[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 181 (Tuesday, September 20, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55126-55127]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-18710]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[RCRA-2005-0006; FRL-7970-9]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Hazardous Remediation Waste 
Management Requirements (HWIR-Media) (Renewal), EPA ICR Number 1755.04, 
OMB Control Number 2050-0161

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 an Information Collection 
Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) for review and approval. This is a request to renew an existing 
approved collection. This ICR is scheduled to expire on September 30, 
2005. Under OMB regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or 
sponsor the collection of information while this submission is pending 
at OMB. This ICR describes the nature of the information collection and 
its estimated burden and cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before October 20, 
2005.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number RCRA-
2005-0006, to (1) 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, and (2) OMB at: Office of 
Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB), Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW., 
Washington, DC 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mike Fitzpatrick, Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; 
telephone number: 703-308-8411; fax number: 703-308-8638; e-mail 
address: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has submitted the following ICR to OMB 
for review and approval according to the procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 
1320.12. On April 14, 2005 (70 FR 19757), EPA sought comments on this 
ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comments.
    EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID 
No. RCRA-2005-0006, 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 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 and OMB 
within 30 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 copyrighted material, EPA will provide 
a reference to that material in the

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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.
    Title: Hazardous Remediation Waste Management Requirements (HWIR-
Media) (Renewal).
    Abstract: The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 
(RCRA), as amended, requires EPA to establish a national regulatory 
program to ensure that hazardous wastes are managed in a manner 
protective of human health and the environment. Under this program 
(known as the RCRA Subtitle C program), EPA regulates newly generated 
hazardous wastes, as well as hazardous remediation wastes (i.e., 
hazardous wastes managed during cleanup). To facilitate prompt and 
protective treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous remediation 
wastes, EPA established three requirements for remediation waste 
management sites that are different from those for facilities managing 
newly generated hazardous waste:
     Performance standards for remediation waste management 
sites (40 CFR 264.1(j));
     A provision excluding remediation waste management sites 
from requirements for facility-wide corrective action; and
     A new form of RCRA permit for treating, storing, and 
disposing of hazardous remediation wastes (40 CFR part 270, subpart H). 
The new permit, a Remedial Action Plan (RAP), streamlines the 
permitting process for remediation waste management sites to allow 
cleanups to take place more quickly.
    In addition, EPA created a new kind of unit called a ``staging 
pile'' (40 CFR 264.554) that allows more flexibility in storing 
remediation waste during cleanup. 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 and are identified on the form and/or instrument, if applicable.
    Burden Statement: For owners/operators of hazardous remediation 
waste management sites subject to the 40 CFR 264.1(j) and part 270, 
subpart H requirements, the reporting burden is estimated to be 27 
hours per respondent per year. The recordkeeping burden is estimated to 
be 42 hours per respondent per year. For owners/operators of hazardous 
remediation waste management sites subject to the 40 CFR 264.554 
requirements for staging piles, the reporting burden is estimated to be 
7 hours per year per respondent. The recordkeeping burden is estimated 
to be 13 hours per respondent per year.
    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: Facility owners and operators.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 176.
    Frequency of Response: one-time.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 4,944.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost: $361,000, includes $0 annualized 
capital/startup costs, $26,000 annual O&M costs and $335,000 annual 
labor costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of only 15 hours in 
the total estimated annual hourly burden currently identified in the 
OMB Inventory of Approved ICR Burdens. The total annual O&M cost burden 
in this ICR decreased by $9,000 from the previous renewal (ICR 
1775.03), which is due to refinements in the burden estimates. 
This decrease of $9,000 is therefore considered an ``adjustment''.

    Dated: September 12, 2005.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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