[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 29 (Friday, February 11, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-3298]
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[Federal Register: February 11, 1994]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-4836-9]
Extension of Comment Period on the Report to Congress on Cement
Kiln Dust
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Extension of comment period.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces a two week extension of the comment
period on the recently released Report to Congress on Cement Kiln Dust.
(See 59 FR 709; January 6, 1994.)
DATES: EPA will accept public comments on the Report to Congress on
Cement Kiln Dust until March 8, 1994. The Agency will also hold a
public hearing on the Report to Congress on February 15, 1994.
ADDRESSES: Those wishing to submit public comments for the record must
send an original and two copies of their comments to the following
address: RCRA Docket Information Center (5305), U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, 401 M Street SW., Washington, DC, 20460. Please
place the docket number F-94-RCKA-FFFFF on your comments.
Copies of the Report to Congress on Cement Kiln Dust (RTC) are
available for inspection and copying at the EPA headquarters library,
at the RCRA docket in Washington, DC, and at all EPA regional office
libraries. Copies of the full report can be purchased from the National
Technical Information Service (call (703) 487-4660 or (800) 553-NTIS).
Copies of the Executive Summary (Volume I of the RTC) can be obtained
by calling the RCRA/Superfund Hotline at (800) 424-9346 or (703) 412-
9810. The EPA RCRA docket is located at 401 M Street SW., Washington,
DC, room M2616, 2nd floor, Waterside Mall. Docket hours are 9 a.m. to 4
p.m. Monday through Friday, except federal holidays. In order to view
the docket, please call (202) 260-9327 to make an appointment. Please
refer to the Cement Kiln Dust docket, docket number F-94-RCKA-FFFFF.
Copies are free up to 100 pages and thereafter cost $0.15 per page.
The public hearing to be held on February 15, 1994 was announced
previously. It will be held at the Renaissance Hotel in Washington, DC,
located at 999 9th Street NW. The hearing will begin at 9 a.m., with
registration beginning at 8:30 a.m. The hearing will end at 5 p.m.
unless concluded earlier. Oral and written statements may be submitted
at the public hearing. Requests to speak at the public hearing should
be submitted in writing to the Public Hearing Officer--Cement Kiln
Dust, Special Waste Branch, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M
Street SW. (5302W), Washington, DC 20460. Persons who wish to make oral
presentations must restrict them to 15 minutes, and are requested to
provide written comments for inclusion in the record.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For general information, contact the
RCRA/Superfund Hotline at (800) 424-9346 or (703) 412-9810; for
technical information contact Bill Schoenborn, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (5302W), 401 M Street SW., Washington, DC 20460, at
(703) 308-8483.
Background
The Report to Congress (RTC) on Cement Kiln Dust was signed by the
EPA Administrator on December 30, 1993. A Federal Register notice was
published on January 6, 1994 (59 FR 709) that announced the
availability of the report and a 45-day public comment period on the
report.
Since the beginning of the public comment period, a number of
persons have requested that the Agency extend the comment period. Some
persons have indicated that not all of the relevant materials appeared
to be in the docket for inspection and that the docket index appeared
to indicate that a number of materials were not present in the docket.
They indicated that additional time would be necessary to obtain
missing materials and review them prior to formulating public comments.
The Agency has carefully considered the requests for extending the
comment period and has decided that a two week extension is
appropriate. Because the Agency is working under a short statutory
deadline to complete the regulatory determination for cement kiln dust
by June 30, 1994, (see 42 U.S.C. 6921 (b)(3)(c)) the length of the
public comment period must be balanced with the time available for the
Agency to complete the regulatory determination.
The Agency has reviewed all of the materials that it placed in the
docket and found that, with limited exception, all relevant materials
were available in the docket as of January 7, 1994. The Agency
acknowledges that a number of responses to a cement kiln dust survey
that was conducted by the cement manufacturing industry were
inadvertently not placed in the docket as of the opening of the public
comment period. However, it should be noted that all responses to the
cement kiln survey that were specifically referenced in the RTC were
available in the docket as of January 7, 1994. The additional survey
responses materials were made available in the docket as of February 3,
1994.
The confusion as to the availability of all other documents in the
docket appears to have been caused by an insufficiently detailed docket
index. Although the docket index referred to several documents by
document number only and not by name, the documents are correctly
referenced by number and have been present in the docket for review and
inspection since January 7, 1994. The detailed docket index was
complete and available as of January 18, 1994.
The Agency recognizes that the insufficiently detailed docket index
may have made access to documents somewhat difficult. Also, several
days of severe weather in Washington, DC, during the comment period in
mid-January hampered access to the docket by interested parties. For
these reasons, the Agency is extending the public comment period on the
Report to Congress on Cement Kiln Dust by two weeks, until March 8,
1994.
Dated: February 7, 1994.
Walter W. Kovalick, Jr.,
Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response.
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