The Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest (e-Manifest) System Advisory Board; Notice of Public Meeting, 49830-49832 [2022-17401]
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requirement due to the significant
economic and health impacts from the
COVID pandemic. This reduction in
recurring expenditures is the result of
HDOH experiencing significant payroll
changes impacting its overall budget.
Not only are senior level employees
retiring, with some positions filled by
entry level staff at lower starting
salaries, other positions remain vacant
due to the conditions caused by the
COVID–19 pandemic.
HDOH explained that the reduction is
non-selective because the air program is
not being disproportionately impacted
or singled out as the reduction of
expenditures due to increased vacancies
and inability to replace staff is occurring
throughout the State government, and
not exclusively to the air program.
Hawaii is currently experiencing one of
the highest rates of out-migration of its
work-age population. State agencies
have lost staff and have struggled to hire
new staff to replace them.
The vacancy data provided by
Hawaii’s Department of Human
Resources Development (DHRD) and
HDOH’s Human Resources (HR) shown
below supports the requested MOE
reduction by demonstrating that a nonselective reduction in the expenditures
of all executive branch agencies has
occurred. The air program’s vacancy
rate increased by 3.23%, from 27.42%
in 2021 to 30.65% in 2022 and the
majority of HDOH’s environmental
programs’ vacancy rates also increased
anywhere from 1.69% to 30.95% during
this same time frame. In line with the
air program and the other
environmental program vacancy
increases, the vacancy rate for the entire
HDOH (which contains the air program
and other environmental programs)
increased by 3.88% (from 17.38% to
21.25%) during this period. Overall
statewide (executive branch agencies)
position vacancy rates showed an even
larger increase of 7.88% from 2021 to
2022. Trends in the HDOH and
executive branch agency data show
steady increases in vacancy rates with
the largest increase occurring over the
last year. The air program’s vacancy rate
increase of 3.23% is slightly smaller
than the HDOH’s increase of 3.88% and
less than half of the executive branch
agency increase of 7.88% over the past
year.
The EPA proposes to find that the
request for a reset of HDOH’s MOE
meets the requirements for a nonselective reduction under CAA section
105. The HDOH’s reduction in
personnel expenses and significant cut
back on expenditures caused by the
COVID–19 pandemic contributed to the
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The EPA proposes that the MOE for
HDOH’s FY2022 CAA section 105 grant
be reduced to $1,645,864 to address the
non-selective reduction of recurrent
expenditures discussed above.
This notice constitutes a request for
public comment and an opportunity for
public hearing as required by the CAA.
All written substantive comments
received by September 12, 2022 on this
proposal will be considered. The EPA
will conduct a public hearing on this
proposal only if a written request for
such is received by the EPA by
September 12, 2022. If no written
request for a hearing is received or if the
EPA determines that the issues raised
are insubstantial, the EPA will proceed
to reduce HDOH’s MOE for FY2022.
Dated: August 9, 2022.
Elizabeth Adams,
Director, Air and Radiation Division, Region
IX.
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The Hazardous Waste Electronic
Manifest (e-Manifest) System Advisory
Board; Notice of Public Meeting
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) will convene the
Hazardous Waste Electronic System (eManifest) Advisory Board for a three (3)
day virtual public meeting. The purpose
of the meeting is for EPA to seek the
Board’s consultation and
recommendations regarding the eManifest system (Meeting Theme:
‘‘Roadmap to 100% Electronic
Manifests’’).
DATES: Virtual Public Meeting: The
meeting will be held October 4–6, 2022,
from 10:00 a.m. to approximately 6:00
p.m. (EDT). See the additional details
and instructions for registration that
appear in sIII of this notice.
ADDRESSES: This public meeting will be
conducted virtually. Registration online
is required to attend and/or provide oral
public comment during this meeting.
Please refer to the e-Manifest Advisory
Board website at https://www.epa.gov/emanifest/hazardous-waste-electronicmanifest-system-e-manifest-advisoryboard for information on how to register
as either a public audience attendee or
as an oral public commenter. For
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additional instructions related to this
meeting, see section III of this notice.
Comments: To make oral comments
during the public meeting and be
included on the meeting agenda, please
register by noon on September 27, 2022.
Registration instructions will be posted
on the e-Manifest Advisory Board
website at https://www.epa.gov/emanifest/hazardous-waste-electronicmanifest-system-e-manifest-advisoryboard. Submit written comments on or
before September 27, 2022, in the public
docket under Docket number EPA–HQ–
OLEM–2022–0611 at https://
www.regulations.gov. Written comments
submitted to the public docket on or
before September 27, 2022, will be
provided to the e-Manifest Advisory
Board for their consideration before the
meeting. Anyone who wishes to submit
comments after September 27, 2022,
must send their written public
comments or their oral comment
requests directly to the Designated
Federal Officer (DFO) listed under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. For
additional instructions, see section III of
this notice.
Special accommodations. For
information on access or services for
individuals with disabilities, and to
request accommodation of a disability,
please contact the DFO listed under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT at least
ten (10) days prior to the meeting to give
the EPA as much time as possible to
process your request.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fred
Jenkins, Designated Federal Officer
(DFO), U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, Office of Resource
Conservation and Recovery, email:
jenkins.fred@epa.gov; phone: 202–564–
0344.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
meeting will be open to the public. The
full agenda and meeting materials will
be available in the docket for the
meeting and at the e-Manifest Advisory
Board website at https://www.epa.gov/emanifest/hazardous-waste-electronicmanifest-system-e-manifest-advisoryboard. This public meeting will be
conducted virtually, and registration is
required to attend and/or participate.
Registration instructions will be posted
on the e-Manifest Advisory Board
website at https://www.epa.gov/emanifest/hazardous-waste-electronicmanifest-system-e-manifest-advisoryboard. In the event EPA needs to make
subsequent changes to this meeting,
EPA will post future notices to its eManifest Board meeting website
(https://www.epa.gov/e-manifest/
hazardous-waste-electronic-manifestsystem-e-manifest-advisory-board.).
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EPA strongly encourages the public to
refer to the e-Manifest website for the
latest meeting information, as sudden
changes may be necessary.
I. General Information
A. Does this action apply to me?
This action is directed to the public
in general. This action may be of
particular interest to persons who are or
may be subject to the Hazardous Waste
Electronic Manifest Establishment (eManifest) Act.
B. Where can I access information about
the e-Manifest Advisory Board and this
meeting?
Information about the e-Manifest
Advisory Board is available on the eManifest Advisory Board website,
https://www.epa.gov/e-manifest/
hazardous-waste-electronic-manifestsystem-e-manifest-advisory-board.
Information about this meeting will be
available by early September 2022 in the
public docket, identified by docket ID
number EPA–HQ–OLEM–2022–0611, at
https://www.regulations.gov and on the
e-Manifest Advisory Board website. You
may also subscribe to the following
listserv for alerts when notices regarding
this and other e-Manifest Advisory
Board related activities are published:
eManifest-subscribe@lists.epa.gov.
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II. Background
A. Purpose of the e-Manifest Advisory
Board
The Hazardous Waste Electronic
Manifest (e-Manifest) System Advisory
Board is established in accordance with
the provisions of the Hazardous Waste
Electronic Manifest Establishment Act,
42 U.S.C. 6939g, and the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (FACA), 5
U.S.C. App.2. The e-Manifest Advisory
Board is in the public interest and
supports the EPA in performing its
duties and responsibilities. The Board
shall meet annually to discuss, evaluate
the effectiveness of, and provide
recommendations about the system to
the EPA Administrator.
The sole duty of the Advisory Board
is to provide advice and
recommendations to the EPA
Administrator. As required by the eManifest Act, the e-Manifest Advisory
Board is composed of nine (9) members.
One (1) member is the EPA
Administrator (or a designee), who
serves as Chairperson of the Advisory
Board. The rest of the committee is
composed of:
• At least two (2) members who have
expertise in information technology;
• At least three (3) members who
have experience in using or represent
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users of the manifest system to track the
transportation of hazardous waste under
the e-Manifest Act;
• At least three (3) members who are
state representatives responsible for
processing manifests.
All members of the e-Manifest
Advisory Board, except for the EPA
Administrator, are appointed as Special
Government Employees or
Representatives.
B. Public Meeting
EPA launched the e-Manifest system
on June 30, 2018. e-Manifest provides
those persons required to use a Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
manifest under either federal or state
law the option of using electronic
manifests to track shipments of
hazardous waste and to meet certain
RCRA requirements. By enabling the
transition from a paper-intensive
process to an electronic system, EPA
estimates e-Manifest will ultimately
save state and industry users more than
$50 million annually, once electronic
manifests are widely adopted.
Since system inception through May
2022, EPA has received roughly 25
thousand electronic manifests (both
fully electronic and hybrid manifests)
out of a total of approximately 7 million
manifests. Electronic manifests thus
represent less than a half of a percent of
manifests received by EPA. EPA seeks to
dramatically increase this percentage.
EPA hosted two virtual public
meetings on October 27, 2021, and
November 3, 2021, to discuss how to
increase electronic adoption and solicit
feedback from stakeholders. The
meetings described existing electronic
manifest functionality and the
feasibility of several options to increase
use of electronic manifests. As a next
step in this effort, EPA will convene its
next public meeting of the e-Manifest
System Advisory Board from October 4–
6, 2022. The meeting will include
discussion of the comments EPA
received from the public meetings, as
well as related policy and technical
changes EPA is considering for the eManifest system to increase adoption of
electronic manifests. The general
purpose of this meeting is for the Board
to advise the Agency on these potential
changes.
C. e-Manifest Advisory Board
Documents and Meeting Minutes
The meeting background paper along
with related supporting materials
including the charge questions to the
Advisory Board, the Advisory Board
membership roster (i.e., members
attending this meeting), and the meeting
agenda will be available by
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approximately early-September 2022. In
addition, EPA may provide additional
background documents as the materials
become available. You may obtain
electronic copies of these documents,
and certain other related documents that
might be available at https://
www.regulations.gov via the docket ID
number EPA–HQ–OLEM–2022–0611
and at the e-Manifest Advisory Board
website at: https://www.epa.gov/emanifest/hazardous-waste-electronicmanifest-system-e-manifest-advisoryboard.
The e-Manifest Advisory Board will
prepare meeting minutes summarizing
its recommendations to EPA
approximately ninety (90) days after the
meeting. The meeting minutes will be
posted on the e-Manifest Advisory
Board website, or they may be obtained
from the public docket at https://
www.regulations.gov via the docket ID
number EPA–HQ–OLEM–2022–0611.
III. Public Participation Instructions
To participate in the virtual public
meeting, please follow the instructions
in this section.
A. How can I provide comments?
1. Written comments. EPA encourages
the electronic submission of written
comments via https://
www.regulations.gov, into docket ID
number EPA–HQ–OLEM–2022–0611 on
or before September 27, 2022, to provide
the e-Manifest Advisory Board the time
necessary to consider and review the
written comments. Written comments
are accepted until the date of the
meeting, but anyone submitting written
comments after September 27, 2022,
should contact the DFO listed under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
Do not submit electronically any
information you consider to be
Confidential Business Information (CBI)
or other information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute. Copyrighted
material will not be posted without
explicit permission of the copyright
holder. Multimedia submissions (audio,
video, etc.) must be accompanied by a
written comment. The written comment
is considered the official comment and
should include discussion of all points
you wish to make. Members of the
public should also be aware that their
personal contact information, if
included in any written comments, may
be posted on the internet at https://
www.regulations.gov.
The EPA will generally not consider
comments or comment contents located
outside of the primary submission (e.g.,
on the web, cloud, or other file sharing
system). For additional submission
methods, the full EPA public comment
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policy, information about CBI or
multimedia submissions, please visit
https://www.epa.gov/dockets/
commenting-epa-dockets.When
preparing and submitting your
comments, see Tips for Effective
Comments at the same website, https://
www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epadockets.
2. Oral comments. The Agency
encourages each individual or group
wishing to make brief oral comments to
the e-Manifest Advisory Board during
the virtual public meeting to please
register as an oral commenter for the
meeting at the e-Manifest Advisory
Board website, https://www.epa.gov/emanifest/hazardous-waste-electronicmanifest-system-e-manifest-advisoryboard, by noon on September 27, 2022,
in order to be included on the meeting
agenda. Requests to present oral
comments will be accepted until the
date of the meeting. Registration is
required to attend and/or participate as
an oral public commenter in this public
meeting. Please refer to the e-Manifest
Advisory Board website at https://
www.epa.gov/e-manifest/hazardouswaste-electronic-manifest-system-emanifest-advisory-board for information
on how to register either as an oral
public commenter or public audience
attendee. Anyone submitting an oral
public comments request after
September 27, 2022, should also contact
the DFO listed under FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT. To the extent that
time permits, the Chair of the e-Manifest
Advisory Board may permit the
presentation of oral comments at the
meeting by interested persons who have
not previously requested time. The
request should identify the name of the
individual making the presentation, the
organization (if any) that the individual
represents, and any requirements for
audiovisual presentation support. Oral
comments before the e-Manifest
Advisory Board are limited to
approximately five (5) minutes unless
prior arrangements have been made. In
addition, each speaker should provide a
copy of their comments and
presentation to the DFO so that they can
be distributed to the e-Manifest
Advisory Board at the meeting.
Dated: August 9, 2022.
Jody Barringer,
Acting Director, Office of Resource
Conservation and Recovery.
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Federal Advisory Committee Act;
Communications Security, Reliability,
and Interoperability Council
Federal Communications
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Federal Advisory Committee Act, this
notice advises interested persons that
the Federal Communications
Commission’s (Commission)
Communications Security, Reliability,
and Interoperability Council (CSRIC)
VIII will hold its fifth meeting on
September 21, 2022 at 1 p.m. EDT.
DATES: September 21, 2022.
ADDRESSES: The Meeting will be held
via conference call and available to the
public via WebEx at https://www.fcc.gov/
live.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Suzon Cameron, Designated Federal
Officer, Federal Communications
Commission, Public Safety and
Homeland Security Bureau, (202) 418–
1916 or email: suzon.cameron@fcc.gov,
or Kurian Jacob, Deputy Designated
Federal Officer, Federal
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Safety and Homeland Security Bureau,
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p.m. EDT, will be held electronically
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public, at https://www.fcc.gov/live. Any
questions that arise during the meeting
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will be answered at a later date. The
meeting is being held in a wholly
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abundance of caution.
The CSRIC is a Federal Advisory
Committee that will provide
recommendations to the Commission to
improve the security, reliability, and
interoperability of communications
systems. On June 30, 2021, the
Commission, pursuant to the Federal
Advisory Committee Act, renewed the
charter for CSRIC VII for a period of two
years through June 29, 2023. The
meeting on September 21, 2022, will be
the fifth meeting of CSRIC VIII under
the current charter. The Commission
will provide audio and/or video
coverage of the meeting over the
internet from the FCC’s web page at
https://www.fcc.gov/live. The public may
submit written comments before the
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meeting to Suzon Cameron, CSRIC VIII
Designated Federal Officer, by email to
CSRIC@fcc.gov.
Open captioning will be provided for
this event. Other reasonable
accommodations for people with
disabilities are available upon request.
Requests for such accommodations
should be submitted via email to
fcc504@fcc.gov or by calling the
Consumer & Governmental Affairs
Bureau at (202) 418–0530 (voice), (202)
418–0432 (tty). Such requests should
include a detailed description of the
accommodation needed. In addition,
please include a way the Commission
can contact you if it needs more
information. Please allow at least five
days’ advance notice; last-minute
requests will be accepted but may be
impossible to fill.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
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[EPA-HQ-OLEM-2022-0611; FRL-10127-01-OLEM]
The Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest (e-Manifest) System
Advisory Board; Notice of Public Meeting
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will convene the
Hazardous Waste Electronic System (e-Manifest) Advisory Board for a
three (3) day virtual public meeting. The purpose of the meeting is for
EPA to seek the Board's consultation and recommendations regarding the
e-Manifest system (Meeting Theme: ``Roadmap to 100% Electronic
Manifests'').
DATES: Virtual Public Meeting: The meeting will be held October 4-6,
2022, from 10:00 a.m. to approximately 6:00 p.m. (EDT). See the
additional details and instructions for registration that appear in
sIII of this notice.
ADDRESSES: This public meeting will be conducted virtually.
Registration online is required to attend and/or provide oral public
comment during this meeting. Please refer to the e-Manifest Advisory
Board website at https://www.epa.gov/e-manifest/hazardous-waste-electronic-manifest-system-e-manifest-advisory-board for information on
how to register as either a public audience attendee or as an oral
public commenter. For additional instructions related to this meeting,
see section III of this notice.
Comments: To make oral comments during the public meeting and be
included on the meeting agenda, please register by noon on September
27, 2022. Registration instructions will be posted on the e-Manifest
Advisory Board website at https://www.epa.gov/e-manifest/hazardous-waste-electronic-manifest-system-e-manifest-advisory-board. Submit
written comments on or before September 27, 2022, in the public docket
under Docket number EPA-HQ-OLEM-2022-0611 at https://www.regulations.gov. Written comments submitted to the public docket on
or before September 27, 2022, will be provided to the e-Manifest
Advisory Board for their consideration before the meeting. Anyone who
wishes to submit comments after September 27, 2022, must send their
written public comments or their oral comment requests directly to the
Designated Federal Officer (DFO) listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT. For additional instructions, see section III of this notice.
Special accommodations. For information on access or services for
individuals with disabilities, and to request accommodation of a
disability, please contact the DFO listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT at least ten (10) days prior to the meeting to give the EPA as
much time as possible to process your request.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fred Jenkins, Designated Federal
Officer (DFO), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Resource
Conservation and Recovery, email: [email protected]; phone: 202-564-
0344.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This meeting will be open to the public. The
full agenda and meeting materials will be available in the docket for
the meeting and at the e-Manifest Advisory Board website at https://www.epa.gov/e-manifest/hazardous-waste-electronic-manifest-system-e-manifest-advisory-board. This public meeting will be conducted
virtually, and registration is required to attend and/or participate.
Registration instructions will be posted on the e-Manifest Advisory
Board website at https://www.epa.gov/e-manifest/hazardous-waste-electronic-manifest-system-e-manifest-advisory-board. In the event EPA
needs to make subsequent changes to this meeting, EPA will post future
notices to its e-Manifest Board meeting website (https://www.epa.gov/e-manifest/hazardous-waste-electronic-manifest-system-e-manifest-advisory-board.).
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EPA strongly encourages the public to refer to the e-Manifest website
for the latest meeting information, as sudden changes may be necessary.
I. General Information
A. Does this action apply to me?
This action is directed to the public in general. This action may
be of particular interest to persons who are or may be subject to the
Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment (e-Manifest) Act.
B. Where can I access information about the e-Manifest Advisory Board
and this meeting?
Information about the e-Manifest Advisory Board is available on the
e-Manifest Advisory Board website, https://www.epa.gov/e-manifest/hazardous-waste-electronic-manifest-system-e-manifest-advisory-board.
Information about this meeting will be available by early September
2022 in the public docket, identified by docket ID number EPA-HQ-OLEM-
2022-0611, at https://www.regulations.gov and on the e-Manifest
Advisory Board website. You may also subscribe to the following
listserv for alerts when notices regarding this and other e-Manifest
Advisory Board related activities are published: [email protected].
II. Background
A. Purpose of the e-Manifest Advisory Board
The Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest (e-Manifest) System
Advisory Board is established in accordance with the provisions of the
Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment Act, 42 U.S.C. 6939g,
and the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), 5 U.S.C. App.2. The e-
Manifest Advisory Board is in the public interest and supports the EPA
in performing its duties and responsibilities. The Board shall meet
annually to discuss, evaluate the effectiveness of, and provide
recommendations about the system to the EPA Administrator.
The sole duty of the Advisory Board is to provide advice and
recommendations to the EPA Administrator. As required by the e-Manifest
Act, the e-Manifest Advisory Board is composed of nine (9) members. One
(1) member is the EPA Administrator (or a designee), who serves as
Chairperson of the Advisory Board. The rest of the committee is
composed of:
At least two (2) members who have expertise in information
technology;
At least three (3) members who have experience in using or
represent users of the manifest system to track the transportation of
hazardous waste under the e-Manifest Act;
At least three (3) members who are state representatives
responsible for processing manifests.
All members of the e-Manifest Advisory Board, except for the EPA
Administrator, are appointed as Special Government Employees or
Representatives.
B. Public Meeting
EPA launched the e-Manifest system on June 30, 2018. e-Manifest
provides those persons required to use a Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act (RCRA) manifest under either federal or state law the
option of using electronic manifests to track shipments of hazardous
waste and to meet certain RCRA requirements. By enabling the transition
from a paper-intensive process to an electronic system, EPA estimates
e-Manifest will ultimately save state and industry users more than $50
million annually, once electronic manifests are widely adopted.
Since system inception through May 2022, EPA has received roughly
25 thousand electronic manifests (both fully electronic and hybrid
manifests) out of a total of approximately 7 million manifests.
Electronic manifests thus represent less than a half of a percent of
manifests received by EPA. EPA seeks to dramatically increase this
percentage.
EPA hosted two virtual public meetings on October 27, 2021, and
November 3, 2021, to discuss how to increase electronic adoption and
solicit feedback from stakeholders. The meetings described existing
electronic manifest functionality and the feasibility of several
options to increase use of electronic manifests. As a next step in this
effort, EPA will convene its next public meeting of the e-Manifest
System Advisory Board from October 4-6, 2022. The meeting will include
discussion of the comments EPA received from the public meetings, as
well as related policy and technical changes EPA is considering for the
e-Manifest system to increase adoption of electronic manifests. The
general purpose of this meeting is for the Board to advise the Agency
on these potential changes.
C. e-Manifest Advisory Board Documents and Meeting Minutes
The meeting background paper along with related supporting
materials including the charge questions to the Advisory Board, the
Advisory Board membership roster (i.e., members attending this
meeting), and the meeting agenda will be available by approximately
early-September 2022. In addition, EPA may provide additional
background documents as the materials become available. You may obtain
electronic copies of these documents, and certain other related
documents that might be available at https://www.regulations.gov via the
docket ID number EPA-HQ-OLEM-2022-0611 and at the e-Manifest Advisory
Board website at: https://www.epa.gov/e-manifest/hazardous-waste-electronic-manifest-system-e-manifest-advisory-board.
The e-Manifest Advisory Board will prepare meeting minutes
summarizing its recommendations to EPA approximately ninety (90) days
after the meeting. The meeting minutes will be posted on the e-Manifest
Advisory Board website, or they may be obtained from the public docket
at https://www.regulations.gov via the docket ID number EPA-HQ-OLEM-
2022-0611.
III. Public Participation Instructions
To participate in the virtual public meeting, please follow the
instructions in this section.
A. How can I provide comments?
1. Written comments. EPA encourages the electronic submission of
written comments via https://www.regulations.gov, into docket ID number
EPA-HQ-OLEM-2022-0611 on or before September 27, 2022, to provide the
e-Manifest Advisory Board the time necessary to consider and review the
written comments. Written comments are accepted until the date of the
meeting, but anyone submitting written comments after September 27,
2022, should contact the DFO listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT.
Do not submit electronically any information you consider to be
Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose
disclosure is restricted by statute. Copyrighted material will not be
posted without explicit permission of the copyright holder. Multimedia
submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be accompanied by a written
comment. The written comment is considered the official comment and
should include discussion of all points you wish to make. Members of
the public should also be aware that their personal contact
information, if included in any written comments, may be posted on the
internet at https://www.regulations.gov.
The EPA will generally not consider comments or comment contents
located outside of the primary submission (e.g., on the web, cloud, or
other file sharing system). For additional submission methods, the full
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policy, information about CBI or multimedia submissions, please visit
https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.When preparing and
submitting your comments, see Tips for Effective Comments at the same
website, https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.
2. Oral comments. The Agency encourages each individual or group
wishing to make brief oral comments to the e-Manifest Advisory Board
during the virtual public meeting to please register as an oral
commenter for the meeting at the e-Manifest Advisory Board website,
https://www.epa.gov/e-manifest/hazardous-waste-electronic-manifest-system-e-manifest-advisory-board, by noon on September 27, 2022, in
order to be included on the meeting agenda. Requests to present oral
comments will be accepted until the date of the meeting. Registration
is required to attend and/or participate as an oral public commenter in
this public meeting. Please refer to the e-Manifest Advisory Board
website at https://www.epa.gov/e-manifest/hazardous-waste-electronic-manifest-system-e-manifest-advisory-board for information on how to
register either as an oral public commenter or public audience
attendee. Anyone submitting an oral public comments request after
September 27, 2022, should also contact the DFO listed under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. To the extent that time permits, the Chair
of the e-Manifest Advisory Board may permit the presentation of oral
comments at the meeting by interested persons who have not previously
requested time. The request should identify the name of the individual
making the presentation, the organization (if any) that the individual
represents, and any requirements for audiovisual presentation support.
Oral comments before the e-Manifest Advisory Board are limited to
approximately five (5) minutes unless prior arrangements have been
made. In addition, each speaker should provide a copy of their comments
and presentation to the DFO so that they can be distributed to the e-
Manifest Advisory Board at the meeting.
Dated: August 9, 2022.
Jody Barringer,
Acting Director, Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery.
[FR Doc. 2022-17401 Filed 8-11-22; 8:45 am]
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