[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 108 (Wednesday, June 6, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31322-31323]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-10888]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-8322-1]


External Peer Review of Draft Final Report: ``Comparison of the 
Alternative Asbestos Control Method and the NESHAP Method for 
Demolition of Asbestos-Containing Buildings''

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of external peer review panel meeting.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing 
an external peer review panel meeting to review the draft Final Report 
for the Alternative Asbestos Control Method (AACM) Demonstration 
Project. EPA will use comments and recommendations from the expert 
panel meeting to finalize the draft report.
    The U.S. EPA conducted a controlled demonstration to evaluate the 
AACM alongside the current National Emissions Standards for Hazardous 
Air Pollutants (NESHAP) method in a remote, secure location at Fort 
Chaffee, Arkansas. To facilitate side-by-side comparison, the 
demonstration used two similar structures with asbestos-containing 
materials. Additional information about this research project, 
including a description of the AACM and the project schedule, is 
available at http://epa.gov/region6/6xa/asbestos.htm.

DATES: A public comment period for the draft Final Report is currently 
open and will last until June 14, 2007. Members of the public may 
submit comments to Regulations.gov (see SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION 
below). The peer review panel meeting will begin on June 20, 2007, at 
approximately 11:15 a.m. and end at 4 p.m. on June 21, 2007. Members of 
the public may attend the peer review panel meeting. Time will be set 
aside on the morning of June 20, 2007 for registered attendees who wish 
to make oral comments (for more information refer to the instructions 
for registration below).

ADDRESSES: Eastern Research Group, Inc. (ERG), an EPA contractor for 
external scientific peer review, will convene an independent panel of 
experts and organize and conduct an external peer review panel meeting 
to review this draft report. The external peer review panel meeting 
will be held at EPA's Andrew W. Breidenbach Environmental Research 
Center (AWBERC) located at 26 W. Martin Luther King Drive, Cincinnati, 
OH.
    Observers may attend the peer review panel meeting by registering 
online at the Web site, https://www2.ergweb.com/projects/conferences/region6/register.htm or by calling ERG's conference line between the 
hours of 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. EDT at (781) 674-7374 or toll free at 
800-803-2833, or by faxing a registration request to (781) 674-2906 
(include full address and contact information). Pre-registration is 
strongly recommended as space is limited, and registrations will be 
accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. The deadline for online 
pre-registration is June 13, 2007. If space allows, telephone and fax 
registrations will continue to be accepted after this date, including 
on-site registration. Time will be set aside to hear comments from 
observers, and individuals will be limited to a maximum of five minutes 
during the morning of the first day of the meeting. Please sign up for 
a time slot on the registration page, or if registering via telephone, 
inform ERG that you wish to make comments during the comment period. 
Public comments submitted to Regulations.gov by June 14, 2007 will be 
provided to the external peer review panel prior to the meeting.
    The draft Final Report is available via the Internet at http://epa.gov/region6/6xa/asbestos.htm or http://www.regulations.gov under 
docket ID number EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-0362. Copies are not available from 
ERG and copies will not be available onsite.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions regarding registration and 
logistics for the external peer review panel meeting should be directed 
to ERG, 110 Hartwell Avenue, Lexington, MA 02421-3136; telephone: (781) 
674-7374 or toll free at 800-803-2833; or by faxing a registration 
request to facsimile: (781) 674-2906; e-mail [email protected].
    If you have questions about the draft Final Report, contact Stephen 
Watkins, Office of Research and Development, Mail Code 8104-R, U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-3744; fax number: 
(202) 565-2925, E-mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has established an official public 
docket for this action under docket ID number EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-0362 on 
the Internet at http://www.regulations.gov. The public docket contains 
the draft Final Report and a list of charge questions that have been 
submitted to the external peer reviewers.
    Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-
0362 by one of the following methods:
     www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line instructions for 
submitting comments.
     E-mail: ORD [email protected].
     Mail: ORD Docket, Environmental Protection Agency, 
Mailcode: 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.
     Hand Delivery: EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), Room 3334, EPA 
West Building, 1301 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460, 
Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-0362. Deliveries are only 
accepted from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding 
legal holidays. Special arrangements should be made for deliveries of 
boxed information.
    Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-
2007-0362. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included 
in the public docket without change and may be made available online at 
www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided, 
unless the comment includes information claimed to be Confidential 
Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is 
restricted by statute. Do not submit information that you consider to 
be CBI or otherwise protected through www.regulations.gov

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or e-mail. The www.regulations.gov Web site is an ``anonymous access'' 
system, which means EPA will not know your identity or contact 
information unless you provide it in the body of your comment. If you 
send an e-mail comment directly to EPA, without going through 
www.regulations.gov, your e-mail address will be automatically captured 
and included as part of the comment that is placed in the public docket 
and made available on the Internet. If you submit an electronic 
comment, EPA recommends that you include your name and other contact 
information in the body of your comment and with any disk or CD-ROM you 
submit. If EPA cannot read your comment due to technical difficulties 
and cannot contact you for clarification, EPA may not be able to 
consider your comment. Electronic files should avoid the use of special 
characters, any form of encryption, and be free of any defects or 
viruses.
    Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the 
www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some 
information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information 
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such 
as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard copy. 
Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically 
in www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the ORD Docket, EPA/DC, EPA 
West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The 
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 ORD 
Docket is (202) 566-1752.

    Dated: May 30, 2007.
Jeffery Morris,
Acting Director, Office of Science Policy.
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