[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 27 (Tuesday, February 10, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 6754]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-3321]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-5964-4]
Ambient Air Monitoring Reference and Equivalent Methods; Receipt
of Applications for Reference and Equivalent Method Determinations
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
ACTION: Notice of receipt of applications.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing that
it has received applications from Rupprecht and Patashnick Company,
Incorporated, Thermo Environmental Instruments, Incorporated, BGI,
Incorporated, and Graseby Andersen for reference method determinations
for their respective PM2.5 particle samplers, and from
Dasibi Environmental Corporation for an equivalent method determination
for their Model 1108 Ozone Analyzer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Frank F. McElroy, Human Exposure and Atmospheric Sciences Division (MD-
46), National Exposure Research Laboratory, U.S. EPA, Research Triangle
Park, North Carolina 27711, (919) 541-2622.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is given that EPA has received
applications to determine if six new PM2.5 monitoring
methods and a new continuous ozone analyzer method should be designated
by the Administrator of the EPA as reference or equivalent methods
under 40 CFR PART 53. Two applications were received on October 7, 1997
from Rupprecht and Patashnick Company, Incorporated, 25 Corporate
Circle, Albany, New York 12203 for that Company's Partisol-
FRM Model 2000 (single) and Partisol-FRM Model 2025
(sequential) PM-2.5 Air Samplers. An application was received on
October 8, 1997 from Thermo Environmental Instruments, Incorporated, 8
West Forge Parkway, Franklin, Massachusetts 02038 regarding its Model
605/FH95-E Computer Assisted Particle Sampler for PM2.5.
Another application was received, also on October 8, 1997, from BGI,
Incorporated, 58 Guinan Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02154 for BGI's
Model PQ-200 PM2.5 Ambient Fine Particle Sampler. And an application
was received on January 8, 1998 from Graseby Andersen, 500 Technology
Court, Smyrna, Georgia 30082 for that Company's Models RAAS2.5-100
(single) and RAAS2.5-300 (sequential) PM2.5 Samplers.
Finally, an application was received on December 4, 1997 from Dasibi
Environmental Corporation, 506 Paula Avenue, Glendale, California 91201
for Dasibi's Model 1108 Ozone Analyzer. If, after appropriate technical
study, the Administrator determines that any or all of these methods
should be designated as reference or equivalent methods, as
appropriate, notice thereof will be published in a subsequent issue of
the Federal Register.
Henry L. Longest II,
Acting Assistant Administrator for Research and Development.
[FR Doc. 98-3321 Filed 2-9-98; 8:45 am]
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