[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 154 (Monday, August 10, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 48243]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-17413]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-10012-82-Region 5]
Public Water System Supervision Program Approval for the State of
Ohio
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of tentative approval.
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) has tentatively approved a revision to the State of Ohio's
Public Water System Supervision Program under the federal Safe Drinking
Water Act (SDWA) by adopting the Arsenic Rule. The EPA has determined
this revision is no less stringent than the corresponding federal
regulation. Therefore, EPA intends to approve this revision to the
State of Ohio's Public Water System Supervision Program, thereby giving
the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency primary enforcement
responsibility for this regulation.
DATES: Any interested party may request a public hearing on this
determination. A request for a public hearing must be submitted by
September 9, 2020. The EPA Region 5 Administrator may deny frivolous or
insubstantial requests for a hearing. However, if a substantial request
for a public hearing is made by September 9, 2020, EPA Region 5 will
hold a public hearing, and a notice of such hearing will be published
in the Federal Register and a newspaper of general circulation. 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.
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 his own motion, this determination shall become final and
effective on September 9, 2020 and no further public notice will be
issued.
ADDRESSES: All documents relating to this determination are available
for inspection at the following offices between the hours of 9 a.m. and
4 p.m., Monday through Friday, except for official holidays and unless
the offices are inaccessible due to COVID-19: Ohio Environmental
Protection Agency, Division of Drinking and Ground Waters, 50 West Town
Street, Suite 700, Columbus, Ohio 43215; and the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency Region 5, Ground Water and Drinking Water Branch (WG-
15J), 77 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, Illinois 60604. Requestors can
email Wendy Drake, [email protected], to receive documents related to
this determination if offices are inaccessible.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Wendy Drake, EPA Region 5, Ground
Water and Drinking Water Branch, at the address given above, by
telephone at (312) 886-6705, or at [email protected].
Authority: Section 1413 of the Safe Drinking Water Act, 42
U.S.C. 300g-2, and the federal regulations implementing Section 1413
of the Act set forth at 40 CFR part 142.
Dated: August 4, 2020.
Kurt Thiede,
Regional Administrator, Region 5.
[FR Doc. 2020-17413 Filed 8-7-20; 8:45 am]
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