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Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 18 / Friday, January 29, 2021 / Notices sources has led to an increase in O&M costs. More existing sources are performing routine surface emission and wellhead monitoring, which is labor intensive. We have also adjusted the burden for sources to familiarize themselves with the rule, as most sources have been complying with rule requirements for the last few years. Although the rule has been amended since the previous ICR, these rule changes did not result in an increase in burden. Dated: January 25, 2021. Cindy S. Barger, Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office of Federal Activities. Courtney Kerwin, Director, Regulatory Support Division. 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Amended Notice khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with NOTICES [EPA–HQ–OLEM–2018–0756; FRL–10019– 77–OMS] The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), Requirements for Generators, Transporters, and Waste Management Facilities Under the RCRA Hazardous Waste Manifest System (EPA ICR Number 0801.25, OMB Control Number 2050–0039), to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act . This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through January 31, 2021. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on May 19, 2020 during a 60day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. A fuller description of the ICR is given below, including its estimated burden and cost to the public. 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: Additional comments may be submitted on or before March 1, 2021. ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to EPA, referencing Docket ID No. EPA– HQ–OLEM–2018–0756 online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred method), by email to rcradocket@ 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 SUMMARY: Responsible Agency: Office of Federal Activities, General Information 202– 564–5632 or https://www.epa.gov/nepa. Weekly receipt of Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) Filed January 14, 2021 10 a.m. EST Through January 25, 2021 10 a.m. EST Pursuant to 40 CFR 1506.9. EIS No. 20210007, Draft, USFS, DC, WITHDRAWN—36 CFR 228, Subpart A, Locatable Minerals, Contact: Michael Fracasso 303–241–3330. Revision to FR Notice Published 01/ 22/2021; Officially Withdrawn per request of the submitting agency. EIS No. 20210008, Final, BLM, CA, WITHDRAWN—Crimson Solar Project Final Environmental Impact Statement and Proposed Land Use Amendment to the California Desert Conservation Area Plan, Contact: Miriam Liberatore 541–618–2200. Revision to FR Notice Published 01/ 22/2021; Officially Withdrawn per request of the submitting agency. Jkt 253001 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice. Environmental Impact Statements; Notice of Availability 17:43 Jan 28, 2021 BILLING CODE 6560–50–P AGENCY: [ER–FRL–9055–1] VerDate Sep<11>2014 [FR Doc. 2021–01957 Filed 1–28–21; 8:45 am] PO 00000 Frm 00028 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 7553 profanity, threats, information claimed to be Confidential Business Information (CBI), or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Submit written comments and recommendations to OMB for the proposed information collection within 30 days of publication of this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or by using the search function. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bryan Groce, Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery, Program Implementation and Information Division, (5303P), Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (703) 308–8750; fax number: (703) 308–0514; email address: groce.bryan@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. Abstract: This Information Collection Request covers recordkeeping and reporting activities for the hazardous waste manifest paper and electronic system under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and the Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment Act (Pub. L. 112–195). EPA’s authority to require use of a manifest system stems primarily from RCRA 3002(a)(5) (also RCRA Sections 3003(a)(3) and 3004). Regulations are found in 40 CFR part 262 (registrant organizations and generators), part 263 (transporters), and parts 264 and 265 (TSDFs). The manifest lists the wastes that are being shipped and the TSDF to which the wastes are bound. Generators, transporters, and TSDFs handling hazardous waste are required to complete the data requirements for manifests and other reports. The Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment Act provided EPA authority to establish the national electronic hazardous waste manifest system to track hazardous waste shipments electronically. The Act also provided EPA authority to adopt regulations that (1) allow it to accept E:\FR\FM\29JAN1.SGM 29JAN1 khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with NOTICES 7554 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 18 / Friday, January 29, 2021 / Notices electronic manifests originated in the eManifest system as the legal equivalent to paper manifests; (2) require manifest users to submit paper copies of the manifest to the system for data processing; (3) collect manifests in the e-Manifest system for hazardous waste subject to federal or state law; and (4) set up user fees to offset the costs of developing and operating the e-Manifest system. Pursuant to the Act, EPA modified the manifest regulations on February 7, 2014 (the e-Manifest ‘‘One Year Rule’’), to authorize use of electronic manifests (or e-Manifests) for tracking offsite shipments of hazardous waste from a generator’s site to the site of the receipt and disposition of the hazardous waste. On January 3, 2018, EPA finalized the e-Manifest User Fee Final Rule which established the fee methodology that EPA uses to determine the user fees applicable to the electronic and paper manifests submitted to the national system. EPA launched the e-Manifest system on June 30, 2018. TSDFs and other receiving facilities must submit manifests, both paper and electronic, to EPA. In addition to fees for RCRA wastes, EPA is charging TSDFs and other facilities receiving state-only regulated wastes a fee for each manifest submitted to the system. Regulations regarding copy submission requirements for interstate shipments and the applicability of e-Manifest system and fees to facilities receiving state-only regulated wastes are found in 40 CFR part 260 (Hazardous Waste Management System). Regulations regarding imposition of user fees on receiving facilities for their manifest submissions, with references to key fee methodology, fee dispute, and fee sanction requirements are found in parts 264 and 265. Form Numbers: Form 8700–22 and 8700–22A. Respondents/affected entities: Business or other for-profit. Respondent’s obligation to respond: Mandatory (RCRA 3002(a)(5)). Estimated number of respondents: 106,136 (total). Frequency of response: Each shipment. Total estimated burden: 2,362,089 hours (per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR 1320.03(b). Total estimated cost: $118,940,729 (per year), includes $29,043,234 annualized capital costs and operation & maintenance costs. Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 140,411 hours in the total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently approved by OMB, resulting from EPA’s updates to VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:43 Jan 28, 2021 Jkt 253001 the annual number of manifests offered into transportation. Based on its recent analysis of e-Manifest data, EPA estimates a decrease in the annual number of paper and electronic manifests from the currently approved ICR. In addition, there is an increase of $3,273,919 in the total respondent costs compared with the currently approved ICR. This increase resulted primarily from an improved methodology and updated data for estimating the user fees paid by destination facilities. Courtney Kerwin, Director, Regulatory Support Division. [FR Doc. 2021–01974 Filed 1–28–21; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560–50–P DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Indian Affairs [212A2100DD/AAKC001030/ A0A501010.999900] Indian Entities Recognized by and Eligible To Receive Services From the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior. ACTION: Notice. AGENCY: This notice publishes the current list of 574 Tribal entities recognized by and eligible for funding and services from the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) by virtue of their status as Indian Tribes. DATES: The list is updated from the notice published on January 30, 2020 (85 FR 5462). FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Laurel Iron Cloud, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Division of Tribal Government Services, Mail Stop 3645–MIB, 1849 C Street NW, Washington, DC 20240. Telephone number: (202) 513–7641. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published pursuant to Section 104 of the Act of November 2, 1994 (Pub. L. 103–454; 108 Stat. 4791, 4792), and in exercise of authority delegated to the Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs under 25 U.S.C. 2 and 9 and 209 DM 8. Published below is an updated list of federally acknowledged Indian Tribes in the contiguous 48 states and Alaska. Amendments to the list include formatting edits, name changes, and name corrections. To aid in identifying Tribal name changes and corrections, the Tribe’s previously listed or former name is included in parentheses after the correct current Tribal name. We will continue to list the Tribe’s former or previously SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00029 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 listed name for several years before dropping the former or previously listed name from the list. The listed Indian entities are acknowledged to have the immunities and privileges available to federally recognized Indian Tribes by virtue of their government-to-government relationship with the United States as well as the responsibilities, powers, limitations, and obligations of such Tribes. We have continued the practice of listing the Alaska Native entities separately for the purpose of facilitating identification of them. Tara Sweeney, Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs. Indian Tribal Entities Within the Contiguous 48 States Recognized by and Eligible To Receive Services From the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians of the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation, California Ak-Chin Indian Community [previously listed as Ak Chin Indian Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, Arizona] Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas [previously listed as Alabama-Coushatta Tribes of Texas] Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town Alturas Indian Rancheria, California Apache Tribe of Oklahoma Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming Aroostook Band of Micmacs [previously listed as Aroostook Band of Micmac Indians] Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana Augustine Band of Cahuilla Indians, California [previously listed as Augustine Band of Cahuilla Mission Indians of the Augustine Reservation] Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians of the Bad River Reservation, Wisconsin Bay Mills Indian Community, Michigan Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria, California Berry Creek Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California Big Lagoon Rancheria, California Big Pine Paiute Tribe of the Owens Valley [previously listed as Big Pine Band of Owens Valley Paiute Shoshone Indians of the Big Pine Reservation, California] Big Sandy Rancheria of Western Mono Indians of California [previously listed as Big Sandy Rancheria of Mono Indians of California] Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians of the Big Valley Rancheria, California Bishop Paiute Tribe [previously listed as Paiute-Shoshone Indians of the Bishop Community of the Bishop Colony, California] Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana E:\FR\FM\29JAN1.SGM 29JAN1

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[EPA-HQ-OLEM-2018-0756; FRL-10019-77-OMS]


Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; Requirements for Generators, Transporters, 
and Waste Management Facilities Under the RCRA Hazardous Waste Manifest 
System (Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), Requirements for Generators, 
Transporters, and Waste Management Facilities Under the RCRA Hazardous 
Waste Manifest System (EPA ICR Number 0801.25, OMB Control Number 2050-
0039), to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and 
approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act . This is a 
proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through 
January 31, 2021. Public comments were previously requested via the 
Federal Register on May 19, 2020 during a 60-day comment period. This 
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. A fuller 
description of the ICR is given below, including its estimated burden 
and cost to the public. 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: Additional comments may be submitted on or before March 1, 2021.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to EPA, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-
HQ-OLEM-2018-0756 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 information whose disclosure is 
restricted by statute.
    Submit written comments and recommendations to OMB for the proposed 
information collection within 30 days of publication of this notice to 
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information 
collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for 
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bryan Groce, Office of Resource 
Conservation and Recovery, Program Implementation and Information 
Division, (5303P), Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 
Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (703) 308-8750; fax 
number: (703) 308-0514; email address: [email protected].

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.
    Abstract: This Information Collection Request covers recordkeeping 
and reporting activities for the hazardous waste manifest paper and 
electronic system under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act 
(RCRA) and the Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment Act 
(Pub. L. 112-195). EPA's authority to require use of a manifest system 
stems primarily from RCRA 3002(a)(5) (also RCRA Sections 3003(a)(3) and 
3004). Regulations are found in 40 CFR part 262 (registrant 
organizations and generators), part 263 (transporters), and parts 264 
and 265 (TSDFs). The manifest lists the wastes that are being shipped 
and the TSDF to which the wastes are bound. Generators, transporters, 
and TSDFs handling hazardous waste are required to complete the data 
requirements for manifests and other reports. The Hazardous Waste 
Electronic Manifest Establishment Act provided EPA authority to 
establish the national electronic hazardous waste manifest system to 
track hazardous waste shipments electronically. The Act also provided 
EPA authority to adopt regulations that (1) allow it to accept

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electronic manifests originated in the e-Manifest system as the legal 
equivalent to paper manifests; (2) require manifest users to submit 
paper copies of the manifest to the system for data processing; (3) 
collect manifests in the e-Manifest system for hazardous waste subject 
to federal or state law; and (4) set up user fees to offset the costs 
of developing and operating the e-Manifest system.
    Pursuant to the Act, EPA modified the manifest regulations on 
February 7, 2014 (the e-Manifest ``One Year Rule''), to authorize use 
of electronic manifests (or e-Manifests) for tracking offsite shipments 
of hazardous waste from a generator's site to the site of the receipt 
and disposition of the hazardous waste. On January 3, 2018, EPA 
finalized the e-Manifest User Fee Final Rule which established the fee 
methodology that EPA uses to determine the user fees applicable to the 
electronic and paper manifests submitted to the national system. EPA 
launched the e-Manifest system on June 30, 2018. TSDFs and other 
receiving facilities must submit manifests, both paper and electronic, 
to EPA. In addition to fees for RCRA wastes, EPA is charging TSDFs and 
other facilities receiving state-only regulated wastes a fee for each 
manifest submitted to the system. Regulations regarding copy submission 
requirements for interstate shipments and the applicability of e-
Manifest system and fees to facilities receiving state-only regulated 
wastes are found in 40 CFR part 260 (Hazardous Waste Management 
System). Regulations regarding imposition of user fees on receiving 
facilities for their manifest submissions, with references to key fee 
methodology, fee dispute, and fee sanction requirements are found in 
parts 264 and 265.
    Form Numbers: Form 8700-22 and 8700-22A.
    Respondents/affected entities: Business or other for-profit.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (RCRA 3002(a)(5)).
    Estimated number of respondents: 106,136 (total).
    Frequency of response: Each shipment.
    Total estimated burden: 2,362,089 hours (per year). Burden is 
defined at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
    Total estimated cost: $118,940,729 (per year), includes $29,043,234 
annualized capital costs and operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 140,411 hours in 
the total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently 
approved by OMB, resulting from EPA's updates to the annual number of 
manifests offered into transportation. Based on its recent analysis of 
e-Manifest data, EPA estimates a decrease in the annual number of paper 
and electronic manifests from the currently approved ICR. In addition, 
there is an increase of $3,273,919 in the total respondent costs 
compared with the currently approved ICR. This increase resulted 
primarily from an improved methodology and updated data for estimating 
the user fees paid by destination facilities.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2021-01974 Filed 1-28-21; 8:45 am]
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