Report on the Status of Urban Area Source Research Program

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Report on the Status of Urban Area Source Research Program

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the public availability of an EPA report

[[Page 13435]] titled ``EPA's Urban Area Source Research Program--A

Status Report on Preliminary Research.'' The Clean Air Act calls for

EPA to produce this report.

DATES: This report will be available at the addresses indicated below

on March 13, 1995.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the report may be obtained by writing or phoning:

March 13, 1995 to April 15, 1995:

Ms. Gloria J. Koch, Technical Information Officer, Atmospheric Research

and Exposure Assessment Laboratory (MD-75), U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, Telephone: 919-

541-4109

After April 15, 1995: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Technical

Information Service, Springfield, VA 22161.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Larry T. Cupitt, Director, Methods

Research and Development Division, Atmospheric Research and Exposure

Assessment Laboratory (MD-77), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,

Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, Telephone: 919-541-2454.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA is announcing the public availability of

a report titled ``EPA's Urban Area Source Research Program--A Status

Report on Preliminary Research.'' The report was called for under

section 112(k) of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 7412(k). Issuance of the

report does not represent final agency action.

The report summarizes the status of the Agency's urban area source

research program. The report presents the preliminary research findings

on area sources of hazardous air pollutants located in urban areas. The

report does not make EPA policy determinations about area sources as

possible sources of hazardous air pollutants and does not affect any

legal rights or impose any obligations. Information collected through

the research program will be considered by the Administrator when

developing the national urban area source strategy required by Section

112(k)(3) of the Clean Air Act.

Dated: March 3, 1995.

Robert J. Huggett,

Assistant Administrator for Research and Development.

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