[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 10 (Friday, January 14, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2631-2632]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-821]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-7861-5, Docket ID No. OAR-2004-0075]


Notice Announcing Public Meeting of the Clean Air Act Advisory 
Committee's Task Force on the Performance of the Title V Operating 
Permits Program and Opportunity To Submit Comments

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Today EPA announces a public meeting of the Clean Air Act 
Advisory Committee's (CAAAC) Task Force on the Performance of the Title 
V Operating Permits Program.

DATES: The meeting will be held on February 7, 2005.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in San Francisco at the Marine's 
Memorial Club and Hotel, 609 Sutter Street, San Francisco, California 
94102; telephone number: 415-673-6672. The meeting will start at 8 a.m. 
and continue until 9 p.m. if necessary. Breaks will be held for lunch 
and dinner, respectively and as necessary during the day. The EPA 
solicits interested parties with experience in the title V program to 
provide testimony to the Task Force on what is working well and/or 
poorly in this program. Those desiring to testify are asked to notify 
EPA by January 24, 2005 (contact information follows), so that speaking 
times may be arranged. In addition, written comments may be submitted 
as described later in this notice. See this Web site for updated 
information on the Task Force: http://www.epa.gov/oar/caaac/titlev.html.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Ray Vogel, Information Transfer 
and Implementation Division, Office of Air Quality Planning and 
Standards, Mail Code C304-04, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711; telephone: 919-541-3153; 
fax: 919-541-5509; and e-mail address: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. What Is This Task Force and What Is the Purpose of This Public 
Meeting?

    The EPA created the Task Force in June 2004 in response to a 
recommendation from the Permitting/Toxics Subcommittee of the CAAAC. 
The Task Force is made up of 18 representatives from State and local 
permitting agencies, industry, and environmental and public interest 
groups. The Task Force will gather information from interested persons 
on the performance of the title V operating permits program and prepare 
a report documenting how the title V program is performing and what 
elements are working well and/or poorly. The report may include 
suggestions on how to improve the program. The Task Force is gathering 
information by, among other things, holding a series of three public 
meetings. The San Francisco meeting is expected to be the last public 
meeting. Other public meetings were held in Washington, DC, on June 25, 
2004, and Chicago, Illinois, on September 14 and 15, 2004.
    The purpose of these public meetings is to gather information on 
the performance of the title V program, specifically on aspects of the 
program that are working well and those that are working poorly. The 
Task Force welcomes any information from stakeholders that will help it 
prepare its report on the performance of the title V program.
    For further information on the task force, see the May 17, 2004, 
notice in the Federal Register (69 FR 27922) and

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the CAAAC Web site: http://www.epa.gov/oar/caaac/titlev.html.

B. How Do I Participate in This Public Meeting?

    Those interested in speaking are asked to contact Ray Vogel by 
January 24, 2005, by email at [email protected] and give your email and 
phone number so you may be contacted for a speaking time. Speaking time 
slots will be 20 minutes each.
    The Task Force requests that presenters at the public meeting limit 
their presentations to no more than 10 minutes and be prepared to 
answer follow-up questions from members of the Task Force for 
approximately 10 minutes. If you wish to present more information than 
can be accommodated in the allotted time, you should put the 
information in written remarks that supplement your presentation. 
Speakers are encouraged to bring disks or hard copies of written 
remarks to submit for the public record at the meeting. The meeting 
will be recorded, and a transcript will be made and placed in the 
public docket. An audio recording will also be made and placed on the 
Web site http://www.epa.gov/oar/caaac/titlev.html.
    As noted above, the Task Force is most interested in testimony 
based on your experience, of what is working well, what is not working 
well, and any recommendations you have for improvements to the title V 
program. We strongly encourage speakers to support their testimony with 
actual examples designed to help the task force understand your 
concern(s) and how any recommended improvements you offer would address 
these concerns.

C. How Do I Get Copies of the Draft Report of the Task Force and Other 
Public Information Related to the Task Force's Work?

    Audio and written transcripts of the testimony from previous public 
meetings are available at the CAAAC Web site: http://www.epa.gov/oar/caaac. The draft report (which is expected to be available in winter 
2005) will also be available on the Web site. These same materials and 
additional supporting materials will also be available electronically 
through the EPA e-docket at: http://www.epa.gov/edocket/. To submit or 
view public comments, access the index listing of the contents of the 
official public docket, and to access those documents in the public 
docket that are available electronically, select ``search,'' then key 
in the appropriate docket ID number. The docket number for this action 
is OAR-2004-0075.

D. How Do I Submit Comments?

    Interested persons may provide written comments for the task force 
to consider in lieu of or in addition to making a presentation at the 
public meeting. The docket for the Title V Performance Task Force is 
open for submittal of comments until March 31, 2005

EDOCKET (Preferred)

    The EPA's electronic public docket system is an ``anonymous 
access'' system, which means EPA will not know your identity, e-mail 
address, or other contact information unless you provide it in the body 
of your comment. Please note: EPA's policy is to not edit your comment; 
therefore, any identifying or contact information provided in the body 
of a comment will be included in the official public docket. To submit 
a comment through EDOCKET, go to http://www.epa.gov/edocket. Once in 
the system, select ``search,'' then key in OAR-2004-0075 (the docket ID 
number for the title V performance task force).

E-Mail

    Comments may also be sent by e-mail to: [email protected], 
attention Docket ID No. OAR-2004-0075. In contrast to EPA's electronic 
public docket, EPA's e-mail system is not an ``anonymous access'' 
system. The EPA's e-mail system automatically captures your e-mail 
address and includes it as part of the comment that is placed in the 
official public docket.

Disk, CD-ROM, or Mail

    If you submit a disk or CD-ROM, EPA recommends that you include 
your name, mailing address, e-mail address, or other contact 
information in the body of your comment. Also include this contact 
information on the outside of any disk or CD-ROM you submit, and in any 
cover letter accompanying the disk or CD-ROM. This ensures that you can 
be identified as the submitter of the comment and allows EPA to contact 
you in case EPA cannot read your comment. If you submit mail, please 
enclose two copies. Send to: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air 
and Radiation Docket and Information Center, Mail Code 6102T, 1200 
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460, Attention Docket ID No. 
OAR-2004-0075.

Hand Delivery or Courier

    Deliver comments to: Public Reading Room, Room B102, EPA West 
Building, 1301 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20004, 
Attention Docket ID No. OAR-2004-0075.
    Deliveries are accepted only between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. 
Eastern Standard Time, Monday through Friday, excluding Federal 
holidays.

By Facsimile

    Fax your comments to the EPA Docket Center at (202) 566-1741, 
Attention Docket ID. No. OAR-2004-0075.

List of Subjects

    Environmental protection, Clean Air Act, operating permits.

    Dated: January 6, 2005.
Gregory A. Green,
Acting Director, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards.
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