98-15858. Toxics Data Reporting Committee of the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology; Notice of Public Meeting

[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 114 (Monday, June 15, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32655-32656]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-15858]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OPPTS-400131; FRL-5796-8]


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 is providing 
notice of a 2-day meeting of the Toxics Data Reporting (TDR) Committee 
of the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and 
Technology (NACEPT). This will be the sixth 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 June 30, 1998 from 8:30 
a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and on July 1, 1998 from 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon. 
Written and electronic comments in response to this notice should be 
received by June 22, 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-400131. 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., Rm. G-099, East Tower, Washington, 
DC 20460.
    Comments and data may also be submitted electronically to: 
[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 action. 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 focus mainly on 
discussing options for burden reduction associated with the TRI 
program. The meeting will include discussion of the renewal of the 
Information Collection Request for the Alternate Reporting Threshold 
Certification Statement (Form A) and possible modifications to the Form 
A to increase burden reduction for eligible facilities. The TDR 
Committee will also spend some portion of the same meeting discussing 
options to reduce burden in complying with the TRI program, which were 
suggested by TDR members during the May meeting.
    Information on availability of meeting summaries from previous TDR 
meetings will be available 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, the 
agenda for the June 30 and July 1 Committee meeting will also 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 encouraged 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-
400131 (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 
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:

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    [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 
the docket control number OPPTS-400131. Electronic comments on this 
action may be filed online at many Federal Depository Libraries.

List of Subjects

    Environmental protection.

    Dated: June 9, 1998.

Cassandra Vail,

Designated Federal Official, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics.

[FR Doc. 98-15858 Filed 6-12-98; 8:45 am]
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