[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 161 (Monday, August 21, 2006)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 48500-48501]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-13854]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Parts 261 and 262
[EPA-HQ-RCRA-2003-0012; FRL-8211-7]
RIN 2050-AG18
Standards Applicable to Generators of Hazardous Waste; Subpart
K--Standards Applicable to Academic Laboratories; Extension of Comment
Period
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule; extension of comment period.
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SUMMARY: EPA is announcing that the comment period to the proposed rule
entitled Standards Applicable to Generators of Hazardous Waste;
Standards Applicable to Academic Laboratories published on May 23, 2006
(71 FR 29711) is being extended until September 20, 2006. In the
proposed rule EPA is requesting comment on alternative options for
proposed laboratory requirements for colleges and universities. In
addition, the proposal requests comment on expanding the rule to
include other types of laboratories that operate and have waste
generation patterns similar to college and university laboratories.
DATES: The comment period for this proposed rule is extended from the
original closing date of August 21, 2006, to September 20, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
RCRA-2003-0012 by one of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the on-line instructions for submitting comments.
E-mail: [email protected].
Mail: U.S. Postal Service, send comments to: HQ EPA Docket
Center (6102T), Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-RCRA-2003-0012, 1200
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460. Please include a total
of two copies. We request that you also send a separate copy of each
comment to the contact person listed below (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT).
Note: The EPA Docket Center suffered damage due to flooding
during the last week of June 2006. The Docket Center is continuing
to operate. However, during the cleanup, there will be temporary
changes to Docket Center telephone numbers, addresses, and hours of
operation for people who wish to make hand deliveries or visit the
Public Reading Room to view documents. Consult EPA's Federal
Register notice at 71 FR 38147 (July 5, 2006) or the EPA Web site at
http://www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm for current information on
docket operations, locations and telephone numbers. The Docket
Center's mailing address for U.S. mail and the procedure for
submitting comments to http://www.regulations.gov are not affected
by the flooding and will remain the same.
Hand Delivery: In person or by courier, deliver comments
to: HQ EPA Docket Center (6102T), Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-RCRA-
2003-0012, 1301 Constitution Avenue, NW., Room B-108, Washington, DC
20004. Such deliveries are only accepted during the Docket's normal
hours of operation, and special arrangements should be made for
deliveries of boxed information. Please include a total of two copies.
We request that you also send a separate copy of each comment to the
contact person listed below (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT).
Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-RCRA-
2003-0012. The EPA's policy is that all comments received will be
included in the public docket without change and may be made available
online at http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal
information provided, unless the comment includes information claimed
to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information the
disclosure of which is restricted by statute. Do not submit information
that you consider to be CBI or otherwise protected through http://www.regulations.gov or e-mail. Send or deliver information identified
as CBI to only the following address: Ms. LaShan Haynes, RCRA Document
Control Officer, EPA (Mail Code 5305W), Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
RCRA-2003-0012, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC 20460. Clearly
mark the part or all of the information that you claim to be CBI. The
http://www.regulations.gov Web site is an ``anonymous access'' system,
which means EPA will not know your identity or contact information
unless you provide it in the body of your comment. If you send an e-
mail comment directly to EPA without going through http://www.regulations.gov, your e-mail address will be automatically captured
and included as part of the comment that is placed in the public docket
and made available on the Internet. If you submit an electronic
comment, EPA recommends that you include your name and other contact
information in the body of your comment and with any disk or CD-ROM you
submit. If EPA cannot read your comment due to technical difficulties
and cannot contact you for clarification, EPA may not be able to
consider your comment. Electronic files should avoid the use of special
characters, any form of encryption, and be free of any defects or
viruses. For additional information about EPA's public docket visit the
EPA Docket Center homepage at http://www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.
We also request that interested parties who would like information they
previously submitted to EPA to be considered as part of this
reconsideration action identify the relevant information by docket
entry numbers and page numbers.
Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the http://www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some
information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information
the disclosure of which is restricted by statute. Certain other
material, such as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only
in hard copy. Publicly available docket materials are available either
electronically in http://www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the HQ
EPA Docket Center, Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2004-0022, EPA West
Building, Room B-102, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC
20004. This Docket Facility is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday
through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The HQ EPA Docket Center
telephone number is (202) 566-1742. The Public Reading Room is open
from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal
holidays. The telephone number for the Public Reading Room is (202)
566-1744. A
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reasonable fee may be charged for copying docket materials.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For more information on this
rulemaking, contact Patricia Mercer at (703) 308-8408, or
[email protected], Office of Solid Waste (MC: 5304W), U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Comment Period. We are extending the comment
period by 30 days in response to a request from the National
Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) on
behalf of the American Council on Education (ACE), the Campus Safety,
Health, and Environmental Management Association (CSHEMA), the Campus
Consortium for Environmental Excellence (C2E2), and the National
Association of College and University Business Officers for more time
to respond to issues in the proposed rule published on May 23, 2006 (71
FR at 29712). Therefore, the public comment period will now end on
September 20, 2006.
Regulated Entities. Entities potentially affected by this proposed
action are generators of unwanted materials, as defined in this
proposal, from college and university laboratories. College and
university laboratories, as defined under this proposal, include
laboratories associated with a private or public, post-secondary,
degree-granting, academic institution that is accredited by an
accrediting agency listed annually by the U.S. Department of Education.
Only those colleges and universities which have laboratories on their
campuses would be covered by this alternate approach; laboratories not
located at colleges or universities would not be covered. This proposed
action is optional in that colleges and universities may elect to have
their laboratories remain regulated under current RCRA generator
regulations as set forth in 40 CFR 262.11 and 262.34(c), or may choose
to manage their hazardous wastes according to this alternative
regulatory approach. (In RCRA authorized states, today's proposed
action would be an option once it has been adopted by the state in
which the college or university resides.) To determine whether a
college or university laboratory is covered by this action, interested
parties should examine 40 CFR part 262, subpart K carefully. If there
are questions regarding the applicability of the proposed rule to a
particular entity, consult the person listed in the section of this
preamble entitled FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
Submitting CBI. Do not submit this information to EPA through
http://www.regulations.gov or e-mail. Send or deliver information
identified as CBI only to the address listed in the ADDRESSES section
of this document. Clearly mark the part or all of the information that
you claim to be CBI. For CBI information in a disk or CD ROM that you
mail to EPA, mark the outside of the disk or CD ROM as CBI and then
identify electronically within the disk or CD ROM the specific
information that is claimed as CBI. In addition to one complete version
of the comment that includes information claimed as CBI, a copy of the
comment that does not contain the information claimed as CBI must be
submitted for inclusion in the public docket. Information so marked
will not be disclosed except in accordance with procedures set forth in
40 CFR part 2.
List of Subjects in 40 CFR Parts 261 and 262
Environmental protection, Standards applicable to generators of
hazardous wastes.
Dated: August 16, 2006.
Matthew Hale,
Director, Office of Solid Waste.
[FR Doc. E6-13854 Filed 8-18-06; 8:45 am]
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