57810 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 187 / Tuesday, September 26, 2000 / Notices

Category

Storm Water Management Awards

First Place:

Brevard County Surface Water Improvement Viera, Florida ................................... Municipal.

Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, Southerly Wastewater Treatment Center,

Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan..

Industrial.

Combined Sewer Overflow Control Awards

First Place:

CSO Abatement Program, City of Saco, Maine

Second Place:

CSO Remediation Program, Corvallis, Oregon

Dated: September 15, 2000.

Michael B. Cook,

Director, Office of Wastewater Management.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6877–1]

Air Quality Criteria for Ozone and

Related Photochemical Oxidants

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency.

ACTION: Notice; call for information.

SUMMARY: The National Center for

Environmental Assessment, Office of

Research and Development, of the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

is undertaking to update and revise,

where appropriate, the Air Quality

Criteria for Ozone and Related

Photochemical Oxidants (EPA–600/P–

93–004aF-cF) published in July 1996.

Since completion of the 1996 ozone

criteria document, the EPA has

continued to collect scientific

information on the effects of groundlevel ozone on health and vegetation. A

summary and evaluation of this and

other selected literature that may be

particularly relevant to a review of the

National Ambient Air Quality Standards

for ozone will be presented in the

forthcoming revised criteria document.

As part of this continuing review,

interested parties are invited to assist

the EPA in developing and refining the

scientific information base for updating

the air quality criteria for ozone. While

EPA has continued to follow the

literature and gather appropriate studies

since early 1996, the Agency is

interested in additional new

information, particularly concerning the

effects expected from the presence of

ground-level ozone in the ambient air

on: humans and laboratory animals;

vegetation, both in agroecosystems

(crops) and in natural ecosystems;

nonbiological materials; and global

climate. EPA also seeks recent

information in other areas of ozone

research such as its chemistry and

physics, sources and emissions,

analytical methodology, transport and

transformation in the environment, and

ambient concentrations. To be

considered for inclusion in the revised

criteria document, submitted

information should be published,

accepted for publication, or have been

presented at a public scientific meeting.

DATES: All communications and

information must be submitted by

December 1, 2000, and addressed to the

Project Manager for Ozone and Related

Photochemical Oxidants, National

Center for Environmental Assessment

(MD–52), U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC

27711.

Dated: September 15, 2000.

William H. Farland,

Director, National Center for Environmental

Assessment.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6877–3]

Notice of Policy Change; Superfund

Construction Completion List

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency.

ACTION: Notice of policy change.

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA) is finalizing the policy

change proposed in the August 4, 2000,

Federal Register Notice (63 FR 47988–

47989) regarding the Construction

Completion category established in the

National Priorities List (NPL) under the

Comprehensive Environmental

Response, Compensation, and Liability

Act, as amended (CERCLA). A 30-day

comment period on the proposed policy

change was provided under the August

4, 2000, Federal Register document and

no comments were received by the

Agency.

Existing Agency policy had limited

sites eligible for inclusion to the

Construction Completion List (CCL) to

sites that are on the NPL at the time a

determination is made that all physical

construction has been completed. As a

result, deleted sites would never qualify

for the CCL if physical construction

remains at the time of deletion from the

NPL. This policy change allows all sites

that are on the NPL or have been deleted

from the NPL to be eligible for the CCL

when all physical construction under all

authorities is complete and all other

applicable construction completion

policy criteria have been satisfied. This

will allow Superfund to track and report

completion of all construction activities

at NPL sites.

EFFECTIVE DATE: September 26, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

Richard Jeng, Office of Emergency and

Remedial Response (5204–G), U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20460 at (703) 603–

8749 or e-mail Jeng.Richard@epa.gov or

the RCRA/Superfund Hotline from 8:30

a.m. to 7:30 p.m., Monday–Friday, toll

free at 1–(800)–424–9346.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

A. Background

During the initial years of the

Superfund program, outside audiences

often measured Superfund’s progress in

cleaning up sites by the number of sites

deleted from the NPL as compared to

the number of sites on the NPL. This

measure, however, did not and still does

not fully recognize the substantial

construction and reduction of risk to

human health and the environment that

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has occurred at NPL sites. In response,

the National Contingency Plan Preamble

Federal Register (FR) document (55 FR

8699, March 8, 1990) established a

Construction Completion category of

NPL sites to more clearly communicate

to the public the status of cleanup

progress among sites on the NPL.

A later Notification of Policy Change

Federal Register document (58 FR

12142, March 2, 1993) introduced the

Superfund Construction Completions

List (CCL) ‘‘* * * to simplify its system

of categorizing sites and to better

communicate the successful completion

of cleanup activities.’’ A total of 155

sites were included on this initial list.

The same notice that introduced the

CCL also indicated that ‘‘* * * deleted

sites will not qualify for the CCL if

physical construction remains to be

conducted under another statutory

authority.’’ As a result, EPA adopted the

policy where only sites on the NPL (i.e.,

not proposed or deleted sites) should

qualify for inclusion to the CCL.

B. Notice of Policy Change

Construction Completion List (CCL)

will now also include sites deleted from

the NPL. EPA now believes it is

important to assess all NPL Superfund

sites, including those that have been

deleted, to ensure that all construction

of response actions has been completed.

In doing so, EPA believes that although

a site is deleted from the Superfund

NPL, it should be accounted for on the

CCL when EPA determines that all

physical construction is complete under

all statutory authorities and all

applicable construction completion

policy criteria have been satisfied. Any

previously listed NPL Superfund site

added to the CCL as a result of this

policy change will be subject to all

report documentation requirements as

currently required for construction

completions at NPL sites. The CCL is

simply a mechanism for better

communicating Superfund progress to

the public. Inclusion of a site on the

CCL does not have any legal

significance.

Notice: This document does not

substitute for EPA’s statutes or

regulations, nor is it a regulation itself.

Thus, it does not impose legally-binding

requirements on EPA, states, or the

regulated community. EPA may change

this guidance in the future, as

appropriate.

Dated: September 18, 2000.

Timothy Fields, Jr.,

Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste

and Emergency Response.

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS

COMMISSION

[Report No. 2441]

Petition for Reconsideration of Action

in Rulemaking Proceeding

September 20, 2000.

Petition for Reconsideration has been

filed in the Commission’s rulemaking

proceeding listed in this Public Notice

and published pursuant to 47 CFR

Section 1.429(e). The full text of this

document is available for viewing and

copying in Room CY–A257, 445 12th

Street, SW, Washington, DC or may be

purchased from the Commission’s copy

contractor, ITS, Inc. (202) 857–3800.

Oppositions to this petition must be

filed by October 11, 2000. See Section

1.4(b)(1) of the Commission’s rules (47

CFR 1.4(b)(1)). Replies to an opposition

must be filed within 10 days after the

time for filing oppositions have expired.

Subject: Interconnection and Resale

Obligations Pertaining to Commercial

Mobile Radio Service (CC Docket No.

94–54).

Number of Petitions Filed: 1.

Federal Communications Commission.

Magalie Roman Salas,

Secretary.

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FEDERAL EMERGENCY

MANAGEMENT AGENCY

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request

ACTION: Notice and request for

comments.

SUMMARY: The Federal Emergency

Management Agency has submitted the

following proposed information

collection to the Office of Management

and Budget for review and clearance in

accordance with the requirements of the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44

U.S.C. 3507).

Title: Project Impact Baseline Report

and Progress Report.

Type of Information Collection: New.

OMB Number: None.

Forms: Baseline Report and Annual

Progress Report.

Abstract: Congress tasked FEMA with

the responsibility to design and

implement a meaningful pre-disaster

initiative that would reduce rapidly

escalating disaster costs and provided

funding towards that goal. This

initiative is entitled Project Impact:

Building a Disaster Resistant

Community. The Government

Performance Results Act requires that

FEMA show that the money is being

used effectively by establishing a

systematic process of evaluation.

The Baseline Report and subsequent

Annual Progress Report provides a

means of data collection for this

objective and have been developed to

capture the progress of a community

towards disaster resistance in a nondisaster situation. The questions in both

reports request information relevant to

the hazards and vulnerabilities faced by

the community. There are also questions

that request information about damage

prevention activity and public

education and awareness. The requested

information will not only gauge the

momentum towards disasters resistance

but will indicate success of the

collaborative process as well. The data

collected will also be used as a basis for

initiative development.

The Baseline Report will be due the

1st year, 60 days after the signing

ceremony. It is critical to provide a

picture of the community’s ability to

withstand disasters at the beginning of

its designation as a Project Impact

Community. It requests information

necessary to evaluate the disaster

resistant status of a community and

should help Project Impact

Communities establish their initial

focus. The Annual Progress Report is

due annually for five years starting on

the 1st Anniversary of the signing

ceremony and will allow FEMA to

assess the community’s progress with

respect to both national goals and

program initiatives. It will also provide

an opportunity for a community to

evaluate its own success with respect to

local goals. Both these data collection

mechanisms provide means to measure

the proper use of grant funding as well

as data for Government Performance

Results Act (GPRA) reporting.

Affected Public: Federal government

and State, local or tribal governments.