Lead Fishing Sinkers; Response to Citizens' Request; Reopening of Public Hearing Reply Comment Period

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 745

[OPPTS-62134D; FRL-4927-2]

RIN 2070-AC21

Lead Fishing Sinkers; Response to Citizens' Request; Reopening of

Public Hearing Reply Comment Period

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Reopening of public hearing reply comment period.

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SUMMARY: EPA is reopening the public hearing reply comment period for a

proposed rule to prohibit the manufacture, processing, and distribution

in commerce of certain lead- and zinc-containing fishing sinkers which

was published in the Federal Register of March 9, 1994.

DATES: Public hearing reply comments must be received on or before

January 6, 1995.

ADDRESSES: All comments should be sent in triplicate to: TSCA Docket

Receipt (7407), Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics,

Environmental Protection Agency, Rm. E-G99, 401 M St., SW., Washington,

DC 20460, Attention: Docket No. OPPTS-62134D1.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James B. Willis, Acting Director,

Environmental Assistance Division (7408), Office of Pollution

Prevention and Toxics, Environmental Protection Agency, Rm. E-543B, 401

M St., SW., Washington, DC 20460, Telephone: (202) 260-1024, TDD: (202)

554-0551.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the Federal Register of March 9, 1994 (59

FR 11122), EPA issued a proposed rule under section 6(a) of the Toxic

Substances Control Act (TSCA) to prohibit the manufacture, processing,

and distribution in commerce of certain lead- and zinc-containing

fishing sinkers. In that proposal, the Agency stated that it would hold

an informal hearing if persons requested time for oral comment. EPA

received requests for a hearing. A notice published in the Federal

Register of September 19, 1994 (59 FR 47832), announced a hearing for

November 30, and December 1, 1994. The hearing was subsequently held,

and as part of the hearing process, reply comments could be submitted

through December 15, 1994.

EPA received requests seeking to extend the reply comment period

deadline of December 15, 1994, for a period of time after the

availability of the hearing transcript. EPA expects to receive the

public hearing transcript no later than December 23, 1994. Therefore,

in order to give all interested persons the opportunity to review the

hearing transcript before submitting reply comments, EPA has decided to

reopen the reply comment period. Written reply comments must now be

received on or before January 6, 1995, and shall be restricted to

comments on: (1) Other comments; (2) material in the hearing record;

and (3) material which was not and could not reasonably have been

available to the commenting party a sufficient time before main

comments were due.

A person may assert a claim of business confidentiality for any

comments submitted to EPA in connection with the proposed rule. Any

person who submits a comment that contains information claimed as

confidential, must also submit a nonconfidential version. Any claim of

confidentiality must accompany the information when it is submitted to

EPA. Persons may claim information as confidential by circling,

bracketing, or underlining it, and marking it with ``CONFIDENTIAL'' or

some other appropriate designation. EPA will disclose information

subject to a claim of business confidentiality only to the extent

permitted by section 14 of TSCA and 40 CFR part 2, subpart B. If a

person does not assert a claim of confidentiality for information in

comments at the time it is submitted to EPA, the Agency will put the

comments in the public docket without further notice to that person.

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 745

Environmental protection, Lead, Reporting and recordkeeping

requirements.

Dated: December 16, 1994.

Joseph A. Carra,

Acting Director, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics.

[FR Doc. 94-31463 Filed 12-21-94; 8:45 am]

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