[Federal Register: October 20, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 202)] [Notices] [Page 56498-56499] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr20oc99-54] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [FRL-6461-1] The National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT); New Standing Committee on Sectors AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notification of Public Advisory NACEPT Standing Committee on Sectors Workgroup meeting; open meeting. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92- 463, notice is hereby given that the Standing Committee on Sectors workgroup will meet on the date and time described below. The meeting is open to the public. Seating at the meeting will be a first-come basis and limited time will be provided for public comment. For further information concerning this meeting, please contact the individual listed with the announcement below. Petroleum Refining Sector Workgroup Meeting--November 3-4, 1999. Notice is hereby given that the Environmental Protection Agency will hold an open meeting of the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT) Petroleum Refining Sector Workgroup on November 3 and 4, 1999. A Concurrent project team meeting will be held from 9:00 am until 4:30 pm CDT on Wednesday, November 3, 1999. The full workgroup will meet from 8:30 am until 4:30 pm CDT on Thursday, November 4, 1999. The meeting will be held at the Holiday Inn Hotel Downtown--Superdome, 330 Loyola Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana. The hotel telephone number is 504-581-1600. The workgroup meeting agenda includes an update on the status of the Accidental Release Information Communication Project, Refinery Air Information Reporting System Project, and the Equipment Leaks Project. The workgroup also plans to discuss compliance goals for the petroleum refining industry and regulatory options for potential alternate leak detection and repair work practice protocols. A public comment period has been scheduled from approximately 1:00 pm until 2:00 pm CDT on Thursday, November 4, 1999. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NACEPT is a federal advisory committee under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92463. NACEPT provides advice and recommendations to the Administrator and other EPA officials on a broad range of domestic and international environmental policy issues. NACEPT consists of a representative cross-section of EPA's partners and principle constituents who provide advice and recommendations on policy issues and serve as a sounding board for new strategies that the Agency is developing. In follow-up to completion of work by EPA's Common Sense Initiative (CSI) Council, the Administrator has asked NACEPT to create a new Standing Committee on Sectors. This will provide a continuing Federal Advisory Committee forum from which the Agency can continue to receive valuable multi-stakeholder advise and recommendations on sector approaches. Based on the lessons learned in CSI and many other sector based programs, the Agency has developed a Sector Based Environmental Protection Action Plan to reinforce and expand sector based approaches to achieving environmental results. The Standing Committee on Sectors will, through NACEPT (the Council): (1) Continue to support the on- going CSI work, (2) support the implementation of the Action Plan, as noted above, and (3) serve as a vehicle to get stakeholder reaction and input on sector based issues in a timely way. For further information concerning this meeting of the Petroleum Refining Sector workgroup, please contact either Craig Weeks, Designated Federal Officer (DFO), at US EPA Region 6 (6EN), 1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas, TX 75202-2733, by telephone at 214-665-7505 or E-mail at weeks.craig@epa.gov or Steve Souders, Alternate DFO, at US EPA (5306W), 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460, by telephone at 703- 308-8431 or E-mail at souders.steve@epa.gov. Inspection of Subcommittee Documents: Documents relating to the above topics will be publicly available at the meeting. Thereafter, Key documents and the minutes of the [[Page 56499]] meeting will be available electronically on the web site, or by calling the DFO. NACEPT Standing Committee on Sectors Subcommittee information can be accessed electronically on our web site at http.//www.epa.gov/ sectors. Dated: October 4, 1999. Gregory Ondich, Acting Designated Federal Officer. [FR Doc. 99-27386 Filed 10-19-99; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560-50-P