[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 161 (Monday, August 21, 2006)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 48500-48501]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-13854]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Parts 261 and 262

[EPA-HQ-RCRA-2003-0012; FRL-8211-7]
RIN 2050-AG18


Standards Applicable to Generators of Hazardous Waste; Subpart 
K--Standards Applicable to Academic Laboratories; Extension of Comment 
Period

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule; extension of comment period.

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SUMMARY: EPA is announcing that the comment period to the proposed rule 
entitled Standards Applicable to Generators of Hazardous Waste; 
Standards Applicable to Academic Laboratories published on May 23, 2006 
(71 FR 29711) is being extended until September 20, 2006. In the 
proposed rule EPA is requesting comment on alternative options for 
proposed laboratory requirements for colleges and universities. In 
addition, the proposal requests comment on expanding the rule to 
include other types of laboratories that operate and have waste 
generation patterns similar to college and university laboratories.

DATES: The comment period for this proposed rule is extended from the 
original closing date of August 21, 2006, to September 20, 2006.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
RCRA-2003-0012 by one of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the on-line instructions for submitting comments.
     E-mail: [email protected].
     Mail: U.S. Postal Service, send comments to: HQ EPA Docket 
Center (6102T), Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-RCRA-2003-0012, 1200 
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460. Please include a total 
of two copies. We request that you also send a separate copy of each 
comment to the contact person listed below (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 
CONTACT).

    Note: The EPA Docket Center suffered damage due to flooding 
during the last week of June 2006. The Docket Center is continuing 
to operate. However, during the cleanup, there will be temporary 
changes to Docket Center telephone numbers, addresses, and hours of 
operation for people who wish to make hand deliveries or visit the 
Public Reading Room to view documents. Consult EPA's Federal 
Register notice at 71 FR 38147 (July 5, 2006) or the EPA Web site at 
http://www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm for current information on 
docket operations, locations and telephone numbers. The Docket 
Center's mailing address for U.S. mail and the procedure for 
submitting comments to http://www.regulations.gov are not affected 
by the flooding and will remain the same.

     Hand Delivery: In person or by courier, deliver comments 
to: HQ EPA Docket Center (6102T), Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-RCRA-
2003-0012, 1301 Constitution Avenue, NW., Room B-108, Washington, DC 
20004. Such deliveries are only accepted during the Docket's normal 
hours of operation, and special arrangements should be made for 
deliveries of boxed information. Please include a total of two copies. 
We request that you also send a separate copy of each comment to the 
contact person listed below (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT).
    Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-RCRA-
2003-0012. The EPA's policy is that all comments received will be 
included in the public docket without change and may be made available 
online at http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal 
information provided, unless the comment includes information claimed 
to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information the 
disclosure of which is restricted by statute. Do not submit information 
that you consider to be CBI or otherwise protected through http://www.regulations.gov or e-mail. Send or deliver information identified 
as CBI to only the following address: Ms. LaShan Haynes, RCRA Document 
Control Officer, EPA (Mail Code 5305W), Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
RCRA-2003-0012, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC 20460. Clearly 
mark the part or all of the information that you claim to be CBI. The 
http://www.regulations.gov Web site is an ``anonymous access'' system, 
which means EPA will not know your identity or contact information 
unless you provide it in the body of your comment. If you send an e-
mail comment directly to EPA without going through http://www.regulations.gov, your e-mail address will be automatically captured 
and included as part of the comment that is placed in the public docket 
and made available on the Internet. If you submit an electronic 
comment, EPA recommends that you include your name and other contact 
information in the body of your comment and with any disk or CD-ROM you 
submit. If EPA cannot read your comment due to technical difficulties 
and cannot contact you for clarification, EPA may not be able to 
consider your comment. Electronic files should avoid the use of special 
characters, any form of encryption, and be free of any defects or 
viruses. For additional information about EPA's public docket visit the 
EPA Docket Center homepage at http://www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm. 
We also request that interested parties who would like information they 
previously submitted to EPA to be considered as part of this 
reconsideration action identify the relevant information by docket 
entry numbers and page numbers.
    Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the http://www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some 
information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information 
the disclosure of which is restricted by statute. Certain other 
material, such as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only 
in hard copy. Publicly available docket materials are available either 
electronically in http://www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the HQ 
EPA Docket Center, Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2004-0022, EPA West 
Building, Room B-102, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC 
20004. This Docket Facility is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday 
through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The HQ EPA Docket Center 
telephone number is (202) 566-1742. The 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 Public Reading Room is (202) 
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reasonable fee may be charged for copying docket materials.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For more information on this 
rulemaking, contact Patricia Mercer at (703) 308-8408, or 
[email protected], Office of Solid Waste (MC: 5304W), U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC 20460.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Comment Period. We are extending the comment 
period by 30 days in response to a request from the National 
Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) on 
behalf of the American Council on Education (ACE), the Campus Safety, 
Health, and Environmental Management Association (CSHEMA), the Campus 
Consortium for Environmental Excellence (C2E2), and the National 
Association of College and University Business Officers for more time 
to respond to issues in the proposed rule published on May 23, 2006 (71 
FR at 29712). Therefore, the public comment period will now end on 
September 20, 2006.
    Regulated Entities. Entities potentially affected by this proposed 
action are generators of unwanted materials, as defined in this 
proposal, from college and university laboratories. College and 
university laboratories, as defined under this proposal, include 
laboratories associated with a private or public, post-secondary, 
degree-granting, academic institution that is accredited by an 
accrediting agency listed annually by the U.S. Department of Education. 
Only those colleges and universities which have laboratories on their 
campuses would be covered by this alternate approach; laboratories not 
located at colleges or universities would not be covered. This proposed 
action is optional in that colleges and universities may elect to have 
their laboratories remain regulated under current RCRA generator 
regulations as set forth in 40 CFR 262.11 and 262.34(c), or may choose 
to manage their hazardous wastes according to this alternative 
regulatory approach. (In RCRA authorized states, today's proposed 
action would be an option once it has been adopted by the state in 
which the college or university resides.) To determine whether a 
college or university laboratory is covered by this action, interested 
parties should examine 40 CFR part 262, subpart K carefully. If there 
are questions regarding the applicability of the proposed rule to a 
particular entity, consult the person listed in the section of this 
preamble entitled FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
    Submitting CBI. Do not submit this information to EPA through 
http://www.regulations.gov or e-mail. Send or deliver information 
identified as CBI only to the address listed in the ADDRESSES section 
of this document. Clearly mark the part or all of the information that 
you claim to be CBI. For CBI information in a disk or CD ROM that you 
mail to EPA, mark the outside of the disk or CD ROM as CBI and then 
identify electronically within the disk or CD ROM the specific 
information that is claimed as CBI. In addition to one complete version 
of the comment that includes information claimed as CBI, a copy of the 
comment that does not contain the information claimed as CBI must be 
submitted for inclusion in the public docket. Information so marked 
will not be disclosed except in accordance with procedures set forth in 
40 CFR part 2.

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Parts 261 and 262

    Environmental protection, Standards applicable to generators of 
hazardous wastes.

    Dated: August 16, 2006.
Matthew Hale,
Director, Office of Solid Waste.
[FR Doc. E6-13854 Filed 8-18-06; 8:45 am]
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