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as part of the state RCRA hazardous 

waste program without altering the 

relationship or the distribution of power 

and responsibilities established by 

RCRA. This action also is not subject to 

Executive Order 13045 (62 FR 19885, 

April 23, 1997), because it is not 

economically significant and it does not 

make decisions based on environmental 

health or safety risks. This action is not 

subject to Executive Order 13211, 

‘‘Actions Concerning Regulations That 

Significantly Affect Energy Supply, 

Distribution, or Use’’ (66 FR 28355, May 

22, 2001), because it is not a significant 

regulatory action under Executive Order 

12866. 

Under RCRA section 3006(b), EPA 

grants a state’s application for 

authorization as long as the state meets 

the criteria required by RCRA. It would 

thus be inconsistent with applicable law 

for EPA, when it reviews a state 

authorization application, to require the 

use of any particular voluntary 

consensus standard in place of another 

standard that otherwise satisfies the 

requirements of RCRA. Thus, the 

requirements of section 12(d) of the 

National Technology Transfer and 

Advancement Act of 1995 (15 U.S.C. 

272 note) do not apply. As required by 

section 3 of Executive Order 12988 (61 

FR 4729, February 7, 1996), in 

proposing this rule, EPA has taken the 

necessary steps to eliminate drafting 

errors and ambiguity, minimize 

potential litigation, and provide a clear 

legal standard for affected conduct. EPA 

has complied with Executive Order 

12630 (53 FR 8859, March 15, 1988) by 

examining the takings implications of 

this action in accordance with the 

‘‘Attorney General’s Supplemental 

Guidelines for the Evaluation of Risk 

and Avoidance of Unanticipated 

Takings’’ issued under the executive 

order. This action does not impose an 

information collection burden under the 

provisions of the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). 

‘‘Burden’’ is defined at 5 CFR 1320.3(b). 

Executive Order 12898 (59 FR 7629, 

February 16, 1994) establishes Federal 

executive policy on environmental 

justice. Its main provision directs 

Federal agencies, to the greatest extent 

practicable and permitted by law, to 

make environmental justice part of their 

mission by identifying and addressing, 

as appropriate, disproportionately high 

and adverse human health or 

environmental effects of their programs, 

policies, and activities on minority 

populations and low-income 

populations in the United States. 

Because this action proposes 

authorization of pre-existing state rules 

which are at least equivalent to, and no 

less stringent than existing Federal 

requirements, and imposes no 

additional requirements beyond those 

imposed by state law, and there are no 

anticipated significant adverse human 

health or environmental effects, this 

proposed rule is not subject to Executive 

Order 12898. 

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 271 

Environmental protection, 

Administrative practice and procedure, 

Confidential business information, 

Hazardous waste, Hazardous waste 

transportation, 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, and 

6974(b). 

Dated: July 10, 2018. 

Onis ‘‘Trey’’ Glenn, III, 

Regional Administrator, Region 4. 

[FR Doc. 2018–17206 Filed 8–10–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 300 

[EPA–HQ–OLEM–2017–0603; FRL–9981– 

49–OLEM] 

Documentation Supporting the 

Proposal of the Orange County North 

Basin Site; Addendum Availability 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule; notice of data 

availability. 

SUMMARY: This notice provides an 

opportunity to comment on additional 

reference documentation for the Orange 

County North Basin site in Orange 

County, California. The site was 

proposed to the National Priorities List 

(NPL) on January 18, 2018. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted 

(postmarked) on or before September 12, 

2018. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket number EPA–HQ– 

OLEM–2017–0603, at https://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Once submitted, comments cannot be 

edited or removed from Regulations.gov. 

The EPA may publish any comment 

received to its public docket. Do not 

submit electronically any information 

you consider to be Confidential 

Business Information (CBI) or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Multimedia 

submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be 

accompanied by a written comment. 

The written comment is considered the 

official comment and should include 

discussion of all points you wish to 

make. The EPA will generally not 

consider comments or comment 

contents located outside of the primary 

submission (i.e., on the web, cloud, or 

other file sharing system). For 

additional submission methods, the full 

EPA public comment policy, 

information about CBI or multimedia 

submissions, and general guidance on 

making effective comments, please visit 

https://www.epa.gov/dockets/ 

commenting-epa-dockets. 

To send a comment via the United 

States Postal Service, use the following 

address: U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, EPA Superfund Docket Center, 

Mailcode 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460. 

Use the Docket Center address below if 

you are using express mail, commercial 

delivery, hand delivery or courier. 

Delivery verification signatures will be 

available only during regular business 

hours: EPA Superfund Docket Center, 

WJC West Building, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20004. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jennifer Wendel, phone: (404) 562– 

8799, email: wendel.jennifer@epa.gov, 

Site Assessment and Remedy Decisions 

Branch, Assessment and Remediation 

Division, Office of Superfund 

Remediation and Technology 

Innovation (Mail Code 5204P), U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20460. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

The site was proposed to the National 

Priorities List (NPL) on January 18, 2018 

(83 FR 2576). 

Site Geological Information 

One commenter questioned the EPA’s 

use of a reference in the HRS 

documentation record (HRS Reference 

110—the 3DVA Technical 

Memorandum) to support aquifer 

interconnection and contaminant 

migration. EPA notes that the reference 

in question is a model, and analysis, of 

the hydrology and geology in the 

vicinity of the Orange County North 

Basin site. The commenter stated that 

the EPA cites to HRS Reference 110 and 

presents conclusions in the HRS 

documentation record based on the 

model in the reference that used well 

borehole and lithology data that was not 


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available to the public to review to 

confirm the reliability of the reference. 

The EPA has examined this issue and 

has decided to provide the relevant 

documentation used to develop the 

content presented in the reference. This 

information includes well logs and 

lithology reports for the wells which 

were used to produce HRS Reference 

110—the 3DVA Technical 

Memorandum. This data will be 

included as one reference to the HRS 

documentation record and the EPA is 

providing this additional document for 

public review and comment. This 

document is available at the Regional 

office in San Francisco, CA. Anyone 

wishing to comment on the information 

in the reference or the impact this data 

may have on the HRS score for the 

proposed Orange County North Basin 

site should do so within the next 30 

calendar days (see DATES section at the 

beginning of this notice). Additional 

comments will not be accepted on other 

HRS scoring issues which could have 

appropriately been raised during the 

original comment period and are not 

based on information provided in these 

additional references. 

Comments should be submitted 

pursuant to instructions in the 

ADDRESSEES section of this notice; they 

may be submitted electronically, by 

mail or by express mail. The docket 

number for this site is EPA–HQ–OLEM– 

2017–0603 and should be identified in 

any correspondence/electronic 

submission. 

Dated: July 16, 2018. 

James E. Woolford, 

Director, Office of Superfund Remediation 

and Technology Innovation. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

50 CFR Part 17 

[Docket No. FWS–R4–ES–2018–0035; 

FXES11130900000C2–189–FF09E42000] 

RIN 1018–BB98 

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife 

and Plants; Proposed Replacement of 

the Regulations for the Nonessential 

Experimental Population of Red 

Wolves in Northeastern North Carolina 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Proposed rule; reopening of 

comment period. 

SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service (Service), are reopening 

the public comment period on our June 

28, 2018, proposed rule to replace the 

existing regulations governing the 

nonessential experimental population 

designation of the red wolf (Canis rufus) 

under section 10(j) of the Endangered 

Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). 

We are reopening the comment period 

to allow the public an additional 

opportunity to review and comment on 

the proposed rule. Comments already 

submitted need not be resubmitted, as 

they will be fully considered in 

preparation of the final rule. 

DATES: The comment period for the 

proposed rule published on June 28, 

2018, at 83 FR 30382 is reopened. We 

will accept comments received or 

postmarked on or before August 28, 

2018. Comments submitted 

electronically using the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal (see ADDRESSES, 

below) must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. 

Eastern Time on the closing date. 

ADDRESSES: Availability of documents: 

The proposed rule is available on http:// 

www.regulations.gov at Docket No. 

FWS–R4–ES–2018–0035 and on our 

website at http://www.fws.gov/Raleigh. 

Comments and materials we receive, as 

well as supporting documentation we 

used in preparing the proposed rule, are 

also available for public inspection at 

http://www.regulations.gov. All 

comments, materials, and 

documentation that we considered in 

the proposed rule are available for 

public inspection, by appointment, 

during normal business hours, at the 

Raleigh Ecological Services Field Office, 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 551F 

Pylon Drive, Raleigh, NC 27606; 

telephone 919–856–4520; facsimile 

919–856–4556. Persons who use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Relay 

Service at 1–800–877–8339. 

Comment submission: You may 

submit written comments on the 

proposed rule by one of the following 

methods: 

(1) Electronically: Go to the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal: http://

www.regulations.gov. In the Search box, 

enter FWS–R4–ES–2018–0035, which is 

the docket number for the rulemaking. 

Then, click on the Search button. On the 

resulting page, in the Search panel on 

the left side of the screen, under the 

Document Type heading, check the 

Proposed Rule box to locate this 

document. You may submit a comment 

by clicking on ‘‘Comment Now!’’ 

(2) By hard copy: Submit by U.S. mail 

or hand-delivery to: Public Comments 

Processing, Attn: FWS–R4–ES–2018– 

0035, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 

MS: BPHC, 5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls 

Church, VA 22041–3803. 

We request that you send comments 

only by the methods described above. 

See Information Requested, below, for 

more information on submitting 

comments on the proposed rule. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Pete 

Benjamin, Field Supervisor, U.S. Fish 

and Wildlife Service, Raleigh Ecological 

Services Field Office, 551F Pylon Drive, 

Raleigh, NC 27606; telephone 919–856– 

4520; facsimile 919–856–4556. Persons 

who use a TDD may call the Federal 

Relay Service at 1–800–877–8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On June 28, 2018, we published in the 

Federal Register a proposed rule (83 FR 

30382) to replace the regulations 

governing the northeast North Carolina 

(NC) nonessential experimental 

population (NEP) of the red wolf, which 

were codified in 1995 in title 50 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) at 

§ 17.84(c) (50 CFR 17.84(c)). That 

proposal had a 30-day comment period, 

ending July 30, 2018. The purpose of the 

proposed action is to incorporate the 

most recent science and lessons learned 

related to the management of red wolves 

to implement revised regulations that 

will better further the conservation of 

the red wolf. We propose to establish a 

more manageable wild propagation 

population that will allow for more 

resources to support the captive 

population component of the red wolf 

program (which is the genetic fail safe 

for the species); serve the future needs 

of new reintroduction efforts; retain the 

influences of natural selection on the 

species; eliminate the regulatory burden 

on private landowners; and provide a 

population for continued scientific 

research on wild red wolf behavior and 

population management. 

Information Requested 

We will accept written comments and 

information during this reopened 

comment period and will consider 

information and recommendations from 

all interested parties. If you previously 

submitted comments or information on 

the proposed rule, please do not 

resubmit them. We have incorporated 

them into the public record, and we will 

fully consider them in the preparation 

of our final determination. We intend 

that any final action resulting from the 

proposal will be based on the best 

scientific and commercial data available 

and be as accurate and as effective as 

possible. 

We request comments or information 

from other concerned governmental 


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