[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 175 (Friday, September 9, 2011)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 55846-55847]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-23156]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Parts 260 and 261

[EPA-HQ-RCRA-2010-0695; FRL-9461-8]
RIN 2050-AG60


Hazardous Waste Management System: Identification and Listing of 
Hazardous Waste: Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Streams in Geologic Sequestration 
Activities

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Technical correction.

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SUMMARY: On August 8, 2011, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 
(EPA or the Agency) published a proposed rule in the Federal Register 
to revise the regulations for hazardous waste management under the 
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) to conditionally exclude 
carbon dioxide (CO2) streams that are hazardous from the 
definition of hazardous waste, provided these hazardous CO2 
streams meet certain conditions. This correction is necessary because 
EPA published incorrect burden estimates in the Section VII.B. of the 
preamble to the proposed rule. However, EPA notes that the correct 
burden estimates were in the Information Collection Request (ICR) 
document prepared by EPA, submitted for approval to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction Act, and 
placed into the docket for the August 8, 2011 proposed rule.

DATES: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act, comments on the information 
collection provisions must be received by the Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) on or before October 11, 2011.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to OMB at the Office of Information and 
Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 725 17th Street, 
NW., Washington, DC 20503, Attention: Desk Officer for EPA. In 
addition, send comments to EPA, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
RCRA-2010-0695, by one of the following methods:
     http://www.regulations.gov: Follow the online instructions 
for submitting comments.
     E-mail: [email protected].
     Fax: 202-566-9744.
     Mail: RCRA Docket, Environmental Protection Agency, 
Mailcode: 2822T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460. 
Please include a total of two copies. In addition, please mail a copy 
of your comments on the information collection provisions to the Office 
of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 
Attn: Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th St., NW., Washington, DC 20503.
     Hand Delivery: Deliver two copies of your comments to EPA 
West Building, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 
20460. Such deliveries are only accepted during the Docket's normal 
hours of operation, and special arrangements should be made for 
deliveries of boxed information.
    Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-RCRA-
2010-0695. 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 whose 
disclosure 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. 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.
    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 
whose disclosure 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://

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www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the RCRA Docket, EPA/DC, EPA 
West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. 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) 566-1744, and the telephone number for the RCRA 
Docket is (202) 566-0270.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lyn Luben, Office of Resource 
Conservation and Recovery (5305P), Environmental Protection Agency, 
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 
703-308-0508; fax number: 703-308-7903; e-mail address: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    On August 8, 2011, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or 
the Agency) published a proposed rule to revise the regulations for 
hazardous waste management under the Resource Conservation and Recovery 
Act (RCRA) to conditionally exclude carbon dioxide (CO2) 
streams that are hazardous from the definition of hazardous waste, 
provided these hazardous CO2 streams meet certain 
conditions. 76 FR 48073. Today's correction notice is necessary because 
EPA published incorrect burden estimates in the preamble to the 
proposed rule. See Section VII.B. of the preamble (Paperwork Reduction 
Act). 76 FR at 48090-91. EPA notes, however, that the correct burden 
estimates were in the Information Collection Request (ICR) document 
prepared by EPA, submitted for approval to the Office of Management and 
Budget under the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq., and 
placed into the docket for the August 8, 2011 proposed rule (EPA-HQ-
RCRA-2010-0695). The ICR was assigned EPA ICR number 2421.01. The 
statement in the preamble referenced above, which begins with ``EPA 
estimates * * *'' in the first full paragraph of the first column on 
page 48091, should read as follows:
    ``EPA estimates the total annual burden to respondents under the 
new paperwork requirements to be 27 hours and $2,287. However, EPA also 
estimates an annual burden savings under the existing RCRA subtitle C 
paperwork requirements of 103 hours and $8,497. Thus, this would result 
in a net annual savings of 76 hours and $6,210. The bottom-line burden 
savings over three years is estimated to be 228 hours and $18,630.'' 
The remainder of this paragraph is unchanged.
    The public is invited to comment on this technical correction 
notice and/or the supporting ICR document (EPA ICR number 2421.01). The 
public docket for this rule (EPA-HQ-RCRA-2010-0695) includes the full 
ICR document. Please submit any comments related to this technical 
correction notice and/or the full ICR document to both EPA and OMB. EPA 
is allowing for comments on this technical correction notice and/or the 
supporting ICR document to be submitted up to 30 days after the 
publication of this technical correction notice in the Federal Register 
(see DATES section above), but is not changing the October 7, 2011 
deadline for any non-ICR related comments on the August 8, 2011 
proposed rule. The final rule will respond to any comments on the 
information collection requirements contained in this technical 
correction notice.

List of Subjects

40 CFR Part 260

    Environmental protection, Administrative practice and procedure, 
Hazardous waste, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.

40 CFR Part 261

    Environmental protection, Hazardous waste, Solid waste, Recycling.

    Dated: September 2, 2011.
Mathy Stanislaus,
Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response.
[FR Doc. 2011-23156 Filed 9-8-11; 8:45 am]
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