Notice of Establishment of the Industrial Combustion Coordinated Rulemaking Advisory Committee

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Notice of Establishment of the Industrial Combustion Coordinated

Rulemaking Advisory Committee

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Establishment of Industrial Combustion Coordinated Rulemaking

Advisory Committee.

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SUMMARY: As required by section 9(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory

Committee Act (FACA), 5 U.S.C. App. 2, section 9(c), EPA hereby gives

notice of the establishment of the Industrial Combustion Coordinated

Rulemaking Advisory Committee (hereafter referred to as the

Coordinating Committee). The EPA has determined that this action is in

the public interest and that the Coordinating Committee will support

EPA in performing its duties and responsibilities under sections 111,

112, and 129 of the Clean Air Act (the Act).

The Coordinating Committee has been established and members will

include a balanced representation of interested persons with

professional qualifications and experience to contribute to the

functions of the Coordinating Committee. Members will be drawn from:

environmental, public health, pollution prevention, and environmental

justice groups; State/local regulatory agencies; affected sources

(includes a variety of industrial, commercial, and institutional

establishments as well as small businesses and government and tribal

agencies that own boilers, process heaters, waste incinerators,

combustion turbines, and/or IC engines); manufacturers--including small

business manufacturers--of combustors, emission controls, emission

monitoring/testing equipment, and pollution prevention techniques; fuel

producers and suppliers; labor and academic research; and EPA.

Another Federal Register notice will be published to announce the

initial meeting dates and the members selected by EPA to be on the

Coordinating Committee. The EPA is actively seeking nominations for the

Coordinating Committee and the Work Groups. The Federal Register notice

announcing the intent to form an Advisory Committee, requesting

nominations for candidates, and announcing a public meeting to be held

on July 24, 1996 was published on June 21, 1996 (61 FR 31883).

DATES: The first meeting of the Industrial Combustion Coordinated

Rulemaking Coordinating Committee will be held in early October. The

first Work Group meetings are also expected to be held in October.

INSPECTION OF DOCUMENTS: Docket. Minutes of the meetings, as well as

other relevant materials, will be available for public inspection at

EPA Air Docket No. A-96-17, and is also available on the Technology

Transfer Network (see below). The docket is open for public inspection

and copying between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday except for

Federal holidays, at the following address: U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, Air and Radiation Docket and Information Center

(6102), 401 M Street SW., Washington, DC 20460. The docket is located

at the above address in Room M-1500, Waterside Mall (ground floor).

Copies of docket items may be mailed on request from the Air and

Radiation Docket and Information Center by calling (202) 260-7548 or

7549. The FAX number for the Center is (202) 260-4000. A reasonable fee

may be charged for copying.

Technology Transfer Network. The TTN is one of the EPA's electronic

bulletin boards. Information on the ICCR can be downloaded by choosing

the ``ICCR-Industrial Combustion Coordinated Rulemaking Process''

selection from the Technical Information Areas menu. The service is

free except for the cost of a phone call. Dial (919) 541-5472 for up to

a 14,400 bits-per-second (bps) modem. If more information on the TTN is

needed, call the help desk at (919) 541-5384.

ADDRESSES: The location of the upcoming Work Group meetings and

Coordinating Committee meeting will be announced in a later Federal

Register notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fred Porter, Combustion Group, U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711;

telephone number (919) 541-5251.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Two copies of the Coordinating Committee

charter are filed with appropriate committees of Congress and the

Library

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of Congress and are available upon request. The purpose of the

Coordinating Committee is to assist EPA in the development of

regulations to control emissions of air pollutants from industrial,

commercial, and institutional combustion of fuels and non-hazardous

solid wastes. The Coordinating Committee will attempt to develop

recommendations for national emission standards for hazardous air

pollutants (NESHAP) implementing section 112 and solid waste combustion

regulations implementing section 129 of the Act, and may review and

make recommendations for revising and developing new source performance

standards (NSPS) under section 111 of the Act. The regulations will

cover boilers, process heaters, industrial/commercial and other (non-

hazardous) waste incinerators, stationary internal combustion engines,

and stationary gas turbines.

The Coordinating Committee will provide a means for considering

important regulatory issues and building stakeholder consensus on these

issues prior to proposal. The Coordinating Committee will establish

Work Groups as necessary to fulfill these objectives. The Coordinating

Committee approach will lead to better regulations and is consistent

with agency initiatives to use flexible, common-sense approaches, avoid

duplication, and involve stakeholders in the regulatory process.

The Coordinating Committee will coordinate information collection

and analysis for the various combustion source categories and make

recommendations on all aspects of the regulation including, but not

limited to, applicability, definitions, emissions limitations, testing,

monitoring, recordkeeping, and reporting requirements. The Coordinating

Committee shall hold meetings, collect and analyze information, analyze

issues, conduct reviews, perform studies, produce reports, and make

regulatory recommendations. In developing regulatory recommendations,

the Coordinating Committee will strive to reach consensus, where

consensus is defined as a recommendation that all parties can accept or

support, although it may not be their first choice. If consensus is not

reached, the Coordinating Committee shall report majority and minority

recommendations to EPA. The EPA retains its full and independent

decision-making authority and responsibility. A consensus-based

recommendation to EPA will, however, be given great consideration in

these decisions.

The Coordinating Committee likely will need several closely-spaced

meetings during the initial phases of the Industrial Combustion

Coordinated Rulemaking. After that, regular quarterly meetings may be

sufficient. The FACA requires that these meetings be open to the public

and that there be an opportunity for interested persons to file

comments before or after meetings, or to make statements as permitted

by the Coordinating Committee's guidelines and to the extent time

permits. In accordance with these requirements, the first and

subsequent meetings of the Coordinating Committee will be open to the

public. Any comments can be sent to the docket at the address listed

under ``Inspection of Documents''.

Dated: July 26, 1996.

Mary D. Nichols,

Assistant Administrator.

[FR Doc. 96-19705 Filed 8-1-96; 8:45 am]

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