96-21626. Emergency Revision of the Land Disposal Restrictions (LDR) Phase III Treatment Standards for Listed Hazardous Wastes From Carbamate Production  

  • [Federal Register Volume 61, Number 166 (Monday, August 26, 1996)]
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    40 CFR Parts 268 and 271
    
    
    
    Emergency Revision of the Land Disposal Restrictions (LDR) Phase III 
    Treatment Standards for Listed Hazardous Wastes From Carbamate 
    Production; Final Rule
    
    Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 166 / Monday, August 26, 1996 / Rules 
    and Regulations
    
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    ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
    
    40 CFR Parts 268 and 271
    
    [EPA # 530-Z-96-002; FRL-5560-1]
    RIN 2050-AD38
    
    
    Emergency Revision of the Land Disposal Restrictions (LDR) Phase 
    III Treatment Standards for Listed Hazardous Wastes From Carbamate 
    Production
    
    AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA, the Agency).
    
    ACTION: Immediate final rule.
    
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    SUMMARY: On April 8, 1996, EPA published treatment standards (the 
    ``Phase III'' final rule) for a number of hazardous wastes associated 
    with the production of carbamate pesticides (``carbamate wastes'') (61 
    FR 15566, April 8, 1996). The treatment standards were expressed as 
    levels of chemical constituents that had to be measured in treatment 
    residues before land disposal. They became effective July 8, 1996.
        The Agency recently has become aware, however, of a serious 
    analytic monitoring problem associated with the carbamate constituent 
    treatment standards. Laboratory standards (chemicals used to calibrate 
    laboratory instruments) do not exist for every carbamate constituent. 
    Since commercial laboratories currently are unable to analyze all of 
    the carbamate waste constituents, treatment facilities cannot certify 
    that the LDR treatment standards have been achieved. Today's final rule 
    revises the carbamate waste treatment standards for one year from the 
    date of publication by allowing carbamate wastes to be treated either 
    by any technology which achieves the constituent concentration levels 
    promulgated in the Phase III rule, or by treatment technologies 
    specified in this final rule as alternative treatment standards. This 
    rule also suspends the requirement to treat carbamate waste 
    constituents when they are expected to be present in ignitable, 
    corrosive, reactive or toxic hazardous wastes as ``underlying hazardous 
    constituents.''
        The Agency believes that these temporary alternative treatment 
    standards will assure that carbamate wastes are adequately treated 
    prior to land disposal, while providing time for analytic chemical 
    standards to be developed. At the end of the year EPA expects that 
    laboratories will be able to perform the analyses necessary to measure 
    compliance with treatment levels. At that time, therefore, the LDR 
    treatment standards for carbamate wastes will revert to those 
    originally promulgated in the Phase III rule.
    
    EFFECTIVE DATE: August 26, 1996.
    
    ADDRESSES: Supporting materials are available for viewing in the RCRA 
    Information Center (RIC), located at Crystal Gateway One, 1235 
    Jefferson Davis Highway, First Floor, Arlington, VA. The Docket 
    Identification Number is F-96-P32F-FFFFF. The RIC is open from 9 a.m. 
    to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, except for Federal holidays. The 
    public must make an appointment to review docket materials by calling 
    (703) 603-9230. The public may copy a maximum of 100 pages from any 
    regulatory document at no cost. Additional copies cost $0.15 per page.
    
    FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For general information contact the 
    RCRA Hotline at 800-424-9346 (toll-free) or 703-412-9810 locally. For 
    technical information on the carbamate treatment standards, contact 
    Shaun McGarvey in the Office of Solid Waste, phone 703-308-8603. For 
    specific information about this rule, contact Rhonda Craig, phone 703-
    308-8771.
    
    SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    
    I. Background
    
        The Phase III final rule established treatment standards for 64 
    listed hazardous wastes associated with carbamate pesticide production 
    (61 FR 15583; see also the attached appendix for the list of carbamate 
    wastes). The treatment standards were at Universal Treatment Standard 
    (UTS) levels for 21 of the constituents of concern (16 organic 
    constituents and 5 metals), and at newly-established levels for 42 
    other constituents that were added to the UTS list.
        The wastewater standards for the 42 new constituents were based on 
    data developed by the Office of Water for the development of effluent 
    guideline limitations, or on data transferred from other UTS 
    constituents. These data reflected performance of biodegradation, 
    combustion, carbon adsorption, or chemical oxidation.
        There were no sampling data from treatment of carbamate 
    nonwastewaters at the time treatment standards were being developed; 
    thus, the nonwastewater treatment standard levels were calculated using 
    analytical detection limits, based on EPA's experience that combustion 
    technologies destroy organic constituents to nondetectable levels. To 
    account for variability, the treatment standards were based on the 
    detection limit for the waste constituent times a variability factor. 
    (See BDAT Background Document for Carbamates at 4-4 through 4-9.)
        During the comment period for the Phase III proposed rule, EPA 
    became aware that commenters thought a number of the 42 constituents 
    with newly-established UTS levels did not have EPA-recommended 
    analytical methods for measuring compliance. Furthermore, some 
    commenters noted that laboratory standards were not available for some 
    of the constituents. Thus, laboratories would not be able to calibrate 
    their instruments to measure compliance with treatment standards for 
    those constituents. EPA responded that analytical methods had been 
    recommended for all carbamate waste constituents, and that analytical 
    standards were expected to become available prior to the Phase III 
    effective date, as laboratories geared up for the new regulation.
        After EPA published the Phase III rule on April 8, 1996, but 
    shortly before the treatment standards took effect on July 8, several 
    companies in the waste management industry again contacted EPA 
    reporting that analytic laboratory standards were in fact not available 
    for some of the carbamate waste constituents. The Agency contacted 
    several laboratories (see Memorandum to the Docket from Shaun McGarvey, 
    EPA, August 1, 1996). EPA now agrees that the waste management industry 
    was unintentionally left in a quandary: they were required to certify 
    compliance with the carbamate waste treatment standards but commercial 
    laboratories indicated that they were only able to perform the 
    necessary analyses for some of the newly regulated constituents. Thus, 
    it would be impossible to document that the treatment standards were or 
    were not achieved for those constituents which cannot be analyzed.
        The problem was complicated by the LDR rules that pertain to 
    regulation of underlying hazardous constituents (UHCs) in 
    characteristic (or formerly characteristic) hazardous wastes. Because 
    42 new carbamate constituents have been added to the UTS list (61 FR 
    15584), they thus become UHCs. Under the regulations published on May 
    24, 1993 (the ``Emergency Rule,'' 58 FR 29860; codified at 40 CFR 
    268.2(i), 268.7(a) and 268.9), and on September 19, 1994 (Phase II 
    Rule, 59 FR 47982; same citations as above), whenever a generator sends 
    a characteristic (or formerly-characteristic) waste to a treatment 
    facility, they must identify for treatment not only the hazardous 
    characteristic, but also all UHCs reasonably expected to be present in 
    the waste at the point of generation. Because of the lack of laboratory
    
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    standards for all carbamate constituents, generators could not in all 
    cases identify the UHCs reasonably expected to be present in their 
    wastes, and treatment facilities and EPA could not monitor compliance 
    with the standards for the carbamate UHCs.
    
    II. The Revised Carbamate Treatment Standards
    
        This final rule establishes temporary treatment standards for 
    carbamate wastes for a one-year period. EPA believes that one year is 
    sufficient time for laboratory standards to be developed and for 
    laboratories to take appropriate steps to do the necessary analyses for 
    these wastes. The temporary alternative treatment standards will be in 
    effect for one year from the date of publication of this final rule.
        The Phase III rule required treatment of carbamate wastes to UTS 
    levels. The temporary alternative standards being promulgated today 
    provide waste handlers with a choice of meeting the Phase III treatment 
    levels, or of using a specified treatment technology. Combustion is the 
    specified technology for nonwastewaters; combustion, biodegradation, 
    chemical oxidation, and carbon adsorption are the specified 
    technologies for wastewaters. These technologies are defined at 40 CFR 
    268.42, Table 1 (see technology codes: BIODG, CARBN, CHOXD, and CMBST). 
    If the wastes are treated by a specified technology, there is no 
    requirement to measure compliance with treatment levels (thus the 
    analytical problems are avoided). Because the performance of these Best 
    Demonstrated Available Technologies (BDATs) was the basis of the 
    originally promulgated treatment levels, EPA believes that temporarily 
    allowing the use of these BDATs-- without a requirement to monitor the 
    treatment residues--fully satisfies the core requirement of the LDR 
    program: hazardous wastes must be effectively treated before they are 
    land disposed.
        EPA considered completely replacing the carbamate treatment 
    standard levels with specified treatment methods, rather than providing 
    the alternative approach being promulgated in this rule. EPA decided it 
    was better to retain the treatment levels (along with the alternative 
    treatment methods) and let the regulated community decide which 
    treatment standards to meet. EPA believes that it is important to 
    retain the treatment levels because laboratories may be ready to 
    analyze all carbamate waste constituents before the end of the year. 
    Furthermore, it is possible that a carbamate waste would not contain 
    any of the problem constituents that cannot be analyzed at this time. 
    Thus compliance with the treatment levels for such a waste could easily 
    be measured.
        The Agency's preference, ultimately, is to establish only 
    constituent treatment standard levels for these wastes. The Agency 
    believes that compliance with treatment levels provides maximum 
    flexibility in selecting treatment technologies, while ensuring that 
    the technologies are optimally operated to achieve full waste 
    treatment. Therefore, the alternative specified treatment technologies 
    only temporarily satisfy the LDR treatment standards. The treatment 
    standards will revert exclusively to treatment levels at the end of one 
    year.
        The Agency is also temporarily suspending inclusion of carbamate 
    waste constituents on the UTS list at 40 CFR 268.48. Not including 
    these constituents on the UTS list elimiantes the need to identify and 
    treat them, and monitor compliance with their UTS levels, when they are 
    present as UHCs in characteristic hazardous wastes.
        The Agency believes that suspending the carbamate constituents from 
    the UTS list will not have adverse environmental consequences because 
    it will be in effect for only one year. Furthermore, EPA found in the 
    Phase III rulemaking that these constituents are unlikely to occur in 
    wastes generated outside the carbamate production industry (61 FR 
    15584, April 8, 1996), so today's rule may not cause an adverse 
    environmental impact because carbamate constituents simply are not 
    present in most characteristic hazardous wastes.
    
    III. Good Cause for Foregoing Notice and Comment Requirements
    
        This final rule is being issued without notice and opportunity for 
    public comment. Under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5 U.S.C. 
    553(b)(B), an agency may forgo notice and comment in promulgating a 
    rule when, according to the APA, the agency for good cause finds (and 
    incorporates the finding and a brief statement of the reasons for that 
    finding into the rules issues) that notice and public comments 
    procedures are impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary to the public 
    interest. For the reasons set forth below, EPA believes it has good 
    cause to find that notice and comment would be unnecessary and contrary 
    to the public interest, and therefore is not required by the APA.
        First, the Agency has discovered an unanticipated unavailability of 
    analytic laboratory standards for a number of the carbamate waste 
    constituents covered by the Phase III rule. As a practical matter, 
    therefore, members of the regulated community cannot fully document 
    compliance with the requirements of the treatment standard through no 
    fault of their own. For the same reason, EPA cannot ascertain 
    compliance for these constituents.
        In addition, this unavailability of analytic standards is likely to 
    create a serious disruption in the production of at least some 
    carbamate pesticides. Although the treatment of the restricted 
    carbamate wastes through biodegradation, carbon adsorption, chemical 
    oxidation (for wastewaters), and combustion is both possible and highly 
    effective, certification that the treatment actually meets the 
    treatment standard levels may not be possible in many instances. 
    Without the certification, disposal of the residuals left after 
    treatment cannot legally occur. The Agency believes this situation will 
    quickly impede production of certain pesticides, since legal disposal 
    of some carbamate wastes will no longer be available. See Steel 
    Manufacturers Ass'n v. EPA, 27 F.3d 642, 646-47 (D.C. Cir. 1994) 
    (absence of a treatment standard providing a legal means of disposing 
    of wastes from a process is equivalent to shutting down that process). 
    With regard to the suspension of certain carbamates as underlying 
    hazardous constituents in characteristic (and formerly-characteristic) 
    prohibited wastes, the Agency believes that the same practical 
    difficulties described for listed carbamate wastes would be created.
        Finally, today's rule merely removes, on a temporary basis, an 
    administrative hurdle that would impede sound management of certain 
    hazardous wastes. By altering the treatment standard to allow 
    certification of compliance, the Agency can ensure that treatment 
    through use of the BDAT basis of the treatment standard levels actually 
    occurs without delay.
        Consequently, EPA today is preserving the core of the promulgated 
    Phase III rule by ensuring that the restricted carbamate wastes are 
    treated by a BDAT before they are land disposed. At the same time, EPA 
    is eliminating the situation which could halt production of carbamate 
    pesticides. For these reasons, EPA believes there is good cause to 
    issue the rule immediately without prior notice and opportunity for 
    comment.
    
    IV. Rationale for Immediate Effective Date
    
        The Agency believes that the regulated community is in the 
    untenable position of having to comply with treatment standards for 
    which there is not an analytical way to measure
    
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    compliance. Therefore, it is imperative that relief be immediately 
    provided from those treatment standards. In addition, today's rule does 
    not create additional regulatory requirements; rather, it provides 
    greater flexibility for compliance with treatment standards. For these 
    reasons, EPA finds that good cause exists under section 3010(b)(3) of 
    RCRA, 42 U.S.C. 6903(b)(3), to provide for an immediate effective date. 
    See generally 61 FR at 15662. For the same reasons, EPA finds that 
    there is good cause under 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(3) to waive the requirement 
    that regulations be published at least 30 days before they become 
    effective.
    
    V. Analysis Under Executive Order 12866, the Unfunded Mandates Reform 
    Act of 1995, the Regulatory Flexibility Act, and the Paperwork 
    Reduction Act
    
        This final rule does not create new regulatory requirements; 
    rather, it provides a temporary alternative means to comply with the 
    treatment standards already promulgated. Therefore, this final rule is 
    not a ``significant'' regulatory action within the meaning of Executive 
    Order 12866.
        Title II of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (UMRA), Public 
    Law 104-4, establishes requirements for Federal agencies to assess the 
    effects of their regulatory actions on State, local, and tribal 
    governments and the private sector. Under section 202 of the UMRA, EPA 
    generally must prepare a written statement, including a cost-benefit 
    analysis, for proposed and final rules with ``Federal mandates'' that 
    may result in expenditures to State, local, and tribal governments, in 
    the aggregate, or to the private sector, of $100 million or more in any 
    one year. Before promulgating an EPA rule for which a written statement 
    is needed, section 205 of the UMRA generally requires EPA to identify 
    and consider a reasonable number of regulatory alternatives and adopt 
    the least costly, most cost-effective or least burdensome alternative 
    that achieves the objectives of the rule. The provisions of section 205 
    do not apply when they are inconsistent with applicable law. Moreover, 
    section 205 allows EPA to adopt an alternative other than the least 
    costly, most cost-effective or least burdensome alternative if the 
    Administrator publishes with the final rule an explanation why that 
    alternative was not adopted. Before EPA establishes any regulatory 
    requirements that may significantly or uniquely affect small 
    governments, including tribal governments, it must have developed under 
    section 203 of the UMRA a small government agency plan. The plan must 
    provide for notifying potentially affected small governments, enabling 
    officials of affected small governments to have meaningful and timely 
    input in the development of EPA regulatory proposals with significant 
    Federal intergovernmental mandates, and informing, educating, and 
    advising small governments on compliance with the regulatory 
    requirements.
        Today's rule contains no Federal mandates (under the regulatory 
    provisions of Title II of the UMRA) for State, local, or tribal 
    governments or the private sector, and does not impose any Federal 
    mandate on State, local, or tribal governments or the private sector 
    within the meaning of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995. This 
    final rule does not create new regulatory requirements; rather, it 
    provides a temporary alternative means to comply with the treatment 
    standards already promulgated. EPA has determined that this rule does 
    not contain a Federal mandate that may result in expenditures of $100 
    million or more for State, local, and tribal governments, in the 
    aggregate, or the private sector in any one year. Thus, today's rule is 
    not subject to the requirements of sections 202 and 205 of the UMRA. 
    For the same reasons, EPA has determined that this rule contains no 
    regulatory requirements that might significantly or uniquely affect 
    small governments.
        EPA has determined that this rule will not have a significant 
    economic impact on a substantial number of small entities. EPA 
    recognizes that small entities may own and/or operate carbamate 
    pesticide manufacturing operations or TSDFs that will become subject to 
    the requirements of the land disposal restrictions program. However, 
    since such small entities are already subject to the requirements in 40 
    CFR part 268, this rule does not impose any additional burdens on these 
    small entities, because this rule does not create new regulatory 
    requirements. Rather, it provides a temporary alternative means to 
    comply with the treatment standards already promulgated.
        Therefore, EPA provides the following certification under the 
    Regulatory Flexibility Act, as amended by the Small Business Regulatory 
    Enforcement Fairness Act. Pursuant to the provision at 5 U.S.C. 605(b), 
    I hereby certify that this final rule will not have a significant 
    economic impact on a substantial number of small entities. It does not 
    impose any new burdens on small entities. This rule, therefore, does 
    not require a regulatory flexibility analysis.
        Today's rule does not contain any new information collection 
    requirements subject to OMB review under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
    1980, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq. Because there are no new information 
    collection requirements in today's rule, an Information Collection 
    Request has not been prepared.
    
    VI. Submission to Congress and the General Accounting Office
    
        Under 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A) as added by the Small Business 
    Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996, EPA submitted a report 
    containing this rule and other required information to the U.S. Senate, 
    the U.S. House of Representatives and the Comptroller General of the 
    General Accounting Office prior to publication of the rule in today's 
    Federal Register. This rule is not a ``major rule'' as defined by 5 
    U.S.C. 804(2).
    
    VII. State Authority
    
    A. Applicability of Rule in Authorized States
    
        Under section 3006 of RCRA, EPA may authorize qualified States to 
    administer and enforce the RCRA program within the State. Following 
    authorization, EPA retains enforcement authority under sections 3008, 
    3013, and 7003 of RCRA, although authorized States have primary 
    enforcement responsibility. The standards and requirements for 
    authorization are found in 40 CFR Part 271.
        Prior to HSWA, a State with final authorization administered its 
    hazardous waste program in lieu of EPA administering the Federal 
    program in that State. The Federal requirements no longer applied in 
    the authorized State, and EPA could not issue permits for any 
    facilities that the State was authorized to permit. When new, more 
    stringent Federal requirements were promulgated or enacted, the State 
    was obliged to enact equivalent authority within specified time frames. 
    New Federal requirements did not take effect in an authorized State 
    until the State adopted the requirements as State law.
        In contrast, under RCRA section 3006(g) (42 U.S.C. 6926(g)), new 
    requirements and prohibitions imposed by HSWA take effect in authorized 
    States at the same time that they take effect in unauthorized States. 
    EPA is directed to carry out these requirements and prohibitions in 
    authorized States, including the issuance of permits, until the State 
    is granted authorization to do so.
        Today's rule is being promulgated pursuant to section 3004(m), of 
    RCRA (42 U.S.C. 6924(m)). Therefore, the Agency is adding today's rule 
    to Table 1 in 40 CFR 271.1(j), which identifies
    
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    the Federal program requirements that are promulgated pursuant to HSWA. 
    States may apply for final authorization for the HSWA provisions in 
    Table 1, as discussed in the following section of this preamble.
    
    B. Effect on State Authorization
    
        As noted above, EPA will implement today's rule in authorized 
    States until they modify their programs to adopt these rules and the 
    modification is approved by EPA. Because today's rule is promulgated 
    pursuant to HSWA, a State submitting a program modification may apply 
    to receive interim or final authorization under RCRA section 3006(g)(2) 
    or 3006(b), respectively, on the basis of requirements that are 
    substantially equivalent or equivalent to EPA's. The procedures and 
    schedule for State program modifications for final authorization are 
    described in 40 CFR 271.21. All HSWA interim authorizations will expire 
    January 1, 2003. (See Sec. 271.24 and 57 FR 60132, December 18, 1992.)
        In general, EPA recommends that States pay close attention to the 
    sunset date for today's rule. If States are adopting the Phase III rule 
    before the sunset date of today's rule, and applying for authorization, 
    EPA strongly encourages these States to adopt today's rule when they 
    adopt the April 8, 1996, Phase III rule. States should note that after 
    the sunset date, the provisions of this rule will be considered less 
    stringent. Thus, States would be barred under section 3009 of RCRA, 
    from adopting this rule after the date one year from the date of 
    publication of today's rule, and would not be able to receive 
    authorization for it. States that are planning to adopt and become 
    authorized for today's rule and the Phase III rule should factor the 
    sunset date into their rulemaking activities.
    
    Appendix to Preamble --List of Regulated Carbamate Wastes
    
    K156--Organic waste (including heavy ends, still bottoms, light 
    ends, spent solvents, filtrates, and decantates) from the production 
    of carbamates and carbamoyl oximes.
    K157--Wastewaters (including scrubber waters, condenser waters, 
    washwaters, and separation waters) from the production of carbamates 
    and carbamoyl oximes.
    K158--Bag house dust, and filter/separation solids from the 
    production of carbamates and carbamoyl oximes.
    K159--Organics from the treatment of thiocarbamate wastes.
    K160--Solids (including filter wastes, separation solids, and spent 
    catalysts) from the production of thiocarbamates and solids from the 
    treatment of thiocarbamate wastes.
    K161--Purification solids (including filtration, evaporation, and 
    centrifugation solids), baghouse dust, and floor sweepings from the 
    production of dithiocarbamate acids and their salts. (This listing 
    does not include K125 or K126.)
    P203  Aldicarb sulfone
    P127  Carbofuran
    P189  Carbosulfan
    P202  m-Cumenyl methylcarbamate
    P191  Dimetilan
    P198  Formetanate hydrochloride
    P197  Formparanate
    P192  Isolan
    P196  Manganese dimethyldithiocarbamate
    P199  Methiocarb
    P190  Metolcarb
    P128  Mexacarbate
    P194  Oxamyl
    P204  Physostigmine
    P188  Physostigmine salicylate
    P201  Promecarb
    P185  Tirpate
    P205  Ziram
    U394  A2213
    U280  Barban
    U278  Bendiocarb
    U364  Bendiocarb phenol
    U271  Benomyl
    U400  Bis(pentamethylene)thiuram tetrasulfide
    U392  Butylate
    U279  Carbaryl
    U372  Carbendazim
    U367  Carbofuran phenol
    U393  Copper dimethyldithiocarbamate
    U386  Cycloate
    U366  Dazomet
    U395  Diethylene glycol, dicarbamate
    U403  Disulfiram
    U390  EPTC
    U407  Ethyl Ziram
    U396  Ferbam
    U375  3-Iodo-2-propynyl n-butylcarbamate
    U384  Metam Sodium
    U365  Molinate
    U391  Pebulate
    U383  Potassium dimethyl dithiocarbamate
    U378  Potassium n-hydroxymethyl-n-methyldithiocarbamate
    U377  Potassium n-methyldithiocarbamate
    U373  Propham
    U411  Propoxur
    U387  Prosulfocarb
    U376  Selenium, tetrakis (dimethyldithiocarbamate)
    U379  Sodium dibutyldithiocarbamate
    U381  Sodium diethyldithiocarbamate
    U382  Sodium dimethyldithiocarbamate
    U277  Sulfallate
    U402  Tetrabutylthiuram disulfide
    U401  Tetramethylthiuram monosulfide
    U410  Thiodicarb
    U409  Thiophanate-methyl
    U389  Triallate
    U404  Triethylamine
    U385  Vernolate
    
    List of Subjects
    
    40 CFR Part 268
    
        Hazardous waste, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.
    
    40 CFR Part 271
    
        Administrative practice and procedure, Hazardous materials 
    transportation, Hazardous waste, Penalties, Reporting and recordkeeping 
    requirements.
    
        Dated: August 20, 1996.
    Carol M. Browner,
    Administrator.
    
        For the reasons set forth in the preamble, title 40, chapter I of 
    the Code of Federal Regulations is amended as follows:
    
    PART 268--LAND DISPOSAL RESTRICTIONS
    
        1. The authority citation for part 268 continues to read as 
    follows:
    
        Authority: 42 U.S.C. 6905, 6912(a), 6921, and 6924.
    
    Subpart D--Treatment Standards
    
        2. Section 268.40 is amended by adding paragraph (g) and by 
    revising in the table ``Treatment Standards for Hazardous Wastes'' the 
    entries for K156-K161, P127, P128, P185, P188-P192, P194, P196-P199, 
    P201-P205, U271, U277-U280, U364-U367, U372, U373, U375-U379, U381-
    U387, U389-U396, U400-U404, U407, and U409-U411; to read as follows:
    
    
    Sec. 268.40  Applicability of treatment standards.
    
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        (g) Between August 26, 1996 and August 26, 1997 the treatment 
    standards for the wastes specified in 40 CFR 261.32 as EPA Hazardous 
    Waste numbers K156-K161; and in 40 CFR 261.33 as EPA Hazardous Waste 
    numbers P127, P128, P185, P188-P192, P194, P196-P199, P201-P205, U271, 
    U277-U280, U364-U367, U372, U373, U375-U379, U381-U387, U389-U396, 
    U400-U404, U407, and U409-U411; and soil contaminated with these 
    wastes; may be satisfied by either meeting the constituent 
    concentrations presented in the table ``Treatment Standards for 
    Hazardous Wastes'' in this section, or by treating the waste by the 
    following technologies: combustion, as defined by the technolgy code 
    CMBST at Sec. 268.42 Table 1, for nonwastewaters; and, biodegradation 
    as definded by the technolgy code BIODG, carbon adsorption as defined 
    by the technology code CARBN, chemical oxidation as defined by the 
    technology code CHOXD, or combustion as defined as technolgy code CMBST 
    at Sec. 268.42 Table 1, for wastewaters.
    
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                                                            Treatment Standards for Hazardous Wastes                                                        
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                                                                     Regulated hazardous constituent                      Wastewaters      Nonwastewaters   
                                                 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                           Waste description and                                                                         Concentration  Concentration in mg/
          Waste code        treatment/regulatory                                                                          in mg/l \3\;   kg \5\ unless noted
                              subcategory \1\                          Common name                         CAS \2\ No.   or technology   as ``mg/l TCLP'' or
                                                                                                                            code \4\       technology code  
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    K156                   Organic waste          Acetonitrile.........................................         75-05-8          5.6    1.8                 
                            (including heavy                                                                                                                
                            ends, still bottoms,                                                                                                            
                            light ends, spent                                                                                                               
                            solvents, filtrates,                                                                                                            
                            and decantates) from                                                                                                            
                            the production of                                                                                                               
                            carbamates and                                                                                                                  
                            carbamoyl oximes                                                                                                                
                            \10\.                                                                                                                           
                                                  Acetophenone.........................................         96-86-2          0.010  9.7                 
                                                  Aniline..............................................         62-53-3          0.81   14                  
                                                  Benomyl..............................................      17804-35-2          0.056  1.4                 
                                                  Benzene..............................................         71-43-2          0.14   10                  
                                                  Carbaryl.............................................         63-25-2          0.006  0.14                
                                                  Carbenzadim..........................................      10605-21-7          0.056  1.4                 
                                                  Carbofuran...........................................       1563-66-2          0.006  0.14                
                                                  Carbosulfan..........................................      55285-14-8          0.028  1.4                 
                                                  Chlorobenzene........................................        108-90-7          0.057  6.0                 
                                                  Chloroform...........................................         67-66-3          0.046  6.0                 
                                                  o-Dichlorobenzene....................................         95-50-1          0.088  6.0                 
                                                  Methomyl.............................................      16752-77-5          0.028  0.14                
                                                  Methylene chloride...................................         75-09-2          0.089  30                  
                                                  Methyl ethyl ketone..................................         78-93-3          0.28   36                  
                                                  Naphthalene..........................................         91-20-3          0.059  5.6                 
                                                  Phenol...............................................        108-95-2          0.039  6.2                 
                                                  Pyridine.............................................        110-86-1          0.014  16                  
                                                  Toluene..............................................        108-88-3          0.080  10                  
                                                  Triethylamine........................................        121-44-8          0.081  1.5                 
    K157                   Wastewaters            Carbon tetrachloride.................................         56-23-5          0.057  6.0                 
                            (including scrubber                                                                                                             
                            waters, condenser                                                                                                               
                            waters, washwaters,                                                                                                             
                            and separation                                                                                                                  
                            waters) from the                                                                                                                
                            production of                                                                                                                   
                            carbamates and                                                                                                                  
                            carbamoyl oximes                                                                                                                
                            \10\.                                                                                                                           
                                                  Chloroform...........................................         67-66-3          0.046  6.0                 
                                                  Chloromethane........................................         74-87-3          0.19   30                  
                                                  Methomyl.............................................      16752-77-5          0.028  0.14                
                                                  Methylene chloride...................................         75-09-2          0.089  30                  
                                                  Methyl ethyl ketone..................................         78-93-3          0.28   36                  
                                                  o-Phenylenediamine...................................         95-54-5          0.056  5.6                 
                                                  Pyridine.............................................        110-86-1          0.014  16                  
                                                  Triethylamine........................................        121-44-8          0.081  1.5                 
    K158                   Bag house dusts and    Benomyl..............................................      17804-35-2          0.056  1.4                 
                            filter/separation                                                                                                               
                            solids from the                                                                                                                 
                            production of                                                                                                                   
                            carbamates and                                                                                                                  
                            carbamoyl oximes                                                                                                                
                            \10\.                                                                                                                           
                                                  Benzene..............................................         71-43-2          0.14   10                  
                                                  Carbenzadim..........................................      10605-21-7          0.056  1.4                 
                                                  Carbofuran...........................................       1563-66-2          0.006  0.14                
                                                  Carbosulfan..........................................      55285-14-8          0.028  1.4                 
                                                  Chloroform...........................................         67-66-3          0.046  6.0                 
                                                  Methylene chloride...................................         75-09-2          0.089  30                  
                                                  Phenol...............................................        108-95-2          0.039  6.2                 
    K159                   Organics from the      Benzene..............................................         71-43-2          0.14   10                  
                            treatment of                                                                                                                    
                            thiocarbamate wastes                                                                                                            
                            \10\.                                                                                                                           
                                                  Butylate.............................................       2008-41-5          0.003  1.5                 
                                                  EPTC (Eptam).........................................        759-94-4          0.003  1.4                 
                                                  Molinate.............................................       2212-67-1          0.003  1.4                 
    
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                                                  Pebulate.............................................       1114-71-2          0.003  1.4                 
                                                  Vernolate............................................       1929-77-7          0.003  1.4                 
    K160                   Solids (including      Butylate.............................................       2008-41-5          0.003  1.5                 
                            filter wastes,                                                                                                                  
                            separation solids,                                                                                                              
                            and spent catalysts)                                                                                                            
                            from the production                                                                                                             
                            of thiocarabamates                                                                                                              
                            and solids from the                                                                                                             
                            treatment of                                                                                                                    
                            thiocarbamate wastes                                                                                                            
                            \10\.                                                                                                                           
                                                  EPTC (Eptam).........................................        759-94-4          0.003  1.4                 
                                                  Molinate.............................................       2212-67-1          0.003  1.4                 
                                                  Pebulate.............................................       1114-71-2          0.003  1.4                 
                                                  Toluene..............................................        108-88-3          0.080  10                  
                                                  Vernolate............................................       1929-77-7          0.003  1.4                 
    K161                   Purification solids    Antimony.............................................       7440-36-0          1.9    2.1 mg/l TCLP       
                            (including                                                                                                                      
                            filtration,                                                                                                                     
                            evaporation, and                                                                                                                
                            centrifugation                                                                                                                  
                            solids), baghouse                                                                                                               
                            dust and floor                                                                                                                  
                            sweepings from the                                                                                                              
                            production of                                                                                                                   
                            dithiocarbamate                                                                                                                 
                            acids and their                                                                                                                 
                            salts \10\.                                                                                                                     
                                                  Arsenic..............................................       7440-38-2          1.4    5.0 mg/l TCLP       
                                                  Carbon disulfide.....................................         75-15-0          3.8    4.8 mg/l TCLP       
                                                  Dithiocarbamates (total).............................        137-30-4          0.028  28                  
                                                  Lead.................................................       7439-92-1          0.69   0.37 mg/l TCLP      
                                                  Nickel...............................................       7440-02-0          3.98   5.0 mg/l TCLP       
                                                  Selenium.............................................       7782-49-2          0.82   0.16 mg/l TCLP      
                                                                                                                                                            
                       *                  *                  *                  *                  *                  *                  *                  
    P127                   Carbofuran \10\......  Carbofuran...........................................       1563-66-2          0.006  0.14                
    P128                   Mexacarbate \10\.....  Mexacarbate..........................................        315-18-4          0.056  1.4                 
    P185                   Tirpate \10\.........  Tirpate..............................................      26419-73-8          0.056  0.28                
    P188                   Physostigmine          Physostigmine salicylate.............................         57-64-7          0.056  1.4                 
                            salicylate \10\.                                                                                                                
    P189                   Carbosulfan \10\.....  Carbosulfan..........................................      55285-14-8          0.028  1.4                 
    P190                   Metolcarb \10\.......  Metolcarb............................................       1129-41-5          0.056  1.4                 
    P191                   Dimetilan \10\.......  Dimetilan............................................        644-64-4          0.056  1.4                 
    P192                   Isolan \10\..........  Isolan...............................................        119-38-0          0.056  1.4                 
    P194                   Oxamyl \10\..........  Oxamyl...............................................      23135-22-0          0.056  0.28                
    P196                   Manganese              Dithiocarbamates (total).............................              NA          0.028  28                  
                            dimethyldithiocarbam                                                                                                            
                            ate \10\.                                                                                                                       
    P197                   Formparanate \10\....  Formparanate.........................................      17702-57-7          0.056  1.4                 
    P198                   Formetanate            Formetanate hydrochloride............................      23422-53-9          0.056  1.4                 
                            hydrochloride \10\.                                                                                                             
    P199                   Methiocarb \10\......  Methiocarb...........................................       2032-65-7          0.056  1.4                 
    P201                   Promecarb \10\.......  Promecarb............................................       2631-37-0          0.056  1.4                 
    P202                   m-Cumenyl              m-Cumenyl methylcarbamate............................         64-00-6          0.056  1.4                 
                            methylcarbamate \10\.                                                                                                           
    P203                   Aldicarb sulfone \10\  Aldicarb sulfone.....................................       1646-88-4          0.056  0.28                
    P204                   Physostigmine \10\...  Physostigmine........................................         57-47-6          0.056  1.4                 
    P205                   Ziram \10\...........  Dithiocarbamates (total).............................              NA          0.028  28                  
                                                                                                                                                            
                       *                  *                  *                  *                  *                  *                  *                  
    U271                   Benomyl \10\.........  Benomyl..............................................      17804-35-2          0.056  1.4                 
    U277                   Sulfallate \10\......  Dithiocarbamates (total).............................              NA          0.028  28                  
    U278                   Bendiocarb \10\......  Bendiocarb...........................................      22781-23-3          0.056  1.4                 
    U279                   Carbaryl \10\........  Carbaryl.............................................         63-25-2          0.006  0.14                
    U280                   Barban \10\..........  Barban...............................................        101-27-9          0.056  1.4                 
                                                                                                                                                            
                       *                  *                  *                  *                  *                  *                  *                  
    U364                   Bendiocarb phenol      Bendiocarb phenol....................................      22961-82-6          0.056  1.4                 
                            \10\.                                                                                                                           
    U365                   Molinate \10\........  Molinate.............................................       2212-67-1          0.042  1.4                 
    U366                   Dazomet \10\.........  Dithiocarbamates (total).............................              NA          0.028  28                  
    U367                   Carbofuran phenol      Carbofuran phenol....................................       1563-38-8          0.056  1.4                 
                            \10\.                                                                                                                           
    U372                   Carbendazim \10\.....  Carbendazim..........................................      10605-21-7          0.056  1.4                 
    U373                   Propham \10\.........  Propham..............................................        122-42-9          0.056  1.4                 
    U375                   3-lodo-2-propynyl n-   3-lodo-2-propynyl n-butylcarbamate...................      55406-53-6          0.056  1.4                 
                            butylcarbamate \10\.                                                                                                            
    U376                   Selenium, tetrakis     Dithiocarbamates (total).............................              NA          0.028  28                  
                            (dimethyldithiocarba  Selenium.............................................       7782-49-2          0.82   0.16 mg/l TCLP      
                            mate) \10\.                                                                                                                     
    U377                   Potassium n-           Dithiocarbamates (total).............................              NA          0.028  28                  
                            methyldithiocarbamat                                                                                                            
                            e \10\.                                                                                                                         
    U378                   Potassium n-           Dithiocarbamates (total).............................              NA          0.028  28                  
                            hydroxymethyl-n-                                                                                                                
                            methyldithiocarbamat                                                                                                            
                            e \10\.                                                                                                                         
    
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    U379                   Sodium                 Dithiocarbamates (total).............................              NA          0.028  28                  
                            dibutyldithiocarbama                                                                                                            
                            te \10\.                                                                                                                        
    U381                   Sodium                 Dithiocarbamates (total).............................              NA          0.028  28                  
                            diethyldithiocarbama                                                                                                            
                            te \10\.                                                                                                                        
    U382                   Sodium                 Dithiocarbamates (total).............................              NA          0.028  28                  
                            dimethyldithiocarbam                                                                                                            
                            ate \10\.                                                                                                                       
    U383                   Potassium dimethyl     Dithiocarbamates (total).............................              NA          0.028  28                  
                            dithiocarbamate \10\.                                                                                                           
    U384                   Metam Sodium \10\....  Dithiocarbamates (total).............................              NA          0.028  28                  
    U385                   Vernolate \10\.......  Vernolate............................................       1929-77-7          0.042  1.4                 
    U386                   Cycloate \10\........  Cycloate.............................................       1134-23-2          0.042  1.4                 
    U387                   Prosulfocarb \10\....  Prosulfocarb.........................................      52888-80-9          0.042  1.4                 
    U389                   Triallate \10\.......  Triallate............................................       2303-17-5          0.042  1.4                 
    U390                   EPTC \10\............  EPTC.................................................        759-94-4          0.042  1.4                 
    U391                   Pebulate \10\........  Pebulate.............................................       1114-71-2          0.042  1.4                 
    U392                   Butylate \10\........  Butylate.............................................       2008-41-5          0.042  1.4                 
    U393                   Copper                 Dithiocarbamates (total).............................              NA          0.028  28                  
                            dimethyldithiocarbam                                                                                                            
                            ate \10\.                                                                                                                       
    U394                   A2213 \10\...........  A2213................................................      30558-43-1          0.042  1.4                 
    U395                   Diethylene glycol,     Diethylene glycol, dicarbamate.......................       5952-26-1          0.056  1.4                 
                            dicarbamate \10\.                                                                                                               
    U396                   Ferbam \10\..........  Dithiocarbamates (total).............................              NA          0.028  28                  
    U400                   Bis(pentamethylene)th  Dithiocarbamates (total).............................              NA          0.028  28                  
                            iuram tetrasulfide                                                                                                              
                            \10\.                                                                                                                           
    U401                   Tetramethyl thiuram    Dithiocarbamates (total).............................              NA          0.028  28                  
                            monosulfide \10\.                                                                                                               
    U402                   Tetrabutylthiuram      Dithiocarbamates (total).............................              NA          0.028  28                  
                            disulfide \10\.                                                                                                                 
    U403                   Disulfiram \10\......  Dithiocarbamates (total).............................              NA          0.028  28                  
    U404                   Triethylamine \10\...  Triethylamine........................................        101-44-8          0.081  1.5                 
    U407                   Ethyl Ziram \10\.....  Dithiocarbamates (total).............................              NA          0.028  28                  
    U409                   Thiophanate-methyl     Thiophanate-methyl...................................      23564-05-8          0.056  1.4                 
                            \10\.                                                                                                                           
    U410                   Thiodicarb \10\......  Thiodicarb...........................................      59669-26-0          0.019  1.4                 
    U411                   Propoxur \10\........  Propoxur.............................................        114-26-1          0.056  1.4                 
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    Notes to the Table:                                                                                                                                     
    \1\ The waste descriptions provided in this table do not replace waste descriptions in 40 CFR part 261. Descriptions of Treatment/Regulatory            
      Subcategories are provided, as needed, to distinguish between applicability of different standards.                                                   
    \2\ CAS means Chemical Abstract Services. When the waste code and/or regulated constituents are described as a combination of a chemical with its salts 
      and/or esters, the CAS number is given for the parent compound only.                                                                                  
    \3\ Concentration standards for wastewaters are expressed in mg/l and are based on analysis of composite samples.                                       
    \4\ All treatment standards expressed as a Technology Code or combination of Technology Codes are explained in detail in 40 CFR 268.42 Table 1--        
      Technology Codes and Descriptions of Technology-Based Standards.                                                                                      
    \5\ Except for Metals (EP or TCLP) and Cyanides (Total and Amenable) the nonwastewater treatment standards expressed as a concentration were            
      established, in part, based upon incineration in units operated in accordance with the technical requirements of 40 CFR Part 264, Subpart O, or Part  
      265, Subpart O, or based upon combustion in fuel substitution units operating in accordance with applicable technical requirements. A facility may    
      comply with these treatment standards according to provisions in 40 CFR 268.40(d). All concentration standards for nonwastewaters are based on        
      analysis of grab samples.                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                            
                                    *                  *                  *                  *                  *                  *                  *     
    \10\ Between August 26, 1996 and August 27, 1997, the treatment standard for this waste may be satisfied by either meeting the constituent              
      concentrations if this table or by treating the waste by the specified technologies: combustion, as defined by the technology code CMBST at Sec.      
      268.42 Table 1, for nonwastewaters; and, biodegradation as defined by the technology code BIODG, carbon adsorption as defined by the technology code  
      CARBN, chemical oxidation as defined by the technology code CHOXD, or combustion as defined as technology code CMBST at Sec.  268.42 Table 1, for     
      wastewaters.                                                                                                                                          
    
    
    
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        4. In Sec. 268.48, the table in paragraph (a) is amended by adding 
    footnote number ``\6\'' in column one, under the heading Regulated 
    Constituents/Common Name, under I. Organic constituents, after the 
    following chemical names: ``2213''; ``Aldicarb sulfone''; ``Barban''; 
    ``Bendiocarb''; ``Bendiocarb phenol''; ``Benomyl''; ``Butylate''; 
    ``Carbaryl''; ``Carbenzadim''; ``Carbofuran''; ``Carbofuran phenol''; 
    ``Carbosulfan''; ``m-Cumenyl methylcarbamate''; ``Cycloate''; 
    ``Diethylene glycol, dicarbamate''; ``Dimetilan''; ``Dithiocarbamates 
    (total)''; ``EPTC''; ``Formetanate hydrochloride''; ``Formparanate''; 
    ``3-Iodo-2-propynyl n-butylcarbamate''; ``Isolan''; ``Methiocarb''; 
    ``Methomyl''; ``Metolcarb''; ``Mexacarbate''; ``Molinate''; ``Oxamyl''; 
    ``Pebulate''; ``o-Phenylenediamine''; ``Physostigmine''; 
    ``Physostigmine salicylate''; ``Promecarb''; ``Propham''; ``Propoxur''; 
    ``Prosulfocarb''; ``Thiodicarb''; ``Thiophanate-methyl''; ``Tirpate''; 
    ``Triallate''; ``Triethylamine''; and, ``Vernolate''; and adding 
    footnote \6\ at the end of the table to read as follows:
    
    
    Sec. 268.48  Universal treatment standards.
    
        (a) * * *
    
        \6\ Between August 26, 1996 and August 26, 1997, these 
    constituents are not underlying hazardous constituents as defined at 
    Sec. 268.2(i).
    
    PART 271--REQUIREMENTS FOR AUTHORIZATION OF STATE HAZARDOUS WASTE 
    PROGRAMS
    
        5. The authority citation for part 271 continues to read as 
    follows:
    
        Authority: 42 U.S.C. 9602; 33 U.S.C. 1321 and 1361.
    
    Subpart A--Requirements for Final Authorization
    
        6. Section 271.1(j) is amended by adding the following entry to 
    Table 1 in chronological order by date of publication in the Federal 
    Register to read as follows:
    
    
    Sec. 271.1  Purpose and scope.
    
    * * * * *
        (j) * * *
    
                                       Table 1.--Regulations Implementing the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984                                  
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            Promulgation date              Title of regulation          Federal Register reference                         Effective date                   
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                       *                  *                  *                  *                  *                  *                  *                  
    Aug. 26, 1996...................  Emergency Revision of the     61 FR (Insert....................  Aug. 26, 1996 until Aug. 26, 1997.                   
                                       Land Disposal Restrictions   page numbers)....................                                                       
                                       (LDR) Phase III Treatment                                                                                            
                                       Standards for Listed                                                                                                 
                                       Hazardous Wastes from                                                                                                
                                       Carbamate Production.                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                            
                       *                  *                  *                  *                  *                  *                  *                  
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    
    [FR Doc. 96-21626 Filed 8-23-96; 8:45 am]
    BILLING CODE 6560-50-P
    
    
    

Document Information

Effective Date:
8/26/1996
Published:
08/26/1996
Department:
Environmental Protection Agency
Entry Type:
Rule
Action:
Immediate final rule.
Document Number:
96-21626
Dates:
August 26, 1996.
Pages:
43924-43931 (8 pages)
Docket Numbers:
EPA # 530-Z-96-002, FRL-5560-1
RINs:
2050-AD38: Land Disposal Restrictions--Phase III: Decharacterized Wastewaters, Carbamate Wastes, and Spent Aluminum Potliners
RIN Links:
https://www.federalregister.gov/regulations/2050-AD38/land-disposal-restrictions-phase-iii-decharacterized-wastewaters-carbamate-wastes-and-spent-aluminum
PDF File:
96-21626.pdf
CFR: (4)
40 CFR 268.2(i)
40 CFR 268.40
40 CFR 268.48
40 CFR 271.1