95-29033. Comprehensive Drinking Water Program Redirection Plan Availability of Draft Document and Request for Comment

[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 229 (Wednesday, November 29, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 61254]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-29033]



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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-5335-6]


Comprehensive Drinking Water Program Redirection Plan 
Availability of Draft Document and Request for Comment

    This notice announces the availability of the draft document 
``Comprehensive Drinking Water Program Redirection Plan'' and the 
Agency's request for public comment. The document will be available 
through the Safe Drinking Water Hotline and the Office of Water 
Resource Center on November 30, 1995. The purpose of this document is 
designed to report the results of extensive stakeholder involvement in 
redirecting the drinking water program. These actions are part of a 
Presidential initiative that is intended to ``substantially improve the 
existing regulatory system to move the Nation toward a new and better 
environmental management system for the 21st century.'' The redirection 
includes: (1) Establishing priorities and new schedules for setting 
safety standards based on health risks and sound science; (2) 
Supporting the Partnership for Safe Water, which represents a new level 
of cooperation between EPA, States and stakeholders to protect public 
health; and (3) Simplifying and streamlining monitoring requirements 
for chemical contaminants and allowing further tailoring of monitoring 
to local contaminant threats.
    Oral public comments will be taken by the National Drinking Water 
Advisory Council at its conference call meeting on December 11, 1995. 
(Note: The Notice of this meeting and a subsequent meeting on this 
subject will be announced in this Federal Register. See notice for time 
and location.) Written comments will be accepted until January 17, 
1996, and can be sent to Redirection Comment Clerk, Water Docket 
MC4101; Environmental Protection Agency; 401 M Street SW; Washington, 
DC 20460. Comments should be accompanied by any references cited. It is 
requested that an original and 3 copies of the written comments and 
enclosures be submitted. A copy of the comments and supporting 
documents cited in the report are available for review at EPA's Water 
Docket at the above address. For access to the Docket materials, call 
[phone] between 9:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. for an appointment. All 
comments must be postmarked or delivered by hand by January 17, 1996. 
No facsimiles (faxes) will be accepted.
    To obtain a copy of the document, call the Safe Drinking Water 
Hotline at 1-800-426-4791 or write the Office of Water Resource Center 
(RC4100), U.S. EPA, 401 M Street SW, Washington, DC 20460. A single 
copy of this document can be picked up at the Resource Center in Room 
G099B at the address above. The Center is open from 8:30 a.m. until 5 
p.m., Monday through Friday.

    Dated: November 22, 1995.
Peter L. Cook,
Acting Director, Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water.
[FR Doc. 95-29033 Filed 11-28-95; 8:45 am]
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