[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 174 (Thursday, September 7, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54265-54266]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-22975]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-6866-4]


Regulatory Reinvention (XL) Pilot Projects

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of availability of the Project XL Draft Final Project 
Agreement: Lead-Safe Boston.

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SUMMARY: EPA is requesting comments on a draft Project XL Final Project 
Agreement (FPA) for Lead-Safe Boston (LSB). LSB is a program operated 
by the City of Boston's Department of Neighborhood Development that 
collaborates with state agencies and private organizations to prevent 
lead poisoning of young children by working to control lead hazards in 
Boston's highest risk areas. The FPA is a voluntary agreement developed 
collaboratively by LSB, Massachusetts Department of Environmental 
Protection (MA DEP), the United States Department of Housing and Urban 
Development (HUD) and the United States Environmental Protection Agency 
(US EPA). Project XL, announced in the Federal Register on May 23, 1995 
(60 FR 27282), gives regulated entities the opportunity to develop 
alternative strategies that will replace or modify specific regulatory 
requirements, policies, procedures and guidance on the condition that 
they produce greater environmental benefits.
    In this XL project, LSB seeks to utilize provisions in the RCRA 
Household Waste Exclusion (HWE) Rule at 40 CFR 261.4(b)(1) to allow 
lead-based paint

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(LBP) debris from residential housing units to be disposed of as 
household waste. Disposing of LBP debris as a household waste will 
reduce the cost of lead abatements in residential housing. As part of 
this project, LSB has pledged to utilize the cost savings made 
available through implementation of this XL project to perform 
approximately 12 additional residential lead abatements that will 
reduce lead exposure risks for roughly 30 children in Boston's 
Dorchester and Roxbury neighborhoods.
    These additional residential abatements will be pursued according 
to HUD procedures. The HWE provisions utilized by LSB in this project 
will also be made available on a nationwide basis to any individual or 
contractor performing lead abatement activities in residential housing 
units--ultimately sparing thousands of children from lead poisoning.

DATES: The period for submission of comments ends on September 21, 
2000.

ADDRESSEES: All comments on the draft Final Project Agreement should be 
sent to: Michael Hill One Congress Street Suite 1100 (M/C CMA), Boston, 
MA 02114-2023. Comments may be faxed to Mr. Hill at 617-918-1505.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: To obtain a copy of the draft Final Project 
Agreement, contact Michael Hill, US EPA, Region I, One Congress Street, 
Suite 1100 (M/C CMA), Boston, MA 02114-2023). The FPA and related 
documents are also available via the Internet at the following 
location: http://www.epa.gov/ProjectXL. In addition, the draft FPA is 
available at the Lead-Safe Boston, 38 Winthrop Street, Boston 02136. 
Questions to EPA regarding the documents can be directed to Michael 
Hill at (617) 918-1398 or John DuPree at (202) 260-4468. Questions to 
LSB regarding this project can be directed to Kenneth Griffin at Lead-
Safe Boston, 38 Winthrop Street, Boston, MA 02136. Mr. Griffin's 
telephone number is (617) 635-0444. For information on all other 
aspects of the XL Program contact Nancy Birnbaum at the following 
address: Office of Policy Economics and Innovation, United States 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., 
Washington, DC 20460, Room M3802 (1802), Washington, DC 20460. 
Additional information on Project XL, including documents referenced in 
this notice, other EPA policy documents related to Project XL, regional 
XL contacts, application information, and descriptions of existing XL 
projects and proposals, are available via the Internet at http://www.epa.gov/ProjectXL.

    Dated: August 31, 2000.
Elizabeth A. Shaw,
Director, Office of Environmental Policy Innovation.
[FR Doc. 00-22975 Filed 9-6-00; 8:45 am]
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