[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 137 (Thursday, July 17, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38293-38294]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-18859]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-5859-2]


Availability of FY 96 Grant Performance Reports for Alabama, 
Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and 
Tennessee

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of availability of grantee performance evaluation 
reports.

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SUMMARY: EPA's grant regulations (40 CFR 35.150) require the Agency to 
evaluate the performance of agencies which receive grants. EPA's 
regulations for regional consistency (40 CFR 56.7) require that the 
Agency notify the public of the availability of the reports of such 
evaluations. EPA recently performed end-of-year evaluations of seven 
state air pollution control programs (Alabama Department of 
Environmental Management, Florida Department of Environmental 
Protection, Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection, 
Mississippi Bureau of Pollution Control, North Carolina Department of 
Environment, Health, and Natural Resources, South Carolina Department 
of Health and Environmental Control and Tennessee Department of 
Conservation and Environment), and 16 local programs (Knox County 
Department of Air Pollution Control, Tn--Chattanooga-Hamilton County 
Air Pollution Control Bureau, Tn--Memphis-Shelby County Health 
Department, Tn--Nashville-Davidson County Metropolitan Health 
Department, Tn--Jefferson County Air Pollution Control District, Ky--
Western North Carolina Regional Air Pollution Control Agency, NC--
Mecklenburg County Department of Environmental Protection, NC--Forsyth 
County Environmental Affairs Department, NC--Palm Beach County Public 
Health Unit, Fl--Hillsborough County Environmental Protection 
Commission, Fl--Dade County Environmental Resources Management, Fl--
Jacksonville Air Quality Division, Fl--Broward County Environmental 
Quality Control Board, Fl--Pinellas County Department of Environmental 
Management, Fl--City of Huntsville Department of Natural Resources, 
Al--Jefferson County Department of Health, Al). The State of Georgia's 
evaluation will be made available for public review at a later date. 
These audits were conducted to assess the agencies' performance under 
the grants made to them by EPA pursuant to section 105 of the Clean Air 
Act. EPA Region 4, has prepared reports for the twenty-three agencies 
identified above and these 105 reports are now available for public 
inspection.

ADDRESSES: The reports may be examined at the EPA's Region 4 office, 61 
Forsyth Street, SW, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, in the Air, Pesticides, and 
Toxics Management Division.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Linda Thomas, (404) 562-9064, at the 
above Region 4 address, for information concerning States of Alabama, 
Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, and local agencies. Vera Bowers, (404) 
562-9053, at the above Region 4 address, for information concerning the 
States of Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and local 
agencies.


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    Dated: July 9, 1997.
Michael V. Peyton,
Acting Regional Administrator.
[FR Doc. 97-18859 Filed 7-16-97; 8:45 am]
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