[Federal Register: October 24, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 207)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-8734-4]
Public Water System Supervision Program Revisions for the State
of Minnesota
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of tentative approval.
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the State of Minnesota is revising
its approved Public Water System Supervision Program. Minnesota has
revised the following rules: Disinfectants/Disinfection Byproducts Rule
(DBPR); Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule (IESWTR); Long
Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule; Small Public Water
Systems Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Requirements, Suspension;
Chemical and Microbiological Contaminants, Analytical Methods and
Laboratory Certification Requirements Revisions; IESWTR, Stage 1 DBPR
and State Primacy Requirements, Revisions; Pollutant Analysis, Test
Procedures, Guidelines Establishment; IESWTR, Stage 1 DBPR and State
Primacy Requirements, Revisions; and IESWTR, Stage 1 DBPR and State
Primacy Requirements, Revisions, Correction; Radionuclides Rule;
Arsenic and Clarifications to Compliance and New Source Contamination
Monitoring Rule; Filter Backwash Recycling Rule; Analytical Method for
Coliforms and E. coli Rule; Lead and Copper Minor Revisions Rule;
Analytical Method for Uranium Rule; Public Notification Rule; Removal
of the Chloroform Maximum Contaminant Level Goal Rule; Guidelines for
Establishing Test Procedures for the analysis of Pollutants; and minor
clarifications, revisions or corrections to previously adopted rules.
EPA has determined that these revisions by the State are no less
stringent than the corresponding federal regulations. Therefore, EPA
intends to approve these revisions to the State of Minnesota's Public
Water System Supervision Program. This approval action does not extend
to public water systems in Indian Country, as the term is defined in 18
U.S.C. 1151. By approving these rules, EPA does not intend to affect
the rights of federally recognized Indian Tribes in Minnesota, nor does
it intend to limit existing rights of the State of Minnesota. Any
interested party may request a public hearing. A request for a public
hearing must be submitted by November 24, 2008, to the Regional
Administrator at the EPA Region 5 address shown below. The Regional
Administrator may deny frivolous or insubstantial requests for a
hearing. However, if a substantial request for a public hearing is made
by November 24, 2008, EPA Region 5 will hold a public hearing. If EPA
Region 5 does not receive a timely and appropriate request for a
hearing and the Regional Administrator does not elect to hold a hearing
on her own motion, this determination shall become final and effective
on November 24, 2008. Any request for a public hearing shall include
the following information: The name, address, and telephone number of
the individual, organization, or other entity requesting a hearing; a
brief statement of the requesting person's interest in the Regional
Administrator's determination and a brief statement of the information
that the requesting person intends to submit at such hearing; and the
signature of the individual making the request, or, if the request is
made on behalf of an organization or other entity, the signature of a
responsible official of the organization or other entity.
ADDRESSES: All documents relating to this determination are available
for inspection at the following offices: Minnesota Department of
Health, 625 North Robert Street, P.O. Box 64975, St. Paul, Minnesota
55164-0975, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through
Friday, and the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region
5, Ground Water and Drinking Water Branch (WG-15J), 77 West Jackson
Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604, between the hours of 9 a.m. and
4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Janet Kuefler, EPA Region 5, Ground
Water and Drinking Water Branch, at the address given above, by
telephone at (312) 886-0123, or at kuefler.janet@epa.gov.
Authority: Section 1413 of the Safe Drinking Water Act, as
amended, 42 U.S.C. 3006-2 (1996), and 40 CFR part 142 of the
National Primary Drinking Water Regulations.
Dated: October 2, 2008.
Lynn Buhl,
Regional Administrator, Region 5.
[FR Doc. E8-25409 Filed 10-23-08; 8:45 am]
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