Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 82 /Wednesday, April 29, 1998 / Notices 23435

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6005–5]

Common Sense Initiative Council,

(CSIC)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notification of public advisory

CSI Iron and Steel, and printing sector

subcommittee meetings: Open meetings.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal

Advisory Committee Act, Pub. L. 92–

463, notice is given that the Iron and

Steel and the Printing Sector

Subcommittees of the Common Sense

Initiative Council will meet on the dates

and times described below. Both

meetings are open to the public. Seating

at both meetings will be a first-come

basis and limited time will be provided

for public comment. For further

information concerning specific

meetings, please contact the individuals

listed with the three announcements

below.

(1) Iron and Steel Sector

Subcommittee—May 14, 1998

Notice is hereby given that the

Environmental Protection Agency will

hold an open meeting of the CSI Iron

and Steel Sector Subcommittee on

Thursday, May 14, 1998 from 10:00 a.m.

CT to 4:00 p.m. CT. The meeting will be

held at the Wyndham Garden Hotel,

5615 N. Cumberland Avenue, Chicago,

IL 60631 (773–693–5800 or 1–800–996–

3426) which is near the Chicago O’Hare

airport.

The purpose of this meeting is to

review the Subcommittee’s past

activities and discuss its next steps. In

particular, the Subcommittee will

consider what its goals and objectives

might be, what process options it might

follow to meet these goals and

objectives, what information exchange

and/or feedback mechanisms would be

useful for disseminating information

about environmental management in the

iron and steel sector, and the

disposition of its ongoing projects.

For more information concerning

meeting times or any other information

about this or other Iron and Steel

meetings, please call Ms. Judith Hecht at

202–260–5682 in Washington, DC, by

fax on (202) 401–3372, or by E-mail at

hecht.judy@epamail.epa.gov or Mr.

Robert Tolpa at 312–886–6706, or by Email at tolpa.robert@epamail.epa.gov.

(2) Printing Sector Subcommittee—May

28–29, 1998

Notice is hereby given that the

Environmental Protection Agency will

hold an open meeting of the CSI

Printing Sector Subcommittee on May

28–29, 1998. The Subcommittee

meeting will be from 1:00 p.m. EST

until 5:30 p.m. EST. The meeting will be

held at Resolve, located at 1255 23rd

Street, NW, Suite 275 in Washington,

DC.

The purpose of the meeting will be to

review the progress in implementing the

New York City Education Project and to

discuss the plans to implement pilot

projects of the PrintSTEP program. A

formal agenda will be available at the

meeting.

For further information concerning

meeting times and agenda of this

Printing Sector Subcommittee meeting,

please contact Gina Bushong,

Designated Federal Officer (DFO), at

EPA by telephone on (202) 564–5081 in

Washington, DC, by fax on (202) 564–

0009, or by e-mail at

bushong.gina@epamail.epa.gov.

Inspection of Subcommittee Documents

Documents relating to the above

topics will be publicly available at the

meeting. Thereafter, these documents

and the minutes of the meeting will be

available for public inspection in room

3802M of EPA Headquarters, 401 M

Street, SW, Washington, D.C. 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: April 23, 1998.

Kathleen Bailey,

Designated Federal Officer.

[FR Doc. 98–11379 Filed 4–28–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

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Announcement of National Drinking

Water Advisory Council Benefits

Working Group Open Meeting

Under Section 10(a)(2) of Pub. L. 92–

423, ‘‘The Federal Advisory Committee

Act,’’ notice is hereby given that a

meeting of the Benefits Working Group

of the National Drinking Water Advisory

Council (NDWAC) established under the

Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended

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

on May 19, 1998 from 9:00 AM until

4:30 PM (approximate), and May 20,

1998 from 8:30 AM until 1:00 PM

(approximate), in the Washington Room

of the Ramada Plaza Hotel—Old Town,

901 North Fairfax Street, Alexandria,

VA 22314. The meeting is open to the

public, but seating will be limited.

The purpose of this meeting is to

review those quantifiable and nonquantifiable benefits that could be

considered when developing drinking

water regulations and provide

recommendations to the Agency on

which benefits should be evaluated in

developing its regulations. The working

group members are meeting to analyze

relevant issues and facts, and contribute

input to ‘‘white papers’’ which EPA staff

will write after the meeting. The

Working Group will be asked to review

and comment upon these papers, which

will ultimately be presented to NDWAC.

The meeting is open to the public to

observe and statements will be taken

from the public as time allows.

For more information, please contact,

John Bennett, Designated Federal

Officer, Benefits Working Group, U.S.

EPA, Office of Ground Water and

Drinking Water (4607), 401 M Street

SW, Washington, D.C. 20460. The

telephone number is 202–260–0446, fax

202–260–3762, and e-mail address

bennett.johnb@epamail.epa.gov.

Dated: April 22, 1998.

Charlene E. Shaw,

Designated Federal Officer, National Drinking

Water Advisory Council.

[FR Doc. 98–11380 Filed 4–28–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6005–8]

Announcement of Stakeholder Forum

on Perchlorate in Water

AGENCY: U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency.

ACTION: Notice of stakeholder forum.

SUMMARY: The Interagency Perchlorate

Steering Committee (IPSC) will be

holding a two and a half day

stakeholder forum on May 19–21, 1998

in Henderson, Nevada. The IPSC, a

working partnership of government

agencies chartered to facilitate

identification of the issues and

coordinate the exchange of scientific

information related to potential

perchlorate contamination in the

environment, includes representatives

from the U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA), Department of Defense

(DoD), Agency for Toxic Substances and

Disease Registry (ATSDR), National

Institute for Environmental Health

Sciences (NIEHS), Native American

Tribes, Utah Department of

Environmental Quality, Nevada