[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 16 (Wednesday, January 25, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3770-3771]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-1517]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-9623-3; EPA-HQ-ORD-2011-0895]
Draft Research Report: Investigation of Ground Water
Contamination near Pavillion, WY
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of extension of public comment period.
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SUMMARY: EPA is announcing a 45-day extension to the public comment
period for the external review of the draft research report titled,
``Investigation of Ground Water Contamination near Pavillion, Wyoming''
(FRL-9506-7; 76 FR 77829). The draft research report was prepared by
the National Risk Management Research Laboratory, within the EPA Office
of Research and Development, and EPA Region 8. This draft research
report is not final as described in EPA's Information Quality
Guidelines, and does not represent and should not be construed to
represent Agency policy or views. Eastern Research Group, Inc., an EPA
contractor for external peer review, will convene an independent panel
of experts for peer review of this draft research report. Public
comments submitted during the public comment period will be made
available to the peer review panel for consideration in their review.
An external peer review meeting will take place following the public
comment period. An additional Federal Register notice will be published
about one month prior to the meeting to provide the meeting date,
location, and registration information. Additional details about the
peer review process can be found at: http://cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_pra_view.cfm?dirEntryID=240345.
DATES: The public comment period began December 14, 2011, and ends
March 12, 2012. Comments should be submitted to the docket or received
in writing by EPA by March 12, 2012.
ADDRESSES: The draft ``Investigation of Ground Water Contamination near
Pavillion, Wyoming.'' is available via the Internet on the EPA Region 8
site at: http://www.epa.gov/region8/superfund/wy/pavillion/EPA_ReportOnPavillion_Dec-8-2011.pdf.
Comments may be submitted electronically via http://www.regulations.gov, by email, by mail, by facsimile, or by hand
delivery/courier. Please follow the detailed instructions provided in
the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this notice.
Additional Information: For information on the docket,
www.regulations.gov, or the public comment period, please contact the
Office of Environmental Information (OEI) Docket (Mail Code: 2822T),
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460; telephone: (202) 566-1752; facsimile: (202) 566-
1753; or email: [email protected].
For information on the draft report, please contact Rebecca Foster,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, P.O. Box 1198, Ada, OK 74821;
telephone: (580) 436-8750; facsimile: (580) 436-8529; or email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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I. Information about Pavillion Ground Water Investigation
Pavillion, Wyoming is located in Fremont County, about 20 miles
northwest of Riverton. The concern at the site is potential ground
water contamination, based on resident complaints about smells, tastes,
and adverse changes in water quality of their domestic wells. In
collaboration with ORD, Region 8 has been conducting a ground water
investigation. The purpose of this ground water investigation is to
better understand the basic ground water hydrology and how the
constituents of concern may be occurring in the aquifer. More
information is available at http://www.epa.gov/region8/superfund/wy/pavillion/.
II. How to Submit Comments to the Docket at http://www.regulations.gov
Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2011-
0895, by one of the following methods:
http://www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line
instructions for submitting comments.
Email: [email protected].
Facsimile: (202) 566-1753.
Mail: Office of Environmental Information Docket (Mail
Code: 2822T), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460. The telephone number is (202) 566-
1752. If you provide comments by mail, please submit one unbound
original with pages numbered consecutively, and three copies of the
comments. For attachments, provide an index, number pages consecutively
with the comments, and submit an unbound original and three copies.
Hand Delivery: The OEI Docket is located in the EPA
Headquarters Docket Center, EPA West Building, Room 3334, 1301
Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The EPA Docket Center Public
Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through
Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the Public
Reading Room is (202) 566-1744. Deliveries are only accepted during the
docket's normal hours of operation, and special arrangements should be
made for deliveries of boxed information. If you provide comments by
hand delivery, please submit one unbound original with pages numbered
consecutively, and three copies of the comments. For attachments,
provide an index, number pages consecutively with the comments, and
submit an unbound original and three copies.
Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-
2011-0895. Please ensure that your comments are submitted within the
specified comment period. It is EPA's policy to include all comments it
receives in the public docket without change and to make the comments
available online at http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal
information provided, unless comments include information claimed to be
Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose
disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not submit information that you
consider to be CBI or otherwise protected through http://www.regulations.gov or email. The http://www.regulations.gov Web site
is an ``anonymous access'' system, which means that EPA will not know
your identity or contact information unless you provide it in the body
of your comments. If you send email comments directly to EPA without
going through http://www.regulations.gov, your email address will be
automatically captured and included as part of the comments that are
placed in the public docket and made available on the Internet. If you
submit electronic comments, EPA recommends that you include your name
and other contact information in the body of your comments and with any
disk or CD-ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read your comments due to
technical difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, EPA
may not be able to consider your comments. Electronic files should
avoid the use of special characters and any form of encryption and be
free of any defects or viruses. For additional information about EPA's
public docket, visit the EPA Docket Center homepage at http://www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.
Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the http://www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some
information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such
as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard copy.
Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically
at http://www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the OEI Docket in the
EPA Headquarters Docket Center.
Dated: January 18, 2012.
Cynthia Sonich-Mullin,
Director, National Risk Management Research Laboratory.
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