[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 197 (Tuesday, October 13, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 54692]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-27399]


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 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OPPTS-00252; FRL-6038-3]


 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 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 October 21-22, 1998, 
from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Written and electronic comments in response to 
this notice should be received on or before October 14, 1998.

  ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Sheraton Suite Hotel, 801 
North Saint Asaph St., Alexandria, VA, (703) 836-4700.
     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-00252.
     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 
Larry Reisman, telephone: (202) 260-2301, 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. The TDR Committee will also review the 
issues for discussion in the upcoming meetings.
     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 October 21-22 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 TDR Committee.

 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-00252 (including comments and data submitted 
electronically as described in this unit). 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-00252. Electronic 
comments on this action may be filed online at many Federal Depository 
Libraries.

 List of Subjects

     Environmental protection.

    Dated: October 6, 1998.

Cassandra Vail,

 Designated Federal Official, Office of Pollution Prevention and 
Toxics.

 [FR Doc. 98-27399 Filed 10-9-98; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 6560-50-F