Air Quality Criteria for Carbon Monoxide

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Air Quality Criteria for Carbon Monoxide

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting: Peer-Review Workshop on Air Quality

Criteria for Carbon Monoxide.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing a

meeting organized, convened, and conducted by the Eastern Research

Group, Inc., a contractor to the EPA for external scientific peer

consultation, to facilitate the preparation of an external review draft

of the Carbon Monoxide Air Quality Criteria Document. All interested

parties may attend and assist in developing and refining the scientific

information base available for accomplishing this task.

DATES: The meeting dates are September 17 and 18, 1998.

ADDRESSES: The Durham Marriott (formerly Durham Omni), will be the

meeting site. It is located on 201 Foster St. in Durham, North

Carolina; the telephone number is 919-683-6664. The times for the

meetings are 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on the first day and 8:30 a.m. to

12:30 p.m. on the second day. At the time of the meetings, the Eastern

Research Group will make available copies of the draft chapters that

the workshop sessions will be reviewing.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Linda Cooper (telephone 919-468-

7878) for registration information and logistics and Ms. Monica

Seagroves (telephone 919-468-7825) for technical information. Ms.

Cooper and Ms. Seagroves work for Eastern Research Group, Inc.,

Engineering and Science Division, 1600 Perimeter Park, P.O. Box 2010,

Morrisville, NC 27560-2010.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

(EPA) is updating and revising, where appropriate, the EPA's Air

Quality Criteria for Carbon Monoxide (CO). Sections 108 and 109 of the

Clean Air Act require that the EPA carry out a periodic review and

revision, where appropriate, of the criteria and the National Ambient

Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for the ``criteria'' air pollutants such

as carbon monoxide.

The EPA will keep the public informed, through subsequent Federal

Register notice announcements, of additional opportunities for public

input into the preparation process, such as the public comment period

following the release of the first external review draft of the Carbon

Monoxide Air Quality Criteria Document and the Clean Air Scientific

Advisory Committee (CASAC) review in early 1999.

Dated: September 1, 1998.

William H. Farland, Ph.D.,

Director, National Center for Environmental Assessment.

[FR Doc. 98-24086 Filed 9-4-98; 8:45 am]

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