[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 27 (Tuesday, February 10, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 6754]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-3321]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-5964-4]


Ambient Air Monitoring Reference and Equivalent Methods; Receipt 
of Applications for Reference and Equivalent Method Determinations

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of receipt of applications.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing that 
it has received applications from Rupprecht and Patashnick Company, 
Incorporated, Thermo Environmental Instruments, Incorporated, BGI, 
Incorporated, and Graseby Andersen for reference method determinations 
for their respective PM2.5 particle samplers, and from 
Dasibi Environmental Corporation for an equivalent method determination 
for their Model 1108 Ozone Analyzer.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Frank F. McElroy, Human Exposure and Atmospheric Sciences Division (MD-
46), National Exposure Research Laboratory, U.S. EPA, Research Triangle 
Park, North Carolina 27711, (919) 541-2622.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is given that EPA has received 
applications to determine if six new PM2.5 monitoring 
methods and a new continuous ozone analyzer method should be designated 
by the Administrator of the EPA as reference or equivalent methods 
under 40 CFR PART 53. Two applications were received on October 7, 1997 
from Rupprecht and Patashnick Company, Incorporated, 25 Corporate 
Circle, Albany, New York 12203 for that Company's Partisol-
FRM Model 2000 (single) and Partisol-FRM Model 2025 
(sequential) PM-2.5 Air Samplers. An application was received on 
October 8, 1997 from Thermo Environmental Instruments, Incorporated, 8 
West Forge Parkway, Franklin, Massachusetts 02038 regarding its Model 
605/FH95-E Computer Assisted Particle Sampler for PM2.5. 
Another application was received, also on October 8, 1997, from BGI, 
Incorporated, 58 Guinan Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02154 for BGI's 
Model PQ-200 PM2.5 Ambient Fine Particle Sampler. And an application 
was received on January 8, 1998 from Graseby Andersen, 500 Technology 
Court, Smyrna, Georgia 30082 for that Company's Models RAAS2.5-100 
(single) and RAAS2.5-300 (sequential) PM2.5 Samplers. 
Finally, an application was received on December 4, 1997 from Dasibi 
Environmental Corporation, 506 Paula Avenue, Glendale, California 91201 
for Dasibi's Model 1108 Ozone Analyzer. If, after appropriate technical 
study, the Administrator determines that any or all of these methods 
should be designated as reference or equivalent methods, as 
appropriate, notice thereof will be published in a subsequent issue of 
the Federal Register.
Henry L. Longest II,
Acting Assistant Administrator for Research and Development.
[FR Doc. 98-3321 Filed 2-9-98; 8:45 am]
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