Meetings: State and Tribal Toxics Action Forum Coordinating Committee and Projects,

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

OPPTS-00242; FRL-5794-9Forum on State and Tribal Toxics Action (FOSTTA) Projects; Open Meetings

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: Three projects of the Forum on State and Tribal Toxics Action (FOSTTA) will hold meetings open to the public at the time and place listed below in this notice. The Pollution Prevention Project will not be meeting this session. The public is encouraged to attend the proceedings as observers. However, in the interest of time and efficiency, the meeting is structured to provide maximum opportunity for state, tribal, and EPA invited participants to discuss items on the predetermined agenda. At the discretion of the chair of the project, an effort will be made to accommodate participation by observers attending the proceedings.

DATES: The three projects will meet June 15, 1998, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and June 16, 1998, from 8 a.m. to noon. There will be a plenary session on OPPT's Strategic Plan and Chemical Right-to-Know Initiative on Monday, June 15, 1998, from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.

ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held at The Embassy Suites Hotel, 1900 Diagonal Road, Alexandria, VA.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Darlene Harrod, Designated Federal Official (DFO), Environmental Assistance Division (7408), Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M St., SW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone: (202) 260-6904; e-mail: harrod.darlene@epamail.epa.gov. Any observer wishing to speak should advise the DFO at the telephone number or e-mail address listed above no later than 4 p.m. on June 12, 1998.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: FOSTTA, a group of state and tribal toxics environmental managers, is intended to foster the exchange of toxics- related program and enforcement information among the states/tribes and between the states/tribes and EPA's Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances (OPPTS) and Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA). FOSTTA currently consists of the Coordinating Committee and four issue-specific projects. The projects are the: (1) Toxics Release Inventory Project; (2) Pollution Prevention Project; (3) Chemical Management Project; and (4) Lead (Pb) Project.

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Environmental protection.

Dated: May 26, 1998.

Susan B. Hazen, Director, Environmental Assistance Division, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics.

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