[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 223 (Friday, November 17, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 69525]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-29504]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-OW-6903-2]


Notice of Intent To Develop Ambient Water Quality Criteria for 
Protection of Human Health--Methylmercury; Notice of Reopening to 
Public Comment Period

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of reopening to public comment period.

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SUMMARY: This notice informs the public that the period for the 
submission of scientific and technical information for the development 
of the revised Ambient Water Quality Criterion for Methylmercury is 
extended.

DATES: The comment period has been extended fifteen days to November 
27, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Send an original and three copies of any written significant 
scientific information to W-00-29 Comment Clerk, Water Docket, Ariel 
Rios 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20460. Comments may 
be hand-delivered to the Water Docket, Room EB57, 401 M Street, SW, 
Washington, D.C. 20460. Issues may also be submitted electronically to 
[email protected]. Information should be submitted as a WP5.1, 6.1 and/
or 8.0 or an ASCII file with no form of encryption.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Mary Manibusan, Health and 
Ecological Criteria Division (4304), US EPA, Ariel Rios Building, 1200 
Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20460; (202) 260-3688; 
[email protected]

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Environmental Protection Agency 
published in the Federal Register of October 12, 2000 (65 FR 60664), 
that scientific and technical information that pertains to the 
development of a revised Ambient Water Quality Criterion for 
Methylmercury should be received within 30 days of the Federal Register 
publication date of October 12, 2000. In response to public interest, 
the Environmental Protection Agency has granted a fifteen day extension 
to the public comment period.

Geoffrey H. Grubbs,
Director, Office of Science and Technology.
[FR Doc. 00-29504 Filed 11-16-00; 8:45 am]
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