[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 61 (Monday, March 31, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15177-15178]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-8092]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-5804-6]


Annual Conference on Analysis of Pollutants in the Environment

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of conference.

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SUMMARY: The Office of Science and Technology and the Water Environment 
Federation will co-sponsor the ``20th Annual Conference on Analysis of 
Pollutants in the Environment'' to discuss all aspects of environmental 
measurement. The conference is open to the public.

DATES: The conference will be held on May 7-8, 1997. On May 7, 1997, 
the conference will begin at 8:30 am and last until 5:30 pm. On May 8, 
1997, the conference will begin at 9 am and adjourn at 5 pm.

ADDRESSES: The conference will be held at the Omni Waterside Hotel, 77 
Waterside Drive, Norfolk, Virginia 23510.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions regarding the conference 
program, contact Marion Thompson by phone at (202) 260-7117 or 
facsimile at (202) 260-7185. For information on registration, hotel, 
and transportation, contact the Water Environment Federation at (800) 
666-0206.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA's 20th 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 
issues.
    Hotel reservations must be made on or before Friday, April 4, 1997. 
Hotel reservations can be made by contacting the Omni Waterside Hotel 
at (804) 622-6664. Ask for Reservations, and identify the group as the 
Environmental Protection Agency. Reservation requests received after 
this date will be accepted on a space available and a rate-available 
basis.
    The draft program for the conference follows:

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Wednesday, May 7

8:30 am  William Telliard, USEPA, Welcome
8:45 am  TBD, Keynote Address

Program Policy

9:15 am  James Hanlon, USEPA, Harmonization of Methods Across EPA's 
Water Programs
9:45 am  William Telliard, USEPA, Updates on Proposal and/or 
Promulgation of Streamlining and on Methods for Oil and Grease, Trace 
Metals, Dioxins/Furans, Cyanides, and Other Substances of Regulatory 
Concern
10:15 am  Break

Cryptosporidium

10:30 am  Frank Schaefer, USEPA, Methods for Determination of Parasites 
at Levels Necessary to Protect Public Health
11:00 am  Ephraim King, USEPA, Implementation of the Information 
Collection Rule (ICR)
11:30 am  Lunch
1:00 pm  Jennifer Clancy, CEC, Performance Characteristics of an 
Improved Method for Determination of Cryptosporidium in Water Using 
Vortex-flow and Capsule Filtration Combined with Immuno-magnetic 
Separation
1:30 pm  Ricardo DeLeon, Metropolitan Water District of Southern 
California, Novel Techniques for Detection of Cryptosporidium

Drinking Water

2:00 pm  Mark Keating, North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, 
Public Participation in Drinking Water Protection: Results from an EPA 
Environmental Justice Initiative in Northampton and Bertie Counties, 
North Carolina
2:30 pm  Dick Reding, USEPA, Recent Technological Advances in Drinking 
Water Methods
3:00 pm  Break
3:15 pm  TBD

Organics

3:45 pm  M. Coreen Hamilton, Brian Fowler, and Dale Hoover, Axys 
Corporation, Implementation of Method 1668 for Determination of Toxic 
PCBs in Fish Tissue
4:15 pm  Al Uhler and G.S. Durrell, Battelle Ocean Sciences, and Mary 
Sue Brancato, Parametrix, Inc., Determination of Butyltin Compounds in 
Seawater at the 1 Part-per-trillion Level
4:45 pm  Tamra Schumacher, Lancaster Laboratories, Fast Pre-screening 
of Environmental Samples Using Solid-phase Micro-extraction (SPME)

Thursday, May 8

Trace Metals and Metals Speciation

9:00 am  John Donat, Old Dominion University, Determination of Free 
Copper Cu2+ and Copper-organic Complexes in Marine and Other Natural 
Waters
9:30 am  Nicholas Bloom, Frontier Geosciences, Speciation and Analysis 
of Mercury in Natural Waters
10:00 am  Break
10:15 am  Gregory Cutter, Old Dominion University, Bioavailability and 
Toxicity of Selenium: The Need for Chemical Speciation Data
10:45 am  Ken Robillard, Eastman Kodak, Determination of Silver Species 
at Sub-part-per-billion Levels in Natural Waters and Effluents

Conventionals

11:15 am  Mike Straka, A Comparison of Streamlined Proposal of WAD 
Cyanide Method 1677 (1996-1997) and Nationwide Approval of TKN ATPs 
(1989-1995)
11:45 am  Lunch

Endocrine Disruptors

1:30 pm  TBD, Tufts University School of Medicine, Methods for 
Determination of Endocrine Disruptors

Detection and Quantitation

2:00 pm  Robert A. Gibbons, University of Illinois at Chicago: Raymond 
F. Maddalone, TRW, Inc.; David E. Coleman, Alcoa Research; James K. 
Rice, James K. Rice Consulting; Babu R. Nott, Electric Power Research 
Institute; Larry LaFleur, National Council of the Paper Industry for 
Air and Stream Improvement, Industry Perspective on Detection and 
Quantitation Limits
2:30 pm  Henry D. Kahn, USEPA and Kathleen Stralka, SAIC, Alternate 
Estimates of Detection and Quantification
3:00 pm  Break
3:15 pm  Roger Stewart, Virginia DEQ, Analytical Variability Versus 
Concentration

Quality Control

4:00 pm  Nicholas Bloom, Frontier Geosciences, EPA-CLP Quality 
Assurance Protocols: The Wrong Path to High Quality Data
4:15 pm  Marcia Kuehl, M.A. Kuehl Company, The Corruption of DQOs: 
Boilerplate, Statistics, and Reality

    Dated: March 20, 1997.
Tudor T. Davies,
Director, Office of Science and Technology.
[FR Doc. 97-8092 Filed 3-28-97; 8:45 am]
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