[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 198 (Thursday, October 14, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 63177]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-25897]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-9213-6]
Availability of FY 09 Grantee Performance Evaluation Reports for
the Eight States of EPA Region 4 and 16 Local Agencies
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of availability; Clean Air Act Section 105 grantee
performance evaluation reports.
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SUMMARY: EPA's grant regulations (40 CFR 35.115) 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 eight state air
pollution control programs (Alabama Department of Environmental
Management; Florida Department of Environmental Protection; Georgia
Department of Natural Resources; Commonwealth of Kentucky Department
for Environmental Protection; Mississippi Department of Environmental
Quality; North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural
Resources; South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental
Control; and Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation) and
16 local programs (City of Huntsville Division of Natural Resources,
AL; Jefferson County Department of Health, AL; Broward County
Environmental Protection Department, FL; City of Jacksonville
Environmental Quality Division, FL; Hillsborough County Environmental
Protection Commission, FL; Miami-Dade County Air Quality Management
Division, FL; Palm Beach County Health Department, FL; Pinellas County
Department of Environmental Management, FL; Louisville Metro Air
Pollution Control District, KY; Forsyth County Environmental Affairs
Department, NC; Mecklenburg County Land Use and Environmental Services
Agency, NC; Western North Carolina Regional Air Quality Agency, NC;
Chattanooga-Hamilton County Air Pollution Control Bureau, TN; Memphis-
Shelby County Health Department, TN; Knox County Department of Air
Quality Management, TN; and Metropolitan Government of Nashville and
Davidson County Public Health Department, TN). The 24 evaluations were
conducted to assess the agencies' Fiscal Year 2009 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.
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. The Regional Office's official hours of
business are Monday through Friday, 8:30 to 4:30, excluding federal
holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marie Persinger (404) 562-9048 for
information concerning the state and local agencies of Alabama and
Kentucky; Artra Cooper (404) 562-9047 for the state and local agencies
of Florida; Mary Echols (404) 562-9053 for the state agency of Georgia;
Seema Rao (404) 562-8429 for the state and local agencies of North
Carolina; Angela Isom (404) 562-9092 for the state agencies of
Mississippi and South Carolina; and Gwendolyn Graf (404) 562-9289 for
the state and local agencies of Tennessee. They may be contacted at the
Region 4 address mentioned in the previous section of this notice.
Dated: September 28, 2010.
Gwendolyn Keyes Fleming,
Regional Administrator, Region 4.
[FR Doc. 2010-25897 Filed 10-13-10; 8:45 am]
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