[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 96 (Thursday, May 18, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28861-28862]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-7574]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Availability of FY 05 Grantee Performance Evaluation Reports for 
the Eight States of EPA Region 4 and Selected Local Agencies

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of availability of Clean Air Act, section 105 grantee 
performance evaluation reports.

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SUMMARY: EPA's grant regulations (40 CFR 35.115) require the Agency to 
evaluate the performance of agencies

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which receive grants. EPA's regulations for regional consistency (40 
CFR 56.7) require that the Agency notify the public of the availability 
of the reports of such evaluations. EPA performed end-of-year 
evaluations of eight state air pollution control programs (Alabama 
Department of Environmental Management; Florida Department of 
Environmental Protection; Georgia Department of Natural Resources; 
Kentucky Environmental & Public Protection Cabinet; Mississippi 
Department of Environmental Quality; North Carolina Department of 
Environment and Natural Resources; South Carolina Department of Health 
and Environmental Control; and Tennessee Department of Environment and 
Conservation) and 12 local programs (City of Huntsville Division of 
Natural Resources, AL; Jefferson County Department of Health, AL; City 
of Jacksonville Environmental Quality Division, FL; Hillsborough County 
Environmental Protection Commission, FL; Miami-Dade County Air Quality 
Management Division, FL; Palm Beach County Health Department Division 
of Environmental Health, FL; Forsyth County Environmental Affairs 
Department, NC; Mecklenburg County Land Use and Environmental Services 
Agency, NC; Western North Carolina Regional Air Quality Agency, NC; 
Memphis-Shelby County Health Department, TN; Knox County Department of 
Air Quality Management, TN; and Nashville-Davidson County Metropolitan 
Public Health Department, TN). The 20 evaluations were conducted to 
assess the agencies' performance under the grants awarded by EPA under 
authority of section 105 of the Clean Air Act. EPA Region 4 has 
prepared reports for each agency identified above and these reports are 
now available for public inspection. The evaluations for the remainder 
of the local governments will be published at a later date.

ADDRESSES: The reports may be examined at the EPA's Region 4 office, 61 
Forsyth Street, SW., Atlanta, Georgia 30303, in the Air, Pesticides and 
Toxics Management Division.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marie Persinger (404) 562-9048 for 
information concerning the state agencies of Alabama and South 
Carolina; Miya Smith (404) 562-9091 for the state and local agencies of 
Florida and for the local agencies of Tennessee; Russandra Brown (404) 
562-9064 for the state agencies of Mississippi and Kentucky; Mary 
Echols (404) 562-9053 for the state agencies of Georgia and Tennessee, 
and for the state and local agencies of North Carolina. They may be 
contacted at the above Region 4 address.

    Dated: May 4, 2006.
A. Stanley Meiburg,
Deputy Regional Administrator, Region 4.3
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