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[FR Doc No: 94-31463]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 745

[OPPTS-62134D; FRL-4927-2]
RIN 2070-AC21

 

Lead Fishing Sinkers; Response to Citizens' Request; Reopening of 
Public Hearing Reply Comment Period

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Reopening of public hearing reply comment period.

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SUMMARY: EPA is reopening the public hearing reply comment period for a 
proposed rule to prohibit the manufacture, processing, and distribution 
in commerce of certain lead- and zinc-containing fishing sinkers which 
was published in the Federal Register of March 9, 1994.

DATES: Public hearing reply comments must be received on or before 
January 6, 1995.

ADDRESSES: All comments should be sent in triplicate to: TSCA Docket 
Receipt (7407), Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, 
Environmental Protection Agency, Rm. E-G99, 401 M St., SW., Washington, 
DC 20460, Attention: Docket No. OPPTS-62134D1.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James B. Willis, Acting Director, 
Environmental Assistance Division (7408), Office of Pollution 
Prevention and Toxics, Environmental Protection Agency, Rm. E-543B, 401 
M St., SW., Washington, DC 20460, Telephone: (202) 260-1024, TDD: (202) 
554-0551.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the Federal Register of March 9, 1994 (59 
FR 11122), EPA issued a proposed rule under section 6(a) of the Toxic 
Substances Control Act (TSCA) to prohibit the manufacture, processing, 
and distribution in commerce of certain lead- and zinc-containing 
fishing sinkers. In that proposal, the Agency stated that it would hold 
an informal hearing if persons requested time for oral comment. EPA 
received requests for a hearing. A notice published in the Federal 
Register of September 19, 1994 (59 FR 47832), announced a hearing for 
November 30, and December 1, 1994. The hearing was subsequently held, 
and as part of the hearing process, reply comments could be submitted 
through December 15, 1994.
    EPA received requests seeking to extend the reply comment period 
deadline of December 15, 1994, for a period of time after the 
availability of the hearing transcript. EPA expects to receive the 
public hearing transcript no later than December 23, 1994. Therefore, 
in order to give all interested persons the opportunity to review the 
hearing transcript before submitting reply comments, EPA has decided to 
reopen the reply comment period. Written reply comments must now be 
received on or before January 6, 1995, and shall be restricted to 
comments on: (1) Other comments; (2) material in the hearing record; 
and (3) material which was not and could not reasonably have been 
available to the commenting party a sufficient time before main 
comments were due.
    A person may assert a claim of business confidentiality for any 
comments submitted to EPA in connection with the proposed rule. Any 
person who submits a comment that contains information claimed as 
confidential, must also submit a nonconfidential version. Any claim of 
confidentiality must accompany the information when it is submitted to 
EPA. Persons may claim information as confidential by circling, 
bracketing, or underlining it, and marking it with ``CONFIDENTIAL'' or 
some other appropriate designation. EPA will disclose information 
subject to a claim of business confidentiality only to the extent 
permitted by section 14 of TSCA and 40 CFR part 2, subpart B. If a 
person does not assert a claim of confidentiality for information in 
comments at the time it is submitted to EPA, the Agency will put the 
comments in the public docket without further notice to that person.

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 745

    Environmental protection, Lead, Reporting and recordkeeping 
requirements.

    Dated: December 16, 1994.
Joseph A. Carra,
Acting Director, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics.
[FR Doc. 94-31463 Filed 12-21-94; 8:45 am]
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