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Committee Act,’’ notice is hereby given

that a meeting of Source Water

Protection Working Group of the

National Drinking Water Advisory

Council established under the Safe

Drinking Water Act, as amended (42

U.S. C. S300f et seq.), will be held on

March 13 and 14, 1997 from 9:00 a.m.

to 4:30 p.m. at the Ramada Inn

Governor’s House, 1615 Rhode Island

Ave, NW., Washington, D.C. The

meeting is open to the public, but due

to past experience, seating will be

limited.

The purpose of this meeting is to

review and discuss options on the

coordinated implementation of the

source water assessment and protection

provisions of the 1996 Amendments to

the Safe Drinking Water Act. The

meeting is open to the public to observe.

The working group members are

meeting to analyze relevant issues and

facts. Therefore, no statements will be

taken from the public at this meeting.

For more information, please contact,

Beth Hall, U.S. EPA, Office of Ground

Water and Drinking Water , 4606, 401 M

Street SW, Washington, D.C. 20460. The

telephone number is Area Code (202)

260–5553. The e-mail address is

hall.beth@epamail.epa.gov.

Dated: March 3, 1997.

Charlene Shaw,

Designated Federal Official, National

Drinking Water Advisory Council.

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Science Advisory Board; Notification

of Public Advisory Committee

Meetings

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory

Committee Act, Public Law 92–463,

notice is hereby given that several

committees of the Science Advisory

Board (SAB) will meet on the dates and

times described below. All times noted

are Eastern Daylight Time unless

otherwise noted. All meetings are open

to the public, however, due to limited

space, seating at meetings will be on a

first-come basis. For further information

concerning specific meetings, please

contact the individuals listed below.

Documents that are the subject of SAB

reviews are normally available from the

originating EPA office and are not

available from the SAB Office.

1. The Human Exposure and Health

Subcommittee (HEHS) of the Science

Advisory Board’s (SAB) Integrated Risk

Project (IRP) will meet on March 26–28,

1997, in room 3075, Building 90, at the

Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National

Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley

CA 947720. The meeting will begin at

9:00 a.m. and end no later than 5:00

p.m. Pacific Time on each day. This

meeting is open to the public, but prior

registration is required (see below).

The main purpose of the meeting is to

continue discussions of a methodology

for assessing and ranking human health

risks from exposure to environmental

stressors. Subcommittee members will

discuss relative risk ranking criteria,

stressor-specific data sheets that will

serve as the basis for relative risk

ranking, and approaches for generating

risk rankings from a broad group of

environmental health scientists. The

Subcommittee’s activities are part of the

SAB’s Integrated Risk Project, begun in

an effort to update the 1990 SAB report,

Reducing Risk: Setting Priorities and

Strategies for Environmental Protection.

In a letter dated October 25, 1995, to Dr.

Matanoski, Chair of the SAB Executive

Committee, Deputy Administrator Fred

Hansen charged the SAB to: (a) develop

an updated ranking of the relative risk

of different environmental problems

based upon explicit scientific criteria;

(b) provide an assessment of techniques

and criteria that could be used to

discriminate among emerging

environmental risks and identify those

that merit serious, near-term Agency

attention; (c) assess the potential for risk

reduction and propose alternative

technical risk reduction strategies for

the environmental problems identified;

and (d) identify the uncertainties and

data quality issues associated with the

relative rankings. The Integrated Risk

Project is being conducted by several

SAB panels, including the HEHS,

working at the direction of an ad hoc

Steering Committee established by the

SAB’s Executive Committee.

Single copies of Reducing Risk can be

obtained by contacting the SAB’s

Committee Evaluation and Support Staff

(1400), 401 M Street, SW, Washington,

DC 20460, telephone (202) 260–8414, or

fax (202) 260–1889. Members of the

public desiring additional information

about the meeting, including an agenda,

should contact Ms. Mary Winston, Staff

Secretary, Committee Operations Staff,

Science Advisory Board (1400), US

EPA, 401 M Street, SW, Washington DC

20460, by telephone at (202) 260–6552,

fax at (202) 260–7118, or via the

INTERNET at:

Winston.Mary@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV.

Anyone wishing to attend the

meeting, and/or make an oral

presentation to the Committee must

register with Mr. Samuel Rondberg,

Designated Federal Official for the

HEHS, no later than 4:00 p.m., March

19, 1997, at (202) 260–2559 or via the

INTERNET at

Rondberg.Sam@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV.

Prior registration is required for

admission to the Lawrence Berkeley

Laboratory complex. The registration

request should include name and

affiliation of the attendee, and indicate

if parking space at the laboratory

complex will be required. Anyone

wishing to make a presentation to the

Subcommittee should also provide an

outline in writing to Mr. Rondberg by

March 19, 1997 of the issues to be

addressed. At least 35 copies of any

written comments to the Committee are

to be given to Mr. Rondberg no later

than the time of the presentation for

distribution to the Subcommittee and

the interested public. See below for

additional information on providing

comments to the SAB.

2. The Valuation Subcommittee (VS)

of the Science Advisory Board’s (SAB)

Integrated Risk Project (IRP) will meet

April 2–4, 1997, from 8:00 am on April

2 to no later than 5:00 pm (Eastern

Daylight Time) on April 4 at the Holiday

Inn—Baltimore Inner Harbor, located at

301 W. Lombard Street, Baltimore MD

21201. This meeting is open to the

public, however, due to limited space,

seating will be on a first-come basis. The

purpose of the meeting is to continue

Committee efforts in support of the

larger IRP effort of the SAB.

In a letter dated October 25, 1995,

Deputy Administrator Fred Hansen

requested the SAB (see information

provided above) to update the

assessment of environmental risks,

priorities, and risk reduction

opportunities contained in the 1990

SAB report, Reducing Risk: Setting

Priorities and Strategies for

Environmental Protection (EPA–SAB–

EC–90–021). In subsequent discussions

with the Deputy Administrator, the SAB

has also agreed to provide insights on

economic analysis of risk reduction

options and ecosystem valuation. In

summary, the current charge to the

Valuation Subcommittee is to propose a

new framework for assessing the value

of ecosystems to humans, including

ecological services and environmentally

mediated health and quality of life

values.

Single copies of the information

provided to the Committee can be

obtained by contacting Ms. Diana

Pozun, Staff Secretary, Committee

Operations Staff, Science Advisory

Board (1400), US EPA, 401 M Street

SW., Washington, DC 20460, telephone

(202) 260–6552, fax (202) 260–7118, or

via the Internet at: Pozun.Diana@

EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV. Single copies of

Reducing Risk, the report of the

previous relative risk ranking effort of
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the SAB, can be obtained by contacting

the SAB’s Committee Evaluation and

Support Staff (1400), 401 M Street, SW,

Washington, DC 20460, telephone (202)

260–8414, or fax (202) 260–1889.

Anyone wishing to make an oral

presentation at the meeting must contact

Mr. Thomas Miller, Designated Federal

Official for the Valuation Subcommittee,

in writing no later than 4:00 pm (Eastern

Daylight Time) March 21, 1997, at the

above address, via fax (202) 260–7118,

or via the Internet at:

Miller.Tom@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV. The

request should identify the name of the

individual who will make the

presentation and an outline of the issues

to be addressed. At least 35 copies of

any written comments to the Committee

are to be given to Mr. Miller no later

than the time of the presentation for

distribution to the Committee and the

interested public. To discuss technical

aspects of the meeting, please contact

Mr. Miller by telephone at (202) 260–

5886.

3. The Ecological Risk Subcommittee

(ERS) of the Science Advisory Board’s

Integrated Risk Project will hold a

teleconference meeting on March 31,

1997 from 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Eastern

Time. The purpose of the meeting is to

complete revisions to a proposed

Subcommittee methodology for

assessing the relative risks from

ecological stressors. A limited number

of lines will be available for members of

the public who wish to call in.

For more information on the

teleconference meeting, please contact

Ms. Stephanie Sanzone, Designated

Federal Official for the Ecological Risk

Subcommittee at (202) 260–6557, via fax

at (202) 260–7118 or via the Internet at

Sanzone.Stephanie@EPAMAIL.

EPA.GOV. Anyone wishing to provide

oral comments to the Subcommittee

must contact Ms. Sanzone no later than

4:00 p.m. on March 26, 1997. The

request should identify the name of the

individual who will make the

presentation and an outline of the issues

to be addressed. Oral comments will be

limited to five minutes per person.

Providing Oral or Written Comments at

SAB Meetings

The Science Advisory Board expects

that public statements presented at its

meetings will not be repetitive of

previously submitted oral or written

statements. In general, each individual

or group making an oral presentation

will be limited to a total time of ten

minutes. For conference call meetings,

opportunities for oral comment will be

limited to no more than five minutes per

speaker and no more than fifteen

minutes total. Written comments (at

least 35 copies) received in the SAB

Staff Office sufficiently prior to a

meeting date, may be mailed to the

relevant SAB committee or

subcommittee prior to its meeting;

comments received too close to the

meeting date will normally be provided

to the committee at its meeting. Written

comments may be provided to the

relevant committee or subcommittee up

until the time of the meeting.

Dated: February 28, 1997.

Donald G. Barnes,

Staff Director, Science Advisory Board.

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Public Meetings of the Urban Wet

Weather Flows Advisory Committee,

the Storm Water Phase II Advisory

Subcommittee, and the Sanitary Sewer

Overflow Advisory Subcommittee

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: Notice is given that the

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

has postponed the Sanitary Sewer

Overflow (SSO) Advisory Subcommittee

meeting scheduled for April 21–22,

1997 at the National Airport Hilton.

This meeting was listed in the Federal

Register of February 3, 1997.

The public meetings for the Urban

Wet Weather Flows (UWWF) Advisory

Committee and the Storm Water Phase

II Advisory Subcommittee which were

also listed in the Federal Register of

February 3, 1997 remain unchanged.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Charles Vanderlyn, Office of Wastewater

Management, at (202) 260–7277 or

Internet:

vanderlyn.charles@epamail.epa.gov.

Dated: March 3, 1997.

Michael B. Cook,

Director, Office of Wastewater Management,

Designated Federal Official.

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Proposed Settlement Under Section

122(h) of Comprehensive

Environmental Response,

Compensation and Liability Act

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency.

ACTION: Notice of proposed

administrative settlement and

opportunity for public comment.

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to

enter into an administrative settlement

to resolve claims under the

Comprehensive Environmental

Response, Compensation, and Liability

Act of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended.

Notice is being published to inform the

public of the proposed settlement and of

the opportunity to comment. This

settlement is intended to resolve

liabilities of one party for costs incurred

by EPA at the M & T Delisa Superfund

Site.

DATE: Comments must be provided on or

before April 9, 1997.

ADDRESS: Comments should be

addressed to the U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, Office of Regional

Counsel, New Jersey Superfund Branch,

17th Floor, New York, New York

10007–1866 and should refer to: In the

Matter of: M & T Delisa Site, U.S. EPA

Index No. II–CERCLA–97–0102.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency,

Office of Regional Counsel, New Jersey

Superfund Branch, Superfund Branch,

17th Floor, New York, New York

10007–1866. Attention: Denise Finn,

Esq., (212) 637–3135.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In

accordance with Section 122(i)(1) of

CERCLA, notice is hereby given of a

proposed administrative settlement

concerning the M & T Delisa Superfund

Site which is located in Ocean

Township, Monmouth County, New

Jersey. Section 122(h) of CERCLA

provides EPA with authority to

consider, compromise, and settle certain

claims for costs incurred by the United

States.

The Equitable Life Assurance Society

of the United States is committed to

participate in this settlement. The

Settling Party will pay a total of

$251,324 under this agreement to

reimburse EPA for response costs

incurred at the M & T Delisa Site.

A copy of the proposed administrative

settlement agreement, as well as

background information relating to the

settlement, may be obtained in person

or by mail from EPA’s Region II Office

of Regional Counsel, New Jersey

Superfund Branch, 290 Broadway, 17th

Floor, New York, NY 10007–1866.

Dated: February 5, 1997.

William J. Muszynski,

Acting Regional Administrator.

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