[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 145 (Friday, July 27, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44238-44239]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-18387]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-R04-OW-2012-0449; FRL-9705-1]


Public Water System Supervision Program Revision for the State of 
Alabama

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of tentative approval.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the State of Alabama is revising 
its approved Public Water System Supervision Program. Alabama has 
adopted the following rule: Public Notification Rule. EPA has 
determined that Alabama's rule is no less stringent than the 
corresponding federal regulation. Therefore, EPA is tentatively 
approving this revision to the State of Alabama's Public Water System 
Supervision Program.

DATES: Any interested person may request a public hearing. A request 
for a public hearing must be submitted by August 27, 2012, to the 
Regional Administrator at the EPA Region 4 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 August 27, 2012, a public hearing will be held. If EPA Region 4 
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 tentative approval shall become final and effective on 
August 27, 2012. 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

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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 between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday 
through Friday, at the following offices: Alabama Department of 
Environmental Management, Drinking Water Branch, 1400 Coliseum 
Boulevard, Montgomery, Alabama 36130; and the U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, Region 4, Safe Drinking Water Branch, 61 Forsyth 
Street SW., Atlanta, Georgia 30303.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Burns, EPA Region 4, Safe 
Drinking Water Branch, at the address given above, by telephone at 
(404) 562-9456, or at [email protected].
    EPA Analysis: On May 27, 2004, the State of Alabama submitted a 
request that the Region approve revisions to the State's Safe Drinking 
Water Act Public Water System Supervision Program to include the 
authority to implement and enforce the Public Notification Rule. For 
the revisions to be approved, the EPA must find the State Rule, ADEM 
Admin. Code r. 335-7-2-.21, to be no less stringent than the Federal 
Public Notification Rule, codified at 40 CFR Part 141, Subpart Q. EPA 
reviewed the application using the Federal statutory provisions 
(Section 1413 of the Safe Drinking Water Act), Federal regulations (at 
40 CFR part 142), State regulations, rule crosswalks, and EPA 
regulatory guidance to determine whether the request for revisions is 
approvable. EPA determined that the Alabama revisions are no less 
stringent than the corresponding Federal regulations.
    EPA Action: The EPA is tentatively approving this revision. If the 
EPA 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 tentative approval will become final and effective on 
August 27, 2012.

    Authority:  Section 1413 of the Safe Drinking Water Act, as 
amended (1996), and 40 CFR part 142.

    Dated: July 11, 2012.
Gwendolyn Keyes Fleming,
Regional Administrator, Region 4.
[FR Doc. 2012-18387 Filed 7-26-12; 8:45 am]
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