Notice of Data Availability on the Disposal of Coal Combustion Wastes in Landfills and Surface Impoundments; Reopening of Comment Period, 6723-6724 [E8-2063]

Download as PDF rmajette on PROD1PC64 with NOTICES Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 24 / Tuesday, February 5, 2008 / Notices mandates a hazardous waste manifest ‘‘system’’ to assure that all hazardous waste generated is designated for and arrives at the appropriate treatment, storage, and disposal facility. An essential part of this manifest system is the Uniform Hazardous Waste Manifest (Form 8700–22A). The manifest is a tracking document that accompanies the waste from its generation site to its final disposition. The manifest lists the wastes that are being shipped and the final destination of the waste. The manifest system is a self-enforcing mechanism that requires generators, transporters, and owner/operators of treatment, storage, and disposal facilities to participate in hazardous waste tracking. In addition, the manifest provides information to transporters and waste management facility workers on the hazardous nature of the waste, identifies wastes so that they can be managed appropriately in the event of an accident, spill, or leak, and ensures that shipments of hazardous waste are managed properly and delivered to their designated facilities. Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and record keeping burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 1.52 hours per response. 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 which have subsequently changed; 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. The ICR provides a detailed explanation of the Agency’s estimate, which is only briefly summarized here: Estimated total number of potential respondents: 131,803. Frequency of response: Per Waste Shipment. Estimated total average number of responses for each respondent: 13.37. Estimated total annual burden hours: 3,264,991. Estimated total annual costs: $152,600,000. This includes an estimated burden cost of $150,000,000 for labor and an estimated cost of VerDate Aug<31>2005 15:34 Feb 04, 2008 Jkt 214001 $2,600,000 for capital investment and maintenance and operational costs. What Is the Next Step in the Process for This ICR? EPA will consider the comments received and amend the ICR as appropriate. The final ICR package will then be submitted to OMB for review and approval pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.12. At that time, EPA will issue another Federal Register notice pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.5(a)(1)(iv) to announce the submission of the ICR to OMB and the opportunity to submit additional comments to OMB. If you have any questions about this ICR or the approval process, please contact the technical person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Dated: January 25, 2008. Matthew Hale, Director, Office of Solid Waste. [FR Doc. E8–2093 Filed 2–4–08; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560–50–P ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [EPA–HQ–RCRA–2006–0796; FRL–8524–4] RIN 2050–AE81 Notice of Data Availability on the Disposal of Coal Combustion Wastes in Landfills and Surface Impoundments; Reopening of Comment Period Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice of Data Availability; Reopening of Comment Period. AGENCY: SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reopening the comment period for the Notice of Data Availability (NODA) entitled ‘‘Notice of Data Availability on the Disposal of Coal Combustion Wastes in Landfills and Surface Impoundments.’’ This NODA announces the availability of new information and data concerning the management of coal combustion wastes (CCW) in landfills and surface impoundments that will be used by the Agency to inform its decisionmaking regarding its Regulatory Determination for CCW disposed of in landfills and surface impoundments. This NODA was published on August 29, 2007 (72 FR 49714), and the comment period was scheduled to close on November 27, 2007. However, a number of environmental groups requested additional time to respond to the issues raised in the NODA and its accompanying documents. Consequently, the Agency extended the PO 00000 Frm 00034 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 6723 comment period an additional 60 days to January 28, 2008 (72 FR 57572). The same group of commenters then requested a short amount of additional time to finish gathering information that they believe is necessary to complete their comments. Therefore, we are reopening the comment period from the date of publication of this notice to close on February 11, 2008. DATES: The comment period is reopened from the date of publication of this notice to close on February 11, 2008. ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– RCRA–2006–0796, by one of the following methods: • https://www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line instructions for submitting comments. • E-mail: Comments may be sent by electronic mail (e-mail) to: rcradocket@epa.gov, Attention Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–RCRA–2006–0796. In contrast to EPA’s electronic public docket, EPA’s e-mail system is not an ‘‘anonymous access’’ system. If you send an e-mail comment directly to the docket without going through EPA’s electronic public docket, EPA’s e-mail system automatically captures your email address. E-mail addresses that are automatically captured by EPA’s e-mail system are included as part of the comment that is placed in the official public docket, and made available in EPA’s electronic public docket. • Fax: Comments may be faxed to 202–566–9744. Attention Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–RCRA–2006–0796. • Mail: Send two copies of your comments to Notice of Data Availability on the Disposal of Coal Combustion Wastes in Landfills and Surface Impoundments, Environmental Protection Agency, Mailcode: 5305T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460. Attention Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–RCRA–2006– 0796. • Hand Delivery: Deliver two copies of your comments to the Notice of Data Availability on the Disposal of Coal Combustion Wastes in Landfills and Surface Impoundments Docket, EPA/ DC, EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460. Attention Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–RCRA–2006–0796. Such deliveries are only accepted during the docket’s normal hours of operation (8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays), and special arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed information. Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–RCRA–2006– 0796. EPA’s policy is that all comments E:\FR\FM\05FEN1.SGM 05FEN1 rmajette on PROD1PC64 with NOTICES 6724 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 24 / Tuesday, February 5, 2008 / Notices received will be included in the public docket without change and may be made available online at https:// www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided, unless the comment includes information claimed to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not submit information that you consider to be CBI or otherwise protected through https:// www.regulations.gov or e-mail. The https://www.regulations.gov Web site is an ‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which means EPA will not know your identity or contact information unless you provide it in the body of your comment. If you send an e-mail comment directly to EPA without going through https:// www.regulations.gov, your e-mail address will be automatically captured and included as part of the comment that is placed in the public docket and made available on the Internet. If you submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends that you include your name and other contact information in the body of your comment and with any disk or CD–ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read your comment due to technical difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, EPA may not be able to consider your comment. Electronic files should avoid the use of special characters, any form of encryption, and be free of any defects or viruses. For additional information about EPA’s public docket, visit the EPA Docket Center homepage at https:// www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm. We also request that interested parties who would like information they previously submitted to EPA to be considered as part of this action, identify the relevant information by docket entry numbers and page numbers. For additional instructions on submitting comments, go to the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alexander Livnat, Office of Solid Waste (5306P), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Ariel Rios Building, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460–0002, telephone (703) 308–7251, e-mail address livnat.alexander@epa.gov. For more information on this rulemaking, please visit https://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/ other/fossil/index.htm/. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NODA that is the subject of this notice, and which was published in the Federal Register on August 29, 2007 (72 FR 49714), announces the availability of new information and data contained in VerDate Aug<31>2005 15:34 Feb 04, 2008 Jkt 214001 three documents that the Agency is requesting public comments on, concerning the management of CCW in landfills and surface impoundments. The three documents that the Agency is requesting comments on are: A joint U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and EPA report entitled, Coal Combustion Waste Management at Landfills and Surface Impoundments, 1994–2004; a draft risk assessment conducted by EPA on the management of CCW in landfills and surface impoundments; and EPA’s damage case assessment. The Agency is soliciting comments on the extent to which the damage case information, the results of the risk assessment, and the new liner and ground water monitoring information from the DOE/EPA report should affect the Agency’s decisions. EPA is also requesting direct comment on the draft risk assessment document to help inform a planned peer review. In addition, the Agency has included in the docket to the NODA a rulemaking petition submitted by a number of citizens’ groups, as well as two approaches regarding the management of CCW, one prepared by the electric utility industry and the other prepared by a number of citizens’ groups. The Agency will consider all the information provided through the NODA, the comments and new information submitted on the NODA, as well as the results of a subsequent peer review of the risk assessment, as it continues to follow-up on its Regulatory Determination for CCW disposed of in landfills and surface impoundments. The comment period for the NODA was scheduled to close on November 27, 2007. However, a number of environmental groups requested that EPA extend the comment period by 75 days, noting that additional time was needed in order to comment meaningfully on the information contained in the NODA and to perform extensive analysis on several documents, some of which are highly technical. The commenters also noted that, due to the length and complexity of the draft risk assessment (Human and Ecological Risk Assessment of Coal Combustion Wastes), it would be necessary to engage expert review that will consequently increase the time necessary to prepare their comments. EPA believed that the 90-day public comment period originally established was reasonable. However, since the Agency will be considering all the information provided through the comments and new information submitted on the NODA, as well as the results of a subsequent peer review of the risk assessment, we believed it was important that commenters have PO 00000 Frm 00035 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 adequate time to analyze the data noticed in the NODA so that they may provide informed and meaningful comments to the Agency. Therefore, we decided to extend the comment period by 60 days, thereby extending the comment period to 150 days. We believed an additional 60 days was adequate for commenters to analyze the data noticed in the NODA and available in the docket to the NODA. Because the 60-day extension would have ended on January 26, 2008, which is a Saturday, the comment period was extended until the following Monday, January 28, 2008. The same group of commenters, noted above, requested a short amount of additional time to finish gathering information that is necessary to complete their comments. We believe this request is reasonable given the nature and volume of materials provided for comment; therefore, we are reopening the comment period from the date of publication of this notice to close on February 11, 2008. Dated: January 29, 2008. Susan Parker Bodine, Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response. [FR Doc. E8–2063 Filed 2–4–08; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560–50–P ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [FRL–8525–6] Adaptation for Climate-Sensitive Ecosystems and Resources Advisory Committee (ACSERAC) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice of a public conference call meeting; correction. AGENCY: SUMMARY: The EPA indicated that reports being reviewed by the ACSERAC would be incorporated into a scientific assessment to be published by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and that the public would have a chance to review and comment on the scientific assessment in April 2008. The availability of the scientific assessment for public review and comment is incorrect. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joanna Foellmer, Designated Federal Official, ACSERAC, by telephone: 703– 347–8508, by e-mail: foellmer.joanna@epa.gov, by fax: 703– 347–8694, or by regular mail: Joanna Foellmer, ORD/NCEA (Mail Code 8601P), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460. E:\FR\FM\05FEN1.SGM 05FEN1

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[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 24 (Tuesday, February 5, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6723-6724]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-2063]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-RCRA-2006-0796; FRL-8524-4]
RIN 2050-AE81


Notice of Data Availability on the Disposal of Coal Combustion 
Wastes in Landfills and Surface Impoundments; Reopening of Comment 
Period

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of Data Availability; Reopening of Comment Period.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reopening the 
comment period for the Notice of Data Availability (NODA) entitled 
``Notice of Data Availability on the Disposal of Coal Combustion Wastes 
in Landfills and Surface Impoundments.'' This NODA announces the 
availability of new information and data concerning the management of 
coal combustion wastes (CCW) in landfills and surface impoundments that 
will be used by the Agency to inform its decisionmaking regarding its 
Regulatory Determination for CCW disposed of in landfills and surface 
impoundments. This NODA was published on August 29, 2007 (72 FR 49714), 
and the comment period was scheduled to close on November 27, 2007. 
However, a number of environmental groups requested additional time to 
respond to the issues raised in the NODA and its accompanying 
documents. Consequently, the Agency extended the comment period an 
additional 60 days to January 28, 2008 (72 FR 57572). The same group of 
commenters then requested a short amount of additional time to finish 
gathering information that they believe is necessary to complete their 
comments. Therefore, we are reopening the comment period from the date 
of publication of this notice to close on February 11, 2008.

DATES: The comment period is reopened from the date of publication of 
this notice to close on February 11, 2008.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
RCRA-2006-0796, by one of the following methods:
     https://www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line 
instructions for submitting comments.
     E-mail: Comments may be sent by electronic mail (e-mail) 
to: rcra-docket@epa.gov, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-RCRA-2006-0796. 
In contrast to EPA's electronic public docket, EPA's e-mail system is 
not an ``anonymous access'' system. If you send an e-mail comment 
directly to the docket without going through EPA's electronic public 
docket, EPA's e-mail system automatically captures your e-mail address. 
E-mail addresses that are automatically captured by EPA's e-mail system 
are included as part of the comment that is placed in the official 
public docket, and made available in EPA's electronic public docket.
     Fax: Comments may be faxed to 202-566-9744. Attention 
Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-RCRA-2006-0796.
     Mail: Send two copies of your comments to Notice of Data 
Availability on the Disposal of Coal Combustion Wastes in Landfills and 
Surface Impoundments, Environmental Protection Agency, Mailcode: 5305T, 
1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460. Attention Docket ID 
No. EPA-HQ-RCRA-2006-0796.
     Hand Delivery: Deliver two copies of your comments to the 
Notice of Data Availability on the Disposal of Coal Combustion Wastes 
in Landfills and Surface Impoundments Docket, EPA/DC, EPA West, Room 
3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460. Attention 
Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-RCRA-2006-0796. Such deliveries are only accepted 
during the docket's normal hours of operation (8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 
Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays), and special 
arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed information.
    Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-RCRA-
2006-0796. EPA's policy is that all comments

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received will be included in the public docket without change and may 
be made available online at https://www.regulations.gov, including any 
personal information provided, unless the comment includes information 
claimed to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other 
information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not submit 
information that you consider to be CBI or otherwise protected through 
https://www.regulations.gov or e-mail. The https://www.regulations.gov 
Web site is an ``anonymous access'' system, which means EPA will not 
know your identity or contact information unless you provide it in the 
body of your comment. If you send an e-mail comment directly to EPA 
without going through https://www.regulations.gov, your e-mail address 
will be automatically captured and included as part of the comment that 
is placed in the public docket and made available on the Internet. If 
you submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends that you include your 
name and other contact information in the body of your comment and with 
any disk or CD-ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read your comment due to 
technical difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, EPA 
may not be able to consider your comment. Electronic files should avoid 
the use of special characters, any form of encryption, and be free of 
any defects or viruses. For additional information about EPA's public 
docket, visit the EPA Docket Center homepage at https://www.epa.gov/
epahome/dockets.htm. We also request that interested parties who would 
like information they previously submitted to EPA to be considered as 
part of this action, identify the relevant information by docket entry 
numbers and page numbers. For additional instructions on submitting 
comments, go to the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alexander Livnat, Office of Solid 
Waste (5306P), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Ariel Rios 
Building, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460-0002, 
telephone (703) 308-7251, e-mail address livnat.alexander@epa.gov. For 
more information on this rulemaking, please visit https://www.epa.gov/
epaoswer/other/fossil/index.htm/.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NODA that is the subject of this notice, 
and which was published in the Federal Register on August 29, 2007 (72 
FR 49714), announces the availability of new information and data 
contained in three documents that the Agency is requesting public 
comments on, concerning the management of CCW in landfills and surface 
impoundments. The three documents that the Agency is requesting 
comments on are: A joint U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and EPA report 
entitled, Coal Combustion Waste Management at Landfills and Surface 
Impoundments, 1994-2004; a draft risk assessment conducted by EPA on 
the management of CCW in landfills and surface impoundments; and EPA's 
damage case assessment. The Agency is soliciting comments on the extent 
to which the damage case information, the results of the risk 
assessment, and the new liner and ground water monitoring information 
from the DOE/EPA report should affect the Agency's decisions. EPA is 
also requesting direct comment on the draft risk assessment document to 
help inform a planned peer review. In addition, the Agency has included 
in the docket to the NODA a rulemaking petition submitted by a number 
of citizens' groups, as well as two approaches regarding the management 
of CCW, one prepared by the electric utility industry and the other 
prepared by a number of citizens' groups. The Agency will consider all 
the information provided through the NODA, the comments and new 
information submitted on the NODA, as well as the results of a 
subsequent peer review of the risk assessment, as it continues to 
follow-up on its Regulatory Determination for CCW disposed of in 
landfills and surface impoundments.
    The comment period for the NODA was scheduled to close on November 
27, 2007. However, a number of environmental groups requested that EPA 
extend the comment period by 75 days, noting that additional time was 
needed in order to comment meaningfully on the information contained in 
the NODA and to perform extensive analysis on several documents, some 
of which are highly technical. The commenters also noted that, due to 
the length and complexity of the draft risk assessment (Human and 
Ecological Risk Assessment of Coal Combustion Wastes), it would be 
necessary to engage expert review that will consequently increase the 
time necessary to prepare their comments.
    EPA believed that the 90-day public comment period originally 
established was reasonable. However, since the Agency will be 
considering all the information provided through the comments and new 
information submitted on the NODA, as well as the results of a 
subsequent peer review of the risk assessment, we believed it was 
important that commenters have adequate time to analyze the data 
noticed in the NODA so that they may provide informed and meaningful 
comments to the Agency. Therefore, we decided to extend the comment 
period by 60 days, thereby extending the comment period to 150 days. We 
believed an additional 60 days was adequate for commenters to analyze 
the data noticed in the NODA and available in the docket to the NODA. 
Because the 60-day extension would have ended on January 26, 2008, 
which is a Saturday, the comment period was extended until the 
following Monday, January 28, 2008.
    The same group of commenters, noted above, requested a short amount 
of additional time to finish gathering information that is necessary to 
complete their comments. We believe this request is reasonable given 
the nature and volume of materials provided for comment; therefore, we 
are reopening the comment period from the date of publication of this 
notice to close on February 11, 2008.

    Dated: January 29, 2008.
Susan Parker Bodine,
Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response.
[FR Doc. E8-2063 Filed 2-4-08; 8:45 am]
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