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to aid S/L/Ts in the implementation of

the final rule.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Thomas Driscoll, Office of Air Quality

Planning and Standards, U.S. EPA

Region 8, 999 18th Street, Denver, CO

80202–2466, telephone (303) 312–6785

or E-mail driscoll.tom@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A copy of

the technical assistance document may

be obtained by calling or E-mailing

Pamela J. Smith at 919–541–0641 or

smith.pam@epa.gov. The technical

assistance document may also be

downloaded from the Unified Air

Toxics Web Site at http://www.epa.gov/

ttn/atw/112(l)/112-lpg.html.

Dated: May 10, 2001.

John S. Seitz,

Director, Office of Air Quality Planning and

Standards.

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am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–U

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6984–6]

Voluntary Guide: Waste Transfer

Stations: A Manual for DecisionMaking

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice; release of draft

document for public comment.

SUMMARY: EPA, with assistance from the

Solid Waste Association of North

America Focus Group and the National

Environmental Justice Advisory Council

Waste Transfer Station Working Group,

has developed a draft voluntary guide

Waste Transfer Stations: A Manual for

Decision-Making (EPA 530–D–01–001).

The purpose of the Manual is to

promote the use of best practices in

transfer station siting, design, and

operation to maximize the facilities

effectiveness and efficiency, while

minimizing their impact on the

community. The Manual is designed to

assist facility owners and operators;

state, local, and tribal environmental

managers; and the public evaluate and

choose protective practices for the

siting, design, and operation of

municipal solid waste transfer stations.

Before publishing this report in final

form, EPA is inviting public comment.

The Manual is divided into four

chapters: Introduction, Planning and

Siting a Transfer Station, Transfer

Station Design and Operation, and

Facility Oversight. An appendix

provides a quick reference guide and

comparative index of all state transfer

station regulations, including the

applicable regulatory citations. The

Manual is designed to complement, not

supersede, existing state, local, and

tribal solid waste management

programs.

A companion citizen’s guide, Waste

Transfer Stations: Involved Citizens

Make the Difference (EPA530–K–01–

003), has also been published. This

guide is designed to complement the

Decision-Making Manual by providing

key information citizens need to become

involved in the waste transfer station

siting, design, and operation decisionmaking processes. It describes ways in

which community members can become

actively involved in minimizing a waste

transfer station’s impact while

enhancing its value to the community.

In recent years the nationwide trend

in solid waste disposal has been toward

the construction of larger, more remote

regional landfills. Driving this trend are

a number of financial considerations

which are heavily influenced by

regulatory and social forces. The passing

of the federal municipal solid waste

landfill criteria in 1991 (Solid Waste

Disposal Facility Criteria; Final Rule. 56

FR 50978; October 9, 1991) established

new design requirements for municipal

waste landfills that significantly add to

the construction and operation costs. As

older landfills near urban centers reach

capacity and begin closing, cities must

decide whether to construct new

complaint landfills or to seek other

disposal options. Many small

communities, facing a similar decision,

find the cost of upgrading existing

facilities or constructing new landfills to

be prohibitively high, and opt to close

existing facilities. The economies of

scale enjoyed by the large remote

facilities keeps per ton tipping fees low,

which further promotes the practice of

long distance waste transfer. For these

reasons, many cities and towns are

utilizing transfer stations as a

component of their waste management

system.

DATES: Submit comments on or before

August 27, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Commentors must send an

original and two copies of their

comments referencing docket number

F–2001–WTSN–FFFFF to: RCRA Docket

Information Center, Office of Solid

Waste (5305G), U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, Ariel Rios Building,

1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20460. Hand delivery

of comments should be made the RCRA

Information Center in Arlington,

Virginia at the address below.

Comments may also be submitted

electronically through the Internet to:

rcra-docket@epa.gov. Comments in

electronic format should also be

identified by the docket number F–

2001–WTSN–FFFFF. All electronic

comments must be submitted as an

ASCII file without the use of special

characters and any form of encryption.

Commenters should not submit

electronically any confidential business

information (CBI). An original and two

copies of CBI must be submitted under

separate cover to: RCRA CBI Document

Control Officer, Office of Solid Waste

(5305W) U.S. EPA, Ariel Rios Building,

1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20460.

Public comments and supporting

materials are available for viewing in

the RCRA Information Center (RIC),

located at Crystal Gateway I, First Floor,

1235 Jefferson Davis Highway,

Arlington, VA 22202. The RIC is open

from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through

Friday, excluding Federal holidays. To

review docket materials, it is

recommended that the public make an

appointment by calling 703–603–9230.

The public may copy a maximum of 100

pages from any docket at no charge.

Additional copies cost $0.15 per page.

The index and some supporting material

are available electronically.

The official record for this section

will be kept in paper form. Accordingly,

EPA will transfer all comments received

electronically into paper form and place

them in the official record, which will

also include all comments submitted

directly in writing.

EPA responses to comments, whether

the comments are written or electronic,

will be developed during the

finalization of the Decision-Making

Manual. EPA will not immediately reply

to commentors electronically other than

to seek clarification of electronic

comments that may be garbled during

the transmission or during conversion to

paper form, as discussed above.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

general information and copies of the

Decision-Making Manual, contact the

RCRA Hotline at 800–424–9346 or TDD

800–553–7672 (heating impaired). In

Washington, DC, metropolitan area, call

703–412–9810 or TDD 703–412–3323. A

limited number of paper copies of the

Decision-Making Manual are available

on a first-come first-serve basis. An

electronic copy of the Decision-Making

Manual in PDF file format can be

obtained from the EPA Internet site at:

www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/

transfer.

Questions of a technical or policy

nature regarding the Decision-Making

Manual may also be directed to Steve

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Levy at 703–308–7267, or e-mailed to

his e-mail address: levy.steve@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Copies of

the companion citizen’s guide, Waste

Transfer Stations: Involved Citizens

Make the Difference (EPA530–K–01–

003), is also available in hardcopy (from

the RCRA Hotline) or electronically

from the internet site mentioned above.

Thea McManus,

Acting Director, Municipal and Industrial

Solid Waste Division, Office of Solid Waste.

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6986–7]

SES Performance Review Board;

Membership

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the

membership of the EPA Performance

Review Board.

DATES: May 29, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Karen Stinson, Executive Resources and

Special Programs, 3650, Office of

Human Resources and Organizational

Services, Office of Administration and

Resources Management, Environmental

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460

(202) 260–1373.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section

4314 (c)(1) through (5) of Title 5, U.S.C.,

requires each agency to establish in

accordance with regulations prescribed

by the Office of Personnel Management,

one or more SES performance review

boards. This board shall review and

evaluate the initial appraisal of a senior

executive’s performance by the

supervisor, along with any

recommendations to the appointment

authority relative to the performance of

the senior executive.

Members of the EPA Performance

Review Board are:

Russell L. Wright (Chair), Director,

Science and Ecosystem Support

Division, Region 4

Jeanette L. Brown, Director, Office of

Small and Disadvantaged Business

Utilization, Office of the

Administrator

Lynda F. Carroll, Assistant Regional

Administrator, Region 6

Judy S. Davis, Acting Director, Office of

Acquisition Management, Office of

Administration and Resources

Management

Emmett D. Dashielle, Deputy Assistant

IG for Investigations, Office of the

Inspector General

Joseph L. Dillon, Acting Comptroller,

Office of the Comptroller

Joan Fidler, Director, Office of

Management Operations, Office of

International Activities

Lisa K. Friedman, Associate General

Counsel (Solid Waste & Emergency

Response), Office of General Counsel

Ann E. Goode (Ex-Officio), Director,

Office of Civil Rights, Office of the

Administrator

Geoffrey H. Grubbs, Director, Office of

Science and Technology, Office of

Water

Walter W. Kovalick, Jr., Director,

Technology Innovation Office, Office

of Solid Waste and Emergency

Response

Henry L. Longest II, Acting Assistant

Administrator, Office of Research and

Development

Brian J. McLean, Director, Clean Air

Markets Division, Office of Air and

Radiation

Linda M. Murphy, Director, Office of

Ecosystem Protection, Region 1

Eric V. Schaeffer, Director, Office of

Regulatory Enforcement, Office of

Enforcement and Compliance

Assurance

Keith A. Takata, Director, Superfund

Division, Region 9

Linda A. Travers, Deputy Director,

Office of Technology Operations and

Planning, Office of Environmental

Information

Marylouise M. Uhlig, Director, Office of

Program Management Operations,

Office of Prevention, Pesticides and

Toxic Substances

Vanessa T. Vu, Associate Director for

Health (NCEA), Office of Research

and Development

Daiva Balkus (Executive Secretary)

Director, Office of Human Resources

and Organizational Services, Office of

Administration and Resources

Management

Members of the Inspector General

Subcommittee to the EPA Performance

Review Board are:

James E. Henderson, Assistant Inspector

General for Investigations, General

Services Administration

Richard L. Skinner, Deputy Inspector

General, Federal Emergency

Management Agency

Joseph Willever, Deputy Inspector

General, Office of Personnel

Management

Dated: May 18, 2001.

David J. O’Connor,

Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of

Administration and Resources Management.

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–U

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6984–4]

San Fernando Valley—Glendale

Operable Units Superfund Site

Proposed Notice of Administrative

Settlement

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice; request for public

comment.

SUMMARY: In accordance with the

Comprehensive Environmental

Response, Compensation and Liability

Act of 1980, as amended by the

Superfund Amendments and

Reauthorization Act of 1986

(‘‘CERCLA’’), 42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.,

notice is hereby given that a proposed

Prospective Purchaser Agreement

associated with the San Fernando

Valley Crystal Springs (Area 2)

Superfund Site—Glendale Operable

Units was executed by the United States

Environmental Protection Agency

(‘‘EPA’’) on February 12, 2001. The

proposed Prospective Purchaser

Agreement would resolve certain

potential claims of the United States

under sections 106 and 107 of CERCLA,

42 U.S.C. 9606, 9607, against Home

Depot U.S.A., Inc. (the ‘‘Purchaser’’).

The Purchaser plans to acquire two

contiguous parcels located within the

Glendale Operable Units, 1200 South

Flower Street, Burbank, California and

801 Allen Avenue, Glendale, California

for the construction of a Home Depot

U.S.A. retail operation. The proposed

settlement would require the Purchaser

to pay EPA a one-time payment of

$200,000.

For thirty (30) calendar days

following the date of publication of this

notice, EPA will receive written

comments relating to the proposed

settlement. EPA’s response to any

comments received will be available for

public inspection at the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency, 75

Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA

94105.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on

or before June 28, 2001.

Availability: The proposed

Prospective Purchaser Agreement and

additional background documentation

relating to the settlement are available

for public inspection at the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency, 75

Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA

94105. A copy of the proposed

settlement may be obtained from Marie

M. Rongone, Senior Counsel (ORC–3),

Office of Regional Counsel, U.S. EPA