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ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION
AGENCY
[
EPA­
HQ­
OEI­
2006­
0157;
FRL
8038­
6]

Office
of
Environmental
Information
Announcement
of
Availability
and
Comment
Period
for
Well
Information
Draft
Data
Standard
AGENCY:
Environmental
Protection
Agency
ACTION:
Notice
of
Data
Availability
&
request
for
comment
SUMMARY:
Notice
of
availability
for
a
45
day
review
and
comment
period
is
hereby
given
for
the
Draft
Well
Information
Data
Standard.

The
Draft
Well
Information
Data
Standard
describes
data
elements
and
data
groupings
that
are
used
to
exchange
information
about
wells
and
is
a
supplement
to
the
ESAR:
Monitoring
Location
[
EX000003.1]
Data
Standard
when
well
information
is
being
exchanged.
It
includes
information
about
well
ownership,
location,
use,
construction,
and
where
samples
or
measurements
are
made.
The
user
may
find
that
the
information
here
can
be
very
detailed,
however,
it
should
be
noted
that
it
provides
structure
for
those
data
that
are
available
and
there
is
need
to
exchange.
States
and
US
EPA
completed
a
technical
review
of
this
standard
in
the
Fall
of
2005.

DATES:
Comments
must
be
submitted
on
or
before
April
13,
2006.

ADDRESSES:
Submit
your
comments,
identified
by
Docket
ID
No.
EPA­
HQ­
OEI­
2006­
0157
by
one
of
the
following
methods:

°
www.
regulations.
gov:
Follow
the
on­
line
instructions
for
submitting
comments.
°
Email:
oei.
docket@
epa.
gov
°
Fax:
202­
566­
1753
°
Mail:
Environmental
Protection
Agency,
EPA
Docket
Center
(
EPA/
DC),
Announcement
of
Availability
and
Comment
Period
for
Well
Information
Draft
Data
Standard,
Mailcode:
28221T
1200
Pennsylvania
Avenue,
NW
Washington,
DC
20460
°
Hand
Delivery:
Public
Reading
Room,
RoomB102
EPA
West
Building
1301
Constitution
Avenue,
NW
Washington,
DC
2
Instructions:
Direct
your
comments
to
Docket
ID
No.
EPA­
HQ­
OEI­
2006­
0157.
EPA's
policy
is
that
all
comments
received
will
be
included
in
the
public
docket
without
change
and
may
be
made
available
online
at
www.
regulations.
gov,
including
any
personal
information
provided,
unless
the
comment
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
www.
regulations.
gov
or
email.
The
www.
regulations.
gov
website
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
comment.
If
you
send
an
e­
mail
comment
directly
to
EPA
without
going
through
www.
regulations.
gov
your
e­
mail
address
will
b
automatically
captured
and
included
as
part
of
the
comment
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.

FOR
FURTHER
INFORMATION
CONTACT:

Dawn
Banks­
Waller;
Environmental
Protection
Agency;
1200
Pennsylvania
Avenue,
MC
2822T;
Washington,
DC
20460;
Phone:
202
566
0625;
Fax:
202
566
1624;
Email:
Banks­
Waller.
Dawn@
epa.
gov
SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION:

This
standard
was
developed
by
a
group
of
professionals
and
submitted
as
a
comment
on
the
ESAR
Suite
of
Data
Standards
published
in
an
earlier
Federal
Register.
The
decision
to
put
the
Draft
Well
Information
Data
Standard
out
for
review
was
made
jointly
by
US
EPA,
States,
and
Tribes
(
through
the
Exchange
Network
Leadership
Council
(
ENLC)),
an
organization
that
represents
the
USE
EPA,
States
and
Tribal
entities.
The
ENLC
took
over
responsibility
for
Data
Standards
development,
administration
and
management
from
the
Environmental
Data
Standards
Council
(
EDSC)
in
January
2006).
The
standards
are
intended
for
use
in
environmental
data
exchanges
among
States,
Tribal
entities
and
the
US
EPA.
They
are
not
meant
to
dictate
or
to
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.
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The
draft
data
standards
documents
can
be
found
on
EDSC's
website
at
http://
www.
envdatastandards.
net/
and
are
available
through
the
Docket
system
as
indicated
above.

Dated:

Oscar
Morales,
Director
Collection
Strategies
Division
