[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 123 (Tuesday, June 25, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32798-32799]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-15887]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[SW-FRL-5524-7]
Hazardous Waste Management System; Identification and Listing of
Hazardous Waste; Public Notice
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
ACTION: Notice of Extension of Delisting Delegation to Regions.
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SUMMARY: On October 10, 1995, the EPA Administrator extended the
delegation of the hazardous waste delisting authority to EPA's ten
Regional Offices. As result of this action, delisting petitions which
require a Federal decision will now be reviewed by the appropriate EPA
Regional Office instead of EPA Headquarters. This notice provides a
list of Regional delisting contacts. They should be contacted for
information about the delisting process and for guidance on submitting
delisting petitions to EPA Regional Offices.
DATES: The EPA Regions have the authority for providing decisions on
delisting petitions as of October 10, 1995.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: RCRA Hotline, toll free at (800) 424-
9346 or at (703) 412-9810, or Shen-yi Yang, Office of Solid Waste
(5304W), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M Street SW.,
Washington, D.C. 20460, (703) 308-0437.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under Secs. 260.20 and 260.22 of the Code of
Federal Regulations, facilities may petition the Agency to remove their
wastes from the hazardous waste management system by excluding them
from the lists of hazardous wastes contained in Secs. 261.31 and
261.32. Petitioners must provide sufficient information to EPA to allow
the Agency to determine that the waste to be excluded does not meet any
of the criteria under which the waste was listed as a hazardous waste.
In addition, the Administrator must determine that factors other than
those for which the waste was listed (including additional
constituents) would not warrant retaining the waste as a hazardous
waste. The overall intent of the delisting process is to ease the
regulatory burden on handlers of listed wastes that may have been
improperly captured by the broad listing definitions. In addition, the
delisting process can be used to exclude listed wastes that are
sufficiently treated so that they no longer pose an adverse threat to
human health or the environment.
On October 10, 1995, the Administrator formally extended the
delegation of the Federal hazardous waste delisting authority to the
Regional Administrators [Delegation of Authority 8-19]. The Agency
believes that decentralizing the delisting authority to the Regional
Administrators would result in more timely responses to delisting
petitions.
Under RCRA, States authorized 1 to administer a delisting
program in lieu of the federal program also may exclude wastes from
hazardous waste regulations. Facilities that manage their wastes in
States with delisting authorization should petition that State for an
exclusion rather than EPA. Even in unauthorized States, EPA encourages
petitioners to contact State authorities to determine what procedures
might be necessary for delisting under State laws.
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\1\ The following 18 States are authorized to implement the RCRA
delisting program, including Alabama, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho,
Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi,
Nebraska, North Carolina, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon, South
Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming. Note that Michigan has only obtained a
``partial'' delisting authorization for wastes involving closure or
partial closure activities. Kentucky would soon receive delisting
authorization (61 FR 18504).
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Regional delisting decisions will carry the same authority as a
Headquarters delisting decision. A Regional delisting decision will be
applicable in all States not currently authorized for delisting,
regardless of the EPA Region in which they are located. EPA recommends
that petitioners contact relevant state and EPA Regional Offices to
determine where the petition should be submitted. The list of Regional
delisting contacts is provided below:
Regional Delisting Contacts
EPA Region I, Sharon Leitch, John F. Kennedy Bldg., Mail Code CHW,
Hazardous Waste Unit, Boston, MA 02203, (617) 565-4879
EPA Region II, Ernst Jabouin, 290 Broadway, Hazardous Waste, Facilities
Branch (22nd Floor), New York, NY 10007, (212) 637-4104
EPA Region III, David Friedman, 841 Chestnut Building, Hazardous Waste,
Management Division, Mail Code 3HW70, Philadelphia, PA 19107, (215)
566-3395
EPA Region IV, Alan Farmer, 345 Courtland Street, NE, RCRA Branch, Mail
Code 4WD-RCRA, Atlanta, GA 30365, (404) 347-3433
EPA Region V, Judy Kleiman, 77 W Jackson Blvd., Waste, Pesticides, and
Toxics Division, Mail Code HRP-8J, Chicago, IL 60604, (312) 886-1482
EPA Region VI, Bill Gallagher, 1445 Ross Avenue, Oklahoma/Texas
Section, Mail STOP 6PD-0, Dallas, TX 75202, (214) 665-6775
EPA Region VII, Ken Herstowski, 726 Minnesota Avenue, Air, RCRA, and
Toxic Division, RCRA Permits and Compliance Branch, Kansas City, KS
66101, (913) 551-7631
EPA Region VIII, Mike Gansecki, 999 18th Street, Hazardous Waste
Program, Suite #500, Mail Code 8P2-HW, Denver, CO 80202, (303) 312-6150
EPA Region IX, Paula Bisson, 75 Hawthorne Street, RCRA Permit Section,
Mail Code H-3-2, San Francisco, CA 94105, (415) 744-2052
EPA Region X, Jamie Sikorski, Linda Liu, 1200 Sixth Avenue, Office of
Waste and Chemical Management, Mail Code WCM-126, Seattle, WA 98101,
(206) 553-5153 (Sikorski), (206) 553-1447 (Liu)
Dated: June 10, 1996.
Michael Shapiro,
Director, Office of Solid Waste.
[FR Doc. 96-15887 Filed 6-24-96; 8:45 am]
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