Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 9, September 27, 2024
(a) Per manifest fee. Fees shall be assessed
on a per manifest basis for the following manifest submission transactions:
(1) The submission of each electronic
manifest that is electronically signed and submitted to the e-Manifest system
by the owners or operators of receiving facilities, with the fee assessed at
the applicable rate for electronic manifest submissions;
(2) The submission of each paper manifest
submission to the paper processing center signed by owners or operators of
receiving facilities, with the fee assessed according to whether the manifest
is submitted to the system by mail, by the upload of an image file, or by the
upload of a data file representation of the paper manifest; and
(3) The submission of copies of return
shipment manifests by facilities that are rejecting hazardous wastes and
returning hazardous wastes under return manifests to the original generator.
This fee is assessed for the processing of the return shipment manifest(s), and
is assessed at the applicable rate determined by the method of submission. The
submission shall also include a copy of the original signed manifest showing
the rejection of the wastes.
(b) Image file uploads from paper manifests.
Receiving facilities may submit image file uploads of completed, ink-signed
manifests in lieu of submitting mailed paper forms to the e-Manifest system.
Such image file upload submissions may be made for individual manifests
received by a facility or as a batch upload of image files from multiple paper
manifests received at the facility:
(1) The
image file upload must be made in an image file format approved by EPA and
supported by the e-Manifest system; and
(2) At the time of submission of an image
file upload, a responsible representative of the receiving facilit y must make
a CROMERR compliant certification that to the representative's knowledge or
belief, the submitted image files are accurate and complete representations of
the facility's received manifests, and that the facility acknowledges that it
is obligated to pay the applicable per manifest fee for each manifest included
in the submission.
(c)
Data file uploads from paper manifests. Receiving facilities may submit data
file representations of completed, ink-signed manifests in lieu of submitting
mailed paper forms or image files to the e-Manifest system. Such data file
submissions from paper manifests may be made for individual manifests received
by a facility or as a batch upload of data files from multiple paper manifests
received at the facility.
(1) The data file
upload must be made in a data file format approved by EPA and supported by the
e-Manifest system;
(2) The
receiving facility must also submit an image file of each manifest that is
included in the individual or batch data file upload; and
(3) At the time of submission of the data
file upload, a responsible representative of the receiving facility must make a
CROMERR compliant certification that to the representative's knowledge or
belief, the data and images submitted are accurate and complete representations
of the facility's received manifests, and that the facility acknowledges that
it is obligated to pay the applicable per manifest fee for each manifest
included in the submission.
