[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 80 (Monday, April 26, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22507-22508]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-9407]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[RCRA-2004-0002, FRL-7653-5]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request; Storage, Treatment, Transportation and Disposal of 
Mixed Wastes, EPA ICR Number 1922.03, OMB Control Number 2050-0181

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 document announces that EPA is planning to submit a 
continuing Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB). This is a request an existing approved 
collection. This ICR is scheduled to expire on August 31, 2004. Before 
submitting the ICR to OMB for review and approval, EPA is soliciting 
comments on specific aspects of the proposed information collection as 
described below.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before June 25, 2004.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number RCRA-
2004-0002, to EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by e-
mail to [email protected], or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, 
Environmental Protection Agency, RCRA Docket, mail code 5305T, 1200 
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kathleen Rafferty, Office of Solid 
Waste and Emergency Reponse, 5303W, Environmental Protection Agency, 
1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 
703-308-0589; fax number: 703-308-8609; e-mail address: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has established a public docket for this 
ICR under Docket ID number RCRA-2004-0002, which is available for 
public viewing at the RCRA Docket in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), 
EPA West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The 
EPA Docket Center Public Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 
p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone 
number for the Reading Room is (202) 566-1744, and the telephone number 
for the RCRA Docket is (202) 566-0270. An electronic version of the 
public docket is available through EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at http://www.epa.gov/edocket. Use EDOCKET to obtain a copy of the draft 
collection of information, submit or view public comments, access the 
index listing of the contents of the public docket, and to access those 
documents in the public docket that are available electronically. Once 
in the system, select ``search,'' then key in the docket ID number 
identified above.
    Any comments related to this ICR should be submitted to EPA within 
60 days of this notice. EPA's policy is that public comments, whether 
submitted electronically or in paper, will be made available for public 
viewing in EDOCKET as EPA receives them and without change, unless the 
comment contains copyrighted material, CBI, or other information whose 
public disclosure is restricted by statute. When EPA identifies a 
comment containing

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copyrighted material, EPA will provide a reference to that material in 
the version of the comment that is placed in EDOCKET. The entire 
printed comment, including the copyrighted material, will be available 
in the public docket. Although identified as an item in the official 
docket, information claimed as CBI, or whose disclosure is otherwise 
restricted by statute, is not included in the official public docket, 
and will not be available for public viewing in EDOCKET. For further 
information about the electronic docket, see EPA's Federal Register 
notice describing the electronic docket at 67 FR 38102 (May 31, 2002), 
or go to http://www.epa.gov./edocket.
    Affected entities: Entities potentially affected by this action are 
businesses, state and local governments and tribes.
    Title: Storage, Treatment, Transportation and Disposal of Mixed 
Wastes; EPA ICR Number 1922.03, OMB Control Number 2050-0181.
    Abstract: On May 16, 2001, EPA published the Storage, Treatment, 
Transportation, and Disposal of Mixed Waste final rule (66 FR 27218). 
This rule amended the RCRA regulations at 40 CFR parts 261, 266, and 
268, to provide increased flexibility to facilities in managing low-
level mixed waste (LLMW) and naturally occurring and/or accelerator-
produced radioactive material (NARM) containing hazardous waste, and to 
reduce dual regulation of LLMW, which is subject to RCRA and the Atomic 
Energy Act (AEA), as amended. The storage and treatment conditional 
exemption in the 2001 rule conditionally exempts LLMW from the 
regulatory definition of hazardous waste, so long as the use of tanks 
or containers to store or treat the waste meets the specified 
conditions and is generated under a single Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission (NRC) or an NRC Agreement State license. Under the 
transportation and disposal conditional exemption, LLMW and hazardous 
NARM waste are exempted from RCRA manifest, transportation, and 
disposal requirements, so long as generators still comply with 
manifest, transport, and disposal requirements under the NRC (or NRC-
Agreement State) regulations for low-level radioactive waste (LLW) or 
eligible NARM. Responses are voluntary, however they are required to 
obtain benefits. 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 in 40 CFR are listed in 40 CFR part 9.
    The EPA would like to solicit comments to:
    (i) Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is 
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the Agency, 
including whether the information will have practical utility;
    (ii) Evaluate the accuracy of the Agency's estimate of the burden 
of the proposed collection of information, including the validity of 
the methodology and assumptions used;
    (iii) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information 
to be collected; and
    (iv) Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those 
who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated 
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic 
submission of responses.
    Burden Statement: 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
    Average Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour Burden: 3,079 
hours.
     Estimated Average Burden Hours Per Response: 
3.68 hours.
     Proposed Frequency of Response: on occasion.
     Estimated Number of Likely Respondents: 835.
    Average Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $4,000.
     Capital and Start-up Cost: $0.
     Operation and Maintenance: $4,000.

    Dated: March 27, 2004.
Robert Springer,
Director, Office of Solid Waste.
[FR Doc. 04-9407 Filed 4-23-04; 8:45 am]
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