[Federal Register: February 25, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 37)]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OEI-2008-0133; FRL-8533-4]
Office of Environmental Information; Announcement of Availability
and Comment Period for Revised Enforcement and Compliance and Tribal
Identifier Data Standards
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
ACTION: Notice of data availability & request for comment.
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SUMMARY: Notice of availability for a 30 day review and comment period
is hereby given for two revised data standards--(1) Enforcement and
Compliance Data Standard and (2)Tribal Identifier Data Standard. The
Enforcement and Compliance Data Standard identifies and defines the
major areas of enforcement and compliance information that could be
used for the exchange of data among environmental agencies and other
entities. The purpose of the standard is to provide a common lexicon,
so that information about functionally similar activities and/or
instruments can be stored.
The Tribal Identifier Data Standard specifies the set of tribal
names and codes necessary to constitute consistent and unambiguous
identification of federally-recognized American Indian and Alaska
Native entities. The Tribal Identifier Standard adopted the Bureau of
Indian Affairs criteria of tribal entity identification (federally
recognized tribes) and is not intended for the identification of
geographic, demographic or economic tribal areas. The Bureau of Indian
Affairs (BIA), is responsible for maintaining the official list of
tribal names and codes according to their established criteria. This
standard assists and supports the development of computerized
applications that use tribal identifier information.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before March 29, 2008, 30 days
after publication in the Federal Register.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
OEI-2008-0133, by one of the following methods:
http://www.regulations.gov Follow the on-line instructions
for submitting information.
E-mail: oei-docket@epa.gov.
Fax: 202-566-1753.
Mail: Environmental Protection Agency, EPA Docket Center
(EPA/DC), Announcement of Availability and Comment Period for Revised
Enforcement and Compliance and Tribal Identifier Data Standards,
Mailcode: 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.
Please include a total of four copies.
Hand Delivery: EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room
3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.
Please include a total of four copies. Such deliveries are only
accepted during the Docket's normal hours of operation, and special
arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed information.
Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OEI-
2008-0133. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included
in the public docket without change and may be made available online at
http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information
provided, unless it includes 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 ow-
docket@epa.gov. The http://www.regulations.gov Web site is an
``anonymous access'' system, which means EPA will not know your
identity or contact information unless you provide it in the body of
your information. If you send an e-mail directly to EPA without going
through http://www.regulations.gov your e-mail address will be
automatically captured and included as part of the information that is
placed in the public docket and made available on the Internet. If you
submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends that you include your name
and other contact information in the body of your comment and with any
disk or CD-ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read your comment due to
technical difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, EPA
may not be able to consider your comment. Electronic files should avoid
the use of special characters, 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 areavailable either electronically
in http://www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the OEI Docket, EPA/
DC, EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC.
This Docket Facility 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, and the telephone number for the
OEI Docket is (202) 566-1752.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dawn Banks, Collection Strategies
Division, Office of Environmental Information, U.S. EPA, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., MC 2822T; Washington, DC 20460; phone (202)
566-0625; fax (202) 566-1639; e-mail: Banks-Waller.Dawn@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Standards are intended for use in
environmental data exchanges among States, Tribal entities and U.S.
EPA. They are not meant to dictate or limit data an agency chooses to
collect for its own internal purposes. Adoption of a data standard
should not be interpreted to mean that revisions to databases or
information systems are required. What the adoption does mean is that
formats for sharing data with Exchange Network (EN) partners will
change because the Exchange Network has adopted Shared Schema
Components (SSCs) based on the data standards. The SSCs are available
on the Exchange Network web site at: http://www.exchangenetwork.net.
The revised data standards are available through the Docket system
as indicated above and at http://www.exchangenetwork.net/standards.
Dated: February 20, 2008.
Sara Hisel-McCoy,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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