[Federal Register: March 26, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 58)]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-5986-3]

 
Common Sense Initiative Council (CSIC)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice; notification of Public Advisory CSI Computers and 
Electronics Sector Subcommittee meeting; open meeting.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-
463, notification is hereby given that the Computers and Electronics 
Sector Subcommittee of the Common Sense Initiative Council will meet on 
the dates and times described below. All meetings are open to the 
public. Seating at the meeting will be on a first-come basis and 
limited time will be provided for public comment. For further 
information concerning specific meetings, please contact the 
individuals listed with the announcement below.

Computers and Electronics Sector Subcommittee--April 14 and 15, 
1998

    Notification is hereby given that the Environmental Protection 
Agency will hold an open meeting of the CSI Computers and Electronics 
Sector Subcommittee to begin on Tuesday, April 14 with registration at 
9:00 a.m EST. On Wednesday, April 15, 1998, the meeting will begin at 
8:30 a.m. EST and end at 3:00 p.m. EST. The meeting will be held at the 
Holiday Inn Hotel and Suites, 625 First Street, Alexandria,

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Virginia. The telephone number is (703) 548-6300.
    Both days, April 14 and 15, will be devoted partly to breakout 
sessions for the three subcommittee workgroups (Reporting and 
Information Access; Overcoming Barriers to Pollution Prevention, 
Product Stewardship, and Recycling; and Integrated and Sustainable 
Alternative Strategies for Electronics) and partly to plenary sessions. 
Over the course of the two days, the Subcommittee will be discussing 
progress on a number of projects for environmental protection in the 
computers and electronics industry.
    Projects that will be discussed include: BOLDER (Basic On-Line 
Disaster and Emergency Response), a project to integrate the BOLDER 
emergency response electronic reporting and information access system 
with the EPA ``One Plan,'' and to implement a full-scale test of the 
system in Phoenix, AZ.; Beta-BOLDER, a project to test the 
transferability of the BOLDER system to less technologically advanced 
communities by pilot testing the system in at least one small city; 
Better BOLDER, a project to make the BOLDER facility emergency response 
plan information accessible to the public in a useful context, using 
both the Internet and other means; CURE (Consolidated Uniform Report 
for the Environment), a project to develop and test in Texas a system 
for submitting environmental information required by multiple statutes 
on a single form, and to make that form electronic; Voluntary Program 
for Life Cycle Management of Electronic Products/State Multi-
Stakeholder Dialogue, a project to develop a challenge program with 
incentives to marshal industry's interest and capacity to preserve 
resources and promote recycling, building on current state programs; 
SPECIE (Superior Performance for the Environment through Community 
Involvement and Engagement), a project to develop a printed resource 
guide to strengthen community collaboration in projects requiring input 
from multiple stakeholders by providing tools to assist stakeholders to 
develop cooperative and constructive approaches to addressing 
environmental issues in their communities; Evaluation of Models and 
Development of Best Practices for Electronic Equipment Recovery/San 
Francisco Recycling Pilot, a project to compile and examine data from 
pilot collection projects, including one in San Francisco, identify 
data gaps, and provide an umbrella report to communities and the 
recycling industry; Green Track, a project to develop a program that 
offers regulatory flexibility or other incentives to encourage 
facilities to improve environmental performance beyond current 
regulatory requirements; Definition of ``Legitimate Recycling:'' a 
project to seek consensus-based decisions on the recycling of computer 
parts, and define certain electronics-related activities that the 
sector would recommend EPA exempt from existing solid waste regulation.
    Opportunity for public comment on major issues under discussion 
will be provided at intervals throughout the meeting.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John J. Bowser, Acting DFO, U.S. EPA 
on (202) 260-1771, by fax on (202) 260-1096, by e-mail at 
bowser.john@epamail.epa.gov., or by mail at U.S. EPA (MC 7405), 401 M 
Street, S.W., Washington, DC 20460; Mark Mahoney, U.S. EPA Region 1 on 
(617) 565-1155; or David Jones, U.S. EPA Region 9 on (415) 744-2266.

Inspection of Subcommittee Documents

    Documents relating to the above Sector Subcommittee announcement 
will be publicly available at the meeting. Thereafter, these documents, 
together with the official minutes for the meeting, will be available 
for public inspection in room 2821M of EPA Headquarters, Common Sense 
Initiative Staff, 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460, telephone 
number 202-260-7417. Common Sense Initiative information can be 
accessed electronically on our web site at http.//www.epa.gov/
commonsense.

    Dated: March 20, 1998.
Kathleen Bailey,
Designated Federal Officer.
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