[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 79 (Friday, April 24, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20405-20406]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-10979]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OPPTS-400129; FRL-5787-5]


Toxics Data Reporting Committee of the National Advisory Council 
for Environmental Policy and Technology; Notice of Public Meeting

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: Under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, EPA gives notice of 
a 2-day meeting of the Toxics Data Reporting Committee of the National 
Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology. This will be 
the fifth meeting of the Toxics Data Reporting (TDR) Committee, whose 
mission is to provide advice to EPA regarding the Agency's Toxics 
Release Inventory (TRI) Program.

DATES: The public meeting will take place on May 27-28, 1998, from 8:30 
a.m. to 5 p.m. Written and electronic comments in response to this 
notice should be received by May 13, 1998.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at: Double Tree National Airport, 
300 Army Navy Drive, Arlington, VA, telephone number: (703) 416-4100.
    Each comment must bear the docket control number ``OPPTS-400129.'' 
All comments should be sent in triplicate to: OPPT Document Control 
Officer (7407), Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, 
Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M St., SW., Rm. G-099, East Tower, 
Washington, DC 20460.
    Comments and data may also be submitted electronically to: oppt. 
[email protected]. Follow the instructions under Unit II. of this 
document. No Confidential Business Information (CBI) should be 
submitted through e-mail.
    All comments which contain information claimed as CBI must be 
clearly marked as such. Three sanitized copies of any comments 
containing information claimed as CBI must also be submitted and will 
be placed in the public record for this action. Persons submitting 
information on any portion of which they believe is entitled to 
treatment as CBI by EPA must assert a business confidentiality claim in 
accordance with 40 CFR 2.203(b) for each such portion. This claim must 
be made at the time that the information is submitted to EPA. If a 
submitter does not assert a confidentiality claim at the time of 
submission, EPA will consider this as a waiver of any confidentiality 
claim and the information may be made available to the public by EPA 
without further notice to the submitter.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cassandra Vail, telephone: (202) 260-
0675, fax number: (202) 401-8142, e-mail: 
[email protected] or Michelle Price, telephone: (202) 260-
3372, fax number: (202) 410-8142, e-mail: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    At the 2-day meeting, the TDR Committee will focus mainly on 
discussing options for burden reduction associated with the TRI 
program. The meeting will include discussion of the renewal of the 
Information Collection Request for the Alternate Reporting Threshold 
Certification Statement (Form A) and possible modifications to the Form 
A or the alternate threshold to increase burden reduction for eligible 
facilities. Some time will also be spent at the May meeting following 
up on items discussed at the March 19-20 TDR meeting. One of the 
follow-up items is continued discussion on possible Committee 
recommendations on ways to more clearly present release data to the 
public to distinguish between the various methods of disposal while 
still making it possible to present meaningful statistics on a national 
basis about releases. Also, at the March meeting, the Committee broke 
up into four groups and came up with suggestions for overall revisions 
to the Form R. At the May meeting, the

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Committee will discuss a draft of a consolidated version of those 
ideas.
    Information on availability of meeting summaries from previous TDR 
meetings will be available on the TRI Home Page. The address of the TRI 
Home Page is http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/tri. This information can be 
found under the heading ``TRI Stakeholder Dialogue.'' In addition, the 
agenda and an issue paper outlining topics for discussion at the May 
27-28 Committee meeting will also be available at this same site prior 
to the meeting. Oral presentations or statements by interested parties 
will be limited to 5 minutes. Interested parties are encouraged to 
contact Cassandra Vail, to schedule presentations before the Committee.

II. Public Record and Electronic Submissions

    The official record for this action, as well as the public version, 
has been established for this action under docket control number 
``OPPTS-400129'' (including comments and data submitted electronically 
as described below). A public version of this record, including 
printed, paper versions of electronic comments, which does not include 
any information claimed as CBI, is available for inspection from 12 
noon to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The 
official record is located in the TSCA Nonconfidential Information 
Center, Rm. NE-B607, 401 M St., SW., Washington, DC.
    Electronic comments can be sent directly to EPA at:
    [email protected]


    Electronic comments must be submitted as an ASCII file avoiding the 
use of special characters and any form of encryption. Comments and data 
will also be accepted on disks in WordPerfect 5.1/6.1 or ASCII file 
format. All comments and data in electronic form must be identified by 
the docket control number ``OPPTS-400129.'' Electronic comments on this 
action may be filed online at many Federal Depository Libraries.

List of Subjects

    Environmental protection.

Dated: April 17, 1998.

Cassandra Vail,

Designated Federal Official, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics.

[FR Doc. 98-10979 Filed 4-23-98; 8:45 am]
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