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permits under the National Pollution

Discharge Elimination System, or

Records of Decision for cleanup of

Superfund sites).

In selecting the five standards for

review and reevaluation EPA will

consider a variety of factors including

any new information since the

standards were originally promulgated,

as follows:

• New scientific information or new

data regarding adverse health effects on

children;

• New understanding of routes of

exposure to children;

• Whether the regulated substance/

pollutant is persistent and

bioaccumulative;

• New methodologies of evaluating

human health risks;

• New epidemiology studies;

• New toxicity studies; and

• New environmental monitoring

studies.

As part of this effort, EPA will

convene a balanced, broad-based

external Advisory Committee, chartered

under the Federal Advisory Committee

Act, Public Law 92–463, to give advice

to the Administrator on various issues

of children’s environmental health

protection. Notice of the establishment

of this Children’s Health Protection

Advisory Committee (CHPAC) was

published on September 9, 1997 (62 FR

47494). CHPAC will consider

recommendations received by EPA as a

result of this notice and other

information. Comments and other

information received as a result on this

notice will be placed in a docket that

will be established for CHPAC. EPA will

ask the Committee to recommend five

standards that EPA should reevaluate

with respect to children’s health

protection. CHPAC meetings will be

announced in the Federal Register and

open to the public. The Administrator

will consider the Committee’s

recommendations and the

recommendations and comments

received in response to this Notice. EPA

intends to announce the five selected

standards in a Federal Register notice in

early Summer of 1998.

This EPA effort will help fulfill

President Clinton’s Executive Order

13045, Protection of Children from

Environmental Health Risks and Safety

Risks, signed on April 21, 1997. This

Order, in part, directs each Federal

agency to set as a high priority the

identification and assessment of

environmental health risks and safety

risks that may disproportionately affect

children; and ensure that its policies,

programs, activities, and standards

address disproportionate risks to

children that result from environmental

health risks or safety risks.

Dated: September 26, 1997.

E. Ramona Trovato,

Director, Office of Children’s Health

Protection.

[FR Doc. 97–26320 Filed 10–2–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–M

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–5902–8]

Consent Decree: Phoenix Federal

Implementation Plan for Carbon

Monoxide

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of proposed consent

decree; request for public comment.

SUMMARY: In accordance with Section

113(g) of the Clean Air Act (‘‘Act’’),

notice is hereby given of a proposed

consent decree in litigation instituted

against the Environmental Protection

Agency (‘‘EPA’’) regarding

implementation of the contingency

measure provisions of the Carbon

Monoxide (CO) Federal Implementation

Plan (FIP) for Phoenix, Arizona.

EPA originally promulgated CO FIP

contingency measures for Phoenix in

1991 pursuant to a court order in

Delaney v. EPA, 898 F.2d 687 (9th Cir.

1990). 56 FR 5458 (Feb. 11, 1991). In

1996 EPA approved CO contingency

measures submitted by the State of

Arizona, and withdrew the previously

promulgated FIP contingency measures

for Phoenix. 61 FR 51599 (Oct. 3, 1996).

This action was challenged by the

Arizona Center for Law in the Pubic

Interest (ACLPI), and was recently

overturned by the Ninth Circuit Court of

Appeals. DiSimone v. Browner, 1997

U.S. App. LEXIS 19796 (July 31, 1997).

Subsequently, ACLPI filed an action

in District Court to compel

implementation of the FIP contingency

provisions. DiSimone v. Browner, No.

CIV 97–1987 PHXRGS, D. Ariz. In order

to resolve this matter without protracted

litigation, ACLPI and EPA have reached

agreement on a proposed consent decree

which has been signed by the parties

and lodged with the court on Sept. 25,

1997. The consent decree provides that,

unless EPA previously approves a state

submitted attainment demonstration for

CO for Phoenix, EPA will sign an initial

notice of proposed rulemaking pursuant

to the FIP contingency provisions by no

later than Nov. 26, 1998, and will

complete the remainder of the

requirements of the FIP contingency

provisions according to the timeframes

specified in those procedures.

For a period of thirty [30] days

following the date of publication of this

notice, the Agency will receive written

comments relating to the proposed

consent decree. EPA or the Department

of Justice may withhold or withdraw

consent to the proposed consent decree

if the comments disclose facts or

circumstances that indicate that such

consent is inappropriate, improper,

inadequate, or inconsistent with the

requirements of the Act.

Copies of the proposed consent decree

are available from Sara Schneeberg, Air

and Radiation Division (2344), Office of

General Counsel, U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, 401 M Street, SW,

Washington, D.C. 20460, (202) 260–

5145. Written comments should be sent

to Sara Schneeberg at the above address

and must be submitted on or before

November 3, 1997.

Dated: September 26, 1997.

Scott C. Fulton,

Acting General Counsel.

[FR Doc. 97–26318 Filed 10–2–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–M

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[ER–FRL–5484–8]

Environmental Impact Statements;

Notice of Availability

Responsible Agency: Office of Federal

Activities, General Information (202)

564–7167 or (202) 564–7153.

Weekly receipt of Environmental

Impact Statements Filed September 22,

1997 Through September 26, 1997

Pursuant to 40 CFR 1506.9.

EIS No. 970372, DRAFT EIS, FRC, MT,

Missouri-Madison Hydroelectric

(FERC No. 2188) Project, Issuing a

New licence (Relicense) for Nine

Dams and Associated Facilities, MT,

Due: December 2, 1997, Contact: John

McEachern (202) 219–3056.

EIS No. 970373, FINAL EIS, AFS, UT,

Western Uinta Basin Oil and Gas

Leasing, Implementation, Federal Oil

and Gas Estate on Land Administrated

by the Uinta and Ashley National

Forests in the western portion of the

Uinta Basin, Wasatch and Duchesne

Counties, UT, Due: November 3, 1997,

Contact: Laura Jo West (801) 781–

5167.

EIS No. 970374, DRAFT EIS, COE, CA,

San Francisco Bay to Stockton Phase

III (John F. Baldwin) Navigation

Channel Project, Construction and

Operation, For Deliver of Petroleum to

Refineries, Storage Terminals and