[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 49 (Monday, March 15, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12803-12804]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-6263]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-6309-4]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Criteria for Classification of Solid Waste Disposal
Facilities and Practices, Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements
(Renewal)
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of request for renewal.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501
et seq.), this notice announces that EPA is planning to submit the
following continuing Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) for renewal: Criteria for Classification
of Solid Waste Disposal Facilities and Practices, Recordkeeping and
Reporting requirements, OMB No. 2050-0154, current expiration date is
September 30,
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1999. Before submitting the ICR to OMB for review and approval, EPA is
soliciting comments on specific aspects of the proposed information
collection described below.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before May 14, 1999.
ADDRESSES: Commenters must send an original and two copies of their
comments referencing docket number F-1999-DFIP-FFFFF to: RCRA Docket
Information Center, Office of Solid Waste (5305G), U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency Headquarters (EPA, HQ), 401 M Street, SW, Washington,
D.C. 20460. Hand deliveries of comments should be made to the
Arlington, VA, address below. Comments may also be submitted
electronically through the Internet to: rcradocket@epamail.epa.gov.
Comments in electronic format should also be identified by the docket
number F-1999-DFIP-FFFFF. All electronic comments must be submitted as
an ASCII file avoiding the use of special characters and any form of
encryption.
Commenters should not submit electronically any confidential
business information (CBI). An original and two copies of CBI must be
submitted under separate cover to: RCRA CBI Document Control Officer,
Office of Solid Waste (5305W), U.S. EPA, 401 M Street, SW, Washington,
DC 20460.
Public comments and supporting materials are available for viewing
in the RCRA Information Center (RIC), located at Crystal Gateway I,
First Floor, 1235 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA. The RIC is
open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding Federal
holidays. To review docket materials, it is recommended that the public
make an appointment by calling 703-603-9230. The public may copy a
maximum of 100 pages from any regulatory docket at no charge.
Additional copies cost $0.15 per page. The index and some supporting
materials are available electronically.
The ICR is available on the Internet. Follow these instructions to
access the information electronically:
WWW: http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/sqg/sqg.htm
FTP: ftp.epa.gov
Login: anonymous
Password: your Internet address
Files are located in /pub/epaoswer
The official record for this action will be kept in paper form.
Accordingly, EPA will transfer all comments received electronically
into paper form and place them in the official record, which will also
include all comments submitted directly in writing.
EPA responses to comments, whether the comments are written or
electronic, will be in a notice in the Federal Register. EPA will not
immediately reply to commenters electronically other than to seek
clarification of electronic comments that may be garbled in
transmission or during conversion to paper form, as discussed above.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For general information, contact the
RCRA Hotline at 800 424-9346 or TDD 800 553-7672 (hearing impaired). In
the Washington, DC, metropolitan area, call 703 412-9810 or TDD 703
412-3323. For more detailed information on specific aspects of this
rulemaking contact Paul Cassidy, EPA, Office of Solid Waste (5306W),
Industrial & Extractive Waste Branch, 401 M Street, SW, Washington,
D.C. 20460, phone 703 308-7281, e-mail address
cassidy.paul@epamail.epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Criteria for Classification of Solid Waste Disposal
Facilities and Practices, Recordkeeping and Reporting requirements--40
CFR Part 257, Subpart B.
OMB No.: 2050-0154.
Current expiration date: September 30, 1999.
Affected entities: EPA assumes that industrial waste units that
previously co-disposed non-hazardous wastes and conditionally exempt
small quantity generator (CESQG) hazardous waste on-site have ceased
that practice and that commercial off-site industrial waste units are
operating with stringent environmental controls in place. Therefore,
entities that potentially will be affected by this action are limited
to those that dispose of CESQG hazardous wastes in construction and
demolition (C&D) waste landfills.
Abstract: In order to effectively implement and enforce final
changes to 40 CFR Part 257--Subpart B on a State level, owners/
operators of construction and demolition waste landfills that receive
CESQG hazardous wastes will have to comply with the final reporting and
recordkeeping requirements. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a
person is not required to respond to, a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. The OMB
control number for EPA's regulations are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and 48
CFR Chapter 15. This continuing ICR documents the recordkeeping and
reporting burdens associated with location and ground-water monitoring
provisions contained in 40 CFR part 257--subpart B.
The EPA would like to solicit comments to:
(i) Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency,
including whether the information will have practical utility;
(ii) Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden
of the proposed collection of information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(iii) Enhance the quality, utility, and the clarity of the
information to be collected; and
(iv) Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those
who are to respond including through the use of appropriate automated
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques of
other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic
submission of responses.
Burden Statement: The annual burden to respondents for complying
with the information collection requirements of part 257--subpart B
Criteria is approximately 11, 000 hours per year, with an annual cost
of $393,000. The estimated number of respondents is 164 with an average
annual burden of approximately 67 hours per respondent. Burden means
the total time, effort, or financial resources expended by persons to
generate, maintain, retain, or disclose or provide information to or
for a Federal agency. This includes the time needed to review
instructions; develop, acquire, install, and utilize technology and
systems for the purposes of collecting, validating, and verifying
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and
providing information; adjust the existing ways to comply with any
previously applicable instructions and requirements; train personnel to
be able to respond to a collection of information; search data sources;
complete and review the collection of information; and transmit or
otherwise disclose the information.
Dated: March 9, 1999.
Matthew Hale,
Acting Director, Office of Solid Waste.
[FR Doc. 99-6263 Filed 3-12-99; 8:45 am]
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