[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 129 (Wednesday, July 3, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34809-34810]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-17026]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-5531-7]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; the 1997 Hazardous Waste Report (Biennial
Report) Under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501
et seq.), this notice announces that the following Information
Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: 1997 Hazardous Waste Report,
OMB No. 2050-0024, expiring August 31, 1996. The ICR describes the
nature of the information collection and its expected burden and cost;
where appropriate, it includes the actual data collection instrument.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before August 2, 1996.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR A COPY CALL: Sandy Farmer at EPA, (202) 260-
2740, and refer to EPA ICR No. 0976.08.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: 1997 Hazardous Waste Report (Biennial Report) Under the
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, OMB Control No. 2050-0024; EPA
ICR No. 0976.08. This is a request for extension of a currently
approved collection.
Abstract: Generators and owners/operators of hazardous waste
management facilities must compile, under RCRA sections 3002 and 3004,
a biennial report of information on location, amount, and description
of hazardous waste handled. EPA uses the information to define the
population of
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the regulated community and to expand its database of information for
rulemaking and compliance with statutory requirements. An agency may
not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a
collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB
control number. The OMB control numbers for EPA's regulations are
listed in 40 CFR part 9 and 48 CFR Ch. 15. The Federal Register Notice
required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d), soliciting comments on this collection
of information was published on March 15, 1996 (61 FR 1074); 32
comments were received.
Based on internal Agency analyses, comments received, and to
progress towards the Agency's goal of achieving 25% burden reduction,
the Agency is today suggesting the following changes to the 1997
Biennial Report:
(1) Generators and RCRA permitted Treatment, Storage and Disposal
Facilities (TSDFs) will no longer be required to report any RCRA
hazardous wastes managed in exempt units, defined as those units that
are not under RCRA hazardous waste permitting requirements;
(2) The Waste Treatment, Disposal, or Recycling Process Systems
(PS) form will be eliminated; and
(3)The Waste Minimization questions from the Identification and
Certification (IC) and Waste Generation and Management (GM) forms will
be eliminated.
Implementing these changes will result in a substantially
streamlined 1997 Biennial Report without sacrificing the information
needed to meet the Agency's statutory requirements or to conduct its
analyses. The Agency recognizes that the information suggested today as
being dropped from the 1997 Biennial Report is still important. The
Agency may decide, after it conducts a comprehensive evaluation of the
information needs for the RCRA community, that some or all of these
types of information are in fact best collected through the Biennial
Report, albeit in a different format. At the present time, however, the
Agency will collect this information through mechanisms and sources
other than the 1997 Biennial Report.
Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average of
18.7 hours per response. Burden means the total time, effort, or
financial resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain,
or disclose or provide information to or for a Federal agency. This
includes the time needed to review instructions; develop, acquire,
install, and utilize technology and systems for the purposes of
collecting, validating, and verifying information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing and providing information;
adjust the existing ways to comply with any previously applicable
instructions and requirements; train personnel to be able to respond to
a collection of information; search data sources; complete and review
the collection of information; and transmit or otherwise disclose the
information.
Respondents/Affected Entities: Generators and Handlers of Hazardous
Waste.
Total estimated Number of Respondents: 24,530.
Frequency of Response: Biennial.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 229,049 hours.
Estimated Total Annualized Cost Burden: $9,456,804.
Send comments on the Agency's need for this information, the
accuracy of the provided burden estimates, and any suggested methods
for minimizing respondent burden, including through the use of
automated collection techniques, to the following addresses. Please
refer to EPA ICR No. 0976.08 and OMB Control No. 2050-0024 in any
correspondence.
Ms. Sandy Farmer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, OPPE Regulatory
Information Division (2137), 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460.
and
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for EPA 725 17th Street, NW,
Washington, DC 20503.
Dated: June 27, 1996.
Richard Westlund,
Acting Director, Regulatory Information Division.
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