[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 37 (Monday, February 25, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 10026]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-3497]



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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OEI-2008-0133; FRL-8533-4]


Office of Environmental Information; Announcement of Availability 
and Comment Period for Revised Enforcement and Compliance and Tribal 
Identifier Data Standards

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of data availability & request for comment.

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SUMMARY: Notice of availability for a 30 day review and comment period 
is hereby given for two revised data standards--(1) Enforcement and 
Compliance Data Standard and (2)Tribal Identifier Data Standard. The 
Enforcement and Compliance Data Standard identifies and defines the 
major areas of enforcement and compliance information that could be 
used for the exchange of data among environmental agencies and other 
entities. The purpose of the standard is to provide a common lexicon, 
so that information about functionally similar activities and/or 
instruments can be stored.
    The Tribal Identifier Data Standard specifies the set of tribal 
names and codes necessary to constitute consistent and unambiguous 
identification of federally-recognized American Indian and Alaska 
Native entities. The Tribal Identifier Standard adopted the Bureau of 
Indian Affairs criteria of tribal entity identification (federally 
recognized tribes) and is not intended for the identification of 
geographic, demographic or economic tribal areas. The Bureau of Indian 
Affairs (BIA), is responsible for maintaining the official list of 
tribal names and codes according to their established criteria. This 
standard assists and supports the development of computerized 
applications that use tribal identifier information.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before March 29, 2008, 30 days 
after publication in the Federal Register.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
OEI-2008-0133, by one of the following methods:
     http://www.regulations.gov Follow the on-line instructions 
for submitting information.
     E-mail: [email protected].
     Fax: 202-566-1753.
     Mail: Environmental Protection Agency, EPA Docket Center 
(EPA/DC), Announcement of Availability and Comment Period for Revised 
Enforcement and Compliance and Tribal Identifier Data Standards, 
Mailcode: 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.
    Please include a total of four copies.
     Hand Delivery: EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room 
3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.
    Please include a total of four copies. Such deliveries are only 
accepted during the Docket's normal hours of operation, and special 
arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed information.
    Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OEI-
2008-0133. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included 
in the public docket without change and may be made available online at 
http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information 
provided, unless it 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 http://www.regulations.gov or [email protected]. The http://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 information. If you send an e-mail directly to EPA without going 
through http://www.regulations.gov your e-mail address will be 
automatically captured and included as part of the information 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. For additional information about EPA's public 
docket visit the EPA Docket Center homepage at: http://www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.
    Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the http://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 areavailable either electronically 
in http://www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the OEI Docket, EPA/
DC, EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. 
This Docket Facility 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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dawn Banks, Collection Strategies 
Division, Office of Environmental Information, U.S. EPA, 1200 
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., MC 2822T; Washington, DC 20460; phone (202) 
566-0625; fax (202) 566-1639; e-mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Standards are intended for use in 
environmental data exchanges among States, Tribal entities and U.S. 
EPA. They are not meant to dictate or 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 revised data standards are available through the Docket system 
as indicated above and at http://www.exchangenetwork.net/standards.

    Dated: February 20, 2008.
Sara Hisel-McCoy,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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