50622 Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 163 / Wednesday, August 22, 2012 / Rules and Regulations CROP GROUP 14–12: TREE NUT GROUP—Continued Bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa Michx.) Butternut (Juglans cinerea L.) Cajou nut (Anacardium giganteum Hance ex Engl.) Candlenut (Aleurites moluccanus (L.) Willd.) Cashew (Anacardium occidentale L.) Chestnut (Castanea crenata Siebold & Zucc.; C. dentata (Marshall) Borkh.; C. mollissima Blume; C. sativa Mill.) Chinquapin (Castaneapumila (L.) Mill.) Coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) Coquito nut (Jubaea chilensis (Molina) Baill.) Dika nut (Irvingia gabonensis (Aubry-Lecomte ex O’Rorke) Baill.) Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba L.) Guiana chestnut (Pachira aquatica Aubl.) Hazelnut (Filbert) (Corylus americana Marshall; C. avellana L.; C. californica (A. DC.) Rose; C. chinensis Franch.) Heartnut (Juglans ailantifolia Carrie`re var. cordiformis (Makino) Rehder) Hickory nut (Carya cathayensis Sarg.; C. glabra (Mill.) Sweet; C. laciniosa (F. Michx.) W. P. C. Barton; C. myristiciformis (F. Michx.) Elliott; C. ovata (Mill.) K. Koch; C. tomentosa (Lam.) Nutt.) Japanese horse-chestnut (Aesculus turbinate Blume) Macadamia nut (Macadamia integrifolia Maiden & Betche; M. tetraphylla L.A.S. Johnson) Mongongo nut (Schinziophyton rautanenii (Schinz) Radcl.-Sm.) Monkey-pot (Lecythis pisonis Cambess.) Monkey puzzle nut (Araucaria araucana (Molina) K. Koch) Okari nut (Terminalia kaernbachii Warb.) Pachira nut (Pachira insignis (Sw.) Savigny) Peach palm nut (Bactris gasipaes Kunth var. gasipaes) Pecan (Carya illinoinensis (Wangenh.) K. Koch) Pequi (Caryocar brasiliense Cambess.; C. villosum (Aubl.) Pers; C. nuciferum L.) Pili nut (Canarium ovatum Engl.; C. vulgare Leenh.) Pine nut (Pinus edulis Engelm.; P. koraiensis Siebold & Zucc.; P. sibirica Du Tour; P. pumila (Pall.) Regel; P. gerardiana Wall. ex D. Don; P. monophylla Torr. & Fre´m.; P. quadrifolia Parl. ex Sudw.; P. pinea L.) Pistachio (Pistacia vera L.) Sapucaia nut (Lecythis zabucaja Aubl.) Tropical almond (Terminalia catappa L.) Walnut, black (Juglans nigra L.; J. hindsii Jeps. ex R. E. Sm.; J. microcarpa Berland.) Walnut, English (Juglans regia L.) Yellowhorn (Xanthoceras sorbifolium Bunge) Cultivars, varieties, and/or hybrids of these * * * * * Brockway Glass Container Corporation Publicly available docket materials are [FR Doc. 2012–20667 Filed 8–21–12; 8:45 am] differ significantly from the waste used available either electronically through BILLING CODE 6560–50–P in developing the Land Disposal http://www.regulations.gov or in hard Restrictions treatment standard for copy at the RCRA Docket, EPA/DC, EPA selenium-bearing wastes, and as such West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION cannot be treated to the specified Avenue NW., Washington, DC. The AGENCY treatment level of 5.7 mg/L for Docket Facility is open from 8:30 a.m. selenium, as measured by the Toxicity to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, 40 CFR Part 268 Characteristic Leaching Procedure excluding legal holidays. The telephone [EPA–HQ–RCRA–2010–0851; FRL–9715–3] (TCLP). The site-specific treatment number for the Public Reading Room is variance provides an alternative (202) 566–1744, and the telephone Land Disposal Restrictions: Site- treatment standard of 59 mg/L TCLP for number for the RCRA Docket is (202) Specific Treatment Variance for selenium, with the condition that the 566–0270. A reasonable fee may be Hazardous Selenium-Bearing Waste waste-to-reagent ratio not exceed 1:0.45. charged for copying docket materials. Treated by U.S. Ecology Nevada in DATES: This final rule will be effective FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For Beatty, NV August 22, 2012. more information on this rulemaking, contact Jesse Miller, Materials Recovery AGENCY: Environmental Protection ADDRESSES: EPA has established a and Waste Management Division, Office Agency (EPA). docket for this action under Docket ID of Resource Conservation and Recovery ACTION: Final rule. No. EPA–HQ–RCRA–2010–0851. All documents in the docket are listed on (MC 5304 P), U.S. Environmental SUMMARY: EPA (or the Agency) is the http://www.regulations.gov Web Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania granting a site-specific treatment site. Although listed in the index, some Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460; variance, under the Land Disposal information may not be publicly telephone (703) 308–1180; fax (703) Restrictions program, to U.S. Ecology available, because for example, it may 308–0522; or [email protected]. Nevada in Beatty, Nevada for the be Confidential Business Information SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: treatment of a hazardous selenium- (CBI) or other information, the A. Does this action apply to me? bearing waste generated by the Owens- disclosure of which is restricted by This action applies only to U.S. Ecology Brockway Glass Container Company in statute. Certain material, such as Nevada located in Beatty, Nevada. Vernon, California. The Agency has copyrighted material, is not placed on determined that the chemical properties the Internet and will be publicly B. Table of Contents of the waste generated by the Owens- available only in hard copy form. I. Background VerDate Mar<15>2010 15:22 Aug 21, 2012 Jkt 226001 PO 00000 Frm 00062 Fmt 4700 Sfmt 4700 E:\FR\FM\22AUR1.SGM 22AUR1 wreier-aviles on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with RULES Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 163 / Wednesday, August 22, 2012 / Rules and Regulations 50623 A. Basis for Land Disposal Restrictions difficult to treat than those wastes In 1994, the Agency used performance Treatment Variances evaluated in establishing the treatment data from the stabilization of a mineral B. Basis of the Current Selenium Treatment standard (51 FR 40576, November 7, processing waste, that was Standard 1986) .1 For such wastes, EPA has a II. Basis for Today’s Determination characteristically hazardous (RCRA III. Development of This Variance process by which a generator or treater Hazardous Waste D010), to set the A. U.S. Ecology Nevada Petition may seek a treatment variance (see 40 national treatment standard for B. Notices on Granting a Site Specific CFR 268.44). If granted, the terms of the selenium. At that time, we determined Treatment Variance to USEN variance establish an alternative that this characteristically-hazardous IV. Granting USEN a Site Specific Treatment treatment standard for the particular mineral processing waste represented Variance waste at issue. the most difficult-to-treat selenium V. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews A. Executive Order 12866: Regulatory B. Basis of the Current Selenium waste. This untreated waste contained Planning and Review and Executive Treatment Standard up to 700 ppm total selenium and 3.74 mg/L selenium, as measured by the Order 13563: Improving Regulation and Treatment of selenium poses special Regulatory Review difficulties. In particular, it can be Toxicity Characteristic Leaching B. Paperwork Reduction Act Procedure (TCLP). The resulting post- C. Regulatory Flexibility Act technically challenging to treat wastes containing selenium in combination treatment levels of selenium in the D. Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 TCLP leachate were between 0.154 mg/ E. Executive Order 13132: Federalism with other metals e.g., cadmium, lead F. Executive Order 13175: Consultation and/or chromium because of their L and 1.80 mg/L, which (after and Coordination With Indian Tribal different chemical properties and considering the range of treatment Governments solubility curves (62 FR 26041, May 12, process variability) led to EPA G. Executive Order 13045: Protection of 1997). establishing a national treatment Children From Environmental Health The current treatment standard for a standard of 5.7 mg/L TCLP for D010 Risks and Safety Risks waste exhibiting the toxicity selenium nonwastewaters.3 In the Phase H. Executive Order 13211: Actions IV LDR final rule, the Agency Concerning Regulations That characteristic for selenium (RCRA Significantly Affect Energy Supply, Hazardous Waste D010) is based upon determined that a treatment standard of Distribution, or Use the performance of stabilization on low 5.7 mg/L TCLP, continued to be I. National Technology Transfer and concentration selenium wastes. When appropriate for D010 nonwastewaters Advancement Act the Agency developed the treatment (63 FR 28556, May 26, 1998). The J. Executive Order 12898: Federal Actions standard for selenium, EPA believed Agency also changed the universal To Address Environmental Justice in that wastes containing high treatment standard (UTS) for selenium Minority Populations and Low-Income concentrations of selenium were rarely nonwastewaters from 0.16 mg/L to 5.7 Populations generated and land disposed (59 FR K. Congressional Review Act mg/L TCLP. 47980, September 19, 1994). The I. Background Agency also stated that it believed that, II. Basis for Today’s Determination for most wastes containing high Under 40 CFR 268.44, facilities can A. Basis for Land Disposal Restrictions concentrations of selenium, recovery of apply for a site-specific treatment Treatment Variances the selenium would be feasible using variance in cases where a waste that is Under sections 3004(d) through (g) of recovery technologies currently generated under conditions specific to the Resource Conservation and employed by copper smelters and Recovery Act (RCRA), the land disposal copper refining operations (Id.). The only one site cannot be treated to the of hazardous wastes is prohibited unless Agency further stated in 1994, that it specified LDR treatment standards. In such wastes are able to meet the Land did not