[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 19 (Friday, January 29, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4649-4650]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-2199]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-6228-1]


National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology 
Reinvention Criteria Committee; Public Meeting

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: Under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, P.L. 92463, EPA 
gives notice of a meeting of the National Advisory Council for 
Environmental Policy and Technology's (NACEPT) Reinvention Criteria 
Committee. NACEPT provides advice and recommendations to the 
Administrator of EPA on a broad range of environmental policy issues.
    The NACEPT Reinvention Criteria Committee (RCC) has been asked to 
help the Agency understand how incentives can be used most successfully 
to inspire firms, companies, communities, and individuals to go beyond 
mere compliance with existing regulations and to begin the process of 
addressing outstanding environmental problems. In particular, the 
committee is focusing on the following questions:
     What opportunities exist for EPA to use incentives to 
promote environmental stewardship in industry? In local communities? In 
the general public?
     How can EPA evaluate the effectiveness of incentives to 
encourage environmental stewardship that leads to improved 
environmental results? How can EPA measure the impact that incentives 
have on public confidence? What criteria should be used to decide 
whether the use of incentives is appropriate?
     How can the concept of performance ladders be used to 
tailor incentives most effectively?
    This meeting is being held to provide the EPA with perspectives 
from representatives of state, and local governments, environmental 
organizations, academia, industry, and NGOs.

DATES: The RCC will hold a 1\1/2\-day public meeting at the Best 
Western Old Colony Inn, located at 615 First Street, Alexandria, 
Virginia, on Monday March 15, from 1:00pm to 5:30pm and Tuesday March 
16, 1999 from 8:30am to 5:00pm.

ADDRESSES: Materials or written comments may be transmitted to the 
committee through Gwendolyn Whitt, Designated Federal Officer, NACEPT 
RCC, U.S. EPA, Office of Cooperative

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Environmental Management (1601F), 401 M Street, SW, Washington, D.C. 
20460. There will also be an opportunity for the public to make 
comments directly to the committee during the first day of the meeting. 
Requests to make public comments must be submitted no later than March 
1,1999 to Gwendolyn Whitt, at the address above or faxed to (202)-260-
6882.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gwendolyn Whitt, Designated Federal 
Officer, NACEPT, at (202) 260-9484.

    Dated: January 21, 1999.
Gordon Schisler,
Deputy Director, Office of Cooperative Environmental Management.
[FR Doc. 99-2199 Filed 1-28-99; 8:45 am]
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