[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 119 (Thursday, June 21, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34249-34250]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-12049]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-8329-8]


Public Water System Supervision Program Revisions for the State 
of Michigan

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of tentative approval.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the State of Michigan is revising 
its approved Public Water System Supervision Program. Michigan has 
formally requested primary enforcement authority for the Radionuclides 
Rule, which will reduce exposure to radionuclides in drinking water and 
reduce the risk of cancer; the Arsenic and Clarifications to Compliance 
and New Source Monitoring (Arsenic) Rule, which requires community and 
non-transient non-community water systems to comply with the revised 
arsenic maximum contaminant level of 0.010 mg/L; the Long Term 1 
Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule (LT1ESWTR), which improves public 
health protection through the control of microbial pathogens, 
specifically Cryptosporidium, in drinking water; and, the Filter 
Backwash Recycling Rule (FBRR), which requires changes to the return of 
recycle flows to a water treatment plant's process that may otherwise 
compromise microbial control.
    EPA has determined that these revisions are no less stringent than 
the corresponding federal regulations. Therefore, EPA intends to 
approve these program rules. This approval action does not extend to 
public water systems (PWSs) in Indian Country, as that term is defined 
in 18 U.S.C. 1151. By approving these rules, EPA does not intend to 
affect the rights of federally recognized Indian tribes in Michigan, 
nor does it intend to limit existing rights of the State of Michigan. 
Any interested party may request a public hearing. A request for a 
public hearing must be submitted by July 23, 2007, to the Regional 
Administrator at the EPA Region 5 address shown below. The Regional 
Administrator may deny frivolous or insubstantial requests for a 
hearing. However, if a substantial request for a public hearing is made 
by July 23, 2007, EPA Region 5 will hold a public hearing. If EPA 
Region 5 does not receive a timely and appropriate request for a 
hearing and the Regional Administrator does not elect to hold a hearing 
on her own motion, this determination shall become final and effective 
on July 23, 2007. Any request for a public hearing shall include the 
following information: the name, address, and telephone number of the 
individual, organization, or other entity requesting a hearing; a brief 
statement of the requesting person's interest in the Regional 
Administrator's determination and a brief statement of the information 
that the requesting person intends to submit at such hearing; and the 
signature of the individual making the request, or, if the request is 
made on behalf of an organization or other entity, the signature of a 
responsible official of the organization or other entity.

ADDRESSES: All documents relating to this determination are available 
for inspection at the following offices: Michigan Department of 
Environmental Quality, Water Bureau, Constitution Hall, 525 W. Allegany 
Street, 2nd Floor, P.O. Box 30273, Lansing, Michigan 48909-7773, 
between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, and 
the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5, Ground 
Water and Drinking Water Branch (WG-15J), 77 West Jackson Boulevard, 
Chicago, Illinois 60604, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., 
Monday through Friday.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jennifer Kurtz Crooks, EPA Region 5, 
Ground Water and Drinking Water Branch, at the address given above, by 
telephone at (312) 886-0244, or at [email protected].

    Authority: Section 1413 of the Safe Drinking Water Act, as 
amended, 42 U.S.C. 3006-2 (1996), and 40 CFR part 142 of the

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National Primary Drinking Water Regulations.

    Dated: June 5, 2007.
Walter W. Kovalick, Jr.,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 5.
[FR Doc. E7-12049 Filed 6-20-07; 8:45 am]
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