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The Hazardous Waste Electronic
Manifest System Advisory Board:
Request for Nominations
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) invites the
public to nominate experts to be
considered for a three-year appointment
to the Hazardous Waste Electronic
Manifest System Advisory Board (the
‘‘Board’’). Pursuant to the Hazardous
Waste Electronic Manifest
Establishment Act (the ‘‘e-Manifest Act’’
or the ‘‘Act’’), EPA has established the
Board to provide practical and
independent advice, consultation, and
recommendations to the EPA
Administrator on the activities,
functions, policies, and regulations
associated with the Hazardous Waste
Electronic Manifest (e-Manifest) System.
In accordance with the e-Manifest Act,
the EPA Administrator or designee will
serve as Chair of the Board. This notice
solicits nominations for possible
consideration of candidates to
potentially fill a vacancy on the Board
to serve as an information technology
(IT) expert for a three-year appointment.
EPA may also consider nominations
received through this solicitation to fill
any unanticipated future vacancies on
the Board for the following positions
including an industry representative
member with experience in using or
representing users of the manifest
system; and a state representative
member responsible for processing
manifests.
SUMMARY:
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
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Director, Office of Wastewater Management,
Office of Water.
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Nominations of candidates
considered for appointment must be
received on or before April 10, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Submit your nominations
identified with ‘‘BOARD
NOMINATION’’ in the subject line to
Fred Jenkins, the Designated Federal
Officer (DFO) of the e-Manifest
Advisory Board at jenkins.fred@epa.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fred
Jenkins, Designated Federal Officer
(DFO), Phone: 202–566–0344; or by
email: Jenkins.fred@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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I. Background
On June 30, 2018, EPA established a
national system for tracking hazardous
waste shipments electronically. This
system, known as ‘‘e-Manifest,’’
supports the modernization of the
nation’s cradle-to-grave hazardous waste
tracking process while saving valuable
time, resources, and dollars for industry
and states.
EPA established the e-Manifest
system according to the Hazardous
Waste Electronic Manifest
Establishment Act, enacted into law on
October 5, 2012. The ‘‘e-Manifest Act’’
authorizes the EPA to implement a
national electronic manifest system and
requires that the costs of developing and
operating the new e-Manifest system be
recovered from user fees charged to
those who use hazardous waste
manifests to track off-site shipments of
their wastes.
This system enables users of the
uniform hazardous waste manifest
forms (EPA Form 8700–22 and
Continuation Sheet 8700–22A) to have
the option to more efficiently track their
hazardous waste shipments
electronically, in lieu of the paper
manifest, from the point of generation,
during transportation, and to the point
of receipt by an off-site facility that is
permitted to treat, store, recycle, or
dispose of the hazardous waste.
Electronic manifests obtained from the
national system augment or replace the
paper forms that have historically been
used for this purpose, and that result in
substantial paperwork costs and other
inefficiencies. Congress intended that
EPA develop a system that, among other
things, meets the needs of the user
community and decreases the
administrative burden associated with
the current paper-based manifest system
on the user community. 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. The
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system also serves as a national
reporting hub and database for all
manifests and shipment data. To ensure
that these goals are met, the Act directs
EPA to establish a Board to assess the
effectiveness of the electronic manifest
system and make recommendations to
the Administrator for improving the
system.
In addition, the e-Manifest Act directs
EPA to develop a system that attracts
sufficient user participation and service
revenues to ensure the viability of the
system. As a result, the Act provides
EPA broad discretion to establish
reasonable user fees, as the
Administrator determines are necessary,
to pay costs incurred in developing,
operating, maintaining, and upgrading
the system, including any costs incurred
in collecting and processing data from
any paper manifest submitted to the
system.
e-Manifest aligns with the Agency’s EEnterprise business strategy. EEnterprise for the Environment is a
transformative 21st century strategy—
jointly governed by states and EPA—for
modernizing government agencies’
delivery of environmental protection.
Under this strategy, the Agency will
streamline its business processes and
systems to reduce reporting burden on
states and regulated facilities and
improve the effectiveness and efficiency
of regulatory programs for EPA, states,
and tribes.
EPA has established the Board in
accordance with the provisions of the eManifest Act and the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (FACA), 5 U.S.C. App.2.
The Board is in the public interest and
supports EPA in performing its duties
and responsibilities. Pursuant to the eManifest Act the Board is comprised of
nine members, of which one member is
the Administrator (or a designee), who
will serve as Chair of the Board, and
eight members are individuals
appointed by the EPA Administrator:
• At least two of whom have
expertise in information technology (IT);
• At least three of whom have
experience in using, or represent users
of, the manifest system to track the
transportation of hazardous waste under
federal and state manifest programs; and
• At least three state representatives
responsible for processing those
manifests.
Pursuant to the e-Manifest Act, the
Board will meet publicly at least
annually to provide EPA
recommendations on matters related to
the operational activities, functions,
policies, and/or regulations of the EPA
under the e-Manifest Act.
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II. Nominations
Any interested person and/or
organization may nominate qualified
individuals for membership. EPA values
and welcomes diversity. To obtain
nominations of diverse candidates, the
agency encourages nominations of all
genders and all racial and ethnic groups.
All nominations will be considered;
however, applicants need to be aware of
the representation from specific sectors
required by the e-Manifest Act.
Nominees who represent states and
industry should have a comprehensive
knowledge of hazardous waste
generation, transportation, treatment,
storage, and disposal under RCRA
Subtitle C at the federal, state, and local
levels. Nominees who represent states
should have comprehensive knowledge
of state programs that use manifest data.
Nominees who represent industry
should be familiar with e-Manifest and
have strong knowledge of existing
industry systems/devices/approaches
and business operations to provide
valuable input on e-Manifest integration
into current industry data systems.
IT nominees should have core
competencies and experience in largescale systems and application
development, integration, and
implementation. This may include
competency and experience with:
managing complex systems used by
multiple user communities; ensuring
data availability, integrity, and quality;
user help desk and support; as well as
expertise relevant to the complexities of
an electronic manifest system. Examples
of this expertise may include, but are
not limited to: Expertise with web-based
and mobile technologies, particularly
those that support large scale operations
for geographically diverse users;
expertise in IT security, including
perspective on federal IT security
requirements; expertise in electronic
signature and user management
approaches; expertise with scalable
hosting solutions such as cloud-based
hosting; and expertise in user
experience. Existing knowledge of, or
willingness to gain an understanding of,
EPA shared services and enterprise
architecture is a plus.
Another plus for any nominee is
experience in setting and/or managing
fee-based systems in general.
Additional criteria used to evaluate
nominees will include:
• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and
written communication skills;
• Demonstrated experience
developing group recommendations;
• Willingness to commit time to the
Board and demonstrated ability to work
constructively on committees;
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• Absence of financial conflicts of
interest;
• Impartiality (including avoiding the
appearance of a loss of impartiality);
and
• Background and experiences that
would help contribute to the diversity of
perspectives on the Board, e.g.,
geographic, economic, social, cultural,
educational backgrounds, professional
affiliations, and other considerations.
Nominations must include a resume,
which provides the nominee’s
background, experience, and
educational qualifications, as well as a
brief statement (one page or less)
describing the nominee’s interest in
serving on the Board and addressing the
other criteria previously described.
Nominees are encouraged to provide
any additional information that they feel
would be useful for consideration, such
as: availability to participate as a
member of the Board; how the
nominee’s background, skills, and
experience would contribute to the
diversity of the Board; and any concerns
the nominee has regarding membership.
Nominees should be identified by name,
occupation, position, current business
address, email, and telephone number.
Interested candidates may selfnominate. The agency will acknowledge
receipt of nominations. Persons selected
for membership will receive
compensation for travel and a nominal
daily compensation (if appropriate)
while attending meetings in person.
Additionally, candidates selected to
serve as IT ‘‘Expert’’ Members will be
designated as Special Government
Employees (SGEs) or consultants.
Candidates designated as SGEs will be
required to fill out the ‘‘Confidential
Financial Disclosure Form for
Environmental Protection Agency
Special Government Employees’’ (EPA
Form 3310–48). This confidential form
provides information to the EPA ethics
officials to determine whether there is a
conflict between the SGE’s public duties
and their private interests, including an
appearance of a loss of impartiality as
defined by federal laws and regulations.
One example of a potential conflict of
interest may be for IT professional(s)
serving in an organization which is
awarded any related e-Manifest system
development contract(s).
Authority: 5 U.S.C. App.2.
the FDIC by any of the following
methods:
• Agency Website: https://
www.fdic.gov/resources/regulations/
federal-register-publications/.
• Email: comments@fdic.gov. Include
the name and number of the collection
in the subject line of the message.
• Mail: Manny Cabeza (202–898–
3767), Regulatory Counsel, MB–3128,
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,
550 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
20429.
• Hand Delivery: Comments may be
hand-delivered to the guard station at
the rear of the 17th Street NW building
(located on F Street NW), on business
days between 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
All comments should refer to the
relevant OMB control number. A copy
of the comments may also be submitted
to the OMB desk officer for the FDIC:
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, New Executive Office Building,
Washington, DC 20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Manny Cabeza, Regulatory Counsel,
202–898–3767, mcabeza@fdic.gov, MB–
3128, Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation, 550 17th Street NW,
Washington, DC 20429.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Dated: February 28, 2024.
Carolyn Hoskinson,
Director, Office of Resource Conservation and
Recovery.
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CORPORATION
[OMB No. 3064–0097; –0115]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection
Renewal; Comment Request
Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation (FDIC).
ACTION: Notice and request for comment.
AGENCY:
The FDIC, as part of its
obligations under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), invites the
general public and other Federal
agencies to take this opportunity to
comment on the renewal of the existing
information collections described below
(OMB Control No. 3064–0097 and
–0115).
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before May 10, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties are
invited to submit written comments to
SUMMARY:
Proposal To Renew the Following
Currently Approved Collection of
Information
1. Title: Interagency Notice of Change
in Director or Executive Officer.
OMB Number: 3064–0097.
Forms: 6822/02.
Affected Public: Insured state
nonmember banks and state savings
associations.
Burden Estimate:
SUMMARY OF ESTIMATED ANNUAL BURDEN
[OMB No. 3064–0097]
Number of
respondents
Number of
responses per
respondent
Time per
response
(HH:MM)
Information collection (IC)
(obligation to respond)
Type of burden
(frequency of response)
Annual burden
(hours)
1. Interagency Notice of Change in
Director or Executive Officer, 12
USC 1831i (Mandatory).
Reporting (On Occasion) .................
23
2.7
02:00
124
Total Annual Burden (Hours) .....
...........................................................
........................
........................
........................
124
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General Description of Collection:
Section 32 of the FDIA (12 U.S.C. 1831i)
requires an insured depository
institution or depository institution
holding company under certain
circumstances to notify the appropriate
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federal banking agency of the proposed
addition of any individual to the board
of directors or the employment of any
individual as a senior executive officer
of such institution at least 30 days
before such addition or employment
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becomes effective. Section 32 of the
FDIA also provides that the FDIC may
disapprove an individual’s service as a
director or senior executive officer of
certain state nonmember banks or state
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OLEM-2024-0080; FRL-11772-01-OLEM]
The Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest System Advisory Board:
Request for Nominations
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) invites the
public to nominate experts to be considered for a three-year
appointment to the Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest System Advisory
Board (the ``Board''). Pursuant to the Hazardous Waste Electronic
Manifest Establishment Act (the ``e-Manifest Act'' or the ``Act''), EPA
has established the Board to provide practical and independent advice,
consultation, and recommendations to the EPA Administrator on the
activities, functions, policies, and regulations associated with the
Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest (e-Manifest) System. In accordance
with the e-Manifest Act, the EPA Administrator or designee will serve
as Chair of the Board. This notice solicits nominations for possible
consideration of candidates to potentially fill a vacancy on the Board
to serve as an information technology (IT) expert for a three-year
appointment. EPA may also consider nominations received through this
solicitation to fill any unanticipated future vacancies on the Board
for the following positions including an industry representative member
with experience in using or representing users of the manifest system;
and a state representative member responsible for processing manifests.
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DATES: Nominations of candidates considered for appointment must be
received on or before April 10, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Submit your nominations identified with ``BOARD NOMINATION''
in the subject line to Fred Jenkins, the Designated Federal Officer
(DFO) of the e-Manifest Advisory Board at [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fred Jenkins, Designated Federal
Officer (DFO), Phone: 202-566-0344; or by email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
On June 30, 2018, EPA established a national system for tracking
hazardous waste shipments electronically. This system, known as ``e-
Manifest,'' supports the modernization of the nation's cradle-to-grave
hazardous waste tracking process while saving valuable time, resources,
and dollars for industry and states.
EPA established the e-Manifest system according to the Hazardous
Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment Act, enacted into law on
October 5, 2012. The ``e-Manifest Act'' authorizes the EPA to implement
a national electronic manifest system and requires that the costs of
developing and operating the new e-Manifest system be recovered from
user fees charged to those who use hazardous waste manifests to track
off-site shipments of their wastes.
This system enables users of the uniform hazardous waste manifest
forms (EPA Form 8700-22 and Continuation Sheet 8700-22A) to have the
option to more efficiently track their hazardous waste shipments
electronically, in lieu of the paper manifest, from the point of
generation, during transportation, and to the point of receipt by an
off-site facility that is permitted to treat, store, recycle, or
dispose of the hazardous waste. Electronic manifests obtained from the
national system augment or replace the paper forms that have
historically been used for this purpose, and that result in substantial
paperwork costs and other inefficiencies. Congress intended that EPA
develop a system that, among other things, meets the needs of the user
community and decreases the administrative burden associated with the
current paper-based manifest system on the user community. 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. The system also serves as a national reporting hub and
database for all manifests and shipment data. To ensure that these
goals are met, the Act directs EPA to establish a Board to assess the
effectiveness of the electronic manifest system and make
recommendations to the Administrator for improving the system.
In addition, the e-Manifest Act directs EPA to develop a system
that attracts sufficient user participation and service revenues to
ensure the viability of the system. As a result, the Act provides EPA
broad discretion to establish reasonable user fees, as the
Administrator determines are necessary, to pay costs incurred in
developing, operating, maintaining, and upgrading the system, including
any costs incurred in collecting and processing data from any paper
manifest submitted to the system.
e-Manifest aligns with the Agency's E-Enterprise business strategy.
E-Enterprise for the Environment is a transformative 21st century
strategy--jointly governed by states and EPA--for modernizing
government agencies' delivery of environmental protection. Under this
strategy, the Agency will streamline its business processes and systems
to reduce reporting burden on states and regulated facilities and
improve the effectiveness and efficiency of regulatory programs for
EPA, states, and tribes.
EPA has established the Board in accordance with the provisions of
the e-Manifest Act and the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), 5
U.S.C. App.2. The Board is in the public interest and supports EPA in
performing its duties and responsibilities. Pursuant to the e-Manifest
Act the Board is comprised of nine members, of which one member is the
Administrator (or a designee), who will serve as Chair of the Board,
and eight members are individuals appointed by the EPA Administrator:
At least two of whom have expertise in information
technology (IT);
At least three of whom have experience in using, or
represent users of, the manifest system to track the transportation of
hazardous waste under federal and state manifest programs; and
At least three state representatives responsible for
processing those manifests.
Pursuant to the e-Manifest Act, the Board will meet publicly at
least annually to provide EPA recommendations on matters related to the
operational activities, functions, policies, and/or regulations of the
EPA under the e-Manifest Act.
II. Nominations
Any interested person and/or organization may nominate qualified
individuals for membership. EPA values and welcomes diversity. To
obtain nominations of diverse candidates, the agency encourages
nominations of all genders and all racial and ethnic groups. All
nominations will be considered; however, applicants need to be aware of
the representation from specific sectors required by the e-Manifest
Act.
Nominees who represent states and industry should have a
comprehensive knowledge of hazardous waste generation, transportation,
treatment, storage, and disposal under RCRA Subtitle C at the federal,
state, and local levels. Nominees who represent states should have
comprehensive knowledge of state programs that use manifest data.
Nominees who represent industry should be familiar with e-Manifest and
have strong knowledge of existing industry systems/devices/approaches
and business operations to provide valuable input on e-Manifest
integration into current industry data systems.
IT nominees should have core competencies and experience in large-
scale systems and application development, integration, and
implementation. This may include competency and experience with:
managing complex systems used by multiple user communities; ensuring
data availability, integrity, and quality; user help desk and support;
as well as expertise relevant to the complexities of an electronic
manifest system. Examples of this expertise may include, but are not
limited to: Expertise with web-based and mobile technologies,
particularly those that support large scale operations for
geographically diverse users; expertise in IT security, including
perspective on federal IT security requirements; expertise in
electronic signature and user management approaches; expertise with
scalable hosting solutions such as cloud-based hosting; and expertise
in user experience. Existing knowledge of, or willingness to gain an
understanding of, EPA shared services and enterprise architecture is a
plus.
Another plus for any nominee is experience in setting and/or
managing fee-based systems in general.
Additional criteria used to evaluate nominees will include:
Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication
skills;
Demonstrated experience developing group recommendations;
Willingness to commit time to the Board and demonstrated
ability to work
constructively on committees;
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Absence of financial conflicts of interest;
Impartiality (including avoiding the appearance of a loss
of impartiality); and
Background and experiences that would help contribute to
the diversity of perspectives on the Board, e.g., geographic, economic,
social, cultural, educational backgrounds, professional affiliations,
and other considerations.
Nominations must include a resume, which provides the nominee's
background, experience, and educational qualifications, as well as a
brief statement (one page or less) describing the nominee's interest in
serving on the Board and addressing the other criteria previously
described. Nominees are encouraged to provide any additional
information that they feel would be useful for consideration, such as:
availability to participate as a member of the Board; how the nominee's
background, skills, and experience would contribute to the diversity of
the Board; and any concerns the nominee has regarding membership.
Nominees should be identified by name, occupation, position, current
business address, email, and telephone number.
Interested candidates may self-nominate. The agency will
acknowledge receipt of nominations. Persons selected for membership
will receive compensation for travel and a nominal daily compensation
(if appropriate) while attending meetings in person. Additionally,
candidates selected to serve as IT ``Expert'' Members will be
designated as Special Government Employees (SGEs) or consultants.
Candidates designated as SGEs will be required to fill out the
``Confidential Financial Disclosure Form for Environmental Protection
Agency Special Government Employees'' (EPA Form 3310-48). This
confidential form provides information to the EPA ethics officials to
determine whether there is a conflict between the SGE's public duties
and their private interests, including an appearance of a loss of
impartiality as defined by federal laws and regulations. One example of
a potential conflict of interest may be for IT professional(s) serving
in an organization which is awarded any related e-Manifest system
development contract(s).
Authority: 5 U.S.C. App.2.
Dated: February 28, 2024.
Carolyn Hoskinson,
Director, Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery.
[FR Doc. 2024-05073 Filed 3-8-24; 8:45 am]
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