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Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 

20460. 

EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the public 

docket without change including any 

personal information provided, unless 

the comment includes profanity, threats, 

information claimed to be Confidential 

Business Information (CBI) or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Narendra Chaudhari, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; 

telephone number: 703–308–0454; fax 

number: 703–308–0514; email address: 

chaudhari.narendra@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Supporting documents which explain in 

detail the information that the EPA will 

be collecting are available in the public 

docket for this ICR. The docket can be 

viewed online at www.regulations.gov 

or in person at the EPA Docket Center, 

WJC West, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC. 

The telephone number for the Docket 

Center is 202–566–1744. For additional 

information about EPA’s public docket, 

visit http://www.epa.gov/dockets. 

Pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 

the PRA, the EPA is soliciting comments 

and information to enable it to: (i) 

Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the Agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (ii) evaluate the 

accuracy of the Agency’s estimate of the 

burden of the proposed collection of 

information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(iii) enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (iv) minimize the burden 

of the collection of information on those 

who are to respond, including through 

the use of appropriate automated 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g., permitting electronic submission of 

responses. The EPA will consider the 

comments received and amend the ICR 

as appropriate. The final ICR package 

will then be submitted to OMB for 

review and approval. At that time, the 

EPA will issue another Federal Register 

notice to announce the submission of 

the ICR to OMB and the opportunity to 

submit additional comments to OMB. 

Abstract: Under the authority of the 

Resource Conservation and Recovery 

Act of 1976 (RCRA), as amended, 

Congress directed the U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency to 

implement a comprehensive program 

for the safe management of hazardous 

waste. In addition, Congress wrote that 

‘‘[a]ny person may petition the 

Administrator for the promulgation, 

amendment or repeal of any regulation’’ 

under RCRA (section 7004(a)). 

40 CFR parts 260 and 261 contain 

provisions that allow regulated entities 

to apply for petitions, variances, 

exclusions, and exemptions from 

various RCRA requirements. 

The following are some examples of 

information required from petitioners 

under 40 CFR part 260. Under 40 CFR 

260.20(b), all rulemaking petitioners 

must submit basic information with 

their demonstrations, including name, 

address, and statement of interest in the 

proposed action. Under § 260.21, all 

petitioners for equivalent testing or 

analytical methods must include 

specific information in their petitions 

and demonstrate to the satisfaction of 

the Administrator that the proposed 

method is equal to, or superior to, the 

corresponding method in terms of its 

sensitivity, accuracy, and 

reproducibility. Under § 260.22, 

petitions to amend part 261 to exclude 

a waste produced at a particular facility 

(more simply, to delist a waste) must 

meet extensive informational 

requirements. When a petition is 

submitted, the Agency reviews 

materials, deliberates, publishes its 

tentative decision in the Federal 

Register, and requests public comment. 

The EPA also may hold informal public 

hearings (if requested by an interested 

person or at the discretion of the 

Administrator) to hear oral comments 

on its tentative decision. After 

evaluating all comments, the EPA 

publishes its final decision in the 

Federal Register. 

Form numbers: None. 

Respondents/affected entities: 

Business and other for-profit. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Mandatory (RCRA 7004(a)). 

Estimated number of respondents: 

2,603. 

Frequency of response: On occasion. 

Total estimated burden: 485,069 

hours. Burden is defined at 5 CFR 

1320.03(b). 

Total estimated cost: $64,007,121, 

which includes $51,653,044 in 

annualized O&M costs and $12,354,077 

in annualized labor costs. 

Changes in estimates: The burden 

hours are likely to decrease because the 

burden associated with the CCR final 

rule are being moved into a separate 

ICR. 

Dated: July 25, 2018. 

Barnes Johnson, 

Director, Office of Resource Conservation and 

Recovery. 

[FR Doc. 2018–17193 Filed 8–9–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OLEM–2018–0082, FRL–9981–78– 

OLEM] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; National Minimum 

Criteria for Disposal of Coal 

Combustion Residuals From Electric 

Utilities 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is planning to submit the 

information collection request (ICR), 

National Minimum Criteria for Disposal 

of Coal Combustion Residuals from 

Electric Utilities (EPA ICR No. 2571.01, 

OMB Control No. 2050–NEW) to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (PRA). Before doing so, 

the EPA is soliciting public comments 

on specific aspects of the proposed 

information collection as described 

below. The burden associated with this 

ICR was previously covered by the 

Identification, Listing and Rulemaking 

Petitions ICR (EPA ICR No. 1189.26, 

OMB Control No. 2050–0053) and is 

currently approved through November 

30, 2018. An Agency may not conduct 

or sponsor and a person is not required 

to respond to a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before October 9, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OLEM–2018–0082, online using 

www.regulations.gov (our preferred 

method), by email to rcra-docket@

epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket 

Center, Environmental Protection 

Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 

20460. 

EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the public 

docket without change including any 

personal information provided, unless 

the comment includes profanity, threats, 

information claimed to be Confidential 

Business Information (CBI) or other 


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information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kirsten Hillyer, Office of Resource 

Conservation and Recovery (mail code 

5304P), Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 

Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: 703–347–0369; fax number: 

703–308–0514; email address: 

hillyer.kirsten@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Supporting documents which explain in 

detail the information the EPA will be 

collecting are available in the public 

docket for this ICR. The docket can be 

viewed online at www.regulations.gov 

or in person at the EPA Docket Center, 

WJC West, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC. 

The telephone number for the Docket 

Center is 202–566–1744. For additional 

information about EPA’s public docket, 

visit http://www.epa.gov/dockets. 

Pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 

the PRA, the EPA is soliciting comments 

and information to enable it to: (i) 

Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the Agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (ii) evaluate the 

accuracy of the Agency’s estimate of the 

burden of the proposed collection of 

information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(iii) enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (iv) minimize the burden 

of the collection of information on those 

who are to respond, including through 

the use of appropriate automated 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g., permitting electronic submission of 

responses. The EPA will consider the 

comments received and amend the ICR 

as appropriate. The final ICR package 

will then be submitted to OMB for 

review and approval. At that time, the 

EPA will issue another Federal Register 

notice to announce the submission of 

the ICR to OMB and the opportunity to 

submit additional comments to OMB. 

Abstract: On April 17, 2015, the EPA 

published a final rule to regulate the 

disposal of coal combustion residuals 

(CCR) from electric utilities as solid 

waste under Subtitle D of the Resource 

Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) 

(80 FR 21302). EPA established national 

minimum criteria for existing and new 

CCR landfills and CCR surface 

impoundments and all lateral 

expansions to include location 

restrictions, design and operating 

criteria, groundwater monitoring and 

corrective action, closure requirements 

and post-closure care, and 

recordkeeping, notification, and internet 

posting requirements. 

In December 2016, the President 

signed the Water Infrastructure 

Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) 

Act. The WIIN Act amended RCRA 

Subtitle D and established new statutory 

provisions applicable to CCR landfills 

and CCR surface impoundments. In 

particular, the WIIN Act provides that 

states may, but are not required to, 

develop and submit a permit (or other 

system of prior approval) program for 

CCR disposal to EPA for approval. Such 

a program does not have to be identical 

to the requirements in the CCR rule (40 

CFR part 257, subpart D), but must be 

at least as protective as the CCR rule. 

EPA developed an interim final 

guidance document that provides 

information about the provisions of the 

2016 WIIN Act related to CCR as well 

as the process and procedures EPA will 

generally use to review and make 

determinations on state CCR permit 

programs. The release of this interim 

final guidance was announced on 

August 15, 2017 (82 FR 38685), and EPA 

accepted public comment for thirty 

days. 

On June 14, 2016, the U.S. Court of 

Appeals for the District of Columbia 

(D.C. Circuit) ordered a partial vacatur. 

As a consequence of the vacatur, EPA 

published a direct final rule on August 

5, 2016 (81 FR 51802), to remove 40 

CFR 257.100(b), (c), and (d), which 

provided ‘‘early closure’’ provisions for 

certain inactive CCR surface 

impoundments. It also extended 

compliance deadlines for those units. 

On July 17, 2018, EPA signed a rule 

to finalize certain revisions to the 2015 

CCR regulations to: provide states with 

approved CCR permit programs under 

the WIIN Act, or EPA where EPA is the 

permitting authority, the ability to use 

alternate performance standards; to 

revise the groundwater protection 

standard for constituents which do not 

have an established drinking water 

standard (known as a maximum 

contaminant level or MCL); and to 

provide facilities triggered into closure 

additional time to cease receiving waste 

and initiate closure. 

Form Numbers: None. 

Respondents/affected entities: 

Business and other for-profit. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

mandatory 42 U.S.C. 6907(a)(3), 

6912(a)(1), 6944(a); 33 U.S.C. 1345(d) 

and (e). 

Estimated number of respondents: 

534. 

Frequency of response: On occasion. 

Total estimated burden: 358,957 

hours. Burden is defined at 5 CFR 

1320.03(b). 

Total estimated cost: $63,858,128, 

which includes $41,112,513 in 

annualized O&M costs and $22,745,615 

in annualized labor costs. 

Changes in Estimates: The existing 

burden hours have been revised to 

reflect changes in the regulatory 

program realized as a result of the 

August 2016 direct final action, the 

Interim Final Guidance for state CCR 

programs, and the July 2018 final 

amendments to the 2015 CCR rule. The 

burden hours are likely to change 

additionally in the future due to 

ongoing litigation and EPA’s stated 

intention to reconsider additional 

portions of the 2015 rule. Any future 

burden changes will be evaluated once 

those changes are known. 

Dated: July 25, 2018. 

Barnes Johnson, 

Director, Office of Resource Conservation and 

Recovery. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL—9981–72–Region 6] 

Underground Injection Control 

Program; Hazardous Waste Injection 

Restrictions; Petition for Exemption— 

Class I Hazardous Waste Injection; 

Innophos, Inc. Geismar, Louisiana 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of a final decision on a 

UIC no migration petition. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that an 

exemption to the Land Disposal 

Restrictions, under the 1984 Hazardous 

and Solid Waste Amendments to the 

Resource Conservation and Recovery 

Act, has been granted to Innophos for 

two Class I hazardous waste injection 

wells located at their Geismar, 

Louisiana facility. The company has 

adequately demonstrated to the 

satisfaction of the EPA by the petition 

application and supporting 

documentation that, to a reasonable 

degree of certainty, there will be no 

migration of hazardous constituents 

from the injection zone for as long as the 

waste remains hazardous. This final 

decision allows the underground 

injection by Innophos of the specific 

restricted hazardous wastes identified in 

this exemption request, into Class I 

hazardous waste injection wells DW#1 

and DW#2 until July 12, 2048, unless 


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