[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 250 (Friday, December 30, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 77381-77382]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-8124]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[Docket No. FRL-8017-8]


Meeting of the Ozone Transport Commission

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: The United States Environmental Protection Agency is 
announcing the 2006 Special Meeting of the Ozone Transport Commission 
(OTC). This OTC meeting will explore options available for reducing 
ground-level ozone precursors in a multi-pollutant context.

DATES: The meeting will be held on February 21, 2006 starting at 1 p.m. 
and February 22, 2006 at 9 a.m.

ADDRESSES: Hotel Washington, 515 15th Street, NW., Washington, DC 
20004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marcia L. Spink, Associate Director, 
Air Protection Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 
III, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103; (215) 814-2100. For 
documents and press inquiries contact: Ozone Transport Commission, 444 
North Capitol Street, NW., Suite 638, Washington, DC 20001; (202) 508-
3840; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: http://www.otcair.org.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 contain 
at Section 184 provisions for the ``Control of Interstate Ozone Air 
Pollution.'' Section 184(a) establishes an ``Ozone Transport Region'' 
(OTR) comprised of the States of Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, 
Maryland, Massachusetts, New

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Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, 
parts of Virginia and the District of Columbia. The purpose of the 
Ozone Transport commission is to deal with ground-level ozone 
formation, transport, and control within the OTR. The purpose of this 
notice is to announce that the OTC will meet on February 21-22, 2006 at 
the address noted earlier in this notice. This meeting will explore 
options available for reducing ground-level ozone precursors in a 
multi-pollutant context. Section 176A(b)(2) of the Clean Air Act 
Amendments of 1990 specifies that the meeting of the Ozone Transport 
Commission is not subject to the provisions of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act. This meeting will be open to the public as space 
permits.
    Type of Meeting: Open.
    Agenda: Copies of the final agenda will be available from the OTC 
office (202) 508-3840 by e-mail: [email protected] or via the OTC Web 
site at http://www.otcair.org.

    Dated: December 19, 2005.
Thomas Voltaggio,
Acting Regional Administrator, EPA Region III.
 [FR Doc. E5-8124 Filed 12-29-05; 8:45 am]
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