[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 163 (Wednesday, August 24, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51977-51978]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-18251]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-10085-01-R4]


Public Water System Supervision Program Revision for the State of 
Georgia

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of intended approval.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the State of Georgia is revising 
its approved Public Water System Supervision Program. Georgia has 
adopted drinking water regulations for the Lead and Copper Rule Minor 
Revisions, Public Notification Rule, Radionuclides Rule, Arsenic and 
Clarifications to Compliance and New Source Contaminants Monitoring 
Rule, Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule, Long Term 
2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule, Ground Water Rule, Lead and 
Copper Rule Short-Term Regulatory Revisions and Clarifications, and 
Revised Total Coliform Rule. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 
has determined that Georgia's regulations are no less stringent than 
these Federal rules and the revisions otherwise meet applicable Safe 
Drinking Water Act requirements. Therefore, the EPA intends to approve 
these revisions to the State of Georgia'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 September 23, 2022, to the 
Regional Administrator at the following address: U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, Region 4, Atlanta Federal Center, 61 Forsyth Street 
SW, Atlanta, Georgia 30303. The Regional Administrator may deny 
frivolous or insubstantial requests for a hearing. However, if a 
substantial request for a public hearing is made by September 23, 2022, 
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 his own motion, this determination shall become final 
on September 23, 2022. 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 location: Macon 
Conference Room, 3rd Floor Tower Building, Atlanta Federal Center, 61 
Forsyth Street SW, Atlanta, Georgia 30303. Those intending to view 
documents should contact Dale Froneberger, EPA Region 4, by telephone 
at (404) 562-9446 at least 24 hours prior to arriving to coordinate 
viewing.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dale Froneberger, EPA Region 4, Safe 
Drinking Water Branch, by telephone at (404) 562-9446, or by email at 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The State of Georgia has submitted requests 
that the EPA approve revisions to the State's Safe Drinking Water Act 
Public Water System Supervision Program to include the authority to 
implement and enforce the Lead and Copper Rule Minor Revisions, Public 
Notification Rule, Radionuclides Rule, Arsenic and Clarifications to 
Compliance and New Source Contaminants Monitoring Rule, Stage 2 
Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule, Long Term 2 Enhanced 
Surface Water Treatment Rule, Ground Water Rule, Lead and Copper Rule 
Short-Term Regulatory Revisions and Clarifications, and

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Revised Total Coliform Rule. For the requests to be approved, the EPA 
must find the state regulations codified at Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. r. 
391-3-5 to be no less stringent than the Federal rules codified at 40 
CFR part 141. The EPA reviewed Georgia's applications 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 rules, regulatory 
crosswalks, and the EPA regulatory guidance to determine whether the 
requests for revision are approvable. The EPA determined that the 
Georgia regulations are no less stringent than the corresponding 
Federal rules and the revisions otherwise meet applicable Safe Drinking 
Water Act requirements. Therefore, the EPA intends to approve these 
revisions. 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 his own motion, this approval shall become final on 
September 23, 2022.
    Authority: Section 1413 of the Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended 
(1996), and 40 CFR part 142.

    Dated: August 18, 2022.
Daniel Blackman,
Regional Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2022-18251 Filed 8-23-22; 8:45 am]
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