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1The Commission voted unanimously to publish 

this notice. 

1The Commission voted 4–0 to publish this 

notice. 

Director, Mechanical Engineering 

Division, Consumer Product Safety 

Commission, 5 Research Place, 

Rockville, MD 20850; email: cpaul@

cpsc.gov. For information about the 

procedure to make an oral presentation, 

contact Alberta E. Mills, Office of the 

Secretary, Consumer Product Safety 

Commission, 4330 East-West Highway, 

Bethesda, MD 20814; cpsc-os@cpsc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 1

On November 1, 2023, the

Commission published an SNPR in the 

Federal Register, proposing to issue a 

safety standard addressing blade-contact 

injuries on table saws under the 

Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA; 15 

U.S.C. 2051–2089), and seeking written 

comments. 88 FR 74909. To address the 

risk of blade-contact injuries on table 

saws, the Commission proposes a rule 

that would establish a performance 

standard that requires table saws to 

limit the depth of cut to no more than 

3.5 millimeters when a test probe, acting 

as surrogate for a human finger or other 

body part, approaches the spinning 

blade at a rate of 1 meter per second 

(m/s). The SNPR is available at: 88 FR 

74909—Safety Standard Addressing 

Blade-Contact Injuries on Table Saws— 

Content Details—2023–23898 

(govinfo.gov), and CPSC staff’s briefing 

package for the SNPR is available at: 

https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/ 

Federal-Register-Notice-SafetyStandard-Addressing-Blade-ContactInjuries-on-Table-SawsSNPR.pdf?VersionId=Ce3FOVBmbG0_

.8j.gd1h0k3VWHZZ.URw. 

II. The Public Hearing

The Administrative Procedure Act (5

U.S.C. 551–562) and section 9 of the 

CPSA require the Commission to 

provide interested parties with an 

opportunity to submit ‘‘written data, 

views, or arguments’’ regarding a 

proposed rule. 5 U.S.C. 553(c); 15 U.S.C. 

2058(d)(2). The SNPR invited such 

written comments. In addition, section 

9 of the CPSA requires the Commission 

to provide interested parties ‘‘an 

opportunity for oral presentation of 

data, views, or arguments.’’ 15 U.S.C. 

2058(d)(2). The Commission must keep 

a transcript of such oral presentations. 

Id. In accordance with this requirement, 

the Commission is providing a forum for 

oral presentations concerning the 

proposed standard. 

To request the opportunity to make an 

oral presentation, see the information 

under the DATES and ADDRESSES sections 

of this notice. Participants should limit 

their presentations to approximately 10 

minutes, excluding time for questioning 

by the Commissioners or CPSC staff. To 

avoid duplicate presentations, groups 

should designate a spokesperson, and 

the Commission reserves the right to 

limit presentation times or impose 

further restrictions, as necessary. 

Alberta E. Mills, 

Secretary, Consumer Product Safety 

Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2024–02570 Filed 2–7–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6355–01–P 

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY 

COMMISSION 

16 CFR Part 1408 

[Docket No. CPSC–2019–0020] 

Safety Standard for Residential Gas 

Furnaces and Boilers; Notice of 

Opportunity for Oral Presentations 

AGENCY: Consumer Product Safety 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking; 

opportunity for oral presentation. 

SUMMARY: The Consumer Product Safety 

Commission (Commission or CPSC) will 

be providing an opportunity for 

interested parties to make oral 

presentations on the notice of proposed 

rulemaking (NPR) the Commission 

issued regarding a safety standard for 

residential gas furnaces and boilers. 

Presentations will be part of the 

rulemaking record. 

DATES: A hybrid hearing will be held in 

person at CPSC’s headquarters and 

remotely via webinar and will begin at 

10 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on 

February 21, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: This hearing will be held as 

a hybrid hearing—in person at CPSC’s 

headquarters and remotely via webinar. 

For individuals attending in person, the 

meeting will be held at CPSC’s 

headquarters, located at 4330 East West 

Highway, 4th Floor—Hearing Room, 

Bethesda, MD 20814. Individuals who 

plan to attend the meeting remotely 

should pre-register for the webinar at 

cpsc.webex.com/cpsc/ 

j.php?MTID=m950b2d5a6084894ff5d

11b07f635114b. Attendance is free of

charge. After registering, you will

receive a confirmation email containing

information about joining the webinar.

In person attendees do not need to

register for the hearing. Requests to

make oral presentations (in person or

remotely) and the text of oral

presentations and written comments

should be sent by email to: cpsc-os@

cpsc.gov, with the subject line, 

‘‘Residential Gas Furnaces and Boilers 

NPR; Oral Presentation.’’ Requests to 

make oral presentations—in person or 

remotely—and the written text of any 

oral presentations must be received by 

the Office of the Secretary no later than 

5 p.m. EST on February 14, 2024. The 

Commission will accept written 

comments as well. These also must be 

received by the Office of the Secretary 

no later than 5 p.m. EST on February 14, 

2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information about the subject matter of 

this hearing, contact Ronald A. Jordan, 

Mechanical Engineering, Consumer 

Product Safety Commission, 5 Research 

Place, Rockville, MD 20850; telephone: 

301–987–2219; email: rjordan@cpsc.gov. 

For information about the procedure to 

make an oral presentation, contact 

Alberta E. Mills, Office of the Secretary, 

Consumer Product Safety Commission, 

4330 East-West Highway, Bethesda, MD 

20814; telephone: 301–504–7479; cpscos@cpsc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 1

On October 25, 2023, the Commission

published an NPR in the Federal 

Register, proposing to issue a safety 

standard for residential gas furnaces and 

boilers under the Consumer Product 

Safety Act (CPSA; 15 U.S.C. 2051– 

2089), and seeking written comments. 

88 FR 73272. The proposed rule seeks 

to address the risk of injuries and death 

associated with residential gas fired 

central furnaces, boilers, wall furnaces, 

and floor furnaces (gas furnaces and 

boilers). To address this risk, the 

Commission has proposed a rule to 

detect and prevent dangerous levels of 

carbon monoxide (CO) production and 

leakage from residential gas furnaces 

and boilers. 

The NPR is available at: https://

www.federalregister.gov/documents/ 

2023/10/25/2023-23302/safetystandard-for-residential-gas-furnacesand-boilers, and CPSC staff’s briefing 

package for the NPR is available at: 

https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/ 

Notice-of-Proposed-Rulemaking-SafetyStandard-for-Residential-Gas-Furnacesand-Boilers-COMBINED-PDFS.pdf?

VersionId=7BJ3c6EeDF78n

Horx2mCEr94XygwgeQV. 

II. The Public Hearing

The Administrative Procedure Act (5

U.S.C. 551–559) and section 9 of the 

CPSA require the Commission to 

provide interested parties with an 


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opportunity to submit ‘‘written data, 

views, or arguments’’ regarding a 

proposed rule. 5 U.S.C. 553(c); 15 U.S.C. 

2058(d)(2). The NPR invited such 

written comments. In addition, section 

9 of the CPSA requires the Commission 

to provide interested parties ‘‘an 

opportunity for oral presentation of 

data, views, or arguments.’’ 15 U.S.C. 

2058(d)(2). The Commission must keep 

a transcript of such oral presentations. 

Id. In accordance with this requirement, 

the Commission is providing a forum for 

oral presentations concerning the 

proposed standard for residential gas 

furnaces and boilers. 

To request the opportunity to make an 

oral presentation, see the information 

under the DATES and ADDRESSES sections 

of this notice. Participants should limit 

their presentations to approximately 10 

minutes, excluding time for questions 

from the Commission or staff. To avoid 

duplicate presentations, groups should 

designate a spokesperson, and the 

Commission reserves the right to limit 

presentation times or impose further 

restrictions, as necessary. 

Alberta E. Mills, 

Secretary, Consumer Product Safety 

Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2024–02563 Filed 2–7–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6355–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 141 

[EPA–HQ–OW–2023–0469; FRL–10857–04– 

OW] 

Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring 

Rule; Methods Request and Webinar 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Request for public comment and 

notice of a public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) is requesting 

public input on drinking water 

analytical methods for emerging 

contaminants in drinking water, 

particularly those listed on the agency’s 

Fifth Contaminant Candidate List (CCL 

5), that might support monitoring under 

the Unregulated Contaminant 

Monitoring Rule. This notice describes 

published drinking water analytical 

methods and EPA drinking water 

methods currently in development for 

the CCL and other emerging 

contaminants, with an expectation that 

some of these methods will support the 

sixth Unregulated Contaminant 

Monitoring Rule (UCMR 6) and/or other 

future cycles of the UCMR program. 

The agency is also announcing a 

virtual public meeting (via webinar) to 

discuss potential approaches to 

developing UCMR 6. The webinar will 

discuss the following: drinking water 

analytical methods and contaminants 

being considered, UCMR 6 sampling 

design, laboratory approval, and other 

potential aspects of the monitoring 

approach. The agenda will include time 

for brief remarks by participants who 

pre-register. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before April 8, 2024. Public meeting: 

The EPA will host a webinar regarding 

UCMR 6 development on April 17, 2024 

and April 18, 2024. The same material 

will be presented twice. Please refer to 

the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section 

for additional information on the 

webinar. 

ADDRESSES: The agency invites 

comments on analytical methods for 

emerging contaminants in drinking 

water, particularly those listed on CCL 

5, to aid in the EPA’s consideration of 

methods to support UCMR monitoring. 

Comments should refer to Docket ID No. 

EPA–HQ–OW–2023–0469 and may be 

submitted by any of the following 

options: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

https://www.regulations.gov/ 

(preferred). Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, EPA Docket Center, 

Office of Ground Water and Drinking 

Water Docket, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20460. 

• Hand Delivery or Courier: EPA 

Docket Center, WJC West Building, 

Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20004. The Docket 

Center’s hours of operations are 8:30 

a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through 

Friday (except Federal Holidays). 

Instructions: All material submitted 

must include the Docket ID for this 

rulemaking. Comments received by the 

EPA (regardless of how they are 

submitted) may be posted without 

change to https://www.regulations.gov/, 

including any personal information 

provided. For detailed instructions on 

sending comments, see the ‘‘Public 

Participation’’ heading of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this document. 

Registration information for the 

UCMR 6 ‘‘pre-proposal’’ webinar can be 

found at https://www.epa.gov/dwucmr/ 

unregulated-contaminant-monitoringrule-ucmr-meetings-and-materials. The 

webinars will begin at 11:00 a.m. 

eastern time and will conclude at 5:00 

p.m. eastern time on the scheduled 

dates. Refer to the ‘‘Public 

Participation’’ heading of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section 

below for additional information if you 

would like to sign up to make remarks 

during the webinar. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Brenda Bowden, Standards and Risk 

Management Division, Office of Ground 

Water and Drinking Water (MS 140), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 26 

West Martin Luther King Drive, 

Cincinnati, OH 45268; telephone 

number: (513) 569–7961; or email 

address: bowden.brenda@epa.gov; or 

Will Adams, Standards and Risk 

Management Division, Office of Ground 

Water and Drinking Water (MS 140), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 26 

West Martin Luther King Drive, 

Cincinnati, OH 45268; telephone 

number: (513) 569–7656; or email 

address: adams.william@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Table of Contents 

I. Public Participation 

A. Written Comments on Drinking Water 

Analytical Methods for Emerging 

Contaminants 

B. Participation in UCMR 6 Pre-Proposal 

Webinar 

II. General Information 

A. Does this action apply to me? 

B. How does the EPA establish health 

standards for emerging contaminants in 

drinking water under the Safe Drinking 

Water Act? 

C. Why is the EPA requesting analytical 

method information on unregulated 

contaminants in drinking water? 

D. What is the basis for this action? 

III. Background 

A. What is the status of the drinking water 

analytical methods for contaminants on 

the CCL 5? 

B. What drinking water analytical methods 

are being developed by the EPA to 

address contaminants on CCL 5? 

1. Draft EPA Method(s) for PFAS. 

2. Draft EPA Method 562—Determination 

of selected pesticides in drinking water 

by solid phase extraction and liquid 

chromatography/tandem mass 

spectrometry (LC/MS/MS). 

3. Draft EPA Method Purgeable Organics— 

Measurement of purgeable organic 

compounds in water by capillary column 

gas chromatography/mass spectrometry 

(GC/MS). This method is expected to 

support the analysis of drinking water 

for 1,2,3-trichloropropane (TCP) and 

other purgeable organic compounds. The 

target contaminants for this method are 

shown in Exhibit 7. 

4. Draft EPA Method Legionella— 

Legionella spp. and Legionella 

pneumophila quantitative polymerase 

chain reaction (qPCR) detection. 

5. Draft EPA Method Mycobacterium— 

Mycobacterium abscessus culture 


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