[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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