Air programs: Ambient air monitoring reference and equivalent methods FRM Model 2000, etc.,
[Federal Register: February 10, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 27)]
[Notices]
[Page 6754]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-5964-4]
Ambient Air Monitoring Reference and Equivalent Methods; Receipt of Applications for Reference and Equivalent Method Determinations
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
ACTION: Notice of receipt of applications.
SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing that it has received applications from Rupprecht and Patashnick Company, Incorporated, Thermo Environmental Instruments, Incorporated, BGI, Incorporated, and Graseby Andersen for reference method determinations for their respective PM‹INF›2.5‹/INF› particle samplers, and from Dasibi Environmental Corporation for an equivalent method determination for their Model 1108 Ozone Analyzer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Frank F. McElroy, Human Exposure and Atmospheric Sciences Division (MD- 46), National Exposure Research Laboratory, U.S. EPA, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711, (919) 541-2622.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is given that EPA has received applications to determine if six new PM‹INF›2.5‹/INF› monitoring methods and a new continuous ozone analyzer method should be designated by the Administrator of the EPA as reference or equivalent methods under 40 CFR PART 53. Two applications were received on October 7, 1997 from Rupprecht and Patashnick Company, Incorporated, 25 Corporate Circle, Albany, New York 12203 for that Company's Partisol‹SUP›‹/SUP›- FRM Model 2000 (single) and Partisol‹SUP›‹/SUP›-FRM Model 2025 (sequential) PM-2.5 Air Samplers. An application was received on October 8, 1997 from Thermo Environmental Instruments, Incorporated, 8 West Forge Parkway, Franklin, Massachusetts 02038 regarding its Model 605/FH95-E Computer Assisted Particle Sampler for PM‹INF›2.5‹/INF›. Another application was received, also on October 8, 1997, from BGI, Incorporated, 58 Guinan Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02154 for BGI's Model PQ-200 PM2.5 Ambient Fine Particle Sampler. And an application was received on January 8, 1998 from Graseby Andersen, 500 Technology Court, Smyrna, Georgia 30082 for that Company's Models RAAS2.5-100 (single) and RAAS2.5-300 (sequential) PM‹INF›2.5‹/INF› Samplers. Finally, an application was received on December 4, 1997 from Dasibi Environmental Corporation, 506 Paula Avenue, Glendale, California 91201 for Dasibi's Model 1108 Ozone Analyzer. If, after appropriate technical study, the Administrator determines that any or all of these methods should be designated as reference or equivalent methods, as appropriate, notice thereof will be published in a subsequent issue of the Federal Register. Henry L. Longest II, Acting Assistant Administrator for Research and Development.
[FR Doc. 98-3321Filed2-9-98; 8:45 am]
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