[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 161 (Monday, August 22, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 48952]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-16595]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OEI-2005-0010; FRL-7956-7]


Office of Environmental Information; Announcement of Availability 
and Comment Period for Institutional Controls Draft Data Standard

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of data availability & request for comment.

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SUMMARY: Notice of availability for a 45 day review and comment period 
is hereby given for the Draft Institutional Controls Data Standard.
    The Draft Institutional Control (IC) Data Standard provides a 
structure for defining the elements required for describing IC 
information. It provides information about the implementation, 
monitoring, enforcement, and termination of instruments (via the IC 
Event) as well as the objectives they meet, associated locations, 
affiliates and their roles/responsibilities relevant to the IC, cleanup 
actions (via the IC Event), technologies, and the documentation related 
to each of the aforementioned subsets of data. States and U.S. EPA 
completed a technical review of this standard in the Fall of 2004.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before October 5, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dawn Banks-Waller; Environmental 
Protection Agency; 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, MC 2822T; Washington, DC 
20460; Phone: (202) 566 0625; Fax: (202) 566 1624; e-mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This standard was developed by the 
Environmental Data Standards Council (EDSC). The EDSC is a partnership 
of among EPA, States, and Tribes which promotes the efficient sharing 
of environmental information through the cooperative development of 
data standards.
    The standards are intended for use in environmental data exchanges 
among States, tribal entities and the U.S. EPA. They are not meant to 
dictate or to limit data an agency chooses to collect for its own 
internal purposes. Adoption of a data standard should not be 
interpreted to mean that revisions to databases or information systems 
are required. What the adoption does mean is that formats for sharing 
data with Exchange Network (EN) partners will change because the 
Exchange Network has adopted Shared Schema Components (SSCs) based on 
the data standards. The SSCs are available on the Exchange Network Web 
site at http://www.exchangenetwork.net.
    The draft data standards documents can be found on EDSC's Web site 
at http://www.envdatastandards.net/ and are available through the 
Docket system as indicated below.

I. General Information

A. How Can I Get Copies of These Documents and Other Related 
Information?

    1. Docket. EPA has established an official public docket for this 
action under Docket ID No. OEI-2005-0010. The official public docket is 
the collection of materials that is available for public viewing at the 
OEI Docket in the EPA Docket Center, (EPA/DC) EPA West, Room B102, 1301 
Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The EPA Docket Center Public 
Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through 
Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the Public 
Reading Room is (202) 566-1744, and the telephone number for the OEI 
Docket is (202) 566-1752.
    2. Electronic Access. You may access this Federal Register document 
electronically through the EPA Internet under the Federal Register 
listings at http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/.
    An electronic version of the public docket is available through 
EPA's electronic public docket and comment system, EPA Dockets. You may 
use EPA Dockets at http://www.epa.gov/edocket/ to 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. Although not all docket materials may be available 
electronically, you may still access any of the publicly available 
docket materials through the docket facility identified in Unit I.B. 
Once in the system, select ``search,'' then key in the appropriate 
docket identification number.

    Dated: August 10, 2005.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 05-16595 Filed 8-19-05; 8:45 am]
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