[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 150 (Friday, August 2, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40413-40414]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-19705]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[AD-FRL-5546-6]
Notice of Establishment of the Industrial Combustion Coordinated
Rulemaking Advisory Committee
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Establishment of Industrial Combustion Coordinated Rulemaking
Advisory Committee.
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SUMMARY: As required by section 9(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (FACA), 5 U.S.C. App. 2, section 9(c), EPA hereby gives
notice of the establishment of the Industrial Combustion Coordinated
Rulemaking Advisory Committee (hereafter referred to as the
Coordinating Committee). The EPA has determined that this action is in
the public interest and that the Coordinating Committee will support
EPA in performing its duties and responsibilities under sections 111,
112, and 129 of the Clean Air Act (the Act).
The Coordinating Committee has been established and members will
include a balanced representation of interested persons with
professional qualifications and experience to contribute to the
functions of the Coordinating Committee. Members will be drawn from:
environmental, public health, pollution prevention, and environmental
justice groups; State/local regulatory agencies; affected sources
(includes a variety of industrial, commercial, and institutional
establishments as well as small businesses and government and tribal
agencies that own boilers, process heaters, waste incinerators,
combustion turbines, and/or IC engines); manufacturers--including small
business manufacturers--of combustors, emission controls, emission
monitoring/testing equipment, and pollution prevention techniques; fuel
producers and suppliers; labor and academic research; and EPA.
Another Federal Register notice will be published to announce the
initial meeting dates and the members selected by EPA to be on the
Coordinating Committee. The EPA is actively seeking nominations for the
Coordinating Committee and the Work Groups. The Federal Register notice
announcing the intent to form an Advisory Committee, requesting
nominations for candidates, and announcing a public meeting to be held
on July 24, 1996 was published on June 21, 1996 (61 FR 31883).
DATES: The first meeting of the Industrial Combustion Coordinated
Rulemaking Coordinating Committee will be held in early October. The
first Work Group meetings are also expected to be held in October.
INSPECTION OF DOCUMENTS: Docket. Minutes of the meetings, as well as
other relevant materials, will be available for public inspection at
EPA Air Docket No. A-96-17, and is also available on the Technology
Transfer Network (see below). The docket is open for public inspection
and copying between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday except for
Federal holidays, at the following address: U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Air and Radiation Docket and Information Center
(6102), 401 M Street SW., Washington, DC 20460. The docket is located
at the above address in Room M-1500, Waterside Mall (ground floor).
Copies of docket items may be mailed on request from the Air and
Radiation Docket and Information Center by calling (202) 260-7548 or
7549. The FAX number for the Center is (202) 260-4000. A reasonable fee
may be charged for copying.
Technology Transfer Network. The TTN is one of the EPA's electronic
bulletin boards. Information on the ICCR can be downloaded by choosing
the ``ICCR-Industrial Combustion Coordinated Rulemaking Process''
selection from the Technical Information Areas menu. The service is
free except for the cost of a phone call. Dial (919) 541-5472 for up to
a 14,400 bits-per-second (bps) modem. If more information on the TTN is
needed, call the help desk at (919) 541-5384.
ADDRESSES: The location of the upcoming Work Group meetings and
Coordinating Committee meeting will be announced in a later Federal
Register notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fred Porter, Combustion Group, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711;
telephone number (919) 541-5251.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Two copies of the Coordinating Committee
charter are filed with appropriate committees of Congress and the
Library
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of Congress and are available upon request. The purpose of the
Coordinating Committee is to assist EPA in the development of
regulations to control emissions of air pollutants from industrial,
commercial, and institutional combustion of fuels and non-hazardous
solid wastes. The Coordinating Committee will attempt to develop
recommendations for national emission standards for hazardous air
pollutants (NESHAP) implementing section 112 and solid waste combustion
regulations implementing section 129 of the Act, and may review and
make recommendations for revising and developing new source performance
standards (NSPS) under section 111 of the Act. The regulations will
cover boilers, process heaters, industrial/commercial and other (non-
hazardous) waste incinerators, stationary internal combustion engines,
and stationary gas turbines.
The Coordinating Committee will provide a means for considering
important regulatory issues and building stakeholder consensus on these
issues prior to proposal. The Coordinating Committee will establish
Work Groups as necessary to fulfill these objectives. The Coordinating
Committee approach will lead to better regulations and is consistent
with agency initiatives to use flexible, common-sense approaches, avoid
duplication, and involve stakeholders in the regulatory process.
The Coordinating Committee will coordinate information collection
and analysis for the various combustion source categories and make
recommendations on all aspects of the regulation including, but not
limited to, applicability, definitions, emissions limitations, testing,
monitoring, recordkeeping, and reporting requirements. The Coordinating
Committee shall hold meetings, collect and analyze information, analyze
issues, conduct reviews, perform studies, produce reports, and make
regulatory recommendations. In developing regulatory recommendations,
the Coordinating Committee will strive to reach consensus, where
consensus is defined as a recommendation that all parties can accept or
support, although it may not be their first choice. If consensus is not
reached, the Coordinating Committee shall report majority and minority
recommendations to EPA. The EPA retains its full and independent
decision-making authority and responsibility. A consensus-based
recommendation to EPA will, however, be given great consideration in
these decisions.
The Coordinating Committee likely will need several closely-spaced
meetings during the initial phases of the Industrial Combustion
Coordinated Rulemaking. After that, regular quarterly meetings may be
sufficient. The FACA requires that these meetings be open to the public
and that there be an opportunity for interested persons to file
comments before or after meetings, or to make statements as permitted
by the Coordinating Committee's guidelines and to the extent time
permits. In accordance with these requirements, the first and
subsequent meetings of the Coordinating Committee will be open to the
public. Any comments can be sent to the docket at the address listed
under ``Inspection of Documents''.
Dated: July 26, 1996.
Mary D. Nichols,
Assistant Administrator.
[FR Doc. 96-19705 Filed 8-1-96; 8:45 am]
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