[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 192 (Friday, October 3, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 51857]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-26323]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OPPTS-00226; FRL-5749-6]


Forum on State and Tribal Toxics Action (FOSTTA) Projects; Open 
Meetings

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Three projects of the Forum on State and Tribal Toxics Action 
(FOSTTA) will hold meetings open to the public at the time and place 
listed below in this notice. The Lead Project will not be meeting this 
session. The public is encouraged to attend the proceedings as 
observers. However, in the interest of time and efficiency, the meeting 
is structured to provide maximum opportunity for state, tribal, and EPA 
invited participants to discuss items on the predetermined agenda. At 
the discretion of the chair of the project, an effort will be made to 
accommodate participation by observers attending the proceedings.

DATES: The three projects will meet October 20, 1997, from 8 a.m. to 5 
p.m., with a plenary session on Cutting Edge Initiatives in Pollution 
Prevention from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., and on October 21, 1997, from 8 
a.m. to noon.

ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held at The Embassy Suites Hotel, 1900 
Diagonal Road, Alexandria, VA.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Darlene Harrod, Designated Federal 
Official (DFO), Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (7408), 
Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M St., SW., Washington, DC 20460, 
Telephone: (202) 260-6904, e-mail: [email protected]. Any 
observer wishing to speak should advise the DFO at the telephone number 
or e-mail address listed above no later than 4 p.m. on October 16, 
1997.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: FOSTTA, a group of state and tribal toxics 
environmental managers, is intended to foster the exchange of toxics-
related program and enforcement information among the states/tribes and 
between the states/tribes and EPA's Office of Prevention, Pesticides 
and Toxic Substances (OPPTS) and Office of Enforcement and Compliance 
Assurance (OECA). FOSTTA currently consists of the Coordinating 
Committee and four issue-specific projects. The projects are the: (1) 
Toxics Release Inventory Project; Pollution Prevention Project; (3) 
Chemical Management Project; and (4) Lead (Pb) Project.

List of Subjects

    Environmental protection.

    Dated: September 27, 1997.
Susan B. Hazen,
Director, Environmental Assistance Division, Office of Pollution 
Prevention and Toxics.

[FR Doc. 97-26323 Filed 10-3-97; 8:45 am]
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