[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 202 (Wednesday, October 20, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56498-56499]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-27386]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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The National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and 
Technology (NACEPT); New Standing Committee on Sectors

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notification of Public Advisory NACEPT Standing Committee on 
Sectors Workgroup meeting; open meeting.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-
463, notice is hereby given that the Standing Committee on Sectors 
workgroup will meet on the date and time described below. The meeting 
is open to the public. Seating at the meeting will be a first-come 
basis and limited time will be provided for public comment. For further 
information concerning this meeting, please contact the individual 
listed with the announcement below.
    Petroleum Refining Sector Workgroup Meeting--November 3-4, 1999.
    Notice is hereby given that the Environmental Protection Agency 
will hold an open meeting of the National Advisory Council for 
Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT) Petroleum Refining Sector 
Workgroup on November 3 and 4, 1999. A Concurrent project team meeting 
will be held from 9:00 am until 4:30 pm CDT on Wednesday, November 3, 
1999. The full workgroup will meet from 8:30 am until 4:30 pm CDT on 
Thursday, November 4, 1999. The meeting will be held at the Holiday Inn 
Hotel Downtown--Superdome, 330 Loyola Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana. 
The hotel telephone number is 504-581-1600.
    The workgroup meeting agenda includes an update on the status of 
the Accidental Release Information Communication Project, Refinery Air 
Information Reporting System Project, and the Equipment Leaks Project. 
The workgroup also plans to discuss compliance goals for the petroleum 
refining industry and regulatory options for potential alternate leak 
detection and repair work practice protocols. A public comment period 
has been scheduled from approximately 1:00 pm until 2:00 pm CDT on 
Thursday, November 4, 1999.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NACEPT is a federal advisory committee under 
the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92463. NACEPT provides 
advice and recommendations to the Administrator and other EPA officials 
on a broad range of domestic and international environmental policy 
issues. NACEPT consists of a representative cross-section of EPA's 
partners and principle constituents who provide advice and 
recommendations on policy issues and serve as a sounding board for new 
strategies that the Agency is developing.
    In follow-up to completion of work by EPA's Common Sense Initiative 
(CSI) Council, the Administrator has asked NACEPT to create a new 
Standing Committee on Sectors. This will provide a continuing Federal 
Advisory Committee forum from which the Agency can continue to receive 
valuable multi-stakeholder advise and recommendations on sector 
approaches.
    Based on the lessons learned in CSI and many other sector based 
programs, the Agency has developed a Sector Based Environmental 
Protection Action Plan to reinforce and expand sector based approaches 
to achieving environmental results. The Standing Committee on Sectors 
will, through NACEPT (the Council): (1) Continue to support the on-
going CSI work, (2) support the implementation of the Action Plan, as 
noted above, and (3) serve as a vehicle to get stakeholder reaction and 
input on sector based issues in a timely way.
    For further information concerning this meeting of the Petroleum 
Refining Sector workgroup, please contact either Craig Weeks, 
Designated Federal Officer (DFO), at US EPA Region 6 (6EN), 1445 Ross 
Avenue, Dallas, TX 75202-2733, by telephone at 214-665-7505 or E-mail 
at [email protected] or Steve Souders, Alternate DFO, at US EPA 
(5306W), 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460, by telephone at 703-
308-8431 or E-mail at [email protected].
    Inspection of Subcommittee Documents: Documents relating to the 
above topics will be publicly available at the meeting. Thereafter, Key 
documents and the minutes of the

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meeting will be available electronically on the web site, or by calling 
the DFO. NACEPT Standing Committee on Sectors Subcommittee information 
can be accessed electronically on our web site at http.//www.epa.gov/
sectors.

    Dated: October 4, 1999.
Gregory Ondich,
Acting Designated Federal Officer.
[FR Doc. 99-27386 Filed 10-19-99; 8:45 am]
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