[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 45 (Friday, March 6, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13159-13160]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-04652]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-10006-08-Region 4]


Public Water System Supervision Program Revision for the State of 
Alabama

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of intended 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 drinking water regulations for the Revised Total Coliform Rule. 
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has determined that Alabama's

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regulations are no less stringent than the federal rule and the 
revision otherwise meets applicable Safe Drinking Water Act 
requirements. Therefore, EPA intends to approve 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 April 6, 2020, to the 
Regional Administrator at the EPA Region 4 street 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 April 6, 2020, a public hearing will be held. If no timely 
and appropriate request for a hearing is received and the Regional 
Administrator does not elect to hold a hearing on her own motion, this 
determination shall become final and effective on April 6, 2020. 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: Documents relating to this determination are available for 
inspection between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday through 
Friday (excluding legal holidays) at the following locations: The 
Drinking Water Branch, Alabama Department of Environmental Management, 
1400 Coliseum Boulevard, Montgomery, Alabama 36110; and the Drinking 
Water Section, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 4, 61 
Forsyth Street SW, Atlanta, Georgia 30303.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dale Froneberger, EPA Region 4, 
Drinking Water Section, by mail at the Atlanta street address given 
above, by telephone at (404) 562-9446, or by email at 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The State of Alabama has submitted a request 
that EPA approve a revision to the State's Safe Drinking Water Act 
Public Water System Supervision Program to include the authority to 
implement and enforce the Revised Total Coliform Rule. For the request 
to be approved, EPA must find the state regulations codified at ADEM 
Admin. Code r. 335-7 to be no less stringent than the federal rule 
codified at 40 CFR part 141. EPA reviewed Alabama's application using 
the federal statutory provisions (Section 1413 of the Safe Drinking 
Water Act), federal regulations (at 40 CFR parts 141 and 142), state 
regulations, state policies and procedures for implementing the rule, 
regulatory crosswalk, and EPA regulatory guidance to determine whether 
the request for revision is approvable. EPA determined that the Alabama 
regulations are no less stringent than the corresponding federal rule 
and the revision otherwise meets applicable Safe Drinking Water Act 
requirements. Therefore, EPA intends to approve this revision. If 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 approval shall become final and effective on April 6, 
2020.

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

    Dated: February 20, 2020.
Mary S. Walker,
Regional Administrator, Region 4.
[FR Doc. 2020-04652 Filed 3-5-20; 8:45 am]
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