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constructive comments will assist AMS
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rulemaking.
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Notice of Public Meeting:
Environmental Justice Considerations
for the Development of the Proposed
Lead and Copper Rule Improvements
(LCRI)
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is hosting two identical
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public meetings to discuss and solicit
input on environmental justice
considerations related to the
development of the proposed Lead and
Copper Rule Improvements (LCRI)
national primary drinking water
regulation (NPDWR) under the Safe
Drinking Water Act (SDWA). In the
context of developing this proposed
regulation, environmental justice
considerations include the fair
treatment and meaningful involvement
of all people regardless of race, color,
national origin, or income with respect
to the development, implementation,
and enforcement of environmental laws,
regulations, and policies with a
particular focus on unique challenges
faced by communities
disproportionately burdened by
environmental harms and risks. EPA is
holding these meetings to share
information and provide an opportunity
for communities to offer input on
environmental justice considerations for
the development of the proposed LCRI.
Information on how to register and
request to speak during one of the
meetings is detailed in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of
this announcement.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before November 15, 2022. The two
identical public meetings will be held
on October 25, 2022 (1 p.m. to 4 p.m.,
eastern time) and November 1, 2022 (5
p.m. to 8 p.m., eastern time). The public
meetings will be held in an online-only
format.
ADDRESSES: You may send comments,
identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–
OW–2022–0801, to the Federal
eRulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov/. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
Instructions: All submissions received
must include the Docket ID No. EPA–
HQ–OW–2022–0801 for this action.
Comments received may be posted
without change to https://
www.regulations.gov/, including any
personal information provided. For
detailed instructions on sending
comments and additional information
on the rulemaking process, see the
‘‘Public Participation’’ heading of the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of
this announcement.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Zaineb Alattar, Standards and Risk
Management Division, Office of Ground
Water and Drinking Water, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC
20460; telephone number: (202) 564–
9458; email address: LCRI@epa.gov. For
more information about the proposed
LCRI NPDWR, visit: https://
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Public Participation
These online meetings will be open to
the public and EPA encourages input
and will provide opportunities for
public engagement on environmental
justice related to development of the
proposed LCRI.
A. Written Comments
Submit your comments, identified by
Docket ID No, EPA–HQ–OW–2022–0801
at https://www.regulations.gov; see
instructions identified in the ADDRESSES
section of this announcement. Once
submitted, comments cannot be edited
or removed from the docket. EPA may
publish any comment received to its
public docket. Do not submit
electronically any information you
consider to be Confidential Business
Information (CBI) or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
Multimedia submissions (audio, video,
etc.) must be accompanied by a written
comment. The written comment is
considered the official comment and
should include discussion of all points
you wish to make. EPA will generally
not consider comments or comment
contents located outside of the primary
submission (i.e., on the web, cloud, or
other file sharing system). For
additional submission methods, the full
EPA public comment policy,
information about CBI or multimedia
submissions, and general guidance on
making effective comments, please visit
https://www.epa.gov/dockets/
commenting-epa-dockets.
B. Participation in Public Meeting
Registration: Individuals planning to
participate in either of the online public
meetings must register at https://
www.epa.gov/ground-water-anddrinking-water/lead-and-copper-ruleimprovements no later than October 24,
2022, for the October 25, 2022, meeting
and October 31, 2022, for the November
1, 2022, meeting. Individuals are also
invited to speak about environmental
justice considerations for the proposed
LCRI during the meetings. Those
interested in speaking can sign-up to
make brief verbal remarks as a part of
their registration. EPA will do its best to
include all those interested in attending
and requesting verbal input but may
have to limit attendance due to web
conferencing size or limit verbal
remarks due to meeting time limitations;
therefore, EPA urges people to register
early. Meeting information and web
conferencing meeting details, including
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telephone call-in information, will be
emailed to registered participants in
advance of each of the meetings. If you
have any questions about registering for
the public meeting or need help joining,
please email LCRIMeetingSupport@
cadmusgroup.com. If you have
additional questions or comments about
the meeting, please email LCRI@
epa.gov.
Special Accommodations: For
information on electronic access or
accommodations for individuals with
disabilities or other requested assistance
(e.g., language translation), please
contact Zaineb Alattar at (202) 564–9458
or by email at LCRI@epa.gov. Please
allow at least five business days prior to
each of the meetings to give EPA time
to process your request.
II. The Proposed LCRI National
Primary Drinking Water Regulation
Under SDWA, EPA sets public health
goals and enforceable standards for
drinking water quality. EPA initially
addressed lead in drinking water
through the original Lead and Copper
Rule (LCR), an NPDWR promulgated in
1991 under SDWA. In January 2021,
EPA issued the Lead and Copper Rule
Revisions (LCRR) and subsequently
reviewed those revisions to further
evaluate the LCRR’s protection of
families and communities, particularly
those that have been disproportionately
impacted by lead in drinking water. In
the LCRR Review, EPA identified the
following priority areas for
improvement: proactive and equitable
lead service line replacement,
strengthening compliance tap sampling
to better identify communities most at
risk of lead in drinking water and to
compel lead reduction actions, and
reducing the complexity of the
regulation through improvement of the
action and trigger level construct. On
December 16, 2021, EPA announced it
would propose a rulemaking (the LCRI)
to address these improvements. For
more information about the LCRR
Review and the agency’s decision to
develop a proposed LCRI NPDWR, see
‘‘Review of the National Primary
Drinking Water Regulation: Lead and
Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR)’’ (86 FR
71574) (December 17, 2021). EPA
intends to propose for public comment
a new rule to revise the LCRR to
advance the goals described above while
balancing stakeholder interests and
incorporating required economic,
environmental justice, and other
analyses. The agency intends to propose
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the LCRI in 2023 and take final action
by October 16, 2024.
Jennifer L. McLain,
Director, Office of Ground Water and Drinking
Water.
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Federal Communications
Commission.
ACTION: Proposed rule.
AGENCY:
In this document, the Federal
Communications Commission
(Commission) proposes to require
mobile wireless providers to block texts,
at the network level, that purport to be
from invalid, unallocated, or unused
numbers, and numbers on a Do-NotOriginate (DNO) list. The document also
seeks comment on the extent to which
spoofing is a problem with regard to text
messaging and whether there are
measures the Commission can take to
encourage providers to identify and
block texts that appear to come from
spoofed numbers. In addition, the
document seeks comment on applying
caller ID authentication standards to
text messaging.
DATES: Comments are due on or before
November 10, 2022 and reply comments
are due on or before November 25, 2022.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by CG Docket No. 21–402, by
any of the following methods:
• Comments may be filed using the
Commission’s Electronic Comment
Filing System (ECFS), https://
www.fcc.gov/ecfs/.
• Effective March 19, 2020, and until
further notice, the Commission no
longer accepts any hand or messenger
delivered filings. This is a temporary
measure taken to help protect the health
and safety of individuals, and to
mitigate the transmission of COVID–19.
See FCC Announces Closure of FCC
Headquarters Open Window and
Change in Hand-Delivery Policy, Public
Notice, DA 20–304 (March 19, 2020),
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcccloses-headquarters-open-window-andchanges-hand-delivery-policy.
• In the event that the Commission
announces the lifting of COVID–19
restrictions, a filing window will be
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opened at the Commission’s office
located at 9050 Junction Drive,
Annapolis, MD 20701.
• People with Disabilities. To request
materials in accessible formats for
people with disabilities (Braille, large
print, electronic files, audio format),
send an email to fcc504@fcc.gov or call
the Consumer & Governmental Affairs
Bureau at 202–418–0530 (voice).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mika Savir of the Consumer Policy
Division, Consumer and Governmental
Affairs Bureau, at mika.savir@fcc.gov or
(202) 418–0384.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a
summary of the Commission’s Notice of
Proposed Rulemaking, FCC 22–72, CG
Docket No. 21–402, adopted on
September 23, 2022, and released on
September 27, 2022. The full text of this
document is available online at https://
www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposesblocking-illegal-text-messages.
This matter shall be treated as a
‘‘permit-but-disclose’’ proceeding in
accordance with the Commission’s ex
parte rules. 47 CFR 1.1200 et seq.
Persons making oral ex parte
presentations are reminded that
memoranda summarizing the
presentations must contain summaries
of the substance of the presentations
and not merely a listing of the subjects
discussed. See 47 CFR 1.1206(b). Other
rules pertaining to oral and written ex
parte presentations in permit-butdisclose proceedings are set forth in
§ 1.1206(b) of the Commission’s rules,
47 CFR 1.1206(b).
Initial Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 Analysis
This document does not propose new
or modified information collection
requirements subject to the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), Public
Law 104–13. In addition, therefore, it
does not propose any new or modified
information collection burden for small
business concerns with fewer than 25
employees, pursuant to the Small
Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2002,
Public Law 107–198, see 44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(4).
Synopsis
1. In this notice of proposed
rulemaking (NPRM), the Commission
proposes to require mobile wireless
providers to block text messages at the
network level (i.e., without consumer
opt in or opt out) that purport to be from
invalid, unallocated, or unused
numbers, and numbers on the Do-NotOriginate (DNO) list. These texts are
highly likely to be illegal. The
Commission seeks comment on this
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proposal, including whether these text
messages represent a material fraction of
unwanted text messages. The
Commission seeks comment on whether
providers are blocking these types of
messages today and, if so, how that
blocking may inform the proposal. The
Commission seeks comment on
additional types of text blocking
providers are currently doing, (e.g.,
blocking based on reasonable analytics).
The Commission seeks comment on
whether requiring mobile providers to
block text messages at the network level
is necessary or whether the Commission
should simply continue to allow for
such network level blocking. The
Commission also seeks comment on
whether numbers placed on the DNO
list are used for illegal texts.
2. Spoofing is where the caller
disguises its number and instead shows
the number of a neighbor or reputable
source in the caller ID field in order to
trick the recipient into thinking the call
is trustworthy. The Commission seeks
comment on the extent to which
spoofing is a problem with regard to text
messaging. The Commission also seek
comment on whether there are
additional measures the Commission
can take to encourage mobile wireless
providers to block texts that appear to
come from spoofed numbers.
3. The Commission seeks comment on
the need for mandatory blocking. The
Commission seeks comment on whether
increases in illegal texts may be a result
of blocking unwanted calls and if the
Commission should bring text blocking
more in line with call blocking by
requiring blocking from invalid,
unallocated, or unused numbers, and
numbers that otherwise appear to be
spoofed, and therefore reduce the
incentive for scammers to migrate to
texting.
4. The Commission seeks comment on
the voluntary text blocking that
providers are currently doing to protect
their subscribers. The Commission also
seeks comment on the effectiveness of
device-level or application-based text
blocking to reduce illegal texts and the
prevalence of application-based (i.e.,
over the top, or OTT) text messaging
and whether there are more or fewer
illegal text messages sent on OTT
services as opposed to through mobile
wireless providers. The Commission
seeks comment on how OTT messages
differ in transmission characteristics
from SMS and MMS texts, including
their relationship to wireless telephone
numbers and how likely the proposed
regulations will mitigate the problem of
illegal texts.
5. The Commission seeks comment on
whether the definition of text message
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Notice of Public Meeting: Environmental Justice Considerations
for the Development of the Proposed Lead and Copper Rule Improvements
(LCRI)
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is hosting two
identical
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public meetings to discuss and solicit input on environmental justice
considerations related to the development of the proposed Lead and
Copper Rule Improvements (LCRI) national primary drinking water
regulation (NPDWR) under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). In the
context of developing this proposed regulation, environmental justice
considerations include the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of
all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with
respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of
environmental laws, regulations, and policies with a particular focus
on unique challenges faced by communities disproportionately burdened
by environmental harms and risks. EPA is holding these meetings to
share information and provide an opportunity for communities to offer
input on environmental justice considerations for the development of
the proposed LCRI. Information on how to register and request to speak
during one of the meetings is detailed in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
section of this announcement.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before November 15, 2022. The
two identical public meetings will be held on October 25, 2022 (1 p.m.
to 4 p.m., eastern time) and November 1, 2022 (5 p.m. to 8 p.m.,
eastern time). The public meetings will be held in an online-only
format.
ADDRESSES: You may send comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
OW-2022-0801, to the Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov/. Follow the online instructions for submitting
comments.
Instructions: All submissions received must include the Docket ID
No. EPA-HQ-OW-2022-0801 for this action. Comments received may be
posted without change to https://www.regulations.gov/, including any
personal information provided. For detailed instructions on sending
comments and additional information on the rulemaking process, see the
``Public Participation'' heading of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
section of this announcement.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Zaineb Alattar, Standards and Risk
Management Division, Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington,
DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-9458; email address:
[email protected]. For more information about the proposed LCRI NPDWR,
visit: https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/lead-and-copper-rule-improvements.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Public Participation
These online meetings will be open to the public and EPA encourages
input and will provide opportunities for public engagement on
environmental justice related to development of the proposed LCRI.
A. Written Comments
Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No, EPA-HQ-OW-2022-
0801 at https://www.regulations.gov; see instructions identified in the
ADDRESSES section of this announcement. Once submitted, comments cannot
be edited or removed from the docket. EPA may publish any comment
received to its public docket. Do not submit electronically any
information you consider to be Confidential Business Information (CBI)
or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
Multimedia submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be accompanied by a
written comment. The written comment is considered the official comment
and should include discussion of all points you wish to make. EPA will
generally not consider comments or comment contents located outside of
the primary submission (i.e., on the web, cloud, or other file sharing
system). For additional submission methods, the full EPA public comment
policy, information about CBI or multimedia submissions, and general
guidance on making effective comments, please visit https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.
B. Participation in Public Meeting
Registration: Individuals planning to participate in either of the
online public meetings must register at https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/lead-and-copper-rule-improvements no later
than October 24, 2022, for the October 25, 2022, meeting and October
31, 2022, for the November 1, 2022, meeting. Individuals are also
invited to speak about environmental justice considerations for the
proposed LCRI during the meetings. Those interested in speaking can
sign-up to make brief verbal remarks as a part of their registration.
EPA will do its best to include all those interested in attending and
requesting verbal input but may have to limit attendance due to web
conferencing size or limit verbal remarks due to meeting time
limitations; therefore, EPA urges people to register early. Meeting
information and web conferencing meeting details, including telephone
call-in information, will be emailed to registered participants in
advance of each of the meetings. If you have any questions about
registering for the public meeting or need help joining, please email
[email protected]. If you have additional questions or
comments about the meeting, please email [email protected].
Special Accommodations: For information on electronic access or
accommodations for individuals with disabilities or other requested
assistance (e.g., language translation), please contact Zaineb Alattar
at (202) 564-9458 or by email at [email protected]. Please allow at least
five business days prior to each of the meetings to give EPA time to
process your request.
II. The Proposed LCRI National Primary Drinking Water Regulation
Under SDWA, EPA sets public health goals and enforceable standards
for drinking water quality. EPA initially addressed lead in drinking
water through the original Lead and Copper Rule (LCR), an NPDWR
promulgated in 1991 under SDWA. In January 2021, EPA issued the Lead
and Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR) and subsequently reviewed those
revisions to further evaluate the LCRR's protection of families and
communities, particularly those that have been disproportionately
impacted by lead in drinking water. In the LCRR Review, EPA identified
the following priority areas for improvement: proactive and equitable
lead service line replacement, strengthening compliance tap sampling to
better identify communities most at risk of lead in drinking water and
to compel lead reduction actions, and reducing the complexity of the
regulation through improvement of the action and trigger level
construct. On December 16, 2021, EPA announced it would propose a
rulemaking (the LCRI) to address these improvements. For more
information about the LCRR Review and the agency's decision to develop
a proposed LCRI NPDWR, see ``Review of the National Primary Drinking
Water Regulation: Lead and Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR)'' (86 FR 71574)
(December 17, 2021). EPA intends to propose for public comment a new
rule to revise the LCRR to advance the goals described above while
balancing stakeholder interests and incorporating required economic,
environmental justice, and other analyses. The agency intends to
propose
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the LCRI in 2023 and take final action by October 16, 2024.
Jennifer L. McLain,
Director, Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water.
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