Meeting of the Ozone Transport Commission for the Northeast United States

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Meeting of the Ozone Transport Commission for the Northeast

United States

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: The United States Environmental Protection Agency is

announcing the Annual meeting of the Ozone Transport Commission to be

held on June 16, 1999.

This meeting is for the Ozone Transport Commission to deal with

appropriate matters within the transport region, as provided for under

the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. This meeting is not subject to

the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-

463, as amended.

DATES: The meeting will be held on June 16, 1999 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00

p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at: The Gideon Putnam Hotel and

Conference Center, 24 Gideon Putnam Road, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866,

(518) 584-3000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: EPA: Susan Studlien, U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency--Region I, John F. Kennedy Federal

Building, Boston, MA 02203, (617) 918-1510.

FOR DOCUMENTS AND PRESS INQUIRIES CONTACT: Stephanie A. Cooper, Ozone

Transport Commission, 444 North Capitol Street, N.W., Suite 638,

Washington, DC 20001, (202) 508-3840, e-mail: [email protected], website:

http://www.sso.org/otc.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 contain

at Section 184 provisions for the ``Control of Interstate Ozone Air

Pollution.'' Section 184(a) establishes an ozone transport region

comprised of the States of Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland,

Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode

Island, Vermont, parts of Virginia and the District of Columbia.

The Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation of the

Environmental Protection Agency convened the first meeting of the

commission in New York City on May 7, 1991. The purpose of the

Transport Commission is to deal with ground level oxone formation,

transport, and control within the transport region.

The purpose of this notice is to announce that this Commission will

meet on June 16, 1999. The meeting will be held at the address noted

earlier in this notice.

Section 176A(b)(2) of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990

specifies that the meetings of the Ozone Transport Commission are not

subject to the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act. This

meeting will be open to the public as space permits.

TYPE OF MEETING: Open.

AGENDA: Copies of the final agenda will be available from Stephanie

Cooper of the OTC office (202) 508-3840 (by e-mail: [email protected] or

via our website at http://www.sso.org/otc) on Wednesday, June 9, 1999.

The purpose of this meeting is to review air quality needs within the

Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States, including reduction of motor vehicle

and stationary source air pollution. The OTC is also expected to

address issues related to the transport of

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ozone into its region, including actions by EPA under sections 110 of

the Clean Air Act, to evaluate the potential for additional emission

reductions through new motor vehicle emission standards, and to discuss

market-based programs to reduce pollutants that cause ozone.

Dated: April 30, 1999.

John DeVillars,

Regional Administrator, Region I.

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