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Reuse, Implementation, City of

Novato, Marin County, CA, Due: May

22, 1995, Contact: Robert Koenigs

(916) 557–6712.

EIS No. 950117, DRAFT EIS, AFS, CA,

Snowy Trail Off-Highway Vehicle ReRoute, Smith Fork Parcel of Los

Padres National Forest, Approval and

Implementation, Mount Pinos Ranger

District, Ventura County, CA, Due:

May 22, 1995, Contact: Mark Bethke

(805) 245–3731.

EIS No. 950118, DRAFT EIS, IBR, WA,

ND, OR, ID, NV, MT, SD, WY, NB,

UT, CO, CA, NM, OK, KS, AZ, TX,

Acreage Limitation and Water

Conservation Rules and Regulations,

Revised and/or New Rules for

Replacement and Expansion of

Existing Rules pertaining to the

Administration of the Reclamation

Reform Act of 1982, Implementation

in Seventeen Western States, Due:

May 31, 1995, Contact: Ronald J.

Schuster (303) 236–9336.

EIS No. 950119, LEGISLATIVE DRAFT

EIS, AFS, ID, White Sand Creek and

a Two-Mile Segment of the Upper

Lochsa River Wild and Scenic River

Suitability Study for Designation or

Nondesignation in the Wild and

Scenic Rivers System, Clearwater

National Forest, Idaho County, ID,

Due: June 6, 1995, Contact: Dennis

Elliott (208) 942–3113.

EIS No. 950120, FINAL EIS, FHW, NY,

I–26 Mohawk River Crossing

connecting NYS Thruway Interchange

26, I–890, NYS–5S and NYS–5

Construction, Funding, US Coast

Guard Permits and COE Section 404

Permit, Towns of Rotterdam and

Glenville, Schenectady County, NY,

Due: May 8, 1995, Contact: Harold J.

Brown (518) 472–3616.

EIS No. 950121, FINAL EIS, BOP, MA,

Fort Devens, Massachusetts Federal

Medical Center Complex (FMCC) and

Federal Prison Camp, Construction

and Operation, Worcester and

Middlesex Counties, MA, Due: May

10, 1995, Contact: Patricia K. Sledge

(202) 514–6470.

EIS No. 950122, DRAFT EIS, FTA, IL,

St. Clair County Corridor Transit

Improvements, Funding, St. Clair

County, IL, Due: May 22, 1995, Contact:

Lee Waddleton (816) 523–0204.

Amended Notices

EIS No. 940530, DRAFT EIS, BLM, WY,

Grass Creek Resource Management

Plan, Implementation, Big Horn,

Washakie, Hot Springs and Park

Counties, WY, Due: May 7, 1995,

Contact: Joe Patty (307) 775–6101.

Published FR 2–3–95 Review period

extended.

Dated: April 4, 1995.

William D. Dickerson,

Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office

of Federal Activities.

[FR Doc. 95–8610 Filed 4–6–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–U

[FRL–5186–2]

Annual Conference on Analysis of

Pollutants in the Environment and

Trace Metals Workshop

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of conference and

training workshop.

SUMMARY: The Office of Science and

Technology and the Water Environment

Federation, co-sponsors, will hold the

‘‘18th Annual Conference on Analysis of

Pollutants in the Environment’’ to

discuss all aspects of environmental

measurement. The conference is open to

the public. A Workshop on Trace Metals

sampling and analysis will precede the

conference. This workshop is designed

for state and regional authorities.

DATES: The conference will be held on

May 3–4, 1995. On May 3, 1995, the

conference will begin at 8:45 am and

last until 5:15 pm; on May 4, 1995, the

conference will begin at 8:45 am and

adjourn at 4:30 pm. The Workshop on

Trace Metals will be held on May 2,

1995, from 12:30 pm to 5:30 pm.

ADDRESSES: The conference will be held

at the Norfolk Waterside Marriott,

Norfolk, Virginia. The Trace Metals

Workshop will be held at the Omni

International Hotel, 777 Waterside

Drive, Norfolk, Virginia 23510.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Conference arrangements are being

coordinated by the Water Environment

Federation. For information on

registration, hotel rates, transportation,

social events and reservations call the

Water Environment Federation

Conference Service Line at (800) 666–

0206. If you have technical questions

regarding the conference program please

contact William Telliard, Office of

Science and Technology (Mail Code

4303), telephone (202) 260–7120, fax

(202) 260–7185.

For Information on the Trace Metals

Workshop registration requirements or

technical program, call Cindy Simbanin,

DynCorp Environmental, at (703) 519–

1386.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA’s

18th Annual Conference on Analysis of

Pollutants in the Environment is

designed to bring together

representatives of regulated industries,

commercial environmental laboratories,

state and Federal regulators, and

environmental consultants and

contractors to discuss all aspects of

environmental measurement with a

particular focus on analytical methods

and related regulatory issues.

A Workshop on Trace Metals

Sampling and Analysis for state and

regional authorities will precede the full

conference and focus on cutting edge

issues in the determination of trace

metals in ambient waters. The session

on trace metals determinations will

cover EPA’s recent work on sampling

and analysis of metals at water quality

criteria levels, discussions of clean and

ultra-clean techniques, a case study on

a project to determine trace metals and

to establish chemical translator ratios

for the City of Danville, Virginia, and

presentation of methods under

development for the determination of

arsenic, selenium, and mercury at EPA

and state ambient water quality criteria

levels. The program for the conference

follows:

18th Annual EPA Conference on Analysis of

Pollutants in the Environment

Wednesday, May 3, 1995

8:45 am Opening Remarks

William Telliard, Director, Analytical

Methods Staff, Office of Science and

Technology, Office of Water, USEPA

9:00 am Introductory Remarks

Mike Pollen, Water Environment

Federation

9:15 am Welcome

James Hanlon, Deputy Office Director,

Office of Science and Technology,

USEPA

Trace Metals

9:30 am Implementing EPA’s Metals

Criteria

Elizabeth Southerland, Director, Standards

and Applied Sciences Division, Office of

Water, USEPA

10:00 am Establishing Trace Metal Clean

Facilities in Existing Laboratories

Russell Flegal, University of California at

Santa Cruz

10:30–10:45 am Break

10:45 am Determination of Arsenic at UltraTrace Levels Using Vapor GenerationAtomic Fluorescence Spectrometry

Reshan Fernando, Research Triangle

Institute

11:15 am Temporal Variability in Dissolved

Trace Metals in the Houston Ship

Channel, Texas

Paul Boothe, Texas A&M University

11:45–1:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm Trace Mercury Analysis of

Biological Fluids

Conrad Naleway and Hwai-Nan Chou,

American Dental Association

1:30 pm Analytical Methods for Arsenic in

Water with an MDL of 2 ng/L

Eric Crecelius, Chuck Apts, and Steve

Kiesser, Battelle Marine Sciences

Laboratory
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Wednesday, May 3, 1995

Cyanide Methods

2:00 pm Present and Future of ‘‘Free

Cyanide’’ Determinations

Emil Milosavljevic, University of Nevada,

Reno

2:30 pm Effects of Metals, Ligands, and

Oxidants on Cyanide Analysis; Gold

Mining Waste Case Study

Margaret Goldberg, Research Triangle

Institute

3:00–3:15 pm Break

3:15 pm Approaches to the Determination of

Total and Available Cyanide in Solid

Samples

Ed Heithmar, Environmental Monitoring

Systems Laboratory, Las Vegas

3:45 pm The Determination of Cyanide in a

Chemical Plant’s Waste Water Using Ion

Chromatography

Susan Gantz Matz, Quantum USI Division

Analysis Protocols—I

4:15 pm EPA’s Sediment Toxicity Testing

Methods

Teresa Norberg-King, USEPA

Environmental Research Laboratory,

Duluth and Elizabeth Southerland,

Director, Standards and Applied

Sciences Division, Office of Water,

USEPA

4:45 pm Microscale Solvent Extraction

Methods for Organic Compound

Analyses

David Mauro, META Environmental, Inc.

5:15 pm Adjourn

Thursday, May 4, 1995

Quality Control

8:45 am Statistical Properties of Low

Concentration Measurements and

Wastewater Effluent Limitations

Chuck White and Henry Kahn, U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency

9:15 am Compliance Monitoring Detection

and Quantitation Levels for EPA Method

1653

Larry LaFleur, NCASI

9:45 am Seeing the Light From a Blind PE

Sample: Rocky Mountain Arsenal’s

Analytical Laboratory Performance

Evaluation System

Angela Barnard-Hatmaker, Martin Marietta

Energy Systems, Inc.

10:15–10:30 am Break

10:30 am Selecting Kinds and Numbers of

QC Samples for More Defensible

Environmental Analyses

Larry Keith, Radian Corporation

11:00 am Approaches to Quality Control of

Non-Linear Calibration Relationships for

SW–846 Methods

Harry McCarty, SAIC

Sampling Protocols

11:30 am VOA Compositing Study

Dale Rushneck, Interface

12:00–1:15 pm Lunch

1:15 pm The Evaluation and Application of

a Large Volume In-Situ Resin Sampler

for Monitoring Trace Organic

Compounds in Ambient Water

Hans Biberhofer, Environment Canada

1:45 pm Practical Application of Clean

Metals Sampling Protocols to NPDES

Monitoring

Will Hunley, Hampton-Roads Sanitation

District

2:15 pm Residential Environmental

Sampling Protocols for Human Exposure

Assessment of Lawn Pesticides

Marielle Brinkman, Battelle Columbus

Thursday, May 4, 1995

2:45–3:00 pm Break

Analysis Protocols—II

3:00 pm Solid-Phase Microextraction for

the Analysis of Industrial Wastewaters

Bruce Colby, Pacific Analytical, Inc.

3:30 pm Field Analysis: An Effective

Approach to Site Assessment and

Remediation

Ileana Rhodes, Shell Development

Company

4:00 pm Determination of NNitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) at Partper-Trillion Levels in Drinking Waters

and Contaminated Groundwaters

Bruce Tomkins, Wayne H. Griest, and Cecil

E. Higgins, Oak Ridge National

Laboratory

4:30 pm Adjourn

Trace Metals Training Workshop Agenda

Tuesday, May 2, 1995.

12:00 noon

Introductory Remarks: William A. Telliard,

USEPA

Mr. Telliard will provide an overview of

the WQC levels for trace metals

determinations and the topics to be discussed

in the workshop to aid attendees in resolving

the problems associated with the sampling

and analysis of trace metals, including the

difficulty in precluding contamination.

Requirements for Determination of Trace

Metals: James A. Hanlon, USEPA

Mr. Hanlon will give a background on the

need for the determination of trace metals at

WQC levels as required by the Clean Water

Act and will discuss the detection and

quantitation limits necessary to ensure

reliable determination of trace metals at these

levels.

Overview of the Sampling and Analysis

Process for Trace Metals Determinations:

Carlton Hunt, Battelle Ocean Sciences

Dr. Hunt will explain how to organize and

manage a project for sampling, analysis, data

validation, and quality control to ensure that

reliable trace metals determinations are

made.

Field Sampling for Trace Metals: William A.

Telliard, USEPA

Mr. Telliard will discuss ‘‘clean-hands/

dirty-hands’’ sampling techniques, the use of

protective gloves and clothing to prevent

contamination, and the processing of

equipment blanks to ensure reliable

sampling. Videos of sampling will be used to

supplement this presentation.

Laboratory Determinations of Trace Metals:

Russell Flegal, University of California at

Santa Cruz

Dr. Flegal will describe the set-up and

operation of a trace metals laboratory,

including the clean room, clean benches, and

the equipment and analytical techniques

required for determination of each metal.

Quality Assurance, Quality Control, and Data

Reliability: Dale Rushneck, Interface, Inc.

Mr. Rushneck will discuss the interrelationship between quality control testing

and the production of reliable data of

defensible quality.

Verification and Validation of Trace Metals

Data: Lynn Riddick, DynCorp Environmental

Ms. Riddick will provide examples of data

review checklists that can be used to

determine the reliability of trace metals

results. These checklists outline the summary

level quality control data required by the

analytical methods.

Case Study for Compliance and

Determination of Translators: John N.

Leonard, Hazen and Sawyer

Dr. Leonard will present the requirements,

criteria, background, sampling, analysis, and

outcome of a project to determine trace

metals and establish chemical translator

ratios for the city of Danville, Virginia.

5:30 pm Adjourn

Dated: March 30, 1995.

James A. Hanlon,

Acting Director, Office of Science and

Technology.

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

[FRL–5185–4]

Revocation of Sulfide Waiver Granted

on April 17, 1986, to W.B. Place

Tannery Discharging to City of

Hartford Subject to Pretreatment

Standards Under 40 CFR Part 425

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The City of Hartford

(hereinafter referred to as ‘‘Hartford’’),

Wisconsin, operates a publicly owned

treatment works (POTW) which accepts

wastewater from a leather tanning and

finishing facility which is subject to

pretreatment standards at 40 CFR part

425. Pursuant to 40 CFR 425.04(c)

Hartford certified to the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.

EPA) on April 11, 1984, that discharge

of sulfide from the tannery would not

interfere with the operation of the

POTW. On April 17, 1986, U.S. EPA

placed notice at 51 FR 13092–13093

stating that, pursuant to 40 CFR part

425, the following tannery would not be

subject to the categorical sulfide

pretreatment standard: W.B. Place

Tannery, 368 West Summer Street,

Hartford, Wisconsin.

On August 31, 1994, Hartford

requested that U.S. EPA rescind the

categorical sulfide pretreatment waiver