[Federal Register: March 14, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 50)]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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Clinch and Powell Valley Watershed Ecological Risk Assessment
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
ACTION: Notice of availability of final document.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces the
availability of a final document, Clinch and Powell Valley Watershed
Ecological Risk Assessment (EPA/600/R-01/050, September 2002), prepared
as a collaborative effort between the National Center for Environmental
Assessment--Washington (NCEA-W) within EPA's Office of Research and
Development, The Nature Conservancy, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and other organizations. This
watershed ecological risk assessment was developed to help protect the
native mussels and fish of the Clinch and Powell Valley watershed. The
report is based on the Guidelines for Ecological Risk Assessment (U.S.
EPA, 1998) and advice and support from NCEA, while exercising the
necessary flexibility to implement the risk assessment approach at the
watershed scale. The document includes brief descriptions of the
process that the workgroup followed and the major analyses performed.
ADDRESSES: The document is available electronically from the NCEA Web
site (http://www.epa.gov/ncea) under Selected Topics, Watershed
site (http://www.epa.gov/ncea) under Selected Topics, Watershed
Assessment. A limited number of copies will be available from EPA's
National Service Center for Environmental Publications (NSCEP), P.O.
Box 42419, Cincinnati, OH 45242; telephone: 1-800-490-9198 or 513-489-
8190; facsimile 513-489-8695. Please provide your name and mailing
address and the title and EPA number when ordering from NSCEP.
Documents also may be ordered via the Internet at http://www.epa.gov/
NCEPIhome/orderpub.html.
Paper copies may be purchased from the
National Technical Information Service (NTIS) in Springfield, VA (1-
800-553-NTIS[6847] or 703-605-6000; facsimile 703-321-8547). Please
provide the number, PB2003-101118, when ordering this document from
NTIS.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information, please
contact Victor Serveiss, National Center for Environmental Assessment
(8623D), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC 20460;
telephone: 202-564-3251; facsimile: 202-565-0076; e-mail:
serveiss.victor@epa.gov.
Dated: March 6, 2003.
George Alapas,
Acting Director, National Center for Environmental Assessment.
[FR Doc. 03-6194 Filed 3-13-03; 8:45 am]
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