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telephone number: 703–308–0454; fax
number: 703–308–0514; email address:
chaudhari.narendra@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Supporting documents which explain in
detail the information that the EPA will
be collecting are available in the public
docket for this ICR. The docket can be
viewed online at www.regulations.gov
or in person at the EPA Docket Center,
WJC West, Room 3334, 1301
Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC.
The telephone number for the Docket
Center is 202–566–1744. For additional
information about EPA’s public docket,
visit https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
Pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of
the PRA, the EPA is soliciting comments
and information to enable it 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
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 or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses. The 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. At that time, the
EPA will issue another Federal Register
notice to announce the submission of
the ICR to OMB and the opportunity to
submit additional comments to OMB.
Abstract: Under the authority of the
Resource Conservation and Recovery
Act of 1976 (RCRA), as amended,
Congress directed the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency to
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implement a comprehensive program
for the safe management of hazardous
waste. In addition, Congress wrote that
‘‘[a]ny person may petition the
Administrator for the promulgation,
amendment or repeal of any regulation’’
under RCRA (section 7004(a)).
40 CFR parts 260 and 261 contain
provisions that allow regulated entities
to apply for petitions, variances,
exclusions, and exemptions from
various RCRA requirements.
The following are some examples of
information required from petitioners
under 40 CFR part 260. Under 40 CFR
260.20(b), all rulemaking petitioners
must submit basic information with
their demonstrations, including name,
address, and statement of interest in the
proposed action. Under § 260.21, all
petitioners for equivalent testing or
analytical methods must include
specific information in their petitions
and demonstrate to the satisfaction of
the Administrator that the proposed
method is equal to, or superior to, the
corresponding method in terms of its
sensitivity, accuracy, and
reproducibility. Under § 260.22,
petitions to amend part 261 to exclude
a waste produced at a particular facility
(more simply, to delist a waste) must
meet extensive informational
requirements. When a petition is
submitted, the Agency reviews
materials, deliberates, publishes its
tentative decision in the Federal
Register, and requests public comment.
The EPA also may hold informal public
hearings (if requested by an interested
person or at the discretion of the
Administrator) to hear oral comments
on its tentative decision. After
evaluating all comments, the EPA
publishes its final decision in the
Federal Register.
Form numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities:
Business and other for-profit.
Respondent’s obligation to respond:
Mandatory (RCRA 7004(a)).
Estimated number of respondents:
2,603.
Frequency of response: On occasion.
Total estimated burden: 485,069
hours. Burden is defined at 5 CFR
1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $64,007,121,
which includes $51,653,044 in
annualized O&M costs and $12,354,077
in annualized labor costs.
Changes in estimates: The burden
hours are likely to decrease because the
burden associated with the CCR final
rule are being moved into a separate
ICR.
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Dated: July 25, 2018.
Barnes Johnson,
Director, Office of Resource Conservation and
Recovery.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–HQ–OLEM–2018–0082, FRL–9981–78–
OLEM]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; National Minimum
Criteria for Disposal of Coal
Combustion Residuals From Electric
Utilities
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is planning to submit the
information collection request (ICR),
National Minimum Criteria for Disposal
of Coal Combustion Residuals from
Electric Utilities (EPA ICR No. 2571.01,
OMB Control No. 2050–NEW) to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval in
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act (PRA). Before doing so,
the EPA is soliciting public comments
on specific aspects of the proposed
information collection as described
below. The burden associated with this
ICR was previously covered by the
Identification, Listing and Rulemaking
Petitions ICR (EPA ICR No. 1189.26,
OMB Control No. 2050–0053) and is
currently approved through November
30, 2018. 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.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before October 9, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–
OLEM–2018–0082, online using
www.regulations.gov (our preferred
method), by email to rcra-docket@
epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket
Center, Environmental Protection
Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC
20460.
EPA’s policy is that all comments
received will be included in the public
docket without change including any
personal information provided, unless
the comment includes profanity, threats,
information claimed to be Confidential
Business Information (CBI) or other
SUMMARY:
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kirsten Hillyer, Office of Resource
Conservation and Recovery (mail code
5304P), Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW,
Washington, DC 20460; telephone
number: 703–347–0369; fax number:
703–308–0514; email address:
hillyer.kirsten@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Supporting documents which explain in
detail the information the EPA will be
collecting are available in the public
docket for this ICR. The docket can be
viewed online at www.regulations.gov
or in person at the EPA Docket Center,
WJC West, Room 3334, 1301
Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC.
The telephone number for the Docket
Center is 202–566–1744. For additional
information about EPA’s public docket,
visit https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
Pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of
the PRA, the EPA is soliciting comments
and information to enable it 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
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 or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses. The 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. At that time, the
EPA will issue another Federal Register
notice to announce the submission of
the ICR to OMB and the opportunity to
submit additional comments to OMB.
Abstract: On April 17, 2015, the EPA
published a final rule to regulate the
disposal of coal combustion residuals
(CCR) from electric utilities as solid
waste under Subtitle D of the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
(80 FR 21302). EPA established national
minimum criteria for existing and new
CCR landfills and CCR surface
impoundments and all lateral
expansions to include location
restrictions, design and operating
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criteria, groundwater monitoring and
corrective action, closure requirements
and post-closure care, and
recordkeeping, notification, and internet
posting requirements.
In December 2016, the President
signed the Water Infrastructure
Improvements for the Nation (WIIN)
Act. The WIIN Act amended RCRA
Subtitle D and established new statutory
provisions applicable to CCR landfills
and CCR surface impoundments. In
particular, the WIIN Act provides that
states may, but are not required to,
develop and submit a permit (or other
system of prior approval) program for
CCR disposal to EPA for approval. Such
a program does not have to be identical
to the requirements in the CCR rule (40
CFR part 257, subpart D), but must be
at least as protective as the CCR rule.
EPA developed an interim final
guidance document that provides
information about the provisions of the
2016 WIIN Act related to CCR as well
as the process and procedures EPA will
generally use to review and make
determinations on state CCR permit
programs. The release of this interim
final guidance was announced on
August 15, 2017 (82 FR 38685), and EPA
accepted public comment for thirty
days.
On June 14, 2016, the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia
(D.C. Circuit) ordered a partial vacatur.
As a consequence of the vacatur, EPA
published a direct final rule on August
5, 2016 (81 FR 51802), to remove 40
CFR 257.100(b), (c), and (d), which
provided ‘‘early closure’’ provisions for
certain inactive CCR surface
impoundments. It also extended
compliance deadlines for those units.
On July 17, 2018, EPA signed a rule
to finalize certain revisions to the 2015
CCR regulations to: provide states with
approved CCR permit programs under
the WIIN Act, or EPA where EPA is the
permitting authority, the ability to use
alternate performance standards; to
revise the groundwater protection
standard for constituents which do not
have an established drinking water
standard (known as a maximum
contaminant level or MCL); and to
provide facilities triggered into closure
additional time to cease receiving waste
and initiate closure.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities:
Business and other for-profit.
Respondent’s obligation to respond:
mandatory 42 U.S.C. 6907(a)(3),
6912(a)(1), 6944(a); 33 U.S.C. 1345(d)
and (e).
Estimated number of respondents:
534.
Frequency of response: On occasion.
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Total estimated burden: 358,957
hours. Burden is defined at 5 CFR
1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $63,858,128,
which includes $41,112,513 in
annualized O&M costs and $22,745,615
in annualized labor costs.
Changes in Estimates: The existing
burden hours have been revised to
reflect changes in the regulatory
program realized as a result of the
August 2016 direct final action, the
Interim Final Guidance for state CCR
programs, and the July 2018 final
amendments to the 2015 CCR rule. The
burden hours are likely to change
additionally in the future due to
ongoing litigation and EPA’s stated
intention to reconsider additional
portions of the 2015 rule. Any future
burden changes will be evaluated once
those changes are known.
Dated: July 25, 2018.
Barnes Johnson,
Director, Office of Resource Conservation and
Recovery.
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Program; Hazardous Waste Injection
Restrictions; Petition for Exemption—
Class I Hazardous Waste Injection;
Innophos, Inc. Geismar, Louisiana
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of a final decision on a
UIC no migration petition.
AGENCY:
Notice is hereby given that an
exemption to the Land Disposal
Restrictions, under the 1984 Hazardous
and Solid Waste Amendments to the
Resource Conservation and Recovery
Act, has been granted to Innophos for
two Class I hazardous waste injection
wells located at their Geismar,
Louisiana facility. The company has
adequately demonstrated to the
satisfaction of the EPA by the petition
application and supporting
documentation that, to a reasonable
degree of certainty, there will be no
migration of hazardous constituents
from the injection zone for as long as the
waste remains hazardous. This final
decision allows the underground
injection by Innophos of the specific
restricted hazardous wastes identified in
this exemption request, into Class I
hazardous waste injection wells DW#1
and DW#2 until July 12, 2048, unless
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[EPA-HQ-OLEM-2018-0082, FRL-9981-78-OLEM]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; National Minimum Criteria for Disposal of Coal
Combustion Residuals From Electric Utilities
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is planning to
submit the information collection request (ICR), National Minimum
Criteria for Disposal of Coal Combustion Residuals from Electric
Utilities (EPA ICR No. 2571.01, OMB Control No. 2050-NEW) to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). Before doing so, the EPA is
soliciting public comments on specific aspects of the proposed
information collection as described below. The burden associated with
this ICR was previously covered by the Identification, Listing and
Rulemaking Petitions ICR (EPA ICR No. 1189.26, OMB Control No. 2050-
0053) and is currently approved through November 30, 2018. 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.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before October 9, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
OLEM-2018-0082, online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred
method), by email to [email protected], or by mail to: EPA Docket
Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460.
EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included in the
public docket without change including any personal information
provided, unless the comment includes profanity, threats, information
claimed to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other
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information whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kirsten Hillyer, Office of Resource
Conservation and Recovery (mail code 5304P), Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; telephone
number: 703-347-0369; fax number: 703-308-0514; email address:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supporting documents which explain in detail
the information the EPA will be collecting are available in the public
docket for this ICR. The docket can be viewed online at
www.regulations.gov or in person at the EPA Docket Center, WJC West,
Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC. The telephone
number for the Docket Center is 202-566-1744. For additional
information about EPA's public docket, visit https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
Pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA, the EPA is soliciting
comments and information to enable it 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 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 or other forms of information
technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses. The
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. At that time, the EPA will issue another Federal
Register notice to announce the submission of the ICR to OMB and the
opportunity to submit additional comments to OMB.
Abstract: On April 17, 2015, the EPA published a final rule to
regulate the disposal of coal combustion residuals (CCR) from electric
utilities as solid waste under Subtitle D of the Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act (RCRA) (80 FR 21302). EPA established national minimum
criteria for existing and new CCR landfills and CCR surface
impoundments and all lateral expansions to include location
restrictions, design and operating criteria, groundwater monitoring and
corrective action, closure requirements and post-closure care, and
recordkeeping, notification, and internet posting requirements.
In December 2016, the President signed the Water Infrastructure
Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act. The WIIN Act amended RCRA
Subtitle D and established new statutory provisions applicable to CCR
landfills and CCR surface impoundments. In particular, the WIIN Act
provides that states may, but are not required to, develop and submit a
permit (or other system of prior approval) program for CCR disposal to
EPA for approval. Such a program does not have to be identical to the
requirements in the CCR rule (40 CFR part 257, subpart D), but must be
at least as protective as the CCR rule. EPA developed an interim final
guidance document that provides information about the provisions of the
2016 WIIN Act related to CCR as well as the process and procedures EPA
will generally use to review and make determinations on state CCR
permit programs. The release of this interim final guidance was
announced on August 15, 2017 (82 FR 38685), and EPA accepted public
comment for thirty days.
On June 14, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia (D.C. Circuit) ordered a partial vacatur. As a consequence of
the vacatur, EPA published a direct final rule on August 5, 2016 (81 FR
51802), to remove 40 CFR 257.100(b), (c), and (d), which provided
``early closure'' provisions for certain inactive CCR surface
impoundments. It also extended compliance deadlines for those units.
On July 17, 2018, EPA signed a rule to finalize certain revisions
to the 2015 CCR regulations to: provide states with approved CCR permit
programs under the WIIN Act, or EPA where EPA is the permitting
authority, the ability to use alternate performance standards; to
revise the groundwater protection standard for constituents which do
not have an established drinking water standard (known as a maximum
contaminant level or MCL); and to provide facilities triggered into
closure additional time to cease receiving waste and initiate closure.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities: Business and other for-profit.
Respondent's obligation to respond: mandatory 42 U.S.C. 6907(a)(3),
6912(a)(1), 6944(a); 33 U.S.C. 1345(d) and (e).
Estimated number of respondents: 534.
Frequency of response: On occasion.
Total estimated burden: 358,957 hours. Burden is defined at 5 CFR
1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $63,858,128, which includes $41,112,513 in
annualized O&M costs and $22,745,615 in annualized labor costs.
Changes in Estimates: The existing burden hours have been revised
to reflect changes in the regulatory program realized as a result of
the August 2016 direct final action, the Interim Final Guidance for
state CCR programs, and the July 2018 final amendments to the 2015 CCR
rule. The burden hours are likely to change additionally in the future
due to ongoing litigation and EPA's stated intention to reconsider
additional portions of the 2015 rule. Any future burden changes will be
evaluated once those changes are known.
Dated: July 25, 2018.
Barnes Johnson,
Director, Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery.
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