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g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power

Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)–825(r).

h. Applicant Contact: Timothy J.

Oakes, Kleinschmidt Associates, 33

West Main Street, Strasburg, PA 17579,

(717) 687–2711.

i. FERC Contact: Jack Duckworth

(202) 219–2818.

j. Comment Date: 60 days from the

issuance date of this notice.

k. Description of Project: The existing

project consists of: (1) a 30-foot-high,

302.6-foot-long concrete gravity dam

consisting of: (a) two spillway sections,

a 150-foot-long west spillway section

topped with 6 foot-high hinged steel

flashboards and one 20-foot-wide, 10-

foot-high Taintor gate; and a 116-footlong east spillway section topped with

an automatically inflated rubber weir;

(2) a 1.5-mile-long, 62 acre

impoundment with a normal water

surface elevation of 174.3 feet; (3) a

powerhouse integral with the dam

containing a single turbine generator

with an installed capacity of 3.0 MW;

(4) transmission facilities; and (5)

appurtenant facilities.

The applicant states that the average

annual generation is approximately

14,000 megawatthours. The applicant is

not proposing any changes to the

existing project works.

1. With this notice, we are initiating

consultation with the VERMONT

STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION

OFFICER (SHPO), as required by 106,

National Historic Preservation Act, and

the regulations of the Advisory Council

on Historic Preservation, 36 CFR 800.4.

m. Pursuant to Section 4.32(b)(7) of 18

CFR of the Commission’s regulations, if

any resource agency, Indian Tribe, or

person believes that an additional

scientific study should be conducted in

order to form an adequate factual basis

for a complete analysis of the

application on its merit, the resource

agency, Indian Tribe, or person must file

a request for a study with the

Commission not later than 60 days from

the issuance date of this notice and

serve a copy of the request on the

applicant.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 98–15795 Filed 6–12–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[OPPTS–400131; FRL–5796–8]

Toxics Data Reporting Committee of

the National Advisory Council for

Environmental Policy and Technology;

Notice of Public Meeting

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

SUMMARY: Under the Federal Advisory

Committee Act, EPA is providing notice

of a 2-day meeting of the Toxics Data

Reporting (TDR) Committee of the

National Advisory Council for

Environmental Policy and Technology

(NACEPT). This will be the sixth

meeting of the Toxics Data Reporting

(TDR) Committee, whose mission is to

provide advice to EPA regarding the

Agency’s Toxics Release Inventory (TRI)

Program.

DATES: The public meeting will take

place on June 30, 1998 from 8:30 a.m.

to 5:00 p.m. and on July 1, 1998 from

8:30 a.m. to 12 noon. Written and

electronic comments in response to this

notice should be received by June 22,

1998.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at:

Double Tree National Airport, 300 Army

Navy Drive, Arlington, VA, telephone

number: (703) 416–4100.

Each comment must bear the docket

control number OPPTS–400131. All

comments should be sent in triplicate

to: OPPT Document Control Officer

(7407), Office of Pollution Prevention

and Toxics, Environmental Protection

Agency, 401 M St., SW., Rm. G–099,

East Tower, Washington, DC 20460.

Comments and data may also be

submitted electronically to:

oppt.ncic@epamail.epa.gov. Follow the

instructions under Unit II. of this

document. No Confidential Business

Information (CBI) should be submitted

through e-mail.

All comments which contain

information claimed as CBI must be

clearly marked as such. Three sanitized

copies of any comments containing

information claimed as CBI must also be

submitted and will be placed in the

public record for this action. Persons

submitting information on any portion

of which they believe is entitled to

treatment as CBI by EPA must assert a

business confidentiality claim in

accordance with 40 CFR 2.203(b) for

each such portion. This claim must be

made at the time that the information is

submitted to EPA. If a submitter does

not assert a confidentiality claim at the

time of submission, EPA will consider

this as a waiver of any confidentiality

claim and the information may be made

available to the public by EPA without

further notice to the submitter.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Cassandra Vail, telephone: (202) 260–

0675, fax number: (202) 401–8142, email: vail.cassandra@epamail.epa.gov or

Michelle Price, telephone: (202) 260–

3372, fax number: (202) 401–8142, email: price.michelle@epamail.epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

At the 2-day meeting, the TDR

Committee will focus mainly on

discussing options for burden reduction

associated with the TRI program. The

meeting will include discussion of the

renewal of the Information Collection

Request for the Alternate Reporting

Threshold Certification Statement (Form

A) and possible modifications to the

Form A to increase burden reduction for

eligible facilities. The TDR Committee

will also spend some portion of the

same meeting discussing options to

reduce burden in complying with the

TRI program, which were suggested by

TDR members during the May meeting.

Information on availability of meeting

summaries from previous TDR meetings

will be available on the TRI Home Page.

The address of the TRI Home Page is

http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/tri. This

information can be found under the

heading ‘‘TRI Stakeholder Dialogue.’’ In

addition, the agenda for the June 30 and

July 1 Committee meeting will also be

available at this same site prior to the

meeting. Oral presentations or

statements by interested parties will be

limited to 5 minutes. Interested parties

are encouraged to contact Cassandra

Vail, to schedule presentations before

the Committee.

II. Public Record and Electronic

Submissions

The official record for this action, as

well as the public version, has been

established for this action under docket

control number OPPTS–400131

(including comments and data

submitted electronically as described

below). A public version of this record,

including printed, paper versions of

electronic comments, which does not

include any information claimed as CBI,

is available for inspection from 12 noon

to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday,

excluding legal holidays. The official

record is located in the TSCA

Nonconfidential Information Center,

Rm. NE–B607, 401 M St., SW.,

Washington, DC.

Electronic comments can be sent

directly to EPA at:
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oppt.ncic@epamail.epa.gov

Electronic comments must be

submitted as an ASCII file avoiding the

use of special characters and any form

of encryption. Comments and data will

also be accepted on disks in

WordPerfect 5.1/6.1 or ASCII file

format. All comments and data in

electronic form must be identified by

the docket control number OPPTS–

400131. Electronic comments on this

action may be filed online at many

Federal Depository Libraries.

List of Subjects

Environmental protection.

Dated: June 9, 1998.

Cassandra Vail,

Designated Federal Official, Office of

Pollution Prevention and Toxics.

[FR Doc. 98–15858 Filed 6–12–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–F

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[OPPTS–42205B; FRL–5798–3]

Enforceable Consent Agreement

Development for Methyl Isobutyl

Ketone (MIBK); Solicitation of

Interested Parties and Notice of Public

Meeting

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: EPA is soliciting interested

parties who want to monitor or

participate in negotiations on an

enforceable consent agreement (ECA) for

conducting a reproductive toxicity

study to meet testing requirements for

the methyl isobutyl ketone (MIBK)/ECA

negotiations in the proposed Toxic

Substances Control Act (TSCA) section

4 hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) test

rule. In addition, EPA invites all

interested parties to attend a public

meeting to initiate negotiations on the

ECA for MIBK.

DATES: EPA must receive written

notification requesting designation as an

interested party for the MIBK/ECA

negotiations on or before . Those

persons who identify themselves as

interested parties may submit written

comments to EPA on the reproductive

toxicity study proposal for this chemical

and other materials in the docket for the

proposed HAPs test rule that relate to

the ECA process for this chemical by

July 6, 1998.

The public meeting is scheduled from

1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on July 16, 1998.

ADDRESSES: Each comment must bear

the docket control number, OPPTS–

42205B. All comments should be sent in

triplicate to: OPPT Document Control

Officer (7407), Office of Pollution

Prevention and Toxics, Environmental

Protection Agency, 401 M St., SW., Rm.

G–099, East Tower, Washington, DC

20460. The Document Control Office

telephone number is (202) 260–7093.

EPA will address these comments at

the public meeting.

Comments and data may also be

submitted electronically to:

oppt.ncic@epa.gov following the

instructions under Unit VI. of this

document. No Confidential Business

Information (CBI) should be submitted

through e-mail.

All comments which contain

information claimed as CBI must be

clearly marked as such. Three sanitized

copies of any comments containing

information claimed as CBI must also be

submitted and will be placed in the

public record for this document.

Persons submitting information any

portion of which they believe is entitled

to treatment as CBI by EPA must assert

a business confidentiality claim in

accordance with 40 CFR 2.203(b) for

each such portion. This claim must be

made at the time that the information is

submitted to EPA. If a submitter does

not assert a confidentiality claim at the

time of submission, EPA will make the

information available to the public

without further notice to the submitter.

The public meeting will be held at

EPA Headquarters, 401 M St., SW.,

Washington, DC in the EPA Conference

Center, North Conference Area in Room

3.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

additional information: Susan B. Hazen,

Director, Environmental Assistance

Division (7408), Rm. ET–543B, Office of

Pollution Prevention and Toxics,

Environmental Protection Agency, 401

M St., SW., Washington, DC 20460;

telephone: (202) 554–1404, TDD: (202)

554–0551; e-mail address: TSCAHotline@epa.gov.

For technical information: Richard W.

Leukroth, Jr., Project Manager, Chemical

Control Division (7405), Office of

Pollution Prevention and Toxics,

Environmental Protection Agency, 401

M St., SW., Washington, DC 20460;

telephone: (202) 260–0321; fax: (202)

260–1096; e-mail address:

leukroth.rich@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Electronic Availability

Internet: Electronic copies of this

document and various support

documents are available from the EPA

Home Page at the Federal Register—

Environmental Documents entry for this

document under ‘‘Laws and

Regulations’’ (http://www.epa.gov/

fedrgstr/EPA-TOX/1998/).

II. Background

EPA proposed health effects testing

under TSCA section 4(a) on June 26,

1996, for a number of HAPs chemicals

(61 FR 33178) (FRL–4869–1). As

indicated in the proposed HAPs test

rule, EPA would use the data obtained

from testing to implement several

provisions of section 112 of the Clean

Air Act (CAA), including the

determination of residual risk, the

estimation of the risks associated with

accidental releases of chemicals, and

determinations whether substances

should be removed from the CAA

section 112(b)(1) list of hazardous air

pollutants (delisting). The data also

would be used by other Federal agencies

(e.g. Agency for Toxic Substances and

Disease Registry (ATSDR), National

Institute of Occupational Safety and

Health (NIOSH), Occupational Safety

and Health Administration (OSHA), and

Consumer Product Safety Commission

(CPSC)) in assessing chemical risks and

in taking appropriate actions within

their programs.

In the proposed HAPs test rule, EPA

invited the submission of proposals for

pharmacokinetics (PK) studies for the

HAPs chemicals, which could provide

the basis for negotiation of ECAs. On

December 24, 1997, in an amendment to

the proposed HAPs test rule (62 FR

67466) (FRL–5742–2), EPA provided the

opportunity for the submission of ECA

proposals for alternative testing that

could fulfill the testing needs described

in the proposed HAPs test rule, as

amended. The Agency indicated that

such ECA proposals may or may not

include PK and mechanistic data

development as a component of the

alternative testing proposal. EPA

received alternative testing proposals to

perform reproductive toxicity testing for

MIBK from the Ketones Panel of the

Chemical Manufacturers Association

(CMA Ketones Panel) on December 11,

1996 and March 30, 1998. The Agency

has completed its preliminary review of

the CMA Ketones Panel proposal and

determined that there is sufficient merit

to proceed with ECA negotiations

focussed specifically on fulfilling the

proposed HAPs test rule need for a 2-

generation reproduction study of MIBK.

This was documented in subsequent

correspondence between EPA and the

CMA Ketones Panel. A copy of the

proposal and correspondence is

contained in the public record for this

ECA process. These materials will be