[Federal Register: June 6, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 109)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 33898]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Chapter I
[FRL-7509-6]
Advisory Committee for Regulatory Negotiation Concerning All
Appropriate Inquiry; Meeting
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency, as required by the
Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), is announcing the date
and location of an upcoming meeting of the Negotiated Rulemaking
Committee On All Appropriate Inquiry.
DATES: A meeting of the Federal Advisory Committee on Regulatory
Negotiation for All Appropriate Inquiry is scheduled for July 8 and
July 9, 2003.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will take place at the Hotel Washington, 15th
and Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20004. The meeting is
scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. and end at 4:30 p.m. on both days.
Dates and locations of subsequent meetings will be announced in later
notices.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Persons needing further information
should contact Patricia Overmeyer of EPA's Office of Brownfields
Cleanup and Redevelopment, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Mailcode 5105T,
Washington, DC 20460, (202) 566-2774, or overmeyer.patricia@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Small Business Liability Relief
and Brownfields Revitalization Act, EPA is required to develop
standards and practices for carrying out all appropriate inquiry. The
Federal Advisory Committee meeting is for the purpose of negotiating
the contents of a proposed regulation setting federal standards and
practices for conducting all appropriate inquiry. At its meeting on
July 8 and 9, the Committee will continue substantive deliberations on
the proposed rulemaking including discussion of the criteria
established by Congress in the Small Business Liability Relief and
Brownfields Revitalization Act amendments to CERCLA (101)(35)(B)(iii).
These criteria include:
``(I) The results of an inquiry by an environmental professional.
(II) Interviews with past and present owners, operators, and
occupants of the facility for the purpose of gathering information
regarding the potential for contamination at the facility.
(III) Reviews of historical sources, such as chain of title
documents, aerial photographs, building department records, and land
use records, to determine previous uses and occupancies of the real
property since the property was first developed.
(IV) Searches for recorded environmental cleanup liens against the
facility that are filed under Federal, State, or local law.
(V) Reviews of Federal, State, and local government records, waste
disposal records, underground storage tank records, and hazardous waste
handling, generation, treatment, disposal, and spill records,
concerning contamination at or near the facility.''
All meetings of the Negotiated Rulemaking Committee are open to the
public. There is no requirement for advance registration for members of
the public who wish to attend or make comments at the meeting.
Opportunity for the general public to address the Committee will be
provided starting at 2:30 p.m. on both July 8 and July 9, 2003.
Dated: June 2, 2003.
Thomas P. Dunne,
Associate Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency
Response.
[FR Doc. 03-14322 Filed 6-5-03; 8:45 am]
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