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trihalomethanes, total haloacetic acids,

viruses, Giardia, and Cryptosporidium.

In the health studies, approximately

1000 households will be randomly

selected from each community.

Eligibility for households to participate

will include residence of one or more

children between the ages of two and

ten years as children are the most

sensitive population for illnesses of

interest. We expect that each household

has, on the average 2.2 members for a

total of approximately 2200 individuals

participating in each study.

Demographic information and a short

health history will be requested from

household members at the beginning of

each study. A representative from each

household will be asked to fill out a

monthly health questionnaire for each

family member for a total of eighteen

months. The monthly health

information requested includes a

checklist for upper respiratory illness,

gastrointestinal illness, fever, and

severity of illness. Care will be taken to

maintain participant confidentiality;

this work is mandated by the Safe

Drinking Water Act of 1996.

The information will be used to

estimate the burden of waterborne

disease in communities within the

United States (US). Health data obtained

from the household checklists will be

compared with the corresponding

monitoring data at the water utility to

determine whether any increase in

symptoms is associated with higher

levels of contaminants. Overall illness

rates will be measured. Specific

relationships between microorganisms

and disease may be developed by

linking microorganisms found in the

water with those found in symptomatic

people.

The information is being collected as

part of a research program to support

the Office of Water in estimating the

burden of waterborne disease in the US

as mandated under the Safe Drinking

Water Act Amendments of 1996, section

1458. This study will also provide

information on the level of disease

associated with microorganisms found

in the drinking water. The information

could potentially be used by other

laboratories in the Office of Research

and Development such as the National

Risk Management Laboratory

(Cincinnati) and the National Exposure

Research Laboratory (Cincinnati). The

information may also be used in

comparison analyses by scientists in

government or academia who are

conducting similar types of studies.

There is no maintenance of records

required under this ICR. An agency may

not conduct or sponsor, and a person is

not required to respond to, a collection

of information unless it displays a

currently valid OMB control number.

The OMB control numbers for EPA’s

regulations are listed in 40 CFR part 9

and 48 CFR Chapter 15. The Federal

Register document required under 5

CFR 1320.8(d), soliciting comments on

this collection of information was

published on 2/5/98 (63 FR 5947–5949);

two comments were received.

Burden Statement: The annual public

reporting and recordkeeping burden for

this collection of information is

estimated to average 5.77 hours per

response. Burden means the total time,

effort, or financial resources expended

by persons to generate, maintain, retain,

or disclose or provide information to or

for a Federal agency. This includes the

time needed to review instructions;

develop, acquire, install, and utilize

technology and systems for the purposes

of collecting, validating, and verifying

information, processing and

maintaining information, and disclosing

and providing information; adjust the

existing ways to comply with any

previously applicable instructions and

requirements; train personnel to be able

to respond to a collection of

information; search data sources;

complete and review the collection of

information; and transmit or otherwise

disclose the information.

Respondents/Affected Entities:

Utilities serving more than 15,000

population or individuals living within

a community served by the utility.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

1400.

Frequency of Response: Varies.

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

8,080 hours.

Estimated Total Annualized Cost

Burden: $0.

Send comments on the Agency’s need

for this information, the accuracy of the

provided burden estimates, and any

suggested methods for minimizing

respondent burden, including through

the use of automated collection

techniques to the following addresses.

Please refer to EPA ICR No.1727.02 and

OMB Control No. 2080–0050 in any

correspondence.

Ms. Sandy Farmer, U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, OPPE Regulatory

Information Division (2137), 401 M

Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460;

and

Office of Information and Regulatory

Affairs, Office of Management and

Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for

EPA, 725 17th Street, NW,

Washington, DC 20503;

Dated: July 17, 1998.

Richard T. Westlund,

Acting Director, Regulatory Information

Division.

[FR Doc. 98–19655 Filed 7–22–98; 8:45 am]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6128–2]

Technical Workshop on ExposureDuration and Toxicity Relationships

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: EPA is announcing a meeting

organized and convened by Eastern

Research Group, Inc., a contractor to

EPA’s Risk Assessment Forum, for

external scientific peer consultation on

the relationship of exposure-duration

and toxicity. The meeting is being held

to discuss methods under development

or currently in use by EPA to

characterize exposure-duration

relationships and to explore how to

model these relationships with respect

to risk assessment.

DATES: The meeting will begin on

Wednesday, August 5, 1998 at 8:30 a.m.

and end on Thursday, August 6, 1998 at

5:00 p.m. Members of the public may

attend as observers.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at

the Sheraton Crystal City, 1800 Jefferson

Davis Highway, Arlington, Virginia

22202. Since seating capacity is limited,

please contact Eastern Research Group,

Inc., Tel.: (781) 674–7374, or E-mail

confmail@erg.com, by July 27, 1998 to

attend the meeting as an observer.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

technical inquires, contact Dr. Gary

Kimmel, U.S. EPA, Office of Research

and Development (8623–D) U.S. EPA,

401 M Street S.W., Washington DC.,

20460. Tel.: (202) 564–3308.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Current

risk assessment procedures are typically

based on overall daily exposure levels,

and tend to emphasize effects resulting

from continuous exposures over a

lifetime. This basis is widely recognized

to be an oversimplification, and there

has been an increasing realization that

exposures are more likely to be

experienced as bursts or spikes, or

intermittent exposures of varying levels.

The complexities of exposure effects on

toxic responses require consideration of

the entire exposure profile, including

the timing, duration, and intermittent

nature of exposures reflecting realistic

scenarios encountered in practical
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settings. The proper metric for exposure

may be highly dependent on the

pharmacokinetic properties of the

chemical or exposure in question, and

the toxic effects considered in models

must be carefully chosen to reflect the

sensitive endpoints based on the

exposure characteristics. Models have

been developed over the last decade

which begin to address the effect of

duration of exposure in addition to

exposure levels; however, most of these

models do not incorporate mechanistic

information. In addition, only limited

work has been done on developing

efficient designs for studying dose-rate

effects, and these designs tend to be

simplistic.

The Agency’s Risk Assessment Forum

is beginning to examine how exposureduration and toxicity relationships are

or can be incorporated into the risk

assessment process for less-than-lifetime

exposures. This examination is an

extension of efforts within EPA as well

as collaborative work carried out with

researchers from the Harvard School of

Public Health. The next step in this

examination of exposure-duration and

toxicity relationships will build upon

these prior efforts through a peer

consultation workshop.

The workshop is being held for

invited participants to discuss the

current understanding of dose-duration

relationships and their underlying

mechanistic basis, which approaches

can be used in modeling these

relationships, and how to include these

methods in risk assessment, and future

directions in this area. During the

meeting, several presentations will be

made to provide specific examples of

the various issues. The remainder of the

meeting will be organized around

breakout sessions that will discuss

where current risk assessment

approaches may be improved.

Dated: July 17, 1998.

William H. Farland,

Director, National Center for Environmental

Assessment.

[FR Doc. 98–19654 Filed 7–22–98; 8:45 am]

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS

COMMISSION

[CC Docket 95–116; DA 98–1265]

Telephone Number Portability

AGENCY: Federal Communications

Commission.

ACTION: Notice; approval of provisioning

method and extension of deadlines.

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that In

the Matter of Telephone Number

Portability, Common Carrier Docket No.

95–116, DA 98–1265, released June 26,

1998, Cincinnati Bell Telephone’s

(CBT’s) provision of Local Number

Portability (LNP) in the Cincinnati

Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) by

choosing only the Midwest Number

Portability Administration Center is

approved. This action is needed so CBT

can efficiently implement LNP in the

Cincinnati MSA. The intended effect of

this action is to reduce LNP

implementation costs and complexity

for CBT and other carriers in the

Cincinnati MSA. Notice is also given

that several carriers’ requests for delays

in the implementation of Phase III and

Phase IV LNP are granted. In addition,

the Commission grants AT&T Corp.’s

and Time Warner Communications

Holdings, Inc.’s related petitions to

waive the requirements that carriers file

petitions to extend the time to file an

LNP implementation extension request

60 days prior to the deadline for which

an extension is sought. These actions

are needed because carriers seek more

time to implement LNP due to

circumstances beyond their control. The

intended effect of these grants is to

allow carriers more time to implement

LNP without threatening network

reliability.

A copy of the order is available for

public inspection at the Commission’s

Common Carrier Bureau, Network

Services Division, Room 235, 2000 M

Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., Monday

through Thursday, 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM

(closed 12:30 to 1:30 PM) and the FCC

Reference Center, Room 239, 1919 M

Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., daily,

from 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jared Carlson, (202) 418–2350,

jcarlson@fcc.gov, or Patrick Forster,

(202) 418–7061, pforster@fcc.gov at the

Network Services Division, Common

Carrier Bureau.

Federal Communications Commission.

Anna M. Gomez,

Deputy Chief, Network Services Division

Common Carrier Bureau.

[FR Doc. 98–19639 Filed 7–22–98; 8:45 am]

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FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION

Sunshine Act Meetings

FEDERAL REGISTER NUMBER: 18998.

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED DATE & TIME:

Tuesday, July 21, 1998—10:00 a.m.,

Meeting Closed to the Public.

This Meeting Has Been Cancelled.

DATE & TIME: Tuesday, July 28, 1998 at

10:00 a.m.

PLACE: 999 E Street, N.E., Washington,

D.C.

STATUS: This meeting will be closed to

the public.

ITEMS TO BE DISCUSSED:

Compliance matters pursuant to 2

U.S.C. § 437g.

Audits conducted pursuant to 2

U.S.C. § 437g, § 438(b), and Title 26,

U.S.C.

Matters concerning participation in

civil actions or proceedings or

arbitration.

Internal personnel rules and

procedures or matters affecting a

particular employee.

DATE & TIME: Thursday, July 30, 1998 at

10:00 a.m.

PLACE: 999 E Street, N.W. Washington,

D.C. (Ninth Floor).

STATUS: This meeting will be open to the

public.

ITEMS TO BE DISCUSSED:

Correction and Approval of Minutes.

Advisory Opinion 1998–14: Eugene F.

Douglass, and Eugene F. Douglass for

U.S. Senate.

Advisory Opinion 1998–15: Fitzgerald

for Senate, Inc., by Richard A.

Roggeveen, Treasurer.

Administrative Matters.

PERSON TO CONTACT FOR INFORMATION:

Mr. Ron Harris, Press Officer Telephone:

(202) 694–1220.

Marjorie W. Emmons,

Secretary of the Commission.

[FR Doc. 98–19793 Filed 7–21–98; 11:13 am]

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FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION

[Docket No. 98–13]

Tak Consulting Engineers v. Sam

Bustani aka Samuel Bustani et al.;

Notice of Filing of Complaint and

Assignment

Notice is given that a compliant filed

by TAK Consulting Engineers

(‘‘Complaint’’) against Sam Bustani aka

Samuel Bustani aka Saeid Bustain aka

Sam Bustani Maralan aka Saeid

Maralan, aka Sam Abadi, Atlas World

Line, Inc., Altas World Line

International Shipping Co., A Atlas

World Line International Shipping, Col.,

World Line Shipping, Inc., World Line

International Shipping Co., United

Cargo, United Cargo Global

Transportation, United Cargo

International Shipping Co., and United

Traiding (‘‘Respondents’’) was served

July 17, 1998. Complainant alleges that