[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 202 (Friday, October 18, 2024)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 83787-83788]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-23809]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 261

[EPA-R06-RCRA-2024; FRL-12271-01-R6]


Hazardous Waste Management System; Identification and Listing of 
Hazardous Waste

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Final rule.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)is taking final 
action to remove an existing exclusion from the list of Federal 
hazardous waste (delisting) issued to Samsung Austin Semiconductor 
(Samsung) under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. This 
removal of the exclusion is based on correspondence EPA received from 
Samsung on August 22, 2024, in which Samsung indicated that the 
facility has ceased the process creating the delisted waste.

DATES: This rule is effective October 18, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eshala Dixon, RCRA Permits & Solid 
Waste Section (LCR-RP), Land, Chemicals and Redevelopment Division, EPA 
Region 6, 1201 Elm Street, Suite 500, Dallas, TX 75270, phone number: 
214-665-6592; email address: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#ddb9b4a5b2b3f3b8aeb5bcb1bc9db8adbcf3bab2ab"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a5c1ccddcacb8bc0d6cdc4c9c4e5c0d5c48bc2cad3">[email protected]</span></a>.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On October 2, 2017 (70 FR 49187), the 
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) granted a petition submitted by 
Samsung Austin Semiconductor (Samsung) to have the copper filter cake/
copper sludge from the electroplating process excluded, or delisted 
from the definition of a hazardous waste. The copper filter cake/copper 
sludge is listed as F006, wastewater treatment sludges from 
electroplating operations. The basis of the listing is cadmium, 
hexavalent chromium, nickel, and cyanide (complexed). In a 
correspondence dated August 22, 2024, Samsung notified EPA that the 
facility has ceased the electroplating process creating the delisted 
waste. Accordingly, EPA is amending appendix IX of 40 CFR part 261, 
table 1 to remove in its entirety the entry for Samsung Austin 
Semiconductor, Austin TX.
    The changes to appendix IX to part 261 are effective October 18, 
2024. The Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984 amended section 
3010 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) to allow 
rules to become effective in less than six months

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when the regulated community does not need the six-month period to come 
into compliance. As described above, the facility has ceased the 
electroplating process creating copper filter cake/copper sludge waste 
which necessitates the removal of the delisted waste. Therefore, a six-
month delay in the effective date is not necessary in this case. This 
provides the basis for making this amendment effective immediately upon 
publication under the Administrative Procedures Act pursuant to 5 
United States Code (U.S.C.) 553(d). The EPA has determined that having 
a proposed rulemaking and public comment on this change is unnecessary, 
as it involves the removal of a delisted waste.

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 261

    Environmental protection, Hazardous waste, Recycling, Reporting and 
recordkeeping requirements.

    Dated: October 8, 2024.
Helena Healy,
Director, Land, Chemicals and Redevelopment Division, Region 6.

    For the reasons set out in the preamble, 40 CFR part 261 is amended 
as follows:

PART 261--IDENTIFICATION AND LISTING OF HAZARDOUS WASTE

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1. The authority citation for part 261 continues to read as follows:

    Authority:  42 U.S.C. 6905, 6912(a), 6921, 6922, 6924(y) and 
6938.

Appendix IX to Part 21 [Amended]

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2. Amend table 1 of appendix IX to part 261 by removing the entry for 
``Samsung'' for Austin, TX.

[FR Doc. 2024-23809 Filed 10-17-24; 8:45 am]
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