97-25504. Public Meeting on Drinking Water Issues

[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 186 (Thursday, September 25, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 50335]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-25504]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Public Meeting on Drinking Water Issues

    Notice is hereby given that the Environmental Protection Agency 
(EPA) is holding a workshop for purposes of information exchange on 
issues related to developing a national estimate of waterborne disease 
occurrence. The purpose of the workshop will be to provide a brief 
review of the Safe Drinking Water Act mandate to develop a national 
estimate; review and discuss current approaches to developing the 
national estimate; review and discuss planned and ongoing 
epidemiological studies and the goals and methodologies of these 
studies; and discuss approaches for enhancing these studies as well as 
identifying additional studies that might be useful in improving the 
national estimate. Experts in epidemiology, biostatistics, public 
health and related fields will be invited to the workshop to offer 
their insight.
    The meeting will take place on October 9, 1997, from 8:30 a.m. 
until 5:30 p.m. and October 10, 1997 from 9:00 a.m. until 12:30 p.m., 
at the Washington National Airport Hilton at 2399 Jefferson Davis 
Highway, Arlington, VA 22202. The agenda will include discussion of 
methods for assessing rates of waterborne disease and the economic 
impact of those diseases. Discussion is expected to focus on the extent 
to which planned and ongoing studies can be used in developing a 
national estimate and other potentially viable approaches to developing 
this national estimate.
    EPA is inviting interested members of the public to participate in 
the meeting, which continues a series of public meetings that the 
Agency has been holding since last year on issues related to the 
development of regulations to control pathogens and disinfection 
byproducts in drinking water. As with all previous meetings in this 
series, EPA is maintaining an open door policy to allow members of the 
public to attend. To assist EPA in managing limitations on conference 
room seating, members of the public who are interested in attending are 
requested to contact Valerie Blank of EPA's Office of Ground Water and 
Drinking Water. Members of the public who are interested in additional 
information about this or other meetings in this series or who would 
like to be included on the mailing list to receive notice of further 
meetings in this series are also requested to contact Ms. Blank, who 
can be reached at 401 M Street, SW, 4607, Washington, DC 20460, (202) 
260-8376, [e-mail].

    Dated: September 19, 1997.
Elizabeth Fellows,
Acting Director, Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water.
[FR Doc. 97-25504 Filed 9-24-97; 8:45 am]
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