[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 171 (Friday, September 3, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 48392]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-23061]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-6433-2]
Request for Nominations to the National Advisory Council for
Environmental Policy and Technology, New Standing Committee on
Compliance Assistance
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of request for nominations.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is inviting
nominations for membership on its National Advisory Council for
Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT), new Standing Committee on
Compliance Assistance. The Agency is seeking qualified senior level
decision makers from diverse stakeholder groups throughout the U.S. to
be considered for appointments. Nominations will be accepted until
close of business September 10, 1999, and must include a resume and
short biography describing the educational and professional
qualifications of the nominee and the nominee's current business
address and daytime telephone number.
DATES: Nominations will be accepted until close of business on
September 10, 1999.
ADDRESSES: Submit nominations to Ms. Gina Bushong, Office of
Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA), U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, MC 2224A, 401 M Street, SW, Washington, D.C. 20460.
You may also E-mail nominations to bushong.gina@epa.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Gina Bushong, Office of
Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA), U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, MC 2224A, 401 M Street, SW, Washington, D.C. 20460.
You may also E-mail nominations to bushong.gina@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NACEPT is a federal advisory committee under
the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92463. NACEPT provides
advice and recommendations to the Administrator and other EPA officials
on a broad range of domestic and international environmental policy
issues. NACEPT consists of a representative cross-section of EPA's
partners and principal constituents who provide advice and
recommendations on policy issues and serve as a sounding board for new
strategies that the Agency is developing. Maintaining a balance and
diversity of experience, knowledge, and judgment is an important
consideration in the selection of members.
The Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA) has
recently completed work on an action plan, ``Innovative Approaches to
Enforcement and Compliance Assurance.'' The OECA action plan draws on
the ideas from an Agency-wide Innovations Task Force, public dialogue
such as OECA's ``East coast'' and ``West coast'' stakeholder
conferences, and stakeholder discussions in regional offices and at
Headquarters. The tasks described in the Agency report (available at
www.epa.gov/reinvent) and the OECA action plan will change fundamental
aspects of our compliance assistance planning and programs.
To ensure that the compliance assistance activities in the action
plan are implemented in a way that continues to reflect stakeholder
needs, the Administrator has asked NACEPT to create a new Standing
Committee on Compliance Assistance. This will provide a continuing
Federal Advisory Committee forum from which the Agency can continue to
receive valuable multi-stakeholder advice and recommendations on
compliance assistance activities.
The Standing Committee on Compliance Assistance will, through
NACEPT (the Council): (1) provide guidance on the development of an
Agency-wide annual compliance assistance plan which identifies major
planned compliance assistance work; (2) provide input to the design and
implementation of a clearinghouse of compliance assistance information;
and (3) guide the planning of a forum to bring together government and
private compliance assistance providers. We are accepting nominations
for approximately 15-20 members. Criteria for selection of nominees
will include the following:
--Demonstrated experience in compliance assistance activities
--Representation from a broad range of EPA stakeholder groups which
have interest and experience in reinvention approaches to environmental
problems, including but not limited to business/industry, state/local/
tribal governments, national and local environmental, environmental
justice, and labor groups.
--Senior level representatives with decision-making authority for their
organization.
--Representatives with experience working collaboratively with
stakeholder groups in addition to their own.
Nominations for membership must include a resume and short
biography describing the educational and professional qualifications of
the nominee and the nominee's current business address and daytime
telephone number. Nominees invited to participate will receive an
invitation from EPA's Deputy Administrator.
Dated: August 30, 1999.
Joe Sierra,
Designated Federal Officer.
[FR Doc. 99-23061 Filed 9-2-99; 8:45 am]
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