[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 150 (Wednesday, August 5, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41819-41820]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-20907]


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 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

 [OPPTS-40032; FRL-6021-8]


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.

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 SUMMARY: Under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, EPA is providing 
notice of a 2-day meeting of the Toxics Data Reporting (TDR) Committee 
of the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and 
Technology (NACEPT). This will be the seventh meeting of the 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 August 27 through 28, 
1998, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Written and electronic comments in 
response to this notice should be received by August 14, 1998.

 ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at L'Enfant Plaza, SW., 
Washington, DC, (202) 484-1000.
    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. Each comment must bear the docket control number 
OPPTS-40032.
    Comments and data may also be submitted electronically to: 
[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) 401-8142, 
e-mail: [email protected].

 SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    At the 2-day meeting, the TDR Committee will review and discuss 
drafts of their reports to EPA.
    Information on availability of meeting summaries from previous TDR 
Committee 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 for the August 27 through 28 TDR 
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.

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II. Public Record and Electronic Submissions

    The official record for this notice, as well as the public version, 
has been established for this action under docket control number OPPTS-
40032 (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 in the official 
record. The official record is located in the TSCA Nonconfidential 
Information Center, Rm. NE B-607, 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-40032. Electronic comments on this 
action may be filed online at many Federal Depository Libraries.

List of Subjects

    Environmental protection.

    Dated: July 29, 1998.

Cassandra Vail,

Designated Federal Official, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics.

[FR Doc. 98-20907 Filed 8-4-98; 8:45 am]
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