[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 173 (Tuesday, September 8, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 47494]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-24086]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-6157-9]
Air Quality Criteria for Carbon Monoxide
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting: Peer-Review Workshop on Air Quality
Criteria for Carbon Monoxide.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing a
meeting organized, convened, and conducted by the Eastern Research
Group, Inc., a contractor to the EPA for external scientific peer
consultation, to facilitate the preparation of an external review draft
of the Carbon Monoxide Air Quality Criteria Document. All interested
parties may attend and assist in developing and refining the scientific
information base available for accomplishing this task.
DATES: The meeting dates are September 17 and 18, 1998.
ADDRESSES: The Durham Marriott (formerly Durham Omni), will be the
meeting site. It is located on 201 Foster St. in Durham, North
Carolina; the telephone number is 919-683-6664. The times for the
meetings are 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on the first day and 8:30 a.m. to
12:30 p.m. on the second day. At the time of the meetings, the Eastern
Research Group will make available copies of the draft chapters that
the workshop sessions will be reviewing.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Linda Cooper (telephone 919-468-
7878) for registration information and logistics and Ms. Monica
Seagroves (telephone 919-468-7825) for technical information. Ms.
Cooper and Ms. Seagroves work for Eastern Research Group, Inc.,
Engineering and Science Division, 1600 Perimeter Park, P.O. Box 2010,
Morrisville, NC 27560-2010.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) is updating and revising, where appropriate, the EPA's Air
Quality Criteria for Carbon Monoxide (CO). Sections 108 and 109 of the
Clean Air Act require that the EPA carry out a periodic review and
revision, where appropriate, of the criteria and the National Ambient
Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for the ``criteria'' air pollutants such
as carbon monoxide.
The EPA will keep the public informed, through subsequent Federal
Register notice announcements, of additional opportunities for public
input into the preparation process, such as the public comment period
following the release of the first external review draft of the Carbon
Monoxide Air Quality Criteria Document and the Clean Air Scientific
Advisory Committee (CASAC) review in early 1999.
Dated: September 1, 1998.
William H. Farland, Ph.D.,
Director, National Center for Environmental Assessment.
[FR Doc. 98-24086 Filed 9-4-98; 8:45 am]
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