12834 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 42 / Friday, March 5, 2021 / Rules and Regulations 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 271 

[EPA–R06–RCRA–2018–0506; FRL–10019– 

76–Region 6] 

Texas: Final Authorization of State 

Hazardous Waste Management 

Program Revision 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: On November 5, 2020, the 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

published a Proposed Rule to approve a 

revision to the State of Texas hazardous 

waste program under the Resource 

Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) 

and provided for a thirty-day public 

comment period. The public comment 

period closed on December 7, 2020, and 

EPA did not receive adverse comments. 

EPA confirms that the program revisions 

to the State of Texas hazardous waste 

program satisfy all requirements needed 

to qualify for final authorization. No 

further opportunity for comment will be 

provided. 

DATES: This final authorization is 

effective March 5, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: EPA has established a 

docket for this action under Docket ID 

Number EPA–R06–RCRA–2018–0506. 

All documents in the docket are listed 

on the http://www.regulations.gov 

website. Although listed in the index, 

some of the information is not publicly 

available. e.g., Confidential Business 

Information (CBI) or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Certain other material, such as 

copyrighted material, will be publicly 

available only in hard copy form. 

Publicly available docket materials are 

available electronically through http://

www.regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Alima Patterson, EPA Region 6 Regional 

Authorization/Codification Coordinator, 

RCRA Permits & Solid Waste Section 

(LCR–RP), Land, Chemicals and 

Redevelopment Division, EPA Region 6, 

1201 Elm Street, Suite 500, Dallas, 

Texas 75270, phone number: (214) 665– 

8533, email address: patterson.alima@

epa.gov. Out of an abundance of caution 

for members of the public and our staff, 

the EPA Region 6 office will be closed 

to the public to reduce the risk of 

transmitting COVID–19. Please call or 

email the contact listed above if you 

need alternative access to material 

indexed but not provided in the docket. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. What changes to Texas’ hazardous 

waste program is EPA authorizing with 

this action? 

On December 5, 2018, the State of 

Texas submitted a final complete 

program revision application seeking 

authorization of its program revision in 

accordance with 40 CFR 271.21. EPA is 

finalizing its decision that Texas’ 

hazardous waste program revisions 

satisfy all the requirements necessary to 

qualify for final authorization. EPA will 

continue to implement and enforce 

Hazardous and Solid Waste 

Amendments of 1984 (HSWA) 

provisions for which the State is not 

authorized. For a complete list of rules 

that become effective with this Final 

Rule, please see the Proposed Rule 

published in the November 5, 2020, 

Federal Register at 85 FR 70558. 

B. What is codification and is the EPA 

codifying Texas’ hazardous waste 

program as authorized in this rule? 

Codification is the process of placing 

the State’s statutes and regulations that 

comprise the State’s authorized 

hazardous waste program into the Code 

of Federal Regulations (CFR). We do this 

by referencing the authorized State rules 

in 40 CFR part 272. We reserve the 

amendment of 40 CFR part 272 subpart 

SS for this authorization of Texas’ 

program changes until a later date. In 

this authorization application, the EPA 

is not codifying the rules documented in 

the Proposed Rule published in the 

November 5, 2020, Federal Register at 

85 FR 70558. 

C. Administrative Requirements 

This final authorization revises Texas’ 

authorized hazardous waste 

management program pursuant to RCRA 

section 3006 and imposes no 

requirements other than those currently 

imposed by State law. For further 

information on how this authorization 

complies with applicable Executive 

Orders and statutory provisions, please 

see the Proposed Rule published in the 

November 5, 2020, Federal Register at 

85 FR 70558. The Congressional Review 

Act, 5 U.S.C. 801 et seq., as added by 

the Small Business Regulatory 

Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996, 

generally provides that before a rule 

may take effect, the agency 

promulgating the rule must submit a 

rule report, which includes a copy of 

the rule, to each House of the Congress 

and to the Comptroller General of the 

United States. The EPA will submit a 

report containing this document and 

other required information to the U.S. 

Senate, the U.S. House of 

Representatives, and the Comptroller 

General of the United States prior to 

publication in the Federal Register. A 

major rule cannot take effect until 60 

days after it is published in the Federal 

Register. This action is not a ‘‘major 

rule’’ as defined by 5 U.S.C. 804(2). This 

final action is effective March 5, 2021. 

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 271 

Environmental protection, 

Administrative practice and procedure, 

Confidential business information, 

Hazardous waste, Hazardous waste 

transportation, Indian lands, 

Intergovernmental relations, Penalties, 

Reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements. 

Authority: This action is issued under the 

authority of sections 2002(a), 3006, and 

7004(b) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act as 

amended 42 U.S.C. 6912(a), 6926, 6974(b). 

Dated: February 24, 2021. 

David Gray, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region 6. 

[FR Doc. 2021–04353 Filed 3–4–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials 

Safety Administration 

49 CFR Parts 191 and 192 

[Docket No. PHMSA–2018–0046] 

RIN 2137–AF36 

Pipeline Safety: Gas Pipeline 

Regulatory Reform 

AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous 

Materials Safety Administration 

(PHMSA), Department of Transportation 

(DOT). 

ACTION: Final rule; withdrawal of 

enforcement discretion; delay of 

effective date. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

memorandum of January 20, 2021, from 

the Assistant to the President and Chief 

of Staff, titled ‘‘Regulatory Freeze 

Pending Review,’’ PHMSA delays the 

effective date of the final rule, ‘‘Pipeline 

Safety: Gas Pipeline Regulatory 

Reform,’’ until March 21, 2021. PHMSA 

also delays until March 21, 2021, its 

withdrawal of the March 26, 2019, 

‘‘Exercise of Enforcement Discretion 

Regarding Farm Taps’’ and the 

unpublished October 27, 2015, letter to 

the Interstate Natural Gas Association of 

America announcing a stay of 

enforcement pertaining to certain 

pressure vessels. 

DATES: 

Delayed effective date: As of March 5, 

2021, the effective date of the final rule 


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