for their

resolution.

William R. Diamond,

Acting Director, Office of Ground Water and

Drinking Water.

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Gulf of Mexico Program’s Citizens

Advisory Committee Meeting

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of meeting of the Citizens

Advisory Committee of the Gulf of

Mexico Program.

SUMMARY: The Gulf of Mexico Program’s

Citizens Advisory Committee will hold

a meeting at The Pontchartrain Hotel,

New Orleans, Louisiana.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

James D. Giattina, Director, Gulf of

Mexico Program Office, Building 1103,

Room 202, John C. Stennis Space

Center, Stennis Space Center, MS

39529–6000, at (601) 688–1172.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A meeting

of the Citizens Advisory Committee of

the Gulf of Mexico Program will be held

at The Pontchartrain Hotel, 2031 St.

Charles Street, New Orleans, LA. The

committee will meet from 10:00 a.m. to

4:00 p.m. on September 30, 1997.

Agenda items will include: Update on

Focus Teams: Habitat, Nutrients

(Hypoxia), Shellfish, Non-indigenous

Species; Public Education and Outreach

Activities; 1999 Symposium; Coastal

America Merger with Gulf Program;

Future Opportunities for Citizen

Involvement; Review of Bylaws; and

Election of CAC Co-Chairs. The meeting

is open to the public.

Bryon O. Griffith,

Acting Director, Gulf of Mexico Program.

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Industrial Combustion Coordinated

Rulemaking Federal Advisory

Committee Notice of Upcoming

Meeting

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Industrial Combustion

Coordinated Rulemaking (ICCR) Federal

Advisory Committee notice of upcoming

meeting.

SUMMARY: As required by section 9(a)(2)

of the Federal Advisory Committee Act

(FACA), 5 U.S.C. App. 2, section 9(c),

EPA gave notice of the establishment of

the ICCR Federal Advisory Committee

(hereafter referred to as the ICCR

Coordinating Committee) in the Federal

Register on August 2, 1996 (61 FR

40413).

The public can follow the progress of

the ICCR through attendance at

meetings (which will be announced in

advance) and by accessing the

Technology Transfer Network (TTN),

which serves as the primary means of

disseminating information about the

ICCR.

DATES: The next meeting of the ICCR

Coordinating Committee is scheduled

for September 16–17, 1997. Also, the

ICCR Work Groups—which report to the

Coordinating Committee—have

meetings scheduled in September and

November, 1997. The dates of these

Work Group meetings are summarized

below. Further information on the dates

of the Coordinating Committee meeting

and the Work Group meetings may be

obtained by accessing the TTN or by

calling EPA (see FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT:).

ADDRESSES: The Coordinating

Committee meeting on September 16–

17, 1997 will be held at the Omni

Durham Hotel, 201 Foster Street,

Durham, North Carolina (919–683–

6664). The locations of the Work Group

meetings are summarized below.

Further information on the locations of

the Coordinating Committee meeting

and the Work Group meetings may be

obtained by accessing the TTN or by

calling EPA (see FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT:).

INSPECTION OF DOCUMENTS: Docket.

Minutes of the meetings, as well as

other relevant materials, will be

available for public inspection at U.S.

EPA Air and Radiation Docket and

Information Center, Docket No. A–96–

17. The docket is open for public

inspection and copying between 8 a.m.

and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday

except for Federal holidays, at the

following address: U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, Air and Radiation

Docket and Information Center (6102),

401 M Street SW, Washington, DC

20460; telephone: (202) 260–7548. The

docket is located at the above address in

Room M–1500, Waterside Mall (ground

floor). A reasonable fee may be charged

for copying.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fred

Porter or Sims Roy, U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, Emission Standards

Division, Combustion Group, (MD–13),

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

27711, telephone numbers (919) 541–

5251 and 541–5263, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Technology Transfer Network (TTN)

The TTN is one of the EPA’s

electronic bulletin boards. The TTN can

be accessed through the Internet at:

FTP: ttnftp.rtpnc.epa.gov

WWW: ttnwww.rtpnc.epa.gov

When accessing the WWW site, select

TTN BBS Web from the first menu, then

select Gateway to Technical Areas from

the second menu, and finally, select

ICCR-Industrial Combustion

Coordinated Rulemaking from the third

menu.

Access to the TTN through FTP is a

streamlined approach for downloading

files, but is only useful, if the desired

filenames are known.

If more information on the TTN is

needed, call the help desk at (919) 541–

5384.

Meetings of the ICCR Coordinating

Committee and Work Groups are open

to the public. All Coordinating

Committee meetings will be announced

in the Federal Register and on the TTN.

Work Group meetings will be

announced on the TTN and in the

Federal Register, when possible.

The next meeting of the Coordinating

Committee will be held September 16–

17, 1997 at the Omni Durham Hotel

located at 201 Foster Street, Durham,

North Carolina from about 8 a.m. to

about 6 p.m. The agenda for this

meeting will include reports from the

Work Groups on their progress, testing

needs and prioritization issues,

discussion of data gathering efforts to

support the ICCR, and a discussion of

direction and guidance from the

Coordinating Committee to the Work

Groups. An opportunity will be

provided for the public to offer

comments and address the Coordinating

Committee.

The Work Groups have currently

scheduled the following meetings: