Announcement of Public Meeting on the Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS/FED)

Résumé

Notice is hereby given that EPA is sponsoring three public meetings to discuss drinking water data quality on November 5, 6, and 9, 1998. The meetings will be held in Denver, Colorado (Nov. 5th), Washington, D.C. (Nov. 6th), and Kansas City, Missouri (Nov. 9th). The Denver meeting will be held in the Lakewood Sheraton, 360 Union Blvd., Lakewood, CO 80228, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The Washington meeting will be held in the Auditorium at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 401 M Street, SW, Washington, D.C. 20460, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The Kansas City meeting will be held in the Downtown Marriott Hotel, 200 W. 12th St., Kansas City, MO 64105, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The purpose of these meetings is to obtain comments on EPA's draft action plan to improve drinking water data quality. The plan addresses data quality at all levels: from laboratories and public water utilities to local governments, state government, and finally to EPA, where data are housed in the Safe Drinking Water Information System, or SDWIS/FED, database. EPA is particularly interested in what is an appropriate data quality goal, how data quality problems originate, and how EPA can characterize, quanti