[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 109 (Friday, June 6, 2003)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 33898]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-14322]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Chapter I

[FRL-7509-6]


Advisory Committee for Regulatory Negotiation Concerning All 
Appropriate Inquiry; Meeting

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency, as required by the 
Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), is announcing the date 
and location of an upcoming meeting of the Negotiated Rulemaking 
Committee On All Appropriate Inquiry.

DATES: A meeting of the Federal Advisory Committee on Regulatory 
Negotiation for All Appropriate Inquiry is scheduled for July 8 and 
July 9, 2003.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will take place at the Hotel Washington, 15th 
and Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20004. The meeting is 
scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. and end at 4:30 p.m. on both days. 
Dates and locations of subsequent meetings will be announced in later 
notices.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Persons needing further information 
should contact Patricia Overmeyer of EPA's Office of Brownfields 
Cleanup and Redevelopment, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Mailcode 5105T, 
Washington, DC 20460, (202) 566-2774, or [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Small Business Liability Relief 
and Brownfields Revitalization Act, EPA is required to develop 
standards and practices for carrying out all appropriate inquiry. The 
Federal Advisory Committee meeting is for the purpose of negotiating 
the contents of a proposed regulation setting federal standards and 
practices for conducting all appropriate inquiry. At its meeting on 
July 8 and 9, the Committee will continue substantive deliberations on 
the proposed rulemaking including discussion of the criteria 
established by Congress in the Small Business Liability Relief and 
Brownfields Revitalization Act amendments to CERCLA (101)(35)(B)(iii). 
These criteria include:
    ``(I) The results of an inquiry by an environmental professional.
    (II) Interviews with past and present owners, operators, and 
occupants of the facility for the purpose of gathering information 
regarding the potential for contamination at the facility.
    (III) Reviews of historical sources, such as chain of title 
documents, aerial photographs, building department records, and land 
use records, to determine previous uses and occupancies of the real 
property since the property was first developed.
    (IV) Searches for recorded environmental cleanup liens against the 
facility that are filed under Federal, State, or local law.
    (V) Reviews of Federal, State, and local government records, waste 
disposal records, underground storage tank records, and hazardous waste 
handling, generation, treatment, disposal, and spill records, 
concerning contamination at or near the facility.''
    All meetings of the Negotiated Rulemaking Committee are open to the 
public. There is no requirement for advance registration for members of 
the public who wish to attend or make comments at the meeting. 
Opportunity for the general public to address the Committee will be 
provided starting at 2:30 p.m. on both July 8 and July 9, 2003.

    Dated: June 2, 2003.
Thomas P. Dunne,
Associate Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency 
Response.
[FR Doc. 03-14322 Filed 6-5-03; 8:45 am]
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