Monday, May 14, 2001
Part XXII
Environmental Protection Agency Semiannual Regulatory Agenda
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION F. What Information Is in Agenda information about these programs visit: AGENCY (EPA) Entries? www.epa.gov/partners. G. What Tools Are Available To Help EPA’s regulatory process must ensure 40 CFR Ch. I Quickly Identify Actions That Are of that the Nation’s environmental FRL-6958-4 Interest to You? protection system produces the best H. How Can You Access Federal outcomes at an acceptable cost, where April 2001 Agenda of Regulatory and Register Documents via the Internet cost considerations are appropriate. Deregulatory Actions and via E-mail? Appropriate scientific, economic and I. What Special Attention Do We Give AGENCY: Environmental Protection policy analyses must be planned at early Agency. to the Impacts of Rules on Small stages in the regulatory development Entities? process so that senior Agency decision ACTION: Semiannual regulatory agenda. A. The Transition of Administrations makers understand the benefits and and the Status of EPA’s Rulemakings costs of policy options from which to SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection The regulations listed in this agenda choose. Additionally, it is important Agency (EPA) publishes the Semiannual are required by law or are necessary to that we continue to apply new methods Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory interpret the law. While this is the first to protect the environment—by building Actions to update the public about: flexibility into regulations up front, • regulatory agenda of the Bush Regulations and major policies Administration, the timing is such that through nonregulatory approaches currently under development, where effective, by creating strong • our efforts won’t be fully reflected in the Reviews of existing regulations and agenda until the October edition. partnerships with States, and by major policies, and vigorously using public outreach and • Regulations and major policies B. What Principles and Objectives involvement. Guide EPA in Developing Regulations? completed or canceled since the last The basic legal requirements we must Agenda. The quality of the science, economic, follow when we issue a regulation TO BE PLACED ON THE AGENDA MAILING and policy analysis that underlie EPA generally are contained in the LIST: Starting with the October 2001 regulations is vital to the credibility of Administrative Procedure Act, the edition we will resume free distribution EPA decisions and ultimately our Regulatory Flexibility Act as amended of the Agenda. If you would like to effectiveness in protecting human by the Small Business Regulatory subscribe, please contact: Janice health and the environment. Enforcement Fairness Act, the Ndunguru (1806A), Environmental Additionally, continued testing and Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, the Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania adoption of new environmental Paperwork Reduction Act, the National Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20460; protection methods must be a central Technology Transfer and Advancement phone: (202) 564-6572; e-mail: tenet in environmental problem solving. Act, and the Congressional Review Act. [email protected]. A well managed regulatory process and You can find information on many of a strong commitment to innovative FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If these statutes at solutions will ensure that the significant http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/. you have questions or comments about environmental improvements that we a particular rule, please get in touch all want to achieve are cost-effective, We also must meet a number of with the agency contact listed for that fair and fully protective. requirements contained in Executive rule. If you have general questions about orders. Of particular significance for the Agenda or about EPA’s Much of the success over the last 31 EPA rulemakings are Executive Orders decisionmaking process, please contact: years and seven administrations in 12866 (Regulatory Planning and Phil Schwartz (1806A), Environmental cleaning up the Nation’s water, air, and Review), 13045 (Children’s Health Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania land is attributable to the system of Protection), 13175 (Consultation and Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20460; Federal and State regulation that has Coordination with Indian Tribal phone: (202) 564-6564; e-mail: directed and coordinated private Governments), and 13132 (Federalism). [email protected]. We welcome investment in pollution control and You can find information on these and your suggestions on how we can make prevention. While regulation will other Executive orders at the Agenda more useful to you and remain an important tool to implement http://www.nara.gov/fedreg/eo.html. easier to use. environmental policy, it is not the only one. Instead, EPA must increasingly act C. How Does EPA Develop Rules and SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: as an innovator, educator, and leader in Policies and How Can You Participate? Table of Contents administering a broad set of new tools You may participate by contacting the A. The Transition of Administrations — including new methods to design and expert responsible for developing a and the Status of EPA’s Rulemakings administer regulations — that engage all particular rule. You may also participate B. What Principles and Objectives segments of our society in responsive by commenting on proposed rules that Guide EPA in Developing behaviors that protect the environment we publish in the Federal Register. Regulations? while promoting appropriate economic Once we have proposed a rule, we will C. How Does EPA Develop Rules and growth. For example, we have worked consider your comments and address Policies and How Can You with businesses and community leaders them before issuing a final rule. To be Participate? to develop more than 40 voluntary most effective, comments should D. What Actions Are Included in the partnership programs to help achieve contain information and data that Agenda? environmental objectives with the support your position, and you also E. How Is the Agenda Organized? greatest possible efficiency. For more should explain why we should
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incorporate your suggestion in the final There is no legal significance to the include anything that influences or rule. You can be particularly helpful omission of an item from the agenda. leads to rulemaking, such as advance and persuasive if you provide examples E. How Is the Agenda Organized? notices of proposed rulemaking to illustrate your concerns and offer (ANPRMs), significant studies or We have organized the agenda: specific alternatives. • analyses of the possible need for First, by the law that would authorize regulatory action, announcement of The agenda also includes some of our a particular regulation; reviews of existing regulations more important guidance documents • Second, by the current stage of required under section 610 of the which reflect EPA’s thinking in major development (proposal, final, etc.); Regulatory Flexibility Act, requests policy areas. We invite you to take part and for public comment on the need for in developing these documents. • Third, by the section number of the regulatory action, or important statute which requires or authorizes For a detailed description of our rule preregulatory policy proposals. the rule. and policy development process request a copy of ‘‘Initiation of EPA’s New The following 14 sections deal with 2. Proposed Rules - This section Regulatory and Policy Development 13 laws that EPA administers and a includes EPA rulemaking actions that Process’’ from Janice Ndunguru at 1200 fourteenth broader section called are within a year of proposal Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, ‘‘General’’ that includes cross-cutting (publication of Notices of Proposed DC 20460; e-mail: actions, such as rules authorized by Rulemakings (NPRMs)). [email protected]; phone: (202) multiple statutes and general 3. Final Rules - This section includes 564-6572. acquisition rules: rules that are within a year of final D. What Actions Are Included in the 1. General promulgation. Agenda? 2. The Clean Air Act (CAA) 4. Long-Term Actions - This section EPA includes regulations and certain includes rulemakings for which the major policy documents in the Agenda. 3. The Atomic Energy Act (AEA) next scheduled regulatory action is We do not generally include minor after March 2002. amendments or the following categories 4. The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, of actions in the Agenda: and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) 5. Completed Actions - This section • Under the Clean Air Act: Revisions to contains actions that have been State Implementation Plans; 5. The Federal Food, Drug, and promulgated and published in the Equivalent Methods for Ambient Air Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) Federal Register since publication of Quality Monitoring; Deletions from the October 2000 Agenda. It also 6. The Toxic Substances Control Act the New Source Performance includes actions that we are no longer (TSCA) Standards source categories list; considering. If an action appears in Delegations of Authority to States; 7. The Emergency Planning and the completed section, it will not Area Designations for Air Quality Community Right-to-Know Act appear in future Agendas unless we Planning Purposes. (EPCRA) decide to initiate action again, in • Under the Federal Insecticide, which case it will appear as a new Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act: 8. Chemical Safety Information, Site entry. EPA also announces the results Actions regarding pesticide tolerances Security and Fuels Regulatory Relief of our Regulatory Flexibility Act and food additive regulations; Act section 610 reviews in this section of decision documents defining and the Agenda. 9. The Resource Conservation and establishing registration standards; F. What Information Is in Agenda Recovery Act (RCRA) decision documents and termination Entries? decisions for the Special Review Registration process; and data call-in 10. The Oil Pollution Act (OPA) Agenda entries include the following requests made under section information, where applicable: 11. The Comprehensive Environmental 3(c)(2)(B). Sequence Number: This indicates Response, Compensation, and • Under the Resource Conservation and where the entry appears in the Agenda. Liability Act Superfund (CERCLA) Recovery Act: Authorization of State Title: Titles for new entries (those that solid waste management plans; 12. The Clean Water Act (CWA) haven’t appeared in previous Agendas) hazardous waste delisting petitions. • • are preceded by a bullet ( ). The Under the Clean Water Act: State 13. The Safe Drinking Water Act notation ‘‘Section 610 Review’’ follows Water Quality Standards; Deletions (SDWA) the title if we are reviewing the rule as from the section 307(a) list of toxic part of our periodic review of existing 14. The Shore Protection Act (SPA) pollutants; Suspensions of toxic rules under section 610 of the testing requirements under the In each of these 14 sections, there are Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. National Pollutant Discharge up to 5 headings covering the following 610). Elimination System (NPDES); stages of rulemaking: Delegations of NPDES authority to Priority: Entries are placed into one of States. 1. Prerulemakings - Prerulemaking five categories described below. • Under the Safe Drinking Water Act: actions are intended to determine Economically Significant: As defined Actions on State underground whether EPA should initiate in Executive Order 12866, a rulemaking injection control programs. rulemaking. Prerulemakings may action that will have an annual effect on
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the economy of $100 million or more or (P.L.), Executive Order (E.O.), or distribution of power and will adversely affect in a material way common name of the law that responsibilities among the various the economy, a sector of the economy, authorizes the regulatory action. levels of government. productivity, competition, jobs, the CFR Citation: The sections of the Unfunded Mandates: Section 202 of environment, public health or safety, or Code of Federal Regulations that will be the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act State, local, or tribal governments or affected by the action. requires an assessment of anticipated communities. OMB reviews all costs and benefits if a rule includes a economically significant rules under Legal Deadline: An indication of mandate that may result in expenditures Executive Order 12866. whether the rule is subject to a statutory or judicial deadline, the date of that of more than $100 million in any one Other Significant: A rulemaking that deadline, and whether the deadline year by State, local, and tribal is not economically significant but is pertains to a Notice of Proposed governments, in the aggregate, or by the considered significant by the agency. Rulemaking, a Final Action, or some private sector. If we expect to exceed This category includes rules that are an other action. this $100 million threshold, we note it EPA priority and rules that EPA in this section. anticipates will be reviewed by the Abstract: A brief description of the Office of Management and Budget under problem the regulation will address; the Agency Contact: The name, address, Executive Order 12866 because they are need for a Federal solution; to the extent phone number, and e-mail address, if likely to: available, the alternatives that the available, of a person who is • Create a serious inconsistency or agency is considering to address the knowledgeable about the regulation. otherwise interfere with an action problem; and the potential advantages SAN Number: A code number that taken or planned by another agency; and disadvantages of the action. EPA uses to identify and track • Materially alter the budgetary impact Timetable: The dates (and citations) rulemakings. of entitlements, grants, user fees, or that documents for this action were RIN: The Regulation Identifier loan programs or the rights or published in the Federal Register and, Number is used by OMB to identify and obligations of recipients; or where possible, a projected date for the track rulemakings. The first four digits • Raise novel legal or policy issues. next step. Projected publication dates of the RIN stand for the EPA office with frequently change during the course of Substantive, Nonsignificant: A lead responsibility for developing the a rule development. The projections in rulemaking that has substantive impacts action. but is neither Significant, nor Routine the agenda are our best estimates as of and Frequent, nor the date we submit the agenda for G. What Tools Are Available To Help Informational/Administrative/Other. publication. For some entries, the Quickly Identify Rules That Are of Interest to You? Routine and Frequent: A rulemaking timetable indicates that the date of the next action is ‘‘to be determined.’’ that is a specific case of a multiple The Regulatory Information Service recurring application of a regulatory Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Center (RISC), the Government Printing program in the Code of Federal Required: Indicates whether EPA has Office (GPO), and the EPA have created Regulations and that does not alter the prepared or anticipates that it will be a number of aids to help you find body of the regulation. preparing a regulatory flexibility actions that are of interest to you. analysis under section 603 or 604 of the Informational/Administrative/Other: For Rules That Directly Affect a A rulemaking that is primarily Regulatory Flexibility Act. Generally, such an analysis is required for Particular Industry: See Appendix F informational or pertains to agency ‘‘Subject Index to the Unified Agenda.’’ matters not central to accomplishing the proposed or final rules that EPA believes may have a significant If you have access to the Internet, you agency’s regulatory mandate but that the can use the EPA Regulatory Agenda agency places in the Agenda to inform economic impact on a substantial number of small entities. search engine which is located in the the public of the activity. Small Business Regulatory Library Also, if we believe that a rule may be Small Entities Affected: Indicates section of the EPA Web site at ‘‘major’’ as defined in the congressional whether we expect the rule to have any www.epa.gov/regagenda. Click on review provisions of the Small Business effect on small entities. ‘‘Search Regulatory Action Database’’ Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act Government Levels Affected: Indicates and then ‘‘Access the Database’’. This (SBREFA) (5 U.S.C. 801; Public Law whether we expect the rule to have any tool can be used to search all Agenda 104-121) because it is likely to result in effect on levels of government and, if so, entries by keyword and we invite an annual effect on the economy of $100 whether the governments are State, everyone to use it. The GPO also has a million or more or meets other criteria local, tribal, or Federal. search engine which is located at . specified in this law, we indicate this Federalism Implications: Indicates For Rules With Economic Impacts under the ‘‘Priority’’ heading with the whether the action is expected to have Over $100 Million: EPA is developing statement ‘‘Major under 5 U.S.C. 801.’’ substantial direct effects on the States, 21 rules that are expected to have Legal Authority: The sections of the on the relationship between the national annualized economic impacts of more United States Code (U.S.C.), Public Law government and the States, or on the than $100 million.
Number Rules that are expected to have annualized economic impacts over $100 million RIN
1 National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Radon ...... 2040-AA94 2 National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Groundwater Rule ...... 2040-AA97
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3 National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Arsenic and Clarifications to Compliance and New Source Compli- ance Monitoring ...... 2040-AB75 4 Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the Metal Products and Machinery Category, Phases 1 and 2 ...... 2040-AB79 5 Revisions to NPDES Requirements for Municipal Sanitary Sewer Collection Systems ...... 2040-AD02 6 Effluent Guidelines and Standards for Feedlots Point Source Category, and NPDES Regulation for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations ...... 2040-AD19 7 National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule ...... 2040-AD37 8 National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Stage 2 Disinfectants/Disinfection Byproducts Rule ...... 2040-AD38 9 Corrective Action for Solid Waste Management Units (SWMUs) at Hazardous Waste Management Facilities ...... 2050-AB80 10 Standards for the Management of Coal Combustion Wastes Generated by Commercial Electric Power Producers ... 2050-AE81 11 Standards for the Management of Coal Combustion Wastes — Non-Power Producers and Minefilling ...... 2050-AE83 12 NESHAP: Plywood and Composite Wood Products ...... 2060-AG52 13 NESHAP: Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engine ...... 2060-AG63 14 NESHAP: Combustion Turbine ...... 2060-AG67 15 NESHAP: Industrial, Commercial and Institutional Boilers and Process Heaters ...... 2060-AG69 16 NESHAP: Automobile and Light-Duty Truck Manufacturing (Surface Coating) ...... 2060-AG99 17 Phase I Federal Implementation Plans (FIPs) To Reduce the Regional Transport of Ozone in the Eastern United States ...... 2060-AH87 18 Control of Emissions from Nonroad Large Spark Ignition Engines, Recreational Engines (Marine and Land-based), and Highway Motorcycles ...... 2060-AI11 19 Review of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter ...... 2060-AI44 20 Interstate Ozone Transport: Rulemaking on Section 126 Petitions from the District of Columbia, Delaware, Mary- land, and New Jersey ...... 2060-AI99 21 Rulemakings for the Purpose of Reducing Interstate Ozone Transport ...... 2060-AJ20
For Rules With Impacts on Small available on the Internet at • The Government Printing Office site Businesses, Small Governments, and http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/ua/ has a number of databases online Small Organizations: April2001/entities/smgov-8.html. including the Unified Agenda and the Go to Appendix B following this Federal Register going back to 1994. H. How Can You Access Federal Agenda for the lists of the rules that we This site is the official source for the Register Documents via the Internet expect may have a significant impact on electronic Federal Register. It and via E-mail? a substantial number of small entities. provides public access via telnet, These lists are also available on the Like many organizations in the public Internet, and dial-up connection and Internet. The small businesses list is at and private sector, EPA is harnessing is located at http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/ua/ the power of the Internet to meet the http://www.access.gpo.gov/su—docs/ April2001/entities/sm—index-2.html. The needs of those we serve. The EPA Web aces/aaces002.html. small governments list is at site offers more than 100,000 files • EPA’s site http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/ua/ online. If you want to get automatic e- (http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/) has April2001/entities/sm—index-3.html. Andmails about areas of particular interest environmental rules issued by EPA the small organizations list is at as they appear in the Federal Register and other Federal agencies dating http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/ua/ (FR), we maintain 12 collections back to October 1994 and lets you April2001/entities/sm—index-4.html. including: air; water; wastes and search by date, page citation or For Rules That We Expect Will Have emergency response; pesticides; toxic keyword. It includes links to the Some Impact on Some Small Entities substances; right-to-know and toxic Regulatory Information Service Center but Less Than a Significant Impact on release inventory; environmental and Government Printing Office sites. a Substantial Number of Them: impacts; endangered species; meetings; We also have a Regulatory Agenda See Appendix C following this the Science Advisory Board; daily full- search engine at: Agenda, ‘‘Index to Entries That May text notices with page numbers; and http://www.epa/regagenda. To use, Affect Small Entities When a Regulatory general information. For more first select ‘‘Search Regulatory Action Flexibility Analysis Is Not Required.’’ information and to subscribe via our FR Database’’ and then select ‘‘Access the This list is available on the Internet at Web site, visit: Database’’. http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/ua/ http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/ • The Regulatory Information Service April2001/entities/smgov-5.html. subscribe.htm. If you have e-mail Center of the General Services without full Internet access, please send For Rules With Impacts on State, Administration maintains a site to an e-mail to [email protected] to Local, or Tribal Governments, or Other help users who want to find request instructions for subscribing to Federal Agencies: information about Federal, State, and the EPA Federal Register listservers. See Appendix D following this local regulations at Agenda, ‘‘Index to Entries That May Several Web sites allow access to the http://www.reginfo.gov/. This site Affect Government Levels.’’ This list is full text of Federal Register documents. includes links to all agencies’
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regulatory agendas and regulatory (www.epa.gov/sbrefa) and some of that flexibility analysis must, among other plans going back to October 1995. information is summarized below: items specified in the RFA, identify the extent to which small entities will In the ‘‘Additional Information’’ 1. Convene a Small Business Advocacy be subject to the rule’s requirements section of many of the entries in this Review (SBAR) Panel prior to and describe any significant Agenda we include the Internet address proposing any rule subject to notice- alternatives to the rule that for documents that we have already and-comment requirements unless the accomplish the objectives of published as part of the rulemaking. Agency certifies the rule will not have applicable statutes and which I. What Special Attention Do We Give a significant economic impact on a minimize any significant economic to the Impacts of Rules on Small substantial number of small entities impacts on small entities. We have Entities? (RFA section 609). SBREFA also listed in the second index at the end established the EPA’s Small Business of the Agenda all rules under For each of our rulemakings we Advocacy Chair who chairs each development that may require a consider whether there will be any SBAR Panel. A SBAR Panel has four regulatory flexibility analysis. adverse impact on any small entity. We members: The Chair, the Chief attempt to fit the regulatory Counsel for Advocacy of the Small 3. RFA section 610 requires that an requirements, to the extent feasible, to Business Administration, the agency review within 10 years of the scale of the businesses, Administrator of the Office of promulgation those regulations that organizations, and governmental Information and Regulatory Affairs have or will have a significant jurisdictions subject to the regulation. within the Office of Management and economic impact on a substantial For Rules Under Development Expected Budget, and a senior manager from number of small entities. We To Have Some Impact on Small the EPA program office responsible undertake these reviews to decide Entities, but Not a Significant Impact on for the subject rule. In the case of whether we should continue the rule a Substantial Number rules requiring a SBAR Panel, the unchanged, amend it, or withdraw it. Agency’s small entity outreach prior We announce our forthcoming 610 In the ‘‘Small Entities Affected’’ to the convening of a Panel reviews in the ‘‘Prerule’’ section of the section, we indicate whether we expect culminates in the development of a Agenda. We encourage small entities an action will have an impact on small summary document that contains to provide comments on the need to businesses, governments, or nonprofit information on the potential impact of change these rules. We will consider organizations, but one which is less a proposed rule on small entities, and all of your comments as we decide than a significant impact on a particularly on the issues referenced whether to continue, amend, or substantial number. In Appendix C at in RFA section 609. This summary withdraw these rules. We particularly the end of the Agenda, we list all serves as the basis for convening the encourage comments by small entities actions that we believe will not have a Panel. The Panel then conducts its about how rules could be made significant impact on a substantial review, carries out its own small clearer, more effective, or remove number of small entities but which will entity outreach, and prepares a report conflicting or overlapping have some impact on small entities. based on the comments from the requirements with other Federal or Regulatory Flexibility Act small entity representatives and the State regulations. In this Agenda we Considerations: For Rules That May Panel’s deliberations. The Panel’s report on the results of the review of Have a Significant Impact on a final report is provided to the EPA the Effluent Guideline for Organic Substantial Number of Small Entities Administrator and is made a part of Chemicals, Plastics, and Synthetic the rulemaking record. Rules listed in Fibers. If you have general questions The Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) the second appendix at the end of the about our 610 review program or as amended by the Small Business Agenda may require Small Business suggestions for other rules we should Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act Advocacy Review Panels. review under section 610, please (SBREFA) requires that we pay contact Phil Schwartz (1806A), particular attention to the impact of 2. At the proposed and final rule stages Environmental Protection Agency, regulations on small entities (i.e., small of rule development, the Agency must 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., businesses, small governmental prepare a regulatory flexibility Washington, DC 20460; fax: (202) 564- jurisdictions, and small nonprofit analysis for any rule subject to notice 6564, e-mail: organizations). The RFA/SBREFA and comment rulemaking [email protected]. applies to rules we are now developing requirements (RFA sections 603 and and requires us to carry out particular 604), unless the Administrator The April 2001 EPA Agenda follows. procedures under certain circumstances. certifies that the rule will not have a Dated: April 19, 2001. We have developed a Web site to ‘‘significant economic impact on a Thomas J. Gibson, provide detailed information on EPA’s substantial number of small entities’’ Associate Administrator, Office of Policy, activities related to RFA/SBREFA (RFA section 605). A regulatory Economics, and Innovation.
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GENERAL—Prerule Stage
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3205 SAN No. 4533 New Jersey Gold Track Project XL Rule ...... 2002-AA00
GENERAL—Proposed Rule Stage
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3206 SAN No. 4056 Utilization of Small, Minority and Women’s Business Enterprises in Procurement Under Assistance Agreements ...... 2020-AA39 3207 SAN No. 4191 Revision to EPAAR 1552.211-73, Level of Effort ...... 2030-AA64 3208 SAN No. 4319 Revisions to Acquisition Regulation Concerning Conflict of Interest ...... 2030-AA67 3209 SAN No. 3876 Incrementally Funding Fixed Price Contracts ...... 2030-AA50 3210 SAN No. 3817 Implementation of Changes to Governmentwide Debarment and Suspension Common Rule ...... 2030-AA48 3211 SAN No. 3933 Environmental Impact Assessment of Nongovernmental Activities in Antarctica ...... 2020-AA34 3212 SAN No. 4292 Proposed Revision to EPA’s Implementing NEPA Regulations ...... 2020-AA42 3213 SAN No. 3240 Public Information and Confidentiality Regulations ...... 2025-AA02 3214 SAN No. 4270 Cross-Media Electronic Reporting (ER) and Recordkeeping Rule ...... 2025-AA07 3215 SAN No. 4463 Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic (PBT) Pollutants Strategy ...... 2070-AD45 3216 SAN No. 4473 Regulatory Incentives for the National Environmental Achievement Track Program ...... 2090-AA13 3217 SAN No. 4536 Project XL Site-Specific Rulemaking for NASA White Sands Test Facility Electronic Reporting in Las Cruces, New Mexico ...... 2090-AA27
GENERAL—Final Rule Stage
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3218 SAN No. 4187 EPAAR Coverage on Local Hiring and Training ...... 2030-AA62 3219 SAN No. 4226 Incorporating Informal Clauses (EP) Into the EPAAR ...... 2030-AA66 3220 SAN No. 3580 Incorporation of Class Deviations Into EPAAR ...... 2030-AA37 3221 SAN No. 4180 Rewriting of EPA Regulations Implementing the Freedom of Information Act ...... 2025-AA04 3222 SAN No. 4185 Electronic Funds Transfer ...... 2030-AA57 3223 SAN No. 4351 Warrants for On-Scene Coordinators ...... 2030-AA68 3224 SAN No. 4400 Administrative Corrections to EPAAR 1515, Contracting by Negotiation ...... 2030-AA73
GENERAL—Long-Term Actions
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3225 SAN No. 3807 Consolidation of Good Laboratory Practice Standards (GLPS) Regulations Currently Under TSCA and FIFRA Into One Rule ...... 2020-AA26 3226 SAN No. 4021 Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Race, Color, National Origin, Handicap, and Age in Programs and Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance ...... 2020-AA36 3227 SAN No. 3671 Guidelines for Carcinogen Risk Assessment ...... 2080-AA06 3228 SAN No. 4530 EPA Draft Agencywide Public Involvement Policy ...... 2090-AA23
GENERAL—Completed Actions
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3229 SAN No. 3736 Revision to 40 CFR 35 Subpart A and Promulgation of Performance Partnership (State) Grant Reg- ulation ...... 2030-AA55
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GENERAL—Completed Actions (Continued)
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3230 SAN No. 4128 Revision to 40 CFR 35 Subpart A and Promulgation of Performance Partnership (Tribal) Grant Rule ...... 2030-AA56 3231 SAN No. 3629 EPA Mentor-Protege Program ...... 2030-AA40 3232 SAN No. 3874 Deletion of EPA Acquisition Regulations for Quality Systems for Environmental Programs ...... 2030-AA51 3233 SAN No. 4483 Joint Rule Amending Federal Nondiscrimination Regulations: Definition for Program or Activity ...... 2020-AA43 3234 SAN No. 4396 Business Ownership Representation ...... 2030-AA69 3235 SAN No. 4397 Contractor Diversity Clause ...... 2030-AA70 3236 SAN No. 4427 Report on PM2.5 Federal Reference Method Field Study ...... 2080-AA09
CLEAN AIR ACT (CAA)—Proposed Rule Stage
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3237 SAN No. 3263 Performance Warranty and Inspection/Maintenance Test Procedures ...... 2060-AE20 3238 SAN No. 3262 Inspection/Maintenance Recall Requirements ...... 2060-AE22 3239 SAN No. 3412 Operating Permits: Revisions (Part 70) ...... 2060-AF70 3240 SAN No. 3649 Amendments to Method 24 (Water-Based Coatings) ...... 2060-AF72 3241 SAN No. 3741 Service Information Availability ...... 2060-AG13 3242 SAN No. 3820 NESHAP: Plywood and Composite Wood Products ...... 2060-AG52 3243 SAN No. 3917 Transportation Conformity Rule Amendment: Clarification of Trading Provisions ...... 2060-AH31 3244 SAN No. 3910 Streamlined Evaporative Test Procedures ...... 2060-AH34 3245 SAN No. 4022 NESHAP: Coke Ovens: Pushing, Quenching, and Battery Stacks ...... 2060-AH55 3246 SAN No. 4045 Rulemaking To Modify the List of Source Categories From Which Fugitive Emissions Are Consid- ered in Major Source Determinations ...... 2060-AH58 3247 SAN No. 4120 Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Allowance System for Controlling HCFC Production, Import & Export ...... 2060-AH67 3248 SAN No. 4111 NESHAP: Fumed Silica Production ...... 2060-AH72 3249 SAN No. 4104 NESHAP: Hydrochloric Acid Production Industry ...... 2060-AH75 3250 SAN No. 4107 NESHAP: Asphalt/Coal Tar Application on Metal Pipes ...... 2060-AH78 3251 SAN No. 4113 NESHAP: Clay Minerals Processing ...... 2060-AH79 3252 SAN No. 4098 NESHAP: Uranium Hexafluoride Production ...... 2060-AH83 3253 SAN No. 4119 Performance Specification 16 - Specifications and Test Procedures for Predictive Emission Monitor- ing Systems in Stationary Sources ...... 2060-AH84 3254 SAN No. 4003 Technical Change to Dose Methodology for 40 CFR 191, Subpart A ...... 2060-AH90 3255 SAN No. 4464 Rulemaking on Section 126 Petitions from New York and Connecticut Regarding Sources in Michi- gan ...... 2060-AJ36 3256 SAN No. 3656 NESHAP: Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engine ...... 2060-AG63 3257 SAN No. 3657 NESHAP: Combustion Turbine ...... 2060-AG67 3258 SAN No. 3343 NESHAP: Iron Foundries and Steel Foundries ...... 2060-AE43 3259 SAN No. 3346 NESHAP: Integrated Iron and Steel ...... 2060-AE48 3260 SAN No. 3326 NESHAP: Reinforced Plastic Composites Production ...... 2060-AE79 3261 SAN No. 3452 National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Miscellaneous Organic Chemical Manu- facturing and Miscellaneous Coating Manufacturing ...... 2060-AE82 3262 SAN No. 3449 NESHAP: Chlorine Production ...... 2060-AE85 3263 SAN No. 3551 Amendments to General Provisions Subparts A and B for 40 CFR 63 ...... 2060-AF31 3264 SAN No. 3825 NESHAP: Miscellaneous Metal Parts and Products (Surface Coating) ...... 2060-AG56 3265 SAN No. 3655 NESHAP: Asphalt Roofing and Processing ...... 2060-AG66 3266 SAN No. 3652 NESHAP: Refractories Manufacturing ...... 2060-AG68 3267 SAN No. 3837 NESHAP: Industrial, Commercial and Institutional Boilers and Process Heaters ...... 2060-AG69 3268 SAN No. 3651 NESHAP: Lime Manufacturing ...... 2060-AG72 3269 SAN No. 3902 NESHAP: Semiconductor Production ...... 2060-AG93 3270 SAN No. 3906 NESHAP: Metal Can (Surface Coating) Industry ...... 2060-AG96 3271 SAN No. 3909 NESHAP: Fabric Printing, Coating and Dyeing ...... 2060-AG98 3272 SAN No. 3907 NESHAP: Automobile and Light-Duty Truck Manufacturing (Surface Coating) ...... 2060-AG99 3273 SAN No. 3924 NESHAP: Primary Magnesium Refining ...... 2060-AH03 3274 SAN No. 2841 NESHAP: Chromium Electroplating Amendment ...... 2060-AH08 3275 SAN No. 3968 NESHAP: Site Remediation ...... 2060-AH12
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Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3276 SAN No. 3972 NESHAP: Rocket Engine Test Firing ...... 2060-AH35 3277 SAN No. 3971 NESHAP: Organic Liquids Distribution (Non-Gasoline) ...... 2060-AH41 3278 SAN No. 3824 Metal Furniture (Surface Coating) NESHAP ...... 2060-AG55 3279 SAN No. 3826 Plastic Parts (Surface Coating) NESHAP ...... 2060-AG57 3280 SAN No. 3904 NESHAP: Wood Building Products (Surface Coating) ...... 2060-AH02 3281 SAN No. 3139 Location of Selective Enforcement Audits of Foreign Manufactured Vehicles and Engines; Amend- ment ...... 2060-AD90 3282 SAN No. 3979 Review of Federal Test Procedures for Emissions From Motor Vehicles; Test Procedure Adjust- ments to Fuel Economy and Emission Test Results ...... 2060-AH38 3283 SAN No. 3673 Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Reconsideration of Section 608 Sales Restriction ...... 2060-AG20 3284 SAN No. 4487 Federal Implementation Plans for Indian Reservations in Idaho, Oregon and Washington ...... 2012-AA01 3285 SAN No. 4511 Accidental Release Prevention Requirements: Risk Management Programs Under the Clean Air Act, Section 112(r)(7); Third Party Audit Provisions ...... 2050-AE85 3286 SAN No. 4115 NESHAP: Chromium Electroplating Amendment ...... 2060-AH69 3287 SAN No. 4154 Control of Emissions from Nonroad Large Spark-Ignition Engines, Recreational Engines (Marine and Land-Based), and Highway Motorcycles ...... 2060-AI11 3288 SAN No. 4253 Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Process for Exempting Quarantine and Preshipment Methyl Bro- mide and Trade Ban With Non-Parties to the Montreal Protocol ...... 2060-AI42 3289 SAN No. 4255 Review of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter ...... 2060-AI44 3290 SAN No. 4340 Transportation Conformity Amendments: Response to March 2, 1999, Court Decision ...... 2060-AI56 3291 SAN No. 4309 National VOC Emission Standards for Consumer Products; Proposed Amendments ...... 2060-AI62 3292 SAN No. 4310 NESHAP for the Printing and Publishing Industry; Amendments ...... 2060-AI66 3293 SAN No. 4325 NESHAP: Brick and Structural Clay Products Manufacturing ...... 2060-AI67 3294 SAN No. 4343 NESHAP: Clay Ceramics Manufacturing ...... 2060-AI68 3295 SAN No. 4313 Petitions to Delist Hazardous Air Pollutants (e.g., MEK, EGBE, Methanol, and MIBK) from Section 112(b)(1) of the CAA ...... 2060-AI72 3296 SAN No. 4144 NESHAP: Engine Test Facilities ...... 2060-AI74 3297 SAN No. 4346 NESHAP: Lightweight Aggregate Manufacturing ...... 2060-AI75 3298 SAN No. 4306 Development of Reference Method for the Determination of Source Emissions of Filterable Fine Particulate Matter as PM2.5 ...... 2060-AI96 3299 SAN No. 4348 Inspection Maintenance Program Requirements for Federal Facilities; Amendment to the Final Rule 2060-AI97 3300 SAN No. 4393 Control of Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE) ...... 2060-AJ00 3301 SAN No. 4380 NESHAP: Taconite Iron Ore Processing Industry ...... 2060-AJ02 3302 SAN No. 4413 NESHAP: Aluminum Die Casting and Aluminum Foundries ...... 2060-AJ09 3303 SAN No. 4390 New Source Review (NSR) Improvement: Utility Sector Offramp Program ...... 2060-AJ14 3304 SAN No. 4410 Protection of Stratospheric Ozone Allocation of Essential-Use Allowances for Calendar Year 2001: Laboratory Essential Use Exemptions ...... 2060-AJ15 3305 SAN No. 4433 Rulemaking for Purposes of Reducing Interstate Ozone Transport: Response to March 3, 2000 De- cision of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ...... 2060-AJ16 3306 SAN No. 4460 NESHAP for Friction Products Manufacturing ...... 2060-AJ18 3307 SAN No. 4449 NESHAP for Flexible Polyurethane Foam Fabrication Operations ...... 2060-AJ19 3308 SAN No. 4466 Rulemakings for the Purpose of Reducing Interstate Ozone Transport ...... 2060-AJ20 3309 SAN No. 4415 Petitions to Delist Source Categories from the Source Category List, Developed Pursuant to Sec- tion 112(c) of the Clean Air Act ...... 2060-AJ23 3310 SAN No. 4421 Revising Regulations on Ambient Air Quality Monitoring ...... 2060-AJ25 3311 SAN No. 4426 Clarification to Existing Part 63 NESHAP Delegations’ Provisions-Work Practices ...... 2060-AJ26 3312 SAN No. 4441 Federal Plan for Commercial and Industrial Solid Waste Incineration Units ...... 2060-AJ28 3313 SAN No. 4448 Revisions to Part 97 Federal NOx Budget Trading Program Allowance Allocation Method and Part 75 Output and Emissions Monitoring Provisions ...... 2060-AJ30 3314 SAN No. 4450 Guidelines for Best Available Retrofit Technology (BART) ...... 2060-AJ31 3315 SAN No. 4457 NESHAP: Pesticides Active Ingredients—Amendments ...... 2060-AJ34 3316 SAN No. 4538 Revisions to the Part 97 Federal NOx Budget Trading Program, the Part 75 Emissions Monitoring Provisions, the Part 72 Permits Regulation Provisions, and the Part 78 Appeal Procedures ...... 2060-AJ43 3317 SAN No. 4484 NESHAP: Amino/Phenolic Resins: Amendment ...... 2060-AJ45 3318 SAN No. 4454 Federal Plan for Small Municipal Waste Combustion Units ...... 2060-AJ46 3319 SAN No. 4520 Petition by Colorado To Relax the Reid Vapor Pressure Standard for Gasoline for 2001 ...... 2060-AJ55 3320 SAN No. 4535 Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Process for Exempting Critical and Emergency Uses of Methyl Bromide ...... 2060-AJ63
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Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3321 SAN No. 3569 Source-Specific Federal Implementation Plan for Navajo Generating Station; Four Corners Power Plant ...... 2009-AA01 3322 SAN No. 3259 New Source Review (NSR) Improvement ...... 2060-AE11 3323 SAN No. 3380 NSPS: Synthetic Organic Chemicals Manufacturing Industry - Wastewater (FINAL) & Amend. to Appendix C of Part 63 & Appendix J of Part 60 ...... 2060-AE94 3324 SAN No. 3549 NESHAP: Petroleum Refineries; Catalytic Cracking Units, Catalytic Reforming Units and Sulfur Re- covery Units ...... 2060-AF28 3325 SAN No. 2915 Methods for Measurement of Visible Emissions—Addition of Methods 203A, 203B, and 203C to Appendix M of Part 51 ...... 2060-AF83 3326 SAN No. 3568 Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Yucca Mountain, Nevada ...... 2060-AG14 3327 SAN No. 3900 Addition of Method 207 to Appendix M of 40 CFR Part 51 Method for Measuring Isocyanates in Stationary Source Emissions ...... 2060-AG88 3328 SAN No. 3970 NESHAP: Cellulose Production Manufacturing ...... 2060-AH11 3329 SAN No. 3969 NESHAP: Municipal Solid Waste Landfills ...... 2060-AH13 3330 SAN No. 3958 Addition of Opacity Method to Appendix M of 40 CFR Part 51 (Method 203) ...... 2060-AH23 3331 SAN No. 3986 Consolidated Emissions Reporting Rule ...... 2060-AH25 3332 SAN No. 4030 Expanded Definitions for Alternative-Fueled Vehicles and Engines Meeting Low-Emission Vehicle Exhaust Emission Standards ...... 2060-AH52 3333 SAN No. 4123 NESHAP: Pulp and Paper Production; Amendments to the Promulgated Rule ...... 2060-AH74 3334 SAN No. 4114 NESHAP: Polyvinyl Chloride and Copolymers Production ...... 2060-AH82 3335 SAN No. 4096 Phase I Federal Implementation Plans (FIPs) To Reduce the Regional Transport of Ozone in the Eastern United States ...... 2060-AH87 3336 SAN No. 4082 NESHAP: Wet-Formed Fiberglass Mat Production ...... 2060-AH89 3337 SAN No. 4077 Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Reconsideration on the 610 Nonessential Products Ban ...... 2060-AH99 3338 SAN No. 4254 Revision to the Definition of Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) to Exclude Tertiary Butyl Acetate ... 2060-AI45 3339 SAN No. 1002 NAAQS: Sulfur Dioxide (Response to Remand) ...... 2060-AA61 3340 SAN No. 3470 Requirements for Preparation, Adoption, and Submittal of State Implementation Plans (Guideline on Air Quality Models) ...... 2060-AF01 3341 SAN No. 3340 NESHAP: Primary Copper Smelting ...... 2060-AE46 3342 SAN No. 3550 NESHAP: Manufacturing of Nutritional Yeast ...... 2060-AF30 3343 SAN No. 3747 NESHAP: Boat Manufacturing ...... 2060-AG27 3344 SAN No. 3749 NESHAP: Tire Manufacturing ...... 2060-AG29 3345 SAN No. 3823 NESHAP: Large Appliance (Surface Coating) ...... 2060-AG54 3346 SAN No. 3905 NESHAP: Metal Coil (Surface Coating) Industry ...... 2060-AG97 3347 SAN No. 3964 NESHAP: Leather Finishing Operations ...... 2060-AH17 3348 SAN No. 3903 NESHAP: Solvent Extraction for Vegetable Oil Production ...... 2060-AH22 3349 SAN No. 3939 NESHAP: Group I Polymers and Resins and Group IV Polymers and Resins-Amendments ...... 2060-AH47 3350 SAN No. 2665 Importation of Nonconforming Vehicles; Amendments to Regulations ...... 2060-AI03 3351 SAN No. 3556 Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Supplemental Rule Regarding a Recycling Standard Under Sec- tion 608 ...... 2060-AF36 3352 SAN No. 3560 Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Refrigerant Recycling Rule Amendment To Include Substitute Refrigerants ...... 2060-AF37 3353 SAN No. 3525 Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Update of the Substitutes List Under the Significant New Alter- natives Policy (SNAP) Program ...... 2060-AG12 3354 SAN No. 3827 Paper and Other Web Coating NESHAP ...... 2060-AG58 3355 SAN No. 4315 Source-Specific Federal Implementation Plan for Navajo Generating Station; Navajo Nation ...... 2009-AA00 3356 SAN No. 4105 NESHAP: Generic MACT for Carbon Black, Ethylene, Cyanide and Spandex ...... 2060-AH68 3357 SAN No. 4316 NESHAP for Ethylene Oxide Commercial Sterilization Operations-Monitoring Amendments ...... 2060-AI64 3358 SAN No. 4273 Amend Subpart H and I, 40 CFR Part 61, for Emissions of Radionuclides Other Than Radon From DOE Facilities ...... 2060-AI90 3359 SAN No. 4299 Revision to Method 24 for Electrical Insulating Varnishes ...... 2060-AI94 3360 SAN No. 4358 Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives: Reformulated Gasoline Adjustment ...... 2060-AI98 3361 SAN No. 4417 Removal of Aluminum Die Casting and Aluminum Foundries From the Secondary Aluminum NESHAP and Applicability Stay for These Industries ...... 2060-AJ11 3362 SAN No. 4458 NESHAP for Pharmaceuticals Production: Direct Final Amendments ...... 2060-AJ17 3363 SAN No. 4428 Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Phaseout of Chlorobromomethane (Halon 1011) Production and Consumption ...... 2060-AJ27 3364 SAN No. 4442 NESHAP for Source Categories: Phosphoric Acid Manufacturing and Phosphate Fertilizers Produc- tion — Amendments ...... 2060-AJ29
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Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3365 SAN No. 4478 Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources: Municipal Solid Waste Landfills: Amend- ment ...... 2060-AJ41 3366 SAN No. 4479 NESHAP: Gasoline Distribution Facilities — Amendment ...... 2060-AJ42 3367 SAN No. 4491 Section 126 Rule Revision Correcting NOx Allowance Allocations for Certain Units in the Federal NOx Budget Trading Program ...... 2060-AJ47 3368 SAN No. 4492 Revision to Interim Approval Requirements ...... 2060-AJ48 3369 SAN No. 4507 Standards of Performance for New Sources and Emission Guidelines for Existing Sources: Large Municipal Waste Combustors Amendment of Startup, Shutdown, and Malfunction Provisions ...... 2060-AJ52 3370 SAN No. 4524 Portland Cement Manufacturing Industry NESHAP: Amendments to Rule ...... 2060-AJ57 3371 SAN No. 4528 Modification of the Anti-Dumping Baseline Date Cut-Off Limit for Data Used in Development of an Individual Baseline ...... 2060-AJ59 3372 SAN No. 4529 Change in Definition of ‘‘major source’’ for Operating Permits ...... 2060-AJ60 3373 SAN No. 4544 NESHAP: Ferroalloy Production: Ferromanganese and Silicomanganese ...... 2060-AJ64 3374 SAN No. 4517 Project XL Site-Specific Rulemaking for Weyerhaeuser Company Flint River Operations ...... 2090-AA20 3375 SAN No. 4278 Project XL Site-Specific Rulemaking for Andersen Corporation’s Facility in Bayport, Minnesota ...... 2090-AA21
CLEAN AIR ACT (CAA)—Long-Term Actions
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3376 SAN No. 3553 Implementation of Ozone and Particulate Matter (PM) National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) and Regional Haze Regulations ...... 2060-AF34 3377 SAN No. 3922 Revised Permit Revision Procedures for the Federal Operating Permits Program ...... 2060-AG92 3378 SAN No. 3975 Review of Minor New Sources and Modifications in Indian Country ...... 2060-AH37 3379 SAN No. 4046 Federal Major New Source Review (NSR) Program for Nonattainment Areas ...... 2060-AH53 3380 SAN No. 4070 General Conformity Regulations; Revisions ...... 2060-AH93 3381 SAN No. 4247 Revisions to Air Pollution Emergency Episode Requirements (Subpart H, 40 CFR Part 51) ...... 2060-AI47 3382 SAN No. 3638 Revision of EPA’s Radiological Emergency Response Plan ...... 2060-AI49 3383 SAN No. 3746 NESHAP: Paint Stripping Operations ...... 2060-AG26 3384 SAN No. 3479 Amendments to Parts 51, 52, 63, 70 and 71 Regarding the Provisions for Determining Potential To Emit ...... 2060-AI01 3385 SAN No. 4162 NESHAP: Oil and Natural Gas Production ...... 2060-AI13 3386 SAN No. 2937 Field Citation Program ...... 2020-AA32 3387 SAN No. 3751 NSPS and Emission Guidelines for Other Solid Waste Incinerators ...... 2060-AG31 3388 SAN No. 3919 Prevention of Significant Deterioration of Air Quality: Permit Application Review Procedures for Non-Federal Class I Areas ...... 2060-AH01 3389 SAN No. 4245 Consumer and Commercial Products: Flexible Package Printing Materials: Determination on Con- trol Techniques Guidelines in Lieu of Regulation ...... 2060-AI31 3390 SAN No. 4542 Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) for the Billings/Laurel, Montana Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) Area ...... 2008-AA00 3391 SAN No. 4266 Review National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Carbon Monoxide ...... 2060-AI43 3392 SAN No. 4274 Identification of Additional Ozone Areas Attaining the 1-Hour Standard and to Which the 1-Hour Standard Is No Longer Applicable (7 Areas) ...... 2060-AI57 3393 SAN No. 4276 Revision to NOx SIP Call Emission Budgets for Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island ...... 2060-AI80 3394 SAN No. 4383 Interstate Ozone Transport: Rulemaking on Section 126 Petitions From the District of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey ...... 2060-AI99 3395 SAN No. 4391 Rescinding Finding That Pre-existing PM10 Standards Are No Longer Applicable in Northern Ada County/Boise, Idaho ...... 2060-AJ05 3396 SAN No. 4471 Project XL Site-Specific Rulemaking for Georgia-Pacific Corporation’s Facility in Big Island, Virginia 2090-AA26
CLEAN AIR ACT (CAA)—Completed Actions
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3397 SAN No. 3407 Method 301: Field Validation of Pollution Measurement Methods for Various Media; Revisions ...... 2060-AF00 3398 SAN No. 3743 Amendments for Testing and Monitoring Provisions to Part 60, Part 61, and Part 63 ...... 2060-AG21
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Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3399 SAN No. 3748 Consolidated Federal Air Rule for the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturing Industry ...... 2060-AG28 3400 SAN No. 4103 NESHAP: Organic Hazardous Air Pollutants From the Synthetic Organic Chemical Industry (SOCMI) & Other Processes Subject to the Negotiated Regulation for Equipment Leaks ...... 2060-AH81 3401 SAN No. 4333 Decision on a Petition From the Territory of American Samoa To Be Exempted From the Gasoline Anti-Dumping Regulations ...... 2060-AI60 3402 SAN No. 4504 NESHAP: Off-Site Waste and Recovery Operations; Final Rule—Settle Agreement; and NESHAP for Off-Site Waste and Recovery Operations; Technical Amendment ...... 2060-AJ44 3403 SAN No. 3304 NESHAP: Phosphate Fertilizers Production ...... 2060-AE44 3404 SAN No. 3754 Petroleum Solvent Dry Cleaners Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) Standard ...... 2060-AG34 3405 SAN No. 3829 Revisions to the Regulation for Approval of State Programs and Delegation of Federal Authorities 112(l) ...... 2060-AG60 3406 SAN No. 3899 NESHAP: Friction Products Manufacturing ...... 2060-AG87 3407 SAN No. 3962 NESHAP: Manufacture of Carbon Black ...... 2060-AH19 3408 SAN No. 3973 NESHAP: Flexible Polyurethane Foam Fabrication Operations ...... 2060-AH42 3409 SAN No. 4218 NESHAP: Process Heaters ...... 2060-AI35 3410 SAN No. 4455 NESHAP: Amino/Phenolic Resins Amendment ...... 2060-AJ32 3411 SAN No. 3613 NSPS and Emission Guidelines for Commercial and Industrial Solid Waste Incineration Units ...... 2060-AF91 3412 SAN No. 4271 Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Incorporation of Clean Air Act Amendments for Reduction in Class I, Group VI Controlled Substances ...... 2060-AI41 3413 SAN No. 4385 Amendments to Vehicle Inspection Maintenance Program Requirements Implementing the Onboard Diagnostic Check; Amendment to the Final Rule ...... 2060-AJ03 3414 SAN No. 4110 NESHAP: Alumina Processing ...... 2060-AH70 3415 SAN No. 4240 NESHAP: Chemical Recovery Combustion Sources at Kraft, Soda, Sulfite and Stand-Alone Semichemical Pulp Mills ...... 2060-AI34 3416 SAN No. 4251 Control of Emissions of Air Pollution from New Compression-Ignition and Spark-Ignition Rec- reational Marine Engines ...... 2060-AI36 3417 SAN No. 4243 Standards and Guidelines for Small Municipal Waste Combustion Units ...... 2060-AI51 3418 SAN No. 4284 Revision of Schedule for Standards Under Section 112 of the CAA ...... 2060-AI52 3419 SAN No. 4285 Control of Emissions of Hazardous Pollutants from Motor Vehicles and Motor Vehicle Fuels ...... 2060-AI55 3420 SAN No. 4286 National Emission Standards for Benzene Emissions from Coke Byproduct Recovery Plants (Part 61, Subpart L) ...... 2060-AI65 3421 SAN No. 4355 Heavy-Duty Engine Emission Standards & Diesel Fuel Sulfur Control Requirements ...... 2060-AI69 3422 SAN No. 4353 Amendments to the Aerospace Manufacturing and Rework Facilities NESHAP for the HAP and VOC Content Limits for Primer Operations and Stay of Compliance ...... 2060-AI77 3423 SAN No. 4354 NESHAP: Pharmaceuticals Production; Final Amendments ...... 2060-AI78 3424 SAN No. 4304 National Ambient Air Quality Standard for Ozone - Corrections Notice ...... 2060-AI95 3425 SAN No. 4387 Amendments to State and Federal Operating Permits Programs, Part 70 and Part 71, Compliance Certification Requirements ...... 2060-AJ04 3426 SAN No. 4414 Revision of Standards of Performance for Nitrogen Oxide Emissions from New Fossil-Fuel Fired Steam Generating Units ...... 2060-AJ22 3427 SAN No. 4416 Revision to the Source Category Listing for Section 112(d)(2) Rulemaking Pursuant to Section 112(c)(6) Requirements ...... 2060-AJ24 3428 SAN No. 4456 Stratospheric Ozone Protection: Allocation of Essential Use Allowances for Calendar Year 2001 ..... 2060-AJ33 3429 SAN No. 4465 Stay of the 8-Hour Portion of Findings of Significant Contribution and Rulemaking for Purposes of Reducing Interstate Ozone Transport ...... 2060-AJ37 3430 SAN No. 4468 National Air Toxics Program: Integrated Strategy, Report to Congress ...... 2060-AJ38 3431 SAN No. 4471 Project XL Site-Specific Rulemaking for Georgia-Pacific Corporation’s Facility in Big Island, Virginia 2060-AJ39 3432 SAN No. 4336 Amendments to NESHAP: Off-Site Waste and Recovery Operations ...... 2060-AJ40 3433 SAN No. 4527 Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Listing of Substitutes for Ozone-Depleting Substances—N- Propylbromide ...... 2060-AJ58
ATOMIC ENERGY ACT (AEA)—Proposed Rule Stage
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3434 SAN No. 3602 Protective Action Guidance for Drinking Water ...... 2060-AF39
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Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3435 SAN No. 4054 Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for the Disposal of Low-Activity Mixed Radioactive Waste ...... 2060-AH63 3436 SAN No. 4403 Revision of the 40 CFR Part 194 Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Compliance Criteria ...... 2060-AJ07
FEDERAL INSECTICIDE, FUNGICIDE, AND RODENTICIDE ACT (FIFRA)—Proposed Rule Stage
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3437 SAN No. 2684 Plant Incorporated Protectants (Formerly Plant Pesticides) Rulemakings ...... 2070-AC02 3438 SAN No. 2687 Data Requirements for Pesticide Registration; Toxicology, Exposure and Residue Chemistry ...... 2070-AC12 3439 SAN No. 4170 Pesticides; Procedures for Registration Review Program ...... 2070-AD29 3440 SAN No. 4173 Data Requirements for Antimicrobial Pesticide Registration; Product Chemistry Requirements ...... 2070-AD30 3441 SAN No. 4496 Data Requirement for Pesticide Registration; Environmental Fate and Ecological Effects ...... 2070-AD47
FEDERAL INSECTICIDE, FUNGICIDE, AND RODENTICIDE ACT (FIFRA)—Final Rule Stage
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3442 SAN No. 2659 Pesticide Management and Disposal; Standards for Pesticide Containers and Containment ...... 2070-AB95 3443 SAN No. 3222 Groundwater and Pesticide Management Plan Rule ...... 2070-AC46 3444 SAN No. 3731 WPS; Pesticide Worker Protection Standard; Glove Amendment ...... 2070-AC93 3445 SAN No. 3892 Registration Requirements for Antimicrobial Pesticide Products; and Other Pesticide Regulatory Changes ...... 2070-AD14
FEDERAL INSECTICIDE, FUNGICIDE, AND RODENTICIDE ACT (FIFRA)—Long-Term Actions
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3446 SAN No. 4216 Regulatory Review of Pesticide Emergency Exemption Regulations ...... 2070-AD36 3447 SAN No. 3432 Pesticide Management and Disposal ...... 2020-AA33 3448 SAN No. 4143 Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program ...... 2070-AD26
FEDERAL INSECTICIDE, FUNGICIDE, AND RODENTICIDE ACT (FIFRA)—Completed Actions
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3449 SAN No. 3890 Tolerances for Pesticide Emergency Exemptions ...... 2070-AD15 3450 SAN No. 2720 Policy or Procedures for Notification to the Agency of Stored Pesticides With Canceled or Sus- pended Registration ...... 2020-AA29 3451 SAN No. 4347 Registration of Granular Fertilizer-Pesticide Combination Products ...... 2070-AD40
TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT (TSCA)—Proposed Rule Stage
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3452 SAN No. 2563 Test Rule; ATSDR Substances ...... 2070-AB79 3453 SAN No. 4174 TSCA Section 4 Enforceable Consent Agreement for Certain Oxygenated Fuel Additives ...... 2070-AD28 3454 SAN No. 4395 Test Rule; Multi-Substance Rule for the Testing of Developmental and Reproductive Toxicity ...... 2070-AD44 3455 SAN No. 1923 Follow-Up Rules on Existing Chemicals ...... 2070-AA58
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Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3456 SAN No. 4512 Significant New Use Rule; Selected Flame Retardant Chemical Substances for use in Residential Upholstered Furniture ...... 2070-AD48 3457 SAN No. 3557 Lead-Based Paint Activities; Training and Certification for Renovation and Remodeling ...... 2070-AC83
TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT (TSCA)—Final Rule Stage
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3458 SAN No. 3301 TSCA Inventory Update Rule Amendments ...... 2070-AC61 3459 SAN No. 3493 Test Rule; Generic Entry for ITC Related Testing Decisions ...... 2070-AB94 3460 SAN No. 3487 Test Rule; Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs) ...... 2070-AC76 3461 SAN No. 3990 Test Rule; Certain High Production Volume (HPV) Chemicals ...... 2070-AD16 3462 SAN No. 4425 Test Rule; In Vitro Dermal Absorption Rate Testing of Certain Chemicals of Interest to the Occupa- tional Safety and Health Administration ...... 2070-AD42 3463 SAN No. 1976 Follow-Up Rules on Non-5(e) New Chemical Substances ...... 2070-AA59 3464 SAN No. 3495 Significant New Use Rule (SNUR); Chemical-Specific SNURs To Extend Provisions of Section 5(e) Orders ...... 2070-AB27 3465 SAN No. 4475 Significant New Use Rule; Certain Perfluoroalkyl Sulfonyl (Pfos) Containing Chemical Substances .. 2070-AD43 3466 SAN No. 2150 Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs); Exemptions From the Prohibitions Against Manufacturing, Proc- essing, and Distribution in Commerce ...... 2070-AB20 3467 SAN No. 2779 Acrylamide; Prohibition on Manufacture, Importation, Distribution and Use of Acrylamide for Grout- ing ...... 2070-AC17 3468 SAN No. 3528 Significant New Use Rule; Refractory Ceramic Fibers ...... 2070-AC37 3469 SAN No. 2178 TSCA Section 8(a) Preliminary Assessment Information Rules ...... 2070-AB08 3470 SAN No. 1139 TSCA Section 8(d) Health and Safety Data Reporting Rules ...... 2070-AB11 3471 SAN No. 3559 Notice of TSCA Section 4 Reimbursement Period and TSCA Section 12(b) Export Notification Pe- riod Sunset Dates for TSCA Section 4 Substances ...... 2070-AC84 3472 SAN No. 4172 Lead; Notification Requirements for Lead-Based Paint Abatement Activities and Training ...... 2070-AD31 3473 SAN No. 3118 TSCA Section 8(e) Policy; Notice of Clarification ...... 2070-AC80
TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT (TSCA)—Long-Term Actions
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3474 SAN No. 4027 Pesticides; Tolerance Processing Fees ...... 2070-AD23 3475 SAN No. 4175 Pesticide Tolerance Reassessment Program ...... 2070-AD24 3476 SAN No. 2865 Voluntary Children’s Chemical Evaluation Program (VCCEP) ...... 2070-AC27 3477 SAN No. 3882 Test Rule; Certain Metals ...... 2070-AD10 3478 SAN No. 3252 Lead; Regulatory Investigation Under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) To Reduce Lead (Pb) Consumption and Use ...... 2070-AC21 3479 SAN No. 3148 Asbestos Model Accreditation Plan Revisions ...... 2070-AC51 3480 SAN No. 4179 Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs); Use Authorizations ...... 2070-AD27 3481 SAN No. 4376 Lead-Based Paint Activities; Training, Accreditation, and Certification Rule and Model State Plan Rule - Building and Structures ...... 2070-AC64 3482 SAN No. 3508 Lead; Management and Disposal of Lead-Based Paint Debris ...... 2070-AC72 3483 SAN No. 4176 Chemical Right-to-Know Initiative; High Production Volume (HPV) Chemicals ...... 2070-AD25
TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT (TSCA)—Completed Actions
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3484 SAN No. 3021 Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs); Reclassification of PCB and PCB Contaminated Electrical Equipment Final Rule ...... 2070-AC39
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Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3485 SAN No. 2249 Asbestos Worker Protection Rule Amendments ...... 2070-AC66 3486 SAN No. 3243 Lead; Identification of Dangerous Levels of Lead Pursuant to TSCA Section 403 ...... 2070-AC63 3487 SAN No. 4488 Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs); Return of PCB Waste from U.S. Territories Outside the Customs Territory of the United States ...... 2070-AD46
EMERGENCY PLANNING AND COMMUNITY RIGHT-TO-KNOW ACT (EPCRA)—Proposed Rule Stage
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3488 SAN No. 4265 TRI; Revisions to the Otherwise Use Activity Exemptions and the Coal Extraction Activities Exemp- tion ...... 2025-AA06 3489 SAN No. 4392 TRI: APA Petition-EPCRA 313 Definition of ‘‘Overburden’’ as it relates to the mining industry...... 2025-AA08 3490 SAN No. 3215 Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act: Amendments and Streamlining Rule ...... 2050-AE17 3491 SAN No. 3993 Modification of Threshold Planning Quantity for Isophorone Diisocyanate ...... 2050-AE43
EMERGENCY PLANNING AND COMMUNITY RIGHT-TO-KNOW ACT (EPCRA)—Final Rule Stage
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3492 SAN No. 2425 TRI; Responses to Petitions Received To Add or Delete or Modify Chemical Listings on the Toxic Release Inventory ...... 2025-AA00
EMERGENCY PLANNING AND COMMUNITY RIGHT-TO-KNOW ACT (EPCRA)—Long-Term Actions
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3493 SAN No. 3007 TRI; Chemical Expansion; Finalization of Deferred Chemicals ...... 2025-AA01 3494 SAN No. 4015 TRI; Review of Chemicals on the Original TRI List ...... 2025-AA03 3495 SAN No. 2847 TRI; Pollution Prevention Act Information Requirements ...... 2025-AA09 3496 SAN No. 3994 Response to a Petition Requesting Deletion of Phosmet from the Extremely Hazardous Substances (EHSs) List ...... 2050-AE42
EMERGENCY PLANNING AND COMMUNITY RIGHT-TO-KNOW ACT (EPCRA)—Completed Actions
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3497 SAN No. 4259 TRI; Lowering of EPCRA Section 313 Reporting Thresholds for Lead and Lead Compounds ...... 2025-AA05
RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY ACT (RCRA)—Proposed Rule Stage
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3498 SAN No. 3989 Removal of Requirement To Use SW-846 Methods (Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Waste: Physical/Chemical Methods) ...... 2050-AE41 3499 SAN No. 4028 Standardized Permit for RCRA Hazardous Waste Management Facilities ...... 2050-AE44 3500 SAN No. 3066 Listing Determination of Wastes Generated During the Manufacture of Azo, Anthraquinone, and Tri- arylmethane Dyes and Pigments ...... 2050-AD80 3501 SAN No. 3545 Revisions to the Comprehensive Guideline for Procurement of Products Containing Recovered Ma- terials ...... 2050-AE23
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Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3502 SAN No. 3333 NESHAPS: Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Hazardous Waste Combustors-Phase II Covering Boilers and Certain Industrial Furnaces ...... 2050-AE01 3503 SAN No. 3147 Hazardous Waste Manifest Regulation ...... 2050-AE21 3504 SAN No. 4084 Office of Solid Waste Burden Reduction Project ...... 2050-AE50 3505 SAN No. 4091 Modifications to RCRA Rules Associated With Solvent-Contaminated Shop Towels and Wipes ...... 2050-AE51 3506 SAN No. 4092 Glass-to-Glass Recycling of Cathode Ray Tubes (CRTs): Changes to Hazardous Waste Regula- tions ...... 2050-AE52 3507 SAN No. 4093 Reinventing the Land Disposal Restrictions Program ...... 2050-AE53 3508 SAN No. 4230 Revisions to Solid Waste Landfill Criteria—Leachate Recirculation on Alternative Liners ...... 2050-AE67 3509 SAN No. 4411 Proposed Rule: Regulation of Oil Bearing Wastes From Petroleum Refineries Gasified To Produce Synthesis Gas ...... 2050-AE78 3510 SAN No. 4418 NESHAPS: Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Hazardous Waste Combustors ...... 2050-AE79 3511 SAN No. 4470 Standards for the Management of Coal Combustion Wastes Generated by Commercial Electric Power Producers ...... 2050-AE81 3512 SAN No. 4501 Revision of Wastewater Treatment Exemptions for Hazardous Waste Mixtures ...... 2050-AE84 3513 SAN No. 4525 Amendment to the Definition of Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Unit ...... 2050-AE86 3514 SAN No. 4439 Project XL — Ortho-McNeil Pilot Project Allowing On-Site Treatment of Low-Level Mixed Wastes Without RCRA Permit ...... 2090-AA14 3515 SAN No. 4534 Project XL Site-Specific Rulemaking for Anne Arundel County Millersville Landfill, Severn, Maryland 2090-AA25
RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY ACT (RCRA)—Final Rule Stage
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3516 SAN No. 3805 Paint Manufacturing Wastes Listing: Hazardous Waste Management System: Identification and Listing of Hazardous Waste ...... 2050-AE32 3517 SAN No. 3856 Management of Cement Kiln Dust (CKD) ...... 2050-AE34 3518 SAN No. 4017 Storage, Treatment, Transportation, and Disposal of Mixed Waste ...... 2050-AE45 3519 SAN No. 4088 Recycled Used Oil Containing PCBs ...... 2050-AE47 3520 SAN No. 4083 Listing of Hazardous Waste; Inorganic Chemical Wastes; Land Disposal Restrictions for Newly List- ed Wastes; CERCLA Hazardous Substances Reportable Quantities ...... 2050-AE49 3521 SAN No. 2647 RCRA Subtitle C Financial Test Criteria (Revision) ...... 2050-AC71 3522 SAN No. 3328 Hazardous Waste Identification Rule (HWIR): Identification and Listing of Hazardous Wastes ...... 2050-AE07 3523 SAN No. 4419 Amendments to the Corrective Action Management Unit Rule ...... 2050-AE77 3524 SAN No. 4437 Project XL Site-Specific Rulemaking for the U.S. Filter Recovery Services, Roseville, Minnesota, and Approved Generators and Transporters of USFRS XL Waste ...... 2090-AA15 3525 SAN No. 4498 Project XL Site-Specific Rulemaking for Yolo County Landfill, Davis, Yolo County, California ...... 2090-AA18 3526 SAN No. 4516 Project XL Notice of Proposed Rule for Autoliv Inc. Site-Specific Rulemaking ...... 2090-AA19
RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY ACT (RCRA)—Long-Term Actions
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3527 SAN No. 3428 Hazardous Waste Management System: Slag Residues Derived From High Temperature Metals Recovery (HTMR) Treatment of KO61, KO62 and F0006 Wastes ...... 2050-AE15 3528 SAN No. 3668 Hazardous Waste Identification; Recycled Used Oil Management Standards ...... 2050-AE28 3529 SAN No. 3888 Mercury-Containing and Rechargeable Battery Management Act; Codification of Waste Manage- ment Provisions ...... 2050-AE39 3530 SAN No. 4090 RCRA Appendix VIII Streamlining ...... 2050-AE55 3531 SAN No. 3189 Final Determination of the Applicability of the Toxicity Characteristic Rule to Petroleum Contami- nated Media and Debris from Underground Storage Tanks ...... 2050-AD69 3532 SAN No. 2390 Corrective Action for Solid Waste Management Units (SWMUs) at Hazardous Waste Management Facilities ...... 2050-AB80 3533 SAN No. 4094 Land Disposal Restrictions; Potential Revisions for Mercury Listed and Characteristic Wastes ...... 2050-AE54
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RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY ACT (RCRA)—Long-Term Actions (Continued)
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3534 SAN No. 4233 Land Disposal Restrictions; Treatment Standards for Spent Potliners from Primary Aluminum Re- duction (K088) and Regulatory Classification of K088 Vitrification Units ...... 2050-AE65 3535 SAN No. 4263 Temporary Suspension of Toxicity Characteristic Rule for Specific Lead-Based Paint Debris ...... 2050-AE68 3536 SAN No. 4208 Requirements for Zinc Fertilizer Made From Recycled Hazardous Secondary Materials ...... 2050-AE69 3537 SAN No. 4430 RCRA Controls for Wastewater Treatment Units ...... 2050-AE82 3538 SAN No. 4469 Standards for the Management of Coal Combustion Wastes - Non-Power Producers and Minefilling 2050-AE83
RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY ACT (RCRA)—Completed Actions
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3539 SAN No. 3151 Listing Determination for Wastewater and Wastewater Treatment Sludges from Chlorinated Aliphatics Productions; Land Disposal Restrictions for Newly Identified Waste ...... 2050-AD85 3540 SAN No. 4360 Deferral of Phase IV Standards for PCBs as a Constituent Subject to Treatment in Soil ...... 2050-AE76 3541 SAN No. 4438 Project XL — IBM VT Pilot Project providing a site-specific exemption of a metallization process from the F006 listing description ...... 2090-AA11 3542 SAN No. 4497 Project XL Site-Specific Rulemaking for Buncombe County Landfill, Alexander, North Carolina ...... 2090-AA22
OIL POLLUTION ACT (OPA)—Final Rule Stage
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3543 SAN No. 2634 Oil Pollution Prevention Regulation: Revisions ...... 2050-AC62
COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE, COMPENSATION AND LIABILITY ACT—Proposed Rule Stage
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3544 SAN No. 3423 Reportable Quantity Adjustments for Carbamates ...... 2050-AE12 3545 SAN No. 3439 National Priorities List for Uncontrolled Hazardous Waste Sites: Proposed and Final Rules ...... 2050-AD75 3546 SAN No. 4177 Revise 40 CFR Part 35 Subpart O: Cooperative Agreements and Superfund State Contracts for Superfund Response Actions ...... 2050-AE62
COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE, COMPENSATION AND LIABILITY ACT—Long-Term Actions
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3547 SAN No. 2394 Reporting Exemptions for Federally Permitted Releases of Hazardous Substances ...... 2050-AB82 3548 SAN No. 3885 Streamlining the Preauthorization Mixed Funding for Application and Implementation of Claims Against Superfund ...... 2050-AE38 3549 SAN No. 4201 Criteria for the Designation of Hazardous Substances under CERCLA Section 102(a) ...... 2050-AE63
COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE, COMPENSATION AND LIABILITY ACT—Completed Actions
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3550 SAN No. 3806 Grants for Technical Assistance Rule Reform—40 CFR Part 35 Subpart M ...... 2050-AE33
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CLEAN WATER ACT (CWA)—Proposed Rule Stage
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3551 SAN No. 4280 Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the Construction and Development Industry ...... 2040-AD42 3552 SAN No. 4407 Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the Meat Products Point Source Category (Revisions) ...... 2040-AD56 3553 SAN No. 4264 Water Quality Standards for Alabama—Phase II ...... 2040-AD35 3554 SAN No. 4344 Water Quality Standards for Indian Country Waters ...... 2040-AD46 3555 SAN No. 4047 Test Procedures for the Analysis of Cryptosporidium and Giardia Under the Safe Drinking Water and Clean Water Acts ...... 2040-AD08 3556 SAN No. 4214 Test Procedures for the Analysis of E. Coli and Enterococci Under the Clean Water Act ...... 2040-AD34 3557 SAN No. 4474 Minimizing Adverse Environmental Impact From Cooling Water Intake Structures at Existing Facili- ties Under Section 316(b) of the Clean Water Act, Phase 2 ...... 2040-AD62 3558 SAN No. 3786 NPDES Streamlining Rule — Round III ...... 2040-AC84 3559 SAN No. 3999 NPDES Requirements for Municipal Sanitary Sewer Collection Systems, Municipal Satellite Collec- tion Systems, and Sanitary Sewer Overflows ...... 2040-AD02 3560 SAN No. 4332 Recognition Awards Under the Clean Water Act ...... 2040-AD44 3561 SAN No. 4446 Ocean Discharges Criteria Revisions ...... 2040-AD60 3562 SAN No. 2804 Clean Water Act Definition of Waters of the United States ...... 2040-AB74 3563 SAN No. 4493 Clean Water State Revolving Fund Regulation Revisions Re: Use as Matching Funds ...... 2040-AD68 3564 SAN No. 4541 Test Procedures for the Analysis of Mercury Under the Clean Water Act (Revisions to Method 1631) ...... 2040-AD72 3565 SAN No. 4514 Proposal to Revise and to Ratify or Withdraw Whole Effluent Toxicity Test Methods ...... 2040-AD73 3566 SAN No. 4526 Revisions to the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan; Subpart J Product Schedule Listing Requirements ...... 2050-AE87
CLEAN WATER ACT (CWA)—Final Rule Stage
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3567 SAN No. 4192 Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the Bleached Papergrade Kraft Subcategory of the Pulp, Paper, and Paperboard Category; Certification in Lieu of Monitoring for Chloroform ...... 2040-AD23 3568 SAN No. 4168 Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the Coal Mining Point Source Category (Revisions) ...... 2040-AD24 3569 SAN No. 3155 Test Procedures for the Analysis of Miscellaneous Metals, Anions, and Volatile Organics Under the Clean Water Act, Phase One ...... 2040-AC95 3570 SAN No. 4409 Test Procedures: Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act Methods Update ...... 2040-AD59 3571 SAN No. 3444 Minimizing Adverse Environmental Impact From Cooling Water Intake Structures at New Facilities Under Section 316(b) of the Clean Water Act, Phase 1 ...... 2040-AC34 3572 SAN No. 3663 Streamlining the General Pretreatment Regulations for Existing and New Sources of Pollution ...... 2040-AC58 3573 SAN No. 3288 Comparison of Dredged Material to Reference Sediment ...... 2040-AC14 3574 SAN No. 3488 Round 2 Standards for the Use or Disposal of Sewage Sludge ...... 2040-AC25 3575 SAN No. 4515 Procedures for Tribes to Obtain Approval for Treatment as a State To Receive Funding for the Beaches Program ...... 2040-AD69 3576 SAN No. 4476 Pretreatment Program Reinvention Pilot Projects Under Project XL ...... 2090-AA16
CLEAN WATER ACT (CWA)—Long-Term Actions
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3577 SAN No. 2806 Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the Metal Products and Machinery Category, Phases 1 and 2 2040-AB79 3578 SAN No. 3833 Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the Iron and Steel Manufacturing Point Source Category (Re- visions) ...... 2040-AC90 3579 SAN No. 4050 Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the Pulp, Paper, and Paperboard Category, Phase II ...... 2040-AD10 3580 SAN No. 4153 Effluent Guidelines and Standards for Feedlots Point Source Category, and NPDES Regulation for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations ...... 2040-AD19 3581 SAN No. 4370 Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the Dissolving Kraft and Dissolving Sulfite Subcategories of the Pulp, Paper, and Paperboard Point Source Category (Phase III) ...... 2040-AD49 3582 SAN No. 4406 Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the Aquatic Animal Production Industry ...... 2040-AD55
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Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3583 SAN No. 4408 Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the Industrial Container and Drum Cleaning Point Source Category ...... 2040-AD57 3584 SAN No. 3662 Water Quality Standards Regulation — Revision ...... 2040-AC56 3585 SAN No. 3702 Test Procedures for the Analysis of Trace Metals Under the Clean Water Act ...... 2040-AC75 3586 SAN No. 3714 Increased Method Flexibility for Test Procedures Approved for Clean Water Act Compliance Mon- itoring ...... 2040-AC92 3587 SAN No. 3713 Performance-Based Measurement System (PBMS) Procedures and Guidance for Clean Water Act Test Procedures ...... 2040-AC93 3588 SAN No. 4049 Test Procedures for the Analysis of Co-Planar and Mono-Ortho-Substituted Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) Under the Clean Water Act ...... 2040-AD09 3589 SAN No. 4089 Test Procedures for the Analysis of Miscellaneous Metals, Anions, and Volatile Organics Under the Clean Water Act, Phase Two ...... 2040-AD12 3590 SAN No. 4377 Test Procedures for the Analysis of Mercury Under the Clean Water Act (Method 245.7) ...... 2040-AD52 3591 SAN No. 4378 Revisions to Method Detection and Quantification for Use Under the Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act ...... 2040-AD53 3592 SAN No. 4357 Uniform National Discharge Standards for Vessels of the Armed Forces - Phase II ...... 2040-AD39 3593 SAN No. 4543 Minimizing Adverse Environmental Impact from Cooling Water Intake Structures at Existing Facili- ties Under Section 316(b) of the Clean Water Act, Phase 3 ...... 2040-AD70 3594 SAN No. 3234 Revision of NPDES Industrial Permit Application Requirements and Form 2C—Wastewater Dis- charge Information ...... 2040-AC26 3595 SAN No. 4375 Revision to Clean Water Act Regulatory Definition of ‘‘Fill Material’’ ...... 2040-AD51 3596 SAN No. 4540 Test Procedures: New and Updated Test Procedures for the Analysis of Pollutants Under the Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act ...... 2040-AD71
CLEAN WATER ACT (CWA)—Completed Actions
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3597 SAN No. 2805 Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the Centralized Waste Treatment Industry ...... 2040-AB78 3598 SAN No. 3767 Reformatting of Effluent Guidelines and Standards in 40 CFR Parts 401 Through 471 ...... 2040-AC79 3599 SAN No. 4086 Effluent Guidelines and Standards for Synthetic-Based Drilling Fluids in the Oil and Gas Extraction Point Source Category (Revisions) ...... 2040-AD14 3600 SAN No. 4364 Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the Organic Chemicals, Plastics and Synthetic Fibers Cat- egory ...... 2040-AD45 3601 SAN No. 4195 Water Quality Standards for Alabama—Phase I ...... 2040-AD25 3602 SAN No. 4235 Amend the Final Water Quality Guidance for the Great Lakes System to Prohibit Mixing Zones for Bioaccumulative Chemicals of Concern ...... 2040-AD32 3603 SAN No. 4422 Promulgation of Provisions in the Final Water Quality Guidance for the Great Lakes System for Waters Within the Great Lakes Basin ...... 2040-AD66 3604 SAN No. 4261 Further Revisions to Clean Water Act Definition of Discharge of Dredged Material ...... 2040-AD41 3605 SAN No. 4207 Round I Sewage Sludge Use or Disposal Rule — Phase Two Amendments ...... 2040-AC53 3606 SAN No. 4440 Site-Specific Rule Under XL To Grant Waiver From BMP Regulations Under CWA Cluster Rules ... 2090-AA12
SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT (SDWA)—Prerule Stage
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3607 SAN No. 4212 Use of Screening Methods for Compliance Monitoring of Drinking Water Contaminants ...... 2040-AD31 3608 SAN No. 3238 National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Aldicarb ...... 2040-AC13 3609 SAN No. 4447 Drinking Water: Regulatory Determinations Regarding Contaminants on the Drinking Water Con- taminant Candidate List ...... 2040-AD61 3610 SAN No. 4424 6-Year Review of Existing National Primary Drinking Water Regulations ...... 2040-AD67
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SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT (SDWA)—Proposed Rule Stage
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3611 SAN No. 4341 National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule ...... 2040-AD37 3612 SAN No. 4342 National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Stage 2 Disinfectants/Disinfection Byproducts Rule ... 2040-AD38 3613 SAN No. 4369 Regulated Drinking Water Contaminant Occurrence Reporting ...... 2040-AD48 3614 SAN No. 4404 National Secondary Drinking Water Regulations (NSDWR): Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE) and Technical Corrections to the NSDWR ...... 2040-AD54 3615 SAN No. 4451 Underground Injection Control Class V Phase 2 Revisions ...... 2040-AD63
SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT (SDWA)—Final Rule Stage
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3616 SAN No. 2281 National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Radon ...... 2040-AA94 3617 SAN No. 2340 National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Ground Water Rule ...... 2040-AA97 3618 SAN No. 2807 National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Arsenic and Clarifications to Compliance and New Source Contaminant Monitoring ...... 2040-AB75 3619 SAN No. 3176 National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Sulfate ...... 2040-AC07 3620 SAN No. 4147 National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Long Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule ...... 2040-AD18 3621 SAN No. 4146 National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Filter Backwash Recycling Rule ...... 2040-AD65 3622 SAN No. 4236 Update of State Underground Injection Control Programs ...... 2040-AD40
SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT (SDWA)—Completed Actions
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3623 SAN No. 4373 Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule - List 2 ...... 2040-AD58 3624 SAN No. 3563 Reformatting of Drinking Water Regulations ...... 2040-AC41 3625 SAN No. 3992 National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Radium, Uranium, Alpha, Beta and Photon Emitters 2040-AC98 3626 SAN No. 4281 Revision to the Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule (IESWTR) and the Stage 1 Dis- infectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule (DBPR) and Primacy Requirements ...... 2040-AD43 3627 SAN No. 4152 Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Regulations ...... 2040-AD20
SHORE PROTECTION ACT (SPA)—Final Rule Stage
Regulation Sequence Title Identification Number Number
3628 SAN No. 2820 Shore Protection Act, Section 4103(b) Regulations ...... 2040-AB85
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) Prerule Stage General
3205. ∑ NEW JERSEY GOLD TRACK Abstract: The Gold Track Program is enhancement. Gold Track expands PROJECT XL RULE a crucial part of NJDEP’s efforts to upon these environmental create a State-run tiered performance- commitments, and offers proportionally Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant based program. Currently, facilities may greater recognition, as well as actual Legal Authority: Not Yet Determined join NJDEP’s Silver Track Program, federal regulatory flexibility to which is a lower-level tier that provides participating facilities. NJDEP is CFR Citation: Not Yet Determined recognition for commitments to a partnering with EPA in the Gold Track Legal Deadline: None certain level of environmental effort under the XL program, so as to
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be able to offer federal regulatory Government Levels Affected: State Email: [email protected] flexibility to Gold Track participants. Additional Information: SAN No. 4533 Aleksandra Dobkowski-Joy, Timetable: Agency Contact: Chad Carbone, Environmental Protection Agency, Action Date FR Cite Environmental Protection Agency, Regional Office New York, Region Z Office of the Administrator, 1802, ANPRM 06/00/01 Phone: 212 637-3676 Washington, DC 20460 Email: [email protected] Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Phone: 202 260-4296 Required: Undetermined Fax: 202 260-1812 RIN: 2002–AA00
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3206. UTILIZATION OF SMALL, agreements based on the availability Timetable: MINORITY AND WOMEN’S BUSINESS standard. Action Date FR Cite ENTERPRISES IN PROCUREMENT Timetable: UNDER ASSISTANCE AGREEMENTS NPRM 05/00/01 Action Date FR Cite Final Action 08/00/01 Priority: Other Significant Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Legal Authority: PL 101-507; PL 102- NPRM 09/00/01 Required: No 389; PL 101-549 sec 1001; 42 USC Final Action 02/00/03 9605(f); PL 100-590; EO 12432; EO Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Small Entities Affected: Businesses 12138; EO 11625 Required: No Government Levels Affected: None CFR Citation: 40 CFR 33 Small Entities Affected: Businesses, Procurement: This is a procurement- Legal Deadline: None Governmental Jurisdictions, related action for which there is no Organizations statutory requirement. There is no Abstract: The regulation will codify paperwork burden associated with this revisions to the Agency’s program for Government Levels Affected: State, action. the utilization of Small, Minority and Local, Tribal, Federal Additional Information: SAN No. 4191 Women’s Business Enterprises in Additional Information: SAN No. 4056 procurements under assistance Agency Contact: Larry Wyborski, Agency Contact: agreements (i.e., grants and cooperative Mark Gordon, Environmental Protection Agency, agreements awarded by EPA as well as Environmental Protection Agency, Administration and Resources grants and cooperative agreements Office of Enforcement and Compliance Management, 3802R, Washington, DC awarded by other agencies under Assurance, 1230, Washington, DC 20460 interagency agreements with EPA). The 20460 Phone: 202 564-4369 revisions are necessary to ensure Phone: 202 260-8886 Fax: 202 565-2552 consistency with the Supreme Court’s Fax: 202 401-1080 Email: [email protected] decision in Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena, 115 S.Ct. 2097 (1995), and David Sutton, Environmental Protection RIN: 2030–AA64 were identified as part of the Clinton Agency, Office of Enforcement and Administration’s review of affirmative Compliance Assurance, 1230A, 3208. REVISIONS TO ACQUISITION action programs. They include: (1) Washington, DC 20460 REGULATION CONCERNING placing greater emphasis on requiring Phone: 202 564-4444 CONFLICT OF INTEREST assistance agreement recipients to Fax: 202 501-0756 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant submit documentation supporting RIN: 2020–AA39 proposed fair share procurement Legal Authority: Not Yet Determined objectives for Minority Business CFR Citation: Not Yet Determined Enterprises (MBEs) and Women’s 3207. REVISION TO EPAAR 1552.211- Business Enterprises (WBEs) based on 73, LEVEL OF EFFORT Legal Deadline: None the availability of qualified MBEs and Priority: Info./Admin./Other Abstract: The purpose of this rule is WBEs in the relevant geographic to revise the Agency’s conflict of market; (2) authorizing or requiring Legal Authority: 5 USC 301, sec 205(c); interest (COI) acquisition regulations. recipients and their prime contractors 63 Stat 390 as amended The specific revisions involve more to take reasonable race/gender- CFR Citation: 48 CFR 1552 stringent requirements for submission conscious measures (e.g., bidding of relevant information from Agency Legal Deadline: credits) in the event that race/gender- None contractors and potential contractors neutral efforts prove inadequate to meet Abstract: This rule will revise EPAAR regarding their relationships with fair share objectives; and (3) 1552.211-73, Level of Effort, to define parent companies, affiliates, administering statutory MBE/WBE more concisely the services being subsidiaries, and sister companies. objectives as a national goal, allowing acquired, and to more accurately reflect Current Agency regulations do not smaller or larger fair share objectives the relationship between services require the submission of this level of for particular grants or cooperative provided and fee payments. information. Receipt and evaluation of
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this information is critical in order for Abstract: This proposed rule will add several other proposals to improve or the Agency to decide whether or not subpart 1532.7, Contract Funding, to change the rule were recommended by COI situations exist and how they are the Environmental Protection Agency’s various agencies. In December 1996, to be handled. This revised rule will Acquisition Regulation (EPAAR). It also OMB declined to implement the also codify several COI clauses that will revise part 1552 of the EPAAR to changes at that time due to differences have been developed since the issuance include a clause for incrementally with some agencies about some changes of the previous rule in 1994. funding fixed price contracts. unrelated to those occasioned by FASA. Timetable: Timetable: Among other things, FASA replaced the Action Date FR Cite Action Date FR Cite small purchase threshold ($25,000) with the simplified acquisition amount NPRM 06/00/01 NPRM 05/00/01 ($100,000). That change unintentionally Final Action 09/00/01 Final Action 08/00/01 exposed certain EPA programs to Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Regulatory Flexibility Analysis participation by contractors who may Required: Undetermined Required: No have been debarred for serious misconduct already. OMB has agreed to Small Entities Affected: Businesses Small Entities Affected: Businesses permit agencies to amend the coverage Government Levels Affected: None Government Levels Affected: None section of their individual agency rules to reduce or eliminate exposure to Procurement: This is a procurement- Procurement: This is a procurement- suspended or debarred persons. related action for which there is no related action for which there is no statutory requirement. There is a statutory requirement. There is no EPA intends to issue a notice of paperwork burden associated with this paperwork burden associated with this proposed rulemaking to amend 40 CFR action. action. 32.110 to reduce EPA exposure to such consequences. Additional Information: SAN No. 4319 Additional Information: SAN No. 3876 Agency Contact: Timetable: Sectors Affected: 5416 Management, Frances Smith, Scientific and Technical Consulting Environmental Protection Agency, Action Date FR Cite Services; 54162 Environmental Administration and Resources Management, 3802R, Washington, DC NPRM 08/00/01 Consulting Services; 5417 Scientific Final Action 12/00/01 Research and Development Services; 20460 562 Waste Management and Phone: 202 564-4368 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Remediation Services; 5413 Fax: 202 565-2475 Required: No Email: [email protected] Architectural, Engineering and Related Small Entities Affected: No Services RIN: 2030–AA50 Government Levels Affected: None Agency Contact: Bruce M. Bakaysa, Additional Information: SAN No. 3817 Environmental Protection Agency, 3210. IMPLEMENTATION OF Administration and Resources CHANGES TO GOVERNMENTWIDE This is an assistance-related statutory Management, 3802R, Washington, DC DEBARMENT AND SUSPENSION requirement. There is no paperwork 20460 COMMON RULE burden associated with this action. Phone: 202 564-4373 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Agency Contact: Robert Meunier, Fax: 202 565-2552 Environmental Protection Agency, Legal Authority: EO 12549; EO 12689 Email: [email protected] Administration and Resources and FASA Management, 3901R, Washington, DC Cal McWhirter, Environmental CFR Citation: 40 CFR 32 20460 Protection Agency, Administration and Legal Deadline: None Phone: 202 564-5399 Resources Management, 3802R, Fax: 202 565-2469 Washington, DC 20460 Abstract: Periodically OMB amends the Phone: 202 564-4379 Government-wide Common Rule for RIN: 2030–AA48 Fax: 202 565-2552 suspension and debarment of Email: [email protected] contractors and assistance participants 3211. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT RIN: 2030–AA67 who threaten the integrity of Federal ASSESSMENT OF programs because of criminal NONGOVERNMENTAL ACTIVITIES IN misconduct or poor performance. All ANTARCTICA 3209. INCREMENTALLY FUNDING agencies must issue changes to their FIXED PRICE CONTRACTS individual codified versions to conform Priority: Other Significant Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant to the Common Rule. Recently, the Legal Authority: 16 USC 2401 et seq, Interagency Suspension and Debarment as amended; 16 USC 2403(a); PL 104- Unfunded Mandates: This action may Coordinating Committee prepared 227 affect the private sector under PL 104- recommendations for comprehensive CFR Citation: 4. changes to the Common Rule to 40 CFR 8 Legal Authority: 40 USC 486(c) conform to changes made in the Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) October 2, 1998, The Interim Final CFR Citation: 48 CFR 1532 as a result of the Federal Acquisition Rule, effective 7/14/98, through the Legal Deadline: None Streamlining Act (FASA). In addition, year 2000-2001 austral summer.
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Abstract: The purpose of this action is Extend Effectve Date- Office of Enforcement and Compliance to develop regulations for: (1) the http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA- Assurance, 2252A, Washington, DC environmental impact assessment of IMPACT/1998/April/Day- 20460 nongovernmental activities, including 15/i10007.htm Phone: 202 564-7157 tourism, for which the United States is Fax: 202 564-0070 required to give advance notice under Agency Contact: Joseph Montgomery, Email: [email protected] paragraph 5 of Article VII of the Environmental Protection Agency, Antarctic Treaty and (2) coordination Office of Enforcement and Compliance Marguerite Duffy, Environmental of the review of information regarding Assurance, 2252A, Washington, DC Protection Agency, Office of environmental impact assessment 20460 Enforcement and Compliance received by the United States from Phone: 202 564-7157 Assurance, 2252A, Washington, DC other parties under the Protocol on Fax: 202 564-0070 20460 Environmental Protection. The Office of Email: [email protected] Phone: 202 564-7148 Federal Activities (OECA/OFA) will use RIN: 2020–AA42 the decisionmaking process of the Katherine Biggs, Environmental National Environmental Policy Act Protection Agency, Office of (NEPA) to analyze the environmental Enforcement and Compliance 3213. PUBLIC INFORMATION AND setting; the types of nongovernmental Assurance, 2252A, Washington, DC CONFIDENTIALITY REGULATIONS activities, including tourism, to be 20460 addressed by the regulations; their Phone: 202 564-7144 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant potential for impact; and the Fax: 202 564-0072 Email: [email protected] Legal Authority: 15 USC 2005; 15 USC alternatives available under rulemaking 2601 et seq; 21 USC 346; 33 USC 1251 for environmental impact assessments RIN: 2020–AA34 et seq; 33 USC 1414; 42 USC 11001 for nongovernmental activities. An et seq; 42 USC 300(f) et seq; 42 USC interim final rule, 40 CFR part 8, 3212. PROPOSED REVISION TO EPA’S 4912; 42 USC 6901 et seq; 42 USC 7401 promulgated April 30, 1997, and on IMPLEMENTING NEPA REGULATIONS et seq; 42 USC 9601 et seq; 5 USC 552; July 15, 1998 extended through the 7 USC 136 et seq 2000-2001 austral summer, will be Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant replaced by a final rule. The interim Legal Authority: 42 USC 4321 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 2; 40 CFR 57; final rule was effective immediately so 40 CFR 122; 40 CFR 123; 40 CFR 145; CFR Citation: 40 CFR 6 that the U.S. could ratify the Protocol 40 CFR 233; 40 CFR 260; 40 CFR 270; and implement its obligations under Legal Deadline: None 40 CFR 271; 40 CFR 281; 40 CFR 350; the Protocol as soon as it entered into Abstract: The proposed revision is 40 CFR 403; 40 CFR 85; 40 CFR 86 force. These rules are being developed necessary to clarify and update EPA’s Legal Deadline: NPRM, Statutory, in coordination with other Federal National Environmental Policy Act August 31, 2000, Proposed rule to agencies with specific interests in and (NEPA) regulation. The revision would eliminate the special treatment of CBI expertise with Antarctica including the clarify Agency responsibilities for substantiations. Department of State, National Science Congressionally funded special Foundation, National Oceanic and appropriation projects and EPA-funded Abstract: EPA regulations at 40 CFR Atmospheric Administration, U.S. grant programs. The revision would part 2, subpart B, provide procedures Coast Guard, Marine Mammal clarify public involvement procedures for handling and disclosing information Commission, Department of Justice, and and organization responsibilities. The claimed as confidential business the Council on Environmental Quality. proposal would revise the list of information (CBI). Although the current Timetable: actions which are categorically regulations have succeeded in protecting CBI, changes in Agency Action Date FR Cite excluded from analyses. The revision is also needed to incorporate a number workload, practice, and statutory Interim Final Rule 04/30/97 62 FR 23538 of Executive orders and other cross- authority have made it difficult to Extend Effectve Date 04/15/98 63 FR 18352 cutting requirements into the NEPA handle CBI activities as expeditiously Interim Rule process. as desired. EPA is examining its CBI NPRM 04/00/01 regulations to determine what changes Timetable: Final Action 05/00/01 are needed to make the regulations as Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Action Date FR Cite efficient and effective as possible. Required: No NPRM 07/00/01 Provision 40 CFR 2.205(c), which automatically protects CBI Small Entities Affected: Businesses, Final Action 10/00/01 substantiations claimed as confidential, Organizations Regulatory Flexibility Analysis is being examined individually and as Government Levels Affected: None Required: No part of the CBI regulations as a whole. Federalism: Small Entities Affected: No Undetermined Timetable: Additional Information: SAN No. 3933 Government Levels Affected: Action Date FR Cite Interim Final Rule- Undetermined http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA- Additional Information: SAN No. 4292 NPRM/CBI Regs 11/23/94 59 FR 60446 Proposal to revise IMPACT/1997/April/Day- Agency Contact: Joseph Montgomery, EPA’s CBI 30/i11075.htm Environmental Protection Agency, regulations
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Action Date FR Cite signatures, whether transmitted as National Action Plans under a national reports or maintained as records. This strategy to overcome the remaining Final/CBI Substant. 04/00/01 rule is important because the legal and challenges in addressing priority PBT Final rule to electronic signature issues remain the pollutants. These pollutants pose risks eliminate special treatment of chief obstacle to implementation of because they are toxic, persist in substantiations paperless electronic reporting, and ecosystems, and accumulate in fish and NPRM/CBI Regs To Be Determined affect the overall enforceability of up the food chain. The PBT challenges Proposal to revise environmental programs both federally remaining stem from the pollutants’ CBI regs--40 CFR and under state ability to travel long distances, to Part 2, Subpart B delegation/authorization. Also, the transfer rather easily among air, water, Final Rule/CBI Regs To Be Determined Government Paperwork Elimination Act and land, and to linger for generations. Final rule revising of 1998 requirements and the EPA is committing, through this CBI regs--40 CFR Administrator’s Reinventing strategy, to create an enduring cross- Part 2, Subpart B Environmental Information (REI) Action office system that will address the Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Plan goal of universal ER availability cross-media issues associated with Required: Undetermined by 2003 can only be met if this priority PBT pollutants. This strategy rulemaking has active participation by fortifies existing EPA commitments Small Entities Affected: Businesses the AA-ships and moves on a fast track. related to priority PBTs, such as the Government Levels Affected: Federal Timetable: 1997 Canada / U.S. Binational Toxics Additional Information: SAN No. 3240 Strategy (BNS), the North American Action Date FR Cite Agreement on Environmental Formerly listed as RIN 2020-AA21. NPRM 04/00/01 Cooperation, and the recently released Agency Contact: Alan Margolis, Final Action 02/00/02 Clean Water Action Plan. EPA is forging a new approach to reduce risks Environmental Protection Agency, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis from and exposures to priority PBT Office of Environmental Information, Required: No 2822, Washington, DC 20460 pollutants through increased Phone: 202 260-9329 Government Levels Affected: State, coordination among EPA national and Fax: 202 401-4544 Local, Tribal, Federal regional programs. This approach also Email: [email protected] Procurement: This is a procurement- requires the significant involvement of related action for which there is no stakeholders, including international, Rebecca Moser, Environmental statutory requirement. There is a state, local, and tribal organizations, the Protection Agency, Office of paperwork burden associated with this regulated community, environmental Environmental Information, 2822, action. groups, and private citizens. EPA is carrying out this strategy through the Washington, DC 20460 Additional Information: SAN No. 4270 Phone: 202 260-6780 implementation of National Action Fax: 202 260-8550 Formerly listed as RIN 2020-AA41. Plans for Priority PBT Pollutants. EPA Email: [email protected] Agency Contact: Evi Huffer, is initially focusing action on 12 BNS Level 1 substances either individually RIN: 2025–AA02 Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Environmental Information, or as categories and two major cross- 2823, Washington, DC 20460 cutting issues (monitoring and 3214. CROSS-MEDIA ELECTRONIC Phone: 202 260-8791 outreach/risk communication). The REPORTING (ER) AND Fax: 202 401-0182 action plans will use the full range of RECORDKEEPING RULE Email: [email protected] its tools to prevent and reduce releases of these substances. These tools include Priority: Other Significant David Schwarz, Environmental international, voluntary, regulatory, Legal Authority: PL 104-13; PL 105-277 Protection Agency, Office of programmatic, remedial, compliance monitoring and assistance, CFR Citation: 40 CFR 3 (New); 40 CFR Environmental Information, 2823, enforcement, research, and outreach 9 (Revision) Washington, DC 20460 Phone: 202 260-2710 tools. EPA will integrate and sequence Legal Deadline: None Fax: 202 401-0182 actions within and across action plans, Abstract: The Cross-Media Electronic Email: [email protected] and will seek to leverage these actions on international and industry-sector Reporting (ER) and Recordkeeping Rule RIN: 2025–AA07 will provide a uniform legal framework bases. Beyond these first 12 substances for paperless electronic reporting and EPA will identify additional PBTs for ∑ recordkeeping, including electronic 3215. PERSISTENT, development of National Action Plans. signature/ certification, across EPA’s BIOACCUMULATIVE, AND TOXIC Timetable: (PBT) POLLUTANTS STRATEGY environmental compliance programs. Action Date FR Cite The rule will both remove current legal Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Notice Multimedia 11/17/98 63 FR 63926 requirements for paper that create Legal Authority: Not Yet Determined obstacles to electronic reporting and Strategy for PBTs recordkeeping and provide for CFR Citation: Not Yet Determined Notice Draft Action 09/16/99 64 FR 50284 Plan for Mercury mechanisms to assure the legal validity Legal Deadline: None Notice Proposed 08/25/00 65 FR 51823 and authenticity of electronic Abstract: The U.S. Environmental Action Plan for documents and associated electronic Protection Agency (EPA) has developed Alkyl-lead
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Action Date FR Cite Legal Deadline: None Daniel J. Fiorino, Environmental Protection Agency, Office of the Notice Proposed 08/25/00 65 FR 51825 Abstract: The National Environmental Achievement Track is designed to Administrator, 2129 Action Plan for Phone: 202 260-2749 Octachlorostyrene recognize facilities that consistently (OCS) meet their legal requirements and have Fax: 202 401-3998 Notice Draft Action 11/01/00 65 FR 65314 implemented high-quality Email: [email protected] Plan for Level 1 environmental management systems, RIN: 2090–AA13 Pesticides and to encourage them to achieve more Notice Draft Action 12/08/00 65 FR 77026 by continuously improving their ∑ Plan for environmental performance and 3217. PROJECT XL SITE-SPECIFIC Hexachlorobezene informing and involving the public. RULEMAKING FOR NASA WHITE (HCB) Facilities gain entrance to Achievement SANDS TEST FACILITY ELECTRONIC Notice Draft Action 05/00/01 Track by submitting an application that REPORTING IN LAS CRUCES, NEW Plan for MEXICO Benzo(a)pyrene documents that four specific criteria are (B(a)P) met. To promote participation in the Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant program and the environmental and Notice Final Action 08/00/01 Legal Authority: Not Yet Determined Plan for Mercury other benefits that will come with it, EPA intends to offer several incentives. CFR Citation: Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Not Yet Determined Among those incentives are the Required: No Legal Deadline: None adjustments in current regulatory Small Entities Affected: Businesses, requirements that are the subjects of Abstract: The purpose of the NASA Governmental Jurisdictions, this rulemaking. These include WSTF Electronic Reporting site specific Organizations reducing the frequency of reports rule is to enable the NASA White Government Levels Affected: State, required under the Maximum Sands Test Facility to electronically Local, Tribal, Federal Achievable Control Technology submit compliance reports and permit (MACT) provisions of the Clean Air information to the New Mexico Additional Information: SAN No. 4463 Act; streamlined by publically owned Environmental Department (NMED) in Agency Contact: Tom Murray, treatment works (POTWs) under the lieu of submitting paper reports. The Environmental Protection Agency, Clean Water Act; and opportunity for rule will set forth guidelines to ensure Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Achievement Track facilities to that the information submitted by Toxic Substances, 7409, Washington, consolidate reporting under various NASA WSTF to NMED is accurate by DC 20460 environmental statutes into a single outlining procedures for data Phone: 202 260-1876 report. authentication, use of electronic Fax: 202 260-0178 Timetable: signature and encryption processes. Email: [email protected] Action Date FR Cite Timetable: Paul Matthai, Environmental Protection NPRM 07/00/01 Action Date FR Cite Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides Regulatory Flexibility Analysis NPRM 05/00/01 and Toxic Substances, 7409, Required: No Washington, DC 20460 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Phone: 202 260-3385 Small Entities Affected: Businesses, Required: No Fax: 202 260-0178 Governmental Jurisdictions Government Levels Affected: State, Email: [email protected] Government Levels Affected: State Federal RIN: 2070–AD45 Federalism: Undetermined Additional Information: SAN No. 4536 Additional Information: SAN No. 4473 Agency Contact: John DuPree, 3216. REGULATORY INCENTIVES FOR Environmental Protection Agency, Agency Contact: Frederick W. Talcott, THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL Office of the Administrator, 1802, Environmental Protection Agency, ACHIEVEMENT TRACK PROGRAM Washington, DC 20460 Office of the Administrator, 2129, Phone: 202 260-4468 Priority: Other Significant Washington, DC 20460 Fax: 202 260-3125 Phone: 202 260-2768 Legal Authority: Not Yet Determined Email: [email protected] Fax: 202 401-3998 CFR Citation: Not Yet Determined Email: [email protected] RIN: 2090–AA27
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3218. EPAAR COVERAGE ON LOCAL Legal Deadline: None Regulatory Flexibility Analysis HIRING AND TRAINING Required: Abstract: This rule is being No Priority: Other Significant promulgated to amend the EPAAR to Small Entities Affected: No Legal Authority: 5 USC 301, sec 205(c); incorporate Environmental Protection Government Levels Affected: None 63 Stat 390 as amended (EP) clauses into the EPAAR. There are a large number of EP clauses being Procurement: This is a procurement- CFR Citation: 48 CFR 1526; 48 CFR used by contracting officers. This related action for which there is no 1552 promulgation will capture those EP statutory requirement. There is a Legal Deadline: None clauses that have not been submitted paperwork burden associated with this for public comment. Most of the EP action. Abstract: This rule will amend the EPA clauses are used in contracts on a case- Acquisition Regulation (EPAAR) to Additional Information: SAN No. 3580 by-case basis. The contractor concurs include part 1526, Other with use of such clauses. Agency Contact: Frances Smith, Socioeconomic Programs, and to revise Environmental Protection Agency, part 1552, Solicitation Provisions and Timetable: Administration and Resources Contract Clauses. The purpose is to Action Date FR Cite Management, 3802R, Washington, DC provide an incentive for prime 20460 Interim Final Rule 10/02/00 65 FR 58921 contractors to utilize local hiring and Phone: 202 564-4368 Final Action 06/00/01 provide training to local hires in Fax: 202 565-2475 specific geographical locations where Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Email: [email protected] contractual requirements will be Required: No performed. This incentive will support RIN: 2030–AA37 Small Entities Affected: No economic development in areas where EPA contracts are performed. Government Levels Affected: None 3221. REWRITING OF EPA Timetable: Procurement: This is a procurement- REGULATIONS IMPLEMENTING THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT Action Date FR Cite related action for which there is no statutory requirement. There is no Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant NPRM 12/09/98 63 FR 67845 paperwork burden associated with this Final Action 06/00/01 action. Legal Authority: 5 USC 552 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Additional Information: SAN No. 4226 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 2 Required: No Agency Contact: Paul Schaffer, Legal Deadline: None Small Entities Affected: No Environmental Protection Agency, Abstract: This document proposes Government Levels Affected: None Administration and Resources revisions to EPA’s regulations under Management, 3802R, Washington, DC Procurement: This is a procurement- the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). 20460 related action for which there is no The FOIA regulations have been Phone: 202 564-4366 statutory requirement. There is no streamlined and written in plain Fax: 202 565-2551 paperwork burden associated with this English wherever possible. These Email: [email protected] action. revisions reflect the principles RIN: 2030–AA66 established by President Clinton and Additional Information: SAN No. 4187 Attorney General Reno in their FOIA NPRM- Policy Memoranda of October 4, 1993. http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA- 3220. INCORPORATION OF CLASS They also reflect developments in the DEVIATIONS INTO EPAAR case law and include updated cost GENERAL/1998/December/Day- Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant figures for calculating and charging 09/g32683.htm fees. In addition, the proposed Agency Contact: Frances Smith, Legal Authority: 40 USC 486(c) revisions include provisions Environmental Protection Agency, CFR Citation: 48 CFR 1537; 48 CFR implementing the Electronic Freedom Administration and Resources 1552 of Information Act Amendments of Management, 3802R, Washington, DC Legal Deadline: None 1996. These revisions will simplify and 20460 expedite responses to FOIA requests. Abstract: The Agency has approved a Phone: 202 564-4368 Timetable: Fax: 202 565-2475 number of class deviations (e.g., Email: [email protected] changes to reporting requirements and Action Date FR Cite monthly progress reports) to the RIN: 2030–AA62 NPRM Revised 04/12/00 65 FR 19703 EPAAR since its promulgation in April Freedom of 1994. This proposed rule would Information Act 3219. INCORPORATING INFORMAL incorporate most of the class deviations Regulations CLAUSES (EP) INTO THE EPAAR to the EPAAR. Final Action Revised 06/00/01 Priority: Timetable: Freedom of Info./Admin./Other Information Act Legal Authority: 5 USC 301, sec 205(c); Action Date FR Cite Regulations 63 Stat 390, as amended NPRM 03/16/00 65 FR 14405 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis CFR Citation: Not Yet Determined Final Action 06/00/01 Required: No
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Small Entities Affected: Businesses, Small Entities Affected: Businesses Additional Information: SAN No. 4351 Governmental Jurisdictions, Government Levels Affected: None Agency Contact: Frances Smith, Organizations Procurement: This is a procurement- Environmental Protection Agency, Government Levels Affected: Federal related action for which there is no Administration and Resources Additional Information: SAN No. 4180 statutory requirement. There is no Management, 3802R, Washington, DC paperwork burden associated with this 20460 Formerly listed as RIN 2020-AA40. action. Phone: 202 564-4368 Agency Contact: Jeralene Green, Additional Information: SAN No. 4185 Fax: 202 565-2475 Environmental Protection Agency, Email: [email protected] Office of Environmental Information, Agency Contact: Calvin McWhirter, RIN: 2030–AA68 2822, Washington, DC 20460 Environmental Protection Agency, Phone: 202 260-1050 Administration and Resources Fax: 202 260-8550 Management, 3802R, Washington, DC 3224. ADMINISTRATIVE Email: [email protected] 20460 CORRECTIONS TO EPAAR 1515, Phone: 202 564-4379 CONTRACTING BY NEGOTIATION RIN: 2025–AA04 Fax: 202 565-2552 Email: [email protected] Priority: Info./Admin./Other 3222. ELECTRONIC FUNDS RIN: 2030–AA57 Legal Authority: 5 USC 301 TRANSFER CFR Citation: Not Yet Determined Priority: Other Significant 3223. WARRANTS FOR ON-SCENE Legal Deadline: None Legal Authority: 5 USC 301, sec 205(c); COORDINATORS 63 Stat 390 as amended Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Abstract: Administrative corrections will be made to EPAAR 1515 for CFR Citation: 48 CFR 1532.11 Legal Authority: Not Yet Determined clarification purposes. Legal Deadline: None CFR Citation: Not Yet Determined Timetable: Abstract: This rule complies with the Legal Deadline: None Action Date FR Cite revised Federal Acquisition Regulations Abstract: The Environmental (FAR) coverage regarding Protection Agency (EPA) is amending Final Action 07/00/01 implementation of the Debt Collection the EPA Acquisition Regulations Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Improvement Act. Because the revised (EPAAR) to include a clause concerning Required: No FAR offers choices in implementation, the issuance of warrants for on-scene each agency must communicate with its coordinators. The intent is to allow Small Entities Affected: No vendor community its choices. This program officials with remedial type Government Levels Affected: None rule will let our vendor community requirements to receive on-scene know that EPA will require the use of coordinator warrants so that they can Procurement: This is a procurement- FAR Clause 52.232-34, Payment by issue letter contracts. related action for which there is no Electronic Funds Transfer (Non-CCR), Timetable: statutory requirement. There is no as prescribed in FAR 32.1105(a)(2). paperwork burden associated with this Within the Clause, under (c) the Action Date FR Cite action. payment office shall be inserted as the Interim Final Rule 03/01/01 66 FR 12897 Additional Information: SAN No. 4400 prescribed designated office. Further Final Action 05/00/01 inserted shall be that the required EFT Agency Contact: Leigh Pomponio, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis information shall be provided no later Environmental Protection Agency, Required: No than 15 days prior to submission of the Administration and Resources first request for payment. Small Entities Affected: No Management, 3802R, Washington, DC Timetable: Government Levels Affected: None 20460 Phone: 202 564-4364 Procurement: This is a procurement- Action Date FR Cite Fax: 202 565-2475 related action for which there is no Email: Final Action 06/00/01 statutory requirement. There is no [email protected] Regulatory Flexibility Analysis paperwork burden associated with this Required: No action. RIN: 2030–AA73
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3225. CONSOLIDATION OF GOOD and consider incorporation of such definitions of program or activity and LABORATORY PRACTICE changes into the EPA rule. This action program to Title VI and added a STANDARDS (GLPS) REGULATIONS will serve to reduce the total regulatory definition of program or activity to CURRENTLY UNDER TSCA AND text in the Code of Federal Regulations Section 504 and the Age Discrimination FIFRA INTO ONE RULE by an estimated 10 pages, by Act. The added definitions were Priority: Info./Admin./Other consolidating 23 pages of text to designed to clarify the broad scope of approximately 13. In the process it will coverage of recipients’ programs or Legal Authority: 15 USC 2601 et seq; provide a generic GLP rule that may activities under these statutes. The 7 USC 136 et seq be used by other programs in the promulgation of this proposed CFR Citation: 40 CFR 160; 40 CFR 792 Agency. regulation explicitly incorporates the Legal Deadline: None Timetable: CRRA’s definition of program or activity and program into the Abstract: On November 29, 1983, EPA Action Date FR Cite Department’s Title VI, Section 504, and published Good Laboratory Practice NPRM 01/22/99 64 FR 3456 Age Discrimination Act regulations. Standards (GLPS) regulations intended The Department’s proposed regulation to help ensure data integrity for studies NPRM 12/29/99 64 FR 72972 Final Action To Be Determined will be published as part of a joint required to support marketing and Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Regulatory Flexibility Analysis research permits under the Federal involving up to 24 Federal agencies. Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Required: No Timetable: Act (FIFRA) and the Toxic Substances Small Entities Affected: No Control Act (TSCA). These rules were Action Date FR Cite last amended on August 17, 1989. Government Levels Affected: None NPRM 12/06/00 65 FR 76460 GLPS data integrity measures can be Federalism: Undetermined NPRM Comment 01/05/01 applied to a wide variety of scientific Additional Information: SAN No. 3807 Period End studies. Although the TSCA and FIFRA Final Action To Be Determined GLPS contain identical provisions, they Agency Contact: David Stangel, were published as separate rules to Environmental Protection Agency, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis account for statutory and program Office of Enforcement and Compliance Required: No differences between TSCA and FIFRA, Assurance, 2225A, Washington, DC Small Entities Affected: No such as differences in records retention 20460 Government Levels Affected: Federal requirements. EPA believes it will be Phone: 202 564-4162 able to address the differences between Fax: 202 564-0028 Additional Information: SAN No. 4021 TSCA and FIFRA, such as differences RIN: 2020–AA26 Agency Contact: Ann Goode, in records retention requirements. EPA Environmental Protection Agency, believes it will be able to address the Office of Enforcement and Compliance differences of those programs without 3226. NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE Assurance, 1201, Washington, DC duplicating the entire GLP standard in BASIS OF RACE, COLOR, NATIONAL 20460 two places. ORIGIN, HANDICAP, AND AGE IN Phone: 202 564-7272 PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES This action is intended to consolidate RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL RIN: 2020–AA36 EPA’s GLPS into one rule. Program- ASSISTANCE specific requirements will be addressed in either separate sections of the Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant 3227. GUIDELINES FOR CARCINOGEN RISK ASSESSMENT consolidated rule, or in separate rules Legal Authority: 42 USC 794; 42 USC as is determined appropriate. This 2000d to 2000d-7; 42 USC 6101 to Priority: Info./Admin./Other action is not intended to change the 6107; EO 12250 Legal Authority: Not applicable requirements, applicability, or CFR Citation: enforceability of GLPS with respect to 28 CFR 42.101 to 42.112; CFR Citation: Not Yet Determined any statute. 28 CFR 42.501 to 42.540; 28 CFR Legal Deadline: None 42.700 to 42.736 EPA has received comments from Abstract: The Agency will use these stakeholders regarding the Legal Deadline: None guidelines to evaluate suspect understandability of many aspects of Abstract: The Department of Justice carcinogens in line with the policies the GLPS, and over the years has issued proposes to make amendments to its and procedures established in the numerous clarifications. EPA believes regulations implementing Title VI of statutes administered by the EPA. that some clarifications, if included the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI), These guidelines revise and replace directly in the rule, would make the Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act EPA Guidelines for Carcinogen Risk rule easier to understand and enhance of 1972 (Section 504), and the Age Assessment published at 51 FR 33992, compliance. Therefore, EPA intends to Discrimination Act of 1975 (Age September 24, 1986. These guidelines include such clarifications where Discrimination Act). Together, these provide EPA staff and decision-makers appropriate in this rulemaking. Finally, statutes prohibit discrimination on the with the directions and perspectives in the interest of maintaining basis of race, color, national origin, necessary to develop and use risk consistency between EPA’s and Food disability, and age in programs or assessments. The guidelines also and Drug Administration’s regulations, activities that receive Federal financial provide the general public with basic EPA will determine any modifications assistance. In 1988, the Civil Rights information about the Agency’s that have occurred to the FDA GLP rule Restoration Act (CRRA) added approaches to risk assessment.
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To develop guidelines the Agency must Small Entities Affected: No involve the public in its regulatory and find a balance between consistency and Government Levels Affected: None program decisions. innovation. Consistent risk assessments Timetable: provide consistent bases to support Additional Information: SAN No. 3671 regulatory decision-making. On the Agency Contact: William Wood, Action Date FR Cite other hand, innovation is necessary so Environmental Protection Agency, Draft Policy in FR Draft 12/28/00 65 FR 82335 the Agency will base its decisions on Office of Research and Development, Public Involvement current scientific thinking. In balancing 8103, Washington, DC 20460 Policy these and other science policies, the Phone: 202 564-3358 Final Action Final To Be Determined Agency relies on input from the general RIN: 2080–AA06 Public Involvement scientific community through Policy established scientific peer review ∑ Regulatory Flexibility Analysis processes. The guidelines incorporate 3228. EPA DRAFT AGENCYWIDE Required: No basic principles and science policies PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT POLICY based on evaluation of the currently Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Small Entities Affected: No available information. The revisions Legal Authority: Not Yet Determined place increased emphasis on the role Government Levels Affected: Federal CFR Citation: Not Yet Determined of carcinogenic mechanisms in risk Additional Information: SAN No. 4530 assessment and clearer explication of Legal Deadline: None Agency Contact: Patricia Bonner, underlying assumptions in risk Abstract: The Environmental assessment. Environmental Protection Agency, Protection Agency is revising its 1981 Office of the Administrator, 1807, These guidelines will have minimal to Public Participation Policy. The revised Washington, DC 20460 policy is being issued as the Draft 2000 no impact on small businesses or State, Phone: 202 260-0599 Public Involvement Policy for 120-day local, and tribal governments. Fax: 202 260-4903 public comment. The Draft Policy was Email: [email protected] Timetable: updated to reflect changes over the past Action Date FR Cite nineteen years such as additional Lisa Kahn, Environmental Protection Agency responsibilities, new Agency, Office of the Administrator, Reproposed 04/23/96 61 FR 17960 regulations, expanded public Guidelines 1807 involvement techniques, and the Implementation Policy 06/25/96 61 FR 32799 Phone: 202 260-4545 changed nature of public access due to Final Guidelines To Be Determined Fax: 202 260-4903 the Internet. The Policy will provide Email: [email protected] Regulatory Flexibility Analysis guidance and direction to EPA officials Required: No on reasonable and effective means to RIN: 2090–AA23
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3229. REVISION TO 40 CFR 35 3230. REVISION TO 40 CFR 35 3231. EPA MENTOR-PROTEGE SUBPART A AND PROMULGATION OF SUBPART A AND PROMULGATION OF PROGRAM PERFORMANCE PARTNERSHIP PERFORMANCE PARTNERSHIP (STATE) GRANT REGULATION (TRIBAL) GRANT RULE Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Priority: Other Significant Priority: Other Significant CFR Citation: 48 CFR 1544; 48 CFR CFR Citation: 40 CFR 35 1552 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 35 Completed: Completed: Completed: Reason Date FR Cite Reason Date FR Cite Reason Date FR Cite Final Action 01/16/01 66 FR 3781 Interim Final Rule 10/02/00 65 FR 58921 Final Action 01/09/01 66 FR 1725 Final Action Effective 02/09/01 66 FR 9661 Merged Into RIN 2030- 03/13/01 Final Action Effective 02/07/01 66 FR 9602 Date Delayed AA66, SAN 4226 Date Delayed Final Action Effective 04/17/01 Final Action Effective 04/09/01 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No Required: No Required: No Government Levels Affected: Tribal, Government Levels Affected: None Federal Government Levels Affected: State, Agency Contact: Frances Smith Agency Contact: Michelle McClendon Local, Federal Phone: 202 564-4368 Phone: 202 564-5357 Agency Contact: Scott McMoran Fax: 202 565-2470 Fax: 202 565-2475 Phone: 202 564-5376 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] RIN: 2030–AA55 RIN: 2030–AA56 RIN: 2030–AA40
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3232. DELETION OF EPA The Department’s regulation was 3235. CONTRACTOR DIVERSITY ACQUISITION REGULATIONS FOR published as a common rule with other CLAUSE QUALITY SYSTEMS FOR agencies that need title IX Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS regulations. Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Timetable: CFR Citation: Not Yet Determined CFR Citation: 48 CFR 1546.2 Action Date FR Cite Completed: Completed: NPRM 10/29/99 64 FR 58567 Reason Date FR Cite Reason Date FR Cite NPRM Comment 12/28/99 Withdrawn - No 04/18/01 Final Action 12/20/00 65 FR 79781 Period End Further Action Final Action 08/30/00 65 FR 52858 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Final Action Effective 09/29/00 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No Government Levels Affected: None Required: No Government Levels Affected: None Agency Contact: Linda Avellar Government Levels Affected: State, Agency Contact: Phone: 202 564-4356 Local Frances Smith Fax: 202 565-2475 Phone: 202 564-4368 Email: [email protected] Additional Information: SAN No. 4483 Fax: 202 565-2475 RIN: 2030–AA51 Agency Contact: Mike Mattheisen, Email: [email protected] Environmental Protection Agency, RIN: 2030–AA70 Office of Enforcement and Compliance ∑ 3233. JOINT RULE AMENDING Assurance FEDERAL NONDISCRIMINATION Phone: 202 564-7291 3236. REPORT ON PM2.5 FEDERAL REGULATIONS: DEFINITION FOR REFERENCE METHOD FIELD STUDY PROGRAM OR ACTIVITY RIN: 2020–AA43 Priority: Other Significant Priority: Info./Admin./Other 3234. BUSINESS OWNERSHIP Legal Authority: 20 USC 1682 et seq CFR Citation: None REPRESENTATION CFR Citation: 28 CFR 54 (New) Priority: Info./Admin./Other Completed: Legal Deadline: None CFR Citation: 48 CFR 1504 Reason Date FR Cite Abstract: On June 17, 1980, the Completed: Report to Congress 01/18/01 Department of Justice published a Submitted to proposed regulation to implement the Reason Date FR Cite Congress requirements of title IX of the Final Action 12/05/00 65 FR 75863 Education Amendments of 1972, as Regulatory Flexibility Analysis amended, which prohibits Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No discrimination on the basis of an Required: No Government Levels Affected: None individual’s sex in federally assisted Government Levels Affected: None educational programs. That regulation Agency Contact: Frances Smith Agency Contact: Elizabeth Hunike was never issued in final form. As a Phone: 919 541-3737 result of subsequent statutory Phone: 202 564-4368 Fax: 202 565-2475 Fax: 919 541-1153 amendments, it was necessary to revise Email: [email protected] the prior proposed title IX regulation Email: [email protected] and begin a new rulemaking process. RIN: 2030–AA69 RIN: 2080–AA09
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) Proposed Rule Stage Clean Air Act (CAA)
3237. PERFORMANCE WARRANTY Amendments of 1990. Vehicles that are Small Entities Affected: Businesses AND INSPECTION/MAINTENANCE tested and failed using this procedure TEST PROCEDURES and that meet eligibility requirements Government Levels Affected: State, established by the act would be eligible Local, Federal Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant for free warranty repair from the Additional Information: SAN No. 3263 Legal Authority: 42 USC 7541; 42 USC manufacturers. Agency Contact: Buddy Polovick, 7601 Timetable: Environmental Protection Agency, Air CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51; 40 CFR 85 Action Date FR Cite and Radiation, Washington, DC 20460 Legal Deadline: None NPRM 06/00/01 Phone: 734 214-4928 Fax: 734 214-4052 Abstract: Final Action 01/00/02 This action establishes a new Email: [email protected] short test procedure for use in I/M Regulatory Flexibility Analysis programs required by the Clean Air Act Required: No RIN: 2060–AE20
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3238. INSPECTION/MAINTENANCE Action Date FR Cite Agency Contact: Candace Sorrell, RECALL REQUIREMENTS Environmental Protection Agency, Air Direct Final Interim 07/27/98 63 FR 40054 and Radiation, MD-19, Washington, DC Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Approval Extension 20460 Legal Authority: 42 USC 7511(a)(2)(b); NPRM Interim 07/27/98 63 FR 40053 Phone: 919 541-1064 42 USC 7511(a)(2)(b)(2) Approval Extension NPRM 08/00/01 Fax: 919 541-1039 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51 Final Action 08/00/02 Email: [email protected] Legal Deadline: None Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Bill Lamason, Environmental Protection Abstract: This action specifies Required: No requirements for enhanced I/M Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-19, Small Entities Affected: programs to establish a program to Businesses, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 ensure compliance with recall notices. Governmental Jurisdictions Phone: 919 541-5374 This is pursuant to the Clean Air Act Government Levels Affected: State, Fax: 919 541-1039 Amendments of 1990. Local RIN: 2060–AF72 Timetable: Additional Information: SAN No. 3412 Action Date FR Cite Agency Contact: Ray Vogel, 3241. SERVICE INFORMATION NPRM 08/00/01 Environmental Protection Agency, Air AVAILABILITY Final Action 02/00/02 and Radiation, MD-12, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Phone: 919 541-3153 Required: No Email: [email protected] Legal Authority: 42 USC 7521(m) Small Entities Affected: Businesses RIN: 2060–AF70 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 86 Government Levels Affected: Federal Legal Deadline: None Additional Information: SAN No. 3262 3240. AMENDMENTS TO METHOD 24 Agency Contact: Buddy Polovick, (WATER-BASED COATINGS) Abstract: This rule will require Environmental Protection Agency, Air Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant manufacturers of automobiles to and Radiation, Washington, DC 20460 provide necessary information needed Legal Authority: Phone: 734 214-4928 42 USC 7410 to make use of emission control Fax: 734 214-4052 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60 diagnostic systems as well as that Email: [email protected] Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, June needed to make emission-related RIN: 2060–AE22 15, 2001. diagnosis and repairs by any person engaged in the repairing or servicing Abstract: The determination of volatile of motor vehicles or motor vehicle 3239. OPERATING PERMITS: organic compounds (VOCs) content of engines. This will allow independent REVISIONS (PART 70) a surface coating by reference Method service repair garages, individual Priority: Other Significant 24 involves determination of its water owners, parts manufacturers, etc., to content and calculation of its VOC Legal Authority: 42 USC 7661 et seq have access to emission control content as the difference of the two information to better service CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51; 40 CFR 52; measurements (volatile content minus automobiles and ensure clean air 40 CFR 70 water content). Method 24 is inherently compliance requirements. less precise for water-based coatings Legal Deadline: None than it is for solvent-based coatings and Timetable: Abstract: In response to litigation on the imprecision increases as water the operating permits rule regulations, content increases. This action will Action Date FR Cite 40 CFR part 70, to provide more amend Method 24 by adding a direct NPRM 04/00/01 effective implementation of part 70, measurement procedure for measuring and to address comments provided in VOC content of water-based coatings. Regulatory Flexibility Analysis response to notices of proposed This amendment will improve the Required: No rulemaking, parts 70, 51 and 52 are precision of Method 24 for water-based being revised. The changes streamline coatings. Small Entities Affected: No the procedures for revising stationary- Timetable: Government Levels Affected: None source operating permits issued by State and local permitting authorities Action Date FR Cite Additional Information: SAN No. 3741 under title V of the Clean Air Act. NPRM 09/00/01 Timetable: Final Action 09/00/02 Agency Contact: Holly Pugliese, Environmental Protection Agency, Air Action Date FR Cite Regulatory Flexibility Analysis and Radiation, Ann Arbor, MI 48105 NPRM 08/29/94 59 FR 44460 Required: No Phone: 734 214-4288 Supplemental NPRM 04/27/95 60 FR 20804 Small Entities Affected: No Fax: 734 214-4053 Part 71 Government Levels Affected: None Email: [email protected] Supplemental NPRM 08/31/95 60 FR 45530 Part 70 Additional Information: SAN No. 3649 RIN: 2060–AG13
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3242. NESHAP: PLYWOOD AND Agency Contact: Mary Tom Kissell, 3244. STREAMLINED EVAPORATIVE COMPOSITE WOOD PRODUCTS Environmental Protection Agency, Air TEST PROCEDURES Priority: Economically Significant. and Radiation, MD-13, Research Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Major under 5 USC 801. Triangle Park, NC 27711 Phone: 919 541-4516 Legal Authority: 42 USC 7521(m) Unfunded Mandates: This action may Fax: 919 541-0246 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 86 (Revision) affect the private sector under PL 104- Email: [email protected] 4. Legal Deadline: None Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412(d) Kent C. Hustvedt, Environmental Abstract: This action will streamline Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, the test procedure used to establish CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 MD-13, RTP, NC 27711 compliance with evaporative emission Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, Phone: 919 541-5395 requirements for light duty vehicles November 15, 2000. Fax: 919 541-0246 and trucks. The current test procedure Abstract: This project is to develop Email: [email protected] requires both two and three day diurnal national emission standards for RIN: 2060–AG52 emission tests, as well as running-loss hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP) by testing. The revisions will delete the establishing maximum achievable three day requirement and add control technology (MACT) for facilities 3243. TRANSPORTATION flexibilities for running-loss manufacturing wood panels and CONFORMITY RULE AMENDMENT: compliance. This will enable engineered wood products. MACT CLARIFICATION OF TRADING manufacturers to save significant standards are under development to PROVISIONS resources without any decrease in reduce the release of hazardous air Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant environmental benefits. pollutants (HAP) from all industries to Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 to 7671 Timetable: protect the public health and CAA sec 176(c) environment. Emissions of HAP from Action Date FR Cite this industry have been associated CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51; 40 CFR 93 NPRM 09/00/01 with, but are not limited to, the drying Legal Deadline: None Final Action 03/00/02 of wood and binders. This rule is Abstract: The transportation Regulatory Flexibility Analysis anticipated to apply to the manufacture conformity rule, promulgated in Required: No of products involving wood and some November 1993, ensures that kind of binder or bonding agent. This Small Entities Affected: No transportation and air quality planning project may include, but is not limited are consistent with Clean Air Act air Government Levels Affected: None to, facilities that manufacture quality standards. The Open Market waferboard, hardboard fiber board Additional Information: SAN No. 3910 Trading Guidance provides guidance to (MDF), oriented strandboard (OSB), Agency Contact: David Goodi, states for establishing a method to medium density fiberboard, Environmental Protection Agency, Air quantify emissions reductions (called particleboard, strawboard, hardwood and Radiation, NFEVL, Ann Arbor, MI discrete emissions reductions or DERs) and softwood plywood, glue-laminated 48105 that can be traded among parties and lumber, laminated veneer lumber, and Phone: 734 214-4480 how such trading should occur. This engineered wood products. The source action will amend the transportation RIN: 2060–AH34 category may also include lumber conformity rule to clarify how drying kilns at sawmills which are emissions trading could be reconciled located on the same site as a facility 3245. NESHAP: COKE OVENS: in the conformity process. that manufactures any of the wood PUSHING, QUENCHING, AND products mentioned above. The project Timetable: BATTERY STACKS may also include some coatings Action Date FR Cite Priority: Other Significant operations. The name of the source category was formerly Plywood and NPRM 06/00/01 Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 Particleboard MACT. Regulatory Flexibility Analysis CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 Required: No Timetable: Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, Action Date FR Cite Small Entities Affected: No November 15, 2000. NPRM 05/00/01 Government Levels Affected: Local, Abstract: There are currently 25 active Final Action 05/00/02 Federal domestic coke plants, 20 of which are furnace coke plants and 5 of which are Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Additional Information: SAN No. 3917 foundry coke plants. Coke oven Required: No Agency Contact: Laura Voss, batteries used to produce metallurgical Small Entities Affected: Businesses Environmental Protection Agency, Air coke at these plants emit hazardous air and Radiation, NFEVL, Ann Arbor, MI Government Levels Affected: None pollutants (HAPs) such as coke oven 48105 emissions and polycyclic organic Additional Information: SAN No. 3820 Phone: 734 214-4858 matter listed in section 112 of the Clean Sectors Affected: 32121 Veneer, Fax: 734 214-4531 Air Act (CAA). This action will Plywood, and Engineered Wood Email: [email protected] establish a National Emission Standard Product Manufacturing RIN: 2060–AH31 for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP)
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for three specific operations associated EPA identified one such specific source hydrochloroflurocarbons (HCFCs) had with coke ovens, namely pushing, category as those stationary source not been established prior to 1998 quenching, and battery stacks. categories being regulated, as of August because consumption figures had Timetable: 7, 1980, under section 111 or 112 of hovered around 80% of the cap the Clean Air Act. Moreover, EPA imposed by the Montreal Protocol in Action Date FR Cite indicated that at the time of any future 1992. The HCFC consumption figures NPRM 04/00/01 rulemaking proposing to regulate for 1999 indicate that the US is within Final Action 03/00/02 additional categories of sources under 95% of the cap; the figures for 2000 section 111 or 112, the EPA would were in the low 90s. Since the US is Regulatory Flexibility Analysis conduct a parallel rulemaking under in danger of violating this cap if high Required: No section 302(j) to determine whether HCFC consumption rates continue into Small Entities Affected: No fugitive emissions from sources within 2001, the system for allocating Government Levels Affected: None these source categories needed to be allowances must be in place as soon considered in determining whether the as possible in order to control HCFC Additional Information: SAN No. 4022 sources were major stationary sources. consumption for all four quarters of Sectors Affected: 324199 All Other EPA did not conduct these parallel 2002. Petroleum and Coal Products rulemakings as intended and is now Timetable: Manufacturing; 331111 Iron and Steel conducting a rulemaking pursuant to Mills section 302(j) to address the source Action Date FR Cite Agency Contact: Lula Melton, categories which became subject to ANPRM 04/04/99 64 FR 16373 Environmental Protection Agency, Air section 111 and 112 standards after NPRM 05/00/01 and Radiation, MD-13, Research August 7, 1980. Final Action 12/00/01 Triangle Park, NC 27711 Timetable: Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Phone: 919 541-2910 Action Date FR Cite Required: No Fax: 919 541-5600 Small Entities Affected: Email: [email protected] NPRM 10/00/01 Businesses Final Action 10/00/02 Government Levels Affected: None Al Vervaert, Environmental Protection Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Additional Information: SAN No. 4120 Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13, Required: Undetermined Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 Additional deadline: Montreal Protocol. Phone: 919 541-5602 Government Levels Affected: State, The Protocol requires compliance with Email: [email protected] Local, Tribal, Federal formulary caps of all parties’ consumption and production of HCFCs. RIN: 2060–AH55 Federalism: Undetermined Additional Information: SAN No. 4045 The ANPRM is available on the Internet at: 3246. RULEMAKING TO MODIFY THE Agency Contact: Joanna Swanson, LIST OF SOURCE CATEGORIES Environmental Protection Agency, Air http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA- FROM WHICH FUGITIVE EMISSIONS and Radiation, MD-12, Research AIR/1999/ ARE CONSIDERED IN MAJOR Triangle Park, NC 27711 April/Day-05/a8258.htm SOURCE DETERMINATIONS Phone: 919 541-5282 Agency Contact: Vera Au, Fax: 919 541-5509 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Email: [email protected] Major status under 5 USC 801 is and Radiation, 6205J undetermined. RIN: 2060–AH58 Phone: 202 564-2216 Legal Authority: 42 USC 7602 CAA sec Fax: 202 565-2156 302(j) 3247. PROTECTION OF Email: [email protected] STRATOSPHERIC OZONE: CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51; 40 CFR 52; Sue Stendebach, Environmental ALLOWANCE SYSTEM FOR 40 CFR 70; 40 CFR 71 Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, CONTROLLING HCFC PRODUCTION, 6205J Legal Deadline: None IMPORT & EXPORT Phone: 202 564-9117 Abstract: This rulemaking will modify Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Fax: 202 565-2095 the list of source categories for which Email: [email protected] fugitive emissions are to be considered Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq in major source determinations under CFR Citation: 40 CFR 82.5(h); 40 CFR RIN: 2060–AH67 the New Source Review (Prevention of 82.6(h); 40 CFR 82.8; 40 CFR 82.4(n)- Significant Deterioration and (s); 40 CFR 82.4(u) 3248. NESHAP: FUMED SILICA Nonattainment New Source Review) PRODUCTION and title V programs. As provided by Legal Deadline: None section 302(j) of the Act, EPA adopted Abstract: The Stratospheric Protection Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant rules on August 7, 1980 that require, Division currently oversees an Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAAA for specific source categories, the allowance allocation system for the Section 112; EO 12866 inclusion of fugitive emissions when class I ozone-depleting substances. An determining if a stationary source is a allowance allocation system for class II CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 major source. In its 1980 rulemaking, ozone-depleting substances or Legal Deadline: None
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Abstract: Fumed silica is produced at Timetable: metal pipes may reasonably be four facilities is three states. There is Action Date FR Cite anticipated to emit several of the 189 no NSPS for the source category. Based HAPs listed in section 112(b) of the on preliminary results of a screening NPRM 04/00/01 CAA. As a consequence, a regulatory study, the source category emits Final Action 02/00/02 development program is being pursued chlorine, HCl, and chlorinated organics. Regulatory Flexibility Analysis for the asphalt/coal tar application on Timetable: Required: No metal pipes industry to promulgate emission standards. Action Date FR Cite Small Entities Affected: Businesses Timetable: NPRM 04/00/01 Government Levels Affected: State, Final Action 02/00/02 Local, Tribal, Federal Action Date FR Cite Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Additional Information: SAN No. 4104 NPRM 05/00/01 Required: No Sectors Affected: 325211 Plastics Final Action 05/00/02 Small Entities Affected: No Material and Resin Manufacturing; Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 325199 All Other Basic Organic Required: Government Levels Affected: State, Undetermined Chemical Manufacturing; 325181 Local, Federal Small Entities Affected: No Alkalies and Chlorine Manufacturing; Additional Information: SAN No. 4111 325188 All Other Basic Inorganic Government Levels Affected: State, Sectors Affected: 325188 All Other Chemical Manufacturing Local, Tribal, Federal Basic Inorganic Chemical Agency Contact: Bill Maxwell, Additional Information: SAN No. 4107 Manufacturing Environmental Protection Agency, Air Sectors Affected: 332812 Metal Agency Contact: Bill Maxwell, and Radiation, MD-13, Research Coating, Engraving (except Jewelry and Environmental Protection Agency, Air Triangle Park, NC 27711 Silverware), and Allied Services to and Radiation, MD-13, Research Phone: 919 541-5430 Manufacturers Triangle Park, NC 27711 Fax: 919 541-5450 Agency Contact: Rick Colyer, Phone: 919 541-5430 Email: [email protected] Environmental Protection Agency, Air Fax: 919 541-5450 and Radiation, MD-13, Research Email: [email protected] Bob Wayland, Environmental Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, Triangle Park, NC 27711 Bob Wayland, Environmental MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC Phone: 919 541-5262 Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, 27711 Fax: 919 541-0942 MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC Phone: 919 541-1045 Email: [email protected] 27711 Fax: 919 541-5450 Phone: 919 541-1045 Email: [email protected] Susan Wyatt, Environmental Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13, Fax: 919 541-5450 RIN: 2060–AH75 Email: [email protected] RTP, NC 27711 Phone: 919 541-5674 RIN: 2060–AH72 3250. NESHAP: ASPHALT/COAL TAR Fax: 919 541-0942 APPLICATION ON METAL PIPES Email: [email protected] 3249. NESHAP: HYDROCHLORIC ACID Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant RIN: 2060–AH78 PRODUCTION INDUSTRY Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 3251. NESHAP: CLAY MINERALS Legal Authority: 42 USC 1857 et seq; PROCESSING Legal Deadline: NPRM, Statutory, May 44 USC 350 et seq; 5 USC 605; EO Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant 12291; EO 12866 1, 2001. Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 Abstract: The Clean Air Act (CAA), as amended in 1990, requires the EPA to CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 Legal Deadline: None (1) publish an initial list of all Abstract: Title III of the Clean Air Act categories of major and area sources of Legal Deadline: NPRM, Statutory, May Amendments of 1990 requires the EPA the hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) 1, 2001. to develop emission standards for each listed in section 112(b) of the CAA, (2) Abstract: The Clean Air Act (CAA), as major source category of hazardous air promulgate a schedule establishing a amended in 1990, requires the EPA to pollutants (HAPs). The standards are to date for the promulgation of emission (1) publish an initial list of all be technology-based and are to require standards for each of the listed categories of major and area sources of the maximum degree of emission categories of HAPs emission sources, the hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) reduction determined to be achievable and (3) develop emission standards for listed in section 112(b) of the CAA, (2) by the Administrator of the EPA. The each source of HAPs. These standards promulgate a schedule establishing a EPA has determined that some are to be technology-based and are to date for the promulgation of emission hydrochloric acid plants may be major require the maximum degree of standards for each of the listed sources for one or more HAPs. As a emission reduction determined to be categories of HAPs emission sources, consequence, a regulation (emission achievable by the Administrator. The and (3) develop emission standards for standards) will be developed for the Agency has determined that the each source of HAPs. These standards hydrochloric acid production industry. application of asphalt or coal tar to are to be technology-based and are to
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require the maximum degree of CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 3253. PERFORMANCE emission reduction determined to be SPECIFICATION 16 - SPECIFICATIONS achievable by the Administrator. The Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, AND TEST PROCEDURES FOR Agency has determined that the clay November 15, 2000. PREDICTIVE EMISSION MONITORING products manufacturing industry may SYSTEMS IN STATIONARY SOURCES Abstract: This project will develop reasonably be anticipated to emit national emissions standards for Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant several of the 189 HAPs listed in section 112(b) of the CAA. As a hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP) by Legal Authority: 42 USC 7411 CAA sec consequence, a regulatory development establishing emissions limitations for 111 program is being pursued for the clay hazardous air pollutants (HAP) which CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60 can be emitted by the two known products manufacturing industry to Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, April sources in this category. The emissions promulgate emission standards. EPA 15, 2001. plans to propose four separate limitations are to be based upon the Abstract: Performance Specification 16 standards for the clay products application of the maximum achievable is being proposed to provide manufacturing industry (see 64 FR control technology (MACT). The performance criteria for predictive 63028, 11/18/99). This action will purpose of the NESHAP is to reduce emission monitoring systems. propose and promulgate standards for emissions of HAP to protect public Predictive systems represent a new the clay minerals processing portion of health and the environment. The technology that uses process the industry. project will begin in 2000. Initially, information or parameters to predict Timetable: information on the industry processes pollutant emissions instead of directly and emissions of HAP will be analyzed Action Date FR Cite measuring them. The Agency is to identify available emissions control allowing their use in recently- NPRM 05/00/01 technologies. That work will be promulgated rules and they are being Final Action 05/00/02 followed by the development, proposal considered by a number of regulated Regulatory Flexibility Analysis and promulgation of NESHAP. facilities. The specification lists the requirements for acceptable systems Required: No Timetable: that are met by passing tests that Small Entities Affected: No Action Date FR Cite compare the monitoring system with Government Levels Affected: State, standardized methods and audit gases Local, Tribal, Federal NPRM 05/00/01 to determine system accuracy and Final Action 05/00/02 Additional Information: SAN No. 4113 stability. Performance Specification 16 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis will primarily apply to facilities whose Sectors Affected: 327121 Brick and emissions can be predicted from Required: No Structural Clay Tile Manufacturing; process parameters such as combustion 327122 Ceramic Wall and Floor Tile Small Entities Affected: No processes (including gas turbines and Manufacturing; 327123 Other Structural internal combustion engines). Clay Product Manufacturing; 327124 Government Levels Affected: State, Timetable: Clay Refractory Manufacturing; 212324 Federal Kaolin and Ball Clay Mining; 327992 Action Date FR Cite Ground or Treated Mineral and Earth Additional Information: SAN No. 4098 NPRM 05/00/01 Manufacturing Sectors Affected: 331419 Primary Final Action 05/00/01 Agency Contact: Steve Shedd, Smelting and Refining of Nonferrous Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Environmental Protection Agency, Air Metal (except Copper and Aluminum) Required: No and Radiation, MD-13, Research Small Entities Affected: No Triangle Park, NC 27711 Agency Contact: Jeff Telander, Phone: 919 541-5397 Environmental Protection Agency, Air Government Levels Affected: State Fax: 919 541-0246 and Radiation, MD-13, Research Additional Information: SAN No. 4119 Email: [email protected] Triangle Park, NC 27711 Sectors Affected: 33241 Power Boiler Phone: 919 541-5427 Kent Hustvedt, Environmental and Heat Exchanger Manufacturing; Fax: 919 541-5600 333611 Turbine and Turbine Generator Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, Email: [email protected] Set Unit Manufacturing; 333618 Other MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC Engine Equipment Manufacturing; 27711 Jim Crowder, Environmental Protection 336399 All Other Motor Vehicle Parts Phone: 919 541-5395 Manufacturing Fax: 919 541-0246 Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13, Email: [email protected] Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 Agency Contact: Foston Curtis, Phone: 919 541-5596 Environmental Protection Agency, Air RIN: 2060–AH79 Fax: 919 541-5600 and Radiation, MD-19, Washington, DC Email: [email protected] 20460 3252. NESHAP: URANIUM Phone: 919 541-1063 HEXAFLUORIDE PRODUCTION RIN: 2060–AH83 William H. Lamason, Environmental Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 MD-19, Washington, DC 20460
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Phone: 919 541-5374 3255. RULEMAKING ON SECTION 126 Government Levels Affected: RIN: 2060–AH84 PETITIONS FROM NEW YORK AND Undetermined CONNECTICUT REGARDING Additional Information: SAN No. 4464 SOURCES IN MICHIGAN 3254. TECHNICAL CHANGE TO DOSE Split from RIN 2060-AH88. Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant METHODOLOGY FOR 40 CFR 191, Sectors Affected: 221112 Fossil Fuel SUBPART A Legal Authority: 42 USC 7426 Electric Power Generation Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant CFR Citation: 40 CFR 52; 40 CFR 75; Agency Contact: Carla Oldham, Legal Authority: 42 USC 2021 Atomic 40 CFR 97 Environmental Protection Agency, Air Energy Act of 1954; Reorganization and Radiation, MD-15, Research Legal Deadline: None Plan No. 3 of 1970; Nuclear Waste Triangle Park, NC 27711 Policy Act of 1982 Abstract: The EPA is proposing to Phone: 919 541-3347 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 190(B); 40 CFR revise the section 126 rule in light of Fax: 919 541-0824 191(A) the March 3, 2000 Court decision Email: [email protected] (Michigan v. EPA, No. 98-1497) on the RIN: 2060–AJ36 Legal Deadline: None NOx SIP Call. The court vacated, and Abstract: The purpose of this action is remanded to EPA for further to make a technical change to the dose consideration, the inclusion of Georgia 3256. NESHAP: RECIPROCATING methodology used in subpart A of 40 and Missouri in the NOx SIP Call in INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE CFR 191, entitled ‘‘Environmental light of the Ozone Transport Priority: Economically Significant. Radiation Protection Standards for the Assessment Group conclusions that Major under 5 USC 801. Management and Disposal of Spent emissions from coarse grid portions of Nuclear Fuel, High-Level Waste and States did not merit controls. The Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAA sec Transuranic Waste The current reasoning of the Court regarding the 112; PL 101-549 methodology is outdated. The dose significance of NOx emissions from CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 methodology used in the rule published sources in Georgia and Missouri calls Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, on September 19, 1985, was based on into question the inclusion of the November 15, 2000. the target organ approach coarse grid portion of Michigan in the recommended by the International NOx SIP Call. In a separate proposal Abstract: The stationary reciprocating Commission on Radiological Protection on the NOx SIP Call, EPA is proposing internal combustion engine source (ICRP) in Report ι2. Since that time to withdraw the NOx SIP Call category is listed as a major source of science has progressed and a new requirements for the Michigan coarse hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) under methodology based on an effective dose grid area. The section 126 rule is based section 112 of the Clean Air Act (CAA). equivalent approach is currently being on many of the same analyses and A major source is one which emits recommended by the ICRP in Report information used for the NOx SIP call more than 10 tons/yr of one HAP or ι26. This action would update the 40 and covers part of Michigan. Thus, in more than 25 tons/yr of a combination CFR 191, subpart A dose limits light of the court ruling, EPA is of 189 HAPs. The EPA will gather published in 1985 from the target organ proposing to withdraw its section 126 information on HAP emissions from to the state-of-the-art effective dose findings and control requirements internal combustion engines and equivalent system. There would be no under the 1-hour ozone standard with determine the appropriate maximum change in the level of protection, just respect to sources located in the small achievable control technology (MACT) the scientific methodology for part of the coarse grid portion of to reduce HAP emissions. The EPA will determining compliance with the levels Michigan that is currently covered by use information that has already been of protection established in 1985. the section 126 rule. The EPA has not developed, if possible, by gathering Timetable: identified any existing section 126 information by working with State/local sources that would be affected by the agencies, vendors, manufacturers of Action Date FR Cite proposal, however this proposal would internal combustion engines, owners NPRM 06/00/01 eliminate findings and control and operators of internal combustion Final Action 06/00/02 requirements for new sources locating engines, and environmentalists. Regulatory Flexibility Analysis in the coarse grid. This proposal does Timetable: not create any new requirements, thus Required: No Action Date FR Cite there are no associated costs. The Small Entities Affected: No proposal does not raise any novel legal NPRM 05/00/01 Government Levels Affected: Federal or policy issues. It is consistent with Final Action 05/00/02 Additional Information: SAN No. 4003 the Court ruling on the NOx SIP Call Regulatory Flexibility Analysis and EPA’s new proposed action on the Agency Contact: Ray Clark, Required: No NOx SIP Call. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Small Entities Affected: Businesses, and Radiation, 6608J, Washington, DC Timetable: Governmental Jurisdictions 20460 Action Date FR Cite Government Levels Affected: Phone: 202 564-9198 None Fax: 202 565-2065 NPRM 04/00/01 Additional Information: SAN No. 3656 Email: [email protected] Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Agency Contact: Sims Roy, RIN: 2060–AH90 Required: Undetermined Environmental Protection Agency, Air
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and Radiation, MD-13, Research Small Entities Affected: Businesses, Phone: 919 541-3265 Triangle Park, NC 27711 Governmental Jurisdictions Fax: 919 541-5600 Phone: 919 541-5263 Government Levels Affected: Local Email: [email protected] Fax: 919 541-5450 Email: [email protected] Additional Information: SAN No. 3657 Al Vervaert, Environmental Protection Agency Contact: Sims Roy, Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13, Robert J. Wayland, Environmental Environmental Protection Agency, Air Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, and Radiation, MD-13, Research Phone: 919 541-5602 MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC Triangle Park, NC 27711 Email: [email protected] 27711 Phone: 919 541-5263 RIN: 2060–AE43 Phone: 919 541-1045 Fax: 919 541-5450 Fax: 919 541-5450 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 3259. NESHAP: INTEGRATED IRON AND STEEL RIN: 2060–AG63 Robert J. Wayland, Environmental Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, Priority: Other Significant MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC 3257. NESHAP: COMBUSTION 27711 Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAAA TURBINE Phone: 919 541-1045 sec 112 Priority: Economically Significant. Fax: 919 541-5450 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 Email: [email protected] Major under 5 USC 801. Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, Unfunded Mandates: This action may RIN: 2060–AG67 November 15, 2000. affect the private sector under PL 104- Abstract: The Clean Air Act, as 4. 3258. NESHAP: IRON FOUNDRIES amended November 1990, requires the Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAA sec AND STEEL FOUNDRIES EPA to regulate categories of major and 112 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant area sources of hazardous air pollutants (HAP). The EPA has determined that CFR Citation: 44 CFR 63 Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq integrated iron and steel mills emit Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 several of the 188 HAP listed November 15, 2000. Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, (including compounds of chromium, Abstract: The combustion turbine November 15, 2000, See additional lead, manganese, toluene, and source category is listed as a major information. polycyclic organic matter) in quantities source of hazardous air pollutants sufficient to designate them as major Abstract: Iron foundries and steel (HAPs) under section 112 of the Clean sources. As a consequence, integrated foundries have been identified by the Air Act (CAA). A major source is one iron and steel facilities are among the EPA as potentially significant sources which emits more than 10 tons/yr of HAP-emitting source categories selected of air emissions of manganese one HAP or more than 25 tons/yr of for regulation. compounds, lead compounds, and a combination of 189 HAPs. other substances that are among the Timetable: Combustion turbines also emit NOx, pollutants listed as hazardous air SO2, CO, and PM. Combustion turbines Action Date FR Cite pollutants in section 112 of the Clean are already regulated for NOx and SO2 NPRM 04/00/01 Air Act, as amended in November of emissions under section 111 of the Final Rule 03/00/02 1990. As such, these industries may be CAA. The EPA will gather information source categories for which national Regulatory Flexibility Analysis on HAP emissions from combustion emission standards may be warranted. Required: No turbines and determine the appropriate maximum achievable control Timetable: Small Entities Affected: No technology (MACT) to reduce HAP Action Date FR Cite Government Levels Affected: State emissions. The EPA information that has already been developed will be NPRM 06/00/01 Additional Information: SAN No. 3346 Final Action 05/00/02 used if possible and additional Agency Contact: Phil Mulrine, information will be gathered by Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Environmental Protection Agency, Air working with State/local agencies, Required: Undetermined and Radiation, MD-13, Research vendors, manufacturers of combustion Government Levels Affected: None Triangle Park, NC 27711 turbines, owners and operators of Phone: 919 541-5289 Additional Information: combustion turbines, and SAN No. 3343 Fax: 919 541-5600 environmentalists. EPA is required to promulgate Email: [email protected] Timetable: standards for all of the source categories listed in accordance with Al Vervaert, Environmental Protection Action Date FR Cite section 112(e) by November 15, 2000. Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13, NPRM 05/00/01 Agency Contact: Jim Maysilles, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 Final Action 05/00/02 Environmental Protection Agency, Air Phone: 919 541-5602 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis and Radiation, MD-13, Research Email: [email protected] Required: No Triangle Park, NC 27711 RIN: 2060–AE48
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3260. NESHAP: REINFORCED 3261. NATIONAL EMISSION Abstract: The chlorine production PLASTIC COMPOSITES PRODUCTION STANDARDS FOR HAZARDOUS AIR source category includes facilities POLLUTANTS: MISCELLANEOUS engaged in the production of chlorine Priority: Other Significant ORGANIC CHEMICAL and sodium hydroxide (caustic) by one MANUFACTURING AND of the following electrolytic processes: Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq MISCELLANEOUS COATING diaphragm cell, membrane cell, and CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 MANUFACTURING mercury cell. Hazardous air pollutants Priority: Other Significant emitted include chlorine, hydrogen Legal Deadline: NPRM, Statutory, chloride, and mercury. None of the November 15, 2000. Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAAA facilities are major sources on their sec 112 own. However, several are co-located Abstract: Project is to develop a CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 with major sources (e.g., pulp and NESHAP for the source category which paper plants, polymer plants, synthetic involves the manufacture of composite Legal Deadline: NPRM, Statutory, organic chemical plants, etc.). products involving thermoset resins November 15, 2000. Emissions of chlorine and hydrogen and re-enforcements. Some of the Abstract: This regulation will cover chloride are very minor and the Agency specific products in the source category organic chemical manufacturing is evaluating whether regulation of are tubs/showers, auto/truck parts, processes not covered by the HON or these HAPs is warranted. Relative to appliances, furniture, piping, other MACT standards. The regulation mercury, which is among five construction materials, sporting goods will control process vents (continuous pollutants listed for regulation under using such materials, and intermediate and batch, including mixing section 112(c)(6) due to their persistent compounds such as bulk molding operations), equipment leaks, storage and bioaccumulative effects, the compound and sheet molding tanks, wastewater, solvent recovery, Agency intends to subject to regulation compounds. The most common HAP in and heat exchange systems. under section 112(d)(2) all mercury cell the resins used is styrene, which is Timetable: facilities regardless of major source present in polyester and vinylester status. Action Date FR Cite resins as a monomer. Styrene is listed Timetable: as a candidate urban area source HAP. NPRM 05/00/01 Action Date FR Cite So is methylene chloride, which is Final Action 05/00/02 NPRM 04/00/01 sometimes used for cleaning, and Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Final Action 04/00/02 xylenes, which may appear in some Required: No mold release formulas. All HAP, except Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Small Entities Affected: for methylene chloride, are also VOC’s. Businesses Required: No Government Levels Affected: None Timetable: Small Entities Affected: No Additional Information: SAN No. 3452 Action Date FR Cite Government Levels Affected: State Sectors Affected: 325 Chemical Additional Information: SAN No. 3449 NPRM 05/00/01 Manufacturing Final Action 05/00/02 Agency Contact: Iliam Rosario, Agency Contact: Randy McDonald, Environmental Protection Agency, Air Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Environmental Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13, Research Required: Yes and Radiation, MD-13, RTP, NC 27711 Triangle Park, NC 27711 Phone: 919 541-5402 Phone: 919 541-5308 Small Entities Affected: Businesses Fax: 919 541-3470 Fax: 919 541-5600 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Government Levels Affected: None Penny Lassiter, Environmental Additional Information: SAN No. 3326 Al Vervaert, Environmental Protection Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13, Agency Contact: Keith Barnett, MD-13, RTP, NC 27711 Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 Environmental Protection Agency, Air Phone: 919 541-5396 Phone: 919 541-5602 and Radiation, MD-13, Research Fax: 919 541-3470 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Triangle Park, NC 27711 RIN: 2060–AE85 Phone: 919 541-5605 RIN: 2060–AE82 Fax: 919 541-3470 3263. AMENDMENTS TO GENERAL Email: [email protected] 3262. NESHAP: CHLORINE PROVISIONS SUBPARTS A AND B PRODUCTION Penny Lassiter, Environmental FOR 40 CFR 63 Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant MD-13, RTP, NC 27711 Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAAA Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAA sec Phone: 919 541-5396 sec 112 112; PL 101-549 Fax: 919 541-3470 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63.1 to 63.15; Email: [email protected] Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, 40 CFR 63.50 to 63.56 RIN: 2060–AE79 November 15, 2000. Legal Deadline: None
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Abstract: The General Provisions Abstract: This regulation will control Administrator. The EPA has (subpart A) were promulgated on emissions of hazardous air pollutants determined that the asphalt roofing and March 16, 1994 (59 FR 12408). The (HAPs) from operations that apply processing industry may be reasonably General Provisions create the technical surface coatings to metal parts and anticipated to emit one or more of the and administrative framework and products. Although this rule would pollutants listed in section 112(b) of the establish general procedures and cover a wide variety of coating CAA. As a consequence, the source criteria for implementing MACT operations, it would not apply to category is included on the initial list standards. On May 16, 1994, six specific coating operations for which of HAP-emitting categories scheduled litigants filed petitions for EPA to regulations have been developed (e.g., for standards promulgation within ten review certain provisions of the General plastic parts coating, can coating, large years of enactment of the CAA Provisions. Subpart B, the procedures appliance coating, etc.). This regulation Amendments of 1990. The purpose of for implementing section 112(j), was is required under section 112 of the this action is to pursue a regulatory promulgated on May 26, 1994. In June, Clean Air Act of 1990. development program such that 1994 litigants filed petitions for EPA Timetable: emission standards may be proposed to review the promulgated procedures. and promulgated according to the As a result of the litigation, it is Action Date FR Cite mandated schedule. anticipated that a number of technical NPRM 05/00/01 Timetable: and administrative amendments to Final Action 05/00/02 Action Date FR Cite subpart A and B will be proposed. Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Timetable: Required: No NPRM 06/00/01 Interim Final 05/00/02 Action Date FR Cite Small Entities Affected: Businesses, Governmental Jurisdictions Regulatory Flexibility Analysis NPRM 03/23/01 66 FR 16317 Required: No NPRM Comment 05/22/01 Government Levels Affected: State Small Entities Affected: No Period End Additional Information: SAN No. 3825 Final Action 02/00/02 Government Levels Affected: Agency Contact: Bruce Moore, State, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Environmental Protection Agency, Air Local, Tribal, Federal Required: No and Radiation, MD-13, Research Additional Information: SAN No. 3655 Small Entities Affected: Businesses Triangle Park, NC 27711 Sectors Affected: 324122 Asphalt Phone: 919 541-5460 Government Levels Affected: Shingle and Coating Materials Fax: 919 541-5689 Manufacturing Undetermined Email: [email protected] Additional Information: SAN No. 3551 Agency Contact: Rick Colyer, Dianne Byrne, Environmental Environmental Protection Agency, Air Agency Contact: Rick Colyer, Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, and Radiation, MD-13, Research Environmental Protection Agency, Air MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC Triangle Park, NC 27711 and Radiation, MD-13, Research 27711 Phone: 919 541-5262 Triangle Park, NC 27711 Phone: 919 541-5342 Fax: 919 541-0942 Phone: 919 541-5262 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Fax: 919 541-0942 Email: [email protected] RIN: 2060–AG56 Susan Wyatt, Environmental Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13, Susan Wyatt, Environmental Protection 3265. NESHAP: ASPHALT ROOFING RTP, NC 27711 Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13, AND PROCESSING Phone: 919 541-5674 RTP, NC 27711 Fax: 919 541-0942 Priority: Other Significant Phone: 919 541-5674 Email: [email protected] Fax: 919 541-0942 Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAAA RIN: 2060–AG66 Email: [email protected] sec 112 RIN: 2060–AF31 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 3266. NESHAP: REFRACTORIES Legal Deadline: NPRM, Statutory, May MANUFACTURING 3264. NESHAP: MISCELLANEOUS 1, 2001. Priority: Other Significant METAL PARTS AND PRODUCTS Abstract: The CAA required EPA to (SURFACE COATING) publish an initial list of all categories Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAA sec 112 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant. of major and area sources of hazardous Major status under 5 USC 801 is air pollutants (HAPs) listed in section CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 undetermined. 112(b) of the CAA and to establish and meet dates for promulgation of Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined emissions standards for each of the November 15, 2000. Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq listed categories of HAP emissions Abstract: The Clean Air Act requires sources. The standards are to be EPA to publish an initial list of all CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 technology-based and are to require the categories of major and area sources of Legal Deadline: NPRM, Statutory, May maximum degree of reduction hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) listed 1, 2001. determined to be achievable by the in section 112(b) of the Act and to
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establish and meet dates for 3267. NESHAP: INDUSTRIAL, 3268. NESHAP: LIME promulgation of emission standards for COMMERCIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL MANUFACTURING each of the listed categories of HAP BOILERS AND PROCESS HEATERS Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant emission sources. The standards are to Priority: Economically Significant. Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq; be technology-based and are to require Major under 5 USC 801. 44 USC 350 et seq; 5 USC 605 the maximum degree of emission reduction determined to be achievable Unfunded Mandates: This action may CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 by the Administrator. The refractory affect the private sector under PL 104- Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, products manufacturing source category 4. November 15, 2000. is included on the initial list of HAP- Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 Abstract: Section 112 of the Clean Air emitting categories under the name Act Amendments of 1990 requires the CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 chromium refractories, and the rule is EPA to develop emission standards for scheduled for promulgation within ten Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, each major source category of years of enactment of the Clean Air Act November 15, 2000. hazardous air pollutants (HAPs). The Amendments of 1990. Testing standards are to be technology-based conducted and information obtained to Abstract: The Clean Air Act, as and are to require the maximum degree date indicate 15 major sources exist in amended in 1990, requires EPA to of emission reduction determined to be this source category and will be develop emission standards for sources achievable by the Administrator of the affected by this rulemaking. The EPA of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs). EPA. The EPA has determined that has determined that the refractory Industrial boilers, some lime manufacturing plants may be institutional/commercial boilers and products manufacturing industry emits major sources for one or more HAPs. process heaters are among the potential HAPs including chromium compounds, As a consequence, a regulation source categories to be regulated under ethylene glycol, phenol, methanol, (emission standards) is being developed section 112 of the CAA. Emissions of for the lime manufacturing industry. hydrochloric acid, formaldehyde, HAPs will be addressed by this polycyclic organic matter (POM) and rulemaking for both new and existing Timetable: hydrogen fluoride; eight of the 189 sources. EPA promulgated an NSPS for Action Date FR Cite HAPs listed in section 112 of the Act. these source categories in 1987 and NPRM 05/00/01 Impacts on small businesses and on 1990. The standards for the NESHAP Final Action 05/00/02 State/local/tribal governments are being are to be technology-based and are to assessed. require the maximum achievable Regulatory Flexibility Analysis control technology (MACT) as Required: Undetermined Timetable: described in section 112 of the CAA. Government Levels Affected: State, Action Date FR Cite Timetable: Local, Tribal, Federal NPRM 05/00/01 Action Date FR Cite Additional Information: SAN No. 3651 Final Action 05/00/02 NPRM 05/00/01 Sectors Affected: 32741 Lime Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Final Action 02/00/02 Manufacturing Required: No Agency Contact: Joseph Wood, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Environmental Protection Agency, Air Required: Small Entities Affected: Businesses No and Radiation, MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 Government Levels Affected: None Small Entities Affected: Businesses Phone: 919 541-5446 Government Levels Affected: State, Additional Information: SAN No. 3652 Fax: 919 541-5600 Local, Federal Email: [email protected] Agency Contact: Susan Zapata, Additional Information: SAN No. 3837 Environmental Protection Agency, Air Jim Crowder, Environmental Protection and Radiation, MD-13, Research Agency Contact: James Eddinger, Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13, Triangle Park, NC 27711 Environmental Protection Agency, Air Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 Phone: 919 541-5167 and Radiation, MD-13, Research Phone: 919 541-5596 Fax: 919 541-5600 Triangle Park, NC 27711 Fax: 919 541-5600 Email: [email protected] Phone: 919 541-5426 Email: [email protected] Fax: 919 541-5450 RIN: 2060–AG72 Jim Crowder, Environmental Protection Email: [email protected] Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13, William Maxwell, Environmental 3269. NESHAP: SEMICONDUCTOR Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, PRODUCTION Phone: 919 541-5596 MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Fax: 919 541-5600 27711 Email: [email protected] Phone: 919 541-5430 Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq Fax: 919 541-5450 RIN: CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 BBBBB 2060–AG68 Email: [email protected] Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, RIN: 2060–AG69 November 15, 2000.
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Abstract: This rule will establish a Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Fax: 919 541-5689 MACT (maximum available control Required: No Email: [email protected] technology) for semiconductor Small Entities Affected: Businesses production facilities. There are Dianne Byrne, Environmental currently 2 major sources that would Government Levels Affected: None Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, be affected by the NESHAP. This action Additional Information: SAN No. 3906 MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 will result in little or no additional Agency Contact: Paul A. Almodovar, Phone: 919 541-5342 emission reduction but will establish a Environmental Protection Agency, Air Email: [email protected] Federal MACT level for large facilities. and Radiation, MD-13, Research Timetable: Triangle Park, NC 27711 RIN: 2060–AG98 Action Date FR Cite Phone: 919 541-0283 Fax: 919 541-5689 NPRM 06/00/01 Email: [email protected] 3272. NESHAP: AUTOMOBILE AND Final Action 05/00/02 LIGHT-DUTY TRUCK Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Dianne Byrne, Environmental MANUFACTURING (SURFACE Required: No Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, COATING) MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC Priority: Small Entities Affected: No 27711 Economically Significant. Government Levels Affected: State, Phone: 919 541-5342 Major under 5 USC 801. Local, Federal Email: [email protected] Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq Additional Information: SAN No. 3902 RIN: 2060–AG96 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 Sectors Affected: 334413 Semiconductor and Related Device 3271. NESHAP: FABRIC PRINTING, Legal Deadline: None Manufacturing COATING AND DYEING Abstract: This action will result in the Agency Contact: John Schaefer, Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant reduction of hazardous air pollutants Environmental Protection Agency, Air Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq (HAPs) emitted from the coatings used and Radiation, MD-13, Research by the automobile and light-duty truck CFR Citation: Triangle Park, NC 27711 40 CFR 63 manufacturing industry. The Agency Phone: 919 541-0296 Legal Deadline: NPRM, Statutory, May will study the HAP emitted by the Fax: 919 541-3470 1, 2001. industry and will evaluate pollution Email: [email protected] Abstract: This action will result in the prevention and other control reduction of hazardous air pollutants techniques which can reduce these Penny Lassiter, Environmental emissions. Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, (HAP) emitted from fabric printing, MD-13, RTP, NC 27711 coating, and dyeing. The Agency will Timetable: identify and study the types and Phone: 919 541-5396 Action Date FR Cite Fax: 919 541-3470 sources of HAP emissions from these Email: [email protected] processes, and evaluate pollution NPRM 05/00/01 prevention and other control Final Action 06/00/02 RIN: 2060–AG93 techniques which can reduce these emissions. Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 3270. NESHAP: METAL CAN Timetable: Required: No (SURFACE COATING) INDUSTRY Action Date FR Cite Small Entities Affected: Businesses Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant NPRM 04/00/01 Government Levels Affected: State, Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq Final Action 04/00/02 Local CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Additional Information: SAN No. 3907 Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, Required: No November 15, 2000. Small Entities Affected: Businesses Agency Contact: Dave Salman, Environmental Protection Agency, Air Abstract: This action will result in the Government Levels Affected: State reduction of hazardous air pollutants and Radiation, (MD-13), Research Additional Information: SAN No. 3909 emitted by the metal can industry. The Triangle Park, NC 27711 Agency will study what pollutants are Sectors Affected: 3133 Textile and Phone: 919 541-0859 emitted and evaluate the control Fabric Finishing and Fabric Coating Email: [email protected] techniques, including pollution Mills; 3132 Fabric Mills; 3141 Textile Dianne Byrne, Environmental prevention, that are used to reduce Furnishings Mills; 3399 Other Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, these emissions. Miscellaneous Manufacturing MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC Timetable: Agency Contact: Vinson Hellwig, 27711 Environmental Protection Agency, Air Action Date FR Cite Phone: 919 541-5342 and Radiation, MD-13, Research Email: [email protected] NPRM 05/00/01 Triangle Park, NC 27711 Final Action 05/00/02 Phone: 919 541-2317 RIN: 2060–AG99
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3273. NESHAP: PRIMARY Legal Deadline: None Hazardous air pollutant emissions from MAGNESIUM REFINING Abstract: Final standards under section spills of organic liquids, the excavation, Priority: Other Significant. Major status 112(d) for chromium emissions from transportation, and treatment of under 5 USC 801 is undetermined. hard and decorative chromium contaminated soils and groundwater, electroplating and chromium anodizing and other operations will be considered Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAA sec in developing the rule. 112 tanks (40 CFR 63, Subpart N) were promulgated on January 25, 1995. Since Timetable: CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60 promulgation, the Agency has Action Date FR Cite Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, determined that a class of chromium November 15, 2000. electroplating operations were NPRM 06/00/01 Final Action 05/00/02 Abstract: Section 112 of the Clean Air inadvertently excluded from regulation. Act (Act), as amended November 1990, Specifically, the final standards do not Regulatory Flexibility Analysis requires the EPA to regulate categories apply to sources engaged in continuous Required: No of major and area sources of hazardous chromium electroplating of steel sheet Small Entities Affected: Businesses, air pollutants (HAPs) listed in section used to make cans and other Governmental Jurisdictions containers. It is the Agency’s intent to 112(b). The EPA has determined that Government Levels Affected: sources that manufacture primary regulate all facilities engaged in Undetermined magnesium may reasonably be chromium electroplating. Therefore, the anticipated to emit several of the 189 Agency plans to amend the chromium Additional Information: SAN No. 3968 HAPs listed (including chlorine and electroplating rule to extend its Agency Contact: Greg Nizich, hydrochloric acid) in quantities applicability to continuous chromium Environmental Protection Agency, Air sufficient to designate them as a major electroplating operations. and Radiation, MD-13, Research source. As a consequence, primary Timetable: Triangle Park, NC 27711 magnesium refining is among the HAP Action Date FR Cite Phone: 919 541-3078 emitting source categories selected for Fax: 919 541-0246 regulation and is in the group of NPRM 08/00/01 Email: [email protected] categories for which final rules are Final Action 05/00/02 scheduled to be promulgated by Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Martha Smith, Environmental November 15, 2000 (58 FR 63941, Required: No Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, December 3, 1993). MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC Small Entities Affected: Businesses Timetable: 27711 Government Levels Affected: State Phone: 919 541-2421 Action Date FR Cite Additional Information: SAN No. 2841 Fax: 919 541-0246 NPRM 05/00/01 Email: [email protected] Agency Contact: Phil Mulrine, Final Action 05/00/02 Environmental Protection Agency, Air RIN: 2060–AH12 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis and Radiation, MD-13, Research Required: No Triangle Park, NC 27711 3276. NESHAP: ROCKET ENGINE Small Entities Affected: No Phone: 919 541-5289 TEST FIRING Fax: 919 541-5600 Government Levels Affected: State Email: [email protected] Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Additional Information: SAN No. 3924 Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq Agency Contact: Iliam Rosario, Al Vervaert, Environmental Protection CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 Environmental Protection Agency, Air Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 Legal Deadline: NPRM, Statutory, May and Radiation, MD-13, Research 1, 2001. Triangle Park, NC 27711 Phone: 919 541-5602 Phone: 919 541-5308 Email: [email protected] Abstract: As required by section 112(c) Fax: 919 541-5600 RIN: 2060–AH08 of the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Email: [email protected] Protection Agency has developed a list of categories of sources of hazardous Al Vervaert, Environmental Protection 3275. NESHAP: SITE REMEDIATION air pollutants (HAP’s). The HAP’s are Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13, Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant listed in section 112(b) of the Clean Air Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 Act. The Rocket Engine Test Firing Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined Phone: 919 541-5602 source category and the Engine Test Email: [email protected] Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq; Facilities source category are included PL 101-549 104 Stat. 2399 on EPA’s list of sources of HAP’s. The RIN: 2060–AH03 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 Rocket Engine Test Firing source category includes facilities engaged in 3274. NESHAP: CHROMIUM Legal Deadline: NPRM, Statutory, test firing of rocket engines using solid ELECTROPLATING AMENDMENT November 15, 2000. or liquid propellants. The Engine Test Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000. Priority: Other Significant Facilities source category includes any Abstract: This rule will specify facility engaged in the testing of Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAA 112 maximum achievable control stationary or mobile engines, including CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 technology for site remediation. turbines and reciprocating engines.
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Timetable: Timetable: Spring Manufacturing; 337215 Action Date FR Cite Action Date FR Cite Showcase, Partition, Shelving, and Locker Manufacturing NPRM 05/00/01 NPRM 05/00/01 Final Action 05/00/02 Final Action 06/00/02 Agency Contact: Mohamed Serageldin, Environmental Protection Agency, Air Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Regulatory Flexibility Analysis and Radiation, MD-13, Research Required: Undetermined Required: No Triangle Park, NC 27711 Small Entities Affected: Businesses Phone: 919 541-2379 Government Levels Affected: Federal Government Levels Affected: None Fax: 919 541-5689 Email: [email protected] Procurement: This is a procurement- Additional Information: SAN No. 3971 related action for which there is a Agency Contact: Dianne Byrne, Environmental statutory requirement. There is a Martha Smith, Environmental Protection Agency, Air Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, paperwork burden associated with this MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC action. and Radiation, MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 27711 Additional Information: SAN No. 3972 Phone: 919 541-2421 Phone: 919 541-5342 Fax: 919 541-0246 Email: [email protected] Agency Contact: Rick Copland, Email: [email protected] RIN: 2060–AG55 Environmental Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13, Research Kent C. Hustvedt, Environmental Triangle Park, NC 27711 Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, 3279. PLASTIC PARTS (SURFACE Phone: 919 541-5265 MD-13, RTP, NC 27711 COATING) NESHAP Fax: 919 541-5450 Phone: 919 541-5395 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant. Email: [email protected] Fax: 919 541-0246 Major status under 5 USC 801 is Email: [email protected] undetermined. Robert J. Wayland, Environmental RIN: 2060–AH41 Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 27711 3278. METAL FURNITURE (SURFACE Phone: 919 541-1045 COATING) NESHAP Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000. Fax: 919 541-5450 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Email: [email protected] Abstract: This action would address Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq the hazardous air pollutants (HAP) RIN: 2060–AH35 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 emissions from the coating of plastic Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, parts. Pollution prevention approaches 3277. NESHAP: ORGANIC LIQUIDS November 15, 2000. will be considered. DISTRIBUTION (NON-GASOLINE) Abstract: This regulation will apply to Timetable: Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant surface coating of metal furniture Action Date FR Cite products and parts. This regulation will NPRM 06/00/01 Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq reduce nationwide emissions of HAPs Final Action 05/00/02 from surface coating of metal furniture CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 products and parts, which is required Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Legal Deadline: NPRM, Statutory, under section 112 of the Clean Air Act. Required: No November 15, 2000. Timetable: Small Entities Affected: Businesses Abstract: This project is to develop Action Date FR Cite Government Levels Affected: State national emission standards for NPRM 05/00/01 Additional Information: SAN No. 3826 hazardous air pollutants by establishing Final Action 05/00/02 maximum achievable control Agency Contact: Kim Teal, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis technology (MACT) for facilities Environmental Protection Agency, Air Required: distributing organic liquids. MACT No and Radiation, MD-13, Research standards are under development to Small Entities Affected: Businesses Triangle Park, NC 27711 Phone: 919 541-5580 reduce the release of hazardous air Government Levels Affected: None pollutants (HAPs) from all industries to Fax: 919 541-5689 protect the public health and Additional Information: SAN No. 3824 Email: [email protected] environment. This project should Sectors Affected: 337124 Metal include but is not limited to those Household Furniture Manufacturing; Dianne Byrne, Environmental activities associated with the storage 33636 Motor Vehicle Fabric Accessories Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, and distribution of organic liquids and Seat Manufacturing; 337215 MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC other than gasoline at sites that serve Showcase, Partition, Shelving, and 27711 as distribution points from which Locker Manufacturing; 337127 Phone: 919 541-5342 organic liquids may be obtained for Institutional Furniture Manufacturing; Email: [email protected] further use and processing. 332116 Metal Stamping; 332612 Wire RIN: 2060–AG57
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3280. NESHAP: WOOD BUILDING 3281. LOCATION OF SELECTIVE Timetable: PRODUCTS (SURFACE COATING) ENFORCEMENT AUDITS OF FOREIGN Action Date FR Cite MANUFACTURED VEHICLES AND Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant ENGINES; AMENDMENT NPRM 05/00/01 Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Regulatory Flexibility Analysis CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 Legal Authority: 42 USC 7525 CAA sec Required: No 206(b) Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, Small Entities Affected: CFR Citation: 40 CFR 86G (Revision); No November 15, 2000. 40 CFR 86K (Revision) Government Levels Affected: None Abstract: This action will result in the Legal Deadline: None reduction of hazardous air pollutants Additional Information: SAN No. 3139 Abstract: This action would consider (HAP) emitted by the wood building an amendment to the existing product surface coating industry. The Agency Contact: Richard Gezelle, regulations to include ports of entry as Agency will study the various HAP Environmental Protection Agency, Air a location for EPA selection of foreign emitted by the industry and evaluate and Radiation, 6403J, Washington, DC produced vehicles and engines for SEA pollution prevention and control 20460 emissions testing at laboratories in the techniques which can reduce these Phone: 202 564-9267 U.S. While the regulations do not emissions. specify EPA authority to conduct such RIN: 2060–AD90 Timetable: port selections, the increased flexibility provided by port selections warrants Action Date FR Cite amending the regulations. Presently, 3282. REVIEW OF FEDERAL TEST NPRM 04/00/01 EPA must travel overseas to conduct PROCEDURES FOR EMISSIONS FROM Final Action 03/00/02 SEA audits of foreign manufactured MOTOR VEHICLES; TEST vehicles and engines, even though most PROCEDURE ADJUSTMENTS TO Regulatory Flexibility Analysis manufacturers now have access to FUEL ECONOMY AND EMISSION Required: No laboratory facilities in the U.S. The TEST RESULTS benefits include a reduction in Agency Small Entities Affected: Businesses Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant cost since fewer overseas trips would Government Levels Affected: None be necessary. Also, EPA would be able Legal Authority: PL 101-549 Procurement: This is a procurement- to conduct more audits of foreign related action for which there is a manufactured vehicles and engines. CFR Citation: 40 CFR 600; 40 CFR 86 statutory requirement. There is a Separate from the provisions proposed Legal Deadline: None paperwork burden associated with this in this NPRM for amendments to allow action. port selection for SEAs, EPA is also Abstract: This action considers proposing to make two other potential adjustments to fuel economy Additional Information: SAN No. 3904 amendments to 40 CFR part 86. The and emission test results to compensate Sectors Affected: 321911 Wood first would amend current Selective for test procedure changes previously Window and Door Manufacturing; Enforcement Auditing regulations to adopted; it applies to light-duty 321918 Other Millwork (including change the minimum annual limit of vehicles and light-duty trucks. This Flooring ); 321999 All Other Selective Enforcement Audits per aspect of the previous rulemaking (SAN Miscellaneous Wood Product manufacturer to two (2) per year. 3323, RIN 2060-AE27) was deferred. Manufacturing; 321212 Softwood Currently, the minimum annual limit Timetable: Veneer and Plywood Manufacturing; is one audit per manufacturer. Under 321219 Reconstituted Wood Product the proposed amendments EPA would Action Date FR Cite Manufacturing be able to perform a second audit on those manufacturers that might NPRM 05/00/01 Agency Contact: Luis Lluberas, otherwise be limited to one audit. Final Action 04/00/02 Environmental Protection Agency, Air The second additional proposed and Radiation, MD-13, Research Regulatory Flexibility Analysis amendment to part 86 would delete Triangle Park, NC 27711 Required: No from subparts A and E references to Phone: 919 541-2659 the Agency representation in certain Small Entities Affected: No Fax: 919 541-5689 types of administrative hearings. The Email: [email protected] two provisions state that the Office of Government Levels Affected: None General Counsel will represent the Paul Almodovar, Environmental Additional Information: SAN No. 3979 Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, Agency in administrative procedures MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC governing hearings on certification for Agency Contact: R. W. Nash, 27711 light-duty vehicles, light-duty trucks, Environmental Protection Agency, Air Phone: 919 541-0283 heavy-duty engines and motorcycles. and Radiation, AAVRAG, Ann Arbor, Fax: 919 541-5689 The Agency is proposing to delete these MI 48105 Email: [email protected] two provisions in order to be consistent Phone: 743 214-4412 with other hearing procedures in part RIN: 2060–AH02 86. RIN: 2060–AH38
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3283. PROTECTION OF 3284. ∑ FEDERAL IMPLEMENTATION 3285. ∑ ACCIDENTAL RELEASE STRATOSPHERIC OZONE: PLANS FOR INDIAN RESERVATIONS PREVENTION REQUIREMENTS: RISK RECONSIDERATION OF SECTION 608 IN IDAHO, OREGON AND MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS UNDER SALES RESTRICTION WASHINGTON THE CLEAN AIR ACT, SECTION 112(R)(7); THIRD PARTY AUDIT Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant PROVISIONS Legal Authority: 42 USC 7671(g) CAA Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant sec 608 Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412(r); 7601 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 49.121 to 49.139; (a)(1) CFR Citation: 40 CFR 82 subpart F 40 CFR 49.9861 to 49.17810 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 68 Legal Deadline: None Legal Deadline: None Legal Deadline: None Abstract: The rule will include the Abstract: This Federal Implementation Abstract: This action establishes reconsideration of the sales restriction Plan (FIP) proposes basic air rules to requirements, incentives, and as it relates to split systems. The apply on Indian Reservations in Idaho, procedures for third party audits of Agency was petitioned to reconsider Oregon, and Washington. The rules Risk Management Plans (RMPs) under the part of the sales restriction that provide some basic air quality 40 CFR part 68 that would reduce the included the sale of pre-charged split protection similar to what the state need for, and thus the incidence of, systems. It restricted such sales to implementation plans (SIPs) require for government audits of RMPs submitted by facilities that volunteer for such an certified technicians. Since then, EPA Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. These audit. In this context, a ‘‘third party’’ stayed that portion of the sales rules are needed to establish a level restriction in response to the petition. is someone not employed by either an playing field and create basic federally This rule will include the RMP-regulated facility or a government enforceable rules under the Clean Air determination of the Agency related to agency responsible for implementing the reconsideration. It addresses Act. the RMP program (‘‘implementing environmental problems of ozone Timetable: agency’’). depletion resulting from emissions of In the preamble to the final Risk Action Date FR Cite chlorofluorocarbons, Management Program rule, EPA hydrochlorofluorocarbons, and other NPRM 09/00/01 endorsed the concept of using third ozone-depleting substances. Through parties to assist in rule compliance and restricting sales of certain pre-charged Regulatory Flexibility Analysis oversight (61 FR 31705), provided that items to persons certified as Required: No any such proposal: not weaken the technicians, emissions to the Small Entities Affected: Businesses compliance responsibilities of facility atmosphere are decreased. The impact owner/operators; offer cost savings and on small businesses and governments Government Levels Affected: Tribal, benefits to the industry, community, would be negligible, since persons can Federal and implementing agencies that become certified if the EPA significantly exceed the cost of determination is a full restriction. Most Additional Information: SAN No. 4487 implementing the approach; lead to a businesses and governments will have EPA Region 10 would be responsible net increase in process safety, at least one certified technician on particularly for smaller, less technically for implementing and enforcing these board. This action has no impact on sophisticated facilities; and promote proposed rules. Tribes can choose to small business and State, local, and cost-effective agency prioritization of tribal governments. assist EPA or take over responsibility oversight resources. However, no for their reservations, and EPA would Timetable: specific criteria or requirements were provide funding to tribes through grants specified in the RMP rule to regulate Action Date FR Cite to support their efforts. the activities of facilities, implementing NPRM 04/00/01 Agency Contact: Regina Thompson, agencies, or third parties with respect Final Action 01/00/02 Environmental Protection Agency, to third party assistance. Regional Office Seattle, OAQ-107, 1200 A facility’s participation in the third Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 6th Avenue; Seattle, Washington 98101 party audit program proposed by this Required: No Phone: 206 553-1498 action would be totally voluntary. For Small Entities Affected: Businesses Fax: 206 553-0110 facilities who choose not to participate Email: [email protected] in the program, this action would have Government Levels Affected: None no effect. However if a facility participates, this regulation would Additional Information: SAN No. 3673 Bonnie Thie, Environmental Protection Agency, Regional Office Seattle, OAQ- establish the requirements and regulatory incentives for their Agency Contact: Vera Au, 107 participation. For participating sources, Environmental Protection Agency, Air Phone: 206 553-1189 and Radiation, 6205J the action would offer the potential for Fax: 206 553-0110 reduced regulatory burden (while Phone: 202 564-2216 Email: [email protected] Fax: 202 565-2156 maintaining their compliance Email: [email protected] RIN: 2012–AA01 responsibilities), flexible auditing options, and other benefits, provided RIN: 2060–AG20 the source meets the applicable
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requirements described in the rule. pad scrubber technology similar or Legal Deadline: NPRM, Judicial, This action also would specify the identical to that used as the basis for September 29, 2000. proposed qualification requirements for the MACT emission limit. These Final, Judicial, December 31, 2001. sources operate new state-of-the-art persons desiring to act as third party Abstract: Emissions from large spark- plating tanks not encountered during auditors. ignition engines are currently rule development which feature EPA believes that this action would unregulated. EPA and California Air enclosing hoods that completely cover promote increased safety among Resources Board (CARB) are the surface of the plating tank. This facilities covered by the risk. cooperating in an effort to set emission covered tank design allows for effective standards for these engines to Timetable: capture and ventilation at substantially substantially reduce their contribution Action Date FR Cite lower exhaust air flow rates than to the emission inventory. NPRM 01/00/02 otherwise encountered with more conventional exterior hooding. Timetable: Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Although these sources exceed the new Action Date FR Cite Required: No source standard concentration limit of Small Entities Affected: No 0.015 mg/dscm, actual mass rate Proposed Finding 02/08/99 64 FR 6008 emissions are more than 50 percent ANPRM Final Finding 12/07/00 65 FR 76790 Government Levels Affected: State, NPRM 09/00/01 Local, Tribal, Federal lower than would otherwise be achieved with more conventional Final Action 09/00/02 Federalism: Undetermined hooding and higher ventilation rates. Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Additional Information: SAN No. 4511 The chromium electroplating standard Required: Undetermined Sectors Affected: will be amended to include this 49312 Refrigerated Small Entities Affected: Businesses Warehousing and Storage Facilities; alternative type of control system. 22132 Sewage Treatment Facilities; Timetable: Government Levels Affected: None 22131 Water Supply and Irrigation Action Date FR Cite Additional Information: SAN No. 4154 Systems; 31161 Animal Slaughtering and Processing; 49311 General NPRM 04/00/01 Sectors Affected: 42183 Industrial Warehousing and Storage Facilities; Final Action 10/00/01 Machinery and Equipment Wholesalers; 42291 Farm Supplies Wholesalers; Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 333924 Industrial Truck, Tractor, 42269 Other Chemical and Allied Required: No Trailer and Stacker Machinery Products Wholesalers; 49313 Farm Manufacturing; 335312 Motor and Small Entities Affected: Businesses Product Warehousing and Storage Generator Manufacturing Government Levels Affected: State Facilities; 32512 Industrial Gas Agency Contact: Alan Stout, Manufacturing; 11511 Support Additional Information: SAN No. 4115 Environmental Protection Agency, Air Activities for Crop Production Sectors Affected: 332813 and Radiation, EPCD, Ann Arbor, MI Agency Contact: James Belke, Electroplating, Plating, Polishing, 48105 Environmental Protection Agency, Anodizing and Coloring Phone: 734 214-4805 Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Fax: 734 214-4816 Agency Contact: Phil Mulrine, 5104A Email: [email protected] Environmental Protection Agency, Air Phone: 202 564-8023 and Radiation, MD-13, Research Fax: 202 564-8444 Don Kopinski, Environmental Triangle Park, NC 27711 Email: [email protected] Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, Phone: 919 541-5289 Ann Arbor, MI 48105 Breeda Reilly, Environmental Fax: 919 541-5600 Phone: 734 214-4229 Protection Agency, Solid Waste and Email: [email protected] Fax: 734 214-4781 Emergency Response, 5104A Email: [email protected] Al Vervaert, Environmental Protection Phone: 202 564-7983 Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13, RIN: 2060–AI11 RIN: 2050–AE85 Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 Phone: 919 541-5602 3288. PROTECTION OF Email: [email protected] 3286. NESHAP: CHROMIUM STRATOSPHERIC OZONE: PROCESS ELECTROPLATING AMENDMENT RIN: 2060–AH69 FOR EXEMPTING QUARANTINE AND Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant PRESHIPMENT METHYL BROMIDE AND TRADE BAN WITH NON-PARTIES Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq 3287. CONTROL OF EMISSIONS FROM TO THE MONTREAL PROTOCOL CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 (Revision) NONROAD LARGE SPARK-IGNITION ENGINES, RECREATIONAL ENGINES Priority: Other Significant Legal Deadline: None (MARINE AND LAND-BASED), AND Abstract: Since the promulgation of the HIGHWAY MOTORCYCLES Legal Authority: 42 USC 7414; 42 USC 7671 to 7671(q) chromium electroplating NESHAP we Priority: Economically Significant. have been informed of several sources Major under 5 USC 801. CFR Citation: 40 CFR 82.1 to 82.13 that are experiencing difficulty in Legal Deadline: None complying with the concentration limit Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 to for new sources even though they have 7671(q) Abstract: The Montreal Protocol installed and operate composite mesh CFR Citation: 40 CFR 94 exempts quarantine and preshipment
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from the methyl bromide production of relevant scientific information will 3290. TRANSPORTATION and import baseline; therefore, a be presented in a Criteria Document CONFORMITY AMENDMENTS: regulation must be promulgated to (CD), and the preparation of this RESPONSE TO MARCH 2, 1999, allow for the exemption in EPA’s document is currently under way by COURT DECISION current allowance system. the EPA’s National Center for Priority: Other Significant Environmental Assessment. The EPA’s Timetable: Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401-7671q Office of Air Quality Planning and Action Date FR Cite Standards will also prepare a Staff CFR Citation: 40 CFR 93 NPRM 05/00/01 Paper (SP) for the Administrator which Legal Deadline: None Final Action 11/00/01 will evaluate the policy implications of Abstract: The Clean Air Act requires Regulatory Flexibility Analysis the key studies and scientific EPA to promulgate rules that establish Required: No information contained in the CD and the criteria and procedures for Small Entities Affected: No additional technical analyses and determining whether highway and identify critical elements that EPA staff Government Levels Affected: None transit plans, programs, and projects believe should be considered in conform to state air quality plans. Additional Information: SAN No. 4253 reviewing the standards. The SP and ‘‘Conformity’’ means that the OLD TITLE: Protection of Stratospheric CD will be reviewed by the Clean Air transportation actions will not cause or Ozone: Process for Exempting Scientific Advisory Committee worsen violations of air quality Quarantine and Preshipment Methyl (CASAC) and the public; both will standards or delay timely attainment of Bromide Used in the United States and reflect the input received through these the standards. The original conformity Baseline Adjustments reviews. As the PM NAAQS review is rule was finalized on November 24, Agency Contact: Tom Land, completed, the Administrator’s 1993, and most recently amended on Environmental Protection Agency, Air proposal to revise or reaffirm the PM August 15, 1997. On March 2, 1999, and Radiation, 6205J NAAQS will be published with a the U.S. Court of Appeals overturned Phone: 202 564-9185 request for public comment. Input certain provisions of the 1997 Fax: 202 565-2093 received during the public comment conformity amendments. This Email: [email protected] period will be reflected in the rulemaking will amend the conformity rule in compliance with the court RIN: 2060–AI42 Administrator’s final decision which will be published in July 2002. decision. The rulemaking will formalize the May 14, 1999 EPA guidance and 3289. REVIEW OF THE NATIONAL Timetable: the June 18, 1999 DOT guidance that was issued to guide action on this issue AMBIENT AIR QUALITY STANDARDS Action Date FR Cite FOR PARTICULATE MATTER until a rulemaking could be issued. NPRM 08/00/01 Specifically, the rulemaking will clarify Priority: Economically Significant Final Action 07/00/02 the types of projects that can be Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined implemented in the absence of a Legal Authority: 42 USC 7408; 42 USC Regulatory Flexibility Analysis conforming transportation plan. It will 7409 Required: No also explain EPA’s process for reviewing newly submitted air quality CFR Citation: 40 CFR 50 Small Entities Affected: No plans and when those submissions can Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, July Government Levels Affected: State, be used for conformity purposes. 1, 2002, Under the Clean Air Act, the Local, Tribal, Federal Timetable: next standards review is to be completed July 2002. Additional Information: SAN No. 4255 Action Date FR Cite Abstract: On July 18, 1997, the EPA NPRM 04/00/01 Agency Contact: Mary A. Ross, published a final rule revising the Final Action 12/00/01 Environmental Protection Agency, Air national ambient air quality standards Regulatory Flexibility Analysis and Radiation, MD-15, Research (NAAQS) for particulate matter (PM) Required: No (62 FR 38652). While retaining the Triangle Park, NC 27711 Small Entities Affected: PM10 standard levels, new standards Phone: 919 541-5170 No were added for fine particles (PM2.5) Fax: 919 541-0237 Government Levels Affected: State, to provide increased protection against Email: [email protected] Local, Tribal, Federal both health and environmental effects Additional Information: SAN No. 4340 of PM. On the same day, a Presidential Karen Martin, Environmental Protection Memorandum (62 FR 38421, July 16, Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13, Agency Contact: Kathryn Sargeant, 1997) was published that, among other Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 Environmental Protection Agency, Air things, directed EPA to complete the Phone: 919 541-5274 and Radiation, NFEVL, Ann Arbor, MI 48105 next review of the PM NAAQS by July Fax: 919 541-0877 Phone: 734 214-4441 2002. The EPA’s plans and schedule for Email: [email protected] the next periodic review of the PM Fax: 734 214-4052 NAAQS were published on October 23, RIN: 2060–AI44 Email: 1997 (62 FR 55201). As with other [email protected] NAAQS reviews, a rigorous assessment RIN: 2060–AI56
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3291. NATIONAL VOC EMISSION Small Entities Affected: No Phone: 919 541-5025 STANDARDS FOR CONSUMER Government Levels Affected: State, Fax: 919 541-5600 PRODUCTS; PROPOSED Local, Federal Email: [email protected] AMENDMENTS Additional Information: SAN No. 4310 Jim Crowder, Environmental Protection Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Agency Contact: Dave Salman, Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13, Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq Environmental Protection Agency, Air Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 59 and Radiation, (MD-13), Research Phone: 919 541-5596 Triangle Park, NC 27711 Fax: 919 541-5600 Legal Deadline: None Phone: 919 541-0859 Email: [email protected] Abstract: Amendments to the Email: [email protected] RIN: 2060–AI67 consumer products rule are being proposed to clarify and correct the rule. Dianne Byrne, Environmental Timetable: Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, 3294. NESHAP: CLAY CERAMICS MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC MANUFACTURING Action Date FR Cite 27711 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant NPRM 05/00/01 Phone: 919 541-5342 Final Action 05/00/02 Email: [email protected] Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq Regulatory Flexibility Analysis RIN: 2060–AI66 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 Required: No Legal Deadline: None Small Entities Affected: Businesses 3293. NESHAP: BRICK AND Abstract: Ceramics are defined as a Government Levels Affected: State, STRUCTURAL CLAY PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING class of inorganic, nonmetallic solids Local, Tribal, Federal that are subject to high temperature in Additional Information: SAN No. 4309 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant manufacture and/or use. The clay ceramics manufacturing source category Agency Contact: Bruce Moore, Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq includes facilities that manufacture Environmental Protection Agency, Air CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 traditional ceramics. Traditional and Radiation, MD-13, Research Legal Deadline: NPRM, Statutory, May ceramics include ceramic tile, Triangle Park, NC 27711 1, 2001. dinnerware, sanitaryware, pottery, and Phone: 919 541-5460 porcelain. The primary raw material Fax: 919 541-5689 Abstract: The brick and structural clay used in the manufacture of traditional Email: [email protected] products industry primarily includes facilities that manufacture brick, clay, ceramics is clay. the manufacture of Dianne Byrne, Environmental pipe, roof tile, extruded floor and wall clay ceramics involves raw material Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, tile, and other extruded dimensional processing (crushing, grinding, and MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC clay products from clay, shale, or a screening), mixing, forming, shaping, 27711 combination of the two. The drying, glazing, and firing. Phone: 919 541-5342 manufacture of brick and structural Timetable: Email: [email protected] clay products involves mining, raw material processing (crushing, grinding, Action Date FR Cite RIN: 2060–AI62 and screening), mixing, forming, cutting NPRM 05/00/01 or shaping, drying, and firing. Final Action 02/00/02 3292. NESHAP FOR THE PRINTING Timetable: Regulatory Flexibility Analysis AND PUBLISHING INDUSTRY; Required: No AMENDMENTS Action Date FR Cite Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant NPRM 05/00/01 Small Entities Affected: No Final Action 02/00/02 Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAAA Government Levels Affected: None Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 112 Required: Undetermined Additional Information: SAN No. 4343 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 Small Entities Affected: Businesses Split from RIN 2060-AH79 Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, Government Levels Affected: None Sectors Affected: 327122 Ceramic Wall November 15, 1994. Additional Information: SAN No. 4325 and Floor Tile Manufacturing; 327111 Abstract: The amendments will clarify Vitreous China Plumbing Fixture and the rule and ensure it reflects the EPA’s Split from RIN 2060-AH79. China and Earthenware Fittings and intent. Sectors Affected: 327121 Brick and Bathroom Accessories Manufacturing Timetable: Structural Clay Tile Manufacturing; Agency Contact: Mary Johnson, 327123 Other Structural Clay Product Action Date FR Cite Environmental Protection Agency, Air Manufacturing and Radiation, MD-13, Research NPRM 04/00/01 Agency Contact: Mary Johnson, Triangle Park, NC 27711 Final Action 02/00/02 Environmental Protection Agency, Air Phone: 919 541-5025 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis and Radiation, MD-13, Research Fax: 919 541-5600 Required: No Triangle Park, NC 27711 Email: [email protected]
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Jim Crowder, Environmental Protection Federalism: Undetermined Agency Contact: Jaime Pagan, Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13, Additional Information: SAN No. 4313 Environmental Protection Agency, Air Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 and Radiation, MD-13, RTP, NC 27711 Phone: 919 541-5596 Agency Contact: Chuck French, Phone: 919 541-5340 Fax: 919 541-5600 Environmental Protection Agency, Air Fax: 919 541-0942 Email: [email protected] and Radiation, MD-13, Research Email: [email protected] Triangle Park, NC 27711 RIN: 2060–AI68 RIN: 2060–AI74 Phone: 919 541-0467 Email: [email protected] 3295. PETITIONS TO DELIST 3297. NESHAP: LIGHTWEIGHT HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS (E.G., Dave Guinnup, Environmental AGGREGATE MANUFACTURING MEK, EGBE, METHANOL, AND MIBK) Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant FROM SECTION 112(B)(1) OF THE MD-13, RTP, NC 27711 CAA Phone: 919 541-5368 Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant RIN: 2060–AI72 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 Legal Authority: Clean Air Act Section Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, 112(b)(3) 3296. NESHAP: ENGINE TEST November 15, 2000. CFR Citation: Not Yet Determined FACILITIES Abstract: EPA is required under Section 112 of the Clean Air Act to Legal Deadline: NPRM, Statutory, Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant February 28, 2000. develop maximum achievable control Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq technology (MACT) standards for Abstract: The Agency has received 4 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 various industrial source categories. petitions to remove certain pollutants The lightweight aggregate (i.e., methanol, methyl ethyl ketone, Legal Deadline: NPRM, Statutory, May manufacturing industry is currently ethylene glycol butyl ether, and methyl 1, 2001. part of the clay products MACT source isobutyl ketone) from the list of Abstract: category. However, EPA is developing hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) under As required by section 112(c) of the Clean Air Act, the Environmental a separate MACT standard for Section 112(b) of the Clean Air Act. lightweight aggregate in anticipation The Agency must review the petitions Protection Agency has developed a list of categories of sources of hazardous that the current clay products source and either grant or deny the petition category will be broken down into 4 within 18 months of the date the air pollutants (HAP’s). The HAP’s are listed in section 112(b) of the Clean Air separate source categories, including complete petition was received. If the lightweight aggregate. The lightweight Agency grants a petition, a notice of Act. The Engine Test Facilities source category are included on EPA’s list of aggregate manufacturing source proposed rulemaking will be published category will be proposed at the time in the Federal Register, allowing the sources of HAP’s. The Engine Test Facilities source category includes any the MACT standard is proposed. opportunity for public comment. If the Lightweight aggregate kilns that burn Agency denies a petition, a notice of facility engaged in the testing of hazardous waste are subject to the denial will be published in the Federal stationary or mobile engines, including hazardous waste combustor MACT Register providing an explanation for turbines and reciprocating engines and standard. such denial. If the Agency grants a rocket engines. Aircraft engine testing petition and ultimately removes the consists of facilities which perform Timetable: testing on uninstalled aircraft engines. pollutant from the HAP list then Action Date FR Cite sources emitting such pollutants would Non-aerospace engine test facilities not be required to meet MACT consists of facilities which perform NPRM 06/00/01 emissions standards for the pollutant. testing on uninstalled engines such as Final Action 05/00/02 If on the other hand, the Agency denies automotive engines, stationary turbines, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis the petition, then MACT standards IC engines, and diesel engines. Required: Undetermined would be issued as currently planned Timetable: Small Entities Affected: Businesses under Section 112(c) and 112(d) of the Action Date FR Cite Clean Air Act for sources emitting such Government Levels Affected: State, pollutants. Depending on the 4 NPRM 05/00/01 Local, Tribal, Federal individual determinations, the Agency Final Action 05/00/02 Additional Information: SAN No. 4346 will issue separate notices for each. Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Split from RIN 2060-AH79 Timetable: Required: Undetermined Sectors Affected: 327992 Ground or Action Date FR Cite Government Levels Affected: Federal Treated Mineral and Earth Manufacturing NPRM 05/00/01 Procurement: This is a procurement- Final Action 07/00/02 related action for which there is a Agency Contact: Gene Crumper, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis statutory requirement. There is a Environmental Protection Agency, Air Required: Undetermined paperwork burden associated with this and Radiation, MD-13, Research action. Triangle Park, NC 27711 Small Entities Affected: No Phone: 919 541-0881 Additional Information: Government Levels Affected: SAN No. 4144 Fax: 919 541-5600 Undetermined Split from RIN 2060-AH35 Email: [email protected]
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Al Vervaert, Environmental Protection Timetable: CAA mandated I/M for certain areas Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13, Action Date FR Cite with long-term air quality problems and Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 the 1990 amendments set forth Phone: 919 541-5602 NPRM 06/00/01 standards for implementation of I/M Email: [email protected] programs. EPA used the statutory Final Action 08/00/01 requirements of the Act, including I/M RIN: 2060–AI75 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis requirements for Federal facilities, to Required: No promulgate regulations which states Small Entities Affected: No would use in the development of their 3298. DEVELOPMENT OF REFERENCE I/M State Implementation Plans (SIPs). METHOD FOR THE DETERMINATION Government Levels Affected: State, Those rule requirements effectively OF SOURCE EMISSIONS OF Local, Tribal, Federal gave States certain authorities over the FILTERABLE FINE PARTICULATE Additional Information: SAN No. 4306 Federal government. The Department of MATTER AS PM2.5 Sectors Affected: 21231 Stone Mining Justice has now ruled that Federal sovereign immunity was not fully Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant and Quarrying; 221112 Fossil Fuel Electric Power Generation; 3212 waived under the CAA for those Legal Authority: 42 USC 7410 Veneer, Plywood and Engineered Wood requirements and EPA should amend Product Manufacturing; 32411 its rule to remove the requirement that CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51 app M Petroleum Refineries; 3251 Basic States include those elements in their Chemical Manufacturing; 327 SIPs. EPA is proposing to: (1) Amend Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, June the Federal facilities I/M requirements 15, 2001. Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; 3311 Iron and Steel by removing that section; (2) correct Abstract: Under this action, EPA is Mills and Ferroalloy Manufacturing; existing I/M SIP approval actions initiating the publication of a reference 3313 Alumina and Aluminum which include these elements; (3) establish new Federal facilities I/M test method that can be used to Production and Processing; 3314 program requirements which Federal quantify that portion of particulate Nonferrous Metal (except Aluminum) facilities in I/M program areas must matter emissions that are solid at stack Production and Processing; 3315 meet in order to comply with the Act; conditions and are equal to or less than Foundries and (4) designate for each State which 2.5 uM in aerodynamic diameter. This Agency Contact: Ronald E. Myers, section of the Act Federal agencies test method is to be used in Environmental Protection Agency, Air must comply with based on how that conjunction with existing and future and Radiation, MD-19, Washington, DC State promulgated its I/M regulations. reference methods which are designed 20460 These changes will have minimal to no to quantify condensable particulate and Phone: 919 541-5407 impact on the States as no new particulate precursors. Condensable Fax: 919 541-1039 requirements are being created. The particulate is that portion of particulate Email: [email protected] States are under no obligation, legal or matter emissions that are gaseous at otherwise, to modify existing SIPs stack conditions but which quickly Tom Logan, Environmental Protection meeting the previously applicable condense to a solid form when released Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-19, requirements as a result of this action, to the atmosphere. Particulate Washington, DC 20460 nor will emissions reduction credit be precursors are gaseous compounds Phone: 919 541-2580 affected. However, the changes will which become solids as a result of Fax: 919 541-1039 clarify for affected Federal facilities chemical reactions in the atmosphere. Email: [email protected] what they must do to meet the CAA This test method supports the amended RIN: 2060–AI96 requirements by establishing new National Ambient Air Quality Standard regulations per those requirements. (NAAQS) for particulate matter which 3299. INSPECTION MAINTENANCE was promulgated on July 18, 1997. The Timetable: PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS FOR NAAQS was revised by adding new Action Date FR Cite FEDERAL FACILITIES; AMENDMENT standards for particulate of 2.5 uM TO THE FINAL RULE NPRM 05/00/01 aerodynamic diameter. An important foundation element of State efforts to Priority: Other Significant Regulatory Flexibility Analysis attain the NAAQS will be the Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq; Required: No development of reliable inventories of 23 USC 101 Small Entities Affected: No baseline particulate and particulate CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51 (Revision); 40 Government Levels Affected: precursor emissions. The emission CFR 93 (New) State, inventories developed should be based Federal upon credible source tests of individual Legal Deadline: None Additional Information: SAN No. 4348 facilities or emission factors developed Abstract: The Environmental from credible source tests. At the Protection Agency (EPA) has had Agency Contact: Buddy Polovick, present time there is no reference test oversight and policy development Environmental Protection Agency, Air method available for quantifying the authority for Inspection and and Radiation, Washington, DC 20460 filterable particulate matter of 2.5 uM Maintenance (I/M) programs since the Phone: 734 214-4928 aerodynamic diameter from emission passage of the Clean Air Act (CAA) in Fax: 734 214-4052 sources. 1970. The 1977 amendments to the Email: [email protected]
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Sara Schneeberg, Environmental Small Entities Affected: Businesses, in Minnesota and two are located in Protection Agency, Air and Radiation Governmental Jurisdictions, Michigan. The MACT standard for this Phone: 202 564-5592 Organizations industry group will be shared between RIN: 2060–AI97 Government Levels Affected: EPA and the State of Minnesota. State Undetermined regulations currently in place include both air emissions limitations and 3300. CONTROL OF METHYL Additional Information: SAN No. 4393 prohibition of effluent discharge to TERTIARY BUTYL ETHER (MTBE) Agency Contact: Karen Smith, Great Lakes waters, and both air and Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Environmental Protection Agency, Air water monitoring requirements. Other and Radiation, 5402, Washington, DC existing Federal regulations may be Legal Authority: Not Yet Determined 20460 affected under RCRA and TSCA. CFR Citation: Not Yet Determined Phone: 202 564-9674 Agency Contact: Conrad Chin, Legal Deadline: None Fax: 202 565-2084 Environmental Protection Agency, Air Email: [email protected] Abstract: EPA is considering taking and Radiation, MD-13, Research action to control the use of Methyl Triangle Park, NC 27711 Bob Perlis, Environmental Protection Phone: 919 541-1512 Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE), which is Agency, Air and Radiation, 2333A an organic compound that is primarily Fax: 919 541-5600 Phone: 202 564-5636 Email: [email protected] used as a fuel additive in gasoline. Email: [email protected] MTBE has been used to meet the oxygen requirement established by the RIN: 2060–AJ00 Al Vervaert, Environmental Protection Federal Reformulated Gasoline Program Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13, (RFG) established by the 1990 Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 3301. NESHAP: TACONITE IRON ORE Phone: 919 541-5602 amendments to the Clean Air Act PROCESSING INDUSTRY (CAA). Over 85 percent of reformulated Email: [email protected] gasoline contains MTBE. EPA is Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant RIN: 2060–AJ02 concerned that the widespread use of Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined MTBE may have resulted in the Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAA 112 contamination of groundwater and 3302. NESHAP: ALUMINUM DIE drinking water supplies, threatening CFR Citation: Not Yet Determined CASTING AND ALUMINUM FOUNDRIES their future use. While current Legal Deadline: NPRM, Statutory, May detections levels are generally believed 1, 2001. Priority: Other Significant to be below levels that may cause Abstract: The taconite iron ore Legal Authority: CAA sec 112 public health concerns, low level processing source category is comprised MTBE contamination may render water CFR Citation: Not Yet Determined of nine facilities operating in the unpotable due to offensive taste and United States. Seven facilities are Legal Deadline: None odor. In November of 1998, EPA located in Minnesota and two are Abstract: The completed Secondary established a Blue Ribbon Panel to located in Michigan. The expected Aluminum Production NESHAP investigate air quality benefits and sources of HAP emissions for this included some aluminum die casting water quality concerns associated with source category include: fossil fuel facilities and aluminum foundries oxygenates, including MTBE, in combustion sources, and possibly the under its applicability. EPA has based gasoline, and to provide independent handling and transfer of mined ore its MACT standard for aluminum die advice and recommendations on ways containing naturally occurring casting and aluminum foundries, as to maintain air quality while protecting inorganic compounds. Anticipated HAP well as its assessment of the economic water quality. In September, 1999, the emissions released from these sources impacts on small businesses in these panel recommended that the use of primarily include: formaldehyde, industries, on information on MTBE be substantially reduced. EPA is manganese, nickel, arsenic, and representative facility practices now evaluating the Blue Ribbon Panel’s chromium. The quantities of HAP provided to EPA by these industries to recommendations, and has conducted a released are expected to exceed major date. However, affected facilities in preliminary review of authorities source levels. these industries have expressed available to address risks associated concern that the information and with MTBE. EPA intends to issue an Timetable: assumptions upon which EPA has Advance Notice of Proposed Action Date FR Cite relied may be incomplete or may not Rulemaking to inform the public of this adequately represent the processes and preliminary inquiry, and to solicit NPRM 06/00/01 emissions at such facilities. Therefore, public comment on possible regulatory Final Action 03/00/02 EPA will initiate a formal process to action. Regulatory Flexibility Analysis collect further information from the Required: No Timetable: facilities in these industries on the Action Date FR Cite Small Entities Affected: No activities in which they engage and the Government Levels Affected: State potential of these activities to ANPRM 03/24/00 65 FR 16094 contribute to HAP emissions. After NPRM 05/00/01 Additional Information: SAN No. 4380 evaluating this information, EPA will Regulatory Flexibility Analysis There are nine taconite processing make a new determination concerning Required: Undetermined facilities in the U.S.; seven are located MACT requirements for both major
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facilities and area sources in these Reform’’, SAN 3259), intended to achieving as good or better industries. EPA expects to adopt any streamline the NSR program and reduce environmental results than could be alternative MACT standard applicable its administrative burden. This new achieved focusing strictly on new to these industries, and to take final rulemaking is an outgrowth of that sources. The New Source Review action to remove the aluminum die reform effort, and will provide Improvement Utility Sector Offramp casting and aluminum foundry industries with the flexibility to focus Program is a proposed rulemaking that industries from the current standard, more on existing pollution sources, is an outgrowth of this action and will within two years. Alternatively, if the with the goal of achieving as good or provide industries with the flexibility information collected by EPA shows better environmental results than could to focus more on existing pollution there is not a need to develop separate be achieved focusing strictly on new sources, with the goal of schieving as MACT requirements for these sources. The New Source Review good or better environmental results industries, then these industry sectors Improvement Utility Sector Offramp than could be achieved focusing strictly will remain under the coverage of the Program is a proposed rulemaking that on new sources. existing secondary aluminum is an outgrowth of this action and will Timetable: production NESHAP. provide industries with the flexibility Action Date FR Cite Timetable: to focus more on existing pollution sources, with the goal of achieving as NPRM 08/00/01 Action Date FR Cite good or better environmental results Final Action 08/00/02 ANPRM 09/14/00 65 FR 55489 than could be achieved focusing strictly Regulatory Flexibility Analysis NPRM 03/00/02 on new sources. The New Source Required: No Review Improvement Utility Sector Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Small Entities Affected: No Required: Undetermined Offramp Program is a proposed rulemaking that is an outgrowth of this Government Levels Affected: State, Small Entities Affected: Businesses action and will provide industries with Local, Tribal, Federal the flexibility to focus more on existing Government Levels Affected: None Additional Information: SAN No. 4390 pollution sources, with the goal of Additional Information: SAN No. 4413 achieving as good or better See also SAN 3259 Sectors Affected: 331521 Aluminum environmental results than could be Agency Contact: Kathy Kaufman, Die-Castings; 331524 Aluminum achieved focusing strictly on new Environmental Protection Agency, Air Foundries sources. The New Source Review and Radiation, MD-12, Research Agency Contact: Juan E. Santiago, Improvement Utility Sector Offramp Triangle Park, NC 27711 Environmental Protection Agency, Air Program is a proposed rulemaking that Phone: 919 541-0102 and Radiation, MD-13, Research is an outgrowth of this action and will Fax: 919 541-5509 Triangle Park, NC 27711 provide industries with the flexibility Email: [email protected] to focus more on existing pollution Phone: 919 541-1084 RIN: 2060–AJ14 Fax: 919 541-5600 sources, with the goal of achieving as Email: [email protected] good or better environmental results than could be achieved focusing strictly 3304. PROTECTION OF Jim Crowder, Environmental Protection on new sources. The New Source STRATOSPHERIC OZONE Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13, Review Improvement Utility Sector ALLOCATION OF ESSENTIAL-USE Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 Offramp Program is a proposed ALLOWANCES FOR CALENDAR YEAR Phone: 919 541-5596 rulemaking that is an outgrowth of this 2001: LABORATORY ESSENTIAL USE Fax: 919 541-5600 action and will provide industries with EXEMPTIONS the flexibility to focus more on existing Email: [email protected] Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant pollution sources, with the goal of RIN: 2060–AJ09 achieving as good or better Legal Authority: 42 USC 7414; 42 USC environmental results than could be 7601; 42 USC 7671-7671(q) 3303. NEW SOURCE REVIEW (NSR) achieved focusing strictly on new CFR Citation: 40 CFR 82 IMPROVEMENT: UTILITY SECTOR sources. The New Source Review Legal Deadline: OFFRAMP PROGRAM Improvement Utility Sector Offramp None Program is a proposed rulemaking that Abstract: This rule will set essential- Priority: Other Significant is an outgrowth of this action and will use allowances for 2000 under the Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 to 7671q provide industries with the flexibility Montreal Protocol on Substances that CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51; 40 CFR 52.21 to focus more on existing pollution Deplete the Ozone Layer (Protocol). sources, with the goal of achieving as Essential-use allowances permit a Legal Deadline: None good or better environmental results person to obtain controlled ozone- Abstract: The New Source Review than could be achieved focusing strictly depleting substances, such as (NSR) Program is the principal means on new sources. The New Source chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), as an by which EPA assures that new Review Improvement Utility Sector exemption to the January 1, 1996 pollution sources install reasonably Offramp Program is a proposed regulatory phaseout of production and effective air pollution controls before rulemaking that is an outgrowth of this import. Essential-use allowances are they are allowed to begin operation. action and will provide industries with allocated to a person for exempted EPA is currently involved in a the flexibility to focus more on existing production or importation of a specific comprehensive rulemaking (‘‘NSR pollution sources, with the goal of quantity of a controlled substance
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solely for the designated essential forward to implement this regional Timetable: purpose. strategy. The ruling remanded certain Action Date FR Cite Timetable: relatively minor portions of the original rule back to the EPA. This rulemaking NPRM 05/00/01 Action Date FR Cite covers the portion of the rule associated Final Action 05/00/02 NPRM 11/02/99 64 FR 59141 with the remanded issues: certain Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Direct Final Rule 2001 03/13/01 66 FR 14759 cogeneration units, internal combustion Required: No De Minimis engines, the partial State requirements Small Entities Affected: Businesses Exemption for Georgia & Missouri and the NPRM 2001 De 04/00/01 exclusion of Wisconsin. In this Government Levels Affected: None Minimis Exemption rulemaking, EPA will consider the Additional Information: SAN No. 4460 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis partial State issue for Alabama & Sectors Affected: 3369 Other Required: No Michigan as well. Transportation Equipment Government Levels Affected: None Timetable: Manufacturing; 3363 Motor Vehicle Action Date FR Cite Parts Manufacturing; 3364 Aerospace Additional Information: SAN No. 4410 Product and Parts Manufacturing NPRM 04/00/01 Split from RIN 2060-AI73. Agency Contact: Kevin Cavender, Final Action 08/00/01 Sectors Affected: 325412 Environmental Protection Agency, Air Pharmaceutical Preparation Regulatory Flexibility Analysis and Radiation, MD-13, Research Manufacturing; 927 Space Research and Required: No Triangle Park, NC 27711 Technology Small Entities Affected: No Phone: 919 541-2364 Fax: 919 541-5600 Agency Contact: Erin Birgfeld, Government Levels Affected: Email: [email protected] Environmental Protection Agency, Air Undetermined and Radiation, 6205J Additional Information: SAN No. 4433 Al Vervaert, Environmental Protection Phone: 202 564-9079 Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13, Fax: 202 565-2095 Agency Contact: Kimber Scavo, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 Email: [email protected] Environmental Protection Agency, Air Phone: 919 541-5602 RIN: 2060–AJ15 and Radiation, MD-15 Research Email: [email protected] Triangle Park, NC 27711 Phone: 919 541-3354 RIN: 2060–AJ18 3305. RULEMAKING FOR PURPOSES Fax: 919 541-0824 OF REDUCING INTERSTATE OZONE Email: [email protected] 3307. NESHAP FOR FLEXIBLE TRANSPORT: RESPONSE TO MARCH POLYURETHANE FOAM 3, 2000 DECISION OF THE UNITED Carla Oldham, Environmental FABRICATION OPERATIONS STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MD-15, Research Triangle Park, NC Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant CIRCUIT 27711 Legal Authority: 41 USC 7401 et seq Priority: Other Significant Phone: 919 541-3347 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 (Revision) Fax: 919 541-0824 Legal Authority: 42 USC 7410(a)(2)(D); Email: [email protected] Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, 7410(k)(5) November 15, 2000. RIN: 2060–AJ16 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51 (Revision) Abstract: The Clean Air Act (CAA) requires development of emission Legal Deadline: None 3306. NESHAP FOR FRICTION standards for major sources emitting Abstract: On October 27, 1998 (63 FR PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING any of the hazardous air pollutants 57355), EPA issued a rule to reduce Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant (HAP) listed in section 112(b) of the smog in the eastern half of the country. CAA. Flexible Polyurethane Foam The rule required 22 States and the Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 Fabrication Operations was listed as a District of Columbia to reduce CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 category of major sources based on emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx), previous emission information of which reacts with other chemicals in Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, methylene chloride HAP. This source the atmosphere to form smog. EPA November 15, 2000. category covers emissions from various required these reductions because Abstract: This action will propose polyurethane foam bonding operations, pollution from each of these States was NESHAP for friction products including foam gluing and flame transported by the wind and manufacturing in order to comply with lamination. Subsequent information significantly contributed to unhealthy the Clean Air Act of 1990 (CAA). The reveals that the use of methylene air quality in downwind states. In friction products source category chloride has substantially reduced due response to litigation from several includes any facility that manufactures to OSHA regulations. Therefore, no parties on the NOx SIP call, the United friction products such as brakes and major sources of HAP are anticipated States Court of Appeals for the District clutches. The rule is expected to limit in this source category. This action will of Columbia issued a decision on HAP emissions, including toluene, explore whether there are any major March 3, 2000 making it clear that EPA hexane, and 1,1,1 trichloroethane) from sources in this source category and and States can and should move solvent mixing operations. develop a MACT standard if it still
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proves to be necessary. If no major transport ever conducted. The OTAG Action Date FR Cite sources are confirmed, then the action States voted in favor of a range of will be to explore possible ways of strategies to reduce nitrogen oxide Final Action Section 05/25/99 64 FR 28250 delisting this source category. emissions from utilities and other major 126 Findings sources. Building on the Final Action Section 01/18/00 65 FR 2674 Timetable: 126 Approvals and recommendations of OTAG, EPA issued Action Date FR Cite Remedy a rule known as the NOx SIP Call NPRM Response to 04/00/01 NPRM 06/00/01 (10/27/98, 63 FR 57355) requiring 22 NOx SIP Call Court Final Action 05/00/02 States and the District of Columbia to Decision (SAN submit revisions to their SIPs to Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 4433) address the regional transport of Final Action Response 09/00/01 Required: No nitrogen oxides (a precursor to ozone to NOx SIP Call Small Entities Affected: Businesses formation known as NOx). By reducing Court Decision (SAN 4433) Government Levels Affected: None emissions of NOx, the actions directed by these plans will decrease the Final Action NOx FIPs 07/00/01 Additional Information: SAN No. 4449 formation and transport of ozone across (SAN 4096) Sectors Affected: 32615 Urethane and State boundaries in the eastern half of Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Other Foam Product (except the US. Per the August 30, 2000 court Required: No Polystyrene) Manufacturing order, emission reduction measures are Small Entities Affected: No required to be in place by May 31, Agency Contact: Lalit Banker, Government Levels Affected: State Environmental Protection Agency, Air 2004. The court did remand certain and Radiation, MD-12, Research minor provisions which EPA is now Additional Information: SAN No. 4466 Triangle Park, NC 27711 addressing in a separate rulemaking — Agency Contact: Kimber Scavo, Phone: 919 541-5420 see SAN 4433 in today’s Regulatory Environmental Protection Agency, Air Fax: 919 541-2664 Agenda.) In addition to the SIP Call and Radiation, MD-15 Research Email: [email protected] provisions, Federal Implementation Triangle Park, NC 27711 Plans (FIPs) may also be needed to Phone: 919 541-3354 Penny Lassiter, Environmental reduce regional transport if any affected Fax: 919 541-0824 Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, State fails to adequately revise its SIP Email: [email protected] MD-13, RTP, NC 27711 to comply with the NOx SIP call (see Phone: 919 541-5396 SAN 4096 in today’s Regulatory Carla Oldham, Environmental Fax: 919 541-3470 Agenda). In addition to the SIP Call Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, Email: [email protected] remedy, the Clean Air Act also gave MD-15, Research Triangle Park, NC States the right to petition EPA to take RIN: 2060–AJ19 27711 other Federal action to prevent ozone Phone: 919 541-3347 transport that affects downwind States. Fax: 919 541-0824 3308. RULEMAKINGS FOR THE Accordingly, under section 126 of the Email: [email protected] CAA, eight Northeastern States filed PURPOSE OF REDUCING RIN: 2060–AJ20 INTERSTATE OZONE TRANSPORT petitions requesting EPA to make findings and require decreases in NOx Priority: Economically Significant. emissions from certain stationary 3309. PETITIONS TO DELIST SOURCE Major under 5 USC 801. sources in upwind States that may CATEGORIES FROM THE SOURCE Legal Authority: Not Yet Determined significantly contribute to ozone CATEGORY LIST, DEVELOPED CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51 nonattainment problems in the PURSUANT TO SECTION 112(C) OF petitioning State. After analysis, EPA THE CLEAN AIR ACT Legal Deadline: None found the petitions from eight States Priority: Routine and Frequent Abstract: The Clean Air Act (CAA) to be meritorious in whole or in part requires that a state implementation (5/25/99, 64 FR 28250). Subsequently, Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined plan (SIP) contain provisions to prevent EPA issued a final rule on the petitions, Legal Authority: Not Yet Determined a States’ facilities or sources from specifying a NOx emissions trading CFR Citation: Not Yet Determined contributing significantly to air program as the required Federal remedy pollution that is ‘‘transported’’ (1/18/00, 65 FR 2764). EPA is Legal Deadline: NPRM, Statutory, April downwind to other States, exacerbating coordinating all three approaches to 21, 2000. their inability to meet the national regional ozone control — i.e., SIP Call, Abstract: The EPA has received 1 ambient air quality standards for ozone. FIPs, and Section 126 actions — to petition to remove a SC (2-Piece Can Through a 2-year effort known as the avoid duplication and maximize Manufacturing) from the SC List Ozone Transport Assessment Group effectiveness. developed pursuant to Section 112(c) (OTAG) , EPA worked in partnership Timetable: of the Clean Air Act (CAA). The most with the 37 easternmost States and the current SC List was published on District of Columbia, industry Action Date FR Cite November 18, 1999 (64 FR 63025). representatives, and environmental Final Action NOx SIP 10/27/98 63 FR 57355 Section 112(c)(9), which provides the groups to address ozone transport. This Call legislative authority and guidelines for multi-year collaboration resulted in the NPRM NOx FIPs 10/21/98 63 FR 56393 such actions, states that the most comprehensive analysis of ozone (SAN 4096) Administrator may delete a SC from the
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list under Section 112(c), on petition 3310. REVISING REGULATIONS ON Government Levels Affected: State, of any person or on the Administrator’s AMBIENT AIR QUALITY MONITORING Local, Tribal own motion, whenever the Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Additional Information: SAN No. 4421 Administrator determines that no source in the category emits hazardous Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq Sectors Affected: 334519 Other air pollutants (HAPs) in quantities CFR Citation: 40 CFR 58 (Revision); 40 Measuring and Controlling Device which may cause a lifetime risk of CFR 53 (Revision); 40 CFR 50 Manufacturing; 92411 Air and Water cancer greater than 1 in one million (Revision) Resource and Solid Waste Management to the individual in the population who Legal Deadline: None Agency Contact: Mike Papp, is most exposed and that emissions Environmental Protection Agency, Air Abstract: from no source in the category exceed Air pollution control and Radiation, MD-14, Research a level which is adequate to protect authorities use air quality data to Triangle Park, NC 27711 determine compliance with the public health with an ample margin of Phone: 919 541-2408 National Ambient Air Quality safety and that no adverse Fax: 919 541-1903 Standards and in subsequent work to environmental effect will result. As of Email: [email protected] develop air pollution mitigation January 31, 2000, 1 petition to delist strategies. The data come primarily a SC has been received. It contains Lee Ann Byrd, Environmental from ambient air monitoring stations information on HAP emissions, Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, run by State and local agencies, exposures, health effects, human risks, MD-14, Washington, DC 20460 although Federal, tribal, and industrial and potential ecological concerns as Phone: 919 541-5367 organizations also run stations. The well as the petitioner’s explanation Fax: 919 541-1903 design of the monitoring networks is why the 2-Piece Can Manufacturing Email: [email protected] regulated under 40 CFR 58. This rule should be removed from the SC List. was originally written in 1979 and RIN: 2060–AJ25 The EPA will conduct a comprehensive several revisions have been made in the review of the petition received then intervening years. Air pollution control 3311. CLARIFICATION TO EXISTING decide whether to grant or deny the authorities have improved their parts of petition. Section 112(c)(9) requires that PART 63 NESHAP DELEGATIONS’ the network in response to changes in PROVISIONS-WORK PRACTICES within 12 months of receipt of a air quality, advances in the petition, the Administrator shall either understanding of the movements and Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant grant or deny the petition by publishing health effects of air pollutants, and Legal Authority: Not Yet Determined a written explanation of the reasons for developments in air pollution CFR Citation: Not Yet Determined the Administrator’s decision. We measurement technology. EPA has also Legal Deadline: believe that petitions to delist source cooperated with air pollution control None categories are non-significant actions authorities to improve the networks, Abstract: 40 CFR part 63 contains because they do not meet any of the but we have not revised the applicable OAR’s air-toxics emissions regulations, principles outlined in Section A above. regulations comprehensively. The often referred to as ‘‘MACT’’ rules or Timetable: proposed revisions would remove real ‘‘NESHAPS’’. We are revising some part or perceived constraints on redeploying 63 standards to reflect changes in Action Date FR Cite air monitoring stations; more accurately delegation provisions. We are also NPRM - Denial May 09/00/01 reflect the roles of EPA and other revising some sections in the part 63 Instead Be control authorities in designing, regulations to clarify what are Published reviewing, and modifying networks; standards and what are compliance bring provisions related to quality assurance measures. The benefits of the Regulatory Flexibility Analysis assurance up to date; and recognize changes will include clarifying what Required: No technological changes. The current authorities in each standard can be Small Entities Affected: No regulations require states to develop delegated to State and local air plans to deploy air monitoring pollution control agencies and meshing Government Levels Affected: networks, but they do not emphasize the standards with revisions previously Undetermined administering the networks. States made to other part 63 regulations. generally develop new plans only when Additional Information: SAN No. 4415 Timetable: new monitoring is needed, such as for Action Date FR Cite Agency Contact: Chuck French, a new NAAQS. The regulations should Environmental Protection Agency, Air be revised to reflect the roles of EPA NPRM 04/00/01 and Radiation, MD-13, Research and the State and local agencies. Final Action 04/00/02 Triangle Park, NC 27711 Timetable: Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Phone: 919 541-0467 Required: No Email: [email protected] Action Date FR Cite NPRM 06/00/01 Small Entities Affected: Businesses Dave Guinnup, Environmental Final Action 04/00/02 Government Levels Affected: State, Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Local, Tribal, Federal MD-13, RTP, NC 27711 Required: No Additional Information: SAN No. 4426 Phone: 919 541-5368 Small Entities Affected: Governmental Agency Contact: Karen Blanchard, RIN: 2060–AJ23 Jurisdictions Environmental Protection Agency, Air
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and Radiation, MD-12, Research and is intended to fulfill EPA’s duty clarifications to the monitoring Triangle Park, NC 27711 under section 129(b)(3) to promulgate procedures that will improve quality of Phone: 919 541-5503 a Federal plan as a gap-filling measure the SO2 and NOx emissions data. Some Fax: 919 541-5509 until the State fulfills its statutory reporting requirements will be modified Email: [email protected] obligations. When the State submits an to broaden and improve electronic approvable State Plan, the Federal plan reporting provisions in order to reduce Kathy Kaufman, Environmental will no longer apply to units in that industry burden and facilitate better Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, State. data management within the Agency. MD-12, Research Triangle Park, NC Timetable: 27711 In support of the Federal NOx Budget Phone: 919 541-0102 Action Date FR Cite Trading Program, EPA will propose revisions to parts 72, 75, and 97. Parts Fax: 919 541-5509 NPRM 04/00/01 Email: [email protected] 72 and 75 will be modified to introduce Final Action 01/00/02 procedural requirements for the RIN: 2060–AJ26 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis monitoring and reporting of output (i.e., Required: No electricity, steam, or heated water) for electric generating units. The proposed 3312. FEDERAL PLAN FOR Small Entities Affected: Businesses, revisions to part 97 will satisfy a COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL Governmental Jurisdictions SOLID WASTE INCINERATION UNITS commitment the Agency made in the Government Levels Affected: State, January 18, 2000 final section 126 rule Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Federal to use output for updating NOx Legal Authority: 1990 Amendments to Additional Information: SAN No. 4441 allowance allocations. Our analysis the Clean Air Act sections 111; 1990 predicts that updating allocations based Sectors Affected: 321 Wood Product Amendments to the Clean Air Act on output will reduce air pollution Manufacturing; 325 Chemical sections 129; 1990 Amendments to the nationwide and will result in more Manufacturing Clean Air Act sections 301(a)(d) efficient electricity generation. Agency Contact: David Painter, CFR Citation: 40 CFR 62 Timetable: Environmental Protection Agency, Air Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, and Radiation, MD-12, Research Action Date FR Cite December 1, 2002, Section 129 (b)(3) Triangle Park, NC 27711 NPRM 05/00/01 of the CAA. Phone: 919 541-5515 Abstract: The Clean Air Act Fax: 919 541-2664 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Amendments of 1990 directed the Email: [email protected] Required: No Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) RIN: 2060–AJ28 Small Entities Affected: Businesses to set emission guidelines for existing Government Levels Affected: None incinerators combusting commercial or industrial waste under sections 111 and 3313. REVISIONS TO PART 97 Additional Information: SAN No. 4448 129. Final emission guidelines for FEDERAL NOX BUDGET TRADING Sectors Affected: 221111 Hydroelectric Commercial and Industrial Solid Waste PROGRAM ALLOWANCE Power Generation Incineration (CISWI) were published on ALLOCATION METHOD AND PART 75 Agency Contact: Sam Waltzer, December 1, 2000 (see 65 FR 75338). OUTPUT AND EMISSIONS Environmental Protection Agency, Air In accordance with section 129, any MONITORING PROVISIONS and Radiation, 6204J, Washington, DC State with affected sources must submit Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant 20460 a State plan by December 3, 2001 Phone: 202 564-9175 describing how the State will Legal Authority: 42 USC 7601; 42 USC Fax: 202 565-2140 implement the emission guidelines for 7651 et seq; 42 USC 7401; 42 USC Email: [email protected] existing CISWI. Section 129 requires 7403; 42 USC 7426 CFR Citation: the Administrator to develop and 40 CFR 75 (Revision); 40 Margaret Sheppard, Environmental implement a Federal plan for existing CFR 97 (Revision) Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, CISWI units located in any State which Legal Deadline: None 6205J, Washington, DC 20460 has not submitted an approvable plan Phone: 202 564-9163 within 2 years of promulgation of the Abstract: This rulemaking package will propose two types of modifications to Fax: 202 565-2141 emissions guidelines. In this CISWI Email: [email protected] Federal plan rulemaking, EPA becomes the Code of Federal Regulations: the implementing authority in those revisions to parts 72 and 75 related to RIN: 2060–AJ30 instances where the State or local the existing Acid Rain Program; and, revisions to part 75 and part 97 that agency has failed to submit a plan or 3314. GUIDELINES FOR BEST a plan has not yet been approved. are associated with the implementation of the Federal Nox Budget Trading AVAILABLE RETROFIT TECHNOLOGY Therefore, consistent with section (BART) 129(b)(3) of the Act, EPA is proposing Program. a plan that applies to CISWI in any The proposed revisions to parts 72 and Priority: Other Significant State, tribe or locale that has not 75 pertaining to the Acid Rain Program Legal Authority: 42 USC 7410; 42 USC submitted an approvable plan within will improve the program’s efficiency 7414; 42 USC 7421; 42 USC 7470 to the time allotted. This action makes no and effectiveness. These revisions 7479; 42 USC 7491; 42 USC 7492; 42 changes to the requirements in the rule, include technical corrections and USC 7601; 42 USC 7602
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CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51.308(e)(1); 40 control requirements for ‘‘left-over’’ technical specifications; make technical CFR 51 app Y (New) vents, averaging period, and wastewater corrections and changes necessary to Legal Deadline: None applicability cutoffs. This amendment correct printing, typographical, and will address these issues. grammatical errors in existing rules; Abstract: To meet the Clean Air Act’s Timetable: and correct/clarify cross references requirements, final regional haze between the subject Parts to ensure regulations were published in the Action Date FR Cite consistency among the rules. Federal Register on July 1, 1999 (64 FR NPRM 06/00/01 35714). These regulations include, in Timetable: section 51.308(e), a requirement for best Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Action Date FR Cite Required: No available retrofit technology (BART) for NPRM 05/00/01 certain types of existing stationary Small Entities Affected: No Final Action 08/00/01 sources of air pollutants. In the preamble to regional haze rule, we Government Levels Affected: None Regulatory Flexibility Analysis committed to issuing further guidelines Additional Information: SAN No. 4457 Required: No to clarify the BART requirements. The Split from RIN 2060-AE84. Small Entities Affected: Businesses purpose of this rulemaking is to Government Levels Affected: None provide those BART guidelines. Agency Contact: Lalit Banker, Environmental Protection Agency, Air Additional Information: SAN No. 4538 Timetable: and Radiation, MD-12, Research Split from RIN 2060-AJ30. Action Date FR Cite Triangle Park, NC 27711 Sectors Affected: 221111 Hydroelectric NPRM 05/00/01 Phone: 919 541-5420 Fax: 919 541-2664 Power Generation Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Email: [email protected] Agency Contact: Gabrielle Stevens, Required: No Environmental Protection Agency, Air Small Entities Affected: No Penny Lassiter, Environmental and Radiation, 6204N Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, Government Levels Affected: None Phone: 202 564-2681 MD-13, RTP, NC 27711 Email: [email protected] Additional Information: SAN No. 4450 Phone: 919 541-5396 RIN: 2060–AJ43 Agency Contact: Tim Smith, Fax: 919 541-3470 Environmental Protection Agency, Air Email: [email protected] ∑ and Radiation, MD 15, Washington, DC RIN: 2060–AJ34 3317. NESHAP: AMINO/PHENOLIC 20460 RESINS: AMENDMENT Phone: 919 541-4718 ∑ Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Fax: 919 541-7690 3316. REVISIONS TO THE PART 97 Legal Authority: 12 USC 1701 et seq Email: [email protected] FEDERAL NOX BUDGET TRADING PROGRAM, THE PART 75 EMISSIONS CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 subpart 000 MONITORING PROVISIONS, THE Rich Damberg, Environmental Legal Deadline: None Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, PART 72 PERMITS REGULATION MD 15 PROVISIONS, AND THE PART 78 Abstract: The Amino and Phenolic Phone: 919 541-5592 APPEAL PROCEDURES Wood Adhesives Association (APWAA) has filed a petition for review of the Fax: 919 541-7690 Priority: Other Significant Email: [email protected] final rule. APWAA has identified two Legal Authority: 42 USC 7601; 42 USC areas of concern in their statement of RIN: 2060–AJ31 7651 et seq; 42 USC 7401; 42 USC issue. First of all APWAA claims that 7403:; 42 USC 7426 EPA was unjustified in going above the 3315. NESHAP: PESTICIDES ACTIVE CFR Citation: 40 CFR 75 (Revision); 40 floor level of control to include INGREDIENTS—AMENDMENTS CFR 97 (Revision) equipment requirements equivalent to the Consolidated Air Rule (CAR) for Priority: Other Significant Legal Deadline: None new and existing sources. APWAA Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAA sec Abstract: The purpose of these believes EPA should use the floor level 112 proposed revisions is to modify existing of control for both new and existing CFR Citation: Not Yet Determined procedures for monitoring and sources. For existing sources there is reporting NOx and SO2 emissions for no floor, and for new sources the floor Legal Deadline: None sources affected by the Acid Rain level of control is equivalent to the Abstract: On June 23, 1999, EPA Program, the Federal NOx Budget requirements included in 40 CFR Part promulgated the NESHAP for Pesticide Trading Program, and the October 27, 60 Subpart VV. The second issue Active Ingredient Production 1998 NOx SIP call. The proposed identified by APWAA is the way the (Production of Agricultural Chemicals). changes will: streamline part 75 by requirements for non-reactor batch Subsequently, a petition was filed on removing outdated provisions and give vents were calculated. The current rule this rule, and EPA received the list of electricity generators added flexibility has a 500 lbs per year applicability issues filed with the court. There are with the monitoring and reporting cutoff for non-reactor batch vents at the four separate, but related petitions. requirements; tighten the calibration facility level. APWAA has stated that Major issues include applicability error limit for some units to be more the cutoff should be applicable to determination for creosote producers, in line with industry’s current accepted individual vents instead of the entire
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facility. This amendment will address Federal Plan for small units, EPA Regulatory Flexibility Analysis these issues. becomes the implementing authority in Required: No those instances where the state or local Timetable: Small Entities Affected: No Agency fails to submit a plan or a plan Action Date FR Cite has not yet been approved. This action Government Levels Affected: State makes no changes to the rule and is NPRM 01/00/02 Additional Information: SAN No. 4520 intended to fulfill EPA’s duty under Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Section 129(b)(3) to promulgate a Agency Contact: Marilyn Winstead Required: No Federal Plan as a gap-filling measure McCall, Environmental Protection Small Entities Affected: Businesses until the state fulfills its statutory Agency, Air and Radiation, 6406J, Government Levels Affected: None obligations. When the state submits an Washington, DC 20460 approvable State Plan, the Federal Plan Phone: 202 564-9020 Additional Information: SAN No. 4484 will no longer apply to units in the RIN: 2060–AJ55 Sectors Affected: 325211 Plastics state. Material and Resin Manufacturing Timetable: 3320. ∑ PROTECTION OF Agency Contact: John Schaefer, Action Date FR Cite Environmental Protection Agency, Air STRATOSPHERIC OZONE: PROCESS NPRM 05/00/01 and Radiation, MD-13, Research FOR EXEMPTING CRITICAL AND Final Action 12/00/01 Triangle Park, NC 27711 EMERGENCY USES OF METHYL Phone: 919 541-0296 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis BROMIDE Fax: 919 541-3470 Required: No Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Email: [email protected] Small Entities Affected: Businesses, Legal Authority: PL 764; 42 USC 7671c Governmental Jurisdictions Penny Lassiter, Environmental Government Levels Affected: CFR Citation: 40 CFR 82 Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, Local MD-13, RTP, NC 27711 Additional Information: SAN No. 4454 Legal Deadline: None Phone: 919 541-5396 About half the small municpal waste Abstract: With this action, EPA will Fax: 919 541-3470 combustor owners are local revise the accelerated phaseout Email: [email protected] governments. regulations that govern the production, RIN: 2060–AJ45 Agency Contact: Lalit Banker, import, export, transformation and Environmental Protection Agency, Air destruction of substances that deplete the ozone layer. The amendments will 3318. ∑ FEDERAL PLAN FOR SMALL and Radiation, MD-12, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 incorporate exemptions permitted MUNICIPAL WASTE COMBUSTION under the Montreal Protocol on UNITS Phone: 919 541-5420 Fax: 919 541-2664 Substances that Deplete the Ozone Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Email: [email protected] Layer and recent changes to the Clean Air Act. Specifically, the amendments Legal Authority: 1990 Amendments to RIN: 2060–AJ46 will create a process to exempt the Clean Air Act; sections 111(d) 129 production and consumption of and 301(a)(d) 3319. ∑ PETITION BY COLORADO TO quantities of methyl bromide for critical CFR Citation: 40 CFR 62 (new) RELAX THE REID VAPOR PRESSURE and emergency uses from the 2005 Legal Deadline: None STANDARD FOR GASOLINE FOR 2001 phaseout of methyl bromide. Because Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant this is an exemption, the rule will Abstract: The Clean Air Act confer a benefit on affected entities. Amendments of 1990 directed the EPA Legal Authority: Not Yet Determined Timetable: to set emission guidelines for existing CFR Citation: 40 CFR 80.27 municipal waste combustion units Action Date FR Cite (MWCs) under Sections 111 and 129. Legal Deadline: None On 12/19/95, the EPA adopted Abstract: Denver/Boulder is in the NPRM 11/00/01 emission guidelines for MWCs under process of redesignating to attainment Regulatory Flexibility Analysis the authority of Sections 111(d) and with the ozone NAAQS; however, this Required: No 129 of the Clean Air Act. These process is not expected to be completed Small Entities Affected: emission guidelines covered all MWC by the 2001 summer ozone control No units located at plants with an season. They are asking that the Government Levels Affected: aggregate plant combustion capacity applicable federal RVP gasoline Undetermined larger than 35 tons per day of standard of 7.8 psi (pounds per square Additional Information: SAN No. 4535 municipal solid waste. Subsequent inch) be waived in favor of the 9.0 psi litigation cancelled the emission RVP for gasoline sold in the area during Agency Contact: Amber Moreen, guidelines for small MWC units, but the 2001 summer ozone control season. Environmental Protection Agency, Air the Court directed EPA to adopt a new This action will address their request. and Radiation, 6205J, Washington, DC rule for small MWC units. This rule Timetable: 20460 was adopted on December 6, 2000. This Phone: 202 564-9295 action is a follow-on activity to this Action Date FR Cite Fax: 202 565-2095 rulemaking. In this proposed MWC NPRM 04/00/01 Email: [email protected]
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Sue Stendebach, Environmental Phone: 202 564-9117 Email: [email protected] Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, Fax: 202 565-2095 6205J RIN: 2060–AJ63
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) Final Rule Stage Clean Air Act (CAA)
3321. SOURCE-SPECIFIC FEDERAL 3322. NEW SOURCE REVIEW (NSR) requirements and control technology IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR IMPROVEMENT review requirements. Regulations that NAVAJO GENERATING STATION; Priority: Other Significant will be affected are State FOUR CORNERS POWER PLANT implementation plan requirements for Legal Authority: CAA as amended, title review of new sources and Priority: Other Significant I modifications to existing sources (40 Legal Authority: 42 USC 1740 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51.160 to 51.166; CFR 51.160-166), the Federal 40 CFR 52.21; 40 CFR 52.24 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60 prevention of significant deterioration Legal Deadline: None program (40 CFR 52.21), and Federal Legal Deadline: None restriction on new source construction Abstract: This action is to revise the (40 CFR 52.24). Finally, this NSR Abstract: EPA proposes to federalize CAA new source review (NSR) standards from the Arizona and New Improvement effort also includes a regulations, which govern the separate rulemaking (SAN 4390, NSR Mexico State Implementation Plans preconstruction air quality review and Improvement: Utility Sector Offramp (SIPS) applicable to the Four Corners permitting programs that are Program), which will provide industries Plant, respectively. Where necessary, implemented by States and the Federal with the flexibility to focus more on EPA’s proposed emission standards Government for new and modified existing pollution sources, with the modify the standards extracted from the major stationary sources of air goal of achieving as good or better States’ regulatory programs to ensure pollution. This rulemaking will environmental results than could be comprehensive emission control and deregulate, that is, exclude from major achieved by focusing strictly on new Federal consistency. NSR program requirements those sources. Timetable: activities of sources that, with respect to air pollution, have little Timetable: Action Date FR Cite environmental impact. The rulemaking Action Date FR Cite NPRM 09/08/99 64 FR 48731 will encourage pollution control and Final Action 12/00/01 pollution prevention projects at existing NPRM 07/23/96 61 FR 38249 sources. Control technology Final Action 08/00/01 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis requirements will be clarified with Required: No Regulatory Flexibility Analysis respect to when and how they apply Required: No Small Entities Affected: No to sources that are covered. The action Government Levels Affected: State, Government Levels Affected: None seeks to more clearly define the appropriate roles and requirements of Federal Federalism: Undetermined sources, permitting authorities and Additional Information: SAN No. 3259 Additional Information: SAN No. 3569 Federal land managers and EPA in the protection of air-quality-related values See also SAN 4390 NPRM- in Federal Class I areas (i.e., certain Agency Contact: Lynn Hutchinson, http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-; national parks and wilderness areas) Environmental Protection Agency, Air AIR/1999/September/Day-08 under the NSR regulations. State, local, and Radiation, MD-12, Research /a23277.htm.; Formerly listed as RIN and tribal permitting agencies will be Triangle Park, NC 27711 2060-AF42, given more flexibility to implement Phone: 919 541-5795 NPRM- program requirements in a manner that Fax: 919 541-5509 http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA- meets their specific air quality Email: [email protected] management needs. Consequently, the AIR/1999/September/Day- RIN: 2060–AE11 08/a23277.htm rulemaking decreases the number of activities that are subject to NSR Agency Contact: Douglas McDaniel, requirements and also expedites the 3323. NSPS: SYNTHETIC ORGANIC Environmental Protection Agency, permitting process for those sources CHEMICALS MANUFACTURING Regional Office San Francisco, Region that are subject to NSR. This action is INDUSTRY - WASTEWATER (FINAL) & 9, San Francisco, CA 94105-3901 designed to reduce the regulatory AMEND. TO APPENDIX C OF PART 63 Phone: 415 744-1246 burden over all industries without & APPENDIX J OF PART 60 respect to commercial size or capacity; Colleen McKaughan, Environmental therefore, it should have no detrimental Priority: Other Significant Protection Agency, Regional Office San impact on small businesses. This action Legal Authority: CAAA Francisco also addresses several pending petitions CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60 Phone: 520 498-0118 for judicial review and administrative RIN: 2009–AA01 action pertaining to NSR applicability Legal Deadline: None
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Abstract: This rule will develop a new 1995 (RIN 2060-AD94). This action enforcing visible emissions regulations source performance standard to control covers three process vents not covered from Stationary Sources. air emissions of volatile organic under RIN 2060-AD94. These are the Timetable: compounds from wastewater treatment catalyst regeneration vents from fluid operations of the synthetic chemical catalytic cracking units (FCCU) and Action Date FR Cite manufacturing industry. catalytic reformers and the tail gas NPRM 11/22/93 58 FR 61639 Timetable: vents from sulfur recovery plants. Final Action 12/00/01 Action Date FR Cite Timetable: Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Action Date FR Cite Required: NPRM 09/12/94 59 FR 46780 No Supp NPRM-1st 10/11/95 60 FR 52889 NPRM 09/11/98 63 FR 48889 Small Entities Affected: No Final Action 06/00/01 Supp NPRM-2nd 12/09/98 63 FR 67988 Government Levels Affected: None Appendix J to Part Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 60 Additional Information: Required: No SAN No. 2915 Final Action 08/00/01 Small Entities Affected: Businesses Agency Contact: Peter Westlin, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Environmental Protection Agency, Air Required: No Government Levels Affected: None and Radiation, MD-19, Washington, DC Small Entities Affected: Businesses Additional Information: SAN No. 3549 20460 Phone: 919 541-1058 Government Levels Affected: None NPRM- http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA- Fax: 919 541-1039 Additional Information: SAN No. 3380 AIR/1998/September/Day- Email: [email protected] Supp NPRM-2nd- 11/a23508.htm RIN: 2060–AF83 http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA- Sectors Affected: 32411 Petroleum AIR/1998/December/Day- Refineries 09/a28472a.htm 3326. ENVIRONMENTAL RADIATION Agency Contact: Bob Lucas, PROTECTION STANDARDS FOR Sectors Affected: 3251 Basic Chemical Environmental Protection Agency, Air YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NEVADA Manufacturing and Radiation, MD-13, Research Priority: Other Significant Agency Contact: Mary Tom Kissell, Triangle Park, NC 27711 Environmental Protection Agency, Air Phone: 919 541-0884 Legal Authority: Energy Policy Act sec and Radiation, MD-13, Research Fax: 919 541-0246 801 Triangle Park, NC 27711 Email: [email protected] CFR Citation: 40 CFR 197 Phone: 919 541-4516 Fax: 919 541-0246 Kent C. Hustvedt, Environmental Legal Deadline: NPRM, Statutory, Email: [email protected] Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, August 1, 1996. MD-13, RTP, NC 27711 Abstract: This rulemaking is in Kent C. Hustvedt, Environmental Phone: 919 541-5395 response to section 801 of the Energy Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, Fax: 919 541-0246 Policy Act of 1992 which directs the MD-13, RTP, NC 27711 Email: [email protected] Administrator to promulgate public Phone: 919 541-5395 RIN: 2060–AF28 health and safety standards for Fax: 919 541-0246 protection of the public from releases Email: [email protected] from radioactive materials stored or RIN: 2060–AE94 3325. METHODS FOR MEASUREMENT disposed of in the repository at the OF VISIBLE EMISSIONS—ADDITION Yucca Mountain site, developed and OF METHODS 203A, 203B, AND 203C operated by the U.S. Department of 3324. NESHAP: PETROLEUM TO APPENDIX M OF PART 51 Energy. REFINERIES; CATALYTIC CRACKING Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant UNITS, CATALYTIC REFORMING Timetable: Legal Authority: UNITS AND SULFUR RECOVERY 42 USC 7401(b)(1); 42 Action Date FR Cite UNITS USC 7410; 42 USC 7470 to 7479; 42 USC 7501 to 7508; 42 USC 7601(a) NPRM 08/27/99 64 FR 46976 Priority: Other Significant Final Action 06/00/01 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51 Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq; Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Legal Deadline: None PL 101-549 104 Stat. 2399 Required: No CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 Abstract: This rulemaking adds Test Methods 203A, 203B, and 203C to 40 Small Entities Affected: No Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, CFR part 51, appendix M (entitled Government Levels Affected: Federal November 15, 2000. Example Test Methods for State Additional Information: Abstract: Title III of the Clean Air Act Implementation Plans). These methods SAN No. 3568 Amendments of 1990 requires EPA to describe procedures for estimating the Agency Contact: Ray Clark, develop national emission standards for opacity of visible emissions. States Environmental Protection Agency, Air hazardous air pollutants (NESHAPs). have requested that EPA promulgate and Radiation, 6608J, Washington, DC EPA promulgated NESHAP rules for these methods so that they can use 20460 petroleum refineries on August 18, them in State Implementation Plans in Phone: 202 564-9198
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Fax: 202 565-2065 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, Email: [email protected] Legal Deadline: NPRM, Statutory, November 15, 2000. RIN: 2060–AG14 November 15, 2000. Abstract: This project is to develop Abstract: This project is to develop national emission standards for 3327. ADDITION OF METHOD 207 TO national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants (HAP) by APPENDIX M OF 40 CFR PART 51 hazardous air pollutants (NESHAPs) by establishing maximum achievable METHOD FOR MEASURING establishing maximum achievable control technology (MACT) for ISOCYANATES IN STATIONARY control technology (MACT) for facilities municipal solid waste landfills. SOURCE EMISSIONS manufacturing cellulose ether, Timetable: Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant carboxymethyl cellulose ether, methyl cellulose ether, cellulose food casing, Action Date FR Cite Legal Authority: 42 USC 7410 cellulosic sponges, producing rayon, NPRM 11/07/00 65 FR 66672 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51 and producing cellophane. MACT Final Action 09/00/01 Legal Deadline: None standards are under development to reduce the release of hazardous air Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Abstract: The Clean Air Act pollutants (HAP) from all industries to Required: No Amendments of 1990 listed certain protect the public health and Small Entities Affected: Governmental isocyanate compounds as hazardous air environment. Emissions of HAP from Jurisdictions pollutants (HAPs). The Agency does this industry have been associated not have any published test methods with, but are not limited to, product Government Levels Affected: None that would measure air emissions of washing operations, material storage Additional Information: SAN No. 3969 these isocyanate compounds from tanks, and film drying. stationary sources. This action would Sectors Affected: 562212 Solid Waste Timetable: add a validated test method to measure Landfill isocyanate emissions to appendix M of Action Date FR Cite part 51. Test methods in part 51 can Agency Contact: Michele Laur, NPRM 08/28/00 65 FR 52166 Environmental Protection Agency, Air be adopted by any State for use in any Final Action 07/00/01 regulation that requires the and Radiation, MD-13, Research measurement of any of the isocyanate Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Triangle Park, NC 27711 compounds on the HAP list. This Required: No Phone: 919 541-5256 Fax: 919 541-0246 action would not impose any new Small Entities Affected: Businesses regulatory requirements that do not Email: [email protected] already exist. It should benefit State Government Levels Affected: None Kent C. Hustvedt, Environmental governments by providing them with a Additional Information: SAN No. 3970 validated test procedure for measuring Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, the emissions of isocyanate Project combined with SAN 3963 MD-13, RTP, NC 27711 compounds. Sectors Affected: 325221 Cellulosic Phone: 919 541-5395 Fax: 919 541-0246 Timetable: Organic Fiber Manufacturing; 326113 Unsupported Plastics Film and Sheet Email: [email protected] Action Date FR Cite (except Packaging) Manufacturing RIN: 2060–AH13 NPRM 12/08/97 62 FR 64532 Agency Contact: Bill Schrock, Final Action 06/00/01 Environmental Protection Agency, Air 3330. ADDITION OF OPACITY Regulatory Flexibility Analysis and Radiation, MD-13, Research METHOD TO APPENDIX M OF 40 CFR Required: No Triangle Park, NC 27711 PART 51 (METHOD 203) Small Entities Affected: No Phone: 919 541-5032 Fax: 919 541-3470 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Government Levels Affected: None Email: [email protected] Legal Authority: 42 USC 7410 Additional Information: SAN No. 3900 Penny Lassiter, Environmental CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51 Agency Contact: Gary McAlister, Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, Environmental Protection Agency, Air MD-13, RTP, NC 27711 Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, June and Radiation, MD-19, Washington, DC Phone: 919 541-5396 15, 2001. 20460 Fax: 919 541-3470 Abstract: This rulemaking proposes to Phone: 919 541-1062 Email: [email protected] Fax: 919 541-1039 add a method, Method 203, for the Email: [email protected] RIN: 2060–AH11 measurement of opacity from stationary sources, to appendix M (Example Test RIN: 2060–AG88 Methods for State Implementation 3329. NESHAP: MUNICIPAL SOLID Plans) in 40 CFR part 51. This action WASTE LANDFILLS 3328. NESHAP: CELLULOSE provides States with an instrumental PRODUCTION MANUFACTURING Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant test method which can be used in determining, on a continuous basis, Legal Authority: Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant 42 USC 7401 et seq compliance with stationary source Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 opacity emission limitations.
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Timetable: Phone: 919 541-5372 3333. NESHAP: PULP AND PAPER Action Date FR Cite Fax: 919 541-0684 PRODUCTION; AMENDMENTS TO THE Email: [email protected] PROMULGATED RULE NPRM 10/07/92 57 FR 46114 Final Action 08/00/01 RIN: 2060–AH25 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq Required: No 3332. EXPANDED DEFINITIONS FOR CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63.440 to 63.459 ALTERNATIVE-FUELED VEHICLES (Revision) Small Entities Affected: No AND ENGINES MEETING LOW- Legal Deadline: Government Levels Affected: None EMISSION VEHICLE EXHAUST None Additional Information: SAN No. 3958 EMISSION STANDARDS Abstract: The purpose of this action is Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant to clarify sections of the promulgated Agency Contact: Solomon Ricks, pulp and paper industry maximum Environmental Protection Agency, Air Legal Authority: 15 USC 2001; 15 USC achievable control technology (MACT) and Radiation, MD-19, Washington, DC 2002; 15 USC 2003; 15 USC 2005; 15 standards where commenters have 20460 USC 2006; 15 USC 213; 42 USC 7521; indicated that the wording is confusing Phone: 919 541-5242 42 USC 7522; 42 USC 7524; 42 USC or changes are needed. This action will Fax: 919 541-1039 7525; 42 USC 7541; 42 USC 7542; 42 also correct any typographical errors Email: [email protected] USC 7549; 42 USC 7550; 42 USC 7552 noted. This action will contain RIN: 2060–AH23 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 86; 40 CFR 88 guidance and amended rule language. Legal Deadline: None Timetable: 3331. CONSOLIDATED EMISSIONS Abstract: This action will ease the Action Date FR Cite REPORTING RULE burden of certification for both Original Final Rule 09/16/98 63 FR 49455 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and Interpretations and Legal Authority: Clean Air Act sec after-market conversion entities. This technical 110(a)(2)(F) action will, for vehicles and engines amendment meeting LEV emission standards, Direct Final Rule 12/28/98 63 FR 71385 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51.321 to 51.323 broaden the definition of the term Amendment Legal Deadline: None dedicated fuel system, broaden the NPRM Amendment 12/28/98 63 FR 71408 Abstract: Three sections of the Clean criteria for engine families, and provide Final Action 04/12/99 64 FR 17555 Air Act and its amendments require an exemption from certification fees. Interpretations and State agencies to report emission This action is not a deregulatory action. technical amendment estimates to EPA. Some of these This action will provide another means for small business to remain active NPRM Proposed rule 01/25/00 65 FR 3907 sections contain obsolete wording, amendments and inconsistent instructions, and duplicate entities in supplying alternatively fueled vehicles to the market place. The notice of public reporting requirements. This rule will hearing consolidate the requirements into one above three changes are intended to reduce the cost of complying with the Final Action Final rule 12/22/00 65 FR 80755 area, eliminate obsolete wording, amendments requirements of certification, and small eliminate duplicate reporting Final Action Technical 04/00/01 requirements, and provide options for business will benefit from these corrections collecting and reporting data. There changes. This action will enhance the ability for the regulated industry to Regulatory Flexibility Analysis will be no impact on small businesses. Required: No State agencies will report point, area, provide alternatively fueled vehicles to and mobile source emissions statewide. the consumer in support of the Small Entities Affected: No State agencies will also report fine Executive Order 13031. Government Levels Affected: None particulate matter and it’s precursors. Timetable: Additional Information: SAN No. 4123 The rule will provide for flexibility in Action Date FR Cite collecting and reporting data. NPRM- NPRM 07/20/98 63 FR 38767 http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA- Timetable: Final Action 04/00/01 AIR/2000/January/Day-25/a1058.htm Action Date FR Cite Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Sectors Affected: 3221 Pulp, Paper, NPRM 05/23/00 65 FR 33268 Required: No and Paperboard Mills Final Action 09/00/01 Small Entities Affected: No Agency Contact: Stephen Shedd, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Government Levels Affected: None Environmental Protection Agency, Air Required: No Additional Information: SAN No. 4030 and Radiation, MD-13, Research Small Entities Affected: No Triangle Park, NC 27711 Agency Contact: Clifford Tyree, Government Levels Affected: None Phone: 919 541-5397 Environmental Protection Agency, Air Fax: 919 541-0246 Additional Information: SAN No. 3986 and Radiation, AAVP, Ann Arbor, MI Email: [email protected] Agency Contact: William B. 48105 Kuykendal, Environmental Protection Phone: 734 214-4310 Kent C. Hustvedt, Environmental Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-14, Email: [email protected] Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 RIN: 2060–AH52 MD-13, RTP, NC 27711
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Phone: 919 541-5395 3335. PHASE I FEDERAL under ‘‘Phase 2’’ SIPs, and if necessary, Fax: 919 541-0246 IMPLEMENTATION PLANS (FIPS) TO separate FIP actions will be prepared Email: [email protected] REDUCE THE REGIONAL for those.) TRANSPORT OF OZONE IN THE Timetable: RIN: 2060–AH74 EASTERN UNITED STATES Action Date FR Cite Priority: Economically Significant. 3334. NESHAP: POLYVINYL Major under 5 USC 801. NPRM 10/21/98 63 FR 56393 Findings Rule 12/26/00 65 FR 81366 CHLORIDE AND COPOLYMERS Unfunded Mandates: This action may Final Action 07/00/01 PRODUCTION affect State, local or tribal governments Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Priority: and the private sector. Substantive, Nonsignificant Required: Legal Authority: 42 USC 7410 Yes Legal Authority: 42 USC 1857 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 52; 40 CFR 97 Small Entities Affected: Businesses CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 Legal Deadline: None Government Levels Affected: State, Local Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, March Abstract: This action would Additional Information: 1, 2001. promulgate Federal Implementation SAN No. 4096 Plans (FIPs) which require nitrogen NPRM- Abstract: Title III of the Clean Air Act oxides (NOx) emissions decreases in 19 http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA- Amendments of 1990 requires EPA to States and the District of Columbia. The develop emission standards for each intended effect is to reduce the AIR/1998/October/Day-21/a26431.htm major source category of hazardous air transport of ozone (smog) pollution and Findings pollutants (HAPs). The standards are to one of its main precursors — NOx — Sectors Affected: 325998 All Other be technology-based and are to require across State boundaries in the eastern Miscellaneous Chemical Product the maximum degree of emission half of the United States. On October Manufacturing; 325131 Inorganic Dye reduction determined to be achievable 27, 1998, EPA published a final rule and Pigment Manufacturing; 325188 All by the administrator of the EPA. The (the ‘‘NOx SIP Call’’) which allowed Other Basic Inorganic Chemical EPA has determined that some plants States 12 months to develop, adopt, Manufacturing; 325211 Plastics may be major sources for one or more and submit revisions to their State Material and Resin Manufacturing; HAPs. As a consequence, a regulation Implementation Plans (SIPs) to address 32511 Petrochemical Manufacturing; (emission standards) is being developed the transport problem. The 325188 All Other Basic Inorganic for the polyvinyl chloride industry, to Administrator is required to promulgate Chemical Manufacturing; 32512 be promulgated by November 15, 2000. a FIP within 2 years of: (1) finding that Industrial Gas Manufacturing; 325199 a State has failed to make a required All Other Basic Organic Chemical Timetable: submittal or (2) finding that a submittal Manufacturing; 327211 Flat Glass Action Date FR Cite is not complete or (3) disapproving a Manufacturing; 327213 Glass Container SIP submittal. On May 25, 1999, the Manufacturing; 327212 Other Pressed NPRM 12/08/00 65 FR 76958 12 month NOx SIP Call deadline was and Blown Glass and Glassware Final Action 06/00/01 indefinitely stayed by the Court of Manufacturing; 32731 Cement Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Appeals for the District of Columbia Manufacturing; 324199 All Other Required: No Circuit. On June 22, 2000, the court Petroleum and Coal Products lifted the stay and gave States 128 days Manufacturing; 331111 Iron and Steel Small Entities Affected: No from that date to submit SIPs. Thus, Mills; 331221 Cold-Rolled Steel Shape the new SIP submittal date was October Manufacturing; 33611 Automobile and Government Levels Affected: State, 30, 2000. To date, eleven States Light Duty Motor Vehicle Local, Federal (Virginia, West Virginia, Alabama, Manufacturing; 333618 Other Engine Kentucky, North Carolina, South Equipment Manufacturing; 333415 Air- Additional Information: SAN No. 4114 Carolina, Tennessee, Illinois, Indiana, Conditioning and Warm Air Heating Agency Contact: Warren Johnson,Jr., Michigan, and Ohio) and the District Equipment and Commercial and Environmental Protection Agency, Air of Columbia have not submitted SIPs Industrial Refrigeration Equipment and Radiation, MD-13, Research that meet all of the aforementioned Manufacturing; 221122 Electric Power Triangle Park, NC 27711 criteria, as announced in a ‘‘findings’’ Distribution; 221112 Fossil Fuel Phone: 919 541-5124 rule published on December 26, 2000. Electric Power Generation; 221121 Fax: 919 541-3470 EPA is continuing to work with these Electric Bulk Power Transmission and Email: [email protected] States to assist them in adopting State Control; 48621 Pipeline Transportation plans that meet the requirements of the of Natural Gas; 221122 Electric Power Penny Lassiter, Environmental NOx SIP Call, and is hopeful that States Distribution; 221112 Fossil Fuel Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, will submit fully approvable plans. Electric Power Generation; 221121 MD-13, RTP, NC 27711 (Note: The FIPs discussed here will Electric Bulk Power Transmission and Phone: 919 541-5396 apply to all elements of the NOx SIP Control; 22133 Steam and Air- Fax: 919 541-3470 call that were not remanded to EPA by Conditioning Supply; 322122 Email: [email protected] the court on March 3, 2000. The Newsprint Mills; 322121 Paper (except portions of the SIP call that were Newsprint) Mills; 32213 Paperboard RIN: 2060–AH82 remanded to EPA will be covered Mills; 32211 Pulp Mills
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Agency Contact: Doug Grano, Small Entities Affected: Businesses are sold or incorporated into larger Environmental Protection Agency, Air Government Levels Affected: None products that are then sold into and Radiation, MD-15, Research interstate commerce in the United Triangle Park, NC 27711 Additional Information: SAN No. 4082 States, negatively affects the Phone: 919 541-3292 Agency Contact: Juan Santiago, competitiveness of domestic Fax: 919 541-0824 Environmental Protection Agency, Air manufacturers who use substitute Email: [email protected] and Radiation, MD-13, Research substances in their production. Triangle Park, NC 27711 Therefore, it is appropriate to Jan King, Environmental Protection Phone: 919 541-1084 reconsider the applicability of the class Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-15, Fax: 919 541-5600 I ban to both specific products and Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 Email: [email protected] product categories. Amending these Phone: 919 541-5665 requirements would limit the potential Fax: 919 541-0824 Jim Crowder, Environmental Protection use of ozone-depleting substances in Email: [email protected] Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13, applications where substitutes are Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 RIN: 2060–AH87 available and thus, further protect the Phone: 919 541-5596 stratospheric ozone layer. Fax: 919 541-5600 Timetable: 3336. NESHAP: WET-FORMED Email: [email protected] Action Date FR Cite FIBERGLASS MAT PRODUCTION RIN: 2060–AH89 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant NPRM 06/14/99 64 FR 21772 Final Action 04/00/01 Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 3337. PROTECTION OF Regulatory Flexibility Analysis CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 STRATOSPHERIC OZONE: RECONSIDERATION ON THE 610 Required: No Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, April NONESSENTIAL PRODUCTS BAN Small Entities Affected: Businesses 1, 2001. Priority: Other Significant Government Levels Affected: None Abstract: The CAA required the EPA Legal Authority: Additional Information: to publish an initial list of all categories 42 USC 7414; 42 USC SAN No. 4077 of major and area sources of hazardous 7601; 42 USC 7671 to 7671(q) Agency Contact: Cindy Newberg, air pollutants (HAPs) listed in section CFR Citation: 40 CFR 82(C) Environmental Protection Agency, Air 112(b) of the CAA and to establish and Legal Deadline: None and Radiation, 6205J meet dates for promulgation of Phone: 202 564-9729 Abstract: This action would propose to emission standards for each of the Fax: 202 565-2095 extend the current class I and class II listed categories of HAP emissions Email: [email protected] bans on the sale and distribution of sources. The wet-formed fiberglass mat nonessential uses of ozone-depleting RIN: 2060–AH99 production industry is not included in substances where sufficient substitutes the initial list of categories for are already readily available. As part standards development but information 3338. REVISION TO THE DEFINITION of the initial 1993 rulemaking, EPA available to the Administrator suggests OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND banned the use of ozone-depleting that the industry is a major source of (VOC) TO EXCLUDE TERTIARY BUTYL substances in aerosols, pressurized HAP emissions and, as such, emission ACETATE dispensers, and foams where standards shall be developed for this Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant substitutes were available. Since that industry. The standards are to be rulemaking was issued, the phaseout of Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401-7671q technology-based and are to require the production and consumption of class I CFR Citation: maximum degree of reduction 40 CFR 51.100(s) substances has become effective and determined to be achievable by the Legal Deadline: None the Significant New Alternatives Policy Administrator. The EPA has (SNAP) Program under section 612 has Abstract: The definition of VOC is determined that the wet-formed been promulgated. The phaseout of proposed to be revised to add tertiary fiberglass mat production industry may newly manufactured class I substances butyl acetate to the list of negligibly be reasonably expected to emit one of and the identification of new reactive compounds. This is a the pollutants listed in section 112(b) acceptable substitutes for both class I deregulatory action that will remove of the CAA. The purpose of this action and class II applications provide tertiary butyl acetate from the necessity is to pursue a regulatory development compelling reasons to reconsider the to be controlled as a VOC in SIPs for program such that emission standards initial decisions regarding both attaining the ozone standard. This is may be promulgated for this industry. product-specific exemptions and the not expected to have a significant Emission standards for this industry decision to limit the ban’s effect on impact on small businesses or local were proposed on May 26, 2000. major sectors that traditionally used governments. Timetable: ozone-depleting substances. Most Timetable: Action Date FR Cite domestic manufacturers have already Action Date FR Cite incorporated the non-ozone-depleting NPRM 05/26/00 65 FR 34278 substances in their products. The NPRM 09/30/99 64 FR 52731 Final Action 04/00/01 continued availability and use of Final Action 04/00/01 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis ozone-depleting substances in parts and Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No products manufactured abroad, which Required: No
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Small Entities Affected: No published a schedule for responding to 7601 CAAA sec 301(a)(1); CAAA sec Government Levels Affected: None the remand in the May 5, 1998 Federal 320 Register. Since that notice, EPA has Additional Information: SAN No. 4254 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51.112; 40 CFR continued to work on the proposed 51.160; 40 CFR 51.166; 40 CFR 52.21 Agency Contact: William L. Johnson, response to the remand by reviewing Environmental Protection Agency, Air additional SO2 air quality information. Legal Deadline: None and Radiation, MD-15, Research EPA published an informational notice Abstract: This action proposes Triangle Park, NC 27711 in the Federal Register on January 9, revisions to the Guideline on Air Phone: 919 541-5245 2001 (66 FR 1665) Quality Models, published as appendix Fax: 919 541-0824 Timetable: W to 40 CFR part 51. Such models are Email: [email protected] used to predict ambient concentrations Action Date FR Cite of pollutants for programs ranging from Geoffrey Wilcox, Environmental NPRM NAAQS 11/15/94 59 FR 58958 Prevention of Significant Deterioration Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, Review (PSD) to State Implementation Plans 7306A, Washington, DC 20460 NPRM NAAQS 03/07/95 60 FR 12492 (SIPs) for controlling air pollution Phone: 202 564-5601 Implementation sources. Appendix W to 40 CFR part Fax: 202 564-5603 (Part 51) 51 fulfills a Clean Air Act mandate for Email: [email protected] Final Rule NAAQS 05/22/96 61 FR 25566 EPA to specify models for air RIN: 2060–AI45 Review management purposes. This proposed NPRM Revised 01/02/97 62 FR 210 rulemaking enhances appendix W with NAAQS new and/or improved techniques. 3339. NAAQS: SULFUR DIOXIDE Implementation (RESPONSE TO REMAND) (Part 51) Timetable: Priority: Other Significant Notice Schedule for 05/05/98 63 FR 24782 Action Date FR Cite Response to Legal Authority: 42 USC 7409 CAA sec NAAQS Remand NPRM 04/21/00 65 FR 21505 109 Notice Informational 01/09/01 66 FR 1665 Final Action 09/00/01 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 50.4; 40 CFR FR Notice Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 50.5 Notice To Be Determined Required: No Legal Deadline: Final, Judicial, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Small Entities Affected: No December 31, 2000. Required: No Government Levels Affected: None Abstract: On November 15, 1994, the Small Entities Affected: No Additional Information: SAN No. 3470 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Government Levels Affected: State, Agency Contact: Tom Coulter, proposed not to revise the existing 24- Local, Federal Environmental Protection Agency, Air hour and annual primary standards. and Radiation, MD-14, Research The EPA sought public comment on the Federalism: Undetermined Triangle Park, NC 27711 need to adopt additional regulatory Additional Information: SAN No. 1002 Phone: 919 541-0832 measures to address the health risk to Agency Contact: Susan Stone, RIN: 2060–AF01 asthmatic individuals posed by short- Environmental Protection Agency, Air term peak sulfur dioxide exposure. On and Radiation, Research Triangle Pa, March 7, 1995, EPA proposed NC 27711 3341. NESHAP: PRIMARY COPPER implementation strategies for reducing Phone: 919 541-1146 SMELTING short-term high concentrations of sulfur Fax: 919 541-0237 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant dioxide emissions in the ambient air. Email: [email protected] On May 22, 1996, EPA published its Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAAA final decision not to revise the primary Gary Blais, Environmental Protection sec 112 sulfur dioxide NAAQS. The notice Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-15, CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 stated that EPA would shortly propose Research Triangle Pa, NC 27711 Legal Deadline: a new implementation strategy to assist Final, Statutory, Phone: 919 541-3223 November 15, 2000. States in addressing short-term peaks of Email: [email protected] sulfur dioxide. The new Abstract: The primary copper smelting implementation strategy - the RIN: 2060–AA61 industry is known to emit a number Intervention Level Program - was of the hazardous air pollutants listed proposed on January 2, 1997. In July 3340. REQUIREMENTS FOR in section 112 of the Clean Air Act. 1996, the American Lung Association PREPARATION, ADOPTION, AND The industry is comprised of seven and the Environmental Defense Fund SUBMITTAL OF STATE smelters located in four states. All have petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for IMPLEMENTATION PLANS extensive control systems for oxides of the D.C. Circuit for a judicial review (GUIDELINE ON AIR QUALITY sulfur and HAPs. However, fugitive of EPA’s decision not to establish a MODELS) emissions may cause several smelters new 5-minute NAAQS. On January 30, to exceed major source levels. Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant 1998, the court found that EPA did not Timetable: adequately explain its decision and Legal Authority: 42 USC 7410 CAAA remanded the case so EPA could sec 110(a)(2); CAAA sec 165(e); CAAA Action Date FR Cite explain its rationale more fully. EPA sec 172(a); CAAA sec 172(c); 42 USC NPRM 04/20/98 63 FR 19582
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Action Date FR Cite Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Phone: 919 541-5416 Required: No Fax: 919 541-3470 NPRM 06/26/00 65 FR 39326 Email: [email protected] Final Action 05/00/01 Small Entities Affected: Businesses Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Government Levels Affected: State, Penny Lassiter, Environmental Required: No Local, Federal Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13, RTP, NC 27711 Small Entities Affected: No Additional Information: SAN No. 3550 Phone: 919 541-5396 Government Levels Affected: State Sectors Affected: 311999 All Other Fax: 919 541-3470 Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing Additional Information: SAN No. 3340 Email: [email protected] Agency Contact: David Markwordt, NPRM- RIN: 2060–AG27 Environmental Protection Agency, Air http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA- and Radiation, MD-13, Research AIR/1998/April/Day-20/a10142.htm Triangle Park, NC 27711 3344. NESHAP: TIRE Agency Contact: Eugene Crumpler, Phone: 919 541-0837 MANUFACTURING Environmental Protection Agency, Air Fax: 919 541-0942 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Email: [email protected] and Radiation, MD-13, Research Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq Triangle Park, NC 27711 Phone: 919 541-0881 Susan Wyatt, Environmental Protection CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 Fax: 919 541-5600 Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13, Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, Email: [email protected] RTP, NC 27711 November 15, 2000. Phone: 919 541-5674 Abstract: This is a 10-year MACT Al Verveart, Environmental Protection Fax: 919 541-0942 Email: [email protected] covering the HAP emissions from the Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13 manufacturing of Rubber tires. The Phone: 919 541-5602 RIN: 2060–AF30 emission sources associated with the Email: [email protected] rubber compound mixing (banbury); RIN: 2060–AE46 3343. NESHAP: BOAT extruding; calendaring; building; curing MANUFACTURING and finishing are covered in this MACT. Forty one facilities have been 3342. NESHAP: MANUFACTURING OF Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant initially identified. This includes NUTRITIONAL YEAST Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq approximately 35 facilities of at least Priority: Other Significant 10 tpy and 26 facilities of at least 25 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAA sec tpy. Emissions are primarily associated 112(d) Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, May with rubber processing and the use of 1, 2001. HAP bearing solvent and cements. CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 Abstract: This action will result in the Several facilities have eliminated Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, reduction of hazardous air pollutants through substitution much of the HAP November 15, 2000. emitted by the boat manufacturing bearing solvent and cements. However, Abstract: Section 112 of the Clean Air industry. This rule will affect the evaluation of the MACT and separation Act requires major sources of hazardous manufacture of fiberglass and of the rubber processing emissions from air pollutants to achieve emission aluminum boats. The most abundant HAP bearing solvents and cement will reduction based on the maximum pollutant emitted by this industry is reduce the number of affected facilities achievable control technology (MACT). styrene, which is listed as a hazardous to about 30. In addition, the tire cord This regulatory action will establish air pollutant in the 1990 Clean Air Act. coating operations will also be included. Typically these facilities are this level of control for both new and Timetable: existing sources in the nutritional yeast separate non-colocated operations. The manufacturing industry. This industry Action Date FR Cite major pollutant associated with tire is currently comprised of 10 sources of NPRM 07/14/00 65 FR 43841 cord is formaldehyde. There are 5 different manufacturers located in 8 Final Action 05/00/01 approximately 12 affected major different states. The only known HAP facilities Regulatory Flexibility Analysis emission from this source is Timetable: Required: No acetaldehyde. It is produced as a Action Date FR Cite byproduct during the fermentation Small Entities Affected: Businesses NPRM 10/18/00 65 FR 62414 process. The final rule set maximum Government Levels Affected: None emission limits of acetaldehyde, which Final Action 08/00/01 Additional Information: will be achievable by improved process SAN No. 3747 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis control to reduce formation of this Sectors Affected: 336611 Ship Required: No byproduct. Building and Repairing; 336612 Boat Small Entities Affected: No Timetable: Building Government Levels Affected: None Action Date FR Cite Agency Contact: Mark Morris, Environmental Protection Agency, Air Additional Information: SAN No. 3749 NPRM 10/10/98 63 FR 55812 and Radiation, MD-13, Research Agency Contact: Tony Wayne, Final Action 04/00/01 Triangle Park, NC 27711 Environmental Protection Agency, Air
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and Radiation, MD-13, Research Phone: 919 541-2363 3347. NESHAP: LEATHER FINISHING Triangle Park, NC 27711 Fax: 919 541-5689 OPERATIONS Phone: 919 541-5439 Email: [email protected] Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Fax: 919 541-0942 Email: [email protected] Dianne Byrne, Environmental Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 Susan Wyatt, Environmental Protection MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, May Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13, 27711 1, 2001. RTP, NC 27711 Phone: 919 541-5342 Phone: 919 541-5674 Email: [email protected] Abstract: Title III of the Clean Air Act requires EPA to develop air emission Fax: 919 541-0942 RIN: 2060–AG54 Email: [email protected] standards for facilities that emit any of RIN: 2060–AG29 the 189 hazardous air pollutants. This 3346. NESHAP: METAL COIL action will develop a MACT standard (SURFACE COATING) INDUSTRY for sources involved in leather finishing 3345. NESHAP: LARGE APPLIANCE Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant operations. Facilities involved in these (SURFACE COATING) operations release over 1.7 million Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant pounds of hazardous air pollutants per CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 year. Regulation of these facilities will Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq Legal Deadline: NPRM, Statutory, result in a reduction of the emissions CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 November 15, 2000. of hazardous air pollutants, several of which are highly toxic. Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, Abstract: This action will result in the November 15, 2000. reduction of hazardous air pollutants Timetable: Abstract: This regulation will apply to emitted by the metal coil surface Action Date FR Cite surface coating of large appliance coating industry. The Agency will products and parts. This regulation will study what pollutants are emitted and NPRM 10/02/00 65 FR 58702 reduce nationwide emissions of HAPs evaluate the control techniques, Final Action 05/00/01 from surface coating of large including pollution prevention, that are Regulatory Flexibility Analysis appliances, a measure required by used to reduce these emissions. The Required: No section 112 of the Clean Air Act. Agency will also determine what, if Small Entities Affected: Businesses Timetable: any, impact the rule would have on small businesses. Government Levels Affected: None Action Date FR Cite Timetable: Additional Information: SAN No. 3964 NPRM 12/22/00 65 FR 81133 Sectors Affected: Action Date FR Cite 31611 Leather and Final Action 12/00/01 Hide Tanning and Finishing NPRM 07/18/00 65 FR 44616 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Agency Contact: Final Action 07/00/01 Bill Schrock, Required: No Environmental Protection Agency, Air Small Entities Affected: Businesses Regulatory Flexibility Analysis and Radiation, MD-13, Research Required: No Triangle Park, NC 27711 Government Levels Affected: None Small Entities Affected: Businesses Phone: 919 541-5032 Additional Information: SAN No. 3823 Government Levels Affected: None Fax: 919 541-3470 Sectors Affected: 335222 Household Email: [email protected] Refrigerator and Home Freezer Procurement: This is a procurement- Manufacturing; 335221 Household related action for which there is a Penny Lassiter, Environmental Cooking Appliance Manufacturing; statutory requirement. There is a Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, 335224 Household Laundry Equipment paperwork burden associated with this MD-13, RTP, NC 27711 Manufacturing; 335212 Household action. Phone: 919 541-5396 Vacuum Cleaner Manufacturing; Additional Information: SAN No. 3905 Fax: 919 541-3470 333298 All Other Industrial Machinery Agency Contact: Rhea Jones, Email: [email protected] Manufacturing; 335228 Other Major Environmental Protection Agency, Air RIN: 2060–AH17 Household Appliance Manufacturing; and Radiation, MD-13, Research 336391 Motor Vehicle Air-Conditioning Triangle Park, NC 27711 3348. NESHAP: SOLVENT Manufacturing; 333415 Air- Phone: 919 541-2940 Conditioning and Warm Air Heating EXTRACTION FOR VEGETABLE OIL Fax: 919 541-5689 PRODUCTION Equipment and Commercial and Email: [email protected] Industrial Refrigeration Equipment Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Manufacturing; 333319 Other Dianne Byrne, Environmental Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq Commercial and Service Industry Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, Machinery Manufacturing MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC CFR Citation: Not Yet Determined Agency Contact: Lynn Dail, 27711 Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, Environmental Protection Agency, Air Phone: 919 541-5342 November 15, 2000. and Radiation, MD-13, Research Email: [email protected] Abstract: This action develops National Triangle Park, NC 27711 RIN: 2060–AG97 Emission Standards for Hazardous Air
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Pollutants (NESHAP) for vegetable oil 3349. NESHAP: GROUP I POLYMERS Action Date FR Cite production facilities as authorized AND RESINS AND GROUP IV under section 112(d) of the Clean Air POLYMERS AND RESINS- Direct Final Action 06/08/99 64 FR 30406 AMENDMENTS Petition for Act (Act). The action is based on the Reconsid.- Equip. determination that vegetable oil Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Leaks production plants emit organic Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq Final Action Petitions 06/19/00 65 FR 38030 hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) listed for Judicial Rev- in section 112(b) of the Act. On July CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63.480 to 63.506 Amendments 16, 1992, EPA listed vegetable oil (Revision); 40 CFR 63.1310 to 63.1335 Direct Final Rule 10/26/00 65 FR 64161 production as a source for which (Revision) Withdrawal - NESHAP are to be promulgated. On Legal Deadline: None Polymers and December 3, 1993, EPA published a Resins schedule for promulgating NESHAP for Abstract: During the development of Final Rule Amend. 02/23/01 66 FR 11233 vegetable oil production plants by the National Emission Standard for Petition for Recons.- November 15, 2000. NESHAP Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for Cooling Towers developed under section 112(d) apply elastomers (Group I polymers and Final Rule Amend. 05/00/01 resins) and thermoplastics (Group IV Petition for Jud. to both new and existing facilities. Review-Tech. Corr. NESHAP for existing facilities are to be polymers and resins) (RINs 2060-AD56 based on the average emission and 2060-AE37), many of the Regulatory Flexibility Analysis limitation achieved by the best provisions contained in the Hazardous Required: No performing 12 percent of existing Organic NESHAP (HON) were Small Entities Affected: No sources. referenced directly by these polymers and resins regulations due to Government Levels Affected: None Timetable: similarities in processes, emission Additional Information: SAN No. 3939 characteristics, and control Action Date FR Cite Sectors Affected: 325211 Plastics technologies. On January 17, 1997, the Material and Resin Manufacturing NPRM 05/26/00 65 FR 34252 EPA promulgated changes to the HON Final Action 04/00/01 to remove ambiguity, to clearly convey Agency Contact: Bob Rosensteel, EPA intent, and to make the rule easier Environmental Protection Agency, Air Regulatory Flexibility Analysis to understand and implement in and Radiation, MD-13, Research Required: No response to industry petitions. It is Triangle Park, NC 27711 necessary to make parallel changes to Phone: 919 541-5608 Small Entities Affected: Businesses the polymers and resins NESHAP; Fax: 919 541-3470 Email: [email protected] Government Levels Affected: None otherwise inconsistencies will exist for NESHAPs regulating similar source Procurement: This is a procurement- categories. An ANPRM was published Penny Lassiter, Environmental related action for which there is a in the Federal Register on 11/25/96 (61 Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, statutory requirement. There is a FR 59849), to explain the nature of MD-13, RTP, NC 27711 paperwork burden associated with this changes planned. Subsequently, six Phone: 919 541-5396 action. litigants have petitioned for review of Fax: 919 541-3470 the elastomers and thermoplastics Email: [email protected] Additional Information: SAN No. 3903 regulations. Four companies have RIN: 2060–AH47 petitioned EPA to reconsider specific Sectors Affected: 311222 Soybean provisions in the thermoplastics Processing; 311223 Other Oilseed regulation. Revisions will be proposed 3350. IMPORTATION OF Processing; 311225 Fats and Oils to parallel HON changes and to resolve NONCONFORMING VEHICLES; Refining and Blending; 311225 Fats and petitioners’ issues. There are no AMENDMENTS TO REGULATIONS Oils Refining and Blending impacts anticipated for small Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Agency Contact: James Durham, businesses or State/local/tribal Legal Authority: 42 USC 7522 CAA sec Environmental Protection Agency, Air governments. 203; 42 USC 7525 CAA sec 206; 42 and Radiation, MD-13, Research Timetable: USC 7541 CAA sec 207; 42 USC 7542 Triangle Park, NC 27711 Action Date FR Cite CAA sec 208; 42 USC 7601 CAA sec Phone: 919 541-5672 301; 42 USC 7522 CAA sec 203; 42 Fax: 919 541-0246 ANPRM Petitions for 11/25/96 61 FR 59849 USC 7550 CAA sec 216; 42 USC 7601 Email: [email protected] Jud. Rev- CAA sec 301 Dow,UCC,Exxon) NPRM Petitions for 03/09/99 64 FR 11559 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 85 K.C. Hustvedt, Environmental Judicial Review- Legal Deadline: None Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, Prop. Amend. MD-13 NPRM Petition for 06/08/99 64 FR 30453 Abstract: This action will amend the Phone: 919 541-5395 Recons. - Equip. regulations in 40 CFR part 85, subpart Fax: 919 541-0246 Leaks P to allow entry into the United States Email: [email protected] NPRM Petition for 06/08/99 64 FR 60456 of vehicles which are originally sold in Recons. - Equip. Canada and which are identical to their RIN: 2060–AH22 Leaks U.S. counterparts, without obtaining a
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certificate of conformity from EPA. This Timetable: Small Entities Affected: Businesses, action is in response to a petition for Action Date FR Cite Governmental Jurisdictions review of import rules. The final rule NPRM 02/29/96 61 FR 7858 Government Levels Affected: State, also will address certain other issues Local, Federal in part 85, subpart P and subpart R, NPRM 11/01/96 61 FR 56493 including: (1) formalizing a long- Final Action 04/00/01 Additional Information: SAN No. 3560 standing EPA policy regarding the Regulatory Flexibility Analysis NPRM- importation of owned vehicles that are Required: No http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA- proven to be identical to a vehicle Small Entities Affected: No certified for sale in the United States; AIR/1998/June/Day-11/a15003.htm (2) establishing new emission standards Government Levels Affected: State, Agency Contact: Julius Banks, applicable to imported nonconforming Local, Federal Environmental Protection Agency, Air vehicles; (3) clarifying the regulatory Additional Information: SAN No. 3556 and Radiation, 6205J language that concerns exclusions and Phone: 202 564-9870 exemptions from meeting Federal Additional SANs 3895, 3896. This rule Fax: 202 565-2095 emission requirements; and (4) will address a potential adoption of a Email: [email protected] more flexible method for cleaning providing several minor clarifications RIN: 2060–AF37 to the existing regulations. refrigerants for refrigerant transferred between appliances with different Timetable: ownership with a potential adoption of 3353. PROTECTION OF Action Date FR Cite a 3rd party certification program for STRATOSPHERIC OZONE: UPDATE labs. NPRM 03/24/94 59 FR 13912 OF THE SUBSTITUTES LIST UNDER Supplemental NPRM 02/12/96 61 FR 5840 Agency Contact: Julius Banks, THE SIGNIFICANT NEW Final Action 04/00/01 Environmental Protection Agency, Air ALTERNATIVES POLICY (SNAP) and Radiation, 6205J PROGRAM Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Phone: 202 564-9870 Priority: Other Significant Required: No Fax: 202 565-2095 Small Entities Affected: No Email: [email protected] Legal Authority: 42 USC 7414; 42 USC 7601; 42 USC 7671(k) CAA sec 612 Government Levels Affected: Federal RIN: 2060–AF36 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 82; 40 CFR 9 Additional Information: SAN No. 2665 Legal Deadline: None Agency Contact: Len Lazarus, 3352. PROTECTION OF Environmental Protection Agency, Air STRATOSPHERIC OZONE: Abstract: Section 612 of the Clean Air and Radiation, 6405J, Washington, DC REFRIGERANT RECYCLING RULE Act requires EPA to identify 20460 AMENDMENT TO INCLUDE alternatives to Class I and II ozone Phone: 202 564-9281 SUBSTITUTE REFRIGERANTS depleting substances and to publish Priority: Other Significant lists of acceptable and unacceptable RIN: 2060–AI03 substitutes. Producers of substitutes Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq; must notify EPA at least 90 days before 42 USC 7671(g) CAA sec 608 3351. PROTECTION OF alternatives are introduced into STRATOSPHERIC OZONE: CFR Citation: 40 CFR 82(F) interstate commerce. Unlike acceptable SUPPLEMENTAL RULE REGARDING Legal Deadline: None alternatives (see Notices), substitutes A RECYCLING STANDARD UNDER which are deemed by EPA to be Abstract: This action would facilitate SECTION 608 unacceptable or acceptable subject to fulfillment of the statutory mandate to use restrictions must go through notice Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant apply the venting prohibition to and comment rulemaking. Substitute Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq substitute refrigerants. The action lists are updated intermittently CAA sec 608 would provide regulations covering depending on the volume of recovery/recycling equipment, notifications. CFR Citation: 40 CFR 82 subpart F recovery/recycling practices, and Legal Deadline: None applicable certifications that would be Timetable: required to accomplish compliance Abstract: This rule will amend the Action Date FR Cite with the venting prohibition. recordkeeping aspects of the technician ANPRM 01/16/92 57 FR 1984 Requirements would parallel those of certification program, clarify aspects of NPRM 05/12/93 58 FR 28094 the current section 608 regulations, a sales restriction, and adopt an Final Rule 03/18/94 59 FR 13044 expanding applicability, where updated version of ARI standard 740. Notice 1 08/26/94 59 FR 44240 appropriate, to substitute refrigerants. The rule will also clarify the distinction NPRM 1 09/26/94 59 FR 49108 between major and non-major repairs Timetable: Notice 2 01/13/95 60 FR 3318 and amend several definitions Action Date FR Cite Final Rule 1 06/13/95 60 FR 31092 including small appliances. The rule Notice 3 07/28/95 60 FR 38729 also addresses the transfers of NPRM 06/11/98 63 FR 32044 NPRM 2 10/02/95 60 FR 51383 unreclaimed refrigerant between Final Action 12/00/01 Notice 4 02/08/96 61 FR 4736 majority-owned and majority-controlled Regulatory Flexibility Analysis NPRM 3 05/22/96 61 FR 25604 subsidiaries. Required: No Final Rule 2 05/22/96 61 FR 25585
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Action Date FR Cite Timetable: Action Date FR Cite Notice 5 09/05/96 61 FR 47012 Action Date FR Cite Notice 01/26/00 65 FR 4244 Final Rule 3 10/16/96 61 FR 54030 NPRM 09/13/00 65 FR 55332 Final Action 12/00/01 Notice 6 03/10/97 62 FR 10700 Final Action 09/00/01 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis NPRM 4 05/21/97 62 FR 27874 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No Notice 7 06/03/97 62 FR 30275 Required: No NPRM 5 02/03/98 63 FR 5491 Small Entities Affected: No Notice 8 02/24/98 63 FR 9151 Small Entities Affected: Businesses Government Levels Affected: None Notice 9 05/22/98 63 FR 28251 Government Levels Affected: None Additional Information: SAN No. 4315 Interim Final Rule 7 01/26/99 64 FR 3861 Interim Final Rule 8 01/26/99 64 FR 3865 Additional Information: SAN No. 3827 Formerly listed as RIN 2060-AI79 ANPRM 9 02/18/99 64 FR 8043 Sectors Affected: 323111 Commercial Agency Contact: Douglas McDaniel, NPRM 6 02/18/99 64 FR 8038 Gravure Printing; 323116 Manifold Environmental Protection Agency, Final Rule 5 04/28/99 64 FR 22981 Business Form Printing; 322223 Regional Office San Francisco, Region Notice 10 06/08/99 64 FR 30410 Plastics, Foil, and Coated Paper Bag 9, San Francisco, CA 94105-3901 Notice 11 12/06/99 64 FR 68039 Manufacturing; 322222 Coated and Phone: 415 744-1246 Notice 12 04/11/00 65 FR 19327 Laminated Paper Manufacturing; Final Rule 6 04/26/00 65 FR 24387 322221 Coated and Laminated Colleen McKaughan, Environmental Notice 13 06/19/00 65 FR 37900 Packaging Paper and Plastics Film Protection Agency, Regional Office San NPRM 10 07/11/00 65 FR 42653 Manufacturing; 322211 Corrugated and Francisco Notice Corrections 14 04/00/01 Solid Fiber Box Manufacturing; 322212 Phone: 520 498-0118 Notice 15 04/00/01 Folding Paperboard Box Manufacturing RIN: 2009–AA00 Final Action Rescind 04/00/01 Agency Contact: Paul Almodovar, Rule Environmental Protection Agency, Air Final Action Foams 07/00/01 3356. NESHAP: GENERIC MACT FOR No. 1 and Radiation, MD-13, Research CARBON BLACK, ETHYLENE, Final Action Foams 09/00/01 Triangle Park, NC 27711 CYANIDE AND SPANDEX Phone: 919 541-0283 No. 2 Priority: Fax: 919 541-5689 Substantive, Nonsignificant Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Email: [email protected] Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAA 112 Required: No CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 Dianne Byrne, Environmental Small Entities Affected: No Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, May Government Levels Affected: None MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC 1, 2001. 27711 Abstract: Several of the source Additional Information: SAN No. 3525 Phone: 919 541-5342 categories that are subject to MACT Agency Contact: Anhar Karimjee, Email: [email protected] (maximum achievable control Environmental Protection Agency, Air RIN: 2060–AG58 technology) standards contain only a and Radiation, 6205J, Washington, DC few sources (e.g., less than five). For 20460 such categories, EPA plans to develop Phone: 202 564-2683 3355. SOURCE-SPECIFIC FEDERAL a generic MACT standard for these Fax: 202 565-2095 IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR source categories. Given the relatively NAVAJO GENERATING STATION; few affected sources caught by the RIN: 2060–AG12 NAVAJO NATION generic standard, the overall cost and Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant environmental effects of this action are 3354. PAPER AND OTHER WEB expected to be small, nationally. Legal Authority: Not Yet Determined COATING NESHAP Timetable: CFR Citation: 49 CFR 123 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Action Date FR Cite Legal Deadline: None Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq NPRM 12/06/00 65 FR 76408 Abstract: EPA proposes to federalize Final Action 08/00/01 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 59; 40 CFR 63 standards from the Arizona and New Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Mexico State Implementation Plans Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, Required: No November 15, 2000. (SIPS) applicable to the Navajo generating station. Where necessary, Small Entities Affected: No Abstract: This action would result in EPA’s proposed emission standards Government Levels Affected: State, the reduction of hazardous air modify the standards extracted from the Local, Federal pollutants (HAPs) emitted by the paper States’ regulatory programs to ensure Additional Information: SAN No. 4105 and other web coating industries. The comprehensive emission control and Agency will study the various HAP and Federal consistency. Sectors Affected: 325182 Carbon Black VOC pollutants emitted by the industry Manufacturing; 325188 All Other Basic Timetable: and will evaluate pollution prevention Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing and control techniques which can Action Date FR Cite Agency Contact: Mark Morris, reduce these emissions. NPRM 09/08/99 64 FR 48725 Environmental Protection Agency, Air
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and Radiation, MD-13, Research 3358. AMEND SUBPART H AND I, 40 3359. REVISION TO METHOD 24 FOR Triangle Park, NC 27711 CFR PART 61, FOR EMISSIONS OF ELECTRICAL INSULATING Phone: 919 541-5416 RADIONUCLIDES OTHER THAN VARNISHES Fax: 919 541-3470 RADON FROM DOE FACILITIES Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Email: [email protected] Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401; 42 USC Penny Lassiter, Environmental 7411; 42 USC 7414; 42 USC 7416; 42 Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAAA Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, USC 7601 112(g) or (q); PL 95-95 MD-13, RTP, NC 27711 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60 (Revision) Phone: 919 541-5396 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 61.93(a); 40 CFR Legal Deadline: None Fax: 919 541-3470 61.93(b)(2)(ii) Email: [email protected] Abstract: The purpose of this action is Legal Deadline: None to revise Method 24 to allow the use RIN: 2060–AH68 of American Society for Testing and Abstract: Subparts H and I of 40 CFR Materials’ Method D6053-96 to measure part 61 establish limits, under the the volatile organic content of electrical 3357. NESHAP FOR ETHYLENE OXIDE Clean Air Act, for radionuclide COMMERCIAL STERILIZATION insulating varnishes. Method 24 as emissions (other than radon) from currently written is not applicable to OPERATIONS-MONITORING Department of Energy (DOE) and other AMENDMENTS these types of coatings. This action will non-DOE federal facilities. These ensure consistency in testing these Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Subparts require emission sampling, coatings for determining compliance monitoring, and calculations to identify with current regulations. We do not Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAA sec compliance with the standard. The anticipate any impact on small business 112 current air sampling methodology or State/local/Tribal governments. required by the standards is embodied Timetable: CFR Citation: Not Yet Determined in ANSI-N13.1-1969, a consensus Action Date FR Cite Legal Deadline: None guidance document that is incorporated by reference in EPA’s standards. That Direct Final Rule 08/00/01 Abstract: The proposed amendments guidance was updated in 1999, and Regulatory Flexibility Analysis will correct technical problems contains new technical Required: associated with both the emission recommendations (that differ from the No limits (because of safety issues) and the 1969 version) for obtaining Small Entities Affected: No compliance testing and monitoring representative air samples. In this rule, Government Levels Affected: None requirements. EPA is updating subparts H and I to incorporate the new sampling guidance, Additional Information: SAN No. 4299 Timetable: ANSI-N13.1-1999, and require its use Agency Contact: Candace B. Sorrell, Action Date FR Cite for new facilities and for those Environmental Protection Agency, Air undergoing significant changes to and Radiation, MD-19, Washington, DC NPRM 03/06/01 66 FR 13464 ventilation systems. Existing facilities 20460 Final Action 12/00/01 will be allowed to continue sampling Phone: 919 541-1064 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis in accordance with the current Fax: 919 541-1039 Required: No requirements. Email: [email protected] Small Entities Affected: Businesses Timetable: Bill Lamason, Environmental Protection Action Date FR Cite Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-19, Government Levels Affected: State, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 NPRM 05/09/00 65 FR 29934 Federal Phone: 919 541-5374 Final Action 06/00/01 Additional Information: SAN No. 4316 Fax: 919 541-1039 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis RIN: 2060–AI94 Agency Contact: David Markwordt, Required: No Environmental Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13, Research Small Entities Affected: No 3360. REGULATION OF FUELS AND Triangle Park, NC 27711 FUEL ADDITIVES: REFORMULATED Government Levels Affected: Federal Phone: 919 541-0837 GASOLINE ADJUSTMENT Fax: 919 541-0942 Additional Information: SAN No. 4273 Priority: Other Significant Email: [email protected] Agency Contact: Robin Anderson, Legal Authority: Not Yet Determined Susan Wyatt, Environmental Protection Environmental Protection Agency, Air CFR Citation: 40 CFR 80.45 Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13, and Radiation, 6608J, Washington, DC Legal Deadline: None RTP, NC 27711 20460 Phone: 919 541-5674 Phone: 202 564-9385 Abstract: The proposed regulation Fax: 919 541-0942 Fax: 202 565-2065 would allow CO reductions (associated Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] with oxygen in the gasoline above 2.0 wt %) to be used to offset increases RIN: 2060–AI64 RIN: 2060–AI90 in VOC emissions. The change would
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allow gasoline that has ethanol as an Accordingly, in this action, EPA will 3362. NESHAP FOR oxygenate to have a slightly higher Reid issue a proposed rule to remove the PHARMACEUTICALS PRODUCTION: Vapor Pressure (RVP), which would aluminum die casting and aluminum DIRECT FINAL AMENDMENTS alleviate some cost burdens for foundry industries from the present Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant complying with Phase II of the RFG secondary aluminum standard and to Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq program. The change would therefore stay the applicability of the present address the concern of the ethanol standard to these industries while EPA CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 (Revision) industry that such gasoline would reevaluates the MACT requirements Legal Deadline: None otherwise be locked out of the market. applicable to such facilities. The EPA Abstract: This action is to be taken to Timetable: will also initiate a formal process to amend the existing NESHAP for Action Date FR Cite collect further information from the Pharmaceuticals Production, facilities in these industries on the promulgated on September 21, 1998 (63 NPRM 07/12/00 65 FR 42920 activities in which they engage and the Final Action 05/00/01 FR 50280). The amendment will potential of these activities to address application of MACT controls Regulatory Flexibility Analysis contribute to HAP emissions. After during periods of planned routine Required: No evaluating this information, EPA will maintenance. This need for this Small Entities Affected: No make a new determination concerning amendment became known during Government Levels Affected: None MACT requirements for both major post-promulgation discussions with the facilities and area sources in these regulated industry. Additional Information: SAN No. 4358 industries. Alternatively, if the Timetable: Agency Contact: Barry Garelick, information collected by the EPA Environmental Protection Agency, Air shows there is not a need to develop Action Date FR Cite and Radiation, 5402, Washington, DC separate MACT requirements for these Direct Final Rule 05/00/01 20460 industries, then the proposed Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Phone: 202 564-9028 applicability stay and removal of these Required: No Fax: 202 565-2075 industry sectors from the existing Small Entities Affected: No Email: [email protected] secondary aluminum production NESHAP will not be finalized. Government Levels Affected: None Lori Stewart, Environmental Protection Additional Information: SAN No. 4458 Agency, Air and Radiation, 6406J, Timetable: Washington, DC 20460 Agency Contact: Randy McDonald, Phone: 202 564-9028 Action Date FR Cite Environmental Protection Agency, Air Fax: 202 565-2084 NPRM 09/14/00 65 FR 55491 and Radiation, MD-13, RTP, NC 27711 Email: [email protected] Final Action 05/00/01 Phone: 919 541-5402 RIN: 2060–AI98 Fax: 919 541-3470 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Email: [email protected] Required: No 3361. REMOVAL OF ALUMINUM DIE Penny Lassiter, Environmental CASTING AND ALUMINUM Small Entities Affected: No Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, FOUNDRIES FROM THE SECONDARY MD-13, RTP, NC 27711 ALUMINUM NESHAP AND Government Levels Affected: None Phone: 919 541-5396 APPLICABILITY STAY FOR THESE Additional Information: SAN No. 4417 Fax: 919 541-3470 INDUSTRIES Email: [email protected] Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Sectors Affected: 331521 Aluminum RIN: 2060–AJ17 Die-Castings; 331524 Aluminum Legal Authority: Not Yet Determined Foundries CFR Citation: Not Yet Determined 3363. PROTECTION OF Agency Contact: STRATOSPHERIC OZONE: PHASEOUT Legal Deadline: None Juan E. Santiago, Environmental Protection Agency, Air OF CHLOROBROMOMETHANE Abstract: Under the final Secondary and Radiation, MD-13, Research (HALON 1011) PRODUCTION AND Aluminum Production NESHAP, the Triangle Park, NC 27711 CONSUMPTION EPA based its MACT standard for Phone: 919 541-1084 aluminum die casting and aluminum Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Fax: 919 541-5600 foundries, as well as its assessment of Legal Authority: Not Yet Determined Email: [email protected] the economic impacts on small CFR Citation: Not Yet Determined businesses in these industries, on information on representative facility Jim Crowder, Environmental Protection Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, practices available to EPA. However, Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13, December 31, 2001, The Montreal affected facilities in these industries Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 Protocol as amended (1999) requires expressed concern that the information Phone: 919 541-5596 CBM to be phased out beginning and assumptions upon which EPA has Fax: 919 541-5600 1/1/02. Therefore the U.S. must issue relied may be incomplete or may not Email: [email protected] a final rule by 12/31/01. adequately represent the processes and Abstract: Section 602 of the Clean Air emissions at such facilities. RIN: 2060–AJ11 Act (Act) requires the EPA
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Administrator to list substances which Email: [email protected] CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60.751; 40 CFR the Administrator finds to cause or RIN: 2060–AJ27 60.752(b)(2)(iii)(C); 40 CFR 60.750; 40 contribute to harmful effects on CFR 60758; 40 CFR 60.752(b)(2)(iii)(B); stratospheric ozone, and Sections 604 40 CFR 60.752(b)(2)(iii)(D) 3364. NESHAP FOR SOURCE and 605 require the Administrator to Legal Deadline: None promulgate regulations phasing out the CATEGORIES: PHOSPHORIC ACID production and limiting the use of such MANUFACTURING AND PHOSPHATE Abstract: This action will revise the substances. The proposed regulation FERTILIZERS PRODUCTION — existing regulation entitled Standards of will list and phase out the production AMENDMENTS Performance for New Stationary of chlorobromomethane (CBM), an Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Sources: Municipal Solid Waste ozone depleting substance (ODS). In Landfills, subpart WWW of 40 CFR Part late 1999, the Montreal Protocol was Legal Authority: PL 101-549 sec 112 60, promulgated on March 12, 1996. amended to add CBM to the list of CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 subparts AA The revision is being undertaken in substances controlled by this to BB response to requests to clarify our intent regarding what constitutes an international agreement, to which the Legal Deadline: None United States is a signatory. Section adequate landfill gas treatment system. 614 of the Act requires that U.S. Abstract: The rules are being amended This action also clarifies our intent to stratospheric protection regulations be to resolve specific issues and questions exempt from control landfill gas that harmonized with (or more stringent raised after promulgation. The changes is treated/upgraded to pipeline quality than) the provisions of the Montreal do not change the projections for natural gas. Furthermore, it clarifies Protocol. Entities that will be affected environmental benefits, compliance who is responsible for control of by this regulation include producers of costs, burden on industry, or the untreated landfill gas that is sold. This CBM; a segment of the explosion number of affected facilities. There are action is necessary to clarify our intent protection industry (manufacturers and no impacts on small businesses, State, regarding the issues discussed above. It distributors of CBM explosion local, or tribal governments. These will improve implementation and protection systems); and end-users of amendments do not raise any cross- compliance with this regulation. There such systems. Preliminary estimates media issues. are no internal issues involved with the suggest that domestic production of Timetable: proposal and direct final amendment, and we anticipate no significant CBM is limited; some import of CBM Action Date FR Cite occurs. CBM has also been used as a adverse reaction related to this action feedstock in the manufacture of a other Direct Final Rule 07/00/01 from industry, regulators, or chemicals; today’s action will not affect Regulatory Flexibility Analysis environmentalists. this use. Because today’s action only Required: No Timetable: affects the production, and not the use Small Entities Affected: No (i.e., does not affect use of existing Action Date FR Cite inventories or stockpiles of CBM), and Government Levels Affected: None Final Action NSPS: 04/00/01 since a two-year lead time has been Additional Information: SAN No. 4442 Municipal Solid provided since the decision to phase Waste Landfills Agency Contact: out CBM and the phaseout date, the Mary Johnson, Environmental Protection Agency, Air Regulatory Flexibility Analysis phaseout of CBM will have limited Required: No economic and small business impacts. and Radiation, MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 Small Entities Affected: No Timetable: Phone: 919 541-5025 Government Levels Affected: None Action Date FR Cite Fax: 919 541-5600 Email: [email protected] Additional Information: SAN No. 4478 Direct Final Rule 04/00/01 N/A Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Jim Crowder, Environmental Protection Required: No Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13, Sectors Affected: 562212 Solid Waste Small Entities Affected: Businesses Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 Landfill Phone: 919 541-5596 Government Levels Affected: None Agency Contact: Michele Laur, Fax: 919 541-5600 Environmental Protection Agency, Air Additional Information: SAN No. 4428 Email: [email protected] and Radiation, MD-13, Research Sectors Affected: 115114 Postharvest RIN: 2060–AJ29 Triangle Park, NC 27711 Crop Activities (except Cotton Phone: 919 541-5256 Ginning); 3112 Grain and Oilseed Fax: 919 541-0246 3365. STANDARDS OF Milling; 322 Paper Manufacturing; 325 Email: [email protected] Chemical Manufacturing; 3333 PERFORMANCE FOR NEW Commercial and Service Industry STATIONARY SOURCES: MUNICIPAL K.C. Hustvedt, Environmental Machinery Manufacturing SOLID WASTE LANDFILLS: Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, AMENDMENT Agency Contact: Lisa Chang, MD-13 Environmental Protection Agency, Air Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Phone: 919 541-5395 and Radiation, 6205J Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401; 42 USC Fax: 919 541-0246 Phone: 202 564-9742 7411; 42 USC 7414; 42 USC 7416; 42 Email: [email protected] Fax: 202 565-2096 USC 7429; 42 USC 7601 RIN: 2060–AJ41
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3366. NESHAP: GASOLINE Abstract: These rule revisions will Small Entities Affected: No DISTRIBUTION FACILITIES — correct NOx allowance allocations for AMENDMENT certain units in the Federal NOx Budget Government Levels Affected: None Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Trading Program under Section 126 of Additional Information: SAN No. 4492 the Clean Air Act. Most of the Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 corrections are under settlement Agency Contact: Roger Powell, CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63.425(e) agreements between EPA and owners Environmental Protection Agency, Air of the units. The rule revisions also and Radiation, MD-12, Washington, DC Legal Deadline: None propose to authorize the Administrator 20460 Abstract: This action will add a DOT to make similar corrections in the Phone: 919 541-5331 test method as an alternative for future by order, rather than by rule. Fax: 919 541-5509 measuring emissions from railcars. This Timetable: Email: [email protected] method came to our attention subsequent to promulgation of the Action Date FR Cite RIN: 2060–AJ48 original rule. NPRM 12/21/00 65 FR 80398 Timetable: Final Action 07/00/01 3369. ∑ STANDARDS OF Regulatory Flexibility Analysis PERFORMANCE FOR NEW SOURCES Action Date FR Cite Required: No AND EMISSION GUIDELINES FOR Direct Final Rule 11/00/01 Small Entities Affected: No EXISTING SOURCES: LARGE Regulatory Flexibility Analysis MUNICIPAL WASTE COMBUSTORS Government Levels Affected: None Required: No AMENDMENT OF STARTUP, Additional Information: SAN No. 4491 SHUTDOWN, AND MALFUNCTION Small Entities Affected: No PROVISIONS Agency Contact: Dwight C. Alpern, Government Levels Affected: None Environmental Protection Agency, Air Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Additional Information: SAN No. 4479 and Radiation, 6204J, Washington, DC 20460 Legal Authority: 42 USC 7429 Agency Contact: Steve Shedd, Phone: 202 564-9151 Environmental Protection Agency, Air Fax: 202 564-2141 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60 and Radiation, MD-13, Research Email: [email protected] Triangle Park, NC 27711 Legal Deadline: None Phone: 919 541-5397 Kevin Culligan, Environmental Abstract: This direct final action will Fax: 919 541-0246 Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, Email: [email protected] amend the provisions limiting startup, 6204J shutdown, and malfunction to 3 hours Phone: 202 564-9172 Martha Smith, Environmental per occurrence to provide more time Fax: 202 564-2141 for shutdown as a result of specific Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, Email: [email protected] MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC malfunctions (i.e., waterwall tube 27711 RIN: 2060–AJ47 failure, grate failure, and combustion Phone: 919 541-2421 air fan failure). This is a narrow technical amendment responding to Fax: 919 541-0246 3368. ∑ REVISION TO INTERIM Email: [email protected] new information that came in after the APPROVAL REQUIREMENTS original rule was promulgated. RIN: 2060–AJ42 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Timetable: Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq 3367. ∑ SECTION 126 RULE REVISION Action Date FR Cite CFR Citation: 40 CFR Part 70 CORRECTING NOX ALLOWANCE Direct Final Rule 04/00/01 ALLOCATIONS FOR CERTAIN UNITS Legal Deadline: None IN THE FEDERAL NOX BUDGET Abstract: This action will remove Regulatory Flexibility Analysis TRADING PROGRAM provisions in section 70.4(i) which Required: No allow the Agency to extend the Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Small Entities Affected: expiration dates of interim approvals of No Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401; 42 USC State or local operating permits Government Levels Affected: None 7403; 42 USC 4726; 42 USC 7601 programs. The Agency does not intend CFR Citation: 40 CFR 95.42(g)(2); 40 to further extend such approvals. This Additional Information: SAN No. 4507 CFR 97.43(c)(9)(New); 40 CFR 97.43(a); action is consistent with title V of the 40 CFR 97 app A and B Clean Air Act. Agency Contact: Fred Porter, Environmental Protection Agency, Air Legal Deadline: NPRM, Judicial, Timetable: and Radiation, MD-13, Research December 12, 2000, Deadline for Action Date FR Cite Triangle Park, NC 27711 signing of proposed rule under Phone: 919 541-5251 settlements of litigation. NPRM 12/20/00 65 FR 79791 Final Action 06/00/01 Fax: 919 541-5450 Final, Judicial, July 15, 2001, Deadline Email: [email protected] for signing of final rule under Regulatory Flexibility Analysis settlements of litigation. Required: No RIN: 2060–AJ52
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3370. ∑ PORTLAND CEMENT Legal Deadline: None was stopped due to other priorities. It MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY Abstract: The goal of the anti-dumping is now being re-tiered because so much NESHAP: AMENDMENTS TO RULE program is to maintain gasoline quality time has elapsed since proposal. Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant throughout the country. Without the Timetable: Legal Authority: Not Yet Determined program, as refiners produce cleaner, Action Date FR Cite reformulated gasoline for certain CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63.1340 to localities under the Clean Air Act, they NPRM 08/29/94 59 FR 44460 63.1359 could take the chemicals removed and NPRM 08/31/95 60 FR 45529 Legal Deadline: None ‘‘dump’’ them into supplies of Final Action 04/00/01 ‘‘ordinary’’ non-reformulated gasoline Abstract: The Portland Cement Regulatory Flexibility Analysis as a cost-saving measure. The anti- Manufacturing Industry NESHAP was Required: No dumping program prohibits this. This promulgated June 14, 1999. The rule Small Entities Affected: No rule amends the existing anti-dumping is codified in 40 CFR 63, Subpart LLL. program to accommodate certain Government Levels Affected: State, This rule is being revised to reflect a refiners with unusual data problems. Local pending settlement agreement with the American Portland Cement Alliance. Timetable: Additional Information: SAN No. 4529 The rule changes will be minor, and Action Date FR Cite Agency Contact: Ray Vogel, mostly will help to clarify Environmental Protection Agency, Air requirements, provide monitoring Final Action 04/00/01 and Radiation, MD-12, Research alternatives and/or remove minor Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Triangle Park, NC 27711 monitoring requirements. Required: No Phone: 919 541-3153 Timetable: Government Levels Affected: None Email: [email protected] RIN: Action Date FR Cite Additional Information: SAN No. 4528 2060–AJ60 Direct Final Rule 05/00/01 Agency Contact: Christine Brunner, Environmental Protection Agency, Air 3373. ∑ NESHAP: FERROALLOY Regulatory Flexibility Analysis and Radiation, AAATC, Ann Arbor, MI PRODUCTION: FERROMANGANESE Required: No 48105 AND SILICOMANGANESE Small Entities Affected: No Phone: 734 214-4287 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Government Levels Affected: State, Fax: 734 214-4051 Email: [email protected] Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAA Local 112; 44 USC 350 et seq (PRA); 5 USC Additional Information: SAN No. 4524 Patrice Simms, Environmental 605 Sectors Affected: 32731 Cement Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 Manufacturing 2344, Washington, DC 20460 Legal Deadline: None Phone: 202 564-5593 Agency Contact: Joseph Wood, Fax: 202 564-5603 Abstract: The Clean Air Act, as Environmental Protection Agency, Air Email: [email protected] amended November 1990, requires the and Radiation, MD-13, Research EPA to develop emission standards for Triangle Park, NC 27711 RIN: 2060–AJ59 each major source category of Phone: 919 541-5446 hazardous air pollutants. The standards Fax: 919 541-5600 3372. ∑ CHANGE IN DEFINITION OF are to be technology-based and are to Email: [email protected] ‘‘MAJOR SOURCE’’ FOR OPERATING require the maximum degree of PERMITS emission reduction determined to be James Crowder, Environmental achievable by the Administrator of Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, EPA. The EPA has determined that two MD-13 Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq plants in the ferroalloy production Phone: 919 541-5596 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 70.2 industry are major sources for one or Fax: 919 541-5600 more hazardous air pollutants. As a Legal Deadline: None Email: [email protected] consequence, production facilities are RIN: 2060–AJ57 Abstract: This action would remove among the HAP-emitting source the requirement for sources to count categories selected for regulation. fugitive emissions (such as equipment Timetable: 3371. ∑ MODIFICATION OF THE ANTI- leaks) when determining major source DUMPING BASELINE DATE CUT-OFF status if they are in categories subject Action Date FR Cite LIMIT FOR DATA USED IN to standards under section 111 or 112 Direct Final Rule 04/00/01 DEVELOPMENT OF AN INDIVIDUAL promulgated after August 7, 1980. BASELINE Making this change removes Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant impediments to full approval of permit programs in several States and Small Entities Affected: No Legal Authority: 42 USC 7414; 42 USC facilitates compliance with a settlement Government Levels Affected: State 7521(l); 42 USC 7545; 42 USC 7601(a) agreement with environmental groups. CFR Citation: 40 CFR 80.91(b)(1)(i); 40 This action was proposed in 1994 and Additional Information: SAN No. 4544 CFR 80.93(a) reproposed in 1995, after which work Split from RIN 2060-AF29.
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Agency Contact: Conrad Chin, rule will provide for reductions in HAP applicable only to the Andersen Environmental Protection Agency, Air emissions, measured as methanol. Bayport facility, would facilitate and Radiation, MD-13, Research Timetable: implementation of the project. Through Triangle Park, NC 27711 the notice, EPA solicits comment on Phone: 919 541-1512 Action Date FR Cite the proposed rule, the draft FPA, and Fax: 919 541-5600 Final Action 04/00/01 the project generally. The proposed Email: [email protected] site-specific rule is intended to provide Regulatory Flexibility Analysis regulatory changes under the Clean Air Required: No Al Vervaert, Environmental Protection Act (CAA or the Act) to implement Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13, Small Entities Affected: No Andersen’s XL project, which will Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 Government Levels Affected: None result in superior environmental Phone: 919 541-5602 performance and, at the same time, Additional Information: Email: [email protected] SAN No. 4517 provide Andersen with greater RIN: 2060–AJ64 Agency Contact: Janet Murray, operational flexibility. The proposed Environmental Protection Agency, site-specific rule would change some of Office of the Administrator, 1802, the CAA requirements which apply to 3374. ∑ PROJECT XL SITE-SPECIFIC Washington, DC 20460 the Andersen Bayport facility for the RULEMAKING FOR WEYERHAEUSER Phone: 202 260-7570 Prevention of Significant Deterioration COMPANY FLINT RIVER OPERATIONS Fax: 202 260-3125 (PSD) program, in particular existing Priority: Routine and Frequent Email: [email protected] synthetic minor limits that apply to some VOC sources in the Bayport Legal Authority: Not Yet Determined Lynda Crum, Environmental Protection facility. Synthetic minor limits are CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 Agency, Office of the Administrator operational and control limitations Legal Deadline: None Phone: 404 562-9524 which serve to limit the net emissions Email: [email protected] increase associated with proposed new Abstract: EPA is proposing to approve RIN: 2090–AA20 or modified units or systems to less revisions to the National Emissions than the applicable significance level Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants and thereby keep them out of PSD ∑ (NESHAP) which concern the control 3375. PROJECT XL SITE-SPECIFIC review. of hazardous air pollutant (HAP) RULEMAKING FOR ANDERSEN emissions from the pulp and paper CORPORATION’S FACILITY IN Timetable: industry. The proposed revisions would BAYPORT, MINNESOTA Action Date FR Cite apply only to the Weyerhaueser Priority: Company’s Flint River Operations in Substantive, Nonsignificant Final Action 06/00/01 Ogelthorpe, GA. The revisions are Legal Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401-7671q Regulatory Flexibility Analysis proposed as one of EPA’s steps to CFR Citation: 40 CFR Part 52 Required: No implement the Final Project Agreement for Weyerhaueser Company’s XL Legal Deadline: None Government Levels Affected: None Project. The intended effect of Abstract: The proposed rule would Additional Information: SAN No. 4278 proposing these revisions is to regulate implement a project under the Project Agency Contact: Nancy Birnbaum, emissions of HAP’s in accordance with XL program for the Andersen Environmental Protection Agency, the requirements of the Clean Air Act, Corporation facility located in Bayport, Office of the Administrator, 1802, as amended in 1990 and to facilitate Minnesota. The terms of the project are Washington, DC 20460 implementation of Project XL at defined in a draft Final Project Phone: 202 260-2601 Weyerhaueser. The implementation Agreement (FPA) which is being made Fax: 202 401-2474 will result in superior environmental available for public review and Email: [email protected] performance and provide Weyerhaueser comment by the Federal Register with greater operational flexibility. The notice. The proposed site-specific rule, RIN: 2090–AA21
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3376. IMPLEMENTATION OF OZONE Legal Deadline: None sensibly and cost-effectively meeting AND PARTICULATE MATTER (PM) the new standards. On November 17, NATIONAL AMBIENT AIR QUALITY Abstract: On July 18, 1997, EPA issued 1998, EPA made available for comment STANDARDS (NAAQS) AND new, updated air quality standards for proposed implementation guidance on REGIONAL HAZE REGULATIONS ozone (62 FR 38856) and particulate implementing the revised ozone and matter (PM) (62 FR 38652). Pursuant PM NAAQS and regional haze program. Priority: Other Significant to President Clinton’s implementation On May 14, 1999, however, the U.S. Legal Authority: Clean Air Act, title I strategy as outlined in a July 16, 1997 Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit memorandum to EPA Administrator issued an opinion concerning the CFR Citation: 40 CFR 50; 40 CFR 51; Carol Browner, EPA had been revised ozone and particulate matter 40 CFR 52; 40 CFR 81 developing guidance and rules for NAAQS (American Trucking Assoc.,
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Inc. et al. v. USEPA, No. 97-1440 (May Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Fax: 919 541-5509 14, 1999)) in which the Court stated, Required: No Email: [email protected] among other things, that the revised 8- Government Levels Affected: None RIN: hour ozone standard ‘‘cannot be 2060–AG92 enforced.’’ The Court also vacated the Additional Information: SAN No. 3553 revised PM10 NAAQS and remanded Agency Contact: Denise Gerth, 3378. REVIEW OF MINOR NEW the PM2.5 NAAQS. On June 28, 1999, Environmental Protection Agency, Air SOURCES AND MODIFICATIONS IN EPA requested a rehearing of the case and Radiation, MD-15, Research INDIAN COUNTRY before the Court, but the request was Triangle Park, NC 27711 denied. The Department of Justice then Phone: 919 541-5550 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant. filed a petition in January 2000 seeking Fax: 919 541-0824 Major status under 5 USC 801 is U.S. Supreme Court review, and the Email: [email protected] undetermined. Court subsequently agreed to review Legal Authority: 42 USC 7410 the case. EPA expects a decision from John Silvasi, Environmental Protection the Supreme Court in early to mid- Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-15, CFR Citation: Not Yet Determined 2001. Until the appeals process is Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 Legal Deadline: None exhausted, EPA does not intend to Phone: 919 541-5666 issue final guidance for implementation Fax: 919 541-0824 Abstract: As required by the Clean Air of the standards affected by the Email: [email protected] Act’s New Source Review (NSR) Appeals Court’s decision. Once the RIN: 2060–AF34 provisions, the EPA is proposing Supreme Court renders a decision, EPA Federal regulations governing will determine what actions may be preconstruction permitting of minor appropriate. Meanwhile, to assure that 3377. REVISED PERMIT REVISION and major stationary sources of air areas were not left without an air- PROCEDURES FOR THE FEDERAL pollution in Indian country. Pursuant quality standard, EPA took action on OPERATING PERMITS PROGRAM to the Tribal Air Rule, eligible Indian 7/6/00 to reinstate the previous 1-hr Priority: Other Significant Tribes may receive EPA authorization standard in approximately 3000 to develop and implement such Legal Authority: counties across the U.S. EPA is also 42 USC 7661(a)(d)(3) programs. The Federal NSR permitting developing guidelines for determining CFR Citation: 40 CFR 71.7 programs would be effective throughout Best Available Retrofit Technology Legal Deadline: None Indian country and would be (BART) under the Regional Haze implemented by EPA if eligible Indian Regulations through a formal Abstract: The proposed regulatory Tribes do not elect, or do not receive rulemaking proposal. change would streamline permit authorization, to manage such revisions procedures for stationary air programs. The proposed Federal minor Timetable: sources that are subject to the Federal NSR rule would require sources in Action Date FR Cite operating permits program. Indian country, with certain exceptions, The Agency does not anticipate any to obtain a permit prior to construction ANPRM 12/13/96 61 FR 65764 significant impact on small businesses if they are: (1) new minor sources, (2) Notice Proposed 12/13/96 61 FR 65752 existing minor sources undergoing Policy and State/local/tribal governments. modification, or (3) existing major NPRM Regional Haze 07/31/97 62 FR 41138 Timetable: sources undergoing minor modification. Notice Review 10/23/97 62 FR 55201 Action Date FR Cite Schedule for PM2.5 The proposed rule also would allow Standard NPRM 08/00/03 new or existing stationary sources to Final Rule Areas 06/05/98 63 FR 31013 Final Action 08/00/04 accept enforceable limits on their production capacity or hours of meeting 1-hour Regulatory Flexibility Analysis operation in order to be considered ozone standard Required: No Final Rule Additional 07/22/98 63 FR 39432 minor sources and avoid being subject areas meeting 1- Small Entities Affected: No to other Clean Air Act requirements hour ozone Government Levels Affected: State, such as the title V operating permit standard Local, Tribal, Federal program. The proposed Federal major Draft Guidance 11/17/98 63 FR 65593 NSR rule would require sources in Implementation Additional Information: SAN No. 3922 nonattainment areas in Indian country Planning Agency Contact: Scott Voorhees, to obtain a permit prior to construction Final Rule Additional 06/09/99 64 FR 30911 Environmental Protection Agency, Air if they are: (1) new major sources, or Areas Meeting 1- (2) existing major sources undergoing Hour Ozone and Radiation, MD-12, Research NAAQS: 96-98 Data Triangle Park, NC 27711 major modification. These rules would Final Rule Regional 07/01/99 64 FR 35713 Phone: 919 541-5348 not impose any mandates on Tribal Haze Fax: 919 541-5509 governments to implement NSR Final Action 07/20/00 65 FR 45182 Email: [email protected] permitting programs. Tribal Reinstatement of 1- governments may be affected, however, hr standard Steve Hitte, Environmental Protection insofar as they own or operate sources Final Guidance on To Be Determined Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-12, that must obtain a permit from the EPA Hold Pending Court Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 under the final Federal permitting Action Phone: 919 541-0886 program regulations.
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Timetable: CFR 52.10 govern any permits issued Conformity Regulations, to ensure that Action Date FR Cite in certain nonattainment areas where other Federal actions also conformed to acceptable nonattainment NSR rules are the SIPs. Since 1993, EPA has amended NPRM 06/00/02 not in place. Changes to 40 CFR part the transportation conformity rule three Final Action 07/00/02 124 will specify that the permit times in response to stakeholders’ Regulatory Flexibility Analysis processing, public participation, and requests. The EPA is working on a Required: Undetermined permit appeal requirements that separate revision to address otherwise apply to Federal PSD transportation conformity in Small Entities Affected: Businesses, permitting will also apply, in most transitional areas which will be final Governmental Jurisdictions cases, to Federal nonattainment NSR by December 1998. The EPA has not Government Levels Affected: Tribal, permitting under 40 CFR 52.10. reviewed or revised the General Federal Timetable: Conformity Regulations since their Additional Information: SAN No. 3975 1993 promulgation. Several Federal Action Date FR Cite agencies have identified concerns over Agency Contact: Michele Dubow, the implementation of the General Environmental Protection Agency, Air NPRM 07/00/02 Final Action 07/00/03 Conformity Regulations, including the and Radiation, MD-12, Research requirements for areas designated Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Triangle Park, NC 27711 nonattainment for the newly Required: No Phone: 919 541-3803 promulgated NAAQS. In conjunction Fax: 919 541-5509 Small Entities Affected: Businesses, with an ad hoc work group of Email: [email protected] Governmental Jurisdictions representatives from several Federal agencies, EPA will review the Sara Terry, Environmental Protection Government Levels Affected: State, implementation of the General Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-11, Local, Tribal, Federal Conformity Regulations. The EPA will Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 Federalism: Undetermined then propose and promulgate any Phone: 919 541-7576 Additional Information: SAN No. 4046 appropriate revision to those Fax: 919 541-7925 regulations. Email: [email protected] Agency Contact: David Svendsgaard, Environmental Protection Agency, Air Timetable: RIN: 2060–AH37 and Radiation, MD-12, Research Action Date FR Cite Triangle Park, NC 27711 3379. FEDERAL MAJOR NEW Phone: 919 541-2380 NPRM To Be Determined SOURCE REVIEW (NSR) PROGRAM Fax: 919 541-5509 Final Action To Be Determined FOR NONATTAINMENT AREAS Email: [email protected] Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Priority: Other Significant RIN: 2060–AH53 Required: No Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq Government Levels Affected: State, CFR Citation: 40 CFR 124; 40 CFR 3380. GENERAL CONFORMITY Federal 51.165; 40 CFR 52.10; 40 CFR 52.24 REGULATIONS; REVISIONS Federalism: Undetermined Legal Deadline: None Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Additional Information: SAN No. 4070 Abstract: The Clean Air Act (Act) (title Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401-7671 Agency Contact: Annie Nikbakht, I, part D) requires that construction CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51.850 to 51.860; Environmental Protection Agency, Air permit programs for new or modified 40 CFR 93.150 to 93.160 and Radiation, MD-15, Research major stationary sources of air pollution Triangle Park, NC 27711 Legal Deadline: be established for areas not attaining None Phone: 919 541-5246 the NAAQS. This action will add Abstract: Section 176(c) of the Clean Fax: 919 541-0824 Federal rules at 40 CFR 52.10 for Air Act prohibits Federal entities from Email: [email protected] taking actions which do not conform permitting the construction of new or RIN: 2060–AH93 modified major stationary sources in to the State implementation plan (SIP) certain nonattainment areas where for the attainment and maintenance of State, local, or tribal rules in whole or the national ambient air quality 3381. REVISIONS TO AIR POLLUTION in part are not in place that meet the standards (NAAQS). In November 1993, EMERGENCY EPISODE statutory permitting requirements. EPA promulgated two sets of REQUIREMENTS (SUBPART H, 40 These rules will basically incorporate regulations to implement section CFR PART 51) the requirements for State 176(c). First, on November 24, EPA Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant nonattainment NSR permit programs, promulgated the Transportation codified at 40 CFR 51.165(a), with Conformity Regulations to establish the Legal Authority: 42 USC 7410(a)(2)(G); supplemental provisions added to make criteria and procedures for determining 42 USC 7603 explicit the permit requirements of that transportation plans, programs, and CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51 Appendix L; section 173 of the Act and certain long- projects which are funded under title 40 CFR 51.150 to 51.153 standing policies regarding 23 U.S.C. or the Federal Transit Act nonattainment NSR permitting. This conform with the SIP. Then, on Legal Deadline: None action will also change 40 CFR 52.24 November 30, EPA promulgated Abstract: 40 CFR part 51.150-51.153 to specify that the requirements of 40 regulations, known as the General require States to have contingency
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plans to prevent air pollution levels 3382. REVISION OF EPA’S CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 RADIOLOGICAL EMERGENCY from reaching the significant harm level Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, RESPONSE PLAN (SHL) for CO, O3, SO2, NOx, and PM. November 15, 2000. Appendix L provides example guidance Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant to the States on appropriate courses of Abstract: The EPA has determined that Legal Authority: EO 12777; PL 96-295 action to take at each episode stage paint stripping operations emit at least Sec 304 (i.e., alert, warning, and emergency) to one of the HAP’s listed in section ensure the SHL is not reached. These CFR Citation: Not Yet Determined 112(b) of the Clean Air Act. As a result, requirements were developed in the Legal Deadline: None the source category was included on 1970’s, based on the NAAQS from that the initial list of HAP-emitting Abstract: The U.S. Environmental categories scheduled for promulgation era. Since that time, ambient air quality Protection Agency (EPA) Radiological levels have decreased nationwide. within 10 years of enactment of the Emergency Response Plan (RERP) Act. There are several emission Today, many areas/sources that no establishes a framework for timely, longer need episode plans must still standards for other source categories coordinated EPA action to protect (for example, aerospace manufacturing develop them. This rule would update public health and safety and the and simplify the criteria used to and wood furniture manufacturing) that environment in response to a peacetime already address emissions from paint determine which areas would require radiological incident. The original EPA episode plans. Areas with no more than stripping operations. We are currently RERP was approved in 1986. This new in the process of determining if there one exceedance of the Alert level over revision updates authorities, the past 5 years would not need to are any other major sources of HAP responsibilities, capabilities, and emissions from paint stripping develop emergency episode plans. procedures for implementing effective Sources with the potential to cause operations that are not already radiological emergency response regulated. Furthermore, HAP emissions exceedances of the SHL due to a actions by EPA Offices. The RERP from paint stripping operations that are process/control equipment malfunction presents the EPA organizational area sources will be regulated in the would need to develop source structure and concept of operations for future as part of the urban air toxics contingency plans to prevent (and to responding to radiological incidents as strategy. respond to) such malfunctions. a participant in a Federal multi-agency Appendix L would also be revised to response using the Federal Radiological Timetable: reflect the revised program Emergency Response Plan (FRERP) and Action Date FR Cite requirements. The result will be a the Federal Response Plan (FRP), and sensible, credible program replacing an the National Oil and Hazardous Final Action 05/00/02 outdated program. Substances Pollution Contingency Plan Regulatory Flexibility Analysis (NCP). This revision incorporates recent Required: No Timetable: changes to the FRERP and NCP, and Small Entities Affected: No Action Date FR Cite many other policy updates. In short, this revision ensures that EPA Government Levels Affected: None NPRM To Be Determined maintains a comprehensive strategy to Additional Information: SAN No. 3746 Final Action To Be Determined provide organized, effective assistance to State and local governments in the Agency Contact: Jaime Pagan, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis event of a radiological emergency. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Required: No Timetable: Next Action Undetermined and Radiation, MD-13, RTP, NC 27711 Small Entities Affected: No Phone: 919 541-5340 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Fax: 919 541-0942 Government Levels Affected: State, Required: No Email: [email protected] Local, Tribal, Federal Small Entities Affected: No Government Levels Affected: None Susan Wyatt, Environmental Protection Additional Information: SAN No. 4247 Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13, Additional Information: SAN No. 3638 RTP, NC 27711 Agency Contact: Ted Creekmore, Was previously listed in the Regulatory Phone: 919 541-5674 Environmental Protection Agency, Air Agenda as RIN 2060-AF85. Fax: 919 541-0942 and Radiation, MD-15, Research Email: [email protected] Triangle Park, NC 27711 Agency Contact: Craig Conklin, Phone: 919 541-5699 Environmental Protection Agency, Air RIN: 2060–AG26 Fax: 919 541-0824 and Radiation, 6608J, Washington, DC 20460 Email: [email protected] Phone: 202 564-9222 3384. AMENDMENTS TO PARTS 51, 52, 63, 70 AND 71 REGARDING THE John Silvasi, Environmental Protection RIN: 2060–AI49 PROVISIONS FOR DETERMINING Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-15, POTENTIAL TO EMIT Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 3383. NESHAP: PAINT STRIPPING Priority: Other Significant Phone: 919 541-5666 OPERATIONS Fax: 919 541-0824 Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Email: [email protected] CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAA sec RIN: 2060–AI47 112 Legal Deadline: None
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Abstract: This action proposes to glycol dehydrators (area sources) and Regulatory Flexibility Analysis amend regulations already established subsequently promulgate the proposal. Required: No to implement the new Federal air toxics Timetable: Small Entities Affected: No program under section 112, including the General Provisions, the Federal Action Date FR Cite Government Levels Affected: Federal operating permit program under title V, Supplemental NPRM 06/00/03 Federalism: Undetermined and the major source preconstruction Final Action 06/00/04 Additional Information: SAN No. 2937 programs under parts C and D of title Regulatory Flexibility Analysis I. Agency Contact: Cary Secrest, Required: No Environmental Protection Agency, The proposed rule will address issues Small Entities Affected: Businesses Office of Enforcement and Compliance related to the determination of a Government Levels Affected: State Assurance, 2242A, Washington, DC stationary source’s potential to emit in 20460 response to three court decisions. Additional Information: SAN No. 4162 Phone: 202 564-8661 This action resulted from splitting of Agency Contact: Greg Nizich, RIN: 2020–AA32 RINs 2060-AC98 and 2060-AC63. Environmental Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13, Research Timetable: Triangle Park, NC 27711 3387. NSPS AND EMISSION Action Date FR Cite Phone: 919 541-3078 GUIDELINES FOR OTHER SOLID WASTE INCINERATORS NPRM 06/00/02 Fax: 919 541-0246 Final Action 12/00/02 Email: [email protected] Priority: Other Significant Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Kent C. Hustvedt, Environmental Legal Authority: 42 USC 7509 CAA sec Required: Undetermined Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, 129 Small Entities Affected: No MD-13, RTP, NC 27711 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60 Phone: 919 541-5395 Legal Deadline: None Government Levels Affected: None Fax: 919 541-0246 Abstract: Section 129 of the Clean Air Additional Information: SAN No. 3479 Email: [email protected] Act of 1990 requires the Agency to RIN: Agency Contact: Carol Holmes, 2060–AI13 promulgate New Source Performance Environmental Protection Agency, Air Standards (NSPS) and Emission and Radiation, OECA (2242A), 3386. FIELD CITATION PROGRAM Guidelines (EG) for solid waste Washington, DC 20460 Priority: Other Significant incinerators. Section 129 specifically Phone: 202 260-8709 required the Administrator to publish Legal Authority: 42 USC 7413(d) CAA a schedule for regulating Other Solid Lynn Hutchinson, Environmental sec 113(d) Waste Incinerators (OSWI). A notice Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, CFR Citation: 40 CFR 59 published on November 9, 2000 MD-12, Research Triangle Park, NC Legal Deadline: None announced that the Administrator 27711 would promulgate OSWI standards by Phone: 919 541-5795 Abstract: The Clean Air Act November 15, 2005. The notice also Fax: 919 541-5509 Amendments give EPA the authority to listed what classes of incinerators Email: [email protected] issue on-the-spot field citations for might be covered by the OSWI minor violations of the Clean Air Act, RIN: 2060–AI01 standards. Standards will be set for the with penalties of up to $5,000 per day following pollutants: particulate matter, of violation. Section 113(d) of the Act opacity, sulfur dioxide, hydrogen 3385. NESHAP: OIL AND NATURAL requires the field citation program to chloride, oxides of nitrogen, carbon GAS PRODUCTION be implemented through regulations monoxide, lead cadmium, mercury, and which provide the informal hearing Priority: Other Significant dioxins and dibenzofurans. procedures. These hearing procedures Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAA sec are not required to be as rigorous as Timetable: 112 those imposed by the Administrative Action Date FR Cite CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 Procedures Act (APA), but nevertheless ANPRM 11/09/00 65 FR 66850 must provide due process. Agency Legal Deadline: None NPRM 11/00/04 guidance providing appropriate Final Action 11/00/05 Abstract: On February 2, 1998, we penalties for specific minor violations proposed NESHAP for oil and gas will be prepared for EPA employees Regulatory Flexibility Analysis production (major sources), oil and gas and made available to the regulated Required: No production (area sources) , and natural community. Training on the issuance Small Entities Affected: Governmental gas transmission and storage in one of field citations will also be Jurisdictions, Organizations package. On June 17, 1999, we developed. Government Levels Affected: State, promulgated NESHAP for oil and gas Timetable: Local, Federal production (major sources) and natural gas transmission and storage. In this Action Date FR Cite Additional Information: SAN No. 3751 action, we will publish a supplemental NPRM 05/03/94 59 FR 22776 Agency Contact: Fred Porter, proposal for the oil and gas production Final Action To Be Determined Environmental Protection Agency, Air
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and Radiation, MD-13, Research 3389. CONSUMER AND COMMERCIAL CFR Citation: 40 CFR 52 Triangle Park, NC 27711 PRODUCTS: FLEXIBLE PACKAGE Legal Deadline: None Phone: 919 541-5251 PRINTING MATERIALS: Fax: 919 541-5450 DETERMINATION ON CONTROL Abstract: The State of Montana Email: [email protected] TECHNIQUES GUIDELINES IN LIEU OF submitted a sulfur dioxide (SO2) State REGULATION Implementation Plan (SIP) for the Billings/Laurel, Montana area. On Rick Copland, Environmental Priority: Other Significant Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, 7/28/99 we proposed to partially MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq approve, conditionally approve and 27711 CFR Citation: Not Yet Determined partially disapprove Montana’s SO2 SIP Phone: 919 541-5265 for Billings/Laurel. EPA intends to Legal Deadline: None Fax: 919 541-5450 propose a Federal Implementation Plan Email: [email protected] Abstract: In accordance with Section (FIP) to cover those parts of the State’s 183(e) of the Clean Air Act, EPA plan we disapprove. EPA’s FIP will RIN: 2060–AG31 identified flexible package printing assure that the Billings/Laurel area will materials as a category of consumer and attain and maintain the SO2 NAAQS. 3388. PREVENTION OF SIGNIFICANT commercial products prioritized for Timetable: DETERIORATION OF AIR QUALITY: regulation to reduce VOC emissions in PERMIT APPLICATION REVIEW ozone nonattainment areas. Section Action Date FR Cite PROCEDURES FOR NON-FEDERAL 183(e)(3)(C) gives EPA the authority to NPRM 06/00/02 CLASS I AREAS issue Control Techniques Guidelines Regulatory Flexibility Analysis (CTG) in lieu of regulation if the Required: No Priority: Other Significant Administrator determines that CTG are Legal Authority: 42 USC 7670 to 7479 substantially as effective as regulation Small Entities Affected: Businesses CAA sec 160-169 in reducing VOC emissions in ozone Government Levels Affected: nonattainment areas. This action will Undetermined CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51.166; 40 CFR put forward EPA’s proposed Federalism: 52.21 determination under section Undetermined Legal Deadline: None 183(e)(3)(C). Additional Information: SAN No. 4542 Abstract: Under the Clean Air Act’s Timetable: Sectors Affected: 32411 Petroleum prevention of significant deterioration Action Date FR Cite Refineries (PSD) program, a State or tribe may Agency Contact: Laurie Ostrand, Final Action - Final 04/00/02 redesignate their lands as class I areas Determination/CTG Environmental Protection Agency, to provide enhanced protection for Regional Office Denver, 8P-AR, their air quality resources. This rule Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Washington, DC 20460 will clarify the PSD permit review Required: No Phone: 303 312-6437 procedures for new and modified major Small Entities Affected: No Fax: 303 312-6064 stationary sources near these non- Government Levels Affected: None Email: [email protected] Federal class I areas. EPA seeks to develop clarifying PSD permit Additional Information: SAN No. 4245 Larry Svoboda, Environmental application procedures that are Agency Contact: Paul Almodovar, Protection Agency, Regional Office effective, efficient, and equitable. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Denver, 8P-AR Phone: 303 312-6004 Timetable: and Radiation, MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 Fax: 303 312-6064 Action Date FR Cite Phone: 919 541-0283 Email: [email protected] ANPRM 05/16/97 62 FR 27158 Fax: 919 541-5689 RIN: 2008–AA00 NPRM 10/00/02 Email: [email protected] Final Action 10/00/03 Dianne Byrne, Environmental 3391. REVIEW NATIONAL AMBIENT Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, AIR QUALITY STANDARDS FOR Required: No MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC CARBON MONOXIDE Government Levels Affected: State, 27711 Priority: Other Significant Phone: 919 541-5342 Tribal Legal Authority: Clean Air Act Title I Email: [email protected] Additional Information: SAN No. 3919 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 50 RIN: 2060–AI31 Agency Contact: David LaRoche, Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, May Environmental Protection Agency, Air ∑ 31, 2001, Clean Air Act requires and Radiation, 6101A, Washington, DC 3390. FEDERAL IMPLEMENTATION reviews every five years. 20460 PLAN (FIP) FOR THE Abstract: Review of the national Phone: 202 564-7416 BILLINGS/LAUREL, MONTANA ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) Fax: 202 501-1153 SULFUR DIOXIDE (SO2) AREA for carbon monoxide (CO) every 5 years Email: [email protected] Priority: Other Significant is mandated by the Clean Air Act. This RIN: 2060–AH01 Legal Authority: 12 USC 1701 et seq review assesses the available scientific
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data about the health and regarding the applicability of the 1-hour Timetable: environmental effects of CO and standard for other areas on June 5, 1998 Action Date FR Cite translates the science into terms that and July 22, 1998. Direct Final Rule 09/15/99 64 FR 49987 can be used in making Timetable: recommendations about whether or Withdrawal of Direct 11/01/99 64 FR 58792 how the standards should be changed. Action Date FR Cite Final Rule Final Action To Be Determined The last review of the CO NAAQS was NPRM 06/09/99 64 FR 30937 completed in 1994 with a final decision Final Action To Be Determined Regulatory Flexibility Analysis that revisions were not appropriate at Required: No that time. Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No Small Entities Affected: No Timetable: Small Entities Affected: No Government Levels Affected: Federal Action Date FR Cite Additional Information: SAN No. 4276 NPRM 05/00/03 Government Levels Affected: Direct Final Action- Final Action 05/00/04 Undetermined http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA- Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Additional Information: SAN No. 4274 AIR/1999/September/Day- Required: No Agency Contact: Annie Nikbakht, 15/a23914.htm Withdrawal- Small Entities Affected: No Environmental Protection Agency, Air http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA- and Radiation, MD-15, Research Government Levels Affected: Triangle Park, NC 27711 AIR/1999/November/Day- Undetermined Phone: 919 541-5246 01/a28519.htm Federalism: Undetermined Fax: 919 541-0824 Agency Contact: Kathryn Petrillo, Additional Information: SAN No. 4266 Email: [email protected] Environmental Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, 6204J Agency Contact: David McKee, Barry Gilbert, Environmental Protection Phone: 202 564-9093 Environmental Protection Agency, Air Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-15, Fax: 202 565-2141 and Radiation, Research Triangle Pa, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 Email: [email protected] NC 27711 Phone: 919 541-5238 Phone: 919 541-5288 Fax: 919 541-0824 Kevin Culligan, Environmental Fax: 919 541-0237 Email: [email protected] Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, Email: [email protected] RIN: 2060–AI57 6204J Phone: 202 564-9172 Harvey Richmond, Environmental Fax: 202 564-2141 Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, 3393. REVISION TO NOX SIP CALL Email: [email protected] Research Triangle Pa, NC 27711 EMISSION BUDGETS FOR RIN: 2060–AI80 Phone: 919 541-5271 CONNECTICUT, MASSACHUSETTS Fax: 919 541-0237 AND RHODE ISLAND Email: [email protected] 3394. INTERSTATE OZONE Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant RIN: 2060–AI43 TRANSPORT: RULEMAKING ON Legal Authority: 42 USC 7410(a)(2)(D); SECTION 126 PETITIONS FROM THE 42 USC 7410(k)(5) DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, 3392. IDENTIFICATION OF DELAWARE, MARYLAND, AND NEW ADDITIONAL OZONE AREAS CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51 JERSEY ATTAINING THE 1-HOUR STANDARD Legal Deadline: None AND TO WHICH THE 1-HOUR Priority: Economically Significant STANDARD IS NO LONGER Abstract: On October 27, 1998, EPA Unfunded Mandates: This action may APPLICABLE (7 AREAS) published a final rule (the ‘‘OTAG SIP affect the private sector under PL 104- Call’’) making a finding of significant Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant 4. contribution and assigning statewide Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq NOx emission budgets to 22 States and Legal Authority: 42 USC 7426 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 81 (Revision) the District of Columbia for purposes CFR Citation: 40 CFR 52; 40 CFR 97 of reducing regional transport of ozone Legal Deadline: None and its precursor, NOx. Subsequent to Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, Abstract: EPA proposes to identify the promulgation of the SIP call, EPA December 14, 1999, The rulemaking several additional ozone areas where and the States of Connecticut, includes action on 4 separate petitions. the 1-hour standard is no longer Massachusetts and Rhode Island signed See Additional Information. applicable. This proposed action is a memorandum of understanding that There is a different statutory deadline based upon analysis of quality-assured, obligated EPA to propose to redistribute associated with each petition based on ambient air quality monitoring data the budgets assigned to the three States the date of receipt by EPA: New Jersey- showing no violations of the 1-hour in a different way. This action would 12/14/99, Maryland-01/01/00, ozone standard. Determinations for this carry out that obligation. This Delaware-02/10/00, District of notice were based upon the most recent redistribution would not lead to an Columbia-03/07-00. data available, i.e., 1996-1998. The EPA increase in the overall budget for the Abstract: In April through July 1999, has previously taken final action three States. 3 Northeastern States (New Jersey,
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Maryland, and Delaware) and the 3395. RESCINDING FINDING THAT and Radiation, MD-15, Washington, DC District of Columbia submitted PRE-EXISTING PM10 STANDARDS NO 20460 individual petitions to EPA in LONGER APPLICABLE IN NORTHERN Phone: 919 541-3223 accordance with section 126 of the ADA COUNTY/BOISE, IDAHO Fax: 919 541-5489 Email: [email protected] Clean Air Act (CAA). Each petition Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant specifically requests that EPA make a Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq Mike Prosper, Environmental Protection finding that nitrogen oxides (NOx) Agency, Air and Radiation emissions from certain stationary CFR Citation: 40 CFR 50.6(d); 40 CFR 52.676; 40 CFR 81.313 Phone: 202 564-5589 sources in other States significantly Email: [email protected] contribute to ozone nonattainment and Legal Deadline: None maintenance problems with respect to RIN: 2060–AJ05 Abstract: The EPA had previously the 1-hour and 8-hour ozone standards taken action to revoke the PM-10 3396. PROJECT XL SITE-SPECIFIC in the petitioning State. If EPA makes national ambient air quality standards RULEMAKING FOR GEORGIA-PACIFIC such a finding of significant (NAAQS) for the Boise/Ada County CORPORATION’S FACILITY IN BIG contribution, EPA is authorized to area in anticipation that a revised PM- ISLAND, VIRGINIA establish Federal emissions limits for 10 NAAQS would soon be in place. the sources. The petitions rely on the However, the DC Circuit court Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant analyses from EPA’s NOx SIP call. The subsequently vacated the revised PM- Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq sources targeted by the petitions are 10 NAAQS, the effectiveness of which CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 (Revision) large electricity generating units and served as the underlying basis for large non-electricity generating units, as EPA’s decision to revoke the pre- Legal Deadline: None defined in EPA’s NOx SIP call. The existing PM-10 NAAQS. Therefore, in Abstract: Under the Project XL CAA requires EPA to take final action order to protect public health in the program, the EPA is supporting a on the petitions within 60 days of Boise/Ada County area, EPA is project for the Georgia-Pacific receipt, but may extend the deadline proposing to reinstate the pre-existing Corporation facility located in Big for up to 6 additional months to allow PM-10 NAAQS. Without this action Island, Virginia. The EPA is for public process. The EPA took there would be no Federal PM-10 promulgating this rule, applicable only rulemaking action on similar petitions NAAQS applicable to this area. This to the Georgia-Pacific Big Island from 8 other Northeastern States that action is tentatively subject to the terms facility, to help implement the project. were submitted in 1997. of a settlement agreement that was Under the XL project, Georgia-Pacific signed by all parties in January 2001. will install and operate the first Timetable: A Federal Register notice of the commercial scale black liquor Action Date FR Cite proposed settlement requesting public gasification system in the United States. comment was published January 30, This system will provide superior air NPRM To Be Determined 2001 in accordance with section 113(g) emissions reductions and energy of the Act. Written comments on the benefits compared to use of Regulatory Flexibility Analysis proposed settlement agreement must be conventional recovery technology for Required: Undetermined received by EPA (Mike Prosper) by black liquor in the pulp and paper Government Levels Affected: March 1, 2001. Unless EPA or DOJ industry. However, since this will be determine, following the comment Undetermined the first commercial scale period, that consent is inappropriate demonstration of this technology, there Federalism: Undetermined the settlement agreement will then be is some risk that the technology will executed by the parties. This action take longer than planned to work Additional Information: SAN No. 4383 will then be fully subject to the terms properly or may not ever work of the settlement agreement. properly. If either of these scenarios Agency Contact: Carla Oldham, Timetable: happens, Georgia-Pacific requires relief Environmental Protection Agency, Air from otherwise applicable air emission and Radiation, MD-15, Research Action Date FR Cite standards to allow time for the new Triangle Park, NC 27711 NPRM 06/26/00 65 FR 39321 technology to achieve expected Phone: 919 541-3347 Notice Extension of 07/26/00 65 FR 45953 performance or, in the event of failure, Fax: 919 541-0824 Comment Period to allow time for Georgia-Pacific to Email: [email protected] Final Action To Be Determined build conventional recovery technology Regulatory Flexibility Analysis that will meet applicable standards. David Cole, Environmental Protection Required: No Without this relief, Georgia-Pacific Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-15, would not undertake commercialization MD-15, Research Triangle Park, NC Small Entities Affected: Governmental of this promising technology. Therefore, 27711 Jurisdictions this rule provides relief (in the form Phone: 919 541-5565 Government Levels Affected: of limited duration compliance Fax: 919 541-0824 Undetermined extensions)from otherwise applicable Email: [email protected] hazardous air pollutant emission Additional Information: SAN No. 4391 standards, as needed during the RIN: 2060–AI99 Agency Contact: Gary Blais, conduct of the XL project. The specific Environmental Protection Agency, Air standard amended by this rule is:
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‘‘Standards for Hazardous Air Small Entities Affected: No Agency Contact: David Beck, Pollutants From Chemical Recovery Environmental Protection Agency, Combustion Sources at Kraft, Soda, Government Levels Affected: None Office of the Administrator, MD-10, Sulfate, and Stand-Alone Semichemical Additional Information: SAN No. 4471 Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 Pulp Mills.’’ Phone: 919 541-5421 Timetable: Next Action Undetermined Formerly RIN 2060-AJ39. Fax: 919 541-2464 Email: [email protected] Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Sectors Affected: 32211 Pulp Mills; Required: No 32211 Pulp Mills RIN: 2090–AA26
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3397. METHOD 301: FIELD 3399. CONSOLIDATED FEDERAL AIR Agency Contact: Mark Morris VALIDATION OF POLLUTION RULE FOR THE SYNTHETIC ORGANIC Phone: 919 541-5416 MEASUREMENT METHODS FOR CHEMICAL MANUFACTURING Fax: 919 541-3470 VARIOUS MEDIA; REVISIONS INDUSTRY Email: [email protected] Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Priority: Other Significant Penny Lassiter CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60; 40 CFR 61; CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60; 40 CFR 63 40 CFR 63; 40 CFR 65 Phone: 919 541-5396 Fax: 919 541-3470 Completed: Completed: Email: [email protected] Reason Date FR Cite Reason Date FR Cite RIN: 2060–AH81 Withdrawn 04/20/01 Final Action 12/14/00 65 FR 78267 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No 3401. DECISION ON A PETITION Required: No FROM THE TERRITORY OF Government Levels Affected: State, AMERICAN SAMOA TO BE Government Levels Affected: State, Local, Federal Local EXEMPTED FROM THE GASOLINE Sectors Affected: 3251 Basic Chemical ANTI-DUMPING REGULATIONS Agency Contact: Gary McAlister Manufacturing; 32411 Petroleum Phone: 919 541-1062 Refineries Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Fax: 919 541-1039 Agency Contact: Rick Colyer CFR Citation: 40 CFR 80.90 to 80.130 Email: [email protected] Phone: 919 541-5262 Completed: RIN: 2060–AF00 Fax: 919 541-0942 Email: [email protected] Reason Date FR Cite 3398. AMENDMENTS FOR TESTING Susan Wyatt NPRM 11/29/00 65 FR 71079 AND MONITORING PROVISIONS TO Phone: 919 541-5674 Direct Final Rule 11/29/00 65 FR 71067 PART 60, PART 61, AND PART 63 Fax: 919 541-0942 Direct Final Rule 01/29/01 66 FR 8089 Email: [email protected] Effective Date Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Delayed RIN: 2060–AG28 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60; 40 CFR 61; Direct Final Rule 03/30/01 Effective 40 CFR 63 3400. NESHAP: ORGANIC Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Completed: HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS FROM THE SYNTHETIC ORGANIC Required: No Reason Date FR Cite CHEMICAL INDUSTRY (SOCMI) & Government Levels Affected: State, Final Action 10/17/00 65 FR 61744 OTHER PROCESSES SUBJECT TO Local, Tribal, Federal THE NEGOTIATED REGULATION FOR Regulatory Flexibility Analysis EQUIPMENT LEAKS Agency Contact: Marilyn W. McCall Required: No Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Phone: 202 564-9029 Government Levels Affected: None CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63.100 to 63.152 Fax: 202 564-2085 Email: [email protected] Agency Contact: Foston Curtis Completed: Phone: 919 541-1063 Reason Date FR Cite Bob Larson Phone: 734 214-4277 Bill Lamason Final Action 01/22/01 66 FR 6921 Phone: 919 541-5374 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis RIN: 2060–AI60 Fax: 919 541-1039 Required: No RIN: 2060–AG21 Government Levels Affected: None
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3402. ∑ NESHAP: OFF-SITE WASTE Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Kathy Kaufman AND RECOVERY OPERATIONS; FINAL Required: No Phone: 919 541-0102 RULE—SETTLE AGREEMENT; AND Government Levels Affected: State, Fax: 919 541-5509 NESHAP FOR OFF-SITE WASTE AND Federal Email: [email protected] RECOVERY OPERATIONS; RIN: 2060–AG60 TECHNICAL AMENDMENT Agency Contact: Mary Johnson Phone: 919 541-5025 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Fax: 919 541-5600 3406. NESHAP: FRICTION PRODUCTS Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq Email: [email protected] MANUFACTURING Timetable: CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 Jim Crowder Legal Deadline: None Phone: 919 541-5596 Action Date FR Cite Fax: 919 541-5600 Abstract: This action contains Duplicate of SAN 02/27/01 Email: [email protected] correction errors in the final rule and 4460, RIN 2060- the July 1999 amendments. The notice RIN: 2060–AE44 AJ18 includes: (1) correction to the RIN: 2060–AG87 amendatory instructions; (2) 3404. PETROLEUM SOLVENT DRY amendments to monitoring CLEANERS MAXIMUM ACHIEVABLE 3407. NESHAP: MANUFACTURE OF requirements; and (3) correction of CONTROL TECHNOLOGY (MACT) CARBON BLACK typos and formatting errors. STANDARD Timetable: Timetable: Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Action Date FR Cite Action Date FR Cite CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 Duplicate of SAN 02/27/01 Final Action 01/08/01 66 FR 1263 Completed: 4105, RIN 2060- Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Reason Date FR Cite AH68 Required: No Notice 01/30/01 66 FR 8220 RIN: 2060–AH19 Small Entities Affected: No Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Government Levels Affected: None Required: No 3408. NESHAP: FLEXIBLE POLYURETHANE FOAM Additional Information: SAN No. 4504 Government Levels Affected: State, FABRICATION OPERATIONS Local, Federal Split from RIN 2060-AH96. Timetable: Agency Contact: Tony Wayne Sectors Affected: 32411 Petroleum Action Date FR Cite Refineries; 325412 Pharmaceutical Phone: 919 541-5439 Preparation Manufacturing; 32731 Fax: 919 541-0942 Duplicate of SAN 02/27/01 Cement Manufacturing; 562112 Email: [email protected] 4449, RIN 2060- Hazardous Waste Collection AJ19 Susan Wyatt RIN: 2060–AH42 Agency Contact: Elaine Manning, Phone: 919 541-5674 Environmental Protection Agency, Air Fax: 919 541-0942 and Radiation, MD-13, Research Email: [email protected] 3409. NESHAP: PROCESS HEATERS Triangle Park, NC 27711 RIN: 2060–AG34 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Phone: 919 541-5499 Fax: 919 541-0246 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 Email: [email protected] 3405. REVISIONS TO THE Completed: REGULATION FOR APPROVAL OF Reason Date FR Cite Kent C. Hustvedt, Environmental STATE PROGRAMS AND Protection Agency, Air and Radiation, DELEGATION OF FEDERAL Merged With SAN 02/27/01 MD-13, RTP, NC 27711 AUTHORITIES 112(L) 3837, RIN 2060- AG69 Phone: 919 541-5395 Priority: Other Significant Fax: 919 541-0246 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Email: [email protected] CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63(E) Required: No RIN: 2060–AJ44 Completed: Government Levels Affected: None Reason Date FR Cite Agency Contact: James Eddinger 3403. NESHAP: PHOSPHATE Final Action 09/14/00 65 FR 55809 Phone: 919 541-5426 Fax: 919 541-5450 FERTILIZERS PRODUCTION Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Email: [email protected] Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Required: No CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 Government Levels Affected: None Bill Maxwell Phone: 919 541-5430 Completed: Agency Contact: Tom Driscoll Phone: 919 541-5135 Fax: 919 541-5450 Reason Date FR Cite Fax: 919 541-5509 Email: [email protected] Final Action 06/10/99 64 FR 31358 Email: [email protected] RIN: 2060–AI35
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3410. NESHAP: AMINO/PHENOLIC 3413. AMENDMENTS TO VEHICLE 3415. NESHAP: CHEMICAL RESINS AMENDMENT INSPECTION MAINTENANCE RECOVERY COMBUSTION SOURCES PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS AT KRAFT, SODA, SULFITE AND Timetable: IMPLEMENTING THE ONBOARD STAND-ALONE SEMICHEMICAL PULP Action Date FR Cite DIAGNOSTIC CHECK; AMENDMENT MILLS Duplicate of SAN 03/16/01 TO THE FINAL RULE Priority: Economically Significant. 4484, RIN 2060- Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Major under 5 USC 801. AJ45 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63; 40 CFR 430 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51; 40 CFR 85 RIN: 2060–AJ32 Completed: Completed: Reason Date FR Cite 3411. NSPS AND EMISSION Reason Date FR Cite GUIDELINES FOR COMMERCIAL AND Final Action 01/12/01 66 FR 3179 Final Action 04/05/01 66 FR 18155 INDUSTRIAL SOLID WASTE Amendments to Regulatory Flexibility Analysis INCINERATION UNITS Vehicle I/M Program Required: No Priority: Other Significant Requirements for Government Levels Affected: None OBD Checks Agency Contact: CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60 Jeff Telander Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Phone: 919 541-5427 Completed: Required: No Fax: 919 541-5600 Email: [email protected] Reason Date FR Cite Government Levels Affected: None Final Action 12/01/00 65 FR 75338 Agency Contact: David Sosnowski Jim Crowder Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Phone: 734 214-4823 Phone: 919 541-5596 Fax: 919 541-5600 Required: No Fax: 734 214-4906 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Government Levels Affected: None RIN: 2060–AI34 Agency Contact: Fred Porter Ed Gardetto Phone: 734 214-4322 Phone: 919 541-5251 3416. CONTROL OF EMISSIONS OF Fax: 919 541-5450 Fax: 734 214-4906 Email: [email protected] AIR POLLUTION FROM NEW Email: [email protected] COMPRESSION-IGNITION AND RIN: 2060–AJ03 SPARK-IGNITION RECREATIONAL Rick Copland MARINE ENGINES Phone: 919 541-5265 Fax: 919 541-5450 3414. NESHAP: ALUMINA Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Email: [email protected] PROCESSING CFR Citation: 40 CFR 94 RIN: 2060–AF91 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Completed: CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 Reason Date FR Cite 3412. PROTECTION OF Merged With RIN 02/15/01 STRATOSPHERIC OZONE: Completed: 2060-AI11, SAN INCORPORATION OF CLEAN AIR ACT Reason Date FR Cite 4154 AMENDMENTS FOR REDUCTION IN Notice 01/30/01 66 FR 8220 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis CLASS I, GROUP VI CONTROLLED Required: Yes SUBSTANCES Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Government Levels Affected: Federal Priority: Economically Significant. Required: No Agency Contact: Holly Pugliese Major under 5 USC 801. Government Levels Affected: State, Phone: 734 214-4288 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 82 Local, Tribal, Federal Fax: 734 214-4053 Email: [email protected] Completed: Sectors Affected: 325188 All Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Reason Date FR Cite Jean Marie Revelt Manufacturing Direct Final Rule 11/28/00 65 FR 70795 Phone: 734 214-4822 Agency Contact: Mark Morris Fax: 734 214-4816 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Phone: 919 541-5416 Email: [email protected] Required: No Fax: 919 541-3470 RIN: 2060–AI36 Government Levels Affected: None Email: [email protected] Agency Contact: Amber Moreen Penny Lassiter 3417. STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES Phone: 202 564-9295 Phone: 919 541-5396 FOR SMALL MUNICIPAL WASTE Fax: 202 565-2095 Fax: 919 541-3470 COMBUSTION UNITS Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Priority: Other Significant RIN: 2060–AI41 RIN: 2060–AH70 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60
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Completed: Fax: 734 214-4816 3422. AMENDMENTS TO THE Reason Date FR Cite Email: [email protected] AEROSPACE MANUFACTURING AND REWORK FACILITIES NESHAP FOR Final Action 12/06/00 65 FR 76349 RIN: 2060–AI55 THE HAP AND VOC CONTENT LIMITS Regulatory Flexibility Analysis FOR PRIMER OPERATIONS AND Required: No 3420. NATIONAL EMISSION STAY OF COMPLIANCE Government Levels Affected: None STANDARDS FOR BENZENE Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant EMISSIONS FROM COKE Agency Contact: Rick Copland BYPRODUCT RECOVERY PLANTS CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63.745(c)(1)-(2) Phone: 919 541-5265 (PART 61, SUBPART L) Fax: 919 541-5450 Completed: Email: [email protected] Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Reason Date FR Cite
Walt Stevenson CFR Citation: 40 CFR 61 Final Action 12/08/00 65 FR 76941 Amendment Phone: 919 541-5264 Completed: Fax: 919 541-5450 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Email: [email protected] Reason Date FR Cite Required: No RIN: 2060–AI51 Notice 01/30/01 66 FR 8220 Government Levels Affected: State, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Local, Federal 3418. REVISION OF SCHEDULE FOR Required: No Sectors Affected: 336411 Aircraft STANDARDS UNDER SECTION 112 OF Manufacturing THE CAA Government Levels Affected: None Agency Contact: Jaime Pagan Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Agency Contact: Lula Melton Phone: 919 541-5340 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 Phone: 919 541-2910 Fax: 919 541-0942 Fax: 919 541-5600 Email: [email protected] Completed: Email: [email protected] Reason Date FR Cite Susan Wyatt Al Vervaert Notice 01/30/01 66 FR 8220 Phone: 919 541-5674 Phone: 919 541-5602 Fax: 919 541-0942 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Required: No RIN: 2060–AI65 RIN: Government Levels Affected: None 2060–AI77 Agency Contact: Yvonne W. Johnson 3421. HEAVY-DUTY ENGINE Phone: 919 541-2798 3423. NESHAP: PHARMACEUTICALS EMISSION STANDARDS & DIESEL PRODUCTION; FINAL AMENDMENTS Fax: 919 541-0072 FUEL SULFUR CONTROL Email: [email protected] REQUIREMENTS Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Linda Metcalf Priority: Economically Significant. CFR Citation: 40 CFR part 63 Phone: 919 541-2865 Major under 5 USC 801. Completed: Fax: 919 541-0072 Email: [email protected] CFR Citation: 40 CFR 69; 40 CFR 80; Reason Date FR Cite 40 CFR 86 RIN: 2060–AI52 Final Action 08/29/00 65 FR 52588 Completed: Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 3419. CONTROL OF EMISSIONS OF Reason Date FR Cite Required: No HAZARDOUS POLLUTANTS FROM Final Action 01/18/01 66 FR 5002 MOTOR VEHICLES AND MOTOR Government Levels Affected: None VEHICLE FUELS Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Sectors Affected: 325411 Medicinal Priority: Other Significant. Major under Required: Yes and Botanical Manufacturing; 325412 5 USC 801. Pharmaceutical Preparation Government Levels Affected: None Manufacturing CFR Citation: 40 CFR 80; 40 CFR 86 Agency Contact: Don Kopinski Agency Contact: Completed: Randy McDonald Phone: 734 214-4229 Phone: 919 541-5402 Reason Date FR Cite Fax: 734 214-4781 Fax: 919 541-3470 Final Action 03/29/01 66 FR 17229 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Paul Machele Penny Lassiter Required: No Phone: 734 214-4264 Phone: 919 541-5396 Government Levels Affected: None Fax: 734 214-4050 Fax: 919 541-3470 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Agency Contact: Jean Marie Revelt Phone: 734 214-4822 RIN: 2060–AI69 RIN: 2060–AI78
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3424. NATIONAL AMBIENT AIR Completed: Government Levels Affected: None QUALITY STANDARD FOR OZONE - Reason Date FR Cite CORRECTIONS NOTICE Agency Contact: Erin Birgfeld Direct Final Rule 04/10/01 Phone: 202 564-9079 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Fax: 202 565-2095 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 50.9 (a) Required: No Email: [email protected] Completed: Government Levels Affected: None RIN: 2060–AJ33 Reason Date FR Cite Sectors Affected: 221112 Fossil Fuel Withdrawn - The 03/14/01 Electric Power Generation 3429. STAY OF THE 8-HOUR PORTION Agency Plans No Agency Contact: Further Action Richard Vetter OF FINDINGS OF SIGNIFICANT Phone: 919 541-2127 CONTRIBUTION AND RULEMAKING Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Fax: 919 541-0072 FOR PURPOSES OF REDUCING Required: No Email: [email protected] INTERSTATE OZONE TRANSPORT Government Levels Affected: State James Eddinger Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Agency Contact: Brenda Millar Phone: 919 541-5426 Phone: 919 541-4036 Fax: 919 541-5450 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51; 40 CFR 52(a) Fax: 919 541-1903 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Completed: RIN: 2060–AJ22 Reason Date FR Cite Nash Gerald Phone: 919 541-5652 3427. REVISION TO THE SOURCE Final Action 09/18/00 65 FR 56245 Fax: 919 541-1903 CATEGORY LISTING FOR SECTION Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Email: [email protected] 112(D)(2) RULEMAKING PURSUANT Required: No RIN: 2060–AI95 TO SECTION 112(C)(6) REQUIREMENTS Government Levels Affected: None Priority: Routine and Frequent 3425. AMENDMENTS TO STATE AND Agency Contact: Jan King FEDERAL OPERATING PERMITS CFR Citation: None Phone: 919 541-5665 PROGRAMS, PART 70 AND PART 71, Fax: 919 541-0824 COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATION Completed: REQUIREMENTS Reason Date FR Cite Email: [email protected] Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Notice 08/03/00 65 FR 47725 RIN: 2060–AJ37 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 70; 40 CFR 71 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis (Revisions) Required: No 3430. NATIONAL AIR TOXICS Completed: Government Levels Affected: None PROGRAM: INTEGRATED STRATEGY, REPORT TO CONGRESS Reason Date FR Cite Agency Contact: Anthony P. Wayne Direct Final Rule 03/01/01 66 FR 12872 Phone: 919 541-5439 Priority: Other Significant Fax: 919 541-0942 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Email: [email protected] CFR Citation: None Required: No Government Levels Affected: None Susan Wyatt Completed: Phone: 919 541-5674 Reason Date FR Cite Agency Contact: Peter Westlin Fax: 919 541-0942 Phone: 919 541-1058 Email: [email protected] Notice - Report to 10/10/00 Fax: 919 541-1039 Congress Email: [email protected] RIN: 2060–AJ24 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Barrett Parker 3428. STRATOSPHERIC OZONE Required: No Phone: 919 541-5635 PROTECTION: ALLOCATION OF Government Levels Affected: None Fax: 919 541-1039 ESSENTIAL USE ALLOWANCES FOR Email: [email protected] CALENDAR YEAR 2001 Agency Contact: Chris Stoneman RIN: 2060–AJ04 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Phone: 919 541-0823 Fax: 919 541-0942 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 82.4 3426. REVISION OF STANDARDS OF Email: [email protected] PERFORMANCE FOR NITROGEN Completed: OXIDE EMISSIONS FROM NEW Reason Date FR Cite Susan Wyatt Phone: 919 541-5674 FOSSIL-FUEL FIRED STEAM NPRM 10/06/00 65 FR 59783 GENERATING UNITS Final Action 01/08/01 66 FR 1461 Fax: 919 541-0942 Email: [email protected] Priority: Other Significant Regulatory Flexibility Analysis CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60.40 Required: No RIN: 2060–AJ38
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3431. PROJECT XL SITE-SPECIFIC acceptable substitutes for class I and Regulatory Flexibility Analysis RULEMAKING FOR GEORGIA-PACIFIC class II ozone depleting substances Required: No CORPORATION’S FACILITY IN BIG used as solvents for general metals, ISLAND, VIRGINIA precision, and electronics cleaning, as Small Entities Affected: Businesses well as in aerosol solvent applications. Timetable: Government Levels Affected: None This would provide another alternative Action Date FR Cite to solvents with higher ozone depletion Additional Information: SAN No. 4527 Transferred to RIN 03/21/01 potential that industry is interested in 2090-AA26 using. The rule would propose finding The previous ANPRM was under SAN nPB not acceptable as a substitute for RIN: 2060–AJ39 No. 3525. use in adhesives due to its toxicity and the greater emissions from that Sectors Affected: 325199 All Other 3432. AMENDMENTS TO NESHAP: application. The rule also would Basic Organic Chemical Manufacturing; OFF-SITE WASTE AND RECOVERY propose specific conditions on the use 334413 Semiconductor and Related OPERATIONS of nPB as a solvent. These might Device Manufacturing; 334418 Printed Timetable: include limiting the specific Circuit/Electronics Assembly applications in which it may be used Manufacturing; 337121 Upholstered Action Date FR Cite to those with low emissions and Household Furniture Manufacturing; Duplicate of SAN 03/15/01 requiring exposure limits consistent 332813 Electroplating, Plating, 4504, RIN 2060- with industry practices. This will Polishing, Anodizing and Coloring AJ44 ensure that nPB is used in a manner Agency Contact: Margaret Sheppard, RIN: 2060–AJ40 that is safe and environmentally protective. OSHA does not currently Environmental Protection Agency, Air regulate nPB. EPA would revise our and Radiation, 6205J, Washington, DC 3433. ∑ PROTECTION OF ruling to adopt whatever OSHA 20460 STRATOSPHERIC OZONE: LISTING requires if OSHA later regulates the use Phone: 202 564-9163 OF SUBSTITUTES FOR OZONE- of nPB. If finalized as proposed, this Fax: 202 565-2141 DEPLETING SUBSTANCES—N- rule would be consistent with most Email: [email protected] PROPYLBROMIDE existing industry practices and would Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant impose little or no burden on industry. Erin Birgfeld, Environmental Protection Legal Authority: 42 USC 7414; 42 USC Timetable: Agency, Air and Radiation, 6205J 7601; 42 USC 7671 to 7671q Action Date FR Cite Phone: 202 564-9079 Fax: 202 565-2095 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 82 (Revision) ANPRM Prot. of 02/18/99 64 FR 8043 Email: [email protected] Legal Deadline: Stratospheric None Ozone--Substitutes RIN: Abstract: This rule proposes to add n- Listing 2060–AJ58 propylbromide (nPB) to the list of Withdrawn 04/20/01
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) Proposed Rule Stage Atomic Energy Act (AEA)
3434. PROTECTIVE ACTION guidance will be submitted to the PAG Timetable: GUIDANCE FOR DRINKING WATER Subcommittee of the Federal Action Date FR Cite Priority: Other Significant Radiological Preparedness Coordinating Committee (FRPCC) for review and Notice of Availability 12/00/01 Legal Authority: 42 USC 2021(h) AEA comment. Members of the PAG of 1954 sec 274(h); Reorganization Plan subcommittee include representatives Regulatory Flexibility Analysis No. 3 of 1970; PL 96-295 sec 304; EO from DOE, DOD, FEMA, NRC, HHS, Required: No 12241 USDA, DOT, and the Conference of Small Entities Affected: No CFR Citation: 41 CFR 351 Radiation Control Program Directors (CRCPD). When a consensus among the Legal Deadline: None Government Levels Affected: State, representatives is reached, the guidance Federal Abstract: This action will result in is recommended to the full FRPCC for Federal protective action guidance endorsement. After that endorsement is Additional Information: SAN No. 3602 (PAG) for State and local officials to obtained a notice of the availability of use in the event of a nuclear accident a revised EPA 400-R-92-001, Manual of Agency Contact: Charles Blue, to protect the general public from the Protective Action Guides and Protective Environmental Protection Agency, Air adverse health effects associated with Actions for Nuclear Incidents will be and Radiation, 6608J, Washington, DC the ingestion of drinking water that is published in the Federal Register. This 20460 contaminated with radioactive material. action is temporarily delayed until the Phone: 202 564-9488 The PAG will be incorporated into the FDA’s revised PAGs for Food can be Revision of the PAG Manual. The draft evaluated. RIN: 2060–AF39
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3435. ENVIRONMENTAL RADIATION Additional Information: SAN No. 4054 current language and replace it with: PROTECTION STANDARDS FOR THE Agency Contact: Dan Schultheisz, (1) a site can ship waste once EPA has DISPOSAL OF LOW-ACTIVITY MIXED Environmental Protection Agency, Air approved it using a notice-and- RADIOACTIVE WASTE and Radiation, 6608J, Washington, DC comment process; (2) EPA will perform Priority: Other Significant 20460 follow-up inspections under a separate Phone: 202 564-9300 authority that does not call for public Legal Authority: 42 USC 2021 Atomic comment; and (3) EPA can disallow Energy Act of 1954; Reorganization Fax: 202 565-2062 Email: [email protected] shipment if an initial or follow-up Plan No. 3 of 1970; Nuclear Waste inspection reveals significant RIN: Policy Act of 1982 2060–AH63 compliance issues. The main purpose CFR Citation: 40 CFR 193 of this revision is to eliminate EPA’s Legal Deadline: None 3436. REVISION OF THE 40 CFR PART obligation to approve DOE sites on a 194 WASTE ISOLATION PILOT PLANT waste stream by waste stream basis. Abstract: This voluntary action will COMPLIANCE CRITERIA Our understanding of DOE’s operations allow low-activity mixed radioactive Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant has improved considerably since wastes to be disposed in facilities that 194.8(b) went final in May 1998. We meet the design requirements for Legal Authority: PL 102-579; PL 104- now recognize that approving sites by RCRA-C disposal cells. The wastes 201; Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Land waste stream, using a comment period, intended to be disposed of in these Withdrawal Act of 1992; 106 Stat. 4777 is unnecessarily time-consuming for cells are mixed wastes, consisting of a as amended by the 1996 LWA EPA staff, confusing for DOE, and chemically hazardous component and Amendments generates almost no public comment. In low levels of radioactivity. These CFR Citation: 40 CFR 194.8(b) addition, repetitive inspections at sites wastes are anticipated to arise in the Legal Deadline: None are expensive and provide little commercial sector from various additional regulatory confidence. This sources. The rule is intended to Abstract: This rule would change some rule will save money and will greatly increase disposal options for these of the language in Section 194.8(b) of improve the effectiveness of our wastes and offer a streamlined the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) interactions with DOE. regulatory process which melds Compliance Criteria without deleting hazardous chemical protection and any of the requirements for the Timetable: radioactivity protection requirements Department of Energy’s (DOE) Action Date FR Cite while protecting public health and compliance. Section 194.8(b) explains NPRM 06/00/01 safety. The rule does not mandate a the process by which EPA inspects and Final Action 06/00/02 disposal method, but rather permits an approves waste characterization alternative to existing disposal processes at DOE transuranic waste Regulatory Flexibility Analysis methods. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory sites that send waste to the WIPP. The Required: No Commission is anticipated to be the 194.8(b) process involves a public Small Entities Affected: No implementing Agency for the comment period. Most of the language application of this rule. in Section 194.8(b) will be left intact. Government Levels Affected: Federal Timetable: The most significant change would Additional Information: SAN No. 4403 eliminate a statement that EPA will Agency Contact: Action Date FR Cite follow the 194.8(b) notice-and-comment Scott Monroe, NPRM 12/00/01 process each time a previously- Environmental Protection Agency, Air Final Action 12/00/02 approved site seeks to send a different and Radiation, 6608J, Washington, DC ‘‘waste stream’’ to the WIPP. Other 20460 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Phone: 202 564-9712 Required: No changes would correct certain terminology and clarify the important Fax: 202 565-2062 Small Entities Affected: No elements of our inspections. This rule Email: [email protected] Government Levels Affected: Federal would eliminate the ambiguity of the RIN: 2060–AJ07
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) Proposed Rule Stage Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
3437. PLANT INCORPORATED Abstract: Substances that plants incorporated protectants and will PROTECTANTS (FORMERLY PLANT produce to protect themselves against clarify the relationship between plants PESTICIDES) RULEMAKINGS pests are pesticides under FIFRA if and plant-incorporated protectants and Priority: Other Significant humans intend to use them to destroy, exempt conventional breeding and prevent, repel or mitigate any pest. The establishes a new part in title 40 of the Legal Authority: 21 USC 346(a) et seq; Agency designates these substances, CFR, part 174, which consolidates 7 USC 136 et seq along with the genetic material regulations specific for plant-pesticides CFR Citation: 40 CFR 152.20; 40 CFR necessary to produce them, plant- in one part of the CFR. The proposed 174 pesticides. This rulemaking will change consolidation is expected to benefit the Legal Deadline: None the name of these pesticides to plant- public by providing greater focus,
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enhanced clarity and ease of use. These 3438. DATA REQUIREMENTS FOR 3439. PESTICIDES; PROCEDURES actions may reduce burden on both the PESTICIDE REGISTRATION; FOR REGISTRATION REVIEW regulated community and EPA. TOXICOLOGY, EXPOSURE AND PROGRAM RESIDUE CHEMISTRY Timetable: Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Action Date FR Cite Legal Authority: 7 USC 136(a)(g); 7 Legal Authority: 7 USC 136(a) to 136(y) NPRM 11/23/94 59 FR 60496 USC 136(w) Supplemental NPRM 07/22/96 61 FR 37891 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 158 CFR Citation: Not Yet Determined Supplemental NPRM 05/16/97 62 FR 27132 Legal Deadline: None Supplemental NPRM 04/23/99 64 FR 19958 Legal Deadline: None Request for Abstract: EPA will update the data Abstract: The Agency is establishing Comment on requirements specifically necessary for Alternate Name procedures to implement section 3(g) of the Agency to evaluate the registrability the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Supplemental NPRM 04/00/01 of pesticide products. The revisions Seeks Additional Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) which will clarify all data requirements to Comment on Other provides for periodic review of reflect current practice. Procedural and Exemptions pesticide registrations. The goal of Final Action 04/00/01 explanatory sections of the current regulations will be amended to make these regulations is to review a Regulations Under pesticide’s registration every 15 years. FFDCA (Tolerance them consistent with the revised data Exemptions) requirements and new use indexing. Timetable: Final Action 04/00/01 EPA intends to accomplish this Regulations Under revision through a series of proposals, Action Date FR Cite FIFRA covering different data disciplines and ANPRM Pesticides- 04/26/00 65 FR 24586 Final Action - Final 04/00/02 product types. This proposal is limited Procedural Decision on to human health and exposure data Regulations for Remaining FFDCA requirements. Registration Review Tolerance NPRM 12/00/01 Exemptions Timetable: Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Action Date FR Cite Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: Undetermined Required: No NPRM - Toxicology, 12/00/01 Exposure and Small Entities Affected: Businesses Small Entities Affected: Businesses, Residue Chemistry Organizations Portions Government Levels Affected: Federal Government Levels Affected: Federal Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Additional Information: SAN No. 4170 Required: Undetermined Additional Information: SAN No. 2684 Sectors Affected: 32519 Other Basic Small Entities Affected: Businesses Sectors Affected: 32532 Pesticide and Organic Chemical Manufacturing; Other Agricultural Chemical Government Levels Affected: Federal 32532 Pesticide and Other Agricultural Manufacturing; 111 Crop Production; Chemical Manufacturing; 32551 Paint Additional Information: SAN No. 2687 54171 Research and Development in and Coating Manufacturing; 32561 Soap and Cleaning Compound Manufacturing the Physical Sciences and Engineering Sectors Affected: 32532 Pesticide and Sciences Other Agricultural Chemical Agency Contact: Vivian Prunier, Manufacturing Agency Contact: Janet Andersen, Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Protection Agency, Agency Contact: Carol Peterson, Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Environmental Protection Agency, Toxic Substances, 7506C, Washington, Toxic Substances, 7501W, Washington, Office of Prevention, Pesticides and DC 20460 DC 20460 Toxic Substances, 7506C, Washington, Phone: 703 308-9341 Phone: 703 308-8712 DC 20460 Fax: 703 308-5884 Email: [email protected] Phone: 703 305-6598 Email: [email protected] Fax: 703 305-5884 Elizabeth Milewski, Environmental Email: [email protected] Jean Frane, Environmental Protection Protection Agency, Office of Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides Jean Frane, Environmental Protection Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic and Toxic Substances, 7506C, Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides Substances, 7201, Washington, DC Washington, DC 20460 and Toxic Substances, 7506C, Phone: 703 305-5944 20460 Washington, DC 20460 Phone: 202 260-3573 Fax: 703 305-5884 Phone: 703 305-5944 Email: [email protected] Fax: 202 260-0949 Fax: 703 305-5884 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] RIN: 2070–AD29 RIN: 2070–AC02 RIN: 2070–AC12
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3440. DATA REQUIREMENTS FOR and Coating Manufacturing; 32561 Soap data requirements for environmental ANTIMICROBIAL PESTICIDE and Cleaning Compound Manufacturing fate and terrestrial and aquatic non- REGISTRATION; PRODUCT Agency Contact: Paul Parsons, target organisms (ecological effects). CHEMISTRY REQUIREMENTS Environmental Protection Agency, Timetable: Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Action Date FR Cite Legal Authority: 7 USC 136a, 136c, Toxic Substances, 7506C, Washington, NPRM 12/00/01 136w DC 20460 Phone: 703 308-9073 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 158 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Fax: 703 305-5884 Required: No Legal Deadline: None Email: [email protected] Small Entities Affected: Businesses Abstract: EPA will update and revise RIN: 2070–AD30 its pesticide data requirements for Government Levels Affected: Federal antimicrobial products. The data 3441. ∑ DATA REQUIREMENT FOR Additional Information: SAN No. 4496 requirements specify the data that are PESTICIDE REGISTRATION; Split from RIN 2070-AC12. required for EPA to evaluate the ENVIRONMENTAL FATE AND registrability of a pesticide product. ECOLOGICAL EFFECTS Sectors Affected: 32532 Pesticide and The revisions will clarify all Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Other Agricultural Chemical antimicrobial data requirements to Manufacturing reflect current practice. EPA will also Legal Authority: 7 USC 136(a) to 136(y) Agency Contact: Melissa Chun, update its product chemistry data CFR Citation: 40 CFR 158 requirements applicable to all products. Environmental Protection Agency, Legal Deadline: None Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Timetable: Abstract: EPA will update the data Toxic Substances, 7506C, Washington, Action Date FR Cite requirements specifically necessary for DC 20460 Phone: 703 305-4027 NPRM 06/00/01 the Agency to evaluate the registrability Fax: 703 305-5884 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis of pesticide products. The revisions will clarify all data requirements to Email: [email protected] Required: No reflect current practice. Procedural and Jean Frane, Environmental Protection Small Entities Affected: Businesses explanatory sections of the current Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides regulations will be amended to make Government Levels Affected: Federal and Toxic Substances, 7506C, them consistent with the revised data Washington, DC 20460 Additional Information: SAN No. 4173 requirements and new use indexing. Phone: 703 305-5944 Sectors Affected: 32519 Other Basic EPA intends to accomplish this Fax: 703 305-5884 Organic Chemical Manufacturing; revision through a series of proposals, Email: [email protected] 32532 Pesticide and Other Agricultural covering different data disciplines and Chemical Manufacturing; 32551 Paint product types. This proposal covers the RIN: 2070–AD47
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) Final Rule Stage Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
3442. PESTICIDE MANAGEMENT AND standards for container design, labeling Regulatory Flexibility Analysis DISPOSAL; STANDARDS FOR and refilling; and establish Required: No PESTICIDE CONTAINERS AND requirements for containment of Small Entities Affected: Businesses CONTAINMENT stationary bulk containers and for Government Levels Affected: Federal Priority: Other Significant containment of pesticide dispensing Additional Information: SAN No. 2659 Legal Authority: 7 USC 136(q) FIFRA areas. sec 19; 7 USC 136(a) FIFRA sec 3; 7 Timetable: Supplemental NPRM- USC 136(w) FIFRA sec 25 http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA- Action Date FR Cite CFR Citation: 40 CFR 156; 40 CFR 165 PEST/1999/October/Day-21/p27397.htm Legal Deadline: None NPRM (Container 02/11/94 59 FR 6712 Sectors Affected: 42291 Farm Supplies Design & Residue Abstract: FIFRA sec. 19 gives EPA Wholesalers; 32532 Pesticide and Other Removal & Bulk Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing; authority to regulate the management Containment) of pesticides and their containers, 11511 Support Activities for Crop Supplemental NPRM 12/21/99 64 FR 71368 Production including storage, transportation and Extension of disposal. As proposed, this rule would Comment Period Agency Contact: Nancy Fitz, establish standards for removal of Supplemental NPRM 02/24/00 65 FR 9234 Environmental Protection Agency, pesticides from containers and for Extension of Office of Prevention, Pesticides and rinsing containers; facilitate the safe Comment Period Toxic Substances, 7506C, Washington, use, refill, reuse, and disposal of Final Action 11/00/01 DC 20460 pesticide containers by establishing Phone: 703 305-7385
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Fax: 703 308-3259 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] RIN: 2070–AC93 Jean Frane, Environmental Protection Jude Andreasen, Environmental Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides Protection Agency, Office of and Toxic Substances, 7506C, 3445. REGISTRATION Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Washington, DC 20460 REQUIREMENTS FOR Substances, 7506C, Washington, DC Phone: 703 305-5944 ANTIMICROBIAL PESTICIDE 20460 Fax: 703 305-5884 PRODUCTS; AND OTHER PESTICIDE Phone: 703 308-9342 Email: [email protected] REGULATORY CHANGES Fax: 703 308-3259 RIN: 2070–AC46 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Email: [email protected] Legal Authority: 7 USC 136(a)(h); 7 RIN: 2070–AB95 3444. WPS; PESTICIDE WORKER USC 136(w) PROTECTION STANDARD; GLOVE CFR Citation: 40 CFR 152; 40 CFR 156 3443. GROUNDWATER AND AMENDMENT Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, PESTICIDE MANAGEMENT PLAN Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant September 15, 2000, The Final Rule is RULE Legal Authority: 7 USC 136(w) due 240 days after close of comment Priority: Other Significant period. CFR Citation: 40 CFR 170 Legal Authority: 7 USC 136(a) FIFRA Abstract: This regulation will specify sec 3; 7 USC 136(w) Legal Deadline: None antimicrobial registration reforms that CFR Citation: 40 CFR 152.170 Abstract: This final rule would create will reduce to the extent possible the review time for antimicrobial Legal Deadline: None greater flexibility in requirements of the 1992 Worker Protection Standard pesticides. The regulation will clarify Abstract: This regulation would related to the use of gloves by workers criteria for completeness of establish Pesticide Management Plans and applicators. applications, and will specify or refer (PMPs) as a new regulatory requirement to a definition of the various classes for certain pesticides. Unless a State or Timetable: of antimicrobial pesticide use patterns tribal authority has an EPA-approved Action Date FR Cite and the associated data and labeling Plan specifying risk-reduction requirements that would be consistent NPRM Glove 09/09/97 62 FR 47544 measures, use of the chemical would with the degree and type of risk be prohibited. The rule would also Requirement Final Action 09/00/01 presented by each class. In addition, specify procedures and deadlines for the regulation will also include labeling development, approval and Regulatory Flexibility Analysis standards for public health modification of plans by States and Required: No antimicrobial products. This regulation tribal authorities. Small Entities Affected: No will also implement some general Timetable: provisions of FIFRA pertaining to all Government Levels Affected: Federal pesticides, including labeling Action Date FR Cite Additional Information: SAN No. 3731 requirements. EPA intends to NPRM 06/26/96 61 FR 33259 NPRM- promulgate these last provisions Notice of Availability 02/23/00 65 FR 8925 http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA- separately from the antimicrobial regarding portion of the proposal. Metolachlor PEST/1997/September/Day- Timetable: Supplemental NPRM - 03/24/00 65 FR 15885 09/p23833.htm Notice of Availability Action Date FR Cite and Extension of Sectors Affected: 111 Crop Production; Comment Period 1114 Greenhouse, Nursery and NPRM Reg. Require. 09/17/99 64 FR 50671 for Anti Pest. Final Action 06/00/01 Floriculture Production; 1131 Timber Tract Operations; 115 Support Products/Other Pest Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Activities for Agriculture and Forestry Reg Changes Required: No Notice Extends 11/16/99 64 FR 62145 Agency Contact: John R. MacDonald, Small Entities Affected: No Comment Period to Environmental Protection Agency, January 18, 2000 Government Levels Affected: State, Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Final Action Labeling 05/00/01 Tribal, Federal Toxic Substances, 7506C, Washington, and other regulatory Additional Information: SAN No. 3222 DC 20460 portions Phone: 703 305-7370 Final Action 09/00/01 Sectors Affected: 9241 Administration Fax: 703 308-2962 Antimicrobial of Environmental Quality Programs Email: [email protected] procedural portion Agency Contact: Arthur-Jean B. only. Williams, Environmental Protection Jean Frane, Environmental Protection Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides Required: No and Toxic Substances, 7506C, and Toxic Substances, 7506C, Small Entities Affected: Businesses Washington, DC 20460 Washington, DC 20460 Phone: 703 305-5239 Phone: 703 305-5944 Government Levels Affected: Federal Fax: 703 308-3259 Fax: 703 305-5884 Additional Information: SAN No. 3892
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Sectors Affected: 32519 Other Basic and Allied Products Wholesalers; 42291 Jean M. Frane, Environmental Organic Chemical Manufacturing; Farm Supplies Wholesalers Protection Agency, Office of 32531 Fertilizer Manufacturing; 32532 Agency Contact: Cleo Pizana, Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Pesticide and Other Agricultural Environmental Protection Agency, Substances, 7506C, Washington, DC Chemical Manufacturing; 32551 Paint Office of Prevention, Pesticides and 20460 and Coating Manufacturing; 32561 Soap Toxic Substances, 7510C, Washington, Phone: 703 305-5944 and Cleaning Compound DC 20460 Email: [email protected] Manufacturing; 42269 Other Chemical Phone: 703 308-6431 Email: [email protected] RIN: 2070–AD14
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) Long-Term Actions Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
3446. REGULATORY REVIEW OF Sectors Affected: 9241 Administration Government Levels Affected: State, PESTICIDE EMERGENCY EXEMPTION of Environmental Quality Programs Federal REGULATIONS Agency Contact: Robert Forrest, Additional Information: SAN No. 3432 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Environmental Protection Agency, Agency Contact: David Stangel, Legal Authority: 7 USC 136(p) Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Environmental Protection Agency, CFR Citation: 40 CFR 166 Toxic Substances, 7505C, Washington, DC 20460 Office of Enforcement and Compliance Legal Deadline: None Phone: 703 308-9376 Assurance, 2225A, Washington, DC 20460 Abstract: EPA will propose revisions Phone: 202 564-4162 to its regulations on emergency Jean Frane, Environmental Protection Fax: 202 564-0028 exemptions under section 18 of the Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and and Toxic Substances, 7506C, RIN: 2020–AA33 Rodenticide Act. Emergency Washington, DC 20460 exemptions allow temporary use of a Phone: 703 305-5944 pesticide not in accordance with Fax: 703 305-5884 3448. ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR registration requirements when Email: [email protected] SCREENING PROGRAM emergency conditions exist. In the 1995 RIN: 2070–AD36 Priority: Other Significant Presidential Reinvention Initiative, EPA identified a number of issues and Legal Authority: 15 USC 2603 TSCA; options for change, which have been 3447. PESTICIDE MANAGEMENT AND 21 USC 346(a) FFDCA; 42 USC refined through informal discussions DISPOSAL 300(a)(17) SDWA; 7 USC 136 FIFRA with States, user groups, and other Priority: Other Significant CFR Citation: Not Yet Determined stakeholders. EPA is considering revisions in four areas: 1) Options for Legal Authority: 7 USC 136 et seq Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, August 3, 1999. increased authority for States to CFR Citation: 40 CFR 165 administer certain aspects of the Abstract: This final policy statement Legal Deadline: None exemption process, or increased use by will set forth EPA’s Endocrine EPA of multi-year exemptions, or some Abstract: This action develops Disruptor Screening Program and the combination of these; 2) the use of procedures for mandatory and procedures to be followed by regulated emergency exemptions to address voluntary recall actions under section entities and the Agency. EPA published pesticide resistance; 3) the possibility 19(b) of FIFRA and would establish a proposed policy statement setting of granting of exemptions based upon criteria for acceptable storage and forth the Screening Program on reduced risk considerations; and 4) disposal plans which registrants may December 28, 1998. In the final policy definitions of emergency situation and submit to this Agency to become statement, EPA will describe the significant economic loss, which affect eligible for reimbursement of storage screens and tests that it will require whether an exemption may be granted. costs. This action establishes as part of the Program. It also will Timetable: procedures for indemnification of address certain issues related to Action Date FR Cite owners of suspended and canceled implementing the Program. The major pesticides for disposal. actions in 2001-2003 will be the NPRM To Be Determined Timetable: standardization and validation of assays Regulatory Flexibility Analysis in the screening battery and the Required: No Action Date FR Cite completion of the priority setting Small Entities Affected: No NPRM 05/05/93 58 FR 26856 system. Government Levels Affected: State, Final Action 05/00/02 Timetable: Tribal, Federal Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Action Date FR Cite Required: No Federalism: Undetermined Notice Outline of 08/11/98 63 FR 42852 Additional Information: SAN No. 4216 Small Entities Affected: Businesses Screening Program
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Action Date FR Cite Small Entities Affected: No Fax: 202 401-1282 Government Levels Affected: Email: [email protected] Notice Proposed 12/28/98 63 FR 71542 Federal Screening Program Additional Information: SAN No. 4143 Anthony Maciorowski, Environmental & Request for Protection Agency, Office of Comment In August 2000, the Agency submited the required Status Report to Congress. Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic NPRM Proposed 06/00/02 Substances, 7201, Washington, DC Procedural Rule Agency Contact: Gary Timm, 20460 Final Action Final 06/00/03 Environmental Protection Agency, Phone: 202 260-3573 Screening Program Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Fax: 202 401-1282 Toxic Substances, 7201, Washington, Email: [email protected] Regulatory Flexibility Analysis DC 20460 Required: No Phone: 202 260-3573 RIN: 2070–AD26
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) Completed Actions Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
3449. TOLERANCES FOR PESTICIDE Email: [email protected] 3451. REGISTRATION OF GRANULAR EMERGENCY EXEMPTIONS RIN: 2070–AD15 FERTILIZER-PESTICIDE COMBINATION PRODUCTS Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant CFR Citation: 40 CFR 176 3450. POLICY OR PROCEDURES FOR NOTIFICATION TO THE AGENCY OF CFR Citation: 40 CFR 152.43 Completed: STORED PESTICIDES WITH Completed: Reason Date FR Cite CANCELED OR SUSPENDED Reason Date FR Cite Final Action Time- 10/25/00 65 FR 64126 REGISTRATION Limited Tolerances Priority: Other Significant Withdrawn - The 02/20/01 for Pest Exempt. Agency Plans No CFR Citation: 40 CFR 168 Further Work Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No Completed: Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No Government Levels Affected: State, Reason Date FR Cite Federal Withdrawn - Agency 03/21/01 Government Levels Affected: Federal Plans No Further Sectors Affected: 32532 Pesticide and Sectors Affected: 111 Crop Production; Work 112 Animal Production; 9241 Other Agricultural Chemical Administration of Environmental Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Manufacturing Quality Programs Required: No Agency Contact: Dan Kenny Agency Contact: Joe Hogue Government Levels Affected: State, Phone: 703 305-7546 Phone: 703 308-9072 Federal Email: [email protected] Fax: 703 305-5884 Federalism: Undetermined Jean Frane Email: [email protected] Agency Contact: David Stangel Phone: 703 305-5944 Jean Frane Phone: 202 564-4162 Fax: 703 305-5884 Phone: 703 305-5944 Fax: 202 564-0028 Email: [email protected] Fax: 703 305-5884 RIN: 2020–AA29 RIN: 2070–AD40
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) Proposed Rule Stage Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
3452. TEST RULE; ATSDR Legal Deadline: None Response, Compensation, and Liability SUBSTANCES Act (CERCLA) section 104(i). Abstract: EPA is proposing a test rule Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant under section 4(a) of the Toxic Under CERCLA, ATSDR is to establish Legal Authority: 15 USC 2603 TSCA Substances Control Act (TSCA) a list of priority hazardous substances 4; 42 USC 9604(i) CERCLA 104(i); 42 requiring manufacturers and processors found at superfund sites, develop USC 9601 CEERCLA; 15 USC 2611 of certain chemicals to fulfill data toxicological profiles for the hazardous TSCA 12; 42 USC 7401 112(b)(4) CAA; needs identified by the Agency for substances, identify priority data needs, 42 USC 7412 (b)(4)&(b)(1) CAA; 42 USC Toxic Substances and Disease Registry and establish a research program 7403 (d) CAA (ATSDR), the National Toxicology obtaining the necessary data. This Program (NTP), and EPA pursuant to action is a component of ATSDR’s CFR Citation: 40 CFR 790 to end the Comprehensive Environmental research program.
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Data from this action would provide OPPT use its TSCA section 4 testing rule announced March 4, 1991 (56 FR specific information about the authority to obtain health effects data 9092). substances for the public and scientific on a number of Oxygenated Fuel Timetable: community. The information would be Additives (OFA’s). These data are used in conducting comprehensive needed by EPA and others to increase Action Date FR Cite public health assessments of understanding of the toxicity of these NPRM 03/04/91 56 FR 9092 populations living near hazardous substances individually and in NPRM Reproposal 06/00/01 waste sites. Scientific data improves the comparison to each other as well as to Regulatory Flexibility Analysis quality of risk assessments used by other OFA’s such as methy t-butyl ether Required: No EPA, other Federal agencies, and State (MTBE). Small Entities Affected: and local governments. The risk Timetable: Businesses assessments affect standards, Government Levels Affected: Federal guidelines, listing/delisting, and other Action Date FR Cite Additional Information: SAN No. 4395 decisions affecting public health and Notice Solicit 06/00/01 the environment. Interested Parties Sectors Affected: 325 Chemical Timetable: Notice ECA 06/00/02 Manufacturing; 32411 Petroleum Refineries Action Date FR Cite Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No Agency Contact: Catherine Roman, NPRM 06/00/01 Environmental Protection Agency, Small Entities Affected: Businesses Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Required: No Government Levels Affected: None Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington, DC 20460 Small Entities Affected: Businesses Additional Information: SAN No. 4174 Phone: 202 260-8155 Sectors Affected: Government Levels Affected: State, 32411 Petroleum TDD Phone: 202 554-0551 Local, Tribal, Federal Refineries; 325 Chemical Manufacturing Fax: 202 401-3672 Additional Information: SAN No. 2563 Agency Contact: Charles M. Auer, Email: [email protected] Environmental Protection Agency, Sectors Affected: 32411 Petroleum Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Frank Kover, Environmental Protection Refineries; 325 Chemical Manufacturing Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington, Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides Agency Contact: Frank Kover, DC 20460 and Toxic Substances, 7405, Environmental Protection Agency, Phone: 202 260-3749 Washington, DC 20460 Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Fax: 202 260-8168 Phone: 202 260-8130 Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington, Email: [email protected] TDD Phone: 202 554-0551 DC 20460 Fax: 202 401-3672 Phone: 202 260-8130 George Semeniuk, Environmental Email: [email protected] TDD Phone: 202 554-0551 Protection Agency, Office of RIN: 2070–AD44 Fax: 202 401-3672 Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Email: [email protected] Substances, 7405, Washington, DC 20460 3455. FOLLOW-UP RULES ON Robert Jones, Environmental Protection Phone: 202 260-2134 EXISTING CHEMICALS Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides Fax: 202 401-3672 Priority: Routine and Frequent and Toxic Substances, 7405, Email: [email protected] Legal Authority: 15 USC 2604 TSCA Washington, DC 20460 RIN: 2070–AD28 Phone: 202 260-8150 5; 15 USC 2607 TSCA 8 Fax: 202 401-3672 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 704; 40 CFR 721; Email: [email protected] 3454. ∑ TEST RULE; MULTI- 40 CFR 707; 40 CFR 710 SUBSTANCE RULE FOR THE RIN: 2070–AB79 Legal Deadline: TESTING OF DEVELOPMENTAL AND None REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY Abstract: EPA has established a program to monitor the commercial 3453. TSCA SECTION 4 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant ENFORCEABLE CONSENT development of existing chemicals of AGREEMENT FOR CERTAIN Legal Authority: 15 USC 2603; 15 USC concern and/or to gather information to OXYGENATED FUEL ADDITIVES 2607(a); 15 USC 2611; 15 USC 2625 support planned or ongoing risk assessments on such chemicals. As Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant CFR Citation: 40 CFR 799; 40 CFR 704 these chemicals are identified, EPA will Legal Authority: 15 USC 2603; 15 USC Legal Deadline: None initiate rulemakings under the Toxic 2611; 15 USC 2625 Abstract: EPA is proposing a test rule Substances Control Act (TSCA) sections CFR Citation: 40 CFR 790 to 799 under section 4 of the Toxic Substances 5 and/or 8 to require reporting of Control Act (TSCA) that would require appropriate needed information by the Legal Deadline: None manufacturers, defined by statute to manufacturers, importers and/or Abstract: EPA’s Office of Air and include importers, and processors of processors of these chemicals. Radiation (OAR/EPA) in the seven (7) substances to conduct testing Individual proposed or final rules will administration of section 211 of the for developmental and/or reproductive be published on at least the chemicals Clean Air Act (CAA), has requested that toxicity. This is a re-proposal of a test listed below.
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Timetable: Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington, Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington, Action Date FR Cite DC 20460 DC 20460 Phone: 202 260-3945 Phone: 202 260-1560 NPRM 2,4- 09/27/89 54 FR 39548 Fax: 202 260-1096 Fax: 202 260-1096 Pentanedione Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] SNUR NPRM Chloranil 05/12/93 58 FR 27980 Mary Dominiak, Environmental John Bowser, Environmental Protection NPRM Benzidine- 08/30/95 60 FR 45119 Protection Agency, Office of Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides based Chemical Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic and Toxic Substances, 7405, Substances Substances, 7405, Washington, DC Washington, DC 20460 Final Action 10/07/96 61 FR 52287 Phone: 202 260-1771 Benzidine-based 20460 Chemical Phone: 202 260-7768 Fax: 202 260-1096 Substances Fax: 202 260-1096 Email: [email protected] NPRM Amendment to 12/00/01 Email: [email protected] RIN: 2070–AD48 Benzidine-based RIN: 2070–AA58 Chemical Substances SNUR 3457. LEAD-BASED PAINT Final Action 06/00/02 3456. ∑ SIGNIFICANT NEW USE RULE; ACTIVITIES; TRAINING AND Amendment to SELECTED FLAME RETARDANT CERTIFICATION FOR RENOVATION Benzidine-based CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES FOR USE IN AND REMODELING Chemical RESIDENTIAL UPHOLSTERED Priority: Other Significant. Major under Substances SNUR FURNITURE 5 USC 801. NPRM 2 ,4- 06/00/01 Pentanedione Priority: Routine and Frequent Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined SNUR (Reproposal) Legal Authority: 15 USC 2604 TSCA Legal Authority: 15 USC 2603 TSCA Final Action Final 12/00/02 5 title IV; PL 102-550 sec 402(c)(3) Chloranil SNUR NPRM Certain 10/00/01 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 704; 40 CFR 721; CFR Citation: 40 CFR 745 Chemical 40 CFR 707; 40 CFR 710 Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, Substances No Legal Deadline: None October 28, 1996. Longer in Production SNUR Abstract: EPA is proposing a Abstract: Under section 402(c)(2) of the NPRM Heavy Metal- 12/00/01 significant new use rule (SNUR) under Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Based Pigments in section 5 of the Toxic Substances Title IV, EPA conducted a study of the Aerosol Spray Control Act (TSCA) covering certain extent to which persons engaged in Paints SNUR flame retardant chemicals for use in renovation and remodeling activities in NPRM o-Tolidine & o- 12/00/01 residential upholstered furniture. The target housing are exposed to lead in Dianisidine-based SNUR would require companies the conduct of such activities or disturb Dyes (Benzidine wanting to import or manufacture these lead and create a lead-based paint Congener Dyes) chemicals for the significant new uses hazard. EPA must use the results of this NPRM 05/00/01 described in the proposed rule to study and consult with interested Methylcyclopentane parties to determine which categories SNUR submit a significant new use notice of renovation and remodeling activities NPRM p-Aminophenol 05/00/01 (SNUN) to the Agency at least 90 days & Bromo- prior to beginning those activities. require training and certification. EPA must then revise the training and chloromethane 8(a) Timetable: Chemical Specific certification regulations originally Rule Action Date FR Cite developed for individuals performing NPRM 2- 05/00/01 NPRM Flame 12/00/01 lead-based paint abatement under Ethoxyethanol & 2- Retardant section 402(c)(a) of TSCA Title IV to Methoxyethanol & Chemicals apply them to the renovation and 2-Methoxyethanol remodeling categories. If EPA Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Acetate determines that any category does not Required: No Regulatory Flexibility Analysis require certification, EPA must publish Required: No Small Entities Affected: Businesses an explanation of the basis for that Government Levels Affected: Federal determination. Small Entities Affected: Businesses, Governmental Jurisdictions Additional Information: SAN No. 4512 Timetable: Action Date FR Cite Government Levels Affected: Federal Split from RIN 2070-AA58. NPRM 09/00/01 Additional Information: SAN No. 1923 Sectors Affected: 325 Chemical Manufacturing; 313 Textile Mills; Final Action 02/00/03 Sectors Affected: 32411 Petroleum 337121 Upholstered Household Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Refineries; 325 Chemical Manufacturing Furniture Manufacturing Required: Yes Agency Contact: Barbara Leczynski, Agency Contact: Carolyn Grandson, Small Entities Affected: Businesses, Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Protection Agency, Governmental Jurisdictions, Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Organizations
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Government Levels Affected: State, Multifamily Housing Construction; Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Local, Tribal, Federal 23521 Painting and Wall Covering Toxic Substances, 7404, Washington, Contractors; 23551 Carpentry DC 20460 Additional Information: SAN No. 3557 Contractors; 23599 All Other Special Phone: 202 260-4664 Sectors Affected: 54138 Testing Trade Contractors; 53111 Lessors of Fax: 202 260-0770 Laboratories; 531311 Residential Residential Buildings and Dwellings Email: [email protected] Property Managers; 23321 Single Agency Contact: Mike Wilson, Family Housing Construction; 23322 Environmental Protection Agency, RIN: 2070–AC83
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) Final Rule Stage Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
3458. TSCA INVENTORY UPDATE access to relevant information on toxic 3459. TEST RULE; GENERIC ENTRY RULE AMENDMENTS chemicals. EPA has held meetings with FOR ITC RELATED TESTING Priority: Other Significant representatives of the chemical DECISIONS industry, environmental groups, Legal Authority: 15 USC 2607(a) TSCA Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant environmental justice leaders, labor 8(a) groups, State governments and other Legal Authority: 15 USC 2603 TSCA CFR Citation: 40 CFR 710 Federal agencies to ensure public 4; 15 USC 2611 TSCA 12 Legal Deadline: None involvement in the TSCA Inventory CFR Citation: 40 CFR 790 to 799 Abstract: This action would amend the Update Rule Amendments Project. Legal Deadline: None current Toxic Substances Control Act Timetable: (TSCA) Inventory Update Rule (IUR) to require chemical manufacturers to Action Date FR Cite Abstract: EPA is requiring testing via report to EPA data on exposure-related rules, or will obtain testing through NPRM 08/26/99 64 FR 46771 information and the industrial and enforceable consent agreements (ECAs) consumer end uses of chemicals they Notice Comment 10/22/99 64 FR 56998 or publish a notice which provides the Extension produce or import. Currently, EPA reasons for not doing so for chemicals requires chemical manufacturers to Final Action 06/00/01 listed herein. These chemicals have report the names of the chemicals they been designated for priority testing Regulatory Flexibility Analysis consideration by the ITC or produce, as well as the locations of Required: No manufacturing facilities and the recommended for testing consideration (for which the 12-month statutory quantities produced. About 3,000 Small Entities Affected: Businesses facilities reported data on about 9,000 requirement does not apply). The list unique chemicals during the last Government Levels Affected: Federal also includes chemicals or categories of reporting cycle under the IUR. Data chemicals which have been identified obtained would be used by EPA and Additional Information: SAN No. 3301 for testing consideration by other others to: better understand the Federal or other EPA offices through Sectors Affected: 324 Petroleum and EPA review processes. potential for chemical exposures; Coal Products Manufacturing; 325 screen the chemicals now in commerce Chemical Manufacturing Timetable: and identify those of highest concern; establish priorities and goals for their Agency Contact: Susan Krueger, Action Date FR Cite chemical assessment, risk management Environmental Protection Agency, ANPRM Aryl 12/29/83 48 FR 57452 and prevention programs, and monitor Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Phosphates (ITC the programs’ progress; encourage Toxic Substances, 7406, Washington, List 2) pollution prevention by identifying DC 20460 NPRM Aryl 01/17/92 57 FR 2138 potentially safer substitute chemicals Phosphates (ITC Phone: 202 260-1713 for uses of potential concern; and List 2) enhance the effectiveness of chemical Fax: 202 260-1661 NPRM Brominated 06/25/91 56 FR 29140 risk communication efforts. Email: [email protected] Flame Retardants Additionally, EPA will consider other Final Action-ECA 08/05/99 64 FR 42692 amendments to the IUR. These include Robert Lee, Environmental Protection DiBasic Esters removing the inorganic chemicals Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides (CPSC) exemption; providing the information and Toxic Substances, 7406, Final Action-ECA 06/15/00 65 FR 37550 Washington, DC 20460 1,1,2- to better assess and manage risks of Trichloroethane inorganic chemicals; improving the Phone: 202 260-0676 (TCE) linkages of IUR data to other data Fax: 202 260-1661 Final Action ITC 06/00/01 sources to enhance the data’s Email: [email protected] Chemicals (ITC List usefulness; and altering the confidential 28) business information (CBI) claim RIN: 2070–AC61 Final Action-ECA Aryl 06/00/01 procedures to reduce the frequency of Phosphates (ITC CBI claims, allowing the public greater List 2)
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Action Date FR Cite and requirements under section 112, 3461. TEST RULE; CERTAIN HIGH EPA must identify the health and PRODUCTION VOLUME (HPV) Final Action-ECA 06/00/01 environment effects of potential CHEMICALS Ethylene Dichloride (EDC) concern from exposure to HAPs, Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant ascertain the minimum data needed to Legal Authority: 15 USC 2603; 15 USC Regulatory Flexibility Analysis adequately characterize those health Required: 2611 to 2612; 15 USC 2625 to 2626 No and environmental effects, and assess Small Entities Affected: Businesses the risks posed by HAPs. In addition, CFR Citation: 40 CFR 790 to 799 Government Levels Affected: Federal under section 103(d), EPA is required Legal Deadline: None Additional Information: SAN No. 3493 to conduct a research program on the Abstract: This action is related to a short- and long-term effects of air challenge to industry on the eve of Sectors Affected: 32411 Petroleum pollutants on human health, ascertain Refineries; 325 Chemical Manufacturing Earth Day, April 21, 1998, to come the minimum data needed to forward quickly with needed test data Agency Contact: Frank Kover, adequately characterize those health on high production volume (HPV) Environmental Protection Agency, and environmental effects, and assess chemicals. This challenge encompasses Office of Prevention, Pesticides and the risks posed by HAPs. approximately 2,800 chemicals which Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington, are manufactured (including imported) DC 20460 Timetable: in the aggregate at more than 1 million Phone: 202 260-8130 Action Date FR Cite pounds on an annual basis. The data TDD Phone: 202 554-0551 needed on these chemicals are: acute Fax: 202 401-3672 NPRM 06/26/96 61 FR 33178 toxicity, repeat dose toxicity, Email: [email protected] Supplemental NPRM 12/24/97 62 FR 67466 developmental and reproductive Supplemental NPRM 04/21/98 63 FR 19694 toxicity; mutagenicity; ecotoxicity and David R. Williams, Environmental Final Action 12/00/01 environmental fate. This rule will Protection Agency, Office of require testing and recordkeeping Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Regulatory Flexibility Analysis requirements for certain chemicals for Substances, 7405, Washington, DC Required: No which industry does not voluntarily 20460 Small Entities Affected: Businesses agree to provide testing in a timely Phone: 202 260-3468 manner. The action is part of the Fax: 202 401-3672 Government Levels Affected: Federal Chemical Right-to-Know Initiative, Email: [email protected] which is described in the Regulatory RIN: 2070–AB94 Additional Information: SAN No. 3487 Plan. Industry has volunteered to conduct needed testing on over 2155 Supplemental NPRM- of these HPV chemicals. The first rule 3460. TEST RULE; HAZARDOUS AIR http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA- proposed testing for 37 unsponsored POLLUTANTS (HAPS) TOX/1997/December/Day- HPV chemicals with substantial worker Priority: Other Significant 24/t33451.htm exposure. The proposed rule was Legal Authority: 15 USC 2603 TSCA Supplemental NPRM- published in the Federal Register on December, 26, 2000. 4; 42 USC 7412 CAA 112; 42 USC 7403 http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA- CAA 103; 15 USC 2611 TSCA 12 AIR/1998/April/Day-21/a10494.htm Timetable: CFR Citation: 40 CFR 790 to 799 Action Date FR Cite Sectors Affected: 32411 Petroleum Legal Deadline: None Refineries; 325 Chemical Manufacturing NPRM 12/26/00 65 FR 81658 Abstract: EPA is proposing health Final Action 12/00/01 Agency Contact: effects testing under TSCA section 4 in Richard Leukroth, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis support of programs and activities Environmental Protection Agency, Required: No required under section 112 of the Clean Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Air Act (CAA), governing Hazardous Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington, Small Entities Affected: Businesses Air Pollutants (HAPs). Section 112 of DC 20460 Government Levels Affected: Federal the CAA directs EPA to determine the Phone: 202 260-0321 Additional Information: SAN No. 3990 risk to health and the environment Fax: 202 401-3672 See also the Regulatory Plan entry remaining after application of Email: [email protected] technology-based emissions standards entitled Chemical Right-to-Know Initiative (RIN 2070-AD25; SAN 4176). to major and area sources. Section 112 David R. Williams, Environmental also sets forth a mechanism for revising Protection Agency, Office of Sectors Affected: 32411 Petroleum and modifying the statutory list of 189 Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Refineries; 325 Chemical Manufacturing HAPs under section 112(b), and Substances, 7405, Washington, DC Agency Contact: Frank Kover, requirements for an accidental release 20460 Environmental Protection Agency, control program. These data will also Phone: 202 260-3468 Office of Prevention, Pesticides and be important for the right-to-know Fax: 202 401-3672 Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington, program given the large release of these Email: [email protected] DC 20460 chemicals to the atmosphere. In order Phone: 202 260-8130 to implement these and other programs RIN: 2070–AC76 TDD Phone: 202 554-0551
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Fax: 202 401-3672 Government Levels Affected: Federal individually by notice and comment Email: [email protected] Additional Information: SAN No. 4425 rulemaking and are listed below. Timetable: Keith Cronin, Environmental Protection Please note that this entry was Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides previously identified under RIN 2070- Action Date FR Cite and Toxic Substances, 7405, AB07. TSCA requires EPA to publich NPRM Alkyl & Sulfonic 06/11/86 51 FR 21199 Washington, DC 20460 the NPRM within one year of ITC Acid & Ammonium Phone: 202 260-8157 designation. Salt (84-1056) Fax: 202 401-3672 Sectors Affected: 325 Chemical NPRM 1-Decanimine- 12/08/87 52 FR 46496 Email: [email protected] Manufacturing; 32411 Petroleum N-Decyl-N-Methyl- N-Oxide (86-566) RIN: 2070–AD16 Refineries NPRM Aluminum 06/11/93 58 FR 32628 Agency Contact: Frank Kover, Cross-linked 3462. TEST RULE; IN VITRO DERMAL Environmental Protection Agency, Sodium Carboxy- ABSORPTION RATE TESTING OF Office of Prevention, Pesticides and methylcellulose CERTAIN CHEMICALS OF INTEREST Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington, Final Action Alkyl & 06/00/01 TO THE OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY DC 20460 Sulfonic Acid & AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION Phone: 202 260-8130 Ammonium Salt (84- 1056) TDD Phone: 202 554-0551 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Final Action 1- 06/00/01 Fax: 202 401-3672 Decanimine-N- Legal Authority: 15 USC 2603 TSCA Email: [email protected] 4; 15 USC 2611 TSCA 12 Decyl-N-Methyl-N- Oxide (86-566) CFR Citation: 40 CFR 700 to 799 Keith Cronin, Environmental Protection Final Action Aluminum 06/00/01 Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides Legal Deadline: None Cross-linked and Toxic Substances, 7405, Sodium Carboxy- Abstract: EPA is requiring Washington, DC 20460 methylcellulose manufacturers (which is defined by Phone: 202 260-8157 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis statute to include importers) and Fax: 202 401-3672 Required: No processors of 38 chemical substances of Email: [email protected] interest to the Occupational Safety and Small Entities Affected: No RIN: 2070–AD42 Health Administration (OSHA) to Government Levels Affected: None conduct testing for in vitro dermal Additional Information: SAN No. 1976 absorption rate testing. These 3463. FOLLOW-UP RULES ON NON- chemicals, and others, were designated 5(E) NEW CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES Sectors Affected: 324 Petroleum and for in vitro dermal absorption rate Coal Products Manufacturing; 325 Priority: testing in the 31st, 32nd, and 35th Routine and Frequent Chemical Manufacturing Reports of the TSCA section 4(e) Legal Authority: 15 USC 2604 TSCA Agency Contact: James Alwood, Interagency Testing Committee (ITC) to sec 5 Environmental Protection Agency, the EPA. Each of the chemical CFR Citation: 40 CFR 704; 40 CFR 721 Office of Prevention, Pesticides and substances included in this proposed Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington, Legal Deadline: None rule is produced in an amount equal DC 20460 to or greater than one million pounds Abstract: EPA regulates the commercial Phone: 202 260-1857 per year. In addition, each of the development of new chemicals that Fax: 202 260-0118 chemicals in this proposed rule was have completed premanufacture notice Email: [email protected] identified in the National Occupational (PMN) review. In a PMN review, the Exposure Survey (NOES) has having a Agency assesses whether or not a Flora Chow, Environmental Protection total potential worker exposure of chemical’s manufacture, import, Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides greater than 1,000 workers. OSHA has process, distribution, use, or disposal and Toxic Substances, 7405, indicated that it needs quantitative outside the activities described in the Washington, DC 20460 measures of dermal absorption rate in PMN may present an unreasonable risk. Phone: 202 260-3725 order to evaluate the potential hazard EPA will issue Significant New Use Fax: 202 260-0118 of these chemicals to workers. Rules (SNURs) requiring 90-day Email: [email protected] Timetable: notification to EPA from any RIN: 2070–AA59 manufacturer, importer, or processor Action Date FR Cite who would engage in activities that are NPRM OSHA 06/09/99 64 FR 31074 designated as significant new uses. 3464. SIGNIFICANT NEW USE RULE Chemicals Dermal Under the Expedited Follow-up Rule (SNUR); CHEMICAL-SPECIFIC SNURS Testing (ITC List 31, (EFUR) which became effective on TO EXTEND PROVISIONS OF 32 & 35) October 12, 1989, EPA will identify SECTION 5(E) ORDERS Final Action OSHA 05/00/01 Chemical Dermal such new chemicals and publish them Priority: Routine and Frequent Testing in a batch SNUR 3-4 times per year. Legal Authority: 15 USC 2604 TSCA Chemicals that were subject to a sec 5 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis proposed SNUR before the effective Required: No date of the EFUR or do not qualify CFR Citation: 40 CFR 721 Small Entities Affected: Businesses under the EFUR, may be regulated Legal Deadline: None
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Abstract: When the Agency determines Action Date FR Cite section 5 of the Toxic Substances that uncontrolled manufacture, import, Control Act (TSCA) covering certain New Effective Date 04/27/01 66 FR 9211 processing, distribution, use or disposal perfluoroalkyl sulfonyl-containing Significant New chemical substances. This SNUR would of a premanufacture notification (PMN) Uses of Certain substance may present an unreasonable Chemical require companies who wanted to risk, it may issue a section 5(e) consent Substances manufacture or import these chemicals order to limit these activities. However, Final Action Batch 04/00/01 for the significant new uses described such orders apply only to the PMN SNUR: 84-660/-704 in the proposed rule to submit a submitter. Once the new substance is & 84-105/-106/-107 Significant New Use Notice (SNUN) to & 85-433 entered on the Toxic Substances the Agency at least 90 days prior to Final Action Aromatic 05/00/01 beginning those activities. Control Act (TSCA) chemical inventory, Amino Ether (P90- others can manufacture, import or 1840) Timetable: process the substance without controls. Final Action Alkenyl 05/00/01 Action Date FR Cite Therefore, EPA extends the controls to Ether of Alkanetriol NPRM 10/18/00 65 FR 62319 apply to others by designating Polymer (93-458) Final Action 06/00/01 manufacture, import or processing of Final Action Certain 06/00/01 the substances for uses without the Chemical Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Substances (91- Required: No specified controls as significant new 1299/95-1667 91- uses. Under the Expedited Follow-Up 1298 91-1297 Small Entities Affected: Businesses Rule, which became effective on Final Action Certain 06/00/01 Government Levels Affected: None October 10, 1989 (54 FR 31314), EPA Chemical routinely publishes batch SNURs Substances Additional Information: SAN No. 4475 containing routine section 5(e) and Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Sectors Affected: 325 Chemical non-5(e) SNURs. However, certain Required: No Manufacturing activities, such as modifications, Small Entities Affected: No Agency Contact: Mary Dominiak, withdrawals, revocations, and SNURs Environmental Protection Agency, Government Levels Affected: None upon which comments are received in Office of Prevention, Pesticides and the direct final publication process, are Additional Information: SAN No. 3495 Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington, subject to notice and comment Sectors Affected: 324 Petroleum and DC 20460 rulemaking and are listed below. Coal Products Manufacturing; 325 Phone: 202 260-7768 Fax: 202 260-1096 Timetable: Chemical Manufacturing Agency Contact: James Alwood, Email: [email protected] Action Date FR Cite Environmental Protection Agency, Karen Lannon, Environmental Office of Prevention, Pesticides and NPRM Batch SNUR: 05/27/93 58 FR 30744 Protection Agency, Office of Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington, 84-660/-704 & 84- Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic 105/-106/-107 & 85- DC 20460 Substances, 7405, Washington, DC 433 Phone: 202 260-1857 20460 NPRM Aromatic 06/06/94 59 FR 29255 Fax: 202 260-0118 Phone: 202 260-2797 Amino Ether (P90- Email: [email protected] 1840) Fax: 202 260-1096 NPRM Alkenyl Ether 12/19/94 59 FR 65289 Flora Chow, Environmental Protection Email: [email protected] of Alkanetriol Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides RIN: 2070–AD43 Polymer (93-458) and Toxic Substances, 7405, NPRM Certain 06/26/97 62 FR 34421 Washington, DC 20460 3466. POLYCHLORINATED Chemical Phone: 202 260-3725 BIPHENYLS (PCBS); EXEMPTIONS Substances (91- Fax: 202 260-0118 FROM THE PROHIBITIONS AGAINST 1299/95-1667 91- Email: [email protected] 1298 91-1297 MANUFACTURING, PROCESSING, NPRM Certain 09/09/98 63 FR 48157 RIN: 2070–AB27 AND DISTRIBUTION IN COMMERCE Chemical Priority: Substances Substantive, Nonsignificant 3465. SIGNIFICANT NEW USE RULE; Legal Authority: 15 USC 2605 TSCA Direct Final Rule 12/26/00 65 FR 81386 CERTAIN PERFLUOROALKYL Significant New sec 6(e)(3)(B) SULFONYL (PFOS) CONTAINING Uses of Certain CFR Citation: Chemical CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES 40 CFR 761 Substances, Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Legal Deadline: None Effective 02/26/2001 Legal Authority: 15 USC 2604 TSCA Abstract: Section 6(e)(3)(B) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Delay of Effective Date 02/07/01 66 FR 9211 5 Significant New CFR Citation: 40 CFR 704; 40 CFR 721 provides that the Administrator may grant, by rule, exemptions from the Uses of Certain Legal Deadline: None Chemical prohibitions against manufacturing, Substances Abstract: EPA is proposing a processing and distribution in significant new use rule (SNUR) under commerce of PCBs upon finding that
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1) no unreasonable risk to health or the Abstract: On October 2, 1991, EPA 3468. SIGNIFICANT NEW USE RULE; environment will occur, and 2) good proposed a regulation of acrylamide REFRACTORY CERAMIC FIBERS faith efforts have been made by the and NMA grouts based on the petitioner to develop a substitute for unreasonable risk associated with their Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant PCB which does not pose an usage. EPA’s rule would prohibit the Legal Authority: 15 USC 2604 TSCA unreasonable risk of injury to health or manufacture, distribution in commerce, 5; 15 USC 2605 TSCA 6 the environment. In addition, the and use of acrylamide grout. In Interim Procedural Rules were February 1996, EPA reopened the CFR Citation: 40 CFR 704; 40 CFR 721 amended to require certain petitioners record for 30 days to take additional to reapply for EPA approval to continue comments, specifically to seek data on Legal Deadline: None PCB activities previously approved by the relative durability of acrylamide EPA. Abstract: EPA has instituted a program and NMA grouts. The Agency has to monitor the commercial Timetable: reviewed the comments and expects to development of existing chemicals of Action Date FR Cite promulgate the final rule in the Fall concern and/or to gather information to of 2001. NPRM (1) Group I 12/06/94 59 FR 62875 support risk assessments on such Final Action Group I 02/00/02 Timetable: chemicals. As these chemicals are NPRM (2) Group II 09/00/02 identified, EPA will initiate Action Date FR Cite rulemakings under the Toxic Regulatory Flexibility Analysis NPRM 10/02/91 56 FR 49863 Substances Control Act (TSCA) sections Required: No 5 and/or 6 to require reporting by the Notice Reopening 02/28/96 61 FR 7454 Small Entities Affected: Businesses, Record for manufacturers, importers and/or Governmental Jurisdictions Comments on processors of these chemicals. Proposed Government Levels Affected: Federal Durability of NMA rules may be published on at least the chemicals listed on the timetable Additional Information: SAN No. 2150 Final Action 12/00/01 below. Sectors Affected: 211 Oil and Gas Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Extraction; 2211 Electric Power Required: No Timetable: Generation, Transmission and Action Date FR Cite Distribution; 31-33 Manufacturing; 5133 Small Entities Affected: Businesses, Telecommunications; 6113 Colleges, Governmental Jurisdictions NPRM Refractory 03/21/94 59 FR 13294 Universities and Professional Schools; Ceramic Fiber Government Levels Affected: 622 Hospitals; 921 Executive, State, Final Action Refractory 03/00/02 Legislative, Public Finance and General Local, Tribal, Federal Ceramic Fiber Government Additional Information: SAN No. 2779 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Agency Contact: Peter Gimlin, Required: No Environmental Protection Agency, Sectors Affected: 22132 Sewage Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Treatment Facilities; 42269 Other Small Entities Affected: Businesses Toxic Substances, 7404, Washington, Chemical and Allied Products DC 20460 Wholesalers; 23491 Water, Sewer, and Government Levels Affected: None Pipeline Construction; 23491 Water, Phone: 202 260-3972 Additional Information: SAN No. 3528 Fax: 202 260-1724 Sewer, and Pipeline Construction; Email: [email protected] 32519 Other Basic Organic Chemical Sectors Affected: 327999 All Other Manufacturing; 32519 Other Basic Miscellaneous Nonmetallic Mineral Tony Baney, Environmental Protection Organic Chemical Manufacturing Product Manufacturing Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances, 7404, Agency Contact: John Bowser, Agency Contact: Cindy Fraleigh, Washington, DC 20460 Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Protection Agency, Phone: 202 260-3933 Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Fax: 202 260-1724 Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington, Toxic Substances, 7404, Washington, Email: [email protected] DC 20460 DC 20460 RIN: 2070–AB20 Phone: 202 260-1771 Phone: 202 260-1537 Fax: 202 260-1096 Fax: 202 260-1724 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 3467. ACRYLAMIDE; PROHIBITION ON MANUFACTURE, IMPORTATION, Charles Auer, Environmental Protection Peter Gimlin, Environmental Protection DISTRIBUTION AND USE OF Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides ACRYLAMIDE FOR GROUTING and Toxic Substances, 7405, and Toxic Substances, 7404, Priority: Other Significant Washington, DC 20460 Washington, DC 20460 Legal Authority: 15 USC 2605 TSCA Phone: 202 260-3749 Phone: 202 260-3972 sec 6; 15 USC 2607 TSCA sec 8 Fax: 202 260-8168 Fax: 202 260-1724 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 764 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Legal Deadline: None RIN: 2070–AC17 RIN: 2070–AC37
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3469. TSCA SECTION 8(A) Agency Contact: Paul Campanella, Sectors Affected: 32411 Petroleum PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT Environmental Protection Agency, Refineries; 325 Chemical Manufacturing INFORMATION RULES Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Agency Contact: Paul Campanella, Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington, Priority: Routine and Frequent Environmental Protection Agency, DC 20460 Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Legal Authority: 15 USC 2607(a) TSCA Phone: 202 260-3948 Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington, sec 8(a) Fax: 202 401-3672 DC 20460 Email: [email protected] CFR Citation: 40 CFR 712 Phone: 202 260-3948 Fax: 202 401-3672 Legal Deadline: None John R. Harris, Environmental Email: [email protected] Protection Agency, Office of Abstract: These rules add chemicals to Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic John Harris, Environmental Protection the list of chemicals and designated Substances, 7405, Washington, DC mixtures subject to the requirements of Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides 20460 and Toxic Substances, 7405, the Toxic Substances Control Act Phone: 202 260-8154 section 8(a) Preliminary Assessment Washington, DC 20460 Fax: 202 401-3672 Phone: 202 260-8154 Information Rule (40 CFR part 712). Email: [email protected] These chemicals have been identified Fax: 202 401-3672 by the Office of Pollution Prevention RIN: 2070–AB08 Email: [email protected] and Toxics, other EPA offices, and RIN: 2070–AB11 other Federal agencies, as well as 3470. TSCA SECTION 8(D) HEALTH recommended for testing consideration AND SAFETY DATA REPORTING 3471. NOTICE OF TSCA SECTION 4 by the Interagency Testing Committee. RULES REIMBURSEMENT PERIOD AND TSCA Manufacturers and importers are Priority: Routine and Frequent SECTION 12(B) EXPORT required to submit exposure-related NOTIFICATION PERIOD SUNSET Legal Authority: 15 USC 2607(d) TSCA data (EPA Form No. 7710-35) on the DATES FOR TSCA SECTION 4 sec 8(d) chemicals. These data will be used to SUBSTANCES monitor the levels of production, CFR Citation: 40 CFR 716 import and/or processing of these Priority: Info./Admin./Other Legal Deadline: None substances and the avenues of human Legal Authority: 15 USC 2603 TSCA and environmental exposure to these Abstract: These rules require 4; 15 USC 2611 TSCA 12 manufacturers, importers and substances. These data will also CFR Citation: 40 CFR 707; 40 CFR 790; processors to submit unpublished support risk assessment and test rule 40 CFR 791; 40 CFR 799 decisions. health and safety data on chemicals added to the requirements of the Toxic Legal Deadline: None Timetable: Substances Control Act section 8(d) Abstract: EPA is developing a list of Action Date FR Cite Health and Safety Data Reporting Rule substances that are or have been subject Final Action 37th ITC 02/28/96 61 FR 7421 (40 CFR part 716). These chemicals to TSCA section 4 testing actions which List have been identified by the Office of required testing under rules or Final Action 38th ITC 10/29/96 61 FR 55871 Pollution Prevention and Toxics, other Enforceable Consent Orders. EPA will List EPA offices, and other Federal agencies, identify sunset, or termination dates Final Action 38th ITC 12/11/96 61 FR 65186 as well as recommended for testing that will identify: (1) the end of section List - Stay consideration by the Interagency 4 reporting requirements (40 CFR 790); Final Action 38th ITC 01/07/98 63 FR 684 Testing Committee. (2) the end of the reimbursement period List - Stay/Technical Timetable: under which persons subject to test Amendments rules are subject to an obligation to Final Action 38th ITC 01/11/00 65 FR 1548 Action Date FR Cite reimburse test sponsors (40 CFR 791); List - Revocation Final 38th ITC List 10/29/96 61 FR 55871 and (3) the end of the period during Final Action 39th ITC 01/11/00 65 FR 1548 Final 38th ITC List - 12/11/96 61 FR 65186 which export notification requirements List Stay under TSCA section 12(b) are triggered. Final Action 41st ITC 07/05/00 65 FR 41371 Final 38th ITC List - 01/07/98 63 FR 684 Timetable: List Stay/Technical Final Action 42nd ITC 07/24/00 65 FR 45535 Amendment Action Date FR Cite List Final Action 38th ITC 01/11/00 65 FR 1548 Final Action 06/00/01 Final Action 47th ITC 04/00/01 List - Revocation List Final Action 39th, 41st 06/00/01 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Regulatory Flexibility Analysis and 42nd ITC List Required: No Required: No Final Action 47th ITC 08/00/01 Small Entities Affected: Businesses, List Governmental Jurisdictions, Small Entities Affected: Businesses Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Organizations Government Levels Affected: None Required: No Government Levels Affected: Federal Additional Information: SAN No. 2178 Small Entities Affected: Businesses Additional Information: SAN No. 3559 Sectors Affected: 32411 Petroleum Government Levels Affected: None Sectors Affected: 32411 Petroleum Refineries; 325 Chemical Manufacturing Additional Information: SAN No. 1139 Refineries; 325 Chemical Manufacturing
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Agency Contact: Frank Kover, compliance activity and to prioritize companies considering participating in Environmental Protection Agency, inspections. This rule supports 40 CFR the section 8(e) Compliance Audit Office of Prevention, Pesticides and part 745, subpart L to ensure that lead Program (CAP). As a result of this Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington, abatement professionals who inspect, review, EPA determined that parts of DC 20460 assess and remove lead-based paint, the 1978 Policy Statement concerning Phone: 202 260-8130 dust or soil are well qualified, trained, the reportability of information on TDD Phone: 202 554-0551 and certified to conduct these activities. widespread and previously Fax: 202 401-3672 Timetable: unsuspected distribution in Email: [email protected] environmental media and emergency Action Date FR Cite incidents of environmental David R. Williams, Environmental NPRM 01/22/01 66 FR 7207 contamination needed some refinement. Protection Agency, Office of Final Action 08/00/01 The subject Federal Register action Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Regulatory Flexibility Analysis solicited comment on refined reporting Substances, 7405, Washington, DC guidance concerning widespread and Required: No 20460 previously unsuspected distribution in Phone: 202 260-3468 Small Entities Affected: Businesses, environmental media and provides Fax: 202 401-3672 Governmental Jurisdictions, additional circumstances where Email: [email protected] Organizations information is not reportable because it RIN: 2070–AC84 Government Levels Affected: State, is considered known to the Local, Tribal, Federal Administrator. Finally, the notice solicited comments on changes to the Additional Information: SAN No. 4172 3472. LEAD; NOTIFICATION section 8(e) reporting deadline and REQUIREMENTS FOR LEAD-BASED Sectors Affected: 611519 Other reaffirmed the standards for claims of PAINT ABATEMENT ACTIVITIES AND Technical and Trade Schools confidentiality for information TRAINING Agency Contact: Mike Wilson, contained in a notice of substantial risk Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Environmental Protection Agency, under section 8(e). Legal Authority: 15 USC 2682 TSCA Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Timetable: Toxic Substances, 7404, Washington, 402; 15 USC 2687 TSCA 407; PL 102- Action Date FR Cite 550 DC 20460 Phone: 202 260-4664 NPRM 07/13/93 58 FR 37735 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 745 Fax: 202 260-0770 Final Action 06/00/01 Legal Deadline: Email: [email protected] None Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Abstract: EPA is issuing this rule RIN: 2070–AD31 Required: No under the authority of Section 407 of Small Entities Affected: Businesses the Toxic Substances Control Act 3473. TSCA SECTION 8(E) POLICY; (TSCA) to establish notification NOTICE OF CLARIFICATION Government Levels Affected: None procedures for lead abatement Additional Information: professionals (certified under 40 CFR Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant SAN No. 3118 745.226) conducting lead-based paint Legal Authority: 15 USC 2607(e) TSCA Sectors Affected: 32411 Petroleum activities, and training programs sec 8(e) Refineries; 325 Chemical Manufacturing (accredited under 40 CFR 225) CFR Citation: Not Yet Determined providing lead-based paint activities Agency Contact: Richard Hefter, courses. Specifically, this rule seeks to Legal Deadline: None Environmental Protection Agency, establish procedures to notify the Abstract: The TSCA section 8(e) Notice Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Agency prior to commencement of of Clarification and Solicitation of Toxic Substances, 7403, Washington, lead-based paint abatement activities as Public Comment would amend certain DC 20460 required by 40 CFR 745.227(e)(4). In aspects of the 1978 TSCA section 8(e) Phone: 202 260-3470 addition, this rule seeks to establish Statement of Interpretation and Fax: 202 260-1216 provisions which would require Enforcement Policy (1978 Policy Email: [email protected] training programs accredited under 40 Statement). The 1978 Policy Statement Terry O’Bryan, Environmental CFR 745.225 to notify the Agency describes the types of information that Protection Agency, Office of under the following conditions: 1) prior EPA considers reportable under section Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic to providing lead-based paint activities, 8(e), the substantial risk reporting Substances, 7403, Washington, DC training , and 2) following completion provision of TSCA, and describes the 20460 of lead-based paint activities courses. procedures for reporting such Phone: 202 260-3483 These notification requirements are information to EPA. This clarification Fax: 202 260-1216 necessary to provide EPA compliance effort derives from a review of the Email: [email protected] monitoring and enforcement personnel existing section 8(e) guidance done in with information necessary to track the context of questions raised by RIN: 2070–AC80
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3474. PESTICIDES; TOLERANCE Phone: 703 305-6598 access pesticide tolerances throughout PROCESSING FEES Fax: 703 305-5884 year. Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Email: [email protected] Sectors Affected: 32532 Pesticide and Legal Authority: 21 USC 346(a) Other Agricultural Chemical Jean Frane, Environmental Protection Manufacturing CFR Citation: 40 CFR 180.33 Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances, 7506C, Agency Contact: Robert McNally, Legal Deadline: None Washington, DC 20460 Environmental Protection Agency, Abstract: In 1996, the Food Quality Phone: 703 305-5944 Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Protection Act amended the Federal Fax: 703 305-5884 Toxic Substances, 7508C, Washington, Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to Email: [email protected] DC 20460 require EPA to charge tolerance fees Phone: 703 308-8085 RIN: that, in the aggregate, will cover all 2070–AD23 Fax: 703 308-8041 costs associated with processing Email: [email protected] tolerance actions, including filing a 3475. PESTICIDE TOLERANCE tolerance petition, and establishing, REASSESSMENT PROGRAM Joseph Nevola, Environmental modifying, leaving in effect, or revoking Protection Agency, Office of Priority: Other Significant a tolerance or tolerance exemption. Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Since 1983 (the last time a cost analysis Legal Authority: 21 USC 346(a)(q) Substances, 7508C, Washington, DC 20460 was conducted), factors such as CFR Citation: 40 CFR 180 expanded data requirements, changes Phone: 703 308-8037 in risk assessment methods, Legal Deadline: Other, Statutory, Email: [email protected] improvements in data base management August 3, 2002, See additional RIN: 2070–AD24 and tracking systems, and the information. increasing complexity of scientific Abstract: EPA will reassess pesticide 3476. VOLUNTARY CHILDREN’S review of petitions have resulted in tolerances and exemptions for raw and CHEMICAL EVALUATION PROGRAM costs substantially exceeding the fees processed foods established prior to (VCCEP) currently charged. This rule will adjust August 3, 1996, to determine whether Priority: Other Significant the fee structure and fee amounts for they meet the reasonable certainty of tolerance actions. no harm standard of the Federal Food, Legal Authority: 15 USC 2603 TSCA Timetable: Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA). 4; 15 USC 2611 TSCA 12; 15 USC 2625 FFDCA sec. 408(q), as amended by the TSCA 26 Action Date FR Cite Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA). CFR Citation: 40 CFR 790 to 799 NPRM Pesticides- 06/09/99 64 FR 31039 FQPA requires that EPA conduct this Legal Deadline: None Tolerance reassessment on a phased 10-year Processing Fees schedule. Based on its reassessment, Abstract: EPA has held public Supplemental NPRM 07/24/00 65 FR 45569 EPA will take a series of regulatory meetings to involve stakeholders in the Processing Fees for actions to modify or revoke tolerances. design and development of a voluntary Inert Ingredients Since such actions are issued on a program to evaluate commercial Supplemental NPRM 08/31/00 65 FR 52979 chemical-by-chemical basis, this chemicals to which children may have Reopening of regulatory plan entry does not list the a high likelihood of exposure. The Comment Period purpose of the voluntary program is to Final Action To Be Determined individual actions that are likely to occur under this program. For status obtain toxicity and exposure data Regulatory Flexibility Analysis information about the individual needed to assess the risk of childhood Required: No chemicals, go to exposure to commercial chemicals. EPA Small Entities Affected: Businesses http://www.epa.gov/pesticides. launched a pilot of this program on December 26,2000. Manufacturers of 23 Government Levels Affected: Federal Timetable: chemicals have been asked to Additional Information: SAN No. 4027 Action Date FR Cite voluntarily sponsor their chemicals in the pilot. If an adequate voluntary NPRM- NPRM To Be Determined children’s chemical evaluation program http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA- Final Action To Be Determined fails to emerge from the stakeholder PEST/1999/June/Day-09/p14477.htm Regulatory Flexibility Analysis involvement process, EPA may proceed Supplemental NPRM- Required: No with development of a test rule under http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA- Small Entities Affected: No section 4 of the Toxic Substances PEST/2000/July/Day-24/p18646.htm Control Act (TSCA). Government Levels Affected: Federal Sectors Affected: 32532 Pesticide and Timetable: Additional Information: SAN No. 4175 Other Agricultural Chemical Action Date FR Cite Manufacturing LEGAL DEADLINE CONT: EPA is Notice Initiation of 08/26/99 64 FR 46673 Agency Contact: Carol Peterson, required to complete reassessments on Stakeholder Environmental Protection Agency, a phased schedule of: 33 percent by Process- Notice of Office of Prevention, Pesticides and August 3; 1999; 66 percent by August Public Meetings Toxic Substances, 7506C, Washington, 3; 2002; and 100 percent by August 3; Notice Cancellation of 01/13/00 65 FR 2163 DC 20460 2006. The Agency will continue to Public Meeting
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Action Date FR Cite of priority hazardous substances found 3478. LEAD; REGULATORY at superfund sites, develop INVESTIGATION UNDER THE TOXIC Notice Stakeholder 03/29/00 65 FR 16590 toxicological profiles for the hazardous SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT (TSCA) Involvement substances, identify priority data needs, TO REDUCE LEAD (PB) Process - Notice of Public Meeting and establish a research program CONSUMPTION AND USE Notice Voluntary 12/26/00 65 FR 81700 obtaining the necessary data. This Priority: Other Significant. Major status Children’s Chemical action is a component of ATSDR’s under 5 USC 801 is undetermined. Evaluation Program research program. Data from this action - Pilot would provide specific information Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined Notice 08/00/03 about the substances for the public and Legal Authority: 15 USC 2605 TSCA Regulatory Flexibility Analysis scientific community. The information 6 would be used in conducting Required: No CFR Citation: comprehensive public health 40 CFR 745 Small Entities Affected: Businesses assessments of populations living near Legal Deadline: None Government Levels Affected: State, hazardous waste sites. Scientific data Abstract: This action initiates a Local, Tribal, Federal improves the quality of risk regulatory investigation under the assessments used by EPA, other Federal Additional Information: SAN No. 2865 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) agencies, and State and local section 6 to determine if uses of lead Sectors Affected: 32411 Petroleum governments. The risk assessments (Pb) present an unreasonable risk to Refineries; 325 Chemical Manufacturing affect standards, guidelines, human health and the environment. Agency Contact: Ward Penberthy, listing/delisting, and other decisions The investigation will involve Environmental Protection Agency, affecting public health and the examination of the potential sources of Office of Prevention, Pesticides and environment. The metals are also human or other exposure to lead Toxic Substances, 7405, 7405, hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) under throughout the life cycle. Based on Washington, DC 20460 the Clean Air Act (CAA) section 112. information gathered EPA may propose Phone: 202 260-1730 Data from this action would also be TSCA section 6(a) rules to control Fax: 202 260-8168 used to implement several provisions existing or new uses of Pb which pose Email: [email protected] of section 112 of the CAA, including an unreasonable risk to human health determining risks remaining after the or the environment, and to explore the Catherine Roman, Environmental application of technology based on desirability and feasibility of Protection Agency, Office of standards under section 112(d) of the discouraging overall consumption of Pb Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic CAA, estimating the risks associated in general. Substances, 7405, Washington, DC with accidental releases, and 20460 determining whether or not substances Timetable: Phone: 202 260-8155 should be removed from the CAA Action Date FR Cite section (b)(1) list of HAPs (delisting). TDD Phone: 202 554-0551 ANPRM 05/13/91 56 FR 22096 Fax: 202 401-3672 Timetable: NPRM Proposed Ban 03/09/94 59 FR 11122 Email: [email protected] of Fishing Sinkers RIN: 2070–AC27 Action Date FR Cite Final Action - Fishing 12/00/02 Sinkers NPRM 05/00/02 3477. TEST RULE; CERTAIN METALS Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: Undetermined Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Required: No Small Entities Affected: Businesses Legal Authority: 15 USC 2603 TSCA Small Entities Affected: Businesses 4; 15 USC 2611 TSCA 12; 15 USC 2625 Government Levels Affected: Federal TSCA 26; 42 USC 9604(i) CERCLA Government Levels Affected: Federal Additional Information: SAN No. 3252 104(i) Additional Information: SAN No. 3882 Agency Contact: Doreen Cantor, CFR Citation: 40 CFR 790 to end Environmental Protection Agency, Legal Deadline: None Sectors Affected: 325 Chemical Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Abstract: EPA is proposing a test rule Manufacturing; 32411 Petroleum Toxic Substances, 7404, washington, under section 4(a) of the Toxic Refineries DC 20460 Phone: 202 260-1777 Substances Control Act (TSCA) Agency Contact: Frank Kover, requiring manufacturers and processors Fax: 202 260-0770 Environmental Protection Agency, Email: [email protected] of certain metals to fill data needs Office of Prevention, Pesticides and identified by the Agency for Toxic Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington, RIN: 2070–AC21 Substances and Disease Registry DC 20460 (ATSDR), the National Toxicology Phone: 202 260-8130 3479. ASBESTOS MODEL Program (NTP), and EPA pursuant to TDD Phone: 202 554-0551 ACCREDITATION PLAN REVISIONS the Comprehensive Environmental Fax: 202 401-3672 Response, Compensation, and Liability Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Email: [email protected] Act (CERCLA) section 104(I). Under Legal Authority: 15 USC 2646 TSCA CERCLA, ATSDR is to establish a list RIN: 2070–AD10 sec 206
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CFR Citation: 40 CFR 763 3480. POLYCHLORINATED Toxic Substances, 7404, Washington, BIPHENYLS (PCBS); USE DC 20460 Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, AUTHORIZATIONS Phone: 202 260-3965 November 28, 1992. Priority: Other Significant. Major status Fax: 202 260-1724 Email: [email protected] Abstract: The Asbestos School Hazard under 5 USC 801 is undetermined. Abatement Reauthorization Act Legal Authority: 15 USC 2605(e) TSCA Tony Baney, Environmental Protection (ASHARA) amended TSCA to require sec 6(e) Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides that EPA revise its asbestos model CFR Citation: 40 CFR 761 and Toxic Substances, 7404, accreditation plan (MAP) to extend Legal Deadline: None Washington, DC 20460 training and accreditation requirements Phone: 202 260-3933 to include persons performing certain Abstract: The notice of proposed Fax: 202 260-1724 asbestos-related work in public or rulemaking that was published on Email: [email protected] commercial buildings, to increase the December 6, 1994, covered the minimum number of training hours manufacture (including import), RIN: 2070–AD27 required for accreditation purposes and processing, distribution in commerce, to effect other changes necessary to export use, disposal, and marking of 3481. LEAD-BASED PAINT implement the amendments. The PCBs. On June 29, 1998, EPA issued ACTIVITIES; TRAINING, upcoming notice of proposed a final rule involving the disposal ACCREDITATION, AND rulemaking (NPRM) will improve related provisions. Other provisions, CERTIFICATION RULE AND MODEL harmony of the existing interim final e.g., certain use authorizations and STATE PLAN RULE - BUILDING AND MAP with the Occupational Safety and import provisions, were to be addressed STRUCTURES Health Administration’s regulations to in separate actions. This rulemaking the extent consistent with applicable addresses a use authorization for Priority: Other Significant. Major status EPA statutes, and provide clarifications. certain non-liquid PCB applications, under 5 USC 801 is undetermined. which although currently in use have Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined Timetable: never been authorized under the PCB Action Date FR Cite regulations at 40 CFR part 761. Legal Authority: 15 USC 2603 TSCA Title IV; PL 102-550 sec 402; PL 102- Model Plan 05/13/92 57 FR 20438 Timetable: 550 sec 404 Interim Final 02/03/94 59 FR 5236 Action Date FR Cite CFR Citation: 40 CFR 745 Final Action 05/00/03 ANPRM 06/10/91 56 FR 26738 Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, April Regulatory Flexibility Analysis NPRM 12/06/94 59 FR 62788 28, 1994. Required: No Final Action 1 PCB 06/29/98 63 FR 35384 Disposal Provisions Abstract: The Residential Lead-Based Small Entities Affected: Businesses, NPRM Notice of Data 12/10/99 64 FR 69358 Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992 Governmental Jurisdictions Availability, mandates EPA promulgate regulations Reopening of governing lead-based paint (LBP) Government Levels Affected: State, Comment Period activities to ensure that individuals Local, Tribal, Federal NPRM Extension of 04/06/00 65 FR 18018 engaged in such activities are properly Comment Period trained, that LBP training programs are Federalism: Undetermined Final Action 2 Use 01/00/03 accredited, and that contractors Authorizations Additional Information: SAN No. 3148 engaged in such activities are certified. Regulatory Flexibility Analysis In addition, EPA must promulgate a Sectors Affected: 611519 Other Required: No Model State program which may be Technical and Trade Schools Small Entities Affected: Businesses, adopted by any State which seeks to Governmental Jurisdictions, administer and enforce a State Program. Agency Contact: Cindy Fraleigh, Organizations EPA promulgated regulations for Environmental Protection Agency, training and certification of training Government Levels Affected: State, Office of Prevention, Pesticides and programs for LBP activities and child Local, Tribal, Federal Toxic Substances, 7404, Washington, occupied facilities in 1996 (see 40 CFR DC 20460 Additional Information: SAN No. 4179 745). Regulations for LBP activities in Phone: 202 260-1537 Sectors Affected: 2211 Electric Power public and commercial buildings and Fax: 202 260-1724 Generation, Transmission and bridges and other structures are still Email: [email protected] Distribution; 211 Oil and Gas under development. Extraction; 31-33 Manufacturing; 5133 Tony Baney, Environmental Protection Timetable: Telecommunications; 622 Hospitals; Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides 6113 Colleges, Universities and Action Date FR Cite and Toxic Substances, 7404, Professional Schools; 921 Executive, NPRM (Buildings & 06/00/02 Washington, DC 20460 Legislative, Public Finance and General Structures) Phone: 202 260-3933 Government Final Action (Buildings 12/00/03 Fax: 202 260-1724 & Structures) Email: [email protected] Agency Contact: Peggy Reynolds, Environmental Protection Agency, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis RIN: 2070–AC51 Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Required: Undetermined
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Small Entities Affected: Businesses, developing a companion RCRA rule to 3483. CHEMICAL RIGHT-TO-KNOW Governmental Jurisdictions, suspend temporarily hazardous waste INITIATIVE; HIGH PRODUCTION Organizations management regulations applicable to VOLUME (HPV) CHEMICALS Government Levels Affected: State, lead-based paint debris which will be Priority: Other Significant subject to the new TSCA standards. Local, Tribal, Federal Legal Authority: 15 USC 4 TSCA; 15 Additional Information: SAN No. 4376 Timetable: USC 8 TSCA; 42 USC 313 TRI; 7 USC 136 FIFRA Sectors Affected: 23411 Highway and Action Date FR Cite Street Construction; 611519 Other CFR Citation: 40 CFR 700 et seq NPRM TSCA Proposal 12/18/98 63 FR 70189 Technical and Trade Schools Legal Deadline: None Comment Extension 02/12/99 64 FR 7158 Agency Contact: Joel Wolf, Extension of Abstract: The Chemical RTK Initiative Environmental Protection Agency, Comment Period was established in 1998 in response to Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Comment Extension 02/12/99 64 FR 7159 the finding that most commercial Toxic Substances, 7404, Washington, Extension of chemicals have very little, if any, DC 20460 Comment Period publicly available toxicity information Phone: 202 260-3890 Final Action 08/00/02 on which to make sound judgments Fax: 202 260-0770 about potential risks. There are three Email: [email protected] Regulatory Flexibility Analysis key components to this initiative, each RIN: 2070–AC64 Required: No of which is being implemented by EPA. Small Entities Affected: Businesses, These are: collecting and making public 3482. LEAD; MANAGEMENT AND Governmental Jurisdictions, screening level toxicity data for 2,800 DISPOSAL OF LEAD-BASED PAINT Organizations widely used commercial chemicals; DEBRIS additional health effects testing for Government Levels Affected: State, chemicals to which children are Priority: Other Significant Local, Tribal, Federal substantially exposed; and the listing Legal Authority: 15 USC 2601 to 2671; and lowering of thresholds for 42 USC 6901 to 6992 Additional Information: SAN No. 3508 persistent, bioaccumulative, toxic chemicals reported to the Toxic Release CFR Citation: 40 CFR 745 See also RCRA companion rule: Inventory (TRI). This Initiative will Legal Deadline: None Temporary Suspension of Toxicity involve several separate activities, with Characteristic Rule for Specified Lead- Abstract: any regulatory related actions included Currently, waste derived from Based Paint Debris (SAN ι4263; RIN lead-based paint (LBP) abatements is as separate entries in the Regulatory 2050-AE68)., managed under the Resource Agenda. Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) NPRM- Timetable: hazardous waste regulations. Other http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA- Action Date FR Cite Federal agencies (Department of TRI/1998/December/Day- Housing and Urban Development, 18/tri33326.htm Notice Data Collection 12/26/00 65 FR 81686 Department of Health and Human and Development Services) and several States and Sectors Affected: 233 Building, on HPV Chemiclas advocacy groups have expressed Developing and General Contracting; Initiative Completed 06/00/05 concern that the costs associated with 23321 Single Family Housing HPV Data to be received by the disposal of large volume Construction; 23332 Commercial and 06/2005. architectural components (e.g., doors Institutional Building Construction; and windows) may interfere with 23521 Painting and Wall Covering Regulatory Flexibility Analysis abatement activities. EPA’s Office of Contractors; 23542 Drywall, Plastering, Required: No Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Acoustical and Insulation Contractors; Small Entities Affected: Businesses, Substances and the Office of Solid 23511 Plumbing, Heating and Air- Governmental Jurisdictions Waste have initiated a joint rulemaking Conditioning Contractors; 23594 Government Levels Affected: Federal to address the disposal of these Wrecking and Demolition Contractors; architectural components. This 23592 Glass and Glazing Contractors; Additional Information: SAN No. 4176 rulemaking would develop disposal 54138 Testing Laboratories; 562111 See also items identified under the standards for these components under Solid Waste Collection following RINs 2070-AD09; 2070-AD38; the Toxic Substances Control Act RIN 2070-AD16; RIN 2070-AC27. (TSCA) title IV, (the definition of Agency Contact: Dave Topping, abatement under TSCA title IV, section Environmental Protection Agency, Sectors Affected: 32411 Petroleum 401(1)(B), includes disposal). The Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Refineries; 325 Chemical Manufacturing TSCA regulations would establish Toxic Substances, 7404, Washington, Agency Contact: Barbara Leczynski, appropriate disposal standards for LBP DC 20460 Environmental Protection Agency, architectural components and identify Phone: 202 260-7737 Office of Prevention, Pesticides and recycling and incineration activities Fax: 202 260-0770 Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington, that would be controlled or prohibited. Email: [email protected] DC 20460 To minimize duplication of waste Phone: 202 260-3945 management requirements, EPA is RIN: 2070–AC72 Fax: 202 260-1096
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Email: [email protected] Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Fax: 202 260-1096 Substances, 7405, Washington, DC Email: [email protected] Mary Dominiak, Environmental 20460 Protection Agency, Office of Phone: 202 260-7768 RIN: 2070–AD25
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) Completed Actions Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
3484. POLYCHLORINATED Education Programs; 92312 Lin Moos BIPHENYLS (PCBS); Administration of Public Health Phone: 202 260-1866 RECLASSIFICATION OF PCB AND Programs; 92411 Air and Water Fax: 202 260-0770 PCB CONTAMINATED ELECTRICAL Resource and Solid Waste Management Email: [email protected] EQUIPMENT FINAL RULE Agency Contact: Cindy Fraleigh RIN: 2070–AC63 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Phone: 202 260-1537 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 761 Fax: 202 260-1724 3487. ∑ POLYCHLORINATED Email: [email protected] Completed: BIPHENYLS (PCBS); RETURN OF PCB WASTE FROM U.S. TERRITORIES Tony Baney Reason Date FR Cite OUTSIDE THE CUSTOMS TERRITORY Phone: 202 260-3933 OF THE UNITED STATES Final Action . 04/02/01 66 FR 17601 Fax: 202 260-1724 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Email: [email protected] Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Required: No RIN: 2070–AC66 Legal Authority: 15 USC 2605 et seq Government Levels Affected: State, CFR Citation: 40 CFR sec 761.99(c) Federal 3486. LEAD; IDENTIFICATION OF Legal Deadline: None Sectors Affected: 211 Oil and Gas DANGEROUS LEVELS OF LEAD Abstract: This proposed interpretive Extraction; 2211 Electric Power PURSUANT TO TSCA SECTION 403 rule would allow the movement of PCB Generation, Transmission and Priority: Economically Significant. waste for disposal among any States of Distribution; 31-33 Manufacturing; 5133 Major under 5 USC 801. the United States, as defined in TSCA Telecommunications; 6113 Colleges, sections 3(13) and 3(14), regardless of CFR Citation: 40 CFR 745 Universities and Professional Schools; whether the waste enters or leaves the 622 Hospitals; 921 Executive, Completed: customs territory of the United States, Legislative, Public Finance and General Reason Date FR Cite provided that the PCBs in the waste Government were present in the United States on Agency Contact: Julie Simpson Final Action 01/05/01 66 FR 1205 January 1, 1979, when the ban on Phone: 202 260-7873 Identification of manufacturing took effect, and has Dangerous Levels Fax: 202 260-1724 of Lead remained within the United States Email: [email protected] since that date. This would allow PCB Regulatory Flexibility Analysis waste that was present in the territories Tony Baney Required: No and possessions at the time TSCA’s ban Phone: 202 260-3933 Government Levels Affected: State, on manufacturing took effect, and that Fax: 202 260-1724 Local, Tribal, Federal remained within the territories and Email: [email protected] possessions since that date, to be stored Sectors Affected: 2332 Residential RIN: 2070–AC39 and disposed of in any facility in the Building Construction; 235 Special United States that meets the Trade Contractors; 2352 Painting and requirements of 40 CFR part 761, 3485. ASBESTOS WORKER Wall Covering Contractors; 23551 subpart D. It would also allow PCBs PROTECTION RULE AMENDMENTS Carpentry Contractors; 23599 All Other that were present in the territories and Special Trade Contractors; 53111 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant possessions at the time TSCA’s bans Lessors of Residential Buildings and took effect, but were not designated as CFR Citation: 40 CFR 763 Dwellings; 531311 Residential Property waste until after that date, to be stored Completed: Managers; 54135 Building Inspection and disposed of in any subpart D Services; 61171 Educational Support Reason Date FR Cite facility in the United States, as long Services; 54138 Testing Laboratories; as the PCBs and PCB waste had Final Action 11/15/00 65 FR 69210 54161 Management Consulting remained in the United States. Finally, Services; 61151 Technical and Trade it would allow PCBs or PCB wastes that Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Schools; 92511 Administration of Required: No were transferred from an area in the Housing Programs United States that is outside the Government Levels Affected: State, Agency Contact: Dave Topping territories and possessions, but that was Local, Federal Phone: 202 260-7737 moved to a territory or possession after Sectors Affected: 92111 Executive Fax: 202 260-0770 January 1, 1979, and that has never left Offices; 92311 Administration of Email: [email protected] the United States, to be stored and
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disposed of in any subpart D facility Government Levels Affected: State, Office of Prevention, Pesticides and in the United States. EPA would not Local, Federal Toxic Substances, 7404, Washington, consider movement of any of these Additional Information: SAN No. 4488 DC 20460 wastes to the customs territory of the Phone: 202 260-3965 Sectors Affected: United States to be an import subject 211111 Crude Fax: 202 260-1724 Petroleum and Natural Gas Extraction; to the ban on manufacturing under Email: [email protected] TSCA section 6(e). 311 Food Manufacturing; 324 Petroleum and Coal Products Tony Baney, Environmental Protection Timetable: Manufacturing; 324 Petroleum and Coal Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides Products Manufacturing; 331 Primary Action Date FR Cite and Toxic Substances, 7404, Metal Manufacturing; 5622 Waste NPRM 11/01/00 65 FR 65654 Washington, DC 20460 Treatment and Disposal; 56292 Final Action 03/30/01 66 FR 17467 Phone: 202 260-3933 Materials Recovery Facilities; 92 Public Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Administration Fax: 202 260-1724 Required: Email: [email protected] No Agency Contact: Peggy Reynolds, Small Entities Affected: No Environmental Protection Agency, RIN: 2070–AD46
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) Proposed Rule Stage Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA)
3488. TRI; REVISIONS TO THE Timetable: 3489. TRI: APA PETITION-EPCRA 313 OTHERWISE USE ACTIVITY DEFINITION OF ‘‘OVERBURDEN’’ AS Action Date FR Cite EXEMPTIONS AND THE COAL IT RELATES TO THE MINING EXTRACTION ACTIVITIES EXEMPTION NPRM 10/00/01 INDUSTRY. Final Action 10/00/02 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant. Major status under 5 USC 801 is Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Legal Authority: 42 USC 11001 et seq undetermined. Required: Undetermined CFR Citation: 40 CFR 372 Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined Small Entities Affected: Businesses Legal Deadline: None Abstract: The regulatory definition for Legal Authority: 42 USC 11001 et seq Government Levels Affected: State, EPCRA section 313 defines Federal CFR Citation: 40 CFR 372 ‘‘overburden’’ to mean any unconsolidated material that overlies a Additional Information: SAN No. 4265 Legal Deadline: None deposit of useful material or ores. It Formerly listed as RIN 2070-AD39. does not include any portion of ore or Abstract: The Toxics Release Inventory waste rock. ‘‘Overburden’’ generally (TRI) requires reporting from facilities By Statute and Regulation, this rule lacks any recoverable materials and which manufacture or process at least will affect SIC codes 20-39, 10 (except contains only trace amounts of EPCRA 25,000 pounds of a listed chemical, or SIC codes 1011, 1081, 1094), 12 (except section 313 chemicals. Under section otherwise use 10,000 pounds of a listed SIC code 1241), 4911, 4931, 4939, 4953, 313, all activities related to chemical. In determining amounts of 5169, 5171, and 7389. ‘‘overburden’’ are exempt from listed chemicals that are manufactured, threshold determinations and release processed or otherwise used, facilities Agency Contact: Lawrence A. and other waste management may be entitled to consider specific Reisman, Environmental Protection calculations because ‘‘overburden’’ exemptions from reporting. EPA is Agency, Office of Environmental contains TRI chemicals in negligible presently reviewing a group of these Information, 2844, Washington, DC amounts and reporting is unlikely to exemptions. The categories of 20460 provide the public with valuable exemptions presently being Phone: 202 260-2301 information. On December 22, 1998, the reconsidered by EPA are the structural Fax: 202 401-8142 National Mining Association (NMA) component exemption, the routine Email: [email protected] petitioned EPA, pursuant to the janitorial and facility grounds Administrative Procedures Act (APA) maintenance exemption, the personal John Dombrowski, Environmental to change the current EPCRA 313 use exemption, and the motor vehicle Protection Agency, Office of definition of ‘‘overburden’’ to include maintenance exemption. Also known as Environmental Information, 2844, both consolidated material and the otherwise use exemptions because Washington, DC 20460 unconsolidated material. By making they are limited to otherwise use such a change, consolidated material Phone: 202 260-0420 activities, these exemptions are that overlies an ore deposit would be expressly provided for at 40 CFR Fax: 202 401-8142 eligible for the ‘‘overburden’’ 372.38(c). EPA is also considering Email: [email protected] exemption (i.e., ‘‘overburden’’ generally changes to the coal mining extraction RIN: 2025–AA06 lacks any recoverable minerals and activities exemption provided for at 40 contains only trace amounts of EPCRA CFR 372.38(g). section 313 chemicals). NMA asserts
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that EPA’s definition of ‘‘overburden’’ rule of June 8, 1998. (Reporting CFR Citation: 40 CFR 355 is inconsistent with that of industry. thresholds for gasoline and diesel fuel NMA considers ‘‘overburden’’ to be all at retail gas stations were included in Legal Deadline: None material, both consolidated and a separate final rule; 64 FR 7031, Abstract: On October 12, 1994 (59 FR unconsolidated, that overlies an ore February 11, 1999.) This rule will 51816), EPA proposed to modify the deposit of useful material and must be include: reporting thresholds for rock listing of several chemicals on the removed to allow access to ore deposit. salt, sand, gravel and other chemicals extremely hazardous substances (EHS) Timetable: that pose minimal risk; plain language rewrite; and may consider reporting list under the Emergency Planning and Action Date FR Cite thresholds for facilities with some Community Right-to-Know Act. One NPRM 12/00/01 similarities to gas stations (motor pools, petitioner requested the removal of Final Rule 12/00/02 marinas, etc.) and guidance on isophorone diisocyanate (IPDI). EPA rejected the petitioner’s request. Regulatory Flexibility Analysis approaches to State flexibility. However, in the review of the petition, Required: No Timetable: EPA noticed that there was an error in Government Levels Affected: None Action Date FR Cite the setting of the threshold planning Additional Information: SAN No. 4392 NPRM 06/08/98 63 FR 31268 quantity (TPQ) for IPDI, and proposed Formerly listed as RIN 2070-AD41. Supplemental NPRM 08/00/01 to correct the error in the October 12, 1994 notice of proposed rulemaking. Agency Contact: Peter South, Final Action 08/00/02 The other modifications to the EHS list Environmental Protection Agency, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis were made final on May 7, 1996; Office of Environmental Information, Required: No however, the TPQ for IPDI was not 2844, Washington, DC 20460 Small Entities Affected: No Phone: 202 260-5997 included in that final rule. This rule Fax: 202 401-8142 Government Levels Affected: None will finalize the TPQ for IPDI. Email: [email protected] Additional Information: SAN No. 3215 Timetable: John Dombrowski, Environmental Agency Contact: John Ferris, Action Date FR Cite Protection Agency, Office of Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Information, 2844, Solid Waste and Emergency Response, NPRM 06/00/01 Washington, DC 20460 5104A Phone: 202 564-7992 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Phone: 202 260-0420 Required: No Fax: 202 401-8142 Fax: 202 564-8233 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Small Entities Affected: No RIN: 2025–AA08 Sicy Jacob, Environmental Protection Government Levels Affected: None Agency, Solid Waste and Emergency 3490. EMERGENCY PLANNING AND Response, 5104A Additional Information: SAN No. 3993 COMMUNITY RIGHT-TO-KNOW ACT: Phone: 202 564-8019 Sectors Affected: AMENDMENTS AND STREAMLINING Fax: 202 564-8233 325 Chemical RULE Email: [email protected] Manufacturing Priority: Other Significant RIN: 2050–AE17 Agency Contact: Sicy Jacob, Legal Authority: 42 USC 11002; 42 Environmental Protection Agency, USC 11004; 42 USC 11048; 42 USC 3491. MODIFICATION OF THRESHOLD Solid Waste and Emergency Response, 11021; 42 USC 11022 PLANNING QUANTITY FOR 5104A CFR Citation: 40 CFR 355; 40 CFR 370 ISOPHORONE DIISOCYANATE Phone: 202 564-8019 Fax: 202 564-8233 Legal Deadline: Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant None Email: [email protected] Abstract: This rule will address the Legal Authority: 42 USC 11002; 42 remaining issues from the proposed USC 11004; 42 USC 11048 RIN: 2050–AE43
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3492. TRI; RESPONSES TO PETITIONS Action Date FR Cite following industries and SIC codes: RECEIVED TO ADD OR DELETE OR Metal Mining (SIC code 10 except SIC MODIFY CHEMICAL LISTINGS ON THE NPRM Diisononyl 09/05/00 65 FR 53681 codes 1011, 1081, and 1094); Coal TOXIC RELEASE INVENTORY phthalate (DINP) (Request to Add) Mining (SIC code 12 except SIC code Priority: Routine and Frequent. Major Response Alloys-- 04/00/01 1241); Electric Utilities (SIC codes status under 5 USC 801 is Chromium & Nickel 4911, 4931, 4939); Commercial undetermined. & Copper Alloys Hazardous Waste Treatment (SIC code Legal Authority: 42 USC 11013 EPCRA (Req. to Modify) 4953); Chemicals and Allied Products- 313 Final Action Chromite 04/00/01 Wholesale (SIC code 5169); Petroleum Ore from Transvaal Bulk Terminals and Plants (SIC code CFR Citation: 40 CFR 372 Reg. of S.A. 5171); and, Solvent Recovery Services Legal Deadline: None Response Chromium, 06/00/01 Antimony, Titanite (SIC code 7389). Abstract: These actions grant or deny Petition petitions received to add or delete or Agency Contact: Daniel R. Bushman, Final Response 11/00/01 Environmental Protection Agency, modify chemicals on the list of toxic DBNPA (Request to chemicals under section 313 of the Delete) Office of Environmental Information, Emergency Planning and Community 2844, Washington, DC 20460 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Right to Know Act (EPCRA) that are Phone: 202 260-3882 Required: subject to reporting under the Toxic No Fax: 202 401-8142 Chemical Release Reporting Rule. The Small Entities Affected: Businesses Email: [email protected] actions cover individual chemicals or Government Levels Affected: State, groups of chemicals for which petitions Federal John Dombrowski, Environmental have been received. Protection Agency, Office of Timetable: Additional Information: SAN No. 2425 Environmental Information, 2844, Washington, DC 20460 Action Date FR Cite Formerly listed as RIN 2070-AC00. Phone: 202 260-0420 Statutory deadline: Within 180 days of Notice DBNPA 10/27/95 60 FR 54949 Fax: 202 401-8142 (Request to Delete) receipt the Agency must either initiate Email: [email protected] NPRM Chromite Ore 02/23/99 64 FR 8775 rulemaking or explain why not in the from Transvaal Reg. Federal Register. Manufacturing RIN: 2025–AA00 of S.A. industries in SIC codes 20-39 plus the
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) Long-Term Actions Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA)
3493. TRI; CHEMICAL EXPANSION; which required additional time to Formerly listed as RIN 2070-AC47. FINALIZATION OF DEFERRED address. EPA chose not to delay final CHEMICALS action on the 286 chemicals and Includes SIC codes: Manufacturing chemical categories because of the industries in SIC codes 20-39 plus the Priority: Other Significant. Major status following industries and SIC codes: under 5 USC 801 is undetermined. additional time needed to address the issues surrounding the smaller group of Metal Mining (SIC code 10 except SIC Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined 40 chemicals and one chemical codes 1011, 1081, and 1094); Coal Mining (SIC code 12 except SIC code Legal Authority: 42 USC 11013 EPCRA category; rather, EPA believed it to be 1241); Electric Utilities (SIC codes 313; 42 USC 11023; 42 USC 11048; 42 in the spirit of community right-to- 4911, 4931, 4939); Commercial USC 11076 know to proceed with the final rulemaking of the additional chemicals Hazardous Waste Treatment (SIC code CFR Citation: 40 CFR 372 and chemical categories. 4953); Chemicals and Allied Products- Legal Deadline: None Wholesale (SIC code 5169); Petroleum Timetable: Bulk Terminals and Plants (SIC code Abstract: On November 30, 1994, EPA Action Date FR Cite 5171); and, Solvent Recovery Services added 286 chemicals and chemical (SIC code 7389). categories to the EPCRA section 313 NPRM 01/12/94 59 FR 1788 list, including 39 chemicals as part of Supplemental NPRM 12/00/02 Sectors Affected: 42269 Other two delineated categories. Each Deferred Chemicals Chemical and Allied Products chemical and chemical category was Final Action Deferred 12/00/03 Wholesalers Chemicals found to meet the statutory criteria described in EPCRA section Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Agency Contact: Daniel R. Bushman, 313(d)(2)(A)-(C). At this time, EPA Required: Undetermined Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Environmental Information, deferred final action on 40 chemicals Small Entities Affected: Businesses and one chemical category until a later 2844, Washington, DC 20460 date. These were deferred because the Government Levels Affected: State, Phone: 202 260-3882 comments received on them raised Federal Fax: 202 401-8142 difficult technical or policy issues Additional Information: SAN No. 3007 Email: [email protected]
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John Dombrowski, Environmental 5171); and Solvent Recovery Services Timetable: Protection Agency, Office of (SIC code 7389). Action Date FR Cite Environmental Information, 2844, Agency Contact: Washington, DC 20460 Steve Devito, NPRM 09/25/91 56 FR 48475 Phone: 202 260-0420 Environmental Protection Agency, Supplemental NPRM To Be Determined Fax: 202 401-8142 Office of Environmental Information, Response To Be Determined Email: [email protected] 2844, Washington, DC 20460 Combustion for Phone: 202 260-6185 Energy Recovery RIN: 2025–AA01 Fax: 202 401-8142 (Request to Modify) Email: [email protected] Final Action To Be Determined 3494. TRI; REVIEW OF CHEMICALS Regulatory Flexibility Analysis ON THE ORIGINAL TRI LIST John Dombrowski, Environmental Required: Undetermined Protection Agency, Office of Priority: Other Significant Environmental Information, 2844, Small Entities Affected: Businesses Legal Authority: 42 USC 1101 et seq Washington, DC 20460 Government Levels Affected: State, Phone: 202 260-0420 Federal CFR Citation: 40 CFR 372 Fax: 202 401-8142 Additional Information: SAN No. 2847 Legal Deadline: None Email: [email protected] Formerly listed as RIN 2070-AC24. Abstract: When TRI was established by RIN: 2025–AA03 Congress in 1986, the statutory Affected Sectors Include: language placed 309 chemicals and 20 Manufacturing industries in SIC codes categories of chemicals on the TRI list; 3495. TRI; POLLUTION PREVENTION 20-39 plus the following industries and that is referred to as the original TRI ACT INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS SIC codes: Metal Mining (SIC code 10 list. The chemicals on the original list except SIC codes 1011, 1081, and Priority: Other Significant. Major status were taken from two existing lists of 1094); Coal Mining (SIC code 12 except under 5 USC 801 is undetermined. toxic substances: the Maryland SIC code 1241); Electric Utilities (SIC Chemical Inventory Report List of Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined codes 4911, 4931, 4939); Commercial Toxic or Hazardous Substances, and the Hazardous Waste Treatment (SIC code New Jersey Environmental Hazardous Legal Authority: 42 USC 11013 4953); Chemicals and Allied Products- Substances list. This action constitutes Pollution Prevention Act Wholesale (SIC code 5169); Petroleum Bulk Terminals and Plants (SIC code the first systematic review of toxicology CFR Citation: 40 CFR 372 and environmental data for all the 5171); and, Solvent Recovery Services chemicals on the original TRI list to Legal Deadline: None (SIC code 7389). determine whether data for those Abstract: Section 6607(b) of the Agency Contact: John Dombrowski, chemicals conform with the statutory Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 (PPA) Environmental Protection Agency, criteria for listing of chemicals on TRI. (Pub. L. 101-508) requires the addition Office of Environmental Information, Chemicals for which data do not meet of several data elements to the Toxic 2844, Washington, DC 20460 the statutory criteria will be delisted. Chemical Release Inventory (TRI) Phone: 202 260-0420 Timetable: reporting requirements as promulgated Fax: 202 401-8142 Email: [email protected] Action Date FR Cite under section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to- Amy Newman, Environmental NPRM 09/00/02 Know Act of 1986 (EPCRA) (Pub. L. Protection Agency, Office of Final Action 09/00/03 99-499). Section 313 of EPCRA requires Environmental Information, 2844, owners or operators of certain facilities Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Washington, DC 20460 that manufacture, process, or otherwise Required: No Phone: 202 260-1846 use listed toxic chemicals to annually Small Entities Affected: No Fax: 202 401-8142 report their releases of these chemicals Email: [email protected] Government Levels Affected: State, to each environmental medium. The Federal PPA mandates that section 313 covered RIN: 2025–AA09 Additional Information: SAN No. 4015 facilities also report on source reduction and recycling activities Formerly listed as RIN 2070-AD18. 3496. RESPONSE TO A PETITION relating to the toxic chemicals REQUESTING DELETION OF AFFECTED SECTORS: Manufacturing beginning with the 1991 reporting year. PHOSMET FROM THE EXTREMELY industries in SIC codes 20-39 plus the Since 1991 covered facilities have been HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES (EHSS) following industries and SIC codes: providing this information to EPA in LIST Metal Mining (SIC code 10 except SIC section 8, Source Reduction and codes 1011, 1081, and 1094); Coal Recycling Activities, of EPA Form R. Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Mining (SIC code 12 except SIC code On September 25, 1991 (56 FR 48475), Legal Authority: 42 USC 11002; 42 1241); Electric Utilities (SIC codes EPA proposed regulations which would USC 11004; 42 USC 11048 4911, 4931, 4939); Commercial provide definitions and instructions for CFR Citation: 40 CFR 355 Hazardous Waste Treatment (SIC code reporting the PPA data elements on the 4953); Chemicals and Allied Products- EPA Form R. In this action, EPA will Legal Deadline: None Wholesale (SIC code 5169); Petroleum amend certain aspects of the September Abstract: EPA has received a petition Bulk Terminals and Plants (SIC code 25, 1991, proposed rule. to remove Phosmet from the extremely
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hazardous substance (EHS) list under Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Fax: 202 564-8233 the Emergency Planning and Required: No Email: [email protected] Community Right-to-Know Act Small Entities Affected: No John Ferris, Environmental Protection (EPCRA). This rulemaking will address Government Levels Affected: None the petitioner’s claims. Agency, Solid Waste and Emergency Additional Information: SAN No. 3994 Response, 5104A Timetable: Agency Contact: Sicy Jacob, Phone: 202 564-7992 Action Date FR Cite Environmental Protection Agency, Fax: 202 564-8233 Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Email: [email protected] NPRM To Be Determined 5104A Phone: 202 564-8019 RIN: 2050–AE42
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) Completed Actions Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA)
3497. TRI; LOWERING OF EPCRA Reason Date FR Cite Phone: 202 260-3882 SECTION 313 REPORTING Fax: 202 401-8142 Final Action Effective 02/16/01 66 FR 10585 THRESHOLDS FOR LEAD AND LEAD Email: [email protected] COMPOUNDS Date Delayed Final Action Effective 04/17/01 Priority: Other Significant John Dombrowski Regulatory Flexibility Analysis CFR Citation: 40 CFR 372 Phone: 202 260-0420 Required: No Fax: 202 401-8142 Completed: Government Levels Affected: State, Email: [email protected] Reason Date FR Cite Federal RIN: 2025–AA05 Final Action 01/17/01 66 FR 4500 Agency Contact: Daniel R. Bushman
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) Proposed Rule Stage Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
3498. REMOVAL OF REQUIREMENT approval process, EPA plans to remove Agency Contact: Barry Lesnik, TO USE SW-846 METHODS (TEST the requirements to use SW-846 Environmental Protection Agency, METHODS FOR EVALUATING SOLID methods for other than method defined Solid Waste and Emergency Response, WASTE: PHYSICAL/CHEMICAL parameters (i.e., where the method 5307W, Washington, DC 20460 METHODS) defines the regulations, such as the Phone: 703 308-0476 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Fax: 703 308-0511 Procedure) from 40 CFR. This will Email: [email protected] Legal Authority: 42 USC 6905; 42 USC likely lead to an even more streamlined RIN: 2050–AE41 6912(a); 42 USC 6921-6927; 42 USC approval process since SW-846 will 6930; 42 USC 6934-6939; 42 USC 6974; then be able to be handled strictly as 42 USC 9601; 42 USC 9614(c) guidance and not need the regulatory 3499. STANDARDIZED PERMIT FOR CFR Citation: 40 CFR 258; 40 CFR 260; process for approval. This additional RCRA HAZARDOUS WASTE 40 CFR 261; 40 CFR 264; 40 CFR 265; streamlining will permit new, more MANAGEMENT FACILITIES 40 CFR 266; 40 CFR 270; 40 CFR 279 cost-effective methods to attain public Priority: Other Significant and regulatory authority acceptance in Legal Deadline: None much less time, allowing required Legal Authority: 42 USC 6905; 42 USC Abstract: EPA has been actively monitoring to be done more cheaply, 6912; 42 USC 6924; 42 USC 6925; 42 working to break down the barriers that faster and, in some cases, more USC 6927; 42 USC 6939; 42 USC 6974 the environmental monitoring accurately. CFR Citation: 40 CFR 124; 40 CFR 267; community faces when trying to use Timetable: 40 CFR 270 new monitoring techniques. As a first step, EPA has accelerated its review Action Date FR Cite Legal Deadline: None process for new methods by eliminating NPRM 02/00/02 Abstract: EPA is considering creating several unnecessary internal review a new type of general permit, called steps, and by streamlining the internal Regulatory Flexibility Analysis a standardized permit, for facilities that approval process for each new method. Required: No generate waste and routinely manage However, there are currently 32 Small Entities Affected: No the waste on-site in tanks, containers, citations in title 40 of the Code of and containment buildings. Under the Government Levels Affected: Federal Regulations (CFR) where the State, standardized permit, facility owners use of SW-846 methods is required. As Local, Tribal, Federal and operators would certify compliance a second step for speeding up the Additional Information: SAN No. 3989 with generic design and operating
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conditions set on a national basis. The 3500. LISTING DETERMINATION OF Action Date FR Cite permitting agency would review the WASTES GENERATED DURING THE NoDA Dyes I Notice of To Be Determined certifications submitted by the facility MANUFACTURE OF AZO, ANTHRAQUINONE, AND Data Availability. owners and operators. The permitting See judicial agency would also be able to impose TRIARYLMETHANE DYES AND deadlines. additional site-specific terms and PIGMENTS NoDA Dyes II Notice To Be Determined conditions for corrective action or other Priority: Other Significant of Data Availability. purposes, as called for by RCRA. See judicial Ensuring compliance with the Legal Authority: 42 USC 6921 RCRA deadlines. standardized permit’s terms and sec 3001; 42 USC 9602 Superfund Final Action Dyes I. To Be Determined (CERCLA) sec 102 See judicial conditions would occur during deadline. inspection of the facility after the CFR Citation: 40 CFR 261; 40 CFR 264; Final Action Dyes II To Be Determined permit has been issued. The 40 CFR 265; 40 CFR 271; 40 CFR 302 (deferred wastes). standardized permit should streamline See judicial the permit process by allowing facilities Legal Deadline: None deadline. to obtain and modify permits more Abstract: Regulatory Flexibility Analysis easily while maintaining the This action addresses the potential human health and Required: Undetermined protectiveness currently existing in the environmental risks posed by wastes individual RCRA permit process. This Small Entities Affected: Businesses from the manufacture of dyes and proposal also raises issues for public Government Levels Affected: pigments, and determines whether State, comment on how all facilities receiving these wastes should be listed as Tribal, Federal RCRA permits can satisfy RCRA hazardous wastes under RCRA to Additional Information: SAN No. 3066 corrective action requirements under control any potentially unacceptable appropriate alternative state cleanup Judicial deadlines: Dyes II (deferred risks. If listed under RCRA, these wastes) NPRM: met deadline of programs and on financial assurance wastes would also be added to the issues. 6/30/1999. Dyes I & II NODAs due by CERCLA list of hazardous substances. 67 days after the injunction is lifted This action will be implemented by Timetable: from Magruder case. NPRM for LDRs EPA and States authorized under due 3 months after NODAs are signed Action Date FR Cite RCRA. Impacts on local governments Dyes I and II final rules due 13 months are not expected, and there may be NPRM 08/00/01 after NODAs are signed. some small business impacts. EPA Regulatory Flexibility Analysis proposed listing decisions for most Sectors Affected: 325132 Organic Dye and Pigment Manufacturing Required: No wastes in 1994 (Dyes-I), and deferred decisions on several others. Two Agency Contact: Sue Slotnick, Small Entities Affected: No deferred waste streams (filter aids and Environmental Protection Agency, triarylmethane sludges) are subject to Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Government Levels Affected: State, separate deadlines for proposed and 5304W Federal final action (Dyes II rulemaking). The Phone: 703 308-8462 Dyes II NPRM was published on July Additional Information: SAN No. 4028 Fax: 703 308-0522 23, 1999. The rules proposed in 1994 Email: [email protected] Sectors Affected: 332813 and 1999 were incomplete because they Electroplating, Plating, Polishing, did not contain information claimed to Wanda LeBlue, Environmental Anodizing and Coloring; 32411 be confidential by industry. Therefore, Protection Agency, Solid Waste and Petroleum Refineries; 3251 Basic a NODA for each proposal will be Emergency Response, 5304W, Chemical Manufacturing; 3252 Resin, necessary, when EPA is able to release Washington, DC 20460 Synthetic Rubber, and Artificial and an adequate record. The deadlines are Phone: 703 308-0438 based on recent settlement discussions Synthetic Fibers and Filaments Fax: 703 308-0522 with plaintiffs in EDF v. Browner, Civil Manufacturing; 325211 Plastics Email: [email protected] Action No. 89-0598 D.D.C. Material and Resin Manufacturing; RIN: 2050–AD80 32532 Pesticide and Other Agricultural As part of the listing of dyes and Chemical Manufacturing; 32551 Paint pigments effort, EPA will also develop 3501. REVISIONS TO THE and Coating Manufacturing land disposal restrictions for these dyes COMPREHENSIVE GUIDELINE FOR and pigments. Agency Contact: Vernon Myers, PROCUREMENT OF PRODUCTS Environmental Protection Agency, Timetable: CONTAINING RECOVERED MATERIALS Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Action Date FR Cite 5303W, Washington, DC 20460 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant NPRM Dyes I 12/22/94 59 FR 66072 Phone: 703 308-8660 NPRM Dyes II 07/23/99 64 FR 40192 Legal Authority: 42 USC 6912(a) RCRA Fax: 703 308-8609 (deferred wastes) sec 6002(e) Email: [email protected] NPRM Dyes I Land 10/00/01 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 247 Disposal RIN: 2050–AE44 Restrictions Legal Deadline: None
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Abstract: RCRA section 6002 and E.O. Sectors Affected: 92111 Executive Action Date FR Cite 13101 require EPA to prepare Offices; 92119 All Other General guidelines in the Federal Register Government Final Action MACT 06/19/98 63 FR 33782 Fasttrack which designate items that are or can Agency Contact: Terry Grist, be made with recovered materials and Final Action Cement 09/30/99 64 FR 52828 Environmental Protection Agency, Kilns & LWAKs & to issue recommendations for Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Incinerators (Final- government procurement of these 5306W, Washington, DC 20460 Phase I) items. Once designated, procuring Phone: 703 308-7257 NPRM Boilers & Other 01/00/02 agencies are required to purchase these Fax: 703 308-8686 Industrial Furnaces items with the highest percentage of Email: [email protected] (Phase II) recovered materials practicable. RIN: 2050–AE23 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Government procurement of EPA- Required: No designated items containing recovered materials fosters markets for recovered 3502. NESHAPS: STANDARDS FOR Government Levels Affected: State, materials and, thereby, closes the HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS FOR Federal recycling loop. To date, EPA has HAZARDOUS WASTE COMBUSTORS- Additional Information: SAN No. 3333 designated 54 items under three PHASE II COVERING BOILERS AND For information on the Phase I portion Comprehensive Procurement CERTAIN INDUSTRIAL FURNACES of this effort, see SAN 4418, RIN 2050- Guidelines (CPG1, CPG2 and CPG3). Priority: Other Significant AE79. EPA has also issued a Recovered Materials Advisory Notice (RMAN) Legal Authority: 42 USC 6924 RCRA Agency Contact: Rhonda Minnick, with each CPG which provides sec 3004; 42 USC 6925 RCRA sec 3005; Environmental Protection Agency, recommendations on buying the 42 USC 7412 CAA sec 112; 42 USC Solid Waste and Emergency Response, designated items. The E.O. requires 7414 CAA sec 114 5302W, Washington, DC 20460 EPA to update the CPG every two CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60; 40 CFR 63; Phone: 703 308-8771 years. The new actions would (1) 40 CFR 260; 40 CFR 264; 40 CFR 265; Fax: 703 308-8433 propose to designate new items in 40 CFR 266; 40 CFR 270 Email: [email protected] CPG4 and (2) issue final item Legal Deadline: NPRM, Judicial, RIN: 2050–AE01 designations in CPG4. January 31, 2002, Settlement agreement for boilers and other industrial Timetable: 3503. HAZARDOUS WASTE MANIFEST furnaces. REGULATION Action Date FR Cite Abstract: Under the Clean Air Act Priority: Other Significant Notice -- Paper 06/08/98 63 FR 31214 (CAA), EPA is required to establish Products Recovered National Emission Standards for Legal Authority: 42 USC 6922 RCRA Materials Advisory Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAPs) sec 3002; 42 USC 6923 RCRA sec 3003; Notice for most hazardous waste combustors 42 USC 6924 RCRA sec 3004; 42 USC Notice -- Recovered 06/08/98 63 FR 31217 (HWCs) (i.e., incinerators, cement kilns, 6926 RCRA sec 3006; PL 105-277, Title Materials Advisory boilers, and some types of smelting 17 Government Paper Elimination Act Notice I Update furnaces). In addition, under the CFR Citation: 40 CFR 260; 40 CFR 262; NPRM (CPG3 and 08/26/98 63 FR 45558 Resource Conservation and Recovery 40 CFR 263; 40 CFR 264; 40 CFR 265; RMAN 3) Act (RCRA), EPA is required to 40 CFR 271 Notice Notice of 01/19/00 65 FR 3082 establish standards for all HWCs as Availability of Final Legal Deadline: None Document necessary to ensure protection of human health and the environment. Abstract: The Uniform Hazardous Final Action (CPG3 01/19/00 65 FR 3069 Waste Manifest (Form 8700-22) is a and RMAN 3) EPA is concerned that its current RCRA standards for HWCs may not be multi-copy form used to identify the NPRM (CPG4 and 05/00/01 quantity, composition, origin, routing, RMAN 4) adequately protective given that the and destination of hazardous waste Final Action (CPG4 12/00/01 standards do not take into account and RMAN 4) indirect pathways of exposure and that during its transportation. The manifest there have been advances both in risk system’s reliance on paper results in Regulatory Flexibility Analysis assessment and control technologies significant paperwork and cost burden Required: No since promulgation of the current to waste handlers and States who standards. The Agency is in the process choose to collect manifest information. Small Entities Affected: Businesses, of developing a proposal to address The Agency intends to pursue an Governmental Jurisdictions boilers and possibly other industrial optional approach to redesign the manifest system so that it utilizes Government Levels Affected: State, furnaces, which combust hazardous wastes. automated technologies to increase Local, Federal access to manifest related information, Timetable: Additional Information: SAN No. 3545 and to facilitate the manifest process, Action Date FR Cite including the form’s preparation, NPRM- NPRM Cement Kilns & 04/19/96 61 FR 17358 transmission, and recordkeeping, http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA- Lightweight thereby lessening the total burden on WASTE/1998/August/Day- Aggregate Kilns & waste handlers and States that choose 26/f22793.htm Incinerators to collect manifests. In addition, the
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Agency intends to standardize further hours. To meet EPA’s PRA 2001 goal Transportation Equipment (37), Other the manifest form itself, by eliminating (a 40% reduction), EPA needs to Manufacturing, Transportation and several optional data fields. eliminate five million hours to reach Utilities (40-49), Wholesale Trade (50- Timetable: a figure of 7.5 million hours. 51), Services (70-89) and Other SIC In June 1999, EPA published a Notice Groups Action Date FR Cite of Data Availability (NODA) in the Sectors Affected: 323 Printing and NPRM 05/00/01 Federal Register (64 FR 32859) to seek Related Support Activities; 325 Final Action 07/00/02 comment on a number of burden Chemical Manufacturing; 326 Plastics Regulatory Flexibility Analysis reduction ideas. After reviewing the and Rubber Products Manufacturing; Required: No comments received on the NODA, EPA 331 Primary Metal Manufacturing; 332 is drafting a proposed rulemaking to Small Entities Affected: No Fabricated Metal Product implement many of these ideas. The Manufacturing; 334 Computer and Government Levels Affected: State, proposals are designed to eliminate Electronic Product Manufacturing; 562 Federal duplicative and non-essential Waste Management and Remediation Additional Information: SAN No. 3147 paperwork. Services; 324 Petroleum and Coal Sectors Affected: 2111 Oil and Gas The main ideas being considered for Products Manufacturing the proposed rulemaking are: (1) Extraction; 2122 Metal Ore Mining; Agency Contact: Robert Burchard, 2211 Electric Power Generation, eliminating or modifying one-third of the 334 RCRA-required notices and Environmental Protection Agency, Transmission and Distribution; 3221 Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Pulp, Paper, and Paperboard Mills; 323 reports that are sent by the regulated community to states and EPA; (2) 5302W, Washington, DC 20460 Printing and Related Support Activities; Phone: 703 308-8450 325 Chemical Manufacturing; 326 eliminating the RCRA emergency response training requirements that Fax: 703 308-8433 Plastics and Rubber Products Email: [email protected] Manufacturing; 331 Primary Metal overlap with the Occupational Safety Manufacturing; 332 Fabricated Metal and Health Administration RIN: 2050–AE50 Product Manufacturing; 482 Rail requirements; (3) eliminating the need for facilities to record personnel Transportation; 483 Water 3505. MODIFICATIONS TO RCRA Transportation; 484 Truck descriptions; (4) decreasing the owner/operator self-inspection RULES ASSOCIATED WITH SOLVENT- Transportation; 5621 Waste Collection; CONTAMINATED SHOP TOWELS AND 5622 Waste Treatment and Disposal frequency of hazardous waste tanks to weekly; (5) providing states and EPA WIPES Agency Contact: Rich Lashier, with the opportunity to lengthen Priority: Other Significant Environmental Protection Agency, owner/operator self-inspection Solid Waste and Emergency Response, frequencies on a case-by-case basis for Legal Authority: 42 USC 6921 5304W, Washington, DC 20460 containers, containment buildings, and CFR Citation: 40 CFR 261 Phone: 703 308-8796 tanks; (6) eliminating the Land Disposal Fax: 703 308-0522 Restrictions generator waste Legal Deadline: None Email: [email protected] determinations, recycler notifications Abstract: This action would modify and certifications, hazardous debris RIN: 2050–AE21 RCRA rules that impact the notifications and characteristic waste management of solvent-contaminated determinations, and streamlining the shop towels and wipes. Solvent- 3504. OFFICE OF SOLID WASTE characteristic waste notification contaminated shop towels and wipes BURDEN REDUCTION PROJECT procedures; and (7) modifying the are used throughout industry for Priority: Other Significant groundwater monitoring requirements equipment cleaning and other related for hazardous waste facilities. Legal Authority: 42 USC 6907; 42 USC facility operations. The spent shop 6912(a); 42 USC 6921 to 6927; 42 USC Timetable: towels and wipes can be hazardous 6930; 42 USC 6934; 42 USC 6935; 42 Action Date FR Cite wastes when the solvent used is either USC 6937 to 6939; 42 USC 6944; 42 a characteristic or listed solvent. An USC 6949(a); 42 USC 6974; PL 104-13 Notice of Data 06/18/99 64 FR 32859 Availability examination of industry use and CFR Citation: 40 CFR 260; 40 CFR 261; NPRM 07/00/01 management practices reveals that many facilities may use only small 40 CFR 264; 40 CFR 265; 40 CFR 266; Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 40 CFR 268; 40 CFR 270 amounts of solvent on their disposable Required: No wipes, and use small numbers of wipes Legal Deadline: None Small Entities Affected: No daily — suggesting that these materials Abstract: EPA plans to reduce the Government Levels Affected: State, may sometimes pose little or no risk burden imposed by the RCRA reporting Local, Tribal, Federal to human health and the environment and recordkeeping requirements to help if disposed in municipal landfills. meet the Federal government-wide goal Additional Information: SAN No. 4084 Similarly, situations exist where both established by the Paperwork Applicable SIC codes: Chemicals and disposable wipes and reusable shop Reduction Act (PRA). The information Allied Products (28), Primary Metal towels are not being managed according collection burden for the regulations Industries (33), Fabricated Metals (34), to prescribed Federal and States’ rules EPA implements under RCRA in 1995 Industrial Machinery and Equipment and policies. Problems with this issue (the PRA baseline) was 12,600,000 (35), Electrical Equipment (36), have persisted since the late 1980s.
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Timetable: CRTs. This action is planned in and now regulates all but the most Action Date FR Cite response to a June 9, 1998 recently listed hazardous wastes. The recommendation on CRT recycling from Agency is now examining the LDR NPRM 09/00/01 the Common Sense Initiative (CSI) program to ensure the program is cost- Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Council to the Environmental effective and flexible while also Required: No Protection Agency (EPA). CSI is a protecting human health and the consensus-based process for developing environment. In an Advance Notice of Small Entities Affected: Businesses cleaner, cheaper, smarter environmental Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM), we Government Levels Affected: State, improvements that includes described our initial thinking on Federal representatives of: industry; potential changes to the LDR program Additional Information: SAN No. 4091 environmental groups; community and asked for public comments and groups; environmental justice groups; data. We intend to publish a proposed Sectors Affected: 323 Printing and labor; and, Federal, State, local, and rule based on the comments we Related Support Activities; 325 tribal governments. The received in response to the ANPRM. Chemical Manufacturing; 332 recommendation involves minimizing Timetable: Fabricated Metal Product RCRA requirements for glass-to-glass Manufacturing; 333 Machinery recycling while retaining appropriate Action Date FR Cite Manufacturing; 334 Computer and controls to ensure protection of human ANPRM 06/19/00 65 FR 37932 Electronic Product Manufacturing; 336 health and the environment. The goal NPRM 03/00/02 Transportation Equipment of the recommendation is to facilitate Manufacturing; 337 Furniture and an increase in glass-to-glass recycling, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Related Product Manufacturing; 441 thereby minimizing disposal of lead, Required: No Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; 811 increasing resource recovery, and Small Entities Affected: Businesses Repair and Maintenance; 812 Personal enhancing protection of human health Government Levels Affected: and Laundry Services and the environment. Undetermined Agency Contact: Jim O’Leary, Timetable: Environmental Protection Agency, Federalism: Undetermined Action Date FR Cite Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Additional Information: SAN No. 4093 5304W NPRM 09/00/01 Sectors Affected: 2122 Metal Ore Phone: 703 308-8827 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Mining; 32411 Petroleum Refineries; Fax: 703 308-0514 Required: No 325 Chemical Manufacturing; 331 Email: [email protected] Small Entities Affected: No Primary Metal Manufacturing RIN: 2050–AE51 Government Levels Affected: State, Agency Contact: Josh Lewis, Local, Tribal, Federal Environmental Protection Agency, 3506. GLASS-TO-GLASS RECYCLING Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Additional Information: SAN No. 4092 OF CATHODE RAY TUBES (CRTS): 5302W, Washington, DC 20460 CHANGES TO HAZARDOUS WASTE Sectors Affected: 334411 Electron Phone: 703 308-7877 REGULATIONS Tube Manufacturing Fax: 703 308-8433 Priority: Other Significant Agency Contact: Marilyn Goode, Email: [email protected] Environmental Protection Agency, Legal Authority: RIN: 2050–AE53 42 USC 6912(a); 42 Solid Waste and Emergency Response, USC 6921; 42 USC 6922; 42 USC 6923; 5304W 42 USC 6924; 42 USC 6925 Phone: 703 308-8800 3508. REVISIONS TO SOLID WASTE CFR Citation: Not Yet Determined Fax: 703 308-0522 LANDFILL CRITERIA—LEACHATE Email: [email protected] RECIRCULATION ON ALTERNATIVE Legal Deadline: None LINERS RIN: 2050–AE52 Abstract: This action will ultimately Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant revise the existing Federal hazardous waste regulations to remove 3507. REINVENTING THE LAND Legal Authority: 42 USC 6907; 42 USC unnecessary regulatory barriers to glass- DISPOSAL RESTRICTIONS PROGRAM 6912; 42 USC 6944; 42 USC 6949a to-glass recycling of Cathode Ray Tubes Priority: Other Significant CFR Citation: 40 CFR 258 (CRTs). A CRT is the main component Legal Deadline: of a television or computer monitor. A Legal Authority: 42 USC 6905; 42 USC None CRT is made largely of specialized 6912(a); 42 USC 6921; 42 USC 6924 Abstract: On April 6, 2000, EPA glasses, some of which contain lead to CFR Citation: 40 CFR 268 requested comment and information on protect the user from X-rays inside the two issues related to the Criteria for CRT. Due to the lead, when they are Legal Deadline: None Municipal Solid Waste Landfills (65 FR disposed of or reclaimed, some CRTs Abstract: The Land Disposal 18014). First, we requested data and are hazardous wastes under the Federal Restrictions (LDR) program was information on the performance of Resource Conservation and Recovery established to minimize threats posed alternative liner designs compared to Act (RCRA) regulations. Glass-to-glass by the land disposal of untreated the performance of composite liners recycling involves the return of used hazardous wastes. The program has when leachate is recirculated. Second, CRT glass to manufacturing of new been in place for a number of years we requested data and information on
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the design and performance of residuals from petroleum refineries (HWCs) (i.e., incinerators, cement kilns, bioreactor landfills. recycled in gasification devices to boilers, and some types of recovery EPA is reviewing all responses to this produce synthesis gas. furnaces). In addition, under the request for information, as well as Timetable: Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), EPA is required to additional information in our own data Action Date FR Cite base, and is considering issuing a establish standards for all HWCs as Notice of Proposed Rulemaking revising NPRM 11/20/95 60 FR 57747 necessary to ensure protection of the Criteria for Municipal Solid Waste Interim Notice of Data 04/08/97 62 FR 16747 human health and the environment. Landfills (40 CFR Part 258) to allow Availability Consequently, the Agency established alternative liner designs for leachate Notice of Data 07/15/98 63 FR 38139 in the HWC Maximum Achievable recirculation and encourage bioreactor Availability and Control Technology (MACT) rule new Request for landfills. Comment emissions standards for cement kilns, Timetable: Final Action 08/06/98 63 FR 42110 lightweight aggregate kilns, and incinerators under CAA authority on Action Date FR Cite Final Action Technical 10/09/98 63 FR 54356 Amendments September 30, 1999 (64 FR 52828). Notice 04/06/00 65 FR 18014 NPRM 11/00/01 Following promulgation, issues were NPRM 12/00/01 Final Action 11/00/02 raised by the regulated community Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Regulatory Flexibility Analysis through informal comments and Required: Undetermined Required: No through litigation. In response, this proposed rule will propose changes to Government Levels Affected: State Small Entities Affected: No and clarify certain provisions of the Federalism: Undetermined Government Levels Affected: State, final Phase I rule. Additional Information: SAN No. 4230 Federal Timetable: Sectors Affected: 562 Waste Additional Information: SAN No. 4411 Action Date FR Cite Management and Remediation Services This is an extension of a previous Agency Contact: Dwight Hlustick, notice that contained RIN 2050-AD88. NPRM Cement Kilns & 04/19/96 61 FR 17358 Environmental Protection Agency, Agency Contact: Lawrence Gonzalez, Lightweight Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Environmental Protection Agency, Aggregate Kilns & Incinerators 5306W, Washington, DC 20460 Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Phone: 703 308-8647 Final Action MACT 06/19/98 63 FR 33782 5302W, Washington, DC 20460 Fasttrack Fax: 703 308-8686 Phone: 703 308-8468 Email: [email protected] Final Action Cement 09/30/99 64 FR 52828 Fax: 703 308-8433 Kilns & LWAKs & Email: [email protected] Incinerators (Final- Deborah Hanlon, Environmental Phase I) Protection Agency, Solid Waste and Nick Vizzone, Environmental NPRM Phase I 05/00/01 Emergency Response, 5306W, Protection Agency, Solid Waste and Clarifications and Washington, DC 20460 Emergency Response, 5302W, Proposed Changes Phone: 703 308-5824 Washington, DC 20460 Final Action Phase 1 10/00/01 Fax: 703 308-8686 Phone: 703 308-8460 Clarifications and Email: [email protected] Fax: 703 308-8433 Changes Final Rule RIN: 2050–AE67 Email: [email protected] Regulatory Flexibility Analysis RIN: 2050–AE78 Required: No 3509. PROPOSED RULE: REGULATION OF OIL BEARING 3510. NESHAPS: STANDARDS FOR Small Entities Affected: No WASTES FROM PETROLEUM HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS FOR Government Levels Affected: State, REFINERIES GASIFIED TO PRODUCE HAZARDOUS WASTE COMBUSTORS Federal SYNTHESIS GAS Priority: Other Significant Additional Information: SAN No. 4418 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Legal Authority: 42 USC 6924 RCRA Legal Authority: 42 USC 6905; 42 USC sec 3004; 42 USC 6925 RCRA sec 3005; Split from RIN 2050-AE01. The Agency 6912(a); 42 USC 6921; 42 USC 6922; 42 USC 7412 CAA sec 112; 42 USC will develop a Technical 42 USC 6923; 42 USC 6924; 42 USC 7414 CAA sec 114 Implementation Guidance on Phase I. 6925; 42 USC 6926; 42 USC 6927; 42 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60; 40 CFR 63; USC 6930; 42 USC 6934; 42 USC 6935; 40 CFR 260; 40 CFR 264; 40 CFR 265; Agency Contact: Rhonda Minnick, 42 USC 6937; 42 USC 6938; 42 USC 40 CFR 266; 40 CFR 270 Environmental Protection Agency, 6939; ... Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Legal Deadline: None CFR Citation: 40 CFR 260; 40 CFR 261 5302W, Washington, DC 20460 Abstract: Under the Clean Air Act Phone: 703 308-8771 Legal Deadline: None (CAA), EPA is required to establish Fax: 703 308-8433 Abstract: We are proposing to broaden National Emission Standards for Email: [email protected] existing RCRA exclusions from the Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAPs) definition of solid waste for oil bearing for most hazardous waste combustors RIN: 2050–AE79
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3511. STANDARDS FOR THE other analyses have convinced the Abstract: EPA is looking into MANAGEMENT OF COAL Agency that coal combustion wastes proposing to add up to four solvents COMBUSTION WASTES GENERATED could pose risks to human health and (benzene, 2-ethoxyethanol, 1,1,2- BY COMMERCIAL ELECTRIC POWER the environment if they are not trichloroethane, and 2-nitropropane) to PRODUCERS properly managed. There is sufficient the hazardous waste exemptions for Priority: Economically Significant. evidence that adequate controls may mixtures of spent solvents in Major under 5 USC 801. not be in place. For example, while wastewater treatment plants most states can now require newer (‘‘headworks rule’’) at 40 CFR Unfunded Mandates: This action may waste management units to include 261.3(a)(2)(iv)(A)-(B). Spent solvents are affect the private sector under PL 104- liners and groundwater monitoring, 62 solvents that have been used and are 4. percent of existing utility surface no longer fit for use without being Legal Authority: 42 USC 6907(a)(3); 42 impoundments do not have regenerated, reclaimed, or otherwise USC 6944(a) groundwater monitoring. In the processed. In addition, EPA is Agency’s view, this justifies the considering proposing: (1) changes to CFR Citation: 40 CFR 257 development of national regulations. implementation of rule from using mass Legal Deadline: None We note, however, that some waste balance only, to choice of using direct monitoring; (2) adding certain leachates Abstract: This action is for the management units may not warrant to allowed categories of wastestreams; development of proposed RCRA liners and/or groundwater monitoring, and (3) revising other provisions of subtitle D regulations for the depending on site-specific rule, such as de minimis quantities and management of coal combustion wastes characteristics. The Agency is initiating the definition of point of application in landfills and surface impoundments this action to develop and issue of exemption. that are generated by producers of appropriate waste management electric power, including electric regulations under Subtitle D of RCRA. Timetable: utilities and independent power Timetable: Action Date FR Cite producers. Action Date FR Cite NPRM - Revisions for 12/00/01 On April 25, 2000 EPA issued a Wastewater NPRM 12/00/01 regulatory determination for fossil fuel Treatment combustion wastes (65 FR 32214, May Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Exemptions 22, 2000). The purpose of the Required: No Regulatory Flexibility Analysis determination was to decide whether Small Entities Affected: No Required: Undetermined certain wastes from the combustion of Small Entities Affected: No fossil fuels (including coal, oil and Government Levels Affected: State, natural gas) should remain exempt from Local, Tribal, Federal Government Levels Affected: State, subtitle C (management as hazardous Federalism: Undetermined Federal waste) of the Resource Conservation Additional Information: Federalism: Undetermined and Recovery Act (RCRA) for the coal, SAN No. 4470 Additional Information: SAN No. 4501 oil and natural gas combustion wastes Any Federal, State, local or tribal that were addressed. The Agency’s governments that own coal-burning Sectors Affected: 31-33 Manufacturing; decision was to retain the exemption commercial electric power generating 562 Waste Management and from hazardous waste management for facilities will be subject to this rule. Remediation Services all of the fossil fuel combustion wastes. Sectors Affected: 221112 Fossil Fuel Agency Contact: Ron Josephson, However, the Agency also determined Electric Power Generation Environmental Protection Agency, and announced that waste management Solid Waste and Emergency Response, regulations under RCRA subtitle D Agency Contact: Dennis Ruddy, 5304W, Washington, DC 20460 (management as non-hazardous wastes) Environmental Protection Agency, Phone: 703 308-0442 are appropriate for certain coal Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Fax: 703 308-0522 combustion wastes that are disposed in 5306W, Washington, DC 20460 Email: [email protected] landfills and surface impoundments. Phone: 703 308-8430 We also announced that we would Fax: 703 308-8686 Tracy Atagi, Environmental Protection consult with the Department of the Email: [email protected] Agency, Solid Waste and Emergency Interior on appropriate measures under RIN: 2050–AE81 Response, 5304W the Surface Mining Control and Phone: 703 308-8672 Reclamation Act (SMCRA) or RCRA or Email: [email protected] 3512. ∑ REVISION OF WASTEWATER some combination of both to address RIN: 2050–AE84 the disposal of coal combustion wastes TREATMENT EXEMPTIONS FOR when used for minefill in surface and HAZARDOUS WASTE MIXTURES 3513. ∑ AMENDMENT TO THE underground mines. Priority: Other Significant DEFINITION OF MUNICIPAL SOLID The utility industry has made Legal Authority: 42 USC 6912(a); 6921; WASTE LANDFILL UNIT significant improvements in its waste 6922; 6924; 6926 management practices over recent Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant CFR Citation: years, and most state regulatory 40 CFR Legal Authority: 42 USC 6907(a)(3); 42 programs are similarly improving. 261.3(a)(2)(iv)(A)-(E)(Revision) USC 6912(a); 42 USC 6944; 42 USC Nevertheless, public comments and Legal Deadline: None 6949a
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CFR Citation: 40 CFR 257; 40 CFR 258 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 261 gained by accelerated decomposition of Legal Deadline: None Legal Deadline: None the waste. This benefits the County and its citizens by prolonging the life of the Abstract: EPA is revising the definition Abstract: This site-specific rulemaking landfill and thereby postponing the of municipal solid waste landfill would allow Ortho-McNeil siting of new solid waste management (MSWLF) unit and adding the Pharmaceutical to treat small volumes facilities, with their attendant social definition of residential lead-based of low-level mixed wastes on-site using impacts, environmental impacts, and paint waste, both in 40 CFR part 257 a bench-scale catalytic oxidizing economic costs. Environmental benefits and within the Municipal Solid Waste treatment unit. This treatment of this project include: (1) Reduced Landfill Criteria in 40 CFR part 258. effectively destroys the organic need for construction of new landfills We are making these changes in order component of the wastestream, yielding and corresponding reduction (or to allow construction and demolition a residual that is only a low-level elimination) of the land, air, and water (C&D) landfills and other nonmunicipal radioactive waste. impacts associated with landfill nonhazardous waste disposal units to Timetable: construction; (2) Decreased receive residential lead-based paint Action Date FR Cite concentration of most leachate (LBP) waste without having to comply constituents as cycling of leachate with the Municipal Solid Waste NPRM 04/00/01 removes or reduces contaminants; (3) Landfill Criteria in 40 CFR Part 258. Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Reduction in the amount of leachate EPA believes that disposal of Required: No requiring pretreatment; (4) Reduction in residential LBP waste in C&D landfills the amount of leachate that the facility Small Entities Affected: No and other nonhazardous nonmunicipal discharges to the local wastewater waste disposal units is protective of Government Levels Affected: None treatment plant, and subsequent public health and the environment Additional Information: SAN No. 4439 discharge of effluent to the Patuxent while being less costly than disposal River; and (5) Reduction in post-closure Agency Contact: Mitch Kidwell, in MSWLFs. care, maintenance and risk (bioreactor Environmental Protection Agency, Timetable: landfills minimize long-term Office of the Administrator, 1802, environmental risk and liability due to Action Date FR Cite Washington, DC 20460 the controlled settlement of the solid Phone: 202 260-2515 NPRM 09/00/01 waste during landfill operation, low Fax: 202 260-3125 Direct Final Rule 09/00/01 potential for leachate migration into the Email: [email protected] Regulatory Flexibility Analysis subsurface environment, and the Required: No Nancy Birnbaum, Environmental recovery of landfill gas during operation]. Small Entities Affected: No Protection Agency, Office of the Administrator, 1802, Washington, DC Government Levels Affected: State, Timetable: 20460 Federal Phone: 202 260-2601 Action Date FR Cite Federalism: Undetermined Fax: 202 401-2474 NPRM 04/00/01 Email: [email protected] Additional Information: SAN No. 4525 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Sectors Affected: 235 Special Trade RIN: 2090–AA14 Required: No Contractors; 23599 All Other Special Small Entities Affected: No Trade Contractors; 562212 Solid Waste 3515. ∑ PROJECT XL SITE-SPECIFIC Landfill RULEMAKING FOR ANNE ARUNDEL Government Levels Affected: State, Agency Contact: Susan Nogas, COUNTY MILLERSVILLE LANDFILL, Local Environmental Protection Agency, SEVERN, MARYLAND Additional Information: SAN No. 4534 Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant 5304, 5306W, Washington, DC 20460 Agency Contact: Sherri Walker, Legal Authority: 42 USC 6907; 42 USC Phone: 703 308-7251 Environmental Protection Agency, 6912; 42 USC 6945; 42 USC 6949 Fax: 703 308-8686 Office of the Administrator, 1802, Email: [email protected] CFR Citation: 40 CFR 258 Washington, DC 20460 RIN: 2050–AE86 Legal Deadline: None Phone: 202 260-4295 Fax: 202 260-3125 Abstract: Anne Arundel County Email: [email protected] 3514. PROJECT XL — ORTHO-MCNEIL proposes to demonstrate that a PILOT PROJECT ALLOWING ON-SITE bioreactor with an alternative liner Dwight Hlustick, Environmental TREATMENT OF LOW-LEVEL MIXED system is as effective, or superior to Protection Agency, Solid Waste and WASTES WITHOUT RCRA PERMIT a bioreactor with the standard Emergency Response, 5306W composite liner currently allowed by Priority: Info./Admin./Other Phone: 703 308-8647 regulations. The main goal of this Fax: 703 308-8686 Legal Authority: 42 USC 6905; 42 USC project is to deliver superior Email: [email protected] 6912(a); 42 USC 6921; 42 USC 6922; environmental performance (SEP) by 42 USC 6924(y); 42 USC 6938 capturing the additional airspace RIN: 2090–AA25
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3516. PAINT MANUFACTURING Email: [email protected] Small Entities Affected: Businesses WASTES LISTING: HAZARDOUS RIN: 2050–AE32 Government Levels Affected: State, WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM: Federal IDENTIFICATION AND LISTING OF HAZARDOUS WASTE 3517. MANAGEMENT OF CEMENT Additional Information: SAN No. 3856 KILN DUST (CKD) Priority: Other Significant NPRM- Priority: Other Significant http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA- Legal Authority: 33 USC 1321; 33 USC WASTE/1999/August/Day- 1361; 42 USC 6905; 42 USC 6912(a); Legal Authority: 42 USC 6912(a) RCRA 20/f20546.htm 42 USC 6921; 42 USC 6922; 42 USC sec 2002(a); 42 USC 6921(a) RCRA sec 6926; 42 USC 6938; 42 USC 9602; 42 3001(a) Sectors Affected: 32731 Cement USC 9603; 42 USC 9604 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 259; 40 CFR 261; Manufacturing CFR Citation: 40 CFR 261; 40 CFR 271; 40 CFR 264; 40 CFR 256 Agency Contact: Jana Englander, 40 CFR 302; 40 CFR 264; 40 CFR 265 Legal Deadline: None Environmental Protection Agency, Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Legal Deadline: NPRM, Judicial, Abstract: Cement kiln dust (CKD) is a 5306W, Washington, DC 20460 January 28, 2001, Administrator signed high volume material byproduct of the Phone: 703 308-8711 proposal on 1/25/2001. cement manufacturing process. While it Fax: 703 308-8686 Final, Judicial, March 30, 2002. contains potentially hazardous Email: [email protected] Abstract: This action addresses the constituents such as lead, cadmium and potential risks posed by wastes from chromium, it has been exempted since Steve Souders, Environmental the production of paints, and November 1980 from hazardous waste Protection Agency, Solid Waste and determines whether these wastes regulation under RCRA subtitle C by Emergency Response, 5306W, should be listed as hazardous under the Bevill Amendment. This Washington, DC 20460 RCRA to control any potentially amendment modified section 3001 of Phone: 703 308-8431 unacceptable risks. Any new wastes RCRA to exempt certain special wastes Fax: 703 308-8686 listed as hazardous will also be added until further studies could be Email: [email protected] completed and any applicable to the CERCLA list of hazardous RIN: 2050–AE34 substances. This action will be regulations were promulgated. In implemented by EPA and States December 1993, EPA submitted a authorized under RCRA. Impacts on Report to Congress with its findings on 3518. STORAGE, TREATMENT, local governments are not expected. the nature and management practices TRANSPORTATION, AND DISPOSAL Specific wastes to be addressed are associated with CKD. This was OF MIXED WASTE followed in January 1995 by an EPA water/caustic cleaning wastes, solvent Priority: Other Significant cleaning wastes, emission control regulatory determination published in dusts/sludges, wastewater treatment the Federal Register (60 FR 7366, Legal Authority: 42 USC 6905; 42 USC sludges, and off-spec product. 2/7/95), which concluded that 6912(a); 42 USC 6921; 42 USC 6922; additional control of CKD is warranted. 42 USC 6924; 42 USC 6926; 42 USC Timetable: In the regulatory determination EPA 6925; 42 USC 6927; 42 USC 6934; 42 Action Date FR Cite committed to develop regulations that USC 6937 would be tailored to protect human NPRM 02/13/01 66 FR 10060 health and the environment while CFR Citation: 40 CFR 261.4; 40 CFR Final Action 03/00/02 limiting burden on the regulated 262.34; 40 CFR 266 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis community. These tailored regulations Legal Deadline: NPRM, Judicial, Required: No would be developed under RCRA October 31, 1999. Small Entities Affected: Businesses subtitle C and, if necessary, the Clean Final, Judicial, April 30, 2001. Air Act. As part of its regulatory Abstract: The focus of the rule is to Government Levels Affected: State, development effort, EPA has initiated provide flexibility under RCRA Subtitle Tribal, Federal further studies and has held informal C to generators of eligible mixed waste. discussions with stakeholders. A Additional Information: SAN No. 3805 The Agency proposed a conditional proposed rule was issued (64 FR 45632, exemption from the definition of Agency Contact: Katrin Kral, 8/20/99) which included a hazardous waste applicable to: low- Environmental Protection Agency, comprehensive set of standards for the level mixed waste (LLMW) for storage; Solid Waste and Emergency Response, management of CKD. EPA is currently and LLMW or Naturally Occurring 5304W, Washington, DC 20460 developing the final preamble and rule, and/or Accelerator-produced Phone: 703 308-6120 which will address comments received Radioactive Material (NARM) for Fax: 703 308-0514 on the proposal. Email: [email protected] transportation and disposal. Upon Timetable: finalization, the rule is expected to David J. Carver, Environmental Action Date FR Cite reduce dual regulation for generators in Protection Agency, Solid Waste and the management and disposal of their Emergency Response, 5304W, NPRM 08/20/99 64 FR 45631 wastes. This flexibility should enable Washington, DC 20460 Final Action 10/00/01 generators of LLMW who are licensed Phone: 703 308-8603 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Fax: 703 308-0514 Required: No (NRC) to claim an exemption for storing
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and treating these wastes in tanks or Email: [email protected] comments received and finalizing the containers (using solidification, RIN: 2050–AE45 three amendments, as appropriate. neutralization, or other stabilization Timetable: processes) without a RCRA permit. This rule may also provide flexibility for the 3519. RECYCLED USED OIL Action Date FR Cite manifesting, transportation and CONTAINING PCBS NPRM 05/06/98 63 FR 25006 disposal of eligible mixed waste. Waste Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Direct Final Rule 05/06/98 63 FR 24963 meeting the conditions may be Removal of 3 07/14/98 63 FR 37780 exempted from certain RCRA Subtitle Legal Authority: 42 USC 6905; 42 USC Amendments C hazardous waste requirements and 6912(a); 42 USC 6921 to 6927; 42 USC Final Action 08/00/01 managed as low-level radioactive waste 6930; 42 USC 6934; 42 USC 6974; 42 USC 9601; 42 USC 9614(c) Regulatory Flexibility Analysis in accordance with NRC regulations. Required: No CFR Citation: 40 CFR 261; 40 CFR 279 Timetable: Small Entities Affected: Businesses Legal Deadline: None Action Date FR Cite Government Levels Affected: State, Abstract: The direct final rule, ANPRM 03/01/99 64 FR 10063 Federal published May 6, 1998, eliminates NPRM 11/19/99 64 FR 63463 Additional Information: errors and clarifies ambiguities in the SAN No. 4088 Final Action 04/00/01 used oil management standards. Agency Contact: Mike Svizzero, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Specifically, the rule clarifies (1) when Environmental Protection Agency, Required: No used oil contaminated with Solid Waste and Emergency Response, 5304W Small Entities Affected: No polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) is regulated under the used oil Phone: 703 308-0046 Government Levels Affected: State, management standards and when it is Fax: 703 308-8609 Tribal, Federal not, (2) that the requirements Email: [email protected] Additional Information: SAN No. 4017 applicable to releases of used oil apply RIN: 2050–AE47 in States that are not authorized for the SIC Codes: Nuclear Electric Power RCRA base program, (3) that mixtures Generation (4911); Federal Facilities of conditionally exempt small quantity 3520. LISTING OF HAZARDOUS (9431) and (9511); Mixed Waste generator (CESQG) wastes and used oil WASTE; INORGANIC CHEMICAL Treatment, Storage and Disposal are subject to the used oil management WASTES; LAND DISPOSAL Facilities (4953); Commercial Low standards irrespective of how that RESTRICTIONS FOR NEWLY LISTED Level Radioactive Waste Disposal mixture is to be recycled, and (4) that WASTES; CERCLA HAZARDOUS Facilities (4953); Universities (8221); the initial marketer of used oil that SUBSTANCES REPORTABLE Medical Facilities (8071); meets the used oil fuel specification QUANTITIES Pharmaceutical Companies (2834); need only keep a record of a shipment Priority: Other Significant Research Laboratories (8731, 8734) of used oil to the facility to which the Legal Authority: 42 USC 6901 to Sectors Affected: 221113 Nuclear initial marketer delivers the used oil. 6992(k) Electric Power Generation; 3254 This rule also amends three incorrect Pharmaceutical and Medicine references to the pre-1992 used oil CFR Citation: 40 CFR 261; 40 CFR 263; Manufacturing; 562 Waste Management specifications in the provisions which 40 CFR 264; 40 CFR 265; 40 CFR 268; and Remediation Services; 562219 address hazardous waste fuel produced 40 CFR 271; 40 CFR 302 Other Nonhazardous Waste Treatment from, or oil reclaimed from, oil bearing Legal Deadline: NPRM, Judicial, and Disposal; 61131 Colleges, hazardous wastes from petroleum August 30, 2000. Universities and Professional Schools; refining operations. Final, Judicial, October 31, 2001. 6215 Medical and Diagnostic EPA received relevant adverse Abstract: EPA, under an Environmental Laboratories; 622 Hospitals; 92 Public comments on three of the amendments Defense Fund settlement agreement, Administration; 8112 Electronic and included in the May 6, 1998 direct final proposed to amend the regulations for Precision Equipment Repair and rule: the amendments to 40 CFR hazardous waste management under the Maintenance 261.5(j) (mixtures of conditionally Resource Conservation and Recovery Agency Contact: Grace Ordaz, exempt small quantity generator waste Act (RCRA) to reduce hazards to Environmental Protection Agency, and used oil), 40 CFR 279.10(i) human health and the environment for Solid Waste and Emergency Response, (applicability of the used oil three wastes from the manufacturing of 5304W, Washington, DC 20460 management standards to used oil inorganic chemicals. EPA also proposed Phone: 703 308-1130 contaminated with polychlorinated to add manganese to 40 CFR 261, Fax: 703 605-0744 biphenyls (PCBs)), and 40 CFR Appendix VII and VIII; the 40 CFR 268 Email: [email protected] 279.74(b) (recordkeeping requirements UTS table; and the F039 landfill for marketers of used oil that meets the leachate listing. Under the settlement Nancy Hunt, Environmental Protection used oil fuel specification). On July 14, agreement, EPA had to review the Agency, Solid Waste and Emergency 1998, the Agency removed these three wastes from 14 inorganic chemical Response, 5303W, Washington, DC amendments and reinstated the manufacturing sectors including: 20460 regulatory text that existed prior to the sodium dichromate production wastes, Phone: 703 308-8762 May 6, 1998 direct final rule. EPA will wastes from the dry process for Fax: 703 308-8638 promulgate a final rule addressing the manufacturing phosphoric acid,
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phosphorus trichloride production Agency Contact: Sue Burnell, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis wastes, phosphorus pentasulfide Environmental Protection Agency, Required: No production wastes, wastes from the Solid Waste and Emergency Response, production of sodium phosphate from 5304W, Washington, DC 20460 Small Entities Affected: Businesses wet process phosphoric acid, sodium Phone: 703 308-8653 Government Levels Affected: State, chlorate production wastes, antimony Fax: 703 308-0522 Federal oxide production wastes, cadmium Email: [email protected] pigments production wastes, barium Additional Information: SAN No. 2647 carbonate production wastes, potassium Gwen DiPietro, Environmental dichromate production wastes, phenyl Protection Agency, Solid Waste and Sectors Affected: 323110 Commercial mercuric acetate production wastes, Emergency Response, 5304W Lithographic Printing; 323114 Quick boric acid production wastes, inorganic Phone: 703 308-8285 Printing; 325131 Inorganic Dye and hydrogen cyanide production wastes, Fax: 703 308-0522 Pigment Manufacturing; 325188 All and titanium dioxide production wastes Email: [email protected] Other Basic Inorganic Chemical (except for chloride process waste RIN: 2050–AE49 Manufacturing; 325998 All Other solids). EPA published a proposal on Miscellaneous Chemical Product September 14, 2000. The rule was Manufacturing; 331311 Alumina 3521. RCRA SUBTITLE C FINANCIAL proposed under the authority of section Refining; 325211 Plastics Material and TEST CRITERIA (REVISION) 3001(e)(2) of RCRA which directs EPA Resin Manufacturing; 32551 Paint and to make hazardous waste listing Priority: Other Significant Coating Manufacturing; 32511 determinations for inorganic chemical Legal Authority: 42 USC 6912(a) RCRA Petrochemical Manufacturing; 32512 manufacturing wastes. The FR notice sec 2002(a); 42 USC 6924 RCRA sec Industrial Gas Manufacturing; 325188 proposes to list as hazardous three 3004; 42 USC 6925 RCRA sec 3005; 42 All Other Basic Inorganic Chemical specific wastes under 40 CFR Part 261: USC 6926 RCRA sec 3006 Manufacturing; 325193 Ethyl Alcohol 1) baghouse filters from the production CFR Citation: Manufacturing; 325199 All Other Basic of antimony oxide; 2) slag from the 40 CFR 264; 40 CFR 265; 40 CFR 280; 40 CFR 761 Organic Chemical Manufacturing; production of antimony oxide that is 325998 All Other Miscellaneous disposed of or speculatively Legal Deadline: None Chemical Product Manufacturing; accumulated; and 3) nonwastewaters Abstract: The revised financial 311942 Spice and Extract from the production of titanium responsibility test is intended to Manufacturing; 32411 Petroleum dioxide by the chloride-ilmenite improve the current test in predicting Refineries; 332813 Electroplating, process. The remaining wastes which firms will enter bankruptcy and Plating, Polishing, Anodizing and evaluated in the rule were proposed to not be able to cover their financial Coloring; 33271 Machine Shops; 33299 not be listed as hazardous wastes. EPA obligations for liability and closure All Other Fabricated Metal Product will evaluate public comments on the costs of hazardous waste treatment, Manufacturing; 333319 Other proposal and develop the final rule. storage and disposal facilities. A Commercial and Service Industry This action will include final Land bankrupt firm may be unable to afford Machinery Manufacturing; 333999 All Disposal Restrictions for the final listed the proper closure of a facility which Other General Purpose Machinery wastes. Where possible, newly listed would require the government to incur Manufacturing; 336399 All Other Motor wastes will be given CERCLA response costs at the facility. The rule Vehicle Parts Manufacturing; 334 Hazardous Substance Designation and would also qualify owners and Computer and Electronic Product Reportable Quantities assigned. operators of RCRA Treatment, Storage, Manufacturing; 336 Transportation Timetable: and Disposal Facilities which must Equipment Manufacturing; 48422 currently use more expensive ways, Specialized Freight (except Used Action Date FR Cite such as surety bonds or letters of credit, Goods) Trucking, Local; 56211 Waste NPRM 09/14/00 65 FR 55684 of demonstrating financial assurance, to Collection; 22111 Electric Power Final Action 11/00/01 use the less expensive corporate Generation; 221112 Fossil Fuel Electric financial responsibility test for more of Power Generation; 22132 Sewage Regulatory Flexibility Analysis their obligations. The combined savings Treatment Facilities; 56292 Materials Required: No from screening out riskier firms and Recovery Facilities; 42271 Petroleum Small Entities Affected: Businesses making the test more available to viable Bulk Stations and Terminals; 45431 firms would be approximately $19 Fuel Dealers; 4411 Automobile Dealers; Government Levels Affected: State, million annually in public and private 4471 Gasoline Stations; 811111 General Local, Tribal, Federal costs. These regulatory amendments Automotive Repair Additional Information: SAN No. 4083 would have no effect on local or tribal governments. Agency Contact: Dale Ruhter, Sectors Affected: 32518 Other Basic Timetable: Environmental Protection Agency, Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing; Solid Waste and Emergency Response, 325131 Inorganic Dye and Pigment Action Date FR Cite 5303W, Washington, DC 20460 Manufacturing; 325312 Phosphatic NPRM 07/01/91 56 FR 30201 Phone: 703 308-8192 Fertilizer Manufacturing; 31611 Leather NPRM 10/12/94 59 FR 51523 Fax: 703 308-8609 and Hide Tanning and Finishing; 313 Notice of Data 09/00/01 Email: [email protected] Textile Mills; 325611 Soap and Other Availability Detergent Manufacturing Final Action 03/00/02 RIN: 2050–AC71
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HAZARDOUS WASTE Products Manufacturing; 331 Primary Small Entities Affected: Businesses IDENTIFICATION RULE (HWIR): Metal Manufacturing; 332 Fabricated Government Levels Affected: State, IDENTIFICATION AND LISTING OF Metal Product Manufacturing; 333 Federal HAZARDOUS WASTES Machinery Manufacturing; 334 Additional Information: SAN No. 4419 Priority: Other Significant Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; 335 Electrical Agency Contact: William Schoenborn, Legal Authority: 42 USC 6912(a) RCRA Equipment, Appliance and Component Environmental Protection Agency, sec 2002(a); 42 USC 6921 RCRA sec Manufacturing; 336 Transportation Solid Waste and Emergency Response, 3001; 42 USC 6922 RCRA sec 3002; 42 Equipment Manufacturing 5306W, Washington, DC 20460 USC 6922 RCRA sec 3004; 42 USC Phone: 703 308-8483 6926 RCRA sec 3006 Agency Contact: Tracy Atagi, Environmental Protection Agency, Fax: 703 308-8617 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 261 Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Email: [email protected] Legal Deadline: Final, Judicial, April 5304W RIN: 2050–AE77 30, 2001. Phone: 703 308-8672 Other, Judicial, October 31, 1999, Email: [email protected] Reproposal. 3524. PROJECT XL SITE-SPECIFIC Adam Klinger, Environmental RULEMAKING FOR THE U.S. FILTER Abstract: This action would amend Protection Agency, Solid Waste and RECOVERY SERVICES, ROSEVILLE, regulations governing solid wastes that Emergency Response, 5304W MINNESOTA, AND APPROVED are designated as hazardous, because Phone: 703 308-3267 GENERATORS AND TRANSPORTERS they have been mixed with or derived- Fax: 703 308-0514 OF USFRS XL WASTE from listed hazardous wastes. The Email: [email protected] Agency proposed to retain the mixture Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant and derived-from rules promulgated RIN: 2050–AE07 Legal Authority: 42 USC 6912; 42 USC under the Resource Conservation and 6921; 42 USC 6922; 42 USC 6923; 42 Recovery Act (RCRA). These rules are 3523. AMENDMENTS TO THE USC 6926; 42 USC 6930; 42 USC 6937; currently in effect on an emergency CORRECTIVE ACTION MANAGEMENT 42 USC 6938; 42 USC 6974 basis. The Agency also proposed two UNIT RULE CFR Citation: 40 CFR 260 to 265; 40 revisions to the mixture and derived- Priority: CFR 268; 40 CFR 270; 40 CFR 273; 40 from rules. The first was an exemption Other Significant CFR 279 for wastes and their residuals listed Legal Authority: 42 USC 6901 et.seq. solely for the ignitability, corrosively, CFR Citation: 40 CFR 260; 40 CFR 264; Legal Deadline: None and/or reactivity characteristics. The 40 CFR 271 Abstract: EPA is proposing this rule to second, which EPA proposed in a Legal Deadline: NPRM, Judicial, implement a project under the Project separate notice, was a conditional August 7, 2000, Settlement agreement XL program that would provide exemption from the mixture and calls for proposal to be signed by regulatory flexibility under the derived from rules for mixed wastes 08/07/2000. Resource Conservation and Recovery (that is, wastes that are both hazardous Final, Judicial, October 8, 2001, Act (RCRA), as amended for the US and radioactive). Settlement agreement calls for final to Filter Recovery Services (USFRS) Because this action is deregulatory, it be signed by 10/8/2001. facility located at 2430 Rose Place, is not expected to have adverse impacts Roseville, Minnesota, 55113 and Abstract: EPA has proposed on small business. This action will be approved Minnesota generators and amendments to the existing RCRA implemented by EPA and authorized transporters of wastes from the use of Corrective Action Management Unit States. USFRS’s waste water treatment ion (CAMU Regulation (at 40 CFR 264.552). Timetable: exchange resins. The principal CAMUs are used for managing objective of this USFRS XL Project is Action Date FR Cite remediation wastes onsite during the to pilot a flexible, performance-based course of implementing corrective NPRM 05/20/92 57 FR 21450 system for managing waste waters from action or cleanup at a facility. CAMUs electroplaters, metal finishers and NPRM Withdrawn 10/30/92 57 FR 49280 can promote cleanups by allowing a NPRM Reproposal 12/21/95 60 FR 66344 similar industries who by virtue of broader range of cleanup activities than their using USFRS water treatment ion NPRM Reproposal 11/19/99 64 FR 63381 are allowed under the other hazardous Notice of Data 07/18/00 65 FR 44491 exchange resins generate electroplating waste management regulations. Upon sludges which are regulated hazardous Availability finalization, the amendments will add Final Action 05/00/01 wastes. To achieve this, today’s more detail to the treatment and proposed rule would provide regulatory Regulatory Flexibility Analysis technical standards for management of flexibility to allow approved generators Required: No cleanup wastes in CAMUs. and transporters of USFRS’s water Small Entities Affected: No Timetable: treatment ion exchange resin wastes to Government Levels Affected: State, Action Date FR Cite replace existing requirements for Federal hazardous waste generators and NPRM 08/22/00 65 FR 51079 transporters with a comprehensive Additional Information: SAN No. 3328 Final Action 10/00/01 program designed and implemented by Sectors Affected: 325 Chemical Regulatory Flexibility Analysis USFRS to properly store and transport Manufacturing; 324 Petroleum and Coal Required: No the USFRS water treatment ion
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exchange resins. The overall terms of from certain requirements in EPA 3526. ∑ PROJECT XL NOTICE OF this XL project are contained in the regulations which set forth operating PROPOSED RULE FOR AUTOLIV INC. draft Final Project Agreement (FPA). criteria for MSWLFs and preclude the SITE-SPECIFIC RULEMAKING Timetable: addition of bulk or non-containerized Priority: Info./Admin./Other liquid wastes. This proposal to allow Legal Authority: 42 USC 6905; 42 USC Action Date FR Cite addition of liquid wastes will apply 6912(a); 42 USC 6921; 42 USC 6922; NPRM 08/17/00 65 FR 50283 only to Phase One in Module D. The 42 USC 6924(y); 42 USC 6938 Final Action 04/00/01 Yolo County bioreactor project is one CFR Citation: 40 CFR 261 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis of several bioreactor XL projects Required: No currently being considered by EPA. Legal Deadline: None Proponents of bioreactor technology Small Entities Affected: Businesses, Abstract: By publishing this document note that operation of MSWLFs as Governmental Jurisdictions in the Federal Register, The bioreactors provide a number of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Government Levels Affected: State environmental benefits, including: (1) solicits comment on the proposed rule Additional Information: SAN No. 4437 increasing the rate of waste which has been drafted to implement Sectors Affected: 332813 decomposition, which in turn would the Autoliv XL project that is expected Electroplating, Plating, Polishing, extend the operating life of the landfill to produce superior environmental Anodizing and Coloring and lessen the need for additional performance. EPA is proposing to landfill space or other disposal options; implement this project under the Agency Contact: Sandra Panetta, (2) decreasing, or even eliminating, the Project XL program in order to provide Environmental Protection Agency, quantity, and increasing the quality, of site-specific regulatory flexibility under Office of the Administrator, 1802, leachate requiring treatment and offsite the Resource Conservation and Washington, DC 20460 disposal, leading to decreased risks and Recovery Act (RCRA), for the Autoliv Phone: 202 260-6632 costs associated with leachate ASP Inc.(Autoliv) facility in Fax: 202 260-3125 Promontory, Utah. The principal Email: [email protected] management, treatment and disposal; (3) reduced post-closure care costs and objective of this XL Project is to explore the benefits of a more streamlined and Robert Egan, Environmental Protection risks, due to the accelerated, controlled settlement of the solid waste during flexible RCRA regulation of pyrotechnic Agency, Office of the Administrator, hazardous wastes from the automobile landfill operation; (4) lower long term DRP-8J, Chicago, IL 60604 airbag industry that are treated in potential for leachate migration into the Phone: 312 886-6212 industrial furnaces. The terms of the Fax: 312 353-4788 subsurface environment; and (5) project are defined in the Final Project Email: robert [email protected] opportunity for recovery of methane gas Agreement (FPA) which was made RIN: 2090–AA15 for energy production. available for public review and Timetable: comments through a Federal Register notice on August 14, 2000 (Volume 65, 3525. ∑ PROJECT XL SITE-SPECIFIC Action Date FR Cite Number 157 [FRL-6846-7]) and signed RULEMAKING FOR YOLO COUNTY on September 20, 2000 by Autoliv, Box LANDFILL, DAVIS, YOLO COUNTY, Final Action 04/00/01 Elder County, the state of Utah, and CALIFORNIA Regulatory Flexibility Analysis EPA. The facility will continue to Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Required: No comply with certain general RCRA Legal Authority: 42 USC 6907; 42 USC conditions on facility operations, as Government Levels Affected: 6912; 42 USC 6945; 42 USC 6949) State, described in this site-specific rule for Local, Federal the Autoliv Facility and any applicable CFR Citation: 40 CFR 258 state of Utah regulations. EPA Additional Information: Legal Deadline: None SAN No. 4498 anticipates that this project will provide information on how to develop Abstract: Yolo County proposed a Agency Contact: Sherri L. Walker, alternative approaches to handling project under EPA’s Project XL to use Environmental Protection Agency, pyrotechnic waste. This information certain bioreactor techniques at its Office of the Administrator, 1802, would be useful to EPA in learning municipal solid waste landfill Washington, DC 20460 more about alternative treatment (MSWLF), specifically the recirculation Phone: 202 260-4295 approaches for airbag manufacturing of leachate and the addition of bulk or Fax: 202 260-3125 wastestreams. This proposed rule will non-containerized liquid wastes into Email: [email protected] not in any way impact the provisions the landfill to accelerate the or applicability of any other existing or biodegradation of landfill waste and Dwight Hlustick, Environmental future regulations. decrease the time it takes for the waste Protection Agency, Solid Waste and Timetable: to stabilize in the landfill. The Emergency Response, 5306W principal objective of this bioreactor XL Phone: 703 308-8647 Action Date FR Cite project is to evaluate waste Fax: 703 308-8686 decomposition rates when leachate is NPRM 02/13/01 66 FR 9992 supplemented with other liquid Email: [email protected] Final Action 04/00/01 additions. In order to carry out this RIN: 2090–AA18 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis project, Yolo County would need relief Required: No
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Small Entities Affected: No Office of the Administrator, 1802, Mary Byrne, Environmental Protection Government Levels Affected: None Washington, DC 20460 Agency, Office of the Administrator Phone: 202 260-0880 Phone: 303 312-6491 Additional Information: SAN No. 4516 Fax: 202 401-6637 Email: [email protected] Agency Contact: Ted Cochin, Email: [email protected] Environmental Protection Agency, RIN: 2090–AA19
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) Long-Term Actions Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
3527. HAZARDOUS WASTE Agency Contact: Narendra Chaudhari, those relating to land disposal MANAGEMENT SYSTEM: SLAG Environmental Protection Agency, restrictions. Further analysis is RESIDUES DERIVED FROM HIGH Solid Waste and Emergency Response, necessary to determine whether TEMPERATURE METALS RECOVERY 5304W mixtures of used oil destined for (HTMR) TREATMENT OF KO61, KO62 Phone: 703 308-0454 recycling and characteristic hazardous AND F0006 WASTES Fax: 703 308-0514 wastes differ significantly from other Email: [email protected] Priority: Other Significant mixtures containing characteristic RIN: 2050–AE15 wastes in terms of potential threat to Legal Authority: 42 USC 6905 RCRA human health and the environment. sec 2002; 42 USC 6921; 42 USC 6922; 42 USC 6924; 42 USC 6934; 42 USC 3528. HAZARDOUS WASTE Timetable: 6938; 42 USC 6912(a) RCRA sec IDENTIFICATION; RECYCLED USED Action Date FR Cite OIL MANAGEMENT STANDARDS 2002(a); 42 USC 6922 RCRA sec 3002; NPRM To Be Determined 42 USC 6924 RCRA sec 3004 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Regulatory Flexibility Analysis CFR Citation: 40 CFR 261; 40 CFR 266 Legal Authority: 42 USC 6905; 42 USC Required: No Legal Deadline: None 6912(a); 42 USC 6921 to 6927; 42 USC 6930; 42 USC 6934; 42 USC 6974; 42 Small Entities Affected: Businesses Abstract: EPA assessed the potential USC 9601; 42 USC 9614(c) Government Levels Affected: State, risks to human health and the Federal environment from the use of slag CFR Citation: 40 CFR 279 residues (slags) resulting from high Legal Deadline: None Federalism: Undetermined temperature metals recovery (HTMR) Abstract: EPA is reviewing whether the Additional Information: SAN No. 3668 treatment of specified hazardous wastes provision of the used oil management Agency Contact: Mike Svizzero, (i.e., electric arc furnace dust, steel standards which governs mixtures of finishing pickle liquor, and Environmental Protection Agency, recycled used oil and characteristic Solid Waste and Emergency Response, electroplating sludges). This assessment hazardous waste, 40 CFR 279.10(b)(2) was used as a basis for the proposed 5304W (the used oil mixture rule), is consistent Phone: 703 308-0046 rule to reclassify these slags as with the United States Court of Appeals nonhazardous when they meet certain Fax: 703 308-8609 for the District of Columbia Circuit’s Email: [email protected] exclusion levels and are managed and decision in Chemical Waste used in a certain manner. EPA needs Management, Inc. v. EPA. The decision, RIN: 2050–AE28 to reevaluate the proposed rule due to which concerned a challenge to significant issues raised by public portions of EPA’s land disposal 3529. MERCURY-CONTAINING AND commenters. There is currently no restrictions, held that EPA could not RECHARGEABLE BATTERY deadline for final action on the authorize certain wastes exhibiting the MANAGEMENT ACT; CODIFICATION proposed rule. hazardous characteristics of ignitability, OF WASTE MANAGEMENT Timetable: reactivity, or corrosivity to be diluted PROVISIONS to eliminate the characteristic and then Action Date FR Cite be land-disposed unless the hazardous Priority: Other Significant NPRM 12/29/94 59 FR 67256 constituents in the waste were Legal Authority: 42 USC 14303 Final Action To Be Determined adequately treated to minimize threats CFR Citation: 40 CFR 271; 40 CFR 273 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis to human health and the environment. Legal Deadline: Required: No The used oil mixture rule provides that None Abstract: Small Entities Affected: No a mixture of hazardous waste and used The purpose of this rule is oil destined for recycling, if the mixture to codify into the Code of Federal Government Levels Affected: State, is hazardous solely because it exhibits Regulations certain provisions of the Federal a hazardous waste characteristic, is Mercury-Containing and Rechargeable Federalism: Undetermined regulated under the used oil Battery Management Act that impact management standards. Under the used the May 11, 1995 Universal Waste Rule Additional Information: SAN No. 3428 oil mixture rule, such a decharacterized (40 CFR part 273). The Act was signed Sectors Affected: 56292 Materials mixture, therefore, is not subject to the by the President on May 13, 1996 and Recovery Facilities hazardous waste regulations, including became immediately effective
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nationwide on the date of signature. groups of chemicals according to their Timetable: Specifically, one provision of the law frequency of expected occurrence in Action Date FR Cite requires the collection, storage, and wastes; (2) clarifying ambiguous entries transportation of the following types of currently on the Appendix such as NPRM 02/12/93 58 FR 8504 batteries be managed according to those marked not otherwise specified; Final Action 12/00/03 standards established in the Universal and (3) deleting those chemicals for Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Waste Rule: used rechargeable batteries, which the risk from potential exposure Required: No lead-acid batteries not covered by 40 is considered to be minimal. Government Levels Affected: CFR part 266 or the equivalent Timetable: requirements of an approved state Undetermined program, rechargeable alkaline Action Date FR Cite Additional Information: SAN No. 3189 batteries, certain mercury-containing NPRM 05/00/02 Agency Contact: Sammy Ng, batteries banned from domestic sale, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Environmental Protection Agency, and used consumer products containing Required: No Solid Waste and Emergency Response, rechargeable batteries that are not easily 5401G, Washington, DC 20460 Small Entities Affected: No removable. The law prohibits State Phone: 703 603-9900 imposed requirements that are not Government Levels Affected: None Fax: 202 260-9163 identical to those found in the Federal Email: [email protected] Universal Waste Rule, but allows States Federalism: Undetermined to adopt and enforce identical Additional Information: SAN No. 4090 RIN: 2050–AD69 standards and to implement and Agency Contact: Dr. Monica A. Barron, enforce collection, storage, and Environmental Protection Agency, 3532. CORRECTIVE ACTION FOR transport requirements identical to Solid Waste and Emergency Response, SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT UNITS those included in the universal waste 5307W, Washington, DC 20460 (SWMUS) AT HAZARDOUS WASTE rule if the standards are approved by Phone: 703 308-0483 MANAGEMENT FACILITIES the EPA Administrator. Fax: 703 308-0509 Priority: Economically Significant. Timetable: Email: [email protected] Major under 5 USC 801. Action Date FR Cite RIN: 2050–AE55 Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined NPRM To Be Determined Legal Authority: 42 USC 6924 RCRA Direct Final Rule To Be Determined 3531. FINAL DETERMINATION OF THE sec 3004(u); 42 USC 6924 RCRA sec Regulatory Flexibility Analysis APPLICABILITY OF THE TOXICITY 3004(v) Required: No CHARACTERISTIC RULE TO PETROLEUM CONTAMINATED MEDIA CFR Citation: 40 CFR 264; 40 CFR 270 Small Entities Affected: No AND DEBRIS FROM UNDERGROUND Legal Deadline: None Government Levels Affected: State, STORAGE TANKS Abstract: Past and present waste Local, Federal Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant management practices at Resource Federalism: Undetermined Legal Authority: 42 USC 6921 RCRA Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Additional Information: SAN No. 3888 sec 3001 treatment, storage or disposal facilities have resulted in releases of hazardous Agency Contact: Bryan Groce, CFR Citation: 40 CFR 261 constituents from some waste Environmental Protection Agency, Legal Deadline: None management units. These releases may Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Abstract: In the final hazardous waste cause contamination of soils, 5304W groundwater, surface water, and air. Phone: 703 308-8750 Toxicity Characteristic (TC) rule published in June 1990, EPA decided This regulation provides a framework Fax: 703 308-0522 for investigating and remediating Email: [email protected] to temporarily defer application of the TC rule to petroleum-contaminated releases at RCRA facilities as necessary RIN: 2050–AE39 media and debris, such as soils and to protect human health and the groundwater, that result from environment. 3530. RCRA APPENDIX VIII underground storage tank (UST) The Agency has issued the corrective STREAMLINING corrective actions. This rule is part of action regulations in several phases. A the Agency’s commitment to make a proposal for corrective action at RCRA Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant final determination regarding the UST facilities was published in July 1990. Legal Authority: 42 USC 6905; 42 USC temporary deferral. The temporary In February 1993, regulations 6912(a); 42 USC 6921; 42 USC 6922; deferral was, in part, based on the concerning Corrective Action 42 USC 6938 Agency’s concern that without such a Management Units (CAMU) and CFR Citation: 40 CFR 261 deferral, UST cleanup procedures Temporary Units were issued. An would be adversely affected, resulting advance notice of proposed rulemaking Legal Deadline: None in delays in remedial action and (ANPRM) was published on May 1, Abstract: This action will propose to increases in remediation costs. Since 1996, which provided further guidance modify the list of chemicals found in this action is deregulatory, there are no on implementation of the corrective Appendix VIII of 40 CFR part 261 by: adverse effects on small businesses, or action program and requested comment (1) rearranging the Appendix into on State, local, or tribal governments. on the future direction of the program,
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including resolution of the 1990 possible treatment alternatives for treatment standard for fluoride proposal. In October 1999, the Agency mercury waste that contains greater nonwastewaters based on a deionized announced its decision to withdraw than or equal to 260 mg/kg total water leach test. Comments to the most provisions of the July 1990 mercury. The current regulations proposed rule were significant and proposal. require retorting of this waste or suggest that there are significant Timetable: incineration if the waste also contains treatment issues yet to be resolved for organics. K088 waste. The Agency needs to Action Date FR Cite Timetable: further assess the treatment universe for NPRM 07/27/90 55 FR 30798 K088 and is considered extending the Final Rule (Phase I) 02/16/93 58 FR 8658 Action Date FR Cite possible date of a final rule or to ANPRM 05/01/96 61 FR 19432 ANPRM 05/28/99 64 FR 28949 investigate other strategies both Notice Published - 10/07/99 64 FR 54604 NPRM 06/00/02 regulatory and non-regulatory to Partial Withdrawal Regulatory Flexibility Analysis facilitate recycling of spent aluminum of Proposed potliners. Rulemaking Required: No Timetable: Final Action To Be Determined Small Entities Affected: Businesses Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Government Levels Affected: State, Action Date FR Cite Required: Undetermined Federal NPRM 07/12/00 65 FR 42937 Government Levels Affected: Federalism: Undetermined Final Action 10/00/02 Undetermined Additional Information: SAN No. 4094 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No Federalism: Undetermined Sectors Affected: 325181 Alkalies and Additional Information: SAN No. 2390 Chlorine Manufacturing; 3353 Electrical Small Entities Affected: No Agency Contact: Barbara Foster, Equipment Manufacturing; 3254 Government Levels Affected: State, Environmental Protection Agency, Pharmaceutical and Medicine Local, Tribal, Federal Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Manufacturing; 32551 Paint and Additional Information: SAN No. 4233 5303W, Washington, DC 20460 Coating Manufacturing Sectors Affected: 3334 Ventilation, Phone: 703 308-7057 Agency Contact: Mary Cunningham, Heating, Air-Conditioning and Fax: 703 308-8638 Environmental Protection Agency, Commercial Refrigeration Equipment Email: [email protected] Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Manufacturing RIN: 2050–AB80 5302W, Washington, DC 20460 Phone: 703 308-8453 Agency Contact: Elaine Eby, Fax: 703 308-8433 Environmental Protection Agency, 3533. LAND DISPOSAL Email: [email protected] Solid Waste and Emergency Response, RESTRICTIONS; POTENTIAL 5302W, Washington, DC 20460 REVISIONS FOR MERCURY LISTED Josh Lewis, Environmental Protection Phone: 703 308-8449 AND CHARACTERISTIC WASTES Agency, Solid Waste and Emergency Fax: 703 308-8433 Priority: Other Significant Response, 5302W, Washington, DC Email: [email protected] 20460 Legal Authority: 42 USC 6905; 42 USC Phone: 703 308-7877 John Austin, Environmental Protection 6912(a); 42 USC 6921; 42 USC 6924 Fax: 703 308-8433 Agency, Solid Waste and Emergency CFR Citation: 40 CFR 268 Email: [email protected] Response, 5302W, Washington, DC 20460 Legal Deadline: None RIN: 2050–AE54 Phone: 703 308-0436 Abstract: In May 1999, EPA published Fax: 703 308-8433 an Advance Notice of Proposed 3534. LAND DISPOSAL Email: [email protected] Rulemaking that described the issues RESTRICTIONS; TREATMENT RIN: 2050–AE65 the Agency has with the current Land STANDARDS FOR SPENT POTLINERS Disposal Restrictions (LDR) treatment FROM PRIMARY ALUMINUM standards for mercury bearing REDUCTION (K088) AND 3535. TEMPORARY SUSPENSION OF hazardous wastes. Based on the REGULATORY CLASSIFICATION OF TOXICITY CHARACTERISTIC RULE comments received on this ANPRM as K088 VITRIFICATION UNITS FOR SPECIFIC LEAD-BASED PAINT well as other information the Agency DEBRIS has collected, we are now preparing a Priority: Other Significant Priority: Other Significant proposed rule to revise some of the Legal Authority: 42 USC 6905; 42 USC LDR standards for mercury wastes 6912(a); 42 USC 6921; 42 USC 6924 Legal Authority: 42 USC 6905; 42 USC looking at the treatment of elemental CFR Citation: 40 CFR 268; 40 CFR 271 6912(a); 42 USC 6921; 42 USC 6922; mercury waste. We anticipate 42 USC 6938 Legal Deadline: None proposing a second phase of changes CFR Citation: 40 CFR 261 to the mercury treatment standards Abstract: On July 20, 2000, EPA when we have finished researching the proposed revised treatment standards Legal Deadline: None performance of stabilization for K088 wastes. Specifically, the Abstract: Currently, waste derived from technologies. This second phase of Agency proposed to lower the cyanide lead-based paint (LBP) abatements that changes will most likely discuss treatment standard and reinstate a exhibits the characteristics of toxicity
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is managed under the Resource Plastering, Acoustical and Insulation management of zinc-bearing hazardous Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Contractors; 23561 Roofing, Siding and secondary materials prior to recycling. hazardous waste regulations. Other Sheet Metal Contractors; 23592 Glass These regulatory revisions are expected Federal agencies (Department of and Glazing Contractors; 56291 to directly affect companies that Housing and Urban Development, Remediation Services; 23599 All Other manufacture zinc fertilizers from Department of Health and Human Special Trade Contractors; 23511 hazardous secondary materials, and is Services) and several States and Plumbing, Heating and Air- likely to benefit such manufacturers advocacy groups have expressed Conditioning Contractors; 23531 that are small businesses by removing concern that the costs associated with Electrical Contractors; 23552 Floor certain regulatory disincentives to the disposal of large volume of such Laying and Other Floor Contractors; legitimate recycling activities. debris (e.g., doors, windows and 23311 Land Subdivision and Land Timetable: demolition debris) may interfere with Development; 562111 Solid Waste abatement activities. EPA’s Office of Collection; 562112 Hazardous Waste Action Date FR Cite Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Collection; 562119 Other Waste Final Action 04/00/02 Substances (OPPTS) and the Office of Collection; 48411 General Freight Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Solid Waste have proposed a joint Trucking, Local; 48421 Used Household Required: No rulemaking to address the disposal of and Office Goods Moving; 48422 this debris. (See also RIN 2070-AC72.) Specialized Freight (except Used Small Entities Affected: Businesses The final rule being prepared by Goods) Trucking, Local; 23594 Government Levels Affected: State, OPPTS would develop disposal and Wrecking and Demolition Contractors; Federal management standards for this debris 56221 Waste Treatment and Disposal; Additional Information: SAN No. 4208 under the Toxic Substances Control Act 23322 Multifamily Housing (TSCA) title IV, (the definition of Construction; 23521 Painting and Wall Sectors Affected: 32532 Pesticide and abatement under TSCA title IV, section Covering Contractors; 56292 Materials Other Agricultural Chemical 401(1)(B), includes disposal). The Recovery Facilities Manufacturing; 32531 Fertilizer TSCA regulations would establish Manufacturing; 331111 Iron and Steel Agency Contact: Rajani Joglekar, appropriate disposal and management Mills; 331419 Primary Smelting and Environmental Protection Agency, standards for LBP debris and identify Refining of Nonferrous Metal (except Solid Waste and Emergency Response, recycling and incineration activities Copper and Aluminum); 331492 5304W that would be controlled or prohibited. Secondary Smelting, Refining, and Phone: 703 308-8806 To minimize duplication of waste Alloying of Nonferrous Metal (except Fax: 703 308-0522 management requirements, EPA is Copper and Aluminum); 562112 Email: [email protected] developing a companion RCRA rule to Hazardous Waste Collection RIN: 2050–AE68 suspend temporarily hazardous waste Agency Contact: Dave Fagan, management regulations applicable to Environmental Protection Agency, LBP debris, which will be subject to 3536. REQUIREMENTS FOR ZINC Solid Waste and Emergency Response, the new TSCA standards. FERTILIZER MADE FROM RECYCLED 5301W, Washington, DC 20460 Timetable: HAZARDOUS SECONDARY Phone: 703 308-0603 Action Date FR Cite MATERIALS Fax: 703 308-0513 Email: [email protected] NPRM RCRA 12/18/98 63 FR 70233 Priority: Other Significant RIN: 2050–AE69 Temporary Legal Authority: 42 USC 1006 et seq Suspension Final Action RCRA 08/00/02 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 261; 40 CFR 266; 40 CFR 268; 40 CFR 271 3537. RCRA CONTROLS FOR Temporary WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNITS Suspension Legal Deadline: NPRM, Judicial, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis November 15, 2000, Consent agreement; Priority: Other Significant Required: No met deadline. Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined Small Entities Affected: Businesses, Final, Judicial, April 15, 2002, Consent Legal Authority: 42 USC 6922; 42 USC Governmental Jurisdictions, agreement. 6924; 42 USC 6925; 42 USC 6926; 42 Organizations Abstract: This rulemaking is intended USC 6974 Government Levels Affected: State, to revise the current RCRA regulations CFR Citation: 40 CFR 260; 40 CFR 264; Local, Tribal, Federal that apply to recycling of hazardous 40 CFR 265 wastes in the manufacture of zinc Additional Information: SAN No. 4263 fertilizers. Specifically, it is intended to Legal Deadline: None Sectors Affected: 48423 Specialized establish a more consistent application Abstract: EPA is evaluating health risks Freight (except Used Goods) Trucking, of these recycling requirements to zinc posed by wastewater treatment units Long-Distance; 48412 General Freight fertilizer products, to establish a set of and is considering control requirements Trucking, Long-Distance; 54138 Testing standards for contaminants in RCRA- and/or emission standards for those Laboratories; 23551 Carpentry regulated zinc fertilizers that are more units that are currently exempt from Contractors; 23321 Single Family appropriate to fertilizers and are such requirements. Any standards Housing Construction; 23332 protective of human health and the eventually imposed by this action Commercial and Institutional Building environment, and to specify more would be intended to mitigate human Construction; 23542 Drywall, appropriate, protective conditions for health risks, particularly direct
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inhalation risks, posed by these units. Email: [email protected] can now require newer waste The wastewater treatment units of RIN: 2050–AE82 management units to include liners and concern are tanks in which hazardous groundwater monitoring, less than wastes are treated and subsequently about 50% of existing non-utility released to surface waters or sewage 3538. STANDARDS FOR THE landfills are lined (these statistics treatment facilities regulated under the MANAGEMENT OF COAL exclude municipal solid waste landfills Clean Water Act (CWA). Although COMBUSTION WASTES - NON- which are not the subject of this wastewater discharges from these tanks POWER PRODUCERS AND action). EPA acknowledges that some are regulated under the CWA, the tanks MINEFILLING waste management units may not themselves are not and are also Priority: Economically Significant. warrant liners and/or groundwater ‘‘temporarily exempt’’ from hazardous Major under 5 USC 801. monitoring, depending on site-specific waste regulations under the RCRA. characteristics. The Agency also Wastewater treatment units have been Unfunded Mandates: This action may decided that the practice of minefilling exempt from RCRA regulations for affect the private sector under PL 104- coal combustion wastes could present many years, although the Agency has 4. a danger to human health and the stated its concerns about these units Legal Authority: 42 USC 6907(a)(3); 42 environment under certain and its intention to reconsider, at some USC 6944 circumstances. Since there are few point, the temporary exemption. CFR Citation: 40 CFR 257 states that currently operate comprehensive programs that Recent studies undertaken by EPA have Legal Deadline: None identified air emissions from waste specifically address the unique management units as an area that is not Abstract: EPA is developing proposed circumstances of minefilling, the well addressed by RCRA hazardous regulations for the management of coal Agency believes national regulations waste regulations. In particular, study combustion wastes that are generated under RCRA Subtitle D and/or SMCRA findings show wastewater treatment by non-electric utility coal burners and may be appropriate. units to be the waste management unit managed in landfills and surface Timetable: of most concern for direct inhalation impoundments, and for the practice of risks. Not only can these units pose the minefilling of coal combustion wastes. Action Date FR Cite greatest inhalation risks when On April 25, 2000 EPA issued a NPRM 03/00/03 compared to other waste management regulatory determination for fossil fuel units, but these units are specifically combustion wastes (65 FR 32214, May Regulatory Flexibility Analysis exempted from all existing RCRA air 22, 2000) to announce its decision that Required: Yes certain wastes from the combustion of emission controls. Air emission Small Entities Affected: Businesses, fossil fuels (including coal, oil and controls imposed by the Clean Air Act Governmental Jurisdictions, natural gas) should remain exempt from (CAA) address air emissions from some Organizations wastewater treatment units, but these Subtitle C (management as hazardous requirements depend on industry waste) of RCRA. This regulatory Government Levels Affected: State, sector, quantity of emissions, and determination also announced that Local, Tribal, Federal regulations under RCRA Subtitle D technologies available. This action Federalism: Undetermined constitutes the Agency’s evaluation of (management as non-hazardous wastes) the long-standing temporary wastewater are appropriate for management of Additional Information: SAN No. 4469 treatment unit exemption and an certain coal combustion wastes that are attempt to reduce unacceptable disposed in landfills and surface Any Federal, state, local or tribal inhalation risks, where CAA and RCRA impoundments. In addition, EPA stated governments that own/operate coal- regulations are absent, from the its plan to consult with the U.S. burning facilities (excluding facilities treatment of hazardous wastes in Department of the Interior on that primarily generate electric power wastewater treatment units. appropriate measures under the Surface for sale) or coal mines that accept coal Mining Control and Reclamation Act combustion wastes may be subject to Timetable: (SMCRA) or RCRA or some this rule. Action Date FR Cite combination of both, to address the Sectors Affected: 311 Food NPRM 12/00/03 disposal of coal combustion wastes Manufacturing; 313 Textile Mills; 337 when used for minefilling in surface or Furniture and Related Product Regulatory Flexibility Analysis underground mines. Although the Required: Undetermined Manufacturing; 2121 Coal Mining; 322 utility industry has made significant Paper Manufacturing; 325 Chemical Government Levels Affected: improvements in waste management Manufacturing; 331 Primary Metal Undetermined practices over recent years, and most Manufacturing; 336 Transportation Federalism: Undetermined state regulatory programs are similarly Equipment Manufacturing; 62 Health improving, public comments and other Additional Information: SAN No. 4430 Care and Social Assistance; 22112 analyses have convinced the Agency Electric Power Transmission, Control Agency Contact: Marie Boucher, that coal combustion wastes could pose and Distribution Environmental Protection Agency, risks to human health and the Solid Waste and Emergency Response, environment, if they are not properly Agency Contact: Dennis Ruddy, 5304W, Washington, DC 20460 managed. There is sufficient evidence Environmental Protection Agency, Phone: 703 308-8754 that adequate controls may not be in Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Fax: 703 308-0522 place. For example, while most states 5306W, Washington, DC 20460
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Phone: 703 308-8430 Email: [email protected] Fax: 703 308-8686 RIN: 2050–AE83
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) Completed Actions Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
3539. LISTING DETERMINATION FOR 3541. PROJECT XL — IBM VT PILOT decomposition when leachate is added WASTEWATER AND WASTEWATER PROJECT PROVIDING A SITE- to the landfill and monitor the rate of TREATMENT SLUDGES FROM SPECIFIC EXEMPTION OF A gas generation. To implement this CHLORINATED ALIPHATICS METALLIZATION PROCESS FROM project, Buncombe County will need PRODUCTIONS; LAND DISPOSAL THE F006 LISTING DESCRIPTION relief from certain regulatory RESTRICTIONS FOR NEWLY Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant requirements in EPA regulations which IDENTIFIED WASTE set forth the construction and operating CFR Citation: 40 CFR 261 Priority: Other Significant criteria for MSWLFs. Proponents of Completed: bioreactor technology note that CFR Citation: 40 CFR 261; 40 CFR 268; operation of MSWLFs as bioreactors Reason Date FR Cite 40 CFR 271; 40 CFR 302 provide a number of environmental Completed: Final Action 09/12/00 65 FR 54955 benefits including: (1) increasing the Regulatory Flexibility Analysis rate of waste decomposition which in Reason Date FR Cite Required: No turn extends the operating life of the Final Action 11/08/00 65 FR 67068 landfill and lessens the need for Government Levels Affected: None additional landfill space or other Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Agency Contact: Mitch Kidwell disposal options; (2) decreasing or even Required: No Phone: 202 260-2515 eliminating the quantity leachate Government Levels Affected: State, Fax: 202 260-3125 requiring treatment and offsite disposal Federal Email: [email protected] while improving the quality, leading to Sectors Affected: 32511 Petrochemical reduced post closure care costs and Nancy Birnbaum Manufacturing; 32521 Resin and fewer risks; (4) lower long term Phone: 202 260-2601 Synthetic Rubber Manufacturing potential for leachate migration into the Fax: 202 401-2474 subsurface environment; and (5) Agency Contact: Ross Elliott Email: [email protected] opportunity for recovery of methane gas Phone: 703 308-8748 RIN: 2090–AA11 for energy production. Fax: 703 308-0514 Email: [email protected] Timetable: 3542. ∑ PROJECT XL SITE-SPECIFIC RIN: 2050–AD85 Action Date FR Cite RULEMAKING FOR BUNCOMBE Final Action 04/17/01 66 FR 19403 COUNTY LANDFILL, ALEXANDER, 3540. DEFERRAL OF PHASE IV NORTH CAROLINA Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No STANDARDS FOR PCBS AS A Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant CONSTITUENT SUBJECT TO Small Entities Affected: No TREATMENT IN SOIL Legal Authority: 42 USC 6907; 42 USC 6912; 42 USC 6945; 42 USC 6949). Government Levels Affected: None Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant CFR Citation: 40 CFR 258 Additional Information: SAN No. 4497 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 268 Legal Deadline: None Agency Contact: Sherri Walker, Completed: Abstract: Buncombe County proposed Environmental Protection Agency, Reason Date FR Cite a project under EPA’s Project XL to use Office of the Administrator, 1802, Washington, DC 20460 Final Action 12/26/00 65 FR 81373 certain bioreactor techniques at its municipal solid waste landfill Phone: 202 260-4295 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis (MSWLF), specifically, the recirculation Fax: 202 260-3125 Required: No of landfill leachate, with the possible Email: [email protected] Government Levels Affected: addition of water, to accelerate the State, Dwight Hlustick, Environmental Federal biodegradation of landfill waste and to decrease the time it takes for the waste Protection Agency, Solid Waste and Agency Contact: Ernie Brown to reach stabilization in the landfill. A Emergency Response, 5306W Phone: 703 308-8608 component of this project will include Phone: 703 308-8647 Fax: 703 308-8638 landfill gas recovery. The principal Fax: 703 308-8686 Email: [email protected] objective of this XL project is to Email: [email protected] RIN: 2050–AE76 evaluate the rate of waste RIN: 2090–AA22
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3543. OIL POLLUTION PREVENTION proposed revisions to implement some Action Date FR Cite REGULATION: REVISIONS of the task force recommendations and Supplemental NPRM 12/02/97 62 FR 63812 Priority: Other Significant on February 17, 1993, the Agency proposed further clarifications and Final Action 08/00/01 Legal Authority: 33 USC 1321 CWA sec technical changes to the spill Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 311(j)(l)(C) prevention regulations. On December 2, Required: No 1997, EPA supplemented the 1991 and CFR Citation: 40 CFR 112 Small Entities Affected: No 1993 proposed revisions with a Legal Deadline: None proposal to reduce burdens associated Government Levels Affected: State, Abstract: Following a major inland oil with the oil spill prevention program Local, Tribal, Federal spill with substantial environmental by reducing the recordkeeping Additional Information: SAN No. 2634 impacts (i.e., Ashland Oil in Floreffe, provisions or exempting some facilities Agency Contact: PA, in January 1988), an interagency from some recordkeeping requirements. Hugo Fleischman, task force recommended steps to This rule will take final action on the Environmental Protection Agency, improve EPA’s oil spill prevention 1991, 1993, and 1997 proposals. Solid Waste and Emergency Response, 5203G, Washington, DC 20460 program (40 CFR part 112). This Timetable: program requires oil storage facilities to Phone: 703 603-8769 prevent and contain discharges that Action Date FR Cite Fax: 703 603-9116 could reach waters of the United States. NPRM 10/22/91 56 FR 54612 Email: [email protected] On October 22, 1991, the Agency NPRM 02/17/93 58 FR 8824 RIN: 2050–AC62
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) Proposed Rule Stage Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act
3544. REPORTABLE QUANTITY Timetable: Abstract: This action will revise the ADJUSTMENTS FOR CARBAMATES Action Date FR Cite sites included on the National Priorities List (NPL) of uncontrolled waste sites Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant NPRM 12/00/01 in the National Contingency Plan Legal Authority: 42 USC 11004; 42 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis (NCP). CERCLA requires that the USC 9602(a) Required: No Agency revise the NPL at least CFR Citation: 40 CFR 302; 40 CFR 355 Small Entities Affected: No annually. Periodic revisions will allow EPA to include sites on the NPL with Legal Deadline: None Government Levels Affected: None known or threatened hazardous Abstract: EPA has listed carbamate Additional Information: SAN No. 3423 substance releases and to delete sites waste streams as hazardous wastes Agency Contact: Frank Avvisato, that have been cleaned up. under the Resource Conservation and Environmental Protection Agency, Timetable: Recovery Act (RCRA). RCRA listed Solid Waste and Emergency Response, wastes, by statute, automatically 5204G, Washington, DC 20460 Action Date FR Cite become hazardous substances under the Phone: 703 603-8949 NPRM 24 03/06/98 63 FR 11340 Comprehensive Environmental Fax: 703 603-9100 Final Action 20 03/06/98 63 FR 11332 Response, Compensation, and Liability Email: [email protected] NPRM 25 07/28/98 63 FR 40247 Act (CERCLA) and are assigned a one Final Action 21 07/28/98 63 FR 40182 pound statutory reportable quantity Lynn Beasley, Environmental Final Action (Tex-Tin 09/18/98 63 FR 49855 (RQ) unless EPA adjusts them. These Protection Agency, Solid Waste and Corp) substances also become subject to Emergency Response, 5204G, NPRM 26 09/29/98 63 FR 51882 reporting requirements under the Washington, DC 20460 Final Action 22 09/29/98 63 FR 51848 Emergency Planning and Community Phone: 703 603-9086 NPRM 27 01/19/99 64 FR 2950 Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) with a one Fax: 703 603-9104 Final Action 23 01/19/99 64 FR 2942 pound threshold. EPA, in this action, Email: [email protected] NPRM (Midnight Mine) 02/16/99 64 FR 7564 will propose RQ adjustments for the RIN: 2050–AE12 NPRM 28 04/23/99 64 FR 19968 carbamates. Most RQ adjustments are NPRM (Almeda) 05/10/99 64 FR 24990 expected to be greater than one pound. Final Action 24 05/10/99 64 FR 24949 Raising the RQs for these substances 3545. NATIONAL PRIORITIES LIST NPRM 29 07/22/99 64 FR 39886 would decrease the burden on 1) the FOR UNCONTROLLED HAZARDOUS Final Action 25 07/22/99 64 FR 39878 regulated community for complying WASTE SITES: PROPOSED AND NPRM 30 10/22/99 64 FR 56992 with the reporting requirements under FINAL RULES Final Action 10/22/99 64 FR 56966 CERCLA and EPCRA; 2) Federal, State, Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant NPRM 31 02/04/00 65 FR 5468 and local authorities for program Legal Authority: 42 USC 9605 Final Action 26 02/04/00 65 FR 5435 implementation; and 3) Federal, State, Superfund (CERCLA) sec 105 NPRM 32 05/11/00 65 FR 30489 or local authorities, if they release Final Action 28 05/11/00 65 FR 30482 hazardous substances at the RQ level CFR Citation: 40 CFR 300.425 NPRM 33 07/27/00 65 FR 46131 or greater. Legal Deadline: None Final Action 29 07/27/00 65 FR 46096
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Action Date FR Cite Abstract: 40 CFR part 35 subpart O is drawdown requirements needed for the Superfund Administrative cost recovery and Superfund NPRM 08/24/00 65 FR 51567 Regulation that governs awarding of accounting. Subpart O also needs to be Alabama/Malone Superfund cooperative agreements conformed with part 31 (Uniform NPRM 34 12/01/00 65 FR 75215 (CAs) to States, Indian tribes, and Administrative Requirements for Grants Final Action 30 12/01/00 65 FR 75179 territories of the United States. Subpart and Cooperative Agreements). NPRM 35 01/11/01 66 FR 2380 O covers State-lead, site-specific NPRM Site No. 04/00/01 EPA expects to institutionalize the Undetermined cooperative agreements for non-time- combining of CA types, create more NPRM Site No. 04/00/01 critical removal, preremedial, remedial, flexible reporting requirements, permit Undetermined and enforcement actions, and site- greater scope changes without Final Action Site No. 04/00/01 specific management assistance for amendment, provide more flexible Undetermined federal-lead projects. Also covered by money movement within and among Final Action Site No. 04/00/01 subpart O are non-site-specific Core CAs, and other policy advances in Undetermined Program and Voluntary Cleanup State/tribal/EPA interaction. Program State infrastructure Regulatory Flexibility Analysis development, as well as Brownfields Timetable: Required: No pilots, and Brownfields assessments. Action Date FR Cite Small Entities Affected: No The requirements for Superfund State NPRM 10/00/01 Government Levels Affected: State, contracts, financial administration, Local, Federal property, procurement, reporting, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis recordkeeping, and closeout are Required: No Additional Information: SAN No. 3439 provided in subpart O. Small Entities Affected: Governmental Agency Contact: Yolanda Singer, Jurisdictions Environmental Protection Agency, Subpart O was promulgated 6/5/1990, Solid Waste and Emergency Response, and became effective on 7/5/1990. Government Levels Affected: State, 5204G, Washington, DC 20460 Many changes in the Superfund Local, Tribal, Federal program have occurred over the past Phone: 703 603-8835 Federalism: Undetermined Fax: 703 603-9100 almost ten years and these need to be Procurement: Email: [email protected] reflected in subpart O. The six This is a procurement- categories of CAs presently used in related action for which there is no Terry Keidan, Environmental Protection subpart O need greater flexibility to statutory requirement. There is no Agency, Solid Waste and Emergency accommodate the new types of CAs paperwork burden associated with this Response, 5204G, Washington, DC that have developed. For example, the action. 20460 number of Block Funding Reform Additional Information: SAN No. 4177 Phone: 703 603-8852 pilots, begun in 1997, to consolidate Agency Contact: Kirby Biggs, Fax: 703 603-9104 several of the cooperative agreements Environmental Protection Agency, Email: [email protected] offered in subpart O, has grown to about 16 for fiscal year 2000, and have Solid Waste and Emergency Response, RIN: 2050–AD75 generated at least 60 approved 5204W, Washington, DC 20460 deviation requests from subpart O and Phone: 703 308-8506 3546. REVISE 40 CFR PART 35 40 CFR part 31. These pilot projects Fax: 703 308-8433 SUBPART O: COOPERATIVE offer considerable administrative relief Email: [email protected] AGREEMENTS AND SUPERFUND to States, tribes, and EPA by reducing Stephen Caldwell, Environmental STATE CONTRACTS FOR reporting requirements, broadening Protection Agency, Solid Waste and SUPERFUND RESPONSE ACTIONS scope changes without amendment, increasing the ability to move monies Emergency Response, 5204G, Priority: Other Significant within and among CAs, and relaxing Washington, DC 20460 Legal Authority: 42 USC 9601 to 9675 application requirements regarding site- Phone: 703 603-8833 Fax: 703 603-9104 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 35 subpart O specific identification of cooperative agreement funds to certain activities, Email: [email protected] Legal Deadline: None while maintaining site-specific RIN: 2050–AE62
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3547. REPORTING EXEMPTIONS FOR CFR Citation: 40 CFR 117; 40 CFR 302; Compensation, and Liability Act FEDERALLY PERMITTED RELEASES 40 CFR 355 (CERCLA). Federally permitted releases OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES Legal Deadline: None of hazardous substances are exempt from CERCLA reporting and liability, Abstract: Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant This action would clarify the and from reporting under section 304 definition of federally permitted release of the Emergency Planning and Legal Authority: 33 USC 1321; 33 USC under the Comprehensive Community Right-to-Know Act. 1361; 42 USC 9602; 42 USC 11004 Environmental Response,
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Timetable: guided by the Federal Acquisition Legal Deadline: None Requirements, and replacing the Action Date FR Cite Abstract: This action will address the requirement of maximum free and open development of evaluation criteria for NPRM 07/19/88 53 FR 27268 competition with a bright-line standard; the designation of substances as Supplemental Notice 07/11/89 54 FR 29306 allow claimants to provide independent hazardous under CERCLA. It is Final Action To Be Determined certification of claims and supporting necessary to develop evaluation criteria documentation; streamline the actual Regulatory Flexibility Analysis because the Agency has the authority payment process by taking advantage of Required: No under CERCLA 102(a) to designate the electronic funds transfer process; Small Entities Affected: No substances as hazardous; however, the ensure that cost recovery concerns are Agency does not have criteria to do so. Government Levels Affected: None addressed by requiring claimants, To date the only substances designated within a settlement document, to Additional Information: SAN No. 2394 as CERCLA hazardous substances are as reimburse the Fund for costs not Agency Contact: a result of their appearance on other Lynn Beasley, recovered (only in the event cost Acts’ lists defined under CERCLA Environmental Protection Agency, recovery is initiated), due to claimants’ 101(14). Using CERCLA designation Solid Waste and Emergency Response, failure to provide adequate criteria the Agency may establish 5204G, Washington, DC 20460 documentary support or upon a CERCLA hazardous substances Phone: 703 603-9086 determination that response costs independently from other Acts, in the Fax: 703 603-9104 expended (and claimed) were not interest of public health and the Email: [email protected] reasonable or not incurred consistent environment. RIN: 2050–AB82 with the National Contingency Plan and ensure proper accounting by The purpose of this action is to have requiring offsets for funds owed to the well thought-out criteria for designating 3548. STREAMLINING THE Agency by claimants. hazardous substances that may be PREAUTHORIZATION MIXED applied to individual substances for FUNDING FOR APPLICATION AND Timetable: evaluation and decision as to whether IMPLEMENTATION OF CLAIMS Action Date FR Cite or not the substance should be AGAINST SUPERFUND NPRM To Be Determined appropriately designated a CERCLA Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant 102(a) hazardous substance. The Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Agency already has the authority to Legal Authority: 42 USC 9601 Required: No designate substances as hazardous; in CFR Citation: 40 CFR 307 Small Entities Affected: No this action, criteria will be developed Legal Deadline: None Government Levels Affected: None to implement that authority. Abstract: Current regulations at 40 CFR Additional Information: SAN No. 3885 Timetable: part 307 provide for the preauthorization of claims against the Agency Contact: Phyllis Anderson, Action Date FR Cite Superfund in instances where the Environmental Protection Agency, ANPRM To Be Determined Agency makes a determination that Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis mixed funding is appropriate. This 5201G, Washington, DC 20460 Required: No process has been labeled by many Phone: 703 603-8971 stakeholders as overly burdensome. The Fax: 703 603-9146 Small Entities Affected: No Agency has reviewed the current Email: [email protected] Government Levels Affected: None process in order to identify areas in RIN: 2050–AE38 which burdens may be lessened and Additional Information: SAN No. 4201 requirements may be streamlined. As a Agency Contact: Lynn Beasley, result, the Agency is considering a 3549. CRITERIA FOR THE Environmental Protection Agency, proposal to amend the current DESIGNATION OF HAZARDOUS Solid Waste and Emergency Response, regulation to: streamline the application SUBSTANCES UNDER CERCLA 5204G, Washington, DC 20460 process by eliminating duplicative SECTION 102(A) Phone: 703 603-9086 information requirements; minimize the Priority: Other Significant Fax: 703 603-9104 requirements related to management, Email: [email protected] oversight, and reporting of the cleanup, Legal Authority: 42 USC 9602 by removing the requirement to be CFR Citation: 40 CFR 302.4 RIN: 2050–AE63
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3550. GRANTS FOR TECHNICAL Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Suzanne Wells ASSISTANCE RULE REFORM—40 CFR Required: No Phone: 703 603-8863 PART 35 SUBPART M Fax: 703 603-9100 Government Levels Affected: State, Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Email: [email protected] Federal CFR Citation: 40 CFR 35 RIN: 2050–AE33 Completed: Agency Contact: Lois Gartner Phone: 703 603-8889 Reason Date FR Cite Fax: 703 603-9100 Final Action 10/02/00 65 FR 58850 Email: [email protected]
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) Proposed Rule Stage Clean Water Act (CWA)
3551. EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND Regulatory Flexibility Analysis concerns about nutrient discharges STANDARDS FOR THE Required: Undetermined from these facilities might be resolved CONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT Small Entities Affected: Businesses, by additional effluent limitations. In INDUSTRY Governmental Jurisdictions particular, the current regulations do Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant. not address ammonia nitrogen for red Government Levels Affected: State, meat slaughterhouses/packinghouses Major status under 5 USC 801 is Local, Tribal, Federal undetermined. (Subparts A-D). Nutrients are a Federalism: Undetermined significant remaining water quality Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined Additional Information: SAN No. 4280 problem for impaired streams. Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311 CWA Sectors Affected: 23 Construction Revisions to the current regulations 301; 33 USC 1314 CWA 304; 33 USC will also include effluent limitations for 1316 CWA 306; 33 USC 1317 CWA Agency Contact: Eric Strassler, poultry processing, which is not 307; 33 USC 1318 CWA 308; 33 USC Environmental Protection Agency, currently covered by any effluent 1342 CWA 402; 33 USC 1361 CWA 501 Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460 guideline. Phone: 202 260-7150 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 450 Fax: 202 260-7185 Timetable: Legal Deadline: NPRM, Judicial, March Email: [email protected] Action Date FR Cite 31, 2002. NPRM 12/00/01 Final, Judicial, March 31, 2004. Jessee Pritts, Environmental Protection Agency, Water, 4303, Washington, DC Final Action 12/00/03 Abstract: The effluent guidelines will 20460 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis apply to construction activities Phone: 202 260-7185 Required: Undetermined associated with new development, as Fax: 202 260-7185 Small Entities Affected: Businesses well as to those associated with re- Email: [email protected] development activities. The regulations Government Levels Affected: will address storm water runoff from RIN: 2040–AD42 Undetermined construction sites during the active Federalism: Undetermined phase of construction, as well as post- 3552. EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND construction runoff. Construction STANDARDS FOR THE MEAT Additional Information: SAN No. 4407 activity is a major source of sediment PRODUCTS POINT SOURCE Sectors Affected: 311611 Animal and other pollutants discharged to the CATEGORY (REVISIONS) (except Poultry) Slaughtering; 311612 nation’s waters. Industries potentially Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Meat Processed from Carcasses; 311613 affected by this rulemaking include Rendering and Meat By-product land developers, home builders, Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined Processing; 311615 Poultry Processing builders of commercial and industrial Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311; 33 USC Agency Contact: Samantha Lewis, property, and other private and public 1314; 33 USC 1316; 33 USC 1317; 33 Environmental Protection Agency, sector construction site owners and USC 1318; 33 USC 1361 Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460 operators. EPA will develop design CFR Citation: Phone: 202 260-7149 criteria for erosion and sediment 40 CFR 432 (Revision) Fax: 202 260-7185 controls and storm water best Legal Deadline: NPRM, Judicial, Email: [email protected] management practices (BMPs). These December 31, 2001. requirements will be implemented in Final, Judicial, December 31, 2003. RIN: 2040–AD56 NPDES storm water permits issued to Abstract: The Agency is revising construction site owners and operators. effluent limitations guidelines and 3553. WATER QUALITY STANDARDS Timetable: standards for the Meat Products Point FOR ALABAMA—PHASE II Source Category. The current Action Date FR Cite regulations, at 40 CFR 432, are more Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant NPRM 03/00/02 than 20 years old and are limited to Legal Authority: 33 USC 1313 CWA Final Action 03/00/04 a few conventional pollutants. Recent 303
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CFR Citation: 40 CFR 131 131.40 (New); 40 CFR 230.10 Email: [email protected] Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, 90 (Amended); 40 CFR 233.1 (Amended); RIN: 2040–AD46 days after NPRM. 40 CFR 233.51 (Amended) Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, 90 Abstract: Under the CWA, States have 3555. TEST PROCEDURES FOR THE days after NPRM. primary authority in developing water ANALYSIS OF CRYPTOSPORIDIUM quality standards for waters within Abstract: EPA is proposing a national AND GIARDIA UNDER THE SAFE their jurisdiction. EPA maintains rule containing core federal water DRINKING WATER AND CLEAN oversight authority in that States must quality standards (WQS) to support WATER ACTS submit their water quality standards to tailored, site-specific decisions for Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant EPA for review and approval or certain waters in Indian country that disapproval. If a State’s water quality do not have EPA-approved Tribal Legal Authority: 33 USC 1314(h) CWA standards are not consistent with the standards. EPA is contemplating this 304(h); 33 USC 1361 CWA 501(a); 42 requirements of the CWA and its rule as a first step towards ensuring USC 300(f) SDWA 1412; 42 USC supporting regulations, and are that the core Clean Water Act (CWA) 300(g)(1) SDWA 1413; 42 USC 300(g)(2) subsequently disapproved by EPA, the framework for protecting water quality SDWA 1414; 42 USC 300(g)(3) SDWA State must revise the disapproved water is in place for all such waters. The core 1415; 42 USC 300(g)(4) SDWA 1416; 42 quality standards. If the State does not federal water quality standards would USC 300(g)(5) SDWA 1445; 42 USC revise the disapproved water quality establish: use designations consistent 300(j)(4) SDWA 1450; 42 USC 300(j)(9) standards, the CWA authorizes the EPA with CWA section 101(a) goals, cultural CFR Citation: 40 CFR 136; 40 CFR 141 Administrator to promulgate Federal and traditional, and other uses; Legal Deadline: None water quality standards to supersede narrative water quality criteria for those disapproved provisions in the protecting the designated uses; numeric Abstract: This regulatory action would water quality standards. EPA is criteria for priority toxic pollutants for propose to amend the Guidelines developing a proposed rule to further protecting the designated uses; Establishing Test Procedures for the determine the appropriate use and an antidegradation policy designed Analysis of Pollutants under 40 CFR designations for five waterbodies in to protect water quality. Such standards part 136 and the analytical methods Alabama that EPA disapproved in 1986 would provide a basis for EPA (in under 40 CFR part 141 to approve EPA and 1991. consultation with a Tribe) to affect Method 1622 for the detection of Timetable: pollution discharges occurring Cryptosporidium and Giardia in upstream from Tribal waters; provide ambient waters and finished drinking Action Date FR Cite a legally enforceable basis for including water by filtration of a 10-L sample in NPRM 01/00/02 water quality based limitations or laboratory, separation of target Final Action 06/00/03 conditions in permits or certifications organisms from other debris using for discharges within Indian country; immunomagnetic separation, and Regulatory Flexibility Analysis detection of the organisms using Required: No and provide the basis for establishing Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) immunofluorescence assay and Small Entities Affected: No for Indian country waters. A federal differential interference contrast Government Levels Affected: State, promulgation would not prevent Tribes microscopy and confirmation Federal from developing their own standards. examination of the organisms using vital dye stains. Additional Information: SAN No. 4264 Timetable: Timetable: Agency Contact: Fritz Wagener, Action Date FR Cite Action Date FR Cite Environmental Protection Agency, NPRM 08/00/01 Water, Region04, Atlanta, GA 30303 Final Action 06/00/02 NPRM 05/00/01 Phone: 404 562-9267 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Final Action 05/00/02 Jim Keating, Environmental Protection Required: No Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: Agency, Water, 4305, Washington, DC Small Entities Affected: No No Small Entities Affected: 20460 Government Levels Affected: State, Businesses, Phone: 202 260-3845 Tribal, Federal Governmental Jurisdictions, Fax: 202 260-9830 Organizations Additional Information: SAN No. 4344 Email: [email protected] Government Levels Affected: State, RIN: 2040–AD35 Agency Contact: Fred Leutner, Local, Tribal, Federal Environmental Protection Agency, Additional Information: Water, 4305, Washington, DC 20460 SAN No. 4047 3554. WATER QUALITY STANDARDS Phone: 202 260-1542 Agency Contact: William A. Telliard, FOR INDIAN COUNTRY WATERS Fax: 202 260-9830 Environmental Protection Agency, Priority: Other Significant Email: [email protected] Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460 Phone: 202 260-7134 Legal Authority: 33 USC 1251 et seq Joanne Dea, Environmental Protection Fax: 202 260-7185 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 131; 40 CFR Agency, Water, 4305, Washington, DC Email: [email protected] 121.17 (Revision); 40 CFR 122.4 20460 (Amended); 40 CFR 123.1 (Amended); Phone: 202 260-0180 Maria Gomez-Taylor, Environmental 40 CFR 131.4 (Amended); 40 CFR Fax: 202 260-9830 Protection Agency, Water, 4303
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Phone: 202 260-1639 Email: [email protected] Government Levels Affected: State, Fax: 202 260-7185 RIN: 2040–AD34 Local, Tribal, Federal Email: [email protected] Additional Information: SAN No. 4474 RIN: 2040–AD08 3557. MINIMIZING ADVERSE Split from RIN 2040-AC34. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT FROM Sectors Affected: 21 Mining; 22111 3556. TEST PROCEDURES FOR THE COOLING WATER INTAKE Electric Power Generation; 22133 Steam ANALYSIS OF E. COLI AND STRUCTURES AT EXISTING and Air-Conditioning Supply; 311 Food ENTEROCOCCI UNDER THE CLEAN FACILITIES UNDER SECTION 316(B) Manufacturing; 3122 Tobacco WATER ACT OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT, PHASE Manufacturing; 313 Textile Mills; 321 2 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Wood Product Manufacturing; 322 Priority: Other Significant. Major status Paper Manufacturing; 324 Petroleum Legal Authority: 33 USC 1314(h) CWA under 5 USC 801 is undetermined. and Coal Products Manufacturing; 325 304(h); 33 USC 1361(a) CWA 501(a) Chemical Manufacturing; 326 Plastics Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined CFR Citation: 40 CFR 136.3 and Rubber Products Manufacturing; Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311 CWA sec 327 Nonmetallic Mineral Product Legal Deadline: None 301; 33 USC 1316 CWA sec 306; 33 Manufacturing; 331 Primary Metal Abstract: This regulatory action would USC 1326 CWA sec 316; 33 USC 1361 Manufacturing; 332 Fabricated Metal propose to amend the Guidelines CWA sec 501 Product Manufacturing; 333 Machinery Establishing Test Procedures for the CFR Citation: 40 CFR 9, 122, 123, 124 Manufacturing; 334 Computer and Analysis of Pollutants under 40 CFR and 125 Electronic Product Manufacturing; 335 part 136 to approve microbiological Electrical Equipment, Appliance and methods for monitoring ambient water. Legal Deadline: NPRM, Judicial, Component Manufacturing; 336 Ambient water contamination is February 28, 2002. Transportation Equipment determined by the presence of bacterial Final, Judicial, August 28, 2003. Manufacturing; 61131 Colleges, indicators. In 1986, EPA issued a Abstract: This rulemaking affects, at a Universities and Professional Schools revision to its bacteriological ambient minimum, existing electricity Agency Contact: Deborah Nagle, water quality criteria recommendations generating facilities that employ cooling Environmental Protection Agency, to include new indicator bacteria, E. water intake structures and whose Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460 coli and enterococci. To support the intake flow levels exceed a minimum Phone: 202 260-2656 ambient water quality criteria for threshold to be determined by EPA Fax: 202 260-7185 bacteria, EPA is planning to promulgate during the rulemaking. Section 316(b) Email: [email protected] several analytical methods for of the Clean Water Act provides that monitoring E. coli and enterococci in any standard established pursuant to J. T. Morgan, Environmental Protection ambient water. This proposed sections 301 or 306 of the Clean Water Agency, Water, 4303, Washington, DC regulation would approve test Act and applicable to a point source 20460 procedures to be available for use by shall require that the location, design, Phone: 202 260-6015 testing laboratories. construction, and capacity of cooling Fax: 202 260-7185 Timetable: water intake structures reflect the best Email: [email protected] technology available for minimizing RIN: 2040–AD62 Action Date FR Cite adverse environmental impact. A NPRM 05/00/01 primary purpose of the rulemaking is Final Action 05/00/02 to minimize the impingement and 3558. NPDES STREAMLINING RULE — Regulatory Flexibility Analysis entrainment of fish and other aquatic ROUND III organisms by cooling water intake Required: No Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant structures. Impingement refers to Small Entities Affected: Businesses, trapping fish and other aquatic life Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311 CWA sec Governmental Jurisdictions, against cooling water intake screens. 301; 33 USC 1312 CWA sec 302; 33 Organizations Entrainment occurs when aquatic USC 1314 CWA sec 304; 33 USC 1316 Government Levels Affected: State, organisms, eggs, and larvae are drawn CWA sec 306; 33 USC 1318 CWA sec Local, Tribal, Federal into the cooling system, through the 308; 33 USC 1342 CWA sec 402; 33 heat exchanger, and then pumped back USC 1361 CWA sec 501 Additional Information: SAN No. 4214 out, often with significant injury or CFR Citation: 40 CFR 122; 40 CFR 123; Agency Contact: William A. Telliard, mortality to the entrained organisms. 40 CFR 124 Environmental Protection Agency, Timetable: Legal Deadline: None Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460 Phone: 202 260-7134 Action Date FR Cite Abstract: On February 21, 1995, Fax: 202 260-7185 NPRM 02/00/02 President Clinton issued a directive Email: [email protected] Final Action 08/00/03 requesting that Federal agencies review their regulatory programs to eliminate Maria Gomez-Taylor, Environmental Regulatory Flexibility Analysis any obsolete, ineffective, or unduly Protection Agency, Water, 4303 Required: Undetermined burdensome regulations. In response to Phone: 202 260-1639 Small Entities Affected: Businesses, that directive, EPA plans to issue Fax: 202 260-7185 Governmental Jurisdictions several rulemaking packages to revise
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NPDES requirements in parts 122, 123, CFR Citation: 40 CFR 122.38; 40 CFR 3560. RECOGNITION AWARDS UNDER and 124 to eliminate redundant 122.41; 40 CFR 122.42 THE CLEAN WATER ACT regulations, provide clarification, and remove or streamline unnecessary Legal Deadline: None Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant procedures. Revisions under Abstract: EPA is developing a notice Legal Authority: CWA 501(e); 33 USC consideration in this rule include of proposed rulemaking that would 1361 (a) and (e) adding additional permit modifications propose a broad-based reevaluation that can be considered minor CFR Citation: 40 CFR 105 (New) framework for sanitary sewer collection modifications at 122.63, and changes to systems under the NPDES program. The Legal Deadline: None requirements concerning EPA’s review Agency is proposing standard permit of State permits. Other revisions may Abstract: The Environmental conditions for inclusion in permits for be considered as work on this rule Protection Agency (EPA) is establishing publicly owned treatment works progresses. This rulemaking is expected a framework for the annual Clean Water (POTWs) and municipal sanitary sewer to affect entities which implement the Act (CWA) Recognition Awards known collection systems. The standard NPDES program or are regulated by it. as the National Wastewater requirements address reporting, public This includes small businesses and Management Excellence Awards notification, and recordkeeping State, tribal and local governments. Program. Section 501(e) of the CWA requirements for sanitary sewer Most of these effects are expected to authorized the Administrator, on behalf overflows (SSOs), capacity assurance, be deregulatory or streamlining in of the U.S. Government, to recognize management, operation and nature. outstanding technological achievements maintenance requirements for Timetable: or innovative processes, methods or municipal sanitary sewer collection devices in waste treatment and Action Date FR Cite systems; and a prohibition on SSOs. pollution abatement programs. The rule NPRM 02/00/02 Timetable: would establish regulations under Final Action 02/00/03 which the recognition may be applied Action Date FR Cite Regulatory Flexibility Analysis for and granted. The existing awards Required: No NPRM 08/00/01 program recognizes innovative and Final Action 02/00/03 outstanding achievements, processes, Small Entities Affected: Businesses, methods or devices in: Operations and Governmental Jurisdictions Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Maintenance (O&M) of Publicly Owned Government Levels Affected: State, Required: No Treatment Works (POTW); Biosolids Management (Biosolids); POTW Local, Tribal, Federal Small Entities Affected: Governmental Pretreatment Programs; Municipal and Additional Information: SAN No. 3786 Jurisdictions Industrial Storm Water (SW) Agency Contact: Thomas Charlton, Government Levels Affected: State, Management; and Combined Sewer Environmental Protection Agency, Local, Tribal, Federal Overflows (CSO) Controls. These Water, 4203, Washington, DC 20460 wastewater management programs can Phone: 202 564-6960 Federalism: This action may have generally be characterized as waste Fax: 202 564-9544 federalism implications as defined in treatment and/or pollution abatement Email: [email protected] EO 13132. programs. EPA may later establish, discontinue, combine or rename Howard Rubin, Environmental Additional Information: SAN No. 3999 categories by guidance published in the Protection Agency, Water, 4203, Federal Register. Though the Agency Washington, DC 20460 Note: This rule was formerly known as has conducted an awards program for Phone: 202 564-2051 ‘‘Revisions to NPDES Requirements for many years, the rulemaking action Fax: 202 564-9544 Compliance Reporting and Collection clearly acknowledges the basis for the Email: [email protected] System Discharges.’’ program. EPA is formalizing the CWA RIN: 2040–AC84 Sectors Affected: 22132 Sewage Recognition Awards program using a Treatment Facilities direct final rulemaking because the 3559. NPDES REQUIREMENTS FOR agency does not expect adverse Agency Contact: Kevin Weiss, comments. Unless the Agency receives MUNICIPAL SANITARY SEWER Environmental Protection Agency, COLLECTION SYSTEMS, MUNICIPAL comments requiring a response during Water, 4203M, Washington, DC 20460 the public comment period associated SATELLITE COLLECTION SYSTEMS, Phone: 202 564-0742 AND SANITARY SEWER OVERFLOWS with an identical companion proposed Fax: 202 564-6392 rule published elsewhere in the Federal Priority: Economically Significant. Email: [email protected] Register on the same day, the Major under 5 USC 801. formalized program would become Unfunded Mandates: This action may Sharie Centilla, Environmental effective without further notice. affect State, local or tribal governments. Protection Agency, Water, 4203M, Washington, DC 20460 Timetable: Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311 CWA sec Phone: 202 564-0697 Action Date FR Cite 301; 33 USC 1314 CWA sec 304; 33 Fax: 202 564-6392 USC 1318 CWA sec 308; 33 USC 1342 Email: [email protected] NPRM Companion of 07/00/01 CWA sec 402; 33 USC 1361 CWA sec Direct Final Rule 501(a) RIN: 2040–AD02 Direct Final Rule 07/00/01
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Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Regulatory Flexibility Analysis anticipated, as the proposed regulatory Required: No Required: Undetermined revisions would be consistent with the Small Entities Affected: No Small Entities Affected: Businesses, Supreme Court ruling. Government Levels Affected: State, Governmental Jurisdictions Timetable: Local, Tribal, Federal Government Levels Affected: State, Action Date FR Cite Tribal, Federal Additional Information: SAN No. 4332 NPRM 12/00/01 Additional Information: SAN No. 4446 Note: This rule was formerly known as Final Action 12/00/02 National Wastewater Management Sectors Affected: 21111 Oil and Gas Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Excellence Awards Program. Extraction; 22132 Sewage Treatment Required: No Facilities; 221111 Hydroelectric Power Sectors Affected: 2213 Water, Sewage Small Entities Affected: Businesses, Generation; 221112 Fossil Fuel Electric and Other Systems; 5622 Waste Governmental Jurisdictions Power Generation; 42271 Petroleum Treatment and Disposal Bulk Stations and Terminals; 325412 Government Levels Affected: State, Agency Contact: Maria Campbell, Pharmaceutical Preparation Local, Tribal, Federal Environmental Protection Agency, Manufacturing; 311711 Seafood Additional Information: SAN No. 2804 Water, 4204M, Washington, DC 20460 Canning Agency Contact: Phone: 202 564-0628 Donna Downing, Agency Contact: David Redford, Environmental Protection Agency, Fax: 202 501-2396 Environmental Protection Agency, Email: [email protected] Water, 4502F, Washington, DC 20460 Water, 4504-F, Washington, DC 20460 Phone: 202 260-8795 RIN: 2040–AD44 Phone: 202 260-1952 Fax: 202 260-7546 RIN: 2040–AD60 Email: [email protected] 3561. OCEAN DISCHARGES CRITERIA REVISIONS John Lishman, Environmental 3562. CLEAN WATER ACT DEFINITION Protection Agency, Water, 4502F, Priority: Other Significant OF WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES Washington, DC 20460 Legal Authority: 33 USC 1343 et seq Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Phone: 202 260-9180 Fax: 202 260-7546 CFR Citation: Legal Authority: 33 USC 1361 CWA sec 40 CFR 125.121(a); 40 Email: [email protected] CFR 125.121(e); 40 CFR 125.122; 40 501; 33 USC 1362 CWA sec 502 RIN: 2040–AB74 CFR 125.123; 40 CFR 125.124 CFR Citation: 33 CFR 328.3(a); 40 CFR Legal Deadline: None 110.1; 40 CFR 112.2; 40 CFR 116.3; 40 CFR 117.1; 40 CFR 122.2; 40 CFR 3563. ∑ CLEAN WATER STATE Abstract: EPA is proposing to modify 230.3(s); 40 CFR 232.2; 40 CFR 257.3- REVOLVING FUND REGULATION the existing regulations implementing 1(d); 40 CFR Part 300, Appendix E; 40 REVISIONS RE: USE AS MATCHING the ocean protection provisions of CFR 401.11(I) FUNDS section 403 of the Clean Water Act. A key element of the proposed rule would Legal Deadline: None Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant provide for establishment of baseline Abstract: This action involves joint Legal Authority: 33 USC 1383(h) water quality standards for ocean rulemaking by EPA and the Department CFR Citation: 40 CFR 35.3125(b)(1) waters beyond three miles offshore. of the Army to amend the regulatory These waters, designated ‘‘Healthy definition of waters of the United Legal Deadline: None Ocean Waters,’’ would be protected by States. The proposal would clarify the Abstract: This regulation will revise both a narrative statement of desired jurisdictional status under the Clean the Clean Water State Revolving Fund quality and pollutant-specific numeric Water Act (CWA) of so-called (SRF) Regulations to allow the use of criteria. The proposed rule also would ‘‘isolated’’ intrastate waters and the SRF as a match for infrastructure strengthen the requirements for a wetlands. The existing regulations grants. In 1990, EPA issued regulations permit to discharge to any ocean contain language asserting jurisdiction implementing the Clean Water State waters, and would establish a number over isolated intrastate waters, but that Revolving Fund (CW SRF) program, of Special Ocean Sites (SOSs), which regulatory provision has been the established as Title VI of the Clean are areas within ocean waters that are subject of a January 9, 2001, U.S. Water Act (CWA) in 1987. Section of outstanding value, where new and Supreme Court opinion. Revision of the 603(h) of the CWA prohibits use of the significantly expanded discharges regulatory language is necessary to CW SRF loan as matching funds with would be prohibited. The proposed rule address the Court’s decision, improve respect to the non-Federal share of the will enhance the protection of the regulatory clarity, and provide more cost of a treatment works project for ocean environment and meet the goals specificity regarding CWA jurisdiction.. which a municipality or agency is of President Clinton’s Executive Order The rulemaking would clarify CWA receiving assistance from the on Marine Protected Areas (E.O. jurisdiction for entities (e.g., industrial, Administrator under any other 13158). commercial, governmental) that authority. In issuing its regulations, Timetable: discharge pollutants, including dredged EPA interpreted this prohibition or fill material, to isolated intrastate broadly, applying the restriction to all Action Date FR Cite surface waters or wetlands. Significant treatment works construction. At that NPRM 10/00/01 impacts on small entities or time, EPA believed the replacement of Final Action 07/00/02 state/local/tribal governments are not the construction grants program
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authorized by Title II of the CWA by 3564. ∑ TEST PROCEDURES FOR THE Maria Gomez-Taylor, Environmental the CW SRF would result in a ANALYSIS OF MERCURY UNDER THE Protection Agency, Water, 4303 significant decrease in the use of CLEAN WATER ACT (REVISIONS TO Phone: 202 260-1639 Federal grant funds for construction of METHOD 1631) Fax: 202 260-7185 Email: [email protected] treatment works. However, from FY Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant 1995 onward, Congress has authorized RIN: 2040–AD72 Legal Authority: 33 USC 1251 et seq; and appropriated funds for 33 USC 1314(h); 33 USC 1361(a); 76 infrastructure construction grants in Stat 816; PL 92-500; 91 Stat 1567; PL 3565. ∑ PROPOSAL TO REVISE AND various Appropriations Acts. At this 95-217; 100 Sat 7; PL 100-4 TO RATIFY OR WITHDRAW WHOLE time, there are over 700 projects EFFLUENT TOXICITY TEST METHODS totaling over $3.3 billion dollars. In CFR Citation: 40 CFR 136.3 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant several cases, EPA has been asked to Legal Deadline: NPRM, Judicial, allow CW SRF funds to be used as a September 30, 2001, Settlement Legal Authority: PL 95-217; 33 USC match for these grants; our regulation agreement. 1251 et seq at 40 CFR 35.3125(b)(1) prohibits such Final, Judicial, September 30, 2002, CFR Citation: 40 CFR 136.3 Settlement agreement. action. However, upon reconsideration, Legal Deadline: NPRM, Judicial, EPA has decided its initial reading in Abstract: This proposal would amend September 24, 2001, Settlement 1990 was too broad, and the intent of Method 1631 to add new requirements agreement. Congress was only to prohibit use of for clean techniques and quality control Final, Judicial, September 24, 2002, CW SRF loans as match for Title II (QC) beyond those specified in EPA Settlement agreement. construction grants. This action will Method 1631 for the determination of Abstract: This regulatory action would revise the regulations to allow a State, mercury at water quality criteria levels. propose to amend the Guidelines in its operation of its CW SRF, to EPA Method 1631 was promulgated at Establishing Test Procedures for the provide a loan to non-Title II 40 CFR 136 in June 1999. Later that Analysis of Pollutants under 40 CFR infrastructure construction grant year, the Alliance of Automobile part 136 by revising several whole projects as a non-federal match. The Manufacturers, the Chemical effluent toxicity (WET) test methods prohibition on the use of CW SRF as Manufacturers Association, and the and by ratifying or withdrawing WET a match for a Title II construction grant Utility Water Act Group (‘‘Petitioners’’) test methods listed in Table IA for use will continue. filed a petition for judicial review of under the Clean Water Act. These the final rule. One of the issues in the methods were promulgated on October Timetable: petition related to the clean sampling 16, 1995 (60 FR 53529). The proposed Action Date FR Cite techniques and QC requirements in the regulation is needed to satisfy the terms Method. As part of a Settlement of two settlement agreements (entered NPRM 09/00/01 Agreement in October 2000, EPA into by EPA and Edison Electric Direct Final Rule With 09/00/01 agreed to sign a Federal Register notice Institute, et al., and Western Coalition Companion proposing additional clean techniques of Arid States on July 24, 1998; and Proposal and QC requirements for Method 1631 entered into by EPA and Lone Star by September 30, 2001, and to sign a Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Steel in January, 1997). This proposal final rule by September 30, 2002. EPA will amend the 1995 rule by revising Required: No also plans to publish a correction three WET method manuals, and by Small Entities Affected: No notice on Method 1631 prior to ratifying or withdrawing each of the proposal of the new clean techniques WET test methods challenged in the Government Levels Affected: State, and QC requirements to clarify the use settlement agreements from these three Local, Tribal, Federal of field bland subtraction. manuals. Specific revisions include: the Timetable: requirement of blocking by parentage in Additional Information: SAN No. 4493 Method 1002, the requirement for Action Date FR Cite Agency Contact: Chan Hoang, demonstration of valid concentration- NPRM 09/00/01 response relationships, the inclusion of Environmental Protection Agency, Final Action 09/00/02 specific procedures to control pH drift, Water, 4204M, Washington, DC 20460 and the inclusion of procedures to Phone: 202 564-0689 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No reduce pathogenic interferences in Fax: 202 501-2396 Method 1000. Email: [email protected] Small Entities Affected: No Timetable: Government Levels Affected: State, Gary Hudiburgh, Environmental Action Date FR Cite Local, Tribal, Federal Protection Agency, Water, EN-336, NPRM 09/00/01 Additional Information: 4204M, Washington, DC 20460 SAN No. 4541 Final Action 09/00/02 Phone: 202 564-0626 Agency Contact: William Telliard, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Fax: 202 501-2396 Environmental Protection Agency, Required: No Email: [email protected] Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460 Phone: 202 260-7134 Small Entities Affected: No RIN: 2040–AD68 Fax: 202 260-7185 Government Levels Affected: State, Email: [email protected] Local, Tribal, Federal
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Federalism: Undetermined CFR Citation: 40 CFR 300 Timetable: Additional Information: SAN No. 4514 Legal Deadline: None Action Date FR Cite Agency Contact: William A. Telliard, NPRM 12/00/01 Environmental Protection Agency, Abstract: This action will propose Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460 revisions to subpart J of the National Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Phone: 202 260-7134 Contingency Plan (NCP) (40 CFR part Required: Undetermined Fax: 202 260-7185 300.900). Section 311(d)(2)(G) of the Email: [email protected] Clean Water Act requires that EPA Government Levels Affected: State, prepare a schedule of dispersants, other Federal Marion Kellly, Environmental chemicals, and other spill mitigating Additional Information: SAN No. 4526 Protection Agency, Water, 4303 devices and substances, if any, that Phone: 202 260-7117 may be used in carrying out the NCP. Sectors Affected: 54 Professional, Fax: 202 260-7185 Under subpart J, respondents wishing Scientific and Technical Services; 3259 Email: [email protected] to add a product to the Product Other Chemical Product Manufacturing; RIN: 2040–AD73 Schedule must submit technical 325 Chemical Manufacturing; 3251 product data specified in 40 CFR Basic Chemical Manufacturing 300.915 to EPA. This rulemaking will 3566. ∑ REVISIONS TO THE Agency Contact: William ‘‘Nick’’ NATIONAL OIL AND HAZARDOUS propose revisions to subpart J to clarify Nichols, Environmental Protection SUBSTANCES POLLUTION and change protocols for effectiveness Agency, Solid Waste and Emergency CONTINGENCY PLAN; SUBPART J and toxicity testing. It will clarify EPA Response, 5203G, Washington, DC PRODUCT SCHEDULE LISTING authority to remove products from the 20460 REQUIREMENTS Product Schedule. These changes will Phone: 703 603-9918 help ensure protection of the Priority: Other Significant Fax: 703 603-9116 environment when these products are Email: [email protected] Legal Authority: CWA section used to clean up and mitigate oil spills 311(d)(2); 33 USC 1321(d)(2) onto land and water. RIN: 2050–AE87
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3567. EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND Timetable: 3568. EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND STANDARDS FOR THE BLEACHED STANDARDS FOR THE COAL MINING Action Date FR Cite PAPERGRADE KRAFT POINT SOURCE CATEGORY SUBCATEGORY OF THE PULP, NPRM 04/15/98 63 FR 18796 (REVISIONS) PAPER, AND PAPERBOARD Final Action 12/00/01 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant CATEGORY; CERTIFICATION IN LIEU OF MONITORING FOR CHLOROFORM Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311 CWA sec Required: No 301; 33 USC 1314 CWA sec 304; 33 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant USC 1316 CWA sec 306; 33 USC 1317 Small Entities Affected: No CWA sec 307; 33 USC 1318 CWA sec Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311 CWA sec 308; 33 USC 1342 CWA sec 402; 33 301; 33 USC 1314 CWA sec 304; 33 Government Levels Affected: State, USC 1361 CWA sec 501 USC 1316 CWA sec 306; 33 USC 1317 Local, Federal CFR Citation: 40 CFR 434 CWA sec 307; 33 USC 1342 CWA sec Additional Information: 402; 33 USC 1318 CWA sec 308; 33 SAN No. 4192 Legal Deadline: NPRM, Judicial, March USC 1361 CWA sec 501 NPRM- 31, 2000. Final, Judicial, December 31, 2001. CFR Citation: 40 CFR 430 http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA- WATER/1998/April/Day-15/w9615.htm Abstract: Coal mining discharges are Legal Deadline: None covered by existing effluent guidelines Sectors Affected: 3221 Pulp, Paper, at 40 CFR part 434. This new regulatory Abstract: This action is a follow-on to and Paperboard Mills action will revise the existing the already-promulgated Pulp and regulations to address two new Paper Cluster Rules covering the Agency Contact: Don Anderson, subcategories: Coal Remining and Bleached Papergrade Kraft Subcategory Environmental Protection Agency, Western Alkaline Coal Mining. The (Subpart B). EPA is considering Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460 existing regulations do not cover allowing Subpart B mills to certify Phone: 202 260-7189 remining operations, which, when process changes (specifically, Fax: 202 260-7185 appropriately planned and regulated, elimination of elemental chlorine and Email: [email protected] will improve effluent quality from hypochlorite) and operating conditions abandoned mine lands while in lieu of minimum monitoring to RIN: 2040–AD23 reclaiming them and prevent demonstrate compliance with the disturbance of unexploited lands. effluent limitations for chloroform. Advances in treatment technologies and
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Best Management Practices pertinent to Regulatory Flexibility Analysis changes should be noncontroversial, coal mines in the arid West show Required: No the amendments are being done promise of being more protective of Small Entities Affected: Businesses, through a direct final rule. A water quality. Governmental Jurisdictions, companion proposed rule will be Timetable: Organizations published in case there are substantive adverse comments. Action Date FR Cite Government Levels Affected: State, Timetable: NPRM 04/11/00 65 FR 19440 Local, Tribal, Federal Final Action 12/00/01 Additional Information: SAN No. 3155 Action Date FR Cite Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Agency Contact: William A. Telliard, Direct Final Rule 01/16/01 66 FR 3466 Required: No Environmental Protection Agency, Notice of Withdrawal 05/00/01 Final Action 01/00/02 Small Entities Affected: No Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460 Phone: 202 260-7134 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Government Levels Affected: State, Fax: 202 260-7185 Required: No Local, Tribal, Federal Email: [email protected] Small Entities Affected: No Additional Information: SAN No. 4168 RIN: 2040–AC95 Government Levels Affected: State, Sectors Affected: 21211 Coal Mining Local, Tribal, Federal Agency Contact: John Tinger, 3570. TEST PROCEDURES: CLEAN Additional Information: SAN No. 4409 Environmental Protection Agency, WATER ACT AND SAFE DRINKING Agency Contact: William A. Telliard, Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460 WATER ACT METHODS UPDATE Phone: 202 260-4992 Environmental Protection Agency, Fax: 202 260-7185 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460 Email: [email protected] Legal Authority: 33 USC 1251 et seq; Phone: 202 260-7134 RIN: 2040–AD24 33 USC 1314(h); 33 USC 1361(a); PL Fax: 202 260-7185 92-500 76 Stat. 816; PL 95-217 91 Stat. Email: [email protected] 1567; PL 100-4 100 Stat. 7; 42 USC 300 3569. TEST PROCEDURES FOR THE g-1; 42 USC 300f(1)(A); 42 USC Maria Gomez-Taylor, Environmental ANALYSIS OF MISCELLANEOUS 300f(1)(D); 42 USC 300j-4; 42 USC 300j- Protection Agency, Water, 4303 METALS, ANIONS, AND VOLATILE 9(a) Phone: 202 260-1639 ORGANICS UNDER THE CLEAN Fax: 202 260-7185 WATER ACT, PHASE ONE CFR Citation: 40 CFR 136; 40 CFR 141; Email: [email protected] 40 CFR 143 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant RIN: 2040–AD59 Legal Deadline: None Legal Authority: 33 USC 1314(h) CWA 304(h); 33 USC 1361(a) CWA 501(a) Abstract: This regulatory action would 3571. MINIMIZING ADVERSE amend the ‘‘Guidelines Establishing CFR Citation: 40 CFR 136 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT FROM Test Procedures for the Analysis of Legal Deadline: None COOLING WATER INTAKE Pollutants’’ under 40 CFR part 136, STRUCTURES AT NEW FACILITIES Abstract: This regulatory action would National Primary Drinking Water UNDER SECTION 316(B) OF THE amend the Guidelines Establishing Test Regulations under 40 CFR part 141, and CLEAN WATER ACT, PHASE 1 Procedures for the Analysis of National Secondary Drinking Water Pollutants under 40 CFR part 136 to Regulations under 40 CFR part 143 to Priority: Other Significant approve new procedures for the approve updated versions of analytical Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311 CWA sec analysis of miscellaneous metals, test procedures (methods) from 301; 33 USC 1316 CWA sec 306; 33 anions, and volatile organics under the voluntary consensus standards bodies USC 1326 CWA sec 316; 33 USC 1361 Clean Water Act (CWA). These methods and other organizations. These methods CWA sec 501 are used for implementing water are used to comply with monitoring CFR Citation: 40 CFR 9, 122, 123, 124 quality based permits under the requirements in the wastewater and and 125 National Pollutant Discharge drinking water programs, as authorized Elimination System (NPDES) of the under the Clean Water Act (CWA) and Legal Deadline: NPRM, Judicial, July CWA. This regulation would approve the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). 20, 2000. test procedures to be used in measuring This regulation would approve updated Final, Judicial, November 9, 2001. this group of compounds under the versions of methods for determination Abstract: This rulemaking affects new NPDES Program unless the Regional of chemical, radiological, and facilities that use cooling water intake Administrator approves an alternative microbiological pollutants in structures. Section 316(b) of the Clean procedure. EPA plans to segment the wastewater and drinking water. The Water Act provides that any standard rulemaking into two phases to updates are to methods from voluntary established pursuant to sections 301 or accommodate different amounts of data consensus standards bodies (the 306 of the Clean Water Act and for the long list of compounds. American Society for Testing and applicable to a point source shall Timetable: Materials and Standard Methods) and require that the location, design, from the U.S. Geological Survey and construction, and capacity of cooling Action Date FR Cite the Department of Energy. Previously water intake structures reflect the best NPRM 10/18/95 60 FR 53988 approved versions of the methods being technology available for minimizing Final Action 11/00/01 updated remain approved. Because the adverse environmental impact. A
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primary purpose of this action is to 3572. STREAMLINING THE GENERAL Email: [email protected] minimize the impingement and PRETREATMENT REGULATIONS FOR RIN: 2040–AC58 entrainment of fish and other aquatic EXISTING AND NEW SOURCES OF organisms by cooling water intake POLLUTION structures. Impingement refers to Priority: Other Significant 3573. COMPARISON OF DREDGED trapping fish and other aquatic life MATERIAL TO REFERENCE against cooling water intake screens. Legal Authority: 33 USC 1314 CWA sec SEDIMENT Entrainment occurs when aquatic 304; 33 USC 1317 CWA sec 307; 33 Priority: organisms, eggs and larvae are drawn USC 1342 CWA sec 402; 33 USC 1361 Substantive, Nonsignificant into the cooling system through the CWA sec 501 Legal Authority: 33 USC 1344 CWA sec heat exchanger, and then pumped back CFR Citation: 40 CFR 403 404 out, often with significant injury or mortality to the entrained organisms. Legal Deadline: None CFR Citation: 40 CFR 230 Timetable: Abstract: The final rule will be Legal Deadline: None promulgated as a program streamlining Action Date FR Cite Abstract: This action would revise the activity. The rule will revise certain testing provisions of the Clean Water NPRM 08/10/00 65 FR 49059 provisions in the General Pretreatment Act section 404(b)(1) Guidelines to Final Action 11/00/01 Regulations (40 CFR part 403) that provide for comparisons between address restrictions on and oversight of dredged material proposed for Regulatory Flexibility Analysis industrial discharges into Publicly Required: No discharge and reference sediment. Owned Treatment Works (POTWs). The Reference sediment would be defined Small Entities Affected: Businesses, final rule will include exclusions or as sediment that reflects conditions at Governmental Jurisdictions variable requirements for smaller the disposal site had no dredged facilities that contribute insignificant material disposal ever occurred there. Government Levels Affected: State, amounts of pollutants, clarify Local, Federal Because the disposal site itself is requirements for implementing currently used as the point of Additional Information: SAN No. 3444 Pretreatment Standards, and provide comparison, this action would make a more flexible reporting, inspection and Sectors Affected: 21 Mining; 22111 technical improvement in assessing sampling requirements. The revisions cumulative impacts and help make Electric Power Generation; 22133 Steam should provide greater flexibility, and Air-Conditioning Supply; 311 Food dredged material testing under section reduce burden, and achieve improved 404 more consistent with that Manufacturing; 3122 Tobacco environmental results at less cost for Manufacturing; 313 Textile Mills; 321 conducted for ocean disposal, which regulatory authorities and the regulated currently employs a reference sediment Wood Product Manufacturing; 322 community. Paper Manufacturing; 324 Petroleum approach. This action is not expected and Coal Products Manufacturing; 325 Timetable: to have a significant impact on state, Chemical Manufacturing; 326 Plastics Action Date FR Cite local, or tribal governments or small and Rubber Products Manufacturing; business, as the action will be limited NPRM 07/22/99 64 FR 39564 to Corps projects and permit 327 Nonmetallic Mineral Product Final Action 12/00/01 Manufacturing; 331 Primary Metal applications for which dredged material Manufacturing; 332 Fabricated Metal Regulatory Flexibility Analysis testing is necessary, and because the Product Manufacturing; 333 Machinery Required: No effect of the action will be limited to Manufacturing; 334 Computer and changing the location of an otherwise Small Entities Affected: Businesses, collected sample. Electronic Product Manufacturing; 335 Governmental Jurisdictions Electrical Equipment, Appliance and Timetable: Component Manufacturing; 336 Government Levels Affected: State, Action Date FR Cite Transportation Equipment Local, Tribal, Federal Manufacturing; 61131 Colleges, Additional Information: SAN No. 3663 NPRM 01/04/95 60 FR 419 Universities and Professional Schools Final Action 09/00/01 NPRM- Agency Contact: Deborah Nagle, http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA- Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Environmental Protection Agency, WATER/1999/July/Day-22/w17773.htm Required: No Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460 Agency Contact: Small Entities Affected: No Phone: 202 260-2656 Jeff Smith, Fax: 202 260-7185 Environmental Protection Agency, Government Levels Affected: Federal Email: [email protected] Water, 4203M, Washington, DC 20460 Phone: 202 564-0652 Additional Information: SAN No. 3288 J. T. Morgan, Environmental Protection Fax: 202 564-6431 Agency Contact: John Goodin, Agency, Water, 4303, Washington, DC Email: [email protected] Environmental Protection Agency, 20460 Water, 4502-F, Washington, DC 20460 Jan Pickerel, Environmental Protection Phone: 202 260-6015 Phone: 202 260-9910 Agency, Water, 4203M, Washington, DC Fax: 202 260-7185 Fax: 202 260-7546 20460 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: 202 564-7904 RIN: 2040–AC34 Fax: 202 564-6431 RIN: 2040–AC14
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3574. ROUND 2 STANDARDS FOR Government Levels Affected: State, 3576. PRETREATMENT PROGRAM THE USE OR DISPOSAL OF SEWAGE Local, Tribal, Federal REINVENTION PILOT PROJECTS SLUDGE UNDER PROJECT XL Additional Information: SAN No. 3488 Priority: Other Significant Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Agency Contact: Alan B. Rubin, Legal Authority: Not Yet Determined Legal Authority: 33 USC 1345 CWA sec Environmental Protection Agency, 405; 33 USC 1361(a) CWA sec 501(a) Water, 4304, Washington, DC 20460 CFR Citation: Not Yet Determined CFR Citation: 40 CFR 503 (Revisions) Phone: 202 260-7589 Legal Deadline: None Fax: 202 260-1036 Legal Deadline: NPRM, Judicial, Email: [email protected] Abstract: EPA is proposing changes to December 15, 1999. the National Pretreatment Program Final, Judicial, December 15, 2001. RIN: 2040–AC25 regulations to allow Publicly Owned Abstract: Section 405 of the Clean Treatment Works (POTWs) that have Water Act (CWA) requires EPA to 3575. ∑ PROCEDURES FOR TRIBES completed the Project eXcellence and promulgate regulations providing TO OBTAIN APPROVAL FOR Leadership (Project XL) selection guidelines for the use and disposal of TREATMENT AS A STATE TO process, including Final Project sewage sludge. The rules, among other RECEIVE FUNDING FOR THE Agreement (FPA) development, to things, are to identify uses for sewage BEACHES PROGRAM modify their approved local sludge, including disposal, and Pretreatment Programs. These POTWs concentrations of pollutants which Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant would be allowed to modify their programs following the procedures in interfere with such use or disposal. The Legal Authority: 33 UCS 1375(a) et seq statute establishes a schedule for EPA 40 CFR 403.18, and implement the new to identify and regulate toxic pollutants CFR Citation: 40 CFR 35; 40 CFR 130 local programs as described in their in sewage sludge in two rounds: first FPAs. with respect to those toxic pollutants Legal Deadline: None Timetable: for which information is available and Abstract: This interim final rule will Action Date FR Cite subsequently, with respect to those establish procedures under the Clean NPRM Pretreatment 10/06/00 65 FR 59791 toxic pollutants in sewage sludge not Water Act for EPA to treat Indian regulated in the first round which may Program Tribes in substantially the same manner Reinvention adversely affect public health and the in which it treats states for purposes environment. The regulations must Projects Under of obtaining financial assistance. Project XL specify management practices, Final Action 04/00/01 including numeric limits, for each such As part of the Beaches Environmental pollutant, for each use or disposal Assessment and Coastal Health Act of Regulatory Flexibility Analysis practice. EPA published the first round 2000, EPA is authorized to award Required: No of sewage sludge regulations, pursuant grants to develop and implement Small Entities Affected: Businesses, to a court ordered schedule, in monitoring and notification programs Governmental Jurisdictions February 1993 (58 FR 9247) and for coastal or Great lakes recreational proposed round two regulations in waters. This rule will describe the Government Levels Affected: State, December 1999. EPA’s round two requirements for Indian tribes to Local proposal identified dioxins, become eligible for grants. Additional Information: SAN No. 4476 dibenzofurans and coplanar Sectors Affected: 22132 Sewage polychlorinated biphenyls as the Timetable: Treatment Facilities additional toxic pollutants in sewage Action Date FR Cite Agency Contact: Chad Carbone, sludge to be regulated for sewage Interim Final Rule 10/00/01 sludge that is to be applied to the land. Environmental Protection Agency, The consent decree requires EPA to Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Office of the Administrator, 1802, take final action on proposed round Required: No Washington, DC 20460 two regulations by December 15, 2001. Phone: 202 260-4296 Small Entities Affected: No Fax: 202 260-1812 Timetable: Government Levels Affected: Tribal Email: [email protected] Action Date FR Cite Brian Frazer, Environmental Protection NPRM 12/23/99 64 FR 72045 Additional Information: SAN No. 4515 Agency, Office of the Administrator, Final Action 12/00/01 Agency Contact: Frances A. Desselle, 4203, Washington, DC 20460 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Environmental Protection Agency, Phone: 202 260-0101 Required: No Water, 4305, Washington, DC 20460 Fax: 202 260-1460 Phone: 202 260-1320 Small Entities Affected: Businesses, Email: [email protected] Governmental Jurisdictions RIN: 2040–AD69 RIN: 2090–AA16
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3577. EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND Sectors Affected: 335 Electrical Government Levels Affected: State, STANDARDS FOR THE METAL Equipment, Appliance and Component Local, Federal PRODUCTS AND MACHINERY Manufacturing; 336 Transportation Additional Information: CATEGORY, PHASES 1 AND 2 Equipment Manufacturing; 337 SAN No. 3833 Priority: Economically Significant. Furniture and Related Product Sectors Affected: 331111 Iron and Major under 5 USC 801. Manufacturing; 339 Miscellaneous Steel Mills; 3312 Steel Product Manufacturing; 332 Fabricated Metal Manufacturing from Purchased Steel; Unfunded Mandates: This action may Product Manufacturing; 333 Machinery 3328 Coating, Engraving, Heat Treating affect the private sector under PL 104- Manufacturing; 334 Computer and and Allied Activities; 324199 All Other 4. Electronic Product Manufacturing Petroleum and Coal Products Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311 CWA sec Agency Contact: Shari Barash, Manufacturing 301; 33 USC 1314 CWA sec 304; 33 Environmental Protection Agency, Agency Contact: George Jett, USC 1316 CWA sec 306; 33 USC 1317 Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460 Environmental Protection Agency, CWA sec 307; 33 USC 1317 CWA sec Phone: 202 260-7130 Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460 308; 33 USC 1317 CWA sec 402; 33 Fax: 202 260-7185 Phone: 202 260-7151 USC 1361 CWA sec 501 Email: [email protected] Fax: 202 260-7185 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 438 Mike Ebner, Environmental Protection Email: [email protected] Legal Deadline: NPRM, Judicial, Agency, Water, 4303, Washington, DC Kevin Tingley, Environmental October 31, 2000. 20460 Protection Agency, Water, 4303, Final, Judicial, December 31, 2002. Phone: 202 260-5397 Washington, DC 20460 Fax: 202 260-7185 Abstract: EPA is developing effluent Email: [email protected] Phone: 202 260-9843 limitations guidelines for facilities that Email: [email protected] generate wastewater while processing RIN: 2040–AB79 metal parts; metal products; and RIN: 2040–AC90 machinery, including manufacture, 3578. EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND assembly, rebuilding, repair, and STANDARDS FOR THE IRON AND 3579. EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND maintenance. A proposed rule in 1995 STEEL MANUFACTURING POINT STANDARDS FOR THE PULP, PAPER, covered seven industrial groups: SOURCE CATEGORY (REVISIONS) AND PAPERBOARD CATEGORY, aircraft, aerospace, hardware, ordnance, PHASE II stationary industrial equipment, mobile Priority: Other Significant industrial equipment, and electronic Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311 CWA sec Priority: Other Significant. Major status equipment. EPA has consolidated this 301; 33 USC 1314 CWA sec 304; 33 under 5 USC 801 is undetermined. rulemaking with a second phase, and USC 1316 CWA sec 306; 33 USC 1317 Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined coverage will include additional CWA sec 307; 33 USC 1318 CWA sec industrial groups such as: bus and 308; 33 USC 1342 CWA sec 402; 33 Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311 CWA truck, household equipment, USC 1362 CWA sec 501 301; 33 USC 1314 CWA 304; 33 USC instruments, motor vehicles, office CFR Citation: 40 CFR 420 1316 CWA 306; 33 USC 1317 CWA machines, precious metals and jewelry, 307; 33 USC 1318 CWA 308; 33 USC railroads, job shops, printed circuit Legal Deadline: NPRM, Judicial, 1318 CWA 402; 33 USC 1361 CWA 501 boards, and ships and boats. The October 31, 2000. CFR Citation: 40 CFR 430 deadlines and timetable apply to the Final, Judicial, April 30, 2002. consolidated Phase 1 and 2 rulemaking. Abstract: EPA is proposing to revise Legal Deadline: None Timetable: the effluent limitations guidelines and standards for the Iron and Steel Abstract: EPA will consider revising Action Date FR Cite Manufacturing Point Source Category to the technology-based effluent limitations guidelines and standards for NPRM (Phase 1) 05/30/95 60 FR 28210 reflect significant industry changes related to consolidation and 8 of the 12 subcategories for this NPRM (Consolidated 01/03/01 66 FR 424 industrial category: Unbleached Kraft; Phase 1 and 2) modernization within the U.S. Semi-Chemical; Mechanical Pulp; Non- Final Action 12/00/02 steelmaking industry as well as advances in manufacturing Wood Chemical Pulp; Secondary Fiber Regulatory Flexibility Analysis technologies, in-process pollution Deink; Secondary Fiber Non-Deink; Required: Yes prevention, water conservation Fine and Lightweight Papers from Small Entities Affected: Businesses practices, and end-of-pipe wastewater Purchased Pulp; and Tissue, Filter, treatment. Non-Woven, and Paperboard from Government Levels Affected: State, Purchased Pulp. EPA proposed Local, Federal Timetable: guidelines and standards for these Additional Information: SAN No. 2806 Action Date FR Cite subcategories as part of the Pulp and Paper Rules (also known as the Cluster For more information on Metal NPRM 12/27/00 65 FR 81963 Final Action 04/00/02 Rules) in December 1993. The Agency Products and Machinery on the intends to develop these revised Internet, please visit: Regulatory Flexibility Analysis effluent limitations in close http://www.epa.gov/ost/guide/ Required: No coordination with the Office of Air mpm/index.html Small Entities Affected: Businesses Quality Planning and Standards.
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Timetable: resolve water quality impairment from Paper, and Paperboard Point Source Action Date FR Cite feedlot operations. Feedlot operations Category (40 CFR Part 430). This action, are substantial contributors of nutrients which OW refers to as Phase III of the NPRM 12/17/93 58 FR 66078 in surface waters that have severe Cluster Rules, will respond to Final Action 12/00/02 anoxia (low levels of dissolved oxygen) comments and reflect new data. There Regulatory Flexibility Analysis and problem algae blooms. are five domestic mills in these two Required: Undetermined Timetable: subcategories. The final rule is anticipated to set limits for adsorbable Small Entities Affected: Businesses Action Date FR Cite organic halides (AOX), chemical Government Levels Affected: State, NPRM 01/12/01 66 FR 2959 oxygen demand (COD), chloroform, Local, Federal Final Action 12/00/02 dioxin, furan, and 12 specific chlorinated phenolics. Federalism: Undetermined Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Additional Information: SAN No. 4050 Required: Yes Timetable: Sectors Affected: 3221 Pulp, Paper, Small Entities Affected: Businesses Action Date FR Cite and Paperboard Mills Government Levels Affected: State, NPRM 12/17/93 58 FR 66078 Agency Contact: Don Anderson, Local, Tribal, Federal Final Action 12/00/02 Environmental Protection Agency, Additional Information: SAN No. 4153 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460 Required: No Phone: 202 260-7189 Sectors Affected: 11221 Hog and Pig Fax: 202 260-7185 Farming; 11232 Broilers and Other Small Entities Affected: No Email: [email protected] Meat Type Chicken Production; 11231 Government Levels Affected: State, Chicken Egg Production; 112112 Cattle RIN: 2040–AD10 Federal Feedlots; 11212 Dairy Cattle and Milk Additional Information: SAN No. 4370 Production; 11241 Sheep Farming; 3580. EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND 11233 Turkey Production; 11292 Horse Sectors Affected: 3221 Pulp, Paper, STANDARDS FOR FEEDLOTS POINT and Other Equine Production; 11239 and Paperboard Mills SOURCE CATEGORY, AND NPDES Other Poultry Production Agency Contact: Don Anderson, REGULATION FOR CONCENTRATED Agency Contact: Jan Goodwin, Environmental Protection Agency, ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATIONS Environmental Protection Agency, Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460 Priority: Economically Significant. Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460 Phone: 202 260-7189 Major under 5 USC 801. Phone: 202 260-7152 Fax: 202 260-7185 Email: [email protected] Unfunded Mandates: This action may Fax: 202 260-7185 Email: [email protected] affect the private sector under PL 104- Mark Perez, Environmental Protection 4. Karen Metchis, Environmental Agency, Water, 4303 Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311 CWA sec Protection Agency, Water, 4203, Phone: 202 260-2275 301; 33 USC 1314 CWA sec 304; 33 Washington, DC 20460 Fax: 202 260-7185 USC 1316 CWA sec 306; 33 USC 1317 Phone: 202 564-0734 Email: [email protected] CWA sec 307; 33 USC 1318 CWA sec Email: [email protected] RIN: 2040–AD49 308; 33 USC 1342 CWA sec 402; 33 RIN: USC 1361 CWA sec 501 2040–AD19 3582. EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND CFR Citation: 40 CFR 412; 40 CFR STANDARDS FOR THE AQUATIC 122.23 3581. EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND STANDARDS FOR THE DISSOLVING ANIMAL PRODUCTION INDUSTRY Legal Deadline: NPRM, Judicial, KRAFT AND DISSOLVING SULFITE Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant December 15, 2000. SUBCATEGORIES OF THE PULP, Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined Final, Judicial, December 15, 2002. PAPER, AND PAPERBOARD POINT Abstract: Feedlot operations are SOURCE CATEGORY (PHASE III) Legal Authority: CWA Section 301; covered by existing effluent guidelines CWA Section 304; CWA Section 306; Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant at 40 CFR 412 and concentrated animal CWA Section 307; CWA Section 308; feeding operations (CAFOs) are covered Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311; 33 USC CWA Section 318; CWA Section 402; by permitting regulations at 40 CFR 1314; 33 USC 1316; 33 USC 1317; 33 CWA Section 501 122.23. This action will revise the USC 1318; 33 USC 1342; 33 USC 1361 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 451 existing effluent guidelines to address CFR Citation: 40 CFR 430.10 to 430.18; Legal Deadline: NPRM, Judicial, June swine, poultry, beef, and dairy cattle 40 CFR 430.40 to 430.48 operations and the NPDES regulation 30, 2002. for concentrated animal feeding Legal Deadline: None Final, Judicial, June 30, 2004. operations. The existing regulations, Abstract: On December 17, 1993, EPA Abstract: EPA is focusing new efforts which require the largest confined proposed revised effluent limitations, to help reduce nutrient loadings from animal feeding operations to achieve guidelines and standards and best commercial agricultural and industrial zero discharge of wastes to surface management practices regulations for operations nationwide. Currently, there waters except for certain storm related the Dissolving Kraft and Dissolving are no federal technology-based discharges, have not been sufficient to Sulfite Subcategories of the Pulp, standards for aquatic animal production
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facilities, which are part of the currently subject to nationally Abstract: Water quality standards set aquaculture industry. This action is a applicable wastewater treatment by States and Indian tribes establish the new effort to develop pollutant controls standards. Many types of toxic and water quality goals for surface waters in the form of nationally applicable hazardous materials, including of the U.S. and the means by which discharge standards for commercial and pesticides, solvents, and petrochemical attainment of these goals will be public aquaculture operations. products are transported in bulk via measured and assured. They are the In assessments of surface water quality, drums and containers. Most of these foundation for protecting water quality States most frequently cite station, containers have a residue, or heel, and related public health and welfare nutrients, and pathogens as the major present in the containers before they and the ecological health of the nation’s cause of water quality impairment. are cleaned. The accumulation of waters. The Federal water quality With the growth of the aquaculture residue from large numbers of drums standards regulation at 40 CFR Part 131 industry, and inconsistent state and containers may result in the governs the development, review and discharge of pollutants to the nations regulatory oversight, EPA will examine revision of water quality standards waterways. available technologies for the control of under section 303(c) of the Clean Water pollutants, primarily nutrients. This This regulation will cover those Act by States and Indian Tribes, and action was formerly titled facilities that clean out drums and the review and approval of water ‘‘Aquaculture.’’ industrial sized containers as a quality standards by EPA. Based upon Timetable: business, and will generally not cover the Federal, State, Tribal and local industrial facilities that clean out their Action Date FR Cite experience gained in the program over own drums and containers used on site. the last 20 years, EPA’s proposed NPRM 06/00/02 Timetable: revisions to 40 CFR 131 are intended Final Action 06/00/04 Action Date FR Cite to strengthen the water quality Regulatory Flexibility Analysis standards regulation thus enhancing Required: Undetermined NPRM To Be Determined water quality management on a Final Rule To Be Determined Small Entities Affected: Businesses watershed basis, and focusing Federal, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis State and Tribal resources on the areas Government Levels Affected: Required: Undetermined of greatest concern. Program areas Undetermined Small Entities Affected: Businesses identified for revision include mixing Federalism: Undetermined zone policies and procedures. Government Levels Affected: Additional Information: SAN No. 4406 Undetermined Timetable: Sectors Affected: 112511 Finfish Federalism: Undetermined Action Date FR Cite Farming and Fish Hatcheries; 112512 Shellfish Farming Additional Information: SAN No. 4408 ANPRM 07/07/98 63 FR 36741 Agency Contact: Marta E. Jordan, Sectors Affected: 562998 All Other NPRM 07/00/02 Environmental Protection Agency, Miscellaneous Waste Management Final Action 07/00/03 Services Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Phone: 202 260-0817 Agency Contact: John Tinger, Required: No Fax: 202 260-7185 Environmental Protection Agency, Email: [email protected] Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460 Small Entities Affected: Businesses, Phone: 202 260-4992 Governmental Jurisdictions Kristen Strellec, Environmental Fax: 202 260-7185 Protection Agency, Water, 4303, Email: [email protected] Government Levels Affected: State, Washington, DC 20460 Local, Tribal, Federal Phone: 202 260-6036 James Covington, Environmental Fax: 202 260-7185 Protection Agency, Water, 4303 Additional Information: SAN No. 3662 Email: [email protected] Phone: 202 260-5132 Agency Contact: Jennifer Wigal, RIN: 2040–AD55 Fax: 202 260-7185 Email: [email protected] Environmental Protection Agency, Water, 4305, Washington, DC 20460 RIN: 2040–AD57 3583. EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND Phone: 202 260-5177 STANDARDS FOR THE INDUSTRIAL Fax: 202 260-9830 CONTAINER AND DRUM CLEANING 3584. WATER QUALITY STANDARDS Email: [email protected] POINT SOURCE CATEGORY REGULATION — REVISION Susan Gilbertson, Environmental Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Priority: Other Significant. Major status under 5 USC 801 is undetermined. Protection Agency, Water, 4305, Legal Authority: 30 USC 1311 et seq Washington, DC 20460 CFR Citation: Not Yet Determined Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined Phone: 202 260-1188 Legal Deadline: None Legal Authority: 33 USC 1313 CWA sec Fax: 202 260-9830 303(c) Email: [email protected] Abstract: Industrial facilities that clean out 55 gallon drums and other CFR Citation: 40 CFR 131 RIN: 2040–AC56 industrial sized containers are not Legal Deadline: None
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3585. TEST PROCEDURES FOR THE 3586. INCREASED METHOD Small Entities Affected: Businesses, ANALYSIS OF TRACE METALS FLEXIBILITY FOR TEST Governmental Jurisdictions, UNDER THE CLEAN WATER ACT PROCEDURES APPROVED FOR Organizations CLEAN WATER ACT COMPLIANCE Priority: Government Levels Affected: State, Substantive, Nonsignificant. MONITORING Major status under 5 USC 801 is Local, Tribal, Federal undetermined. Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Additional Information: SAN No. 3714 Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined Legal Authority: 33 USC 1314(h) CWA Agency Contact: William A. Telliard, 304 (h); 33 USC 1361(a) CWA 501 (a) Environmental Protection Agency, Legal Authority: 33 USC 1314(h) CWA Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460 304(h); 33 USC 1361(a) CWA 501 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 136 Phone: 202 260-7134 Fax: 202 260-7185 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 136 Legal Deadline: None Email: [email protected] Legal Deadline: None Abstract: This regulatory action would RIN: 2040–AC92 Abstract: This regulatory action would highlight the flexibility already propose to amend the Guidelines contained in the 600 and 1600 series Establishing Test Procedures for the of EPA Methods that are currently 3587. PERFORMANCE-BASED Analysis of Pollutants under 40 CFR approved for Clean Water Act MEASUREMENT SYSTEM (PBMS) part 136 to approve new EPA methods compliance monitoring under 40 CFR PROCEDURES AND GUIDANCE FOR for the determination of trace metals at part 136, Guidelines Establishing Test CLEAN WATER ACT TEST EPA’s water quality criteria levels. Procedures for the Analysis of PROCEDURES These methods are necessary for the Pollutants. These methods typically Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant implementation of water quality-based contain a statement that, in recognition Legal Authority: 33 USC 1314(h) CWA permits under the National Pollutant of advances that are occurring in 304(h); 33 USC 1361(a) CWA 501(a) Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) analytical technology, and to allow the of the Clean Water Act. Water quality- analyst to overcome sample matrix CFR Citation: 40 CFR 136 based permits are necessary when interferences, the analyst is permitted Legal Deadline: None technology-based controls do not certain options to improve separations Abstract: This regulatory action would ensure that a particular water body or lower the costs of measurements. establish the use of performance-based would meet the State’s designated These options include alternate measurement procedures and guidance water quality standard. Because the extraction, concentration, cleanup for use in Clean Water Act compliance methods currently approved under 40 procedures, and changes in columns monitoring under 40 CFR part 136, CFR part 136 were designed to support and detectors. The methods further Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures primarily technology-based permitting require the analyst to demonstrate that for the Analysis of Pollutants. The new needs, and because these technology- the method modifications will not procedures would include guidance based levels are as much as 280 times adversely affect the quality of data by concerning the format, content, quality higher than water quality-based criteria generating quality control results that assurance/quality control, and data for metals, approval of new EPA test meet the specifications contained in the validation requirements for use of test procedures is necessary. method. Despite this stated flexibility, methods. This regulatory action would the Agency has found that many Timetable: also describe increased program NPDES and pretreatment permitting guidance in the form of a Action Date FR Cite authorities are not aware of this clearinghouse, technical bulletins, NPRM To Be Determined flexibility when issuing or enforcing and/or guidance documents geared Final Action To Be Determined NPDES and pretreatment permits. towards clarifying technical and policy Therefore, this regulatory action will issues associated with the use of test Regulatory Flexibility Analysis highlight the existing method flexibility methods approved for use in the Required: Undetermined and clarify EPA’s position regarding its program. application. This action will also Small Entities Affected: Businesses, Timetable: Governmental Jurisdictions, extend this flexibility to other methods Organizations currently approved under 40 CFR part Action Date FR Cite 136. The purpose of extending this NPRM 03/28/97 62 FR 14975 Government Levels Affected: State, flexibility to other methods is to (1) Final Action To Be Determined Local, Tribal, Federal increase consistency between methods, (2) provide for increased recognition of Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Federalism: Undetermined advances in analytical technology, and Required: No Additional Information: SAN No. 3702 (3) reduce costs associated with Small Entities Affected: Businesses, analytical measurements. Agency Contact: William A. Telliard, Governmental Jurisdictions, Organizations Environmental Protection Agency, Timetable: Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460 Government Levels Affected: State, Action Date FR Cite Phone: 202 260-7134 Local, Tribal, Federal Fax: 202 260-7185 Direct Final Rule To Be Determined Additional Information: SAN No. 3713 Email: [email protected] Regulatory Flexibility Analysis NPRM- RIN: 2040–AC75 Required: No http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-
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WATER/1997/March/Day- Agency Contact: William A. Telliard, Agency Contact: William A. Telliard, 28/w7221.htm Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Protection Agency, Agency Contact: William A. Telliard, Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460 Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460 Environmental Protection Agency, Phone: 202 260-7134 Phone: 202 260-7134 Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460 Fax: 202 260-7185 Fax: 202 260-7185 Phone: 202 260-7134 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Fax: 202 260-7185 RIN: 2040–AD12 Maria Gomez-Taylor, Environmental Email: [email protected] Protection Agency, Water, 4303 RIN: 2040–AC93 Phone: 202 260-1639 3590. TEST PROCEDURES FOR THE Fax: 202 260-7185 ANALYSIS OF MERCURY UNDER THE 3588. TEST PROCEDURES FOR THE Email: [email protected] CLEAN WATER ACT (METHOD 245.7) ANALYSIS OF CO-PLANAR AND RIN: 2040–AD09 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant MONO-ORTHO-SUBSTITUTED POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS Legal Authority: 33 USC 1251 et seq; (PCBS) UNDER THE CLEAN WATER 3589. TEST PROCEDURES FOR THE 33 USC 1314(h); 33 USC 1361(a); PL ACT ANALYSIS OF MISCELLANEOUS 92-500 76 Stat. 816; PL 95-217 91 Stat. METALS, ANIONS, AND VOLATILE 1567; PL 100-4 100 Stat. 7 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant ORGANICS UNDER THE CLEAN CFR Citation: 40 CFR 136.3(IB) Legal Authority: 33 USC 1251 et seq WATER ACT, PHASE TWO Legal Deadline: None CWA 304(h); 33 USC 1314(h) CWA Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant 501(a); 33 USC 1361(a) Abstract: This regulatory action would Legal Authority: CFR Citation: 40 CFR 136; 40 CFR 503 33 USC 1314(h) CWA propose to amend the ‘‘Guidelines 304(h); 33 USC 1361(a) CWA 501(a) Establishing Test Procedures for the Legal Deadline: None CFR Citation: 40 CFR 136 Analysis of Pollutants’’ under 40 CFR Abstract: This regulatory action would part 136 to approve a new analytical propose to amend the Guidelines Legal Deadline: None test procedure (method) for the Establishing Test Procedures for the Abstract: This regulatory action would determination of mercury in the Analysis of Pollutants under 40 CFR amend the Guidelines Establishing Test wastewater program as authorized parts 136 and 503 to approve EPA Procedures for the Analysis of under the Clean Water Act (CWA). This Method 1668 for the congener-specific Pollutants under 40 CFR part 136 to new test procedure is capable of determination of co-planar and mono- approve new procedures for the measuring mercury at low parts-per- ortho-substituted polychlorinated analysis of miscellaneous metals, trillion (ppt; ng/L) concentrations and biphenyls (PCBs) in effluent ambient anions, and volatile organics under the would be an alternative to the recently water and sludge. This method is Clean Water Act (CWA). These methods promulgated Method 1631, which also necessary for the implementation of are used for implementing water determines mercury at low ppt water quality-based permits under the quality based permits under the concentrations. National Pollutant Discharge National Pollutant Discharge Method 245.7 uses similar technology Elimination System (NPDES) of the Elimination System (NPDES) of the to Method 1631 (cold vapor atomic Clean Water Act. Water quality-based CWA. This regulation would approve fluorescence spectrometry), but it does permits are necessary when technology- test procedures to be used in measuring not require the use of a gold trap. based controls do not ensure that a this group of compounds under the Laboratories claim that Method 245.7 particular water body would meet the NPDES unless the Regional is a less burdensome and more cost- State’s designated water quality Administrator approves an alternative effective method than Method 1631. standard. At present there is no EPA procedure. This rulemaking would Timetable: analytical method for determination of constitute the second of two segments these PCBs at the levels of concern. of rulemaking initially proposed as one Action Date FR Cite Therefore, approval of a new EPA test action. procedure is necessary. NPRM 06/00/02 Timetable: Final Action 06/00/03 Timetable: Action Date FR Cite Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Action Date FR Cite Required: No NPRM 10/18/95 60 FR 53988 NPRM To Be Determined Final Action To Be Determined Small Entities Affected: No Final Action To Be Determined Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Government Levels Affected: State, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Local, Tribal, Federal Required: No Required: No Additional Information: SAN No. 4377 Small Entities Affected: Businesses, Small Entities Affected: Businesses, Governmental Jurisdictions, Governmental Jurisdictions, Agency Contact: William A. Telliard, Organizations Organizations Environmental Protection Agency, Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460 Government Levels Affected: State, Government Levels Affected: State, Phone: 202 260-7134 Local, Tribal, Federal Local, Tribal, Federal Fax: 202 260-7185 Additional Information: SAN No. 4049 Additional Information: SAN No. 4089 Email: [email protected]
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Maria Gomez-Taylor, Environmental Timetable: these discharges have the potential to Protection Agency, Water, 4303 Action Date FR Cite introduce oil or other organics into Phone: 202 260-1639 receiving waters (such as bilge water); Fax: 202 260-7185 NPRM 02/00/03 some have the potential to introduce Email: [email protected] Final Action 09/00/04 copper or other metals (such as fire RIN: 2040–AD52 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis main); and some have the potential to Required: No introduce nonindigenous invasive aquatic species (such as ballast water). Small Entities Affected: No 3591. REVISIONS TO METHOD Phase II will establish performance DETECTION AND QUANTIFICATION Government Levels Affected: State, standards for control devices for these FOR USE UNDER THE CLEAN WATER Local, Tribal, Federal 25 discharges. Once DOD implements ACT AND SAFE DRINKING WATER Additional Information: SAN No. 4378 rules for achieving the standards set in ACT phase II, covered discharges from Agency Contact: William A. Telliard, Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Armed Forces vessels will be required Environmental Protection Agency, to meet these standards, and will not Legal Authority: 33 USC 1251 et seq; Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460 be subject to discharge standards 33 USC 1314(h); 33 USC 1361(a); 42 Phone: 202 260-7134 established by States. USC 300f Fax: 202 260-7185 Email: [email protected] Timetable: CFR Citation: 40 CFR 136(b) Action Date FR Cite Legal Deadline: None Maria Gomez-Taylor, Environmental Protection Agency, Water, 4303 NPRM 05/00/03 Abstract: This regulatory action would Phone: 202 260-1639 Final Action 04/00/04 propose to amend the ‘‘Guidelines Fax: 202 260-7185 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Establishing Test Procedures for the Email: [email protected] Required: No Analysis of Pollutants’’ under 40 CFR part 136 to approve revisions to the RIN: 2040–AD53 Small Entities Affected: No detection and quantification procedures Government Levels Affected: Federal currently used by EPA for those 3592. UNIFORM NATIONAL Federalism: Undetermined analytes regulated in the wastewater DISCHARGE STANDARDS FOR Additional Information: SAN No. 4357 program as authorized under the Clean VESSELS OF THE ARMED FORCES - Water Act (CWA) and in the drinking PHASE II Agency Contact: Gregory Stapleton, water program under the Safe Drinking Environmental Protection Agency, Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Water Act (SDWA). The current method Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460 detection limit (MDL) procedure is set Legal Authority: 33 USC 1322; 33 USC Phone: 202 260-0141 forth at 40 CFR part 136, appendix B. 1361 Fax: 202 260-7185 EPA’s Office of Water has not CFR Citation: 40 CFR 1700 Email: [email protected] promulgated a generic procedure for RIN: 2040–AD39 quantification but it uses the minimum Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, May level of quantitation (ML) in its 10, 2001. wastewater program and the practical Abstract: This action is phase II of 3593. ∑ MINIMIZING ADVERSE quantitation level (PQL) in its drinking implementing regulations on Uniform ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT FROM water program. The ML is defined in National Discharge Standards for COOLING WATER INTAKE analytical methods and is generally set Vessels of the Armed Forces. In 1996 STRUCTURES AT EXISTING at 3.18 times the MDL. The PQL is the Clean Water Act was amended to FACILITIES UNDER SECTION 316(B) generally set at five to ten times the create section 312(n), ‘‘Uniform OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT, PHASE MDL. The Office of Water has been National Discharge Standards for 3 working to revise and refine these Vessels of the Armed Forces.’’ Section Priority: Other Significant. Major status concepts in response to the need to 312(n) directs EPA and DOD to work under 5 USC 801 is undetermined. regulate pollutants at low levels (often together to provide Armed Forces levels that are lower than measurement vessels with a nationally uniform set Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined capabilities will allow) and to address of discharge standards, which preempt Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311 CWA sec other potential approaches to detection State discharge standards for these 301; 33 USC 1316 CWA sec 306; 33 and quantification, including concepts vessels. The purpose of the statute is USC 1326 CWA sec 316; 33 USC 1361 being introduced by outside to allow DOD to plan, design and build CWA sec 501 organizations such as voluntary environmentally sound vessels, to CFR Citation: 40 CFR 9, 122, 123, 124 consensus standards bodies (VCSBs). encourage innovative pollution control and 125 The rulemaking would also address technology, and to improve operational criticisms to the current MDL and flexibility. EPA and DOD jointly Legal Deadline: NPRM, Judicial, June quantification approaches which have promulgated Phase I of these 15, 2003. been raised by outside organizations. regulations, 40 CFR part 1700, on May Final, Judicial, December 15, 2004. Additionally, EPA will consider 10, 1999 (64 FR 25126). The Phase I Abstract: This rulemaking affects, at a whether other approaches from VCSBs rulemaking concluded that 25 minimum, existing facilities that use are acceptable for EPA’s regulatory discharges from Armed Forces vessels cooling water intake structures, and needs. would require control devices. Some of whose intake flow levels exceed a
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minimum threshold EPA will Electrical Equipment, Appliance and also considering how to utilize determine during this rulemaking. The Component Manufacturing; 336 electronic data submission. Although affected facilities include 1) electricity Transportation Equipment these forms will increase the burden on generating facilities not covered by Manufacturing; 61131 Colleges, permittees not already required to Phase 2 regulations; 2) pulp and paper Universities and Professional Schools provide these data, many other manufacturing facilities; 3) chemicals Agency Contact: Deborah Nagle, permittees are already required to and allied products manufacturing Environmental Protection Agency, submit the data. The Agency is facilities; 4) petroleum and coal Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460 reviewing ways to minimize the need products manufacturing facilities; and Phone: 202 260-2656 for information from small dischargers, 5) primary metals manufacturing Fax: 202 260-7185 including tribal facilities. EPA will also facilities. Section 316(b) of the Clean Email: [email protected] seek to minimize and reduce the Water Act provides that any standard burden on States through established pursuant to sections 301 or J. T. Morgan, Environmental Protection improvements to the application forms. 306 of the Clean Water Act and Agency, Water, 4303, Washington, DC Timetable: applicable to a point source shall 20460 Action Date FR Cite require that the location, design, Phone: 202 260-6015 construction, and capacity of cooling Fax: 202 260-7185 NPRM To Be Determined water intake structures reflect the best Email: [email protected] Final Action To Be Determined technology available for minimizing RIN: Regulatory Flexibility Analysis adverse environmental impact. A 2040–AD70 Required: Undetermined primary purpose of this action is to minimize the impingement and 3594. REVISION OF NPDES Small Entities Affected: Businesses entrainment of fish and other aquatic INDUSTRIAL PERMIT APPLICATION Government Levels Affected: State, organisms by cooling water intake REQUIREMENTS AND FORM 2C— Local, Tribal, Federal structures. Impingement refers to WASTEWATER DISCHARGE Federalism: Undetermined trapping fish and other aquatic life INFORMATION Additional Information: SAN No. 3234 against cooling water intake structures. Priority: Other Significant. Major status Entrainment occurs when aquatic under 5 USC 801 is undetermined. Agency Contact: Ruby Cooper-Ford, organisms, eggs and larvae are drawn Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined Environmental Protection Agency, into the cooling system, through the Water, 4203M, Washington, DC 20460 heat exchanger, and then pumped back Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311 CWA Phone: 202 564-0767 out with significant injury or mortality 301; 33 USC 1314 CWA 304; 33 USC Fax: 202 564-6431 to the entrained organisms. 1342 CWA 402; 33 USC 1361 CWA 501 Email: [email protected] Timetable: CFR Citation: 40 CFR 122.21(e) RIN: 2040–AC26 Action Date FR Cite Legal Deadline: None NPRM 06/00/03 Abstract: All existing manufacturing, 3595. REVISION TO CLEAN WATER Final Action 12/00/04 commercial, mining, and silvicultural ACT REGULATORY DEFINITION OF Regulatory Flexibility Analysis operations requiring a National ‘‘FILL MATERIAL’’ Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Required: Undetermined Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant (NPDES) permit must submit an Small Entities Affected: Businesses, application in order to obtain a permit. Legal Authority: 33 USC 1344 Governmental Jurisdictions The existing industrial application form CFR Citation: 33 CFR 323.2(e); 40 CFR Government Levels Affected: State, has not been revised since 1984 and 232.2 Local, Tribal, Federal needs to be updated to reflect statutory Legal Deadline: None Additional Information: SAN No. 4543 and related regulatory changes in the NPDES and water quality standards Abstract: Section 404 of the Clean Split from RIN 2040-AC34. program. The purpose of this action Water Act requires a permit from the Sectors Affected: 21 Mining; 22111 would be to revise and consolidate US Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) Electric Power Generation; 22133 Steam existing application forms and for discharges of dredged or fill and Air-Conditioning Supply; 311 Food requirements for industries, and to material to waters of the United States. Manufacturing; 3122 Tobacco streamline the permit application The Environmental Protection Agency Manufacturing; 313 Textile Mills; 321 process for these facilities. The Agency (EPA) and Corps’ regulations Wood Product Manufacturing; 322 seeks to establish a unified process that implementing section 404 currently Paper Manufacturing; 324 Petroleum minimizes the need for additional contain differing definitions of the term and Coal Products Manufacturing; 325 information from applicants while ‘‘fill material.’’ In particular, the Corps Chemical Manufacturing; 326 Plastics providing permit writers the necessary regulations define fill material as being and Rubber Products Manufacturing; information, including toxics data, to used ‘‘for the primary purpose of’’ 327 Nonmetallic Mineral Product ensure that permits adequately address replacing an aquatic area with dry land Manufacturing; 331 Primary Metal concerns of permittees and or changing the bottom elevation of a Manufacturing; 332 Fabricated Metal environmental protection. The Agency waterbody. In contrast, EPA’s definition Product Manufacturing; 333 Machinery will seek to allow the use of existing of fill material looks to whether the Manufacturing; 334 Computer and data to the extent possible and to avoid effect is to replace waters of the United Electronic Product Manufacturing; 335 unnecessary reporting. The Agency is States with dry land or change the
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bottom elevation of waterbodies, and Email: [email protected] for chemical and biological pollutants does not contain a ‘‘primary purpose’’ RIN: 2040–AD51 (e.g., Methods 625 and 1625), including test as found in the Corps regulations. methods from voluntary consensus In order to clarify what constitutes ‘‘fill standards bodies (VCSBs), and from material’’ for purposes of section 404 3596. ∑ TEST PROCEDURES: NEW other external organizations. The new and provide improved regulatory AND UPDATED TEST PROCEDURES and updated methods include methods certainty, the Corps and EPA are FOR THE ANALYSIS OF POLLUTANTS from organizations such as the conducting notice and comment UNDER THE CLEAN WATER ACT AND American Society for Testing and rulemaking to achieve greater SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT Materials (ASTM), Standard Methods, consistency between the two agencies’ Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Association of Official Analytical definitions of ‘‘fill material.’’ Methods-International, and U.S. Legal Authority: 33 USC 1251 et seq; Geological Survey. Timetable: 33 USC 1314(h); 33 USC 1361(a); 76 Stat 816; PL 92-500; 91 Stat 1567; PL Timetable: Action Date FR Cite 95-217; 100 Stat 7; PL 100-4 Action Date FR Cite NPRM 04/20/00 65 FR 21292 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 136 Final Action To Be Determined NPRM 06/00/02 Legal Deadline: None Final Action 06/00/03 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Abstract: This regulatory action would Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No amend the ‘‘Guidelines Establishing Required: No Test Procedures for the Analysis of Small Entities Affected: Businesses, Small Entities Affected: No Governmental Jurisdictions Pollutants’’ under 40 CFR parts 136 and 141 to approve new and updated EPA Government Levels Affected: State, Government Levels Affected: State, methods for wastewater, ambient water Local, Tribal, Federal Local, Tribal, Federal quality, and drinking water, including Additional Information: SAN No. 4540 new and updated versions of methods Additional Information: SAN No. 4375 from voluntary consensus standards Agency Contact: William A. Telliard, Agency Contact: Brenda Mallory, bodies and other organizations. These Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Protection Agency, methods are used to comply with Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460 Water, 4502F, Washington, DC 20460 monitoring requirements in the Phone: 202 260-7134 Phone: 202 260-0044 wastewater, ambient water quality Fax: 202 260-7185 Fax: 202 260-7546 and/or drinking water programs, as Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] authorized under the Clean Water Act (CWA) and Safe Drinking Water Act. Maria Gomez-Taylor, Environmental John Lishman, Environmental This regulation would propose new Protection Agency, Water, 4303 Protection Agency, Water, 4502F, methods for metals such as Method Phone: 202 260-1639 Washington, DC 20460 1638 (which utilizes ICP/MS), new Fax: 202 260-7185 Phone: 202 260-9180 methods for chemical pollutants (e.g., Email: [email protected] Fax: 202 260-7546 Method 245.7), and updated methods RIN: 2040–AD71
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3597. EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND Fax: 202 260-7185 Completed: STANDARDS FOR THE CENTRALIZED Email: [email protected] Reason Date FR Cite WASTE TREATMENT INDUSTRY Priority: Other Significant Tim Connor Withdrawn 04/23/01 Phone: 202 260-3164 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 437 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Fax: 202 260-7185 Required: No Completed: Email: [email protected] Reason Date FR Cite Government Levels Affected: None RIN: 2040–AB78 Final Action 12/22/00 65 FR 81241 Agency Contact: Hugh Wise Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Phone: 202 260-7177 Required: Yes 3598. REFORMATTING OF EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND STANDARDS IN 40 Fax: 202 260-7185 Government Levels Affected: State, CFR PARTS 401 THROUGH 471 Email: [email protected] Local, Federal RIN: 2040–AC79 Sectors Affected: 562219 Other Priority: Info./Admin./Other Nonhazardous Waste Treatment and CFR Citation: Disposal 40 CFR 405 to 471 (Revision) Agency Contact: Jan Matuszko Phone: 202 260-9126
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3599. EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND provisions. EPA conducted a regulatory Action Date FR Cite STANDARDS FOR SYNTHETIC-BASED flexibility analysis for the final rule and DRILLING FLUIDS IN THE OIL AND concluded (for the 1987 rulemaking End Review - Decision 02/15/01 GAS EXTRACTION POINT SOURCE and again for the 1993 amendments) To Leave Rule Unchanged at This CATEGORY (REVISIONS) that the effluent limitations are Time Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant economically achievable for the industry as a whole, although some Regulatory Flexibility Analysis CFR Citation: 40 CFR 435 small businesses would experience a Required: No Completed: significant economic impact. The Small Entities Affected: No analysis estimated impacts in terms of Reason Date FR Cite Government Levels Affected: None plant and product line closures and Final Action 01/22/01 66 FR 6849 profit and sales impacts. As reported Additional Information: SAN No. 4364 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis in the 1993 amendments, EPA Agency Contact: Frank Hund, Required: No projected the following small business Environmental Protection Agency, impacts: for direct dischargers, EPA Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460 Government Levels Affected: State, projected significant impacts for 77 Phone: 202 260-7182 Federal percent of the small plants; for indirect Fax: 202 260-7185 Sectors Affected: 21111 Oil and Gas dischargers, EPA projected significant Email: [email protected] Extraction impacts for 63 percent of the small RIN: 2040–AD45 Agency Contact: Carey Johnston plants. Phone: 202 260-7186 In the November 22, 1999 Regulatory 3601. WATER QUALITY STANDARDS Fax: 202 260-7185 Agenda, we indicated that we would FOR ALABAMA—PHASE I Email: [email protected] perform a review of this rule in accordance with section 610 of the Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Ron Kirby Regulatory Flexibility Act. We are now CFR Citation: 40 CFR 131 Phone: 202 260-7168 announcing completion of that review Completed: Fax: 202 260-7185 and our decisions based on that review. Email: [email protected] We have concluded that this rule Reason Date FR Cite RIN: 2040–AD14 should remain in effect with no Withdrawn - No 04/23/01 modification. Our analysis confirmed Further Action that effluent limitations for the OCPSF Required 3600. EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND industry are a necessary component of STANDARDS FOR THE ORGANIC Regulatory Flexibility Analysis the comprehensive program to restore CHEMICALS, PLASTICS AND Required: No and maintain the quality of our SYNTHETIC FIBERS CATEGORY Government Levels Affected: State, Nation’s waters. In particular, the (COMPLETION OF A SECTION 610 Federal OCPSF rule contributes significantly to REVIEW) pollutant reductions, accounting for Agency Contact: Fritz Wagener Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant reductions of more than 100 million Phone: 404 562-9267 Legal Authority: 5 USC 610 pounds per year. The Agency’s Toxic Release Inventory indicates that Jim Keating CFR Citation: 40 CFR 414 releases from OCPSF facilities to Phone: 202 260-3845 Legal Deadline: None surface waters and to POTWs remain Fax: 202 260-9830 an environmental concern, and that the Email: [email protected] Abstract: In November 1987, EPA effluent limitations should remain in established effluent limitations RIN: 2040–AD25 place. Our analysis yielded no reasons guidelines and standards for the to amend or rescind the rule due to Organic Chemicals, Plastics, and need, complexity, or overlap with other 3602. AMEND THE FINAL WATER Synthetic Fibers (OCPSF) industrial rules. This conclusion is based on the QUALITY GUIDANCE FOR THE GREAT category (52 FR 42522, November 5, lack of adverse comments, or any LAKES SYSTEM TO PROHIBIT MIXING 1987), under the authority of sections expressed need for a rule change from ZONES FOR BIOACCUMULATIVE 301, 304, 306, 307, 308, 402, and 501 the major stakeholders, including the CHEMICALS OF CONCERN of the Clean Water Act. In 1993, EPA permitting authorities and the regulated Priority: Other Significant issued amendments to the final rule (58 community. Our analysis also included FR 36872, July 9, 1993) to respond to CFR Citation: 40 CFR 132 a review of the industry’s technology the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals’ changes and economic conditions. We Completed: remand decisions on the OCPSF did not identify innovations or other Reason Date FR Cite regulation. The 1993 amendments process changes that would resulted in little change to the number Final Action 11/13/00 65 FR 67638 significantly or extent of small business impacts. Regulatory Flexibility Analysis The 1987 final rule incorporated Timetable: Required: No special provisions (i.e., less stringent regulations) to minimize the economic Action Date FR Cite Government Levels Affected: State, impact for a subset of small plants, and Final Action 11/05/87 52 FR 42522 Local, Tribal, Federal the 1993 amendments maintained those Begin Review 11/22/99 64 FR 65140 Agency Contact: Mark Morris
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Phone: 202 260-0312 3604. FURTHER REVISIONS TO Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Fax: 202 260-5394 CLEAN WATER ACT DEFINITION OF Required: No DISCHARGE OF DREDGED MATERIAL Email: [email protected] Government Levels Affected: State, Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Local, Tribal, Federal RIN: 2040–AD32 CFR Citation: 33 CFR 323.2(d); 40 CFR Agency Contact: Alan B. Rubin 232.2 Phone: 202 260-7589 3603. PROMULGATION OF Completed: Fax: 202 260-1036 PROVISIONS IN THE FINAL WATER Email: [email protected] QUALITY GUIDANCE FOR THE GREAT Reason Date FR Cite LAKES SYSTEM FOR WATERS Final Action 01/17/01 66 FR 4549 RIN: 2040–AC53 WITHIN THE GREAT LAKES BASIN Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No 3606. SITE-SPECIFIC RULE UNDER XL Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Government Levels Affected: State, TO GRANT WAIVER FROM BMP CFR Citation: 40 CFR 132 Federal REGULATIONS UNDER CWA CLUSTER RULES Completed: Agency Contact: John Lishman Phone: 202 260-9180 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Reason Date FR Cite Fax: 202 260-7546 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 430 Email: [email protected] Final Action - New 10/06/00 65 FR 59732 York Completed: John Goodin Reason Date FR Cite Final Action - 11/06/00 65 FR 66502 Phone: 202 260-9910 Wisconsin Fax: 202 260-7546 Final Action 07/27/00 65 FR 46104 No Further Action Will 04/01/01 Email: [email protected] Be Taken Regulatory Flexibility Analysis RIN: 2040–AD41 Required: No Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No Government Levels Affected: None 3605. ROUND I SEWAGE SLUDGE Sectors Affected: 3221 Pulp, Paper, Government Levels Affected: USE OR DISPOSAL RULE — PHASE State, and Paperboard Mills Federal TWO AMENDMENTS Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Agency Contact: Nina Bonnelycke Agency Contact: Mark Morris Phone: 202 260-3344 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 503 (Revision) Phone: 202 260-0312 Fax: 202 401-6637 Fax: 202 260-5394 Completed: Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Reason Date FR Cite Chris Rascher RIN: 2040–AD66 Withdrawn - No 04/23/01 Phone: 617 918-1834 Further Action Planned RIN: 2090–AA12
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) Prerule Stage Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)
3607. USE OF SCREENING METHODS reference methods for use in principal problem areas while Tier 2 FOR COMPLIANCE MONITORING OF compliance monitoring or the would use sampling and analysis to DRINKING WATER CONTAMINANTS monitoring of unregulated more carefully identify and quantify Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant contaminants. In this advanced notice specific contaminants. EPA would of proposed rulemaking, EPA identify specific screening methods Legal Authority: 42 USC 300f SDWA announces its intention to integrate the which are available for use based on 1401; 42 USC 300(g)(1) SDWA 1412; 42 use of screening methods in the overall their performance characteristics, USC 300(j)(4) SDWA 1445 scheme of drinking water compliance tolerance to sample interferences, CFR Citation: 40 CFR 141; 40 CFR 143 monitoring. Efforts will be made to validation for drinking water analysis keep the proposal consistent with the and correlation of results with Legal Deadline: None Office of Water plan for Performance traditional instrumental methods. The Abstract: The 1996 Safe Drinking Based Methods (PBMS). EPA will use of screening methods is expected Water Act (SDWA) Amendments identify regulated contaminates, types to make drinking water compliance require EPA to review new analytical of monitoring and specific areas within monitoring cheaper and faster, and methods that may be used for regulated each monitoring framework which are provide flexibility to the Public Water contaminants screening or analysis, amenable to the use of screening Systems in the choice of analytical including screening methods. After this methods. A logical application of methods. Laboratory acceptance limits review, EPA may approve such screening procedures would be in a and other method performance methods that are deemed more accurate tiered monitoring mode where Tier 1 requirements that were specified under or cost-effective than established (screening phase) would identify the previous rules will not be changed in
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this rule making. The final action Timetable: contaminants which need additional would only add new analytical Action Date FR Cite occurrence data; and 3) contaminants methods and/or analytical approaches which are priorities for consideration and would not withdraw or modify ANPRM 08/00/01 for rulemaking. These contaminants are previously approved methods. NPRM 08/00/03 collectively referred to as the Final Rule 08/00/04 Timetable: Regulatory Determination Priority Regulatory Flexibility Analysis contaminants. Action Date FR Cite Required: Undetermined In addition to publishing the drinking ANPRM 10/00/01 Small Entities Affected: Businesses, water CCL, the SDWA also requires the NPRM 07/00/02 Governmental Jurisdictions, Agency to select five or more Final Action 07/00/03 Organizations contaminants from the CCL and determine, by August 2001, whether to Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Government Levels Affected: State, regulate these contaminants with a Required: No Local, Tribal, Federal National Primary Drinking Water Small Entities Affected: Businesses, Federalism: Undetermined Regulation (NPDWR). The Regulatory Governmental Jurisdictions, Additional Information: SAN No. 3238 Determination Priority category is the Organizations list of contaminants from which the Sectors Affected: 22131 Water Supply Government Levels Affected: State, Agency will determine whether or not and Irrigation Systems Local, Tribal, Federal regulations are necessary. There are Agency Contact: Dan Olson, currently 12 contaminants on the 1998 Additional Information: SAN No. 4212 Environmental Protection Agency, CCL that have been characterized as Sectors Affected: 22131 Water Supply Water, 4607, Washington, DC 20460 having sufficient scientific information and Irrigation Systems Phone: 202 260-6269 to make regulatory determinations by Agency Contact: Dr. Richard Reding, Fax: 202 401-6135 August 2001: Acanthamoeba; Aldrin; Environmental Protection Agency, Email: [email protected] Boron; 1,3-dichloropropene; Dieldrin; Water, U.S. EPA Facilities, Cincinnati, Hexachlorobutadiene; Manganese; Karen Wirth, Environmental Protection OH 45268 Metolachlor; Metribuzin; Napthalene; Agency, Water, 4607, Washington, DC Phone: 513 569-7961 Sodium; and Sulfate. 20460 Email: [email protected] In order make a decision whether or Phone: 202 260-0720 not to develop a NPDWR for a Fax: 202 260-3762 Dr. Jitendra Saxena, Environmental contaminant, the SDWA requires three Email: [email protected] Protection Agency, Water, 4603, statutory tests be met: 1) the Washington, DC 20460 RIN: 2040–AC13 contaminant may have an adverse effect Phone: 202 260-9579 on the health of persons; 2) the Email: [email protected] 3609. DRINKING WATER: contaminant is known to occur or there RIN: 2040–AD31 REGULATORY DETERMINATIONS is a substantial likelihood that the REGARDING CONTAMINANTS ON contaminant will occur in public water systems with a frequency and at levels 3608. NATIONAL PRIMARY DRINKING THE DRINKING WATER CONTAMINANT CANDIDATE LIST of public health concern; and 3) in the WATER REGULATIONS: ALDICARB sole judgment of the Administrator, Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant. regulation of the contaminant presents Major status under 5 USC 801 is Legal Authority: 42 USC 300f et seq; a meaningful opportunity for health undetermined. SDWA 1412(b)(1)(B) risk reduction for persons served by public water systems. Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined CFR Citation: Not Yet Determined Using these three statutory tests to Legal Deadline: Other, Statutory, Legal Authority: 42 USC 300f et seq; make regulatory decisions, there are August 6, 2001, Final Regulatory SDWA 1412 three possible outcomes: 1) regulate the Determination. CFR Citation: 40 CFR 141; 40 CFR 142 contaminant with a NPDWR; 2) develop Abstract: The 1996 amendments to the Legal Deadline: None guidance (e.g. Health or Consumer Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) Advisory); or 3) determine no Abstract: EPA promulgated MCLs for requires EPA to publish a list of non- regulatory action is necessary. aldicarb, aldicarb sulfoxide, and regulated contaminants every five aldicarb sulfone in the Phase II years, which may warrant regulation Once a regulatory decision is made, the rulemaking in 1991 at levels of 0.003, due to their health effects and their contaminant is removed from the CCL. 0.004, and 0.002 ug/l, respectively. In potential for occurrence in public water Timetable: response to an administrative petition systems (PWSs). The first list, called Action Date FR Cite from the manufacturer Rhone-Poulenc, the Contaminant Candidate List (CCL), the Agency issued an administrative was published in the Federal Register Notice 04/00/01 stay of the effective date. EPA will on March 2, 1998 (63 FR 10274). When Notice of Final 08/00/01 reexamine risk assessment and establishing the 1998 CCL, EPA divided Regulatory occurrence data on aldicarb and make the contaminants among three main Determinations a determination of what further action categories: 1) contaminants which are Regulatory Flexibility Analysis is appropriate. priorities for additional research; 2) Required: No
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Small Entities Affected: No contaminants with NPDWRs maximum contaminant levels, Government Levels Affected: None promulgated prior to August 1996. analytical methods, monitoring, treatment, recordkeeping and reporting Additional Information: SAN No. 4447 Abstract: The Safe Drinking Water Act requirements. EPA plans extensive (SDWA) requires EPA to review and stakeholder outreach and consultation SDWA requires a final determination of revise, if appropriate, all National whether or not NPDWR(s) are necessary in the development of the protocol and Primary Drinking Water Regulations throughout the review process. for no less than 5 contaminants on the (NPDWRs) no less frequently than once CCL. every six years. According to SDWA, Timetable: Sectors Affected: 22131 Water Supply any revisions of drinking water Action Date FR Cite and Irrigation Systems regulations must maintain, or increase, ANPRM 10/00/01 Agency Contact: Dan Olson, the level of public health protection Notice of Final 08/00/02 Environmental Protection Agency, provided; however, EPA may identify Decision Water, 4607, Washington, DC 20460 regulatory changes that will streamline or reduce existing requirements without Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Phone: 202 260-6269 Required: No Fax: 202 401-6135 lessening the level of public health Email: [email protected] protection. As a part of this action, EPA Small Entities Affected: No will do two things: (1) develop an Government Levels Affected: None Karen Wirth, Environmental Protection overall protocol for conducting each six Agency, Water, 4607, Washington, DC year review; and (2) review the Additional Information: SAN No. 4424 20460 chemical contaminants (with the Sectors Affected: 22131 Water Supply Phone: 202 260-0720 exception of arsenic which is being and Irrigation Systems revised and atrazine and copper which Fax: 202 260-3762 Agency Contact: Judy Lebowich, Email: [email protected] are being reviewed on accelerated schedules). No new requirements will Environmental Protection Agency, RIN: 2040–AD61 be imposed by this action. The purpose Water, 4607, Washington, DC 20460 of the review is to determine whether Phone: 202 260-7595 Fax: 202 260-3762 3610. 6-YEAR REVIEW OF EXISTING new data, technology, or other factors Email: [email protected] NATIONAL PRIMARY DRINKING exist that justify revisions to existing WATER REGULATIONS NPDWRs. The outcome of each review will be a Federal Register notice Marc Parrotta, Environmental Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant making available the results of the Protection Agency, Water, 4607, Washington, DC 20460 Legal Authority: 42 USC 300f et seq Agency’s review and a rulemaking schedule for the regulations the Agency Phone: 202 260-3035 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 141; 40 CFR 142 intends to revise. EPA may decide that Fax: 202 260-3762 Legal Deadline: Other, Statutory, any of the following need to be revised: Email: [email protected] August 6, 2002, Complete review for maximum contaminant level goals, RIN: 2040–AD67
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) Proposed Rule Stage Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)
3611. NATIONAL PRIMARY DRINKING Abstract: The Long Term 2 Enhanced analyze a significant body of new WATER REGULATIONS: LONG TERM Surface Water Treatment Rule survey data on microbial pathogens in 2 ENHANCED SURFACE WATER (LT2ESWTR) will control risk from source and finished waters, as well as TREATMENT RULE microbial pathogens in drinking water. data on parameters which could serve It is being developed simultaneously as indicators of microbial risk. This Priority: Economically Significant. with the Stage 2 Disinfectants and survey data, which was collected under Major under 5 USC 801. Disinfection Byproducts Rule (DBPR) the Information Collection Rule (ICR), Unfunded Mandates: This action may which will address risk caused by the Supplemental Surveys to the ICR, and affect State, local or tribal governments use of disinfectants in drinking water. additional research projects, will and the private sector. This rule could affect all public water provide a substantially more systems that use surface water as a comprehensive and complete picture of Legal Authority: 40 USC 300g-1(b); source. Promulgating the LT2ESWTR the occurrence of waterborne pathogens SDWA 1412(b); 42 USC 300f; 42 USC and the Stage 2 DBPR as a paired than was available previously. EPA will 300g-1; 42 USC 300g-2; 42 USC 300g- rulemaking is necessary to ensure that also use significant new data on the 3; 42 USC 300g-4; 42 USC 300g-5; 42 adequate protection from microbial risk efficiency of treatment processes for the USC 300g-6; 42 USC 300j-4; 42 USC is maintained while EPA manages risk removal and inactivation of 300j-9; 42 USC 300j-11 from disinfection byproducts. EPA is microorganisms, as well as new CFR Citation: 40 CFR 141 to 142; 40 required to promulgate the Stage 2 information on the pathogenicity of CFR 9 DBPR by May, 2002, under the 1996 certain pathogens, to determine Safe Drinking Water Act amendments. effective regulatory requirements for Legal Deadline: None In developing the LT2ESWTR, EPA will controlling microbial risk. On March
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30, 1999 EPA established a committee Abstract: The 1996 Safe Drinking Government Levels Affected: State, of stakeholders under the Federal Water Act Amendments require EPA to Local, Tribal, Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) to promulgate a Stage 2 Federalism: This action may have assist in the development of these Disinfectants/Disinfection Byproducts federalism implications as defined in rules. The FACA committee made Rule (Stage 2 DBPR) by May, 2002. EPA EO 13132. recommendations on rule options to plans to propose this rule in 2001. The EPA in September 2000. Regulation, along with a Long Term 2 Additional Information: SAN No. 4342 Timetable: Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Sectors Affected: 22131 Water Supply Rule (LT2ESWTR) that will be and Irrigation Systems Action Date FR Cite promulgated simultaneously, is Agency Contact: Thomas Grubbs, NPRM 11/00/01 intended to expand existing public Environmental Protection Agency, Final Action 12/00/02 health protections and address Water, 4607, Washington, DC 20460 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis concerns about risk trade-offs between Phone: 202 260-7270 pathogens and disinfection byproducts. Required: Yes Fax: 202 401-6135 This rule could affect all public water Email: [email protected] Small Entities Affected: Businesses, systems that add a disinfectant to the Governmental Jurisdictions, drinking water during any part of the Jennifer McLain, Environmental Organizations treatment process although the impacts Protection Agency, Water, 4607, Government Levels Affected: State, may be limited to community water Washington, DC 20460 Local, Tribal, Federal systems (CWSs) and non-transient non- Phone: 202 260-0431 community water systems (NTNCWSs). Fax: 202 401-6135 Federalism: This action may have Promulgating the LT2ESWTR and the Email: [email protected] federalism implications as defined in Stage 2 DBPR as a paired rulemaking EO 13132. RIN: 2040–AD38 is necessary to ensure that adequate Additional Information: SAN No. 4341 protection from microbial risk is Sectors Affected: 22131 Water Supply maintained while EPA manages risk 3613. REGULATED DRINKING WATER and Irrigation Systems from disinfection byproducts. In CONTAMINANT OCCURRENCE developing the Stage 2 DBPR, EPA will REPORTING Agency Contact: Thomas Grubbs, analyze a significant body of new Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant. Environmental Protection Agency, survey data on source water quality Water, 4607, Washington, DC 20460 Major status under 5 USC 801 is parameters, treatment data and undetermined. Phone: 202 260-7270 disinfection byproduct occurrence. This Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined Fax: 202 401-6135 survey data, which was collected under Email: [email protected] the Information Collection Rule (ICR), Legal Authority: 42 USC 300f; 42 USC Supplemental Surveys to the ICR, and 300g-1 to 42 USC 300g-6; 42 USC 300j- Dan Schmelling, Environmental additional research projects, will 4; 42 USC 300j-9; 42 USC 300j-11 Protection Agency, Water, 4607, provide a substantially more Washington, DC 20460 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 142.15 comprehensive and complete picture of Phone: 202 260-1439 Legal Deadline: None the occurrence of DBPs and Fax: 202 401-6135 microbiological pathogens than was Abstract: The Office of Water will Email: [email protected] available previously. EPA will also use revise the National Primary Drinking RIN: 2040–AD37 new information on the health effects Water Regulations to require public of exposure to DBPs to determine water systems and States to report effective regulatory requirements for regulated drinking water contaminant 3612. NATIONAL PRIMARY DRINKING occurrence level data to EPA. At WATER REGULATIONS: STAGE 2 controlling risk. On March 30, 1999 EPA reconvened a committee of present, States only report violation DISINFECTANTS/DISINFECTION data for the purpose of compliance BYPRODUCTS RULE stakeholders under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) to tracking, as concentrations that exceed Priority: Economically Significant. assist in the development of these the Maximum Contaminant Level. The Major under 5 USC 801. rules. The FACA made data will be compared to health effects Unfunded Mandates: This action may recommendations on rule options to levels and used to compare occurrence affect State, local or tribal governments EPA in September, 2000. frequency with monitoring and the private sector. requirements. The results of these Timetable: analyses may be used to modify Legal Authority: 40 USC 300g-1(b); Action Date FR Cite existing regulations during the SDWA 1412(b); 42 USC 300f; 42 USC statutorily required 6-year regulatory 300g-2; 42 USC 300g-3; 42 USC 300g- NPRM 11/00/01 review cycle. 4; 42 USC 300g-5; 42 USC 300g-6; 42 Final Action 12/00/02 USC 300j-4; 42 USC 300j-9; 42 USC Timetable: 300j-11 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Action Date FR Cite Required: CFR Citation: 40 CFR 141 to 142; 40 Undetermined NPRM 12/00/01 CFR 9 Small Entities Affected: Businesses, Final Action 06/00/03 Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, May Governmental Jurisdictions, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 31, 2002. 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Small Entities Affected: Businesses, action, EPA is proposing a secondary wells. Class V UIC wells are typically Governmental Jurisdictions, standard for MTBE, which will provide shallow waste disposal systems that are Organizations control levels for taste and odor diverse in purpose, design, geographic Government Levels Affected: State, acceptability and to protect the public distribution, the nature of the fluids Local, Tribal, Federal welfare. injected, and endangerment potential. Timetable: In accordance with the judicial Federalism: Undetermined deadlines in a consent agreement, EPA Additional Information: SAN No. 4369 Action Date FR Cite finalized specific regulations addressing Sectors Affected: 22131 Water Supply NPRM 09/00/01 two types of high risk UIC Class V and Irrigation Systems Final Action 08/00/02 injection wells (motor vehicle waste disposal wells and large-capacity Agency Contact: Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Charles Job, cesspools) in December 1999. That Required: No Environmental Protection Agency, regulatory action is informally referred Water, 4606, Washington, DC 20460 Small Entities Affected: No to as the UIC Class V Phase 1 Rule. Phone: 202 260-7084 Government Levels Affected: Also, in accordance with the consent Email: [email protected] None Additional Information: SAN No. 4404 agreement, EPA must evaluate all other RIN: 2040–AD48 Class V well types and determine if Sectors Affected: 22131 Water Supply additional specific requirements are and Irrigation Systems 3614. NATIONAL SECONDARY necessary to protect USDWs and if so, DRINKING WATER REGULATIONS Agency Contact: Rachel Sakata, finalize the appropriate requirements. Environmental Protection Agency, (NSDWR): METHYL TERTIARY BUTYL Timetable: ETHER (MTBE) AND TECHNICAL Water, 4607 CORRECTIONS TO THE NSDWR Phone: 202 260-2527 Action Date FR Cite Fax: 202 260-3762 Priority: Other Significant NPRM 05/00/01 RIN: 2040–AD54 Final Action 06/00/02 Legal Authority: 42 USC 300f et seq CFR Citation: 40 CFR 143 (Revision) Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 3615. UNDERGROUND INJECTION Required: Undetermined Legal Deadline: None CONTROL CLASS V PHASE 2 Abstract: Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether REVISIONS Government Levels Affected: Undetermined (MTBE) is a fuel additive used Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant. primarily to increase the oxygen Major status under 5 USC 801 is Federalism: Undetermined content in gasoline. It has been used undetermined. in increasing quantity in the 1990s to Additional Information: SAN No. 4451 meet the requirements of the Federal Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined Agency Contact: Lee Whitehurst, Reformulated Gasoline (RFG) and Legal Authority: 42 USC 300(h); Safe Environmental Protection Agency, Oxyfuels programs required by the Drinking Water Act 1421 to 1425 Water, 4606, Washington, DC 20460 Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. CFR Citation: 40 CFR 144 to 147 Phone: 202 260-5532 Although the use of MTBE in gasoline Fax: 202 260-0732 has helped to reduce harmful air Legal Deadline: NPRM, Judicial, April Email: [email protected] emissions, it is being detected in 30, 2001. Final, Judicial, May 31, 2002. ground water and surface water Howard Beard, Environmental throughout the country. In some Abstract: The Safe Drinking Water Act Protection Agency, Water, 4606 instances the affected waters are (SDWA) requires EPA to protect current Phone: 202 260-8796 drinking water sources. At relatively and future underground sources of Fax: 202 260-0732 low levels, MTBE’s taste and odor can drinking water (USDWs) from the Email: [email protected] make drinking water supplies endangerment posed by Class V unacceptable to consumers. In this underground injection control (UIC) RIN: 2040–AD63
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) Final Rule Stage Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)
3616. NATIONAL PRIMARY DRINKING Legal Deadline: NPRM, Statutory, radon, in both drinking water and in WATER REGULATIONS: RADON August 6, 1999. indoor air. States would be able to Priority: Economically Significant. Final, Statutory, November 2, 2000. focus their efforts on the highest radon Major under 5 USC 801. Other, Statutory, February 6, 1999, risks to the public - in indoor air - Publish radon health risk reduction and while reducing the highest risks from Unfunded Mandates: This action may cost analysis. radon in drinking water. Breathing affect State, local or tribal governments. Abstract: EPA proposed new indoor radon in homes is the primary Legal Authority: 42 USC 300f et seq; regulations for radon in drinking water public health risk from radon, SDWA 1412 which will provide states flexibility in contributing to about 15,000-22,000 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 141; 40 CFR 142 how to manage the health risks from lung cancer deaths each year in the
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United States, according to a landmark Sectors Affected: 22131 Water Supply of viruses, and compliance monitoring report this year by the National and Irrigation Systems to insure disinfection treatment is Academy of Sciences. That makes Agency Contact: Sylvia Malm, reliably operated where it is used. radon in indoor air the second leading Environmental Protection Agency, Timetable: cause of lung cancer in the United Water, 4607, Washington, DC 20460 Action Date FR Cite States. Based on a second NAS report, Phone: 202 260-0417 EPA estimates that radon in drinking Fax: 202 260-3762 NPRM 05/10/00 65 FR 30194 water causes about 168 cancer deaths Email: [email protected] Final Action 11/00/01 per year, of which about 89 percent are Regulatory Flexibility Analysis lung cancer from breathing radon James Taft, Environmental Protection Required: Yes released from water. The remaining 11 Agency, Water, 4607, Washington, DC percent of the risk is for stomach 20460 Small Entities Affected: Businesses, cancer from drinking radon-containing Phone: 202 260-5519 Governmental Jurisdictions, water. Fax: 202 260-3762 Organizations The proposal is based on the unique Email: [email protected] Government Levels Affected: State, framework outlined in the 1996 Safe RIN: 2040–AA94 Local, Tribal, Federal Drinking Water Act (SDWA). The Federalism: This action may have proposed new regulation will provide 3617. NATIONAL PRIMARY DRINKING federalism implications as defined in two options to states and water systems EO 13132. for reducing public health risks from WATER REGULATIONS: GROUND radon. Under the first option, states can WATER RULE Additional Information: SAN No. 2340 choose to develop enhanced state Priority: Economically Significant. Statutory deadline for final: After programs to address the health risks Major under 5 USC 801. August 6,1999 but before the from indoor radon while water systems Unfunded Mandates: This action may Administrator promulgates a stage II reduce radon levels in drinking water affect the private sector under PL 104- rulemaking for disinfection and to at or below the higher, alternative 4. disinfection byproducts (currently maximum contaminant level MCL scheduled for May 2002). proposed at 4,000 pCi/L (picoCuries per Legal Authority: 42 USC 300f; SDWA liter, a standard unit of radiation) , 1412 NPRM- http://www.epa.gov/safewater/gwr.html ensuring protection from the highest CFR Citation: 40 CFR 141 400 to 406; risks from radon in drinking water. 40 CFR 142 14 to 16 (revision) Sectors Affected: 22131 Water Supply and Irrigation Systems EPA is encouraging the states to adopt Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, May this approach as the most cost-effective 31, 2002. Agency Contact: Eric Burneson, way to achieve the greatest radon risk Environmental Protection Agency, reduction. If a state does not elect this Abstract: EPA has proposed a targeted risk-based regulatory strategy for all Water, 4607, Washington, DC 20460 option, the second option would Phone: 202 260-1445 require water systems in that state to ground water systems. The proposed requirements provide a meaningful Fax: 202 401-6135 either reduce radon in drinking water Email: [email protected] levels to the MCL of 300 pCi/L, or to opportunity to reduce public health risk associated with the consumption develop a local indoor radon program Tracy Bone, Environmental Protection of waterborne pathogens from fecal and reduce levels in drinking water to Agency, Water, 4607, Washington, DC contamination for a substantial number 4000 pCi/L. Those systems initially at 20460 of people served by ground water the MCL or lower will not need to treat Phone: 202 260-2954 sources. The proposed strategy their water for radon. Fax: 202 401-6135 addresses risks through a multiple- Timetable: Email: [email protected] barrier approach that relies on five Action Date FR Cite major components: periodic sanitary RIN: 2040–AA97 ANPRM 09/30/86 51 FR 34836 surveys of ground water systems NPRM 07/18/91 56 FR 33050 requiring the evaluation of eight 3618. NATIONAL PRIMARY DRINKING Notice 02/26/99 64 FR 9560 elements and the identification of WATER REGULATIONS: ARSENIC NPRM 11/02/99 64 FR 59245 significant deficiencies; hydrogeologic AND CLARIFICATIONS TO Final Action 09/00/01 assessments to identify wells sensitive COMPLIANCE AND NEW SOURCE to fecal contamination; source water CONTAMINANT MONITORING Regulatory Flexibility Analysis monitoring for systems drawing from Required: Yes sensitive wells without treatment or Priority: Economically Significant. Small Entities Affected: Businesses, with other indications of risk; a Major under 5 USC 801. Governmental Jurisdictions requirement for correction of significant Unfunded Mandates: This action may Government Levels Affected: State, deficiencies and fecal contamination affect State, local or tribal governments Local, Tribal, Federal through the following actions: eliminate and the private sector. the source of contamination, correct the Federalism: This action may have significant deficiency, provide an Legal Authority: 42 USC 300f SDWA federalism implications as defined in alternative source water, or provide a 1412 EO 13132. treatment which achieves at least 99.99 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 141 (Revision); Additional Information: SAN No. 2281 percent (4-log) inactivation or removal 40 CFR 142 (Revision)
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Legal Deadline: NPRM, Statutory, Phone: 202 260-9531 Action Date FR Cite January 1, 2000. Fax: 202 260-3762 Final, Statutory, June 22, 2001. Email: [email protected] Notice Sulfate Study 02/11/99 64 FR 7028 Notice - Decision To 08/00/01 Abstract: On January 22, 2001, EPA RIN: 2040–AB75 Regulate or Not published a final Arsenic Rule (66 FR Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 6975). On March 23, 2001, EPA 3619. NATIONAL PRIMARY DRINKING Required: No published a notice extending the WATER REGULATIONS: SULFATE effective date of the final Arsenic Rule Small Entities Affected: Businesses, from March 23, 2001, to May 22, 2001 Priority: Other Significant Governmental Jurisdictions, (66 FR 16134), in accordance with a Legal Authority: 42 USC 300(f) SDWA Organizations January 20, 2001, memorandum from sec 1412 Government Levels Affected: State, the Assistant to the President and Chief CFR Citation: 40 CFR 141; 40 CFR 142 Local, Tribal, Federal of Staff, entitled ‘‘Regulatory Review Additional Information: Plan,’’ (published in the Federal Legal Deadline: Other, Statutory, SAN No. 3176 Register on January 24, 2001). The 60- August 6, 2001, Decision whether to Sectors Affected: 22131 Water Supply day delay in effective date was regulate. and Irrigation Systems necessary to give Agency officials the Abstract: Sulfate is on the list of 83 Agency Contact: Dan Olson, opportunity for further review and contaminants required to be regulated Environmental Protection Agency, consider the new rule. On April 23, under the Safe Drinking Water Act Water, 4607, Washington, DC 20460 2001, EPA published a proposal to (SDWA) of 1986. The contaminant was Phone: 202 260-6269 further extend the effective date of the deferred from the Phase V regulation Fax: 202 401-6135 final Arsenic Rule from May 22, 2001, in order to allow the EPA time to focus Email: [email protected] to February 22, 2002 (66 FR 20579). on implementation issues arising from As its next step in the process of the proposal concerning the risk of Karen Wirth, Environmental Protection reviewing the final Arsenic Rule, EPA sulfate in drinking water to specific Agency, Water, 4607, Washington, DC will prepare a proposal for comment subpopulations. Sulfate can cause 20460 on a range of arsenic maximum diarrhea in infants and in adults not Phone: 202 260-0720 contaminant level options from 3 ppb acclimated to high sulfate-containing Fax: 202 260-3762 to 20 ppb. water, such as travelers. Persons who Email: [email protected] are acclimated to high sulfate- Timetable: containing water suffer no adverse RIN: 2040–AC07 Action Date FR Cite effects from its consumption. Sulfate Plan Arsenic 12/24/96 61 FR 67800 occurs naturally in soil and is also 3620. NATIONAL PRIMARY DRINKING Research Topics for found in surface water as a result of WATER REGULATIONS: LONG TERM Funding acid rain. Sulfate is also used as a 1 ENHANCED SURFACE WATER NPRM 06/22/00 65 FR 38888 reagent in steel and copper industries TREATMENT RULE and in the manufacture of copper Extension of Effective 01/22/01 66 FR 6975 Priority: Other Significant Date sulfate, a fungicide/algicide. An Final Action 03/23/01 66 FR 16134 estimated 2,000 systems—serving a Legal Authority: SDWA 1412(b)(2)(C) Further Extension of 04/23/01 66 FR 20579 population of 200,000 residents, 1 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 9 (Revision); 40 Effective Date million travelers, and 30,000 infants— CFR 141; 40 CFR 142 (Revision) Effective Date 02/22/02 are likely to be affected by this regulation. Most of the affected systems Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis November 30, 2000. Required: Yes serve populations of less than 3,000 and are transient systems not in service Abstract: The purposes of the Long Small Entities Affected: Businesses, year-round. EPA proposed but never Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water Governmental Jurisdictions, finalized several options for compliance Treatment Rule (LT1ESWTR) are to Organizations which would be an alternative to improve control of microbial pathogens, Government Levels Affected: State, central treatment and less costly. The specifically the protozoan Local, Tribal, Federal 1996 amendments to the SDWA call for Cryptosporidium, in drinking water; a definitive study to resolve remaining and address risk trade-offs with Federalism: This action may have health risk questions. Thereafter, EPA disinfection by-products. The federalism implications as defined in is to make a determination whether or LT1ESWTR builds upon the framework EO 13132. not to regulate sulfate. EPA and the established for systems serving a Additional Information: SAN No. 2807 Centers for Disease Control have population of 10,000 or more in the Final Action- conducted the health risk study for Interim Enhanced Surface Water www.epa.gov/safewater/ars/arsenic- sulfate. The results of the study will Treatment Rule (IESWTR). The finalrule.html serve as the basis for the Agency’s LT1ESWTR applies to public water determination on whether to regulate systems that use surface water or Sectors Affected: 22131 Water Supply sulfate. ground water under the direct influence and Irrigation Systems Timetable: of surface water and serve fewer than Agency Contact: Irene Dooley, 10,000 persons and includes the Environmental Protection Agency, Action Date FR Cite following provisions: (1) 2-log removal Water, 4607, Washington, DC 20460 NPRM 12/20/94 59 FR 65578 of Cryptosporidium; (2) compliance
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with specific combined filter fluent Abstract: In 1990, EPA’s Science Email: [email protected] turbidity requirements; (3) continuous Advisory Board (SAB), an independent turbidity monitoring for individual panel of experts established by Philip Berger, Environmental Protection filters with follow-up activities based Congress, cited drinking water Agency, Water, 4607, Washington, DC on monitoring results; (4) development contamination as one of the most 20460 of a disinfection profile unless important environmental risks and Phone: 202 260-7006 applicability monitoring at a particular indicated that disease-causing microbial TDD Phone: 202 401-6135 plant demonstrated TTHM and HAA5 contaminants (i.e., bacteria, protozoa, Email: [email protected] levels less than 0.064 mg/L and 0.048 and viruses) are probably the greatest RIN: 2040–AD65 mg/L respectively; (5) development of remaining health risk management a Giardia inactivation disinfection challenge for drinking water suppliers. benchmark and consultation with the The 1996 Amendments to the Safe 3622. UPDATE OF STATE State before making a significant Drinking Water Act reaffirmed this UNDERGROUND INJECTION change in disinfection practices; (6) conclusion by requiring EPA to CONTROL PROGRAMS mandatory covers for all newly promulgate a number of regulations to Priority: Info./Admin./Other constructed finished water reservoirs; address public health concerns and (7) unfiltered system compliance associated with drinking water. One Legal Authority: 42 USC 300h-1 SDWA with updated watershed control such requirement (Section 1412(b)(14) Section 1422; 42 USC 300h-4 SDWA requirements that add Cryptosporidium was that EPA promulgates regulations Section 1425 as a pathogen of concern. to, ‘‘govern’’ the recycle of filter CFR Citation: 40 CFR 147 (Revision) Timetable: backwash within the treatment process of public utilities. Legal Deadline: None Action Date FR Cite In developing the Filter Backwash Abstract: EPA provides a place in part NPRM 04/10/00 65 FR 19095 Recycling Rule (FBRR), EPA analyzed 147 of its UIC regulations where all the Final Action 08/00/01 a variety of issues. The FBRR contains State UIC programs are summarized. Regulatory Flexibility Analysis three major components: 1) recycle Included in this summarization are all Required: No streams must be returned to a location the authorities and regulations used by the States to implement the UIC Small Entities Affected: Businesses, such that all processes of a system’s conventional or direct filtration are program, as well as all other documents Governmental Jurisdictions, that are relevant to the program. The Organizations employed; 2) direct filtration systems which recycle must report practices to primary reason for this is to provide Government Levels Affected: State, the State; and 3) conventional filtration one place where all the UIC programs Local, Tribal, Federal systems which recycle must report nationwide are presented. A second Additional Information: SAN No. 4147 practices to the State. reason, more importantly, is to allow EPA to incorporate by reference into Sectors Affected: 22131 Water Supply The FBRR was proposed along with the the Code of Federal Regulations the and Irrigation Systems Long Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water State program authorities. Current Agency Contact: Jeffery Robichaud, Treatment Rule (LT1ESWTR) in a citations to State regulations in 40 CFR Environmental Protection Agency, single NPRM and was published in the part 147 are out of date for many Water, 4607, Washington, DC 20460 Federal Register on April 10, 2000. States. This update is necessary to Phone: 202 260-2568 Each will be finalized in separate ensure that the CFR accurately reflects Fax: 202 401-6135 rulemakings. current approved State UIC programs Email: [email protected] Timetable: and that elements of those programs are Action Date FR Cite federally enforceable if necessary. EPA Patricia Hall, Environmental Protection Regional Offices will be submitting Agency, Water, 4607, Washington, DC NPRM 04/10/00 65 FR 19045 State revision packages as they are 20460 Final Action 05/00/01 completed. Part 147 will then be Phone: 202 260-5750 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis updated in several stages. This is the Fax: 202 401-6135 Required: No first stage. This effort should have no Email: [email protected] impact on the regulated community Small Entities Affected: Businesses, because we will merely be RIN: 2040–AD18 Governmental Jurisdictions, incorporating by reference elements of Organizations already effective State programs. 3621. NATIONAL PRIMARY DRINKING Government Levels Affected: State, Timetable: WATER REGULATIONS: FILTER Local, Tribal, Federal BACKWASH RECYCLING RULE Additional Information: SAN No. 4146 Action Date FR Cite Priority: Other Significant Sectors Affected: 22131 Water Supply Direct Final Rule 08/00/01 Legal Authority: 42 USC 300g1(b)(14); and Irrigation Systems Regulatory Flexibility Analysis SDWA 1412(b)(14) Agency Contact: Jeffery Robichaud, Required: No CFR Citation: 40 CFR 141.76; 40 CFR Environmental Protection Agency, Small Entities Affected: No 142.16 Water, 4607, Washington, DC 20460 Government Levels Affected: Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, Phone: 202 260-2568 State August 6, 2000. Fax: 202 401-6135 Additional Information: SAN No. 4236
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Agency Contact: Mario Salazar, Email: [email protected] Phone: 202 260-7275 Environmental Protection Agency, Fax: 260 202-4656 Water, 4606, Washington, DC 20460 Bruce Kobelski, Environmental Phone: 202 260-2363 Protection Agency, Water, 4606, RIN: 2040–AD40 Fax: 202 260-0732 Washington, DC 20460
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) Completed Actions Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)
3623. UNREGULATED CONTAMINANT Fax: 202 260-3762 Completed: MONITORING RULE - LIST 2 Email: [email protected] Reason Date FR Cite Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant RIN: 2040–AC41 Final Action 01/16/01 66 FR 3769 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 141.40 Completed: 3625. NATIONAL PRIMARY DRINKING Regulatory Flexibility Analysis WATER REGULATIONS: RADIUM, Required: No Reason Date FR Cite URANIUM, ALPHA, BETA AND Final Action 01/11/01 66 FR 2273 PHOTON EMITTERS Government Levels Affected: State, Local, Tribal, Federal Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Priority: Other Significant Required: No CFR Citation: 40 CFR 141; 40 CFR 142 Sectors Affected: 22131 Water Supply Government Levels Affected: State, and Irrigation Systems Completed: Local, Tribal, Federal Reason Date FR Cite Agency Contact: Jennifer Melch Sectors Affected: 22131 Water Supply Phone: 202 260-7035 and Irrigation Systems Final Action 12/07/00 65 FR 76708 Fax: 202 401-2345 Agency Contact: Charles Job Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Email: [email protected] Phone: 202 260-7084 Required: Yes Email: [email protected] RIN: 2040–AD43 Government Levels Affected: State, Rachel Sakata Local, Tribal, Federal Phone: 202 260-2527 Sectors Affected: 22131 Water Supply 3627. DRINKING WATER STATE Fax: 202 260-3762 and Irrigation Systems REVOLVING FUND REGULATIONS RIN: 2040–AD58 Agency Contact: David Huber Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Phone: 202 260-9566 Fax: 202 260-3762 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 35 3624. REFORMATTING OF DRINKING Email: [email protected] WATER REGULATIONS Completed: Priority: Info./Admin./Other William Labiosa Reason Date FR Cite CFR Citation: 40 CFR 141; 40 CFR 142 Phone: 202 260-4835 Fax: 202 260-3762 Final Action 01/12/01 66 FR 2823 Completed: Email: [email protected] Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Reason Date FR Cite RIN: 2040–AC98 Required: No Withdrawn - No 04/23/01 Further Action Government Levels Affected: State Planned 3626. REVISION TO THE INTERIM ENHANCED SURFACE WATER Sectors Affected: 22131 Water Supply Regulatory Flexibility Analysis TREATMENT RULE (IESWTR) AND and Irrigation Systems Required: No THE STAGE 1 DISINFECTANTS AND Government Levels Affected: None DISINFECTION BYPRODUCTS RULE Agency Contact: Kimberley Roy (DBPR) AND PRIMACY Phone: 202 260-2794 Sectors Affected: 22131 Water Supply REQUIREMENTS Fax: 202 401-2345 and Irrigation Systems Email: [email protected] Agency Contact: James Taft Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Phone: 202 260-5519 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 141; 40 CFR 142 RIN: 2040–AD20
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3628. SHORE PROTECTION ACT, maintenance manual that identifies Timetable: SECTION 4103(B) REGULATIONS procedures to prevent, report, and clean Action Date FR Cite Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant up deposits of waste into coastal waters. Local governments and NPRM 08/30/94 59 FR 44798 Legal Authority: 33 USC 2601 Shore businesses involved with the vessel Final Action 02/00/02 Protection Act of 1988; PL 100-688 transportation and shore side handling Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 4103(b) of these wastes would be affected by Required: No CFR Citation: 40 CFR 237 this rule. Currently no tribes are known to be involved in waste handling of this Small Entities Affected: Businesses, Legal Deadline: None type; therefore none would be affected Governmental Jurisdictions Abstract: This rule will implement the by this rule. In regards to small Government Levels Affected: Local Shore Protection Act (SPA) and is businesses, EPA has provided guidance designed to prevent the deposit of on development of operation and Additional Information: SAN No. 2820 municipal and commercial waste into maintenance manuals and encourages Agency Contact: Steven Giordano, U.S. Coastal Waters. This rule the use and documentation of existing Environmental Protection Agency, establishes minimum waste handling industry practices that meet or exceed Water, 4504F, Washington, DC 20460 practices for vessels and waste the EPA proposed minimum waste Phone: 202 260-6419 handling facilities involved in the handling standards. All indications are Fax: 202 260-9920 transport of municipal or commercial that this regulation as proposed would Email: [email protected] wastes in the coastal waters of the have a minimal economic impact. This United States. The rule may require regulation will result in reduction of RIN: 2040–AB85 certain vessels and waste handling municipal and commercial wastes [FR Doc. 01–10449 Filed 05–11–01; 8:45 am] facilities to develop an operation and deposited in coastal waters. BILLING CODE 6560–50–S
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