[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 207 (Friday, October 24, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63472-63473]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-25409]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-8734-4]


Public Water System Supervision Program Revisions for the State 
of Minnesota

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of tentative approval.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the State of Minnesota is revising 
its approved Public Water System Supervision Program. Minnesota has 
revised the following rules: Disinfectants/Disinfection Byproducts Rule 
(DBPR); Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule (IESWTR); Long 
Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule; Small Public Water 
Systems Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Requirements, Suspension; 
Chemical and Microbiological Contaminants, Analytical Methods and 
Laboratory Certification Requirements Revisions; IESWTR, Stage 1 DBPR 
and State Primacy Requirements, Revisions; Pollutant Analysis, Test 
Procedures, Guidelines Establishment; IESWTR, Stage 1 DBPR and State 
Primacy Requirements, Revisions; and IESWTR, Stage 1 DBPR and State 
Primacy Requirements, Revisions, Correction; Radionuclides Rule; 
Arsenic and Clarifications to Compliance and New Source Contamination 
Monitoring Rule; Filter Backwash Recycling Rule; Analytical Method for 
Coliforms and E. coli Rule; Lead and Copper Minor Revisions Rule; 
Analytical Method for Uranium Rule; Public Notification Rule; Removal 
of the Chloroform Maximum Contaminant Level Goal Rule; Guidelines for 
Establishing Test Procedures for the analysis of Pollutants; and minor 
clarifications, revisions or corrections to previously adopted rules.
    EPA has determined that these revisions by the State are no less 
stringent than the corresponding federal regulations. Therefore, EPA 
intends to approve these revisions to the State of Minnesota's Public 
Water System Supervision Program. This approval action does not extend 
to public water systems in Indian Country, as the 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 Minnesota, nor does 
it intend to limit existing rights of the State of Minnesota. Any 
interested party may request a public hearing. A request for a public 
hearing must be submitted by November 24, 2008, 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 November 24, 2008, 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 November 24, 2008. 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: Minnesota Department of 
Health, 625 North Robert Street, P.O. Box 64975, St. Paul, Minnesota 
55164-0975, 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.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Janet Kuefler, EPA Region 5, Ground 
Water and Drinking Water Branch, at the address given above, by 
telephone at (312) 886-0123, 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 
National Primary Drinking Water Regulations.

    Dated: October 2, 2008.
Lynn Buhl,
Regional Administrator, Region 5.
[FR Doc. E8-25409 Filed 10-23-08; 8:45 am]
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