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interested persons wanting to examine

these documents should make an

appointment with the appropriate office

at least 24 hours before the visiting day.

Air and Radiation Docket and

Information Center (Air Docket 6102),

U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency, 443, 401 M Street, SW,

Washington DC 20460

Environmental Protection Agency,

Region 4 Air Planning Branch, 61

Forsyth Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30303

Tennessee Department of Environment

and Conservation, Division of Air

Pollution Control, 9th Floor L & C

Annex, 401 Church Street, Nashville,

Tennessee 37243–1531

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

For the Polk County area: Mr. Scott M.

Martin, Regulatory Planning Section,

Air Planning Branch, Air, Pesticides,

and Toxics Management Division,

Region 4 Environmental Protection

Agency, 61 Forsyth Street, Atlanta,

Georgia 30303. The telephone number is

404/562–9036.

For the New Johnsonville area: Mr.

Steven M. Scofield, Regulatory Planning

Section, Air Planning Branch, Air,

Pesticides, and Toxics Management

Division, Region 4 Environmental

Protection Agency, 61 Forsyth Street,

Atlanta, Georgia 30303. The telephone

number is 404/562–9034.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For

additional information see the direct

final rule which is published in the

rules section of this Federal Register.

Dated: October 10, 1997.

A. Stanley Meiburg,

Acting Regional Administrator.

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40 CFR Parts 262 and 263

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Uniform Hazardous Waste Manifest:

Notice of Public Meeting

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA) will hold public meetings

on December 11, 1997 and January 8,

1998 to make information available on

a project underway to revise the

Resource Conservation and Recovery

Act (RCRA) regulations governing

hazardous waste transportation.

ADDRESSES: The first public meeting

will be held on Thursday, December 11,

1997 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the

Hyatt Regency Crystal City at 2799

Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington,

Virginia 22202. The second meeting will

be held on Thursday January 8, 1998 at

the Sheraton Fisherman’s Wharf Hotel

at 2500 Mason Street, San Francisco,

California 94133. A meeting for state

regulators will take place at the above

locations on Wednesday December 10,

1997 and Wednesday, January 7, 1998.

States are also encouraged to attend the

public meetings.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

general information contact the RCRA

Hotline at 800–824–9346 or TDD 800–

553–7672 (hearing impaired). In the

Washington D.C. metropolitan areas,

call 703–412–9810 or TDD 703–412–

3323.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under

RCRA, EPA published regulations

governing hazardous waste

management. A portion of these

regulations cover the movement of

hazardous waste from its site of

generation to a facility that can

appropriately manage the waste.

Specifically, they are the regulations

found at 40 CFR part 262 for packaging,

labeling, marking, and manifesting of

hazardous wastes in preparation for

transport; the regulations found at 40

CFR part 263 which address

transportation (and which are jointly

issued by the Department of

Transportation); the regulations at 40

CFR part 264, Subpart E and 40 CFR

part 265, Subpart E governing the

receipt of waste at Treatment Storage

and Disposal Facilities; and 40 CFR part

271 regarding state program

implementation of the manifest system.

EPA is preparing a rulemaking to

modify the current hazardous waste

manifest system to reduce its burden.

EPA is considering several approaches

to reducing the burden of the Uniform

Hazardous Waste Manifest form and the

manifest system in general. These

include the use of automation to

electronically prepare, transmit, and

store manifests; the use of a streamlined

paper form; easier access to manifestrelated information; and allowing some

current manifest users alternatives to

the traditional tracking system.

The purpose of these public meetings

is to explain the draft rulemaking

strategies the Agency is considering and

to gather information on whether these

strategies ensure that the burden of the

manifest tracking system is minimized

while ensuring the safe movement of

hazardous waste.

The Agency believes that this project

will affect all small quantity generators

and large quantity generators of

hazardous waste. The regulated

community will benefit from public

meetings by having early input into the

regulatory development process. The

Agency will be able to use this early

input to finalize options it will

incorporate into a proposed rulemaking

on the manifest. Such early discussion

will result in more fully developed

options which take into account as

much as possible, the input received

from participants. EPA will answer

questions and will receive informal

input from the regulated community

and from states as to whether the

strategies developed by EPA will result

in burden reduction without

compromising environmental

protection.

EPA will also hold separate meetings

with state hazardous waste regulators to

discuss state implementation of the new

manifest system. State meetings will be

held on the day prior to the public

meetings.

EPA anticipates publishing the

proposed rulemaking in the Fall of 1998

at which time formal comments will be

taken from the public. The RCRA

Hotline will take names and addresses

of those who would like copies of the

materials developed at the meetings.

This document is also available in

electronic format on the Internet. Follow

these instructions to access the

information electronically:

WWW: http://www.epa.gov/osw

FTP: ftp.epa.gov

Login: anonymous

Password: your internet address

Files are located in /OSW/publicate/

htm

Dated: November 17, 1997.

Matthew Hale,

Acting Director, Office of Solid Waste.

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