[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 52 (Tuesday, March 18, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Page 15116]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-05917]



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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-RCRA-2013-0737; FRL-9907-88-OEI]


Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; Land Disposal Restrictions (Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an 
information collection request (ICR), ``Land Disposal Restrictions 
(Renewal)'' (EPA ICR No. 1442.22, OMB Control No. 2050-0085) to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in 
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). 
This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved 
through March 31, 2014. Public comments were previously requested via 
the Federal Register (78 FR 74127) on December 10, 2013 during a 60-day 
comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public 
comments. A fuller description of the ICR is given below, including its 
estimated burden and cost to the public. 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.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before April 17, 
2014.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-RCRA-
2013-0737, to (1) EPA, either online using www.regulations.gov (our 
preferred method), by email to [email protected], or by mail to: EPA 
Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 
Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB via email to 
[email protected]. Address comments to OMB Desk Officer for 
EPA.
    EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included in the 
public docket without change including any personal information 
provided, unless the comment includes profanity, threats, information 
claimed to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other 
information whose disclosure is restricted by statute.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Peggy Vyas, Environmental Protection 
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone 
number: 703-308-5477; fax number: 703-308-8433; email address: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supporting documents which explain in detail 
the information that the EPA will be collecting are available in the 
public docket for this ICR. The docket can be viewed online at 
www.regulations.gov or in person at the EPA Docket Center, EPA West, 
Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, DC. The telephone 
number for the Docket Center is 202-566-1744. For additional 
information about EPA's public docket, visit http://www.epa.gov/dockets.
    Abstract: 3004 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act 
(RCRA), as amended, requires that EPA develop standards for hazardous 
waste treatment, storage, and disposal as may be necessary to protect 
human health and the environment. Subsections 3004(d), (e), and (g) 
require EPA to promulgate regulations that prohibit the land disposal 
of hazardous waste unless it meets specified treatment standards 
described in subsection 3004(m).
    The regulations implementing these requirements are codified in the 
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Title 40, Part 268. EPA requires that 
facilities maintain the data outlined in this ICR so that the Agency 
can ensure that land disposed waste meets the treatment standards. EPA 
strongly believes that the recordkeeping requirements are necessary for 
the agency to fulfill its congressional mandate to protect human health 
and the environment.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Private sector and State, Local, or 
Tribal governments.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR Part 268).
    Estimated number of respondents: 90,500.
    Frequency of response: Once, Occasionally.
    Total estimated burden: 646,455 hours per year. Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
    Total estimated cost: $86,668,517 (per year), includes $33,928,964 
labor and $52,739,553 annualized capital or operation & maintenance 
costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 561,927 hours in 
the total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently 
approved by OMB. This decrease is due to a better estimate in the 
number of small quantity generators (SQGs). Unlike large quantity 
generators that have to fill out a Hazardous Waste Report every 2 
years, SQGs do not need to report. Therefore the total count of SQGs 
does not fluctuate with time, like the LQG count, rather it only 
increases. EPA felt the SQG universe estimate in this ICR was over-
inflated because SQGs that no longer exist were still being counted. 
EPA developed a new methodology for counting SQGs which only includes 
those SQGs still in business as far back as 2007.

Richard T. Westlund,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 2014-05917 Filed 3-17-14; 8:45 am]
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