Environmental Protection Agency August 21, 2007 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Under Section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is giving notice of a meeting of the Total Coliform Rule Distribution System Advisory Committee (TCRDSAC). The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the purpose, efficacy, applicability, and implementation of the Total Coliform Rule (TCR), a range of information that can be used to characterize and potentially revise the Rule, what distribution system issues affect water quality, and criteria for prioritizing distribution system issues. The TCRDSAC advises and makes recommendations to the Agency on revisions to the Total Coliform Rule (TCR), and on what information about distribution systems is needed to better understand the public health impact from the degradation of drinking water quality in distribution systems. The Committee's activities include efforts to utilize available information for revisions to the TCR and to determine what further information is needed to characterize and address potential public health risks in the distribution systems. Topics to be discussed in the meeting include: The framework for the existing TCR, which may include rule objectives, indicators used, and other related topics; summary of TCR issues; how utilities and States implement the TCR; a preview of information to be discussed in future Advisory Committee meetings; and distribution system elements that impact water quality and criteria for prioritization.

This document announces the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) responses to Agency Clearance requests, in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et. seq.). An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. The OMB control numbers for EPA's regulations are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and 48 CFR chapter 15.

EPA is finalizing approval under the Clean Air Act (CAA) of provisions of the Revised PM-10 State Implementation Plan (SIP) for the Salt River Area submitted by the State of Arizona to EPA in October and November 2005. These submittals include adopted rules, resolutions and measures that address particulate matter (PM-10) emissions from fugitive dust sources.