Environmental Protection Agency March 3, 2016 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Notice is hereby given by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA or Agency) that an exemption to the land disposal restrictions under the 1984 Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) has been granted to Ineos Nitriles USA LLC (formerly known as Ineos USA LLC) (Ineos) of Lima, Ohio for four Class I injection wells located in Lima, Ohio. As required by 40 CFR part 148, Ineos has demonstrated, to a reasonable degree of certainty, that there will be no migration of hazardous constituents out of the injection zone or into an underground source of drinking water for at least 10,000 years. This final decision allows the continued underground injection by Ineos of those hazardous wastes designated by the codes in Table 1 through its four Class I hazardous waste injection wells identified as #1, #2, #3, and #4. This decision constitutes a final U.S. EPA action for which there is no administrative appeal.

Since 1988, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has maintained a Federal Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket (``Docket'') under Section 120(c) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). Section 120(c) requires EPA to establish a Docket that contains certain information reported to EPA by Federal facilities that manage hazardous waste or from which a reportable quantity of hazardous substances has been released. As explained further below, the Docket is used to identify Federal facilities that should be evaluated to determine if they pose a threat to public health or welfare and the environment and to provide a mechanism to make this information available to the public. This notice includes the complete list of Federal facilities on the Docket and also identifies Federal facilities reported to EPA since the last update of the Docket on August 17, 2015. In addition to the list of additions to the Docket, this notice includes a section with revisions of the previous Docket list. Thus, the revisions in this update include 7 additions, 22 corrections, and 42 deletions to the Docket since the previous update. At the time of publication of this notice, the new total number of Federal facilities listed on the Docket is 2,326. Since the last update, EPA has identified a discrepancy in the total number of facilities published in the Federal Register. The number of Docket sites in the Federal Register did not match the number of sites on EPA's Master Docket List. EPA has reconciled the discrepancies and the list is now and both lists are now matching a current. This publication contains the entire Docket list to clarify the number of sites.