98-5724. Toxics Data Reporting Committee of the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology; Notice of Public Meeting

[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 43 (Thursday, March 5, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10875-10876]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-5724]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OPPTS-400126; FRL-5776-1]


Toxics Data Reporting Committee of the National Advisory Council 
for Environmental Policy and Technology; Notice of Public Meeting

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: Under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, EPA gives notice of 
a 2-day meeting of the Toxics Data Reporting Committee of the National 
Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology. This will be 
the third meeting of the Toxics Data Reporting (TDR) Committee, whose 
mission is to provide advice to EPA regarding the Agency's Toxics 
Release Inventory (TRI) Program.

DATES: The public meeting will take place on March 19-20, 1998, from 
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Written and electronic comments in response to this 
notice should be received by March 13, 1998.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at: Double Tree National Airport, 
300 Army Navy Drive, Arlington, VA, Telephone number: [phone].
    Each comment must bear the docket control number ``OPPTS-400126.'' 
All comments should be sent in triplicate to: OPPT Document Control 
Officer (7407), Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, 
Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M St., SW., Room G099, East Tower, 
Washington, DC 20460.
    Comments and data may also be submitted electronically to: oppt. 
[e-mail]. Follow the instructions under Unit II. of this 
document. No Confidential Business Information (CBI) should be 
submitted through e-mail.
    All comments which contain information claimed as CBI must be 
clearly marked as such. Three sanitized copies of any comments 
containing information claimed as CBI must also be submitted and will 
be placed in the public record for this rulemaking. Persons submitting 
information on any portion of which they believe is entitled to 
treatment as CBI by EPA must assert a business confidentiality claim in 
accordance with 40 CFR 2.203(b) for each such portion. This claim must 
be made at the time that the information is submitted to EPA. If a 
submitter does not assert a confidentiality claim at the time of 
submission, EPA will consider this as a waiver of any confidentiality 
claim and the information may be made available to the public by EPA 
without further notice to the submitter.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cassandra Vail, telephone: (202) 260-
0675, fax number: [phone], e-mail: 
[e-mail]. or Michelle Price, telephone: (202) 
260-3372, fax number: [phone], e-mail: 
[e-mail].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    At the 2-day meeting, the TDR Committee will conclude the 
discussions begun at the December 9-10, 1997 meeting regarding how the 
Agency characterizes the TRI data through the annual public data 
release. In addition, the TDR Committee will revisit the section 8 
issues discussed at the January 29-30 meeting. Section 8 of the Form R 
collects information required by the Pollution Prevention Act 
concerning waste management and source reduction of toxic chemicals. 
The TDR Committee will then revisit issues raised at all the previous 
TDR meetings regarding sections 5, 6, 7, and 8 of the Form R. The goal 
will be to try to synthesize the TDR Committee's ideas with regard to 
revisions to the Form R.
    Meeting summaries, transcripts, agendas, and issue papers from 
previous TDR Committee meetings can be found on the TRI Home Page. The 
address of the TRI Home Page is http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/tri. This 
information can be found under the heading ``TRI Stakeholder 
Dialogue.'' In addition, an agenda for the March 19-20 meeting will be 
available at this same site prior to the meeting. Oral presentations or 
statements by interested parties will be limited to 5 minutes. 
Interested parties are requested to contact Cassandra Vail, to schedule 
presentations before the Committee.

II. Public Record and Electronic Submissions

    The official record for this action, as well as the public version, 
has been established for this action under docket control number 
``OPPTS-400126'' (including comments and data submitted electronically 
as described below). A public version of this record, including 
printed, paper versions of electronic comments, which does not include 
any information claimed as CBI, is available for inspection from 12 
noon to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The 
official rulemaking record is located in the TSCA Nonconfidential 
Information Center, Rm. NE-B607, 401 M St., SW., Washington, DC.
    Electronic comments can be sent directly to EPA at:
    [e-mail]


    Electronic comments must be submitted as an ASCII file avoiding the 
use of special characters and any form of encryption. Comments and data 
will also be accepted on disks in WordPerfect 5.1/6.1 or ASCII file 
format. All comments and data in electronic form must be identified by

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the docket control number ``OPPTS-400126.'' Electronic comments on this 
action may be filed online at many Federal Depository Libraries.

List of Subjects

    Environmental protection.

    Dated: February 26, 1998.
Cassandra Vail,
Designated Federal Official.

[FR Doc. 98-5724 Filed 3-4-98; 8:45 am]
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