MEMORANDUM

SUBJECT:	Recommendation of Tentative Approval for the State of North
Carolina’s (State) Public Notification Rule

FROM:	James D. Giattina, Director

Water Management Division

TO:		J. I. Palmer, Jr.

Regional Administrator

The purpose of this memorandum is to recommend your approval of the
State’s revision to its Public Water System Supervision Program for
the Public Notification Rule (Rule).  The background for this
recommendation can be found in the attached Fact Sheet.

You will find two items for your approval and signature.  The first is
the Federal Register Notice announcing EPA’s tentative approval of
this Rule.  This notice is necessary in order for EPA to accept the
State’s Rule revision.  The second is a memorandum transmitting the
Federal Register Notice to the Federal Register Liaison in Headquarters.
 Should the public notice period on this Rule end without the filing of
any requests for public hearing, the tentative approval of this Rule
will automatically become a final approval thirty (30) days from the
date of the publication of the notice of tentative approval in the
Federal Register.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this recommendation,
please contact     E. Stallings Howell, Chief, Ground Water & Drinking
Water Branch at x29329.

_________________

Mary J. Wilkes

Regional Counsel and Director

Office of Environmental Accountability

Attachments:

1.	Memo from Wayne Lee

2.	Fact Sheet for the request to revise North Carolina’s Public
Notification Rule

