[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 33 (Friday, February 16, 2001)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 10585-10586]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-3984]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 372
[OPPTS-400140D; FRL-6722-10]
RIN 2025-AA05
Lead and Lead Compounds; Lowering of Reporting Thresholds;
Community Right-to-Know Toxic Chemical Release Reporting: Delay of
Effective Date
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Final rule; delay of effective date.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the memorandum of January 20, 2001, from
the Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff, entitled
``Regulatory Review Plan,'' published in the Federal Register on
January 24, 2001 (66 FR 7701), this action temporarily delays for 60
days the effective date of the rule entitled Lead and Lead Compounds;
Lowering of Reporting Thresholds; Community Right-to-Know Toxic
Chemical Release Reporting, published in the Federal Register on
January 17, 2001 (66 FR 4500). That rule concerns the lowering of the
reporting thresholds for lead and lead compounds which are subject to
reporting under section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community
Right-to-Know Act of 1986 (EPCRA) and section 6607 of the Pollution
Prevention Act of 1990 (PPA). The reporting thresholds are being
lowered to 100 pounds. The lower reporting thresholds apply to lead and
all lead compounds except for lead contained in stainless steel, brass,
and bronze alloys. The first reports at the lower thresholds are due on
or before July 1, 2002, for the 2001 calendar year.
DATES: The effective date of the Lead and Lead Compounds; Lowering of
Reporting Thresholds; Community Right-to-Know Toxic Chemical Release
Reporting, amending 40 CFR part 372 published in the Federal Register
on January 17, 2001, at 66 FR 4500, is delayed for 60 days, from
February 16, 2001 to a new effective date of April 17, 2001.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Daniel R. Bushman, Petitions
Coordinator, (202) 260-3882, e-mail: [email protected], for
specific information on this document, or for more information on EPCRA
section 313, the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know
Hotline, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 5101, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, Toll free: 1-800-535-
0202, in Virginia and Alaska: (703) 412-9877 or Toll free TDD: 1-800-
553-7672. Information concerning this notice is also available on EPA's
Web site at http://www.epa.gov/tri.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: To the extent that 5 U.S.C. 553 applies to
this action, it is exempt from notice and comment because it
constitutes a rule of procedure under 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(A).
Alternatively, the Agency's implementation of this action without
opportunity for public comment, effective immediately upon publication
today in the Federal Register, is based on the good cause exceptions in
5 U.S.C. 553(b)(B) and 553(d)(3). Seeking public comment is
impracticable, unnecessary and contrary to the public interest. The
temporary 60-day delay in effective date is necessary to give Agency
officials the
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opportunity for further review and consideration of new regulations,
consistent with the Assistant to the President's memorandum of January
20, 2001. Given the imminence of the effective date, seeking prior
public comment on this temporary delay would have been impractical, as
well as contrary to the public interest in the orderly promulgation and
implementation of regulations. The imminence of the effective date is
also good cause for making this rule immediately effective upon
publication.
Dated; February 12, 2001.
Christine Todd Whitman,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 01-3984 Filed 2-15-01; 8:45 am]
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