[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 189 (Friday, September 27, 1996)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 50787-50788]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-24856]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 258, 264, and 265
[FRL-5617-3]
RIN 2050-A77
Financial Assurance Mechanisms Corporate Owners and Operators of
Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Facilities and Hazardous Waste
Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facilities
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
ACTION: Notice of data availability.
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SUMMARY: EPA is soliciting public comment on a document that the Agency
relied upon in promulgating a notice of proposed rulemaking on October
12, 1994. The Agency inadvertently omitted the document from the
rulemaking docket for part of the public comment period on the
proposal. The October 12, 1994, proposal relates to financial assurance
mechanisms for corporate owners and operators of municipal landfill
facilities and hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal
facilities. Today's notice provides additional time to submit comments
on the missing document. Today's request for comment is limited to the
issues addressed by the missing document; it does not solicit comment
on other aspects of the October 12, 1994, proposal.
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before October 28, 1996.
ADDRESSES: Written comments on the document should be addressed to the
docket clerk at the following address: U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, RCRA Docket (OS-305), 401 M Street SW., Washington, DC 20460.
Commenters should send one original and two copies and place the docket
number (F-93-FTMP-FFFFF) in the comments. The docket is open from 9
a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, except for Federal holidays.
Docket materials may be reviewed by appointment by calling (202) 260-
9327. Copies of docket material may be made at no cost, with a maximum
of 100 pages of material from any one regulatory docket. Additional
copies are $0.15 per page.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: RCRA Hotline at 1-800-424-9346 (in
Washington, D.C., call (703) 412-9810), or Dale Ruhter (703) 308-8192,
Office of Solid Waste, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M
Street SW., Washington, DC 20460.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On October 12, 1994 EPA proposed to amend
the financial assurance regulations under the Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act by adding two financial assurance mechanisms to those
currently available to assure closure, post-closure, or corrective
action costs associated with municipal solid waste landfills under
subtitle D: (1) A financial test for use by corporate owners and
operators, and (2) a guarantee for use by firms that wish to guarantee
the costs for an owner or operator (59 FR 51523).
In developing the Agency's proposed corporate financial test, the
Agency considered an alternate financial test developed by the Meridian
Corporation. The alternative test had been submitted for EPA's
consideration by the National Solid Waste Management Association
(NSWMA). As discussed in the October 12, 1994, proposal (59 FR at
51531), the Agency determined that the alternate financial test was not
as effective in minimizing public and private costs as the Agency's
previously proposed financial test (56 FR 30201, July 1, 1991).
Accordingly, the Agency indicated that it would not conduct further
analysis of the Meridian Corporation's alternate financial test.
The October 12, 1994, proposal indicated that the Agency had
included an analysis of the Meridian Corporation's alternate financial
test in the rulemaking docket. However, the analysis, Evaluation of the
Meridian Report on Financial Assurance (October 4, 1989, 14 pages), had
been inadvertently omitted from the rulemaking docket at the beginning
of the public comment period. The Agency's analysis was placed in the
docket on December 1, 1994. The public
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comment period for the proposal ended on December 12, 1994.
Today's notice provides an additional thirty days to submit
comments on the Agency's analysis that was missing from the docket.
Today's request for comment, however, is limited to the issues
addressed by the Agency's analysis; it does not solicit comment on
other aspects of the October 12, 1994, proposal.
List of Subjects
40 CFR Part 258
Environmental protection, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements,
Waste treatment and disposal.
40 CFR Part 264
Hazardous waste, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.
40 CFR Part 265
Hazardous waste, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.
Dated: September 16, 1996.
Elizabeth A. Cotsworth,
Acting Director, Office of Solid Waste.
[FR Doc. 96-24856 Filed 9-26-96; 8:45 am]
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