[Federal Register: November 18, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 222)]
[Notices]               
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Availability of FY 01 Grant Performance Reports for States of 
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee, 
and the Commonwealth of Kentucky

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of availability of grantee performance evaluation 
reports.

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SUMMARY: EPA's grant regulations (40 CFR 35.150) require the Agency to 
evaluate the performance of agencies which receive grants. EPA's 
regulations for regional consistency (40 CFR 56.7) require that the 
Agency notify the public of the availability of the reports of such 
evaluations. EPA performed end-of-year evaluations of seven state air 
pollution control programs (Alabama Department of Environmental 
Management; Florida Department of Environmental Protection; Georgia 
Department of Natural Resources; Kentucky Department for Environmental 
Protection; Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality; South 
Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control; and Tennessee 
Department of Environment & Conservation) and 15 local programs 
(Jefferson County Department of Health, AL; City of Huntsville 
Department of Natural Resources, AL; Broward County Environmental 
Quality Control Board, FL; Jacksonville Air Quality Division, FL; 
Hillsborough County Environmental Protection Commission, FL; Dade 
County Environmental Resources

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Management, FL; Palm Beach County Public Health Department, FL; 
Pinellas County Department of Environmental Management, FL; Jefferson 
County, KY; Forsyth County Environmental Affairs Department, NC; 
Mecklenburg County Department of Environmental Protection, NC; Western 
North Carolina Regional Air Pollution Control Agency, NC; Chattanooga-
Hamilton County Air Pollution Control Bureau, TN; Knox County 
Department of Air Pollution Control, TN; and Nashville-Davidson County 
Metropolitan Health Department, TN). The 22 evaluations were conducted 
to assess the agencies' performance under the grants awarded by EPA 
under authority of section 105 of the Clean Air Act. EPA Region 4 has 
prepared reports for each agency identified above and these reports are 
now available for public inspection. The evaluations for the remainder 
of the State and local governments will be published at a later date.

ADDRESSES: The reports may be examined at the EPA's Region 4 office, 61 
Forsyth Street, SW., Atlanta, Georgia 30303, in the Air, Pesticides, 
and Toxics Management Division.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marie Persinger (404) 562-9048, for 
information concerning the States of Alabama and Georgia and the 
Commonwealth of Kentucky; Gloria Knight, (404) 562-9064, for 
information concerning the States of Florida and Mississippi; or Rayna 
Brown for the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. 
They may be contacted at the above Region 4 address.

    Dated: November 6, 2002.
J.I. Palmer, Jr.,
Regional Administrator, Region 4.
[FR Doc. 02-29173 Filed 11-15-02; 8:45 am]

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