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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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Extension of Comment Period on the Report to Congress on Cement 
Kiln Dust

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Extension of comment period.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces a two week extension of the comment 
period on the recently released Report to Congress on Cement Kiln Dust. 
(See 59 FR 709; January 6, 1994.)

DATES: EPA will accept public comments on the Report to Congress on 
Cement Kiln Dust until March 8, 1994. The Agency will also hold a 
public hearing on the Report to Congress on February 15, 1994.

ADDRESSES: Those wishing to submit public comments for the record must 
send an original and two copies of their comments to the following 
address: RCRA Docket Information Center (5305), U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, 401 M Street SW., Washington, DC, 20460. Please 
place the docket number F-94-RCKA-FFFFF on your comments.
    Copies of the Report to Congress on Cement Kiln Dust (RTC) are 
available for inspection and copying at the EPA headquarters library, 
at the RCRA docket in Washington, DC, and at all EPA regional office 
libraries. Copies of the full report can be purchased from the National 
Technical Information Service (call (703) 487-4660 or (800) 553-NTIS). 
Copies of the Executive Summary (Volume I of the RTC) can be obtained 
by calling the RCRA/Superfund Hotline at (800) 424-9346 or (703) 412-
9810. The EPA RCRA docket is located at 401 M Street SW., Washington, 
DC, room M2616, 2nd floor, Waterside Mall. Docket hours are 9 a.m. to 4 
p.m. Monday through Friday, except federal holidays. In order to view 
the docket, please call (202) 260-9327 to make an appointment. Please 
refer to the Cement Kiln Dust docket, docket number F-94-RCKA-FFFFF. 
Copies are free up to 100 pages and thereafter cost $0.15 per page.
    The public hearing to be held on February 15, 1994 was announced 
previously. It will be held at the Renaissance Hotel in Washington, DC, 
located at 999 9th Street NW. The hearing will begin at 9 a.m., with 
registration beginning at 8:30 a.m. The hearing will end at 5 p.m. 
unless concluded earlier. Oral and written statements may be submitted 
at the public hearing. Requests to speak at the public hearing should 
be submitted in writing to the Public Hearing Officer--Cement Kiln 
Dust, Special Waste Branch, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M 
Street SW. (5302W), Washington, DC 20460. Persons who wish to make oral 
presentations must restrict them to 15 minutes, and are requested to 
provide written comments for inclusion in the record.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For general information, contact the 
RCRA/Superfund Hotline at (800) 424-9346 or (703) 412-9810; for 
technical information contact Bill Schoenborn, U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency (5302W), 401 M Street SW., Washington, DC 20460, at 
(703) 308-8483.

Background

    The Report to Congress (RTC) on Cement Kiln Dust was signed by the 
EPA Administrator on December 30, 1993. A Federal Register notice was 
published on January 6, 1994 (59 FR 709) that announced the 
availability of the report and a 45-day public comment period on the 
report.
    Since the beginning of the public comment period, a number of 
persons have requested that the Agency extend the comment period. Some 
persons have indicated that not all of the relevant materials appeared 
to be in the docket for inspection and that the docket index appeared 
to indicate that a number of materials were not present in the docket. 
They indicated that additional time would be necessary to obtain 
missing materials and review them prior to formulating public comments.
    The Agency has carefully considered the requests for extending the 
comment period and has decided that a two week extension is 
appropriate. Because the Agency is working under a short statutory 
deadline to complete the regulatory determination for cement kiln dust 
by June 30, 1994, (see 42 U.S.C. 6921 (b)(3)(c)) the length of the 
public comment period must be balanced with the time available for the 
Agency to complete the regulatory determination.
    The Agency has reviewed all of the materials that it placed in the 
docket and found that, with limited exception, all relevant materials 
were available in the docket as of January 7, 1994. The Agency 
acknowledges that a number of responses to a cement kiln dust survey 
that was conducted by the cement manufacturing industry were 
inadvertently not placed in the docket as of the opening of the public 
comment period. However, it should be noted that all responses to the 
cement kiln survey that were specifically referenced in the RTC were 
available in the docket as of January 7, 1994. The additional survey 
responses materials were made available in the docket as of February 3, 
1994.
    The confusion as to the availability of all other documents in the 
docket appears to have been caused by an insufficiently detailed docket 
index. Although the docket index referred to several documents by 
document number only and not by name, the documents are correctly 
referenced by number and have been present in the docket for review and 
inspection since January 7, 1994. The detailed docket index was 
complete and available as of January 18, 1994.
    The Agency recognizes that the insufficiently detailed docket index 
may have made access to documents somewhat difficult. Also, several 
days of severe weather in Washington, DC, during the comment period in 
mid-January hampered access to the docket by interested parties. For 
these reasons, the Agency is extending the public comment period on the 
Report to Congress on Cement Kiln Dust by two weeks, until March 8, 
1994.

    Dated: February 7, 1994.
Walter W. Kovalick, Jr.,
Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response.
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