Memorandum

Subject: 	Letter from Olympia J. Snowe, U.S. Senator

From:		Crystal Rodgers

To:		Docket for the Ground Water Rule

Date:		October 11, 2006

On October 20, 2000, EPA received a letter from Olympia J. Snowe, United
States Senator, writing to inform EPA of concerns raised by the Maine
Restaurant Association.  This letter included as an attachment the
comments of Richard Grotton, Executive Vice President of the Maine
Restaurant Association.  In response to this letter, J. Charles Fox,
then Assistant Administrator of EPA, wrote in response that “EPA will
consider and respond to his comments along with the other comments
received during the comment period for this proposed rule.”

EPA has fulfilled this pledge.  EPA notes that the Agency has included
in the Public Comment and Response Document for the Final Ground Water
Rule (comment response document) (USEPA, 2006) the text (i.e., the
comments) from (1) the letter from Senator Snowe to EPA, (2) the letter
from Mr. Grotton to Senator Snowe, and (3) the attachment to the letter
from Mr. Grotton to Senator Snowe.  EPA has responded to these comments.

Letters (and their attachments) in the comment response document are
organized by docket ID which allows the reader to easily locate comments
by their source or author.  The following letters and attachment have
been assigned the docket ID of I-G2.0019.  

Snowe, O.J. October 20, 2000. Letter to John Reeder, Deputy Associate
Administrator.

Grotton, R. September 27, 2000.  Letter to Jennifer E. Griffith,
Legislative Assistant to Senator Olympia Snowe.

Grotton, R. September 27, 2000.  “New Ground Water Rule under the Safe
Drinking Water Act To be promulgated November 2000by [sic] the United
States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA).” Attachment to Letter
to Jennifer E. Griffith, Legislative Assistant to Senator Olympia Snowe.

EPA intends to make the comment response document available
electronically.  An electronic search for “I-G2.0019” in a standard
computer application (e.g., a PDF document viewer) will direct the
reader to every comment from the above letters.  Each comment is
directly followed by EPA’s response.

Reference cited:

USEPA.  2006.  Public Comment and Response Document for the Final Ground
Water Rule.  EPA-815-R-06-013.

