[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 173 (Tuesday, September 8, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 47494]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-24086]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-6157-9]


Air Quality Criteria for Carbon Monoxide

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting: Peer-Review Workshop on Air Quality 
Criteria for Carbon Monoxide.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing a 
meeting organized, convened, and conducted by the Eastern Research 
Group, Inc., a contractor to the EPA for external scientific peer 
consultation, to facilitate the preparation of an external review draft 
of the Carbon Monoxide Air Quality Criteria Document. All interested 
parties may attend and assist in developing and refining the scientific 
information base available for accomplishing this task.

DATES: The meeting dates are September 17 and 18, 1998.

ADDRESSES: The Durham Marriott (formerly Durham Omni), will be the 
meeting site. It is located on 201 Foster St. in Durham, North 
Carolina; the telephone number is 919-683-6664. The times for the 
meetings are 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on the first day and 8:30 a.m. to 
12:30 p.m. on the second day. At the time of the meetings, the Eastern 
Research Group will make available copies of the draft chapters that 
the workshop sessions will be reviewing.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Linda Cooper (telephone 919-468-
7878) for registration information and logistics and Ms. Monica 
Seagroves (telephone 919-468-7825) for technical information. Ms. 
Cooper and Ms. Seagroves work for Eastern Research Group, Inc., 
Engineering and Science Division, 1600 Perimeter Park, P.O. Box 2010, 
Morrisville, NC 27560-2010.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 
(EPA) is updating and revising, where appropriate, the EPA's Air 
Quality Criteria for Carbon Monoxide (CO). Sections 108 and 109 of the 
Clean Air Act require that the EPA carry out a periodic review and 
revision, where appropriate, of the criteria and the National Ambient 
Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for the ``criteria'' air pollutants such 
as carbon monoxide.
    The EPA will keep the public informed, through subsequent Federal 
Register notice announcements, of additional opportunities for public 
input into the preparation process, such as the public comment period 
following the release of the first external review draft of the Carbon 
Monoxide Air Quality Criteria Document and the Clean Air Scientific 
Advisory Committee (CASAC) review in early 1999.

    Dated: September 1, 1998.
William H. Farland, Ph.D.,
Director, National Center for Environmental Assessment.
[FR Doc. 98-24086 Filed 9-4-98; 8:45 am]
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