[Federal Register: February 8, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 25)]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Water Programs Gap Analysis Public Meeting

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency has initiated a study to 
identify annual funding needs at the local level for carrying out 
drinking water and wastewater programs, to compare these needs to 
current expenditures for these programs, and to identify alternative 
approaches for addressing the anticipated gap between needs and current 
expenditures. All local level programs and activities eligible for 
financial support from EPA's Clean Water and Drinking Water State 
Revolving Funds as well as other Federal, State and local assistance 
programs will be covered in this study. This would include municipal/
community wastewater treatment facilities, sanitary sewers, combined 
sewer overflows, stormwater sewers and treatment facilities, nonpoint 
source needs, estuary program needs, and drinking water treatment 
facilities and distribution lines. The study will address both capital 
and operating costs.
    The Agency will hold a public meeting on March 18, 1999, to present 
its approach to preparing estimates and the preliminary results, and to 
take comments and suggestions from interested parties. The meeting is 
open and all interested persons are invited to attend on a space-
available basis. Persons interested in attending the meeting are 
requested to register by calling Debra Renwick no later than Friday, 
March 12, 1999.

DATES: The meeting will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday, 
March 18, 1999.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in Cavalier Rooms C and D at the 
Sheraton National Hotel, Columbia Pike and Washington Boulevard, 
Arlington, VA 22204.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information concerning this 
meeting or the Agency's effort to estimate public infrastructure costs, 
please contact Sandra L. Perrin at (202) 260-7382, or via e-mail at 
``perrin.sandra@epamail.epa.gov.'' EPA expects to make informational 
materials available both before and after the meeting. Persons wishing 
to be included in the distribution list should contact Debra A. Renwick 
at (202) 260-5859, or via e-mail at ``renwick.debra@epamail.epa.gov.'' 
The materials will also be posted on the Internet at: ``http://
161.80.11.87/water/formula.nsf/?Open.'' Click on ``Gap Analyses'' and 
then on ``Local Level Costs.''
    In particular, EPA expects to make available a draft of the report 
on funding needs and gaps at the local level, together with a summary 
of major issues, before the public meeting. These materials will be 
posted on the Internet site (address above) on or about March 12, 1999. 
Interested persons are requested to consult the web page for a copy of 
these materials.

    Dated: February 2, 1999.
Michael B. Cook,
Director, Office of Wastewater Management.
[FR Doc. 99-2990 Filed 2-5-99; 8:45 am]
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