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to determine compliance with such

requirements as site-specific accounting data,

authorizing signature and reconciliation of

timesheets to expense reports.

(2) Financial Reports: review financial

drawdowns, Financial Status Reports, and

internal status reports, to determine if

information is consistent between these

documents, if recipient is properly using

information, and if the reports are submitted

when required.

(3) Record Keeping Procedures: review

samples of Superfund documentation to

determine the effectiveness of the recipient

procedures to manage and reconcile this

documentation (focusing on site-specific

documentation, retention schedules, and the

ability of the recipient to provide EPA with

required financial documentation for cost

recovery purposes in the specified time

frame).

In providing this support, Booz-Allen,

& Hamilton, Inc., employees may have

access to recipient documents which

potentially include financial documents

submitted under section 104 of

CERCLA, some of which may contain

information claimed or determined to be

CBI.

Pursuant to EPA regulations at 40 CFR

part 2, subpart B, EPA has determined

that Booz-Allen, & Hamilton, Inc.,

requires access to CBI to provide the

support and services required under the

Delivery Order. These regulations

provide for five working days

notification before contractors are given

access to CBI.

Booz-Allen, & Hamilton, Inc. will be

required by contract to protect

confidential information. These

documents are maintained in recipient

office and file space.

Dated: July 7, 1998.

Thomas Voltaggio,

Acting Regional Administrator, Region III.

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Investigator-Initiated Grants: Request

for Applications

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of request for

applications.

SUMMARY: This document provides

information on the availability of fiscal

years 1998 and 1999 investigatorinitiated grants program

announcements, in which the areas of

research interest, eligibility and

submission requirements, evaluation

criteria, and implementation schedules

are set forth. Grants will be

competitively awarded following peer

review.

DATES: Receipt dates vary depending on

the specific research area within the

solicitation and are listed below.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency,

National Center for Environmental

Research and Quality Assurance

(8703R), 401 M Street, SW, Washington

DC 20460, telephone (800) 490–9194.

The complete announcement can be

accessed on the Internet from the EPA

home page: http://www.epa.gov/ncerqa

under ‘‘announcements.’’

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In its

Requests for Applications (RFA) the

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

(EPA) invites research grant

applications in the following areas of

special interest to its mission: (1)

Futures: Detecting the Early Signals; (2)

Airborne Particulate Matter Centers; (3)

Endocrine Disruptors (in cooperation

with the National Institute of

Environmental Health Sciences,

Department of the Interior, National

Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration, and the Office of

Science and Technology Policy); and (4)

Children’s Vulnerability to Toxic

Substances in the Environment.

Applications must be received as

follows: August 31, 1998, for topic (1);

October 28, 1998, for topic (2);

September 16, 1998, for topic (3); and

September 30, 1998, for topic (4).

The RFAs provide relevant

background information, summarize

EPA’s interest in the topic areas, and

describe the application and review

process.

Contact persons for the Futures RFA

are Roger Cortesi

(cortesi.roger@epamail.epa.gov),

telephone 202–564–6852, and Robert

Menzer

(menzer.robert@epamail.epa.gov),

telephone 202–564–6849. Contact

person for the Airborne Particulate

Matter Centers RFA is Deran Pashayan

(pashayan.deran@epamail.epa.gov),

telephone 202–564–6913. Contact

persons for the Endocrine Disruptors

RFA are EPA: David Reese

(reese.david@epamail.epa.gov),

telephone 202–564–6919, and Robert

Menzer; NIEHS: Gwen Collman

(collman@niehs.nih.gov), telephone

919–541–4980, and Jerry Heindel

(heindellj@niehs.nih.gov), telephone

919–541–0781; DOI: Michael Mac

(michaellmac@usgs.gov), telephone

703–648–4073; and NOAA: Teri Rowles

(teri.rowles@noaa.gov), telephone 301–

713–2322. Contact person for the

Children’s Vulnerability RFA is Chris

Saint (saint.chris@epamail.epa.gov),

telephone 202–564–6909.

Dated: June 30, 1998.

Deborah Y. Dietrich,

Acting Assistant Administrator for Research

and Development.

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Announcement of a Joint Application

Design Meeting on the Development of

Public Access Component of the

National Contaminant Occurrence

Database

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Announcement of a Joint

Application Design (JAD) meeting on

the development of public access

component of the National Contaminant

Occurrence Database (NCOD).

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency (EPA) has scheduled

a two-day public meeting on EPA’s

development of public access

component of the NCOD. The focus of

this meeting will be to capture the

design and user interface requirements

of NCOD users in the public arena. The

meeting will be open to any interested

parties. EPA encourages the full

participation of stakeholders throughout

this process. Of particular interest for

this meeting are potential NCOD users

from educational institutions, state and

local governments, the general public,

and anyone that does not have access to

the EPA Local Area Network (LAN).

Providing the information within the

NCOD to the public in a readily

accessible format is required by the

1996 amendments to the Safe Drinking

Water Act (SDWA).

DATES: The stakeholder meeting on the

Joint Application Design of the public

access component of the NCOD will be

held on August 17–18, 1998, from 9 a.m.

to 4 p.m. EST.

ADDRESSES: U.S. EPA Washington

Information Center (WIC), 400 M Street

SW, Washington, DC 20460, Conference

Room WIC 4 South.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

general information about the meeting,

please contact Ms. Valerie Love-Smith,

U.S. EPA Office of Ground Water and

Drinking Water, Mail Code 4606, 400 M

Street SW, Washington, DC 2046, (202)

260–5596.

For other information on National

Contaminant Occurrence Database,
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please contact Charles Job, at the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency,

Phone: 202–260–7084, Fax: 202–260–

3762.

Members of the public wishing to

attend the meeting may register by

phone by contacting the Safe Drinking

Water Hotline by August 10, 1998 at 1–

800–426–4791. Those registered for the

meeting will receive background

materials prior to the meeting.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

A. Background on the National

Contaminant Occurrence Database

The Safe Drinking Water Act

Amendments of 1996 (SDWA

Amendments, section 126, appendix A)

require establishing a NCOD to: (1)

Include both regulated and unregulated

contaminants; (2) identify contaminants

that may be placed on the Contaminant

Candidate List; (3) support the

Administrator’s determinations to

regulate contaminants in the future; (4)

support the review of existing

regulations every six years and of

monitoring requirements; (5) make the

data base available to the public in

readily accessible form; and (6) be

assembled by August 1999, and

maintained thereafter.

The NCOD is planned to be a

collection of data of documented quality

on unregulated and regulated chemical,

radiological, microbial, and physical

contaminants, and other such

contaminants likely to occur, in

finished, raw and source waters of

public water systems (PWS) of the

United States and its territories.

B. Request for Stakeholder Involvement

The upcoming meeting deals

specifically with EPA’s efforts to

develop the user interface tools to

provide information within the NCOD

to the general public. The EPA Office of

Ground Water and Drinking Water

(OGWDW) sees the involvement of

interested parties, representing a variety

of perspectives and expertise, as critical

to meeting the requirement established

in the 1996 SDWA amendments.

Specifically, the amendments stipulate

the information within the NCOD will

be provided to the public in a readily

accessible format. This JAD meeting will

provide an important opportunity for

such involvement. Some anticipated

issues for discussion include the

following questions:

1. Should the NCOD provide data

currently available in other EPA water

data systems (e.g., SDWIS, STORET)?

Should the NCOD provide products to

the public, in addition to the products

and queries used to satisfy the internal

primary drinking water program goals of

the NCOD (e.g., establish and maintain

Contaminant Candidate List (CCL);

determination to regulate or not regulate

future contaminants; review existing

regulations; etc.)?

2. What is a ‘‘readily accessible

format’? Is INTERNET access enough?

What type of non-electronic format is

needed?

3. What capabilities are needed by the

public: download query results, graphs,

charts, tabular results?

4. What, if any, restrictions should be

placed on the amount of data a user

could electronically download? Should

someone be able to download one

hundred megabytes of data on a 14400

modem?

5. If electronic access time is

restricted, as indicated above, how

could data be provided (file type and

media) for public use?

EPA has convened this public

meeting to hear the views of

stakeholders on the development of the

public access component of the NCOD.

The public is invited to provide

comments on the issues listed above or

other related issues during the August

17–18, 1998 meeting.

Dated: July 10, 1998.

Elizabeth Fellows,

Acting Director, Office of Ground Water and

Drinking Water.

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Interstate Lead Company Site

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of proposed de minimis

settlement and modification of consent

decree.

SUMMARY: Under section 122 of the

Comprehensive Environmental

Response, Compensation, and Liability

Act (CERCLA), the United States

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

has proposed to settle claims for

response costs at the Interstate Lead

Company (ILCO) Superfund Site located

in Leeds, Alabama with the City of

Leeds. EPA will consider public

comment on the proposed settlement for

thirty (30) days. EPA may withdraw

from or modify the proposed settlement

should such comments disclose facts or

considerations which indicate that the

proposed settlement is inappropriate,

improper, or inadequate.

DATES: Written comments may be

submitted to Mrs. Kim Dao-Vu at the

below address on or before August 17,

1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

A copy of the proposed settlement is

available from: Ms. Paula V. Batchelor,

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,

Region 4, Atlanta Federal Center, 61

Forsyth Street, SW., Atlanta, GA 30303,

404/562–8887.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In

addition, the EPA intends to request the

United States District Court for the

Northern District of Alabama to modify

the Consent Decree relating to the ILCO

Superfund Site entered in U.S. v. Alpert

Iron & Metal, et al, Case No. CV–97–

AR–0001 to add the following parties as

Defendants in such matter:

Baker Iron & Metal Company, Inc.

Crown/Battery Mfg. Co. Inc.

D.H. Griffin Wrecking Company, Inc.

Daniell Battery Manufacturing

Company, Inc.

Shredders, Inc.

Southern Foundry Supply, Inc.

Southern Scrap Company, Inc.

Taracorp, Inc.

EPA will consider public comment on

the proposed modification for thirty (30)

days. EPA may withdraw from the

proposed modification should such

comments disclose facts or

considerations which indicate that the

proposed settlement is inappropriate,

improper, or inadequate. A copy of the

Consent Decree is available from Ms.

Paula V. Batchelor at above mentioned

address. Written comments may be

submitted to Mrs. Kim Dao-Vu at the

above address within 30 days of the date

of publication of this notice.

Dated: June 29, 1998.

Franklin E. Hill,

Chief, Programs Services Branch, Waste

Management Division.

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Proposed Settlement Under Section

122(g) of the Comprehensive

Environmental Response,

Compensation, and Liability Act; Allied

Waste Systems, Inc. and Prestige

Foods Corporation

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency.

ACTION: Notice; request for public

comment.

SUMMARY: Notice of De Minimis

Settlement: In accordance with section

122(I)(1) of the Comprehensive