[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 33 (Friday, February 16, 2001)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 10585-10586]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-3984]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 372

[OPPTS-400140D; FRL-6722-10]

RIN 2025-AA05


Lead and Lead Compounds; Lowering of Reporting Thresholds; 
Community Right-to-Know Toxic Chemical Release Reporting: Delay of 
Effective Date

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Final rule; delay of effective date.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the memorandum of January 20, 2001, from 
the Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff, entitled 
``Regulatory Review Plan,'' published in the Federal Register on 
January 24, 2001 (66 FR 7701), this action temporarily delays for 60 
days the effective date of the rule entitled Lead and Lead Compounds; 
Lowering of Reporting Thresholds; Community Right-to-Know Toxic 
Chemical Release Reporting, published in the Federal Register on 
January 17, 2001 (66 FR 4500). That rule concerns the lowering of the 
reporting thresholds for lead and lead compounds which are subject to 
reporting under section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community 
Right-to-Know Act of 1986 (EPCRA) and section 6607 of the Pollution 
Prevention Act of 1990 (PPA). The reporting thresholds are being 
lowered to 100 pounds. The lower reporting thresholds apply to lead and 
all lead compounds except for lead contained in stainless steel, brass, 
and bronze alloys. The first reports at the lower thresholds are due on 
or before July 1, 2002, for the 2001 calendar year.

DATES: The effective date of the Lead and Lead Compounds; Lowering of 
Reporting Thresholds; Community Right-to-Know Toxic Chemical Release 
Reporting, amending 40 CFR part 372 published in the Federal Register 
on January 17, 2001, at 66 FR 4500, is delayed for 60 days, from 
February 16, 2001 to a new effective date of April 17, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Daniel R. Bushman, Petitions 
Coordinator, (202) 260-3882, e-mail: [email protected], for 
specific information on this document, or for more information on EPCRA 
section 313, the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know 
Hotline, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 5101, 1200 
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, Toll free: 1-800-535-
0202, in Virginia and Alaska: (703) 412-9877 or Toll free TDD: 1-800-
553-7672. Information concerning this notice is also available on EPA's 
Web site at http://www.epa.gov/tri.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: To the extent that 5 U.S.C. 553 applies to 
this action, it is exempt from notice and comment because it 
constitutes a rule of procedure under 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(A). 
Alternatively, the Agency's implementation of this action without 
opportunity for public comment, effective immediately upon publication 
today in the Federal Register, is based on the good cause exceptions in 
5 U.S.C. 553(b)(B) and 553(d)(3). Seeking public comment is 
impracticable, unnecessary and contrary to the public interest. The 
temporary 60-day delay in effective date is necessary to give Agency 
officials the

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opportunity for further review and consideration of new regulations, 
consistent with the Assistant to the President's memorandum of January 
20, 2001. Given the imminence of the effective date, seeking prior 
public comment on this temporary delay would have been impractical, as 
well as contrary to the public interest in the orderly promulgation and 
implementation of regulations. The imminence of the effective date is 
also good cause for making this rule immediately effective upon 
publication.

    Dated; February 12, 2001.
Christine Todd Whitman,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 01-3984 Filed 2-15-01; 8:45 am]
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