Availability of FY 93 Grant Performance Reports for Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-4894-9]

Availability of FY 93 Grant Performance Reports for Alabama,

Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South

Carolina, and Tennessee

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of availability of grantee performance evaluation

reports.

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SUMMARY: EPA's grant regulations (40 CFR 35.150) 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 recently performed end-of-year evaluations of eight

state air pollution control programs (Alabama Department of

Environmental Management, Florida Department of Environmental

Protection, Georgia Environmental Protection Division, Kentucky

Department for Environmental Protection, Mississippi Bureau of

Pollution Control, North Carolina Department of Environment, Health,

and Natural Resources, South Carolina Department of Health and

Environmental Control and Tennessee Department of Conservation and

Environment) and 16 local programs (Knox County Department of Air

Pollution Control, Tn--Chattanooga-Hamilton County Air Pollution

Control Bureau, Tn--Memphis-Shelby County Health Department, Tn--

Nashville-Davidson County Metropolitan Health Department, Tn--Jefferson

County Air Pollution Control District, Ky--Western North Carolina

Regional Air Pollution Control Agency, NC--Mecklenburg County

Department of Environmental Protection, NC--Forsyth County

Environmental Affairs Department, NC--Palm Beach County Public Health

Unit, Fl--Hillsborough County Environmental Protection Commission, Fl--

Dade County Environmental Resources Management, Fl--Jacksonville Air

Quality Division, Fl--Broward County Environmental Quality Control

Board, Fl--Pinellas County Department of Environmental Management, Fl--

City of Huntsville Department of Natural Resources, Al--Jefferson

County Department of Health, Al). These audits were conducted to assess

the agencies' performance under the grants made to them by EPA pursuant

to section 105 of the Clean Air Act. EPA Region IV, has prepared

reports for the twenty-four agencies identified above and these 105

reports are now available for public inspection.

ADDRESSES: The reports may be examined at the EPA's Region IV office,

345 Courtland Street, NE., Atlanta, Georgia 30365, in the Air,

Pesticides, and Toxics Management Division.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Linda Thomas, at the above Region IV

address, for information concerning States of Alabama, Florida,

Mississippi, Georgia, and local agencies. Vera Bowers, at the above

Region IV address, for information concerning the States of Kentucky,

North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and local agencies.

Dated: May 25, 1994.

Patrick M. Tobin,

Acting Regional Administrator.

[FR Doc. 94-14067 Filed 6-8-94; 8:45 am]

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