[Federal Register: May 17, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 94)]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-6343-9]

 
Oxygenate Use in Gasoline Panel Meeting

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of oxygenate use in gasoline panel meeting.

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SUMMARY: On November 30, 1998, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 
Administrator Carol M. Browner announced the creation of a blue-ribbon 
panel of leading experts from the public health and scientific 
communities, automotive fuels industry, water utilities, and local and 
State government to review the important issues posed by the use of 
MTBE and other oxygenates in gasoline. EPA created the panel to gain a 
better understanding of the public health concerns raised by the 
discovery of MTBE in some water supplies. The panel will be chaired by 
Mr. Daniel Greenbaum, President of the Health Effects Institute (HEI) 
of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
    This notice announces the time and place for the next meeting of 
the panel.

DATES: The blue-ribbon panel reviewing the use of oxygenates in 
gasoline will conduct its next meeting on Monday and Tuesday, May 24 
and 25, 1999, in Washington, DC beginning at 10 a.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Monday, 
May 24th and from 8:30 a.m. until approximately 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, 
May 25th at the Wyndham City Center Hotel, 1143 New Hampshire Ave., NW, 
Washington, DC.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karen Smith at U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency Office of Air and Radiation, 401 M Street, SW 
(6406J), Washington, DC 20460, (202) 564-9674, or John Brophy at (202) 
564-9068. Information can also be found at www.epa.gov/oms/consumer/
fuels/oxypanel/blueribb.htm.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is the fifth in a series of meetings at 
locations around the country to hear from regional and national experts 
on the facts concerning oxygenate use in fuel. There will be no open 
public comment period during this meeting. Written comments to the 
panel can be mailed to U.S. EPA, 401 M Street, SW, Mail Code 6406J 
(Attn: Blue-Ribbon Panel), Washington, DC 20460. Panel members will be 
provided with copies of all written submissions.

    Dated: May 12, 1999.
Margo T. Oge,
Director, Office of Mobile Sources.
[FR Doc. 99-12460 Filed 5-14-99; 8:45 am]
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