Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 211 / Wednesday, October 31, 2012 / Notices 65875 

Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern time 

on Tuesday, November 13, 2012. 

Dated: October 23, 2012. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2012–26751 Filed 10–30–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–RCRA–2012–0757, FRL–9748–3] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Part B Permit 

Application, Permit Modifications, and 

Special Permits 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency is planning to submit an 

information collection request (ICR), 

‘‘Part B Permit Application, Permit 

Modifications, and Special Permits’’ 

(EPA ICR No. 1573.13, OMB Control No. 

2050–0009) to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) for review and 

approval in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

3501 et seq.). Before doing so, EPA is 

soliciting public comments on specific 

aspects of the proposed information 

collection as described below. This is a 

proposed extension of the ICR, which is 

currently approved through February 

28, 2013. 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 January 4, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

RCRA–2012–0757, online using 

www.regulations.gov (our preferred 

method), by email to rcradocket@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 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Toshia King, Office of Resource 

Conservation and Recovery, mailcode 

5303P, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: 703–308–7033; fax number: 

703–308–8617; email address: 

king.toshia@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, 

EPA 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, 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. 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, 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: Section 3005 of Subtitle C of 

RCRA requires treatment, storage or 

disposal facilities (TSDFs) to obtain a 

permit. To obtain the permit, the TSDFs 

must submit an application describing 

the facility’s operation. There are two 

parts to the RCRA permit application— 

Part A and Part B. Part A defines the 

processes to be used for treatment, 

storage, and disposal of hazardous 

wastes; the design capacity of such 

processes; and the specific hazardous 

wastes to be handled at the facility. Part 

B requires detailed site specific 

information such as geologic, 

hydrologic, and engineering data. In the 

event that permit modifications are 

proposed by the applicant or EPA, 

modifications must conform to the 

requirements under Sections 3004 and 

3005. 

Form Numbers: None. 

Respondents/affected entities: 

Business or other for-profit; as well as 

State, Local, or Tribal governments. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Mandatory (RCRA 3005). 

Estimated number of respondents: 97. 

Frequency of response: On occasion. 

Total estimated burden: 33,260 

Burden is defined at 5 CFR 1320.03(b). 

Total estimated cost: $7,956,839, 

which includes $2,254,188 annualized 

labor costs and $5,702,651 annualized 

capital or O&M costs. 

Changes in Estimates: The burden 

hours are likely to stay substantially the 

same. 

Dated: October 23, 2012. 

Suzanne Rudzinski, 

Director, Office of Resource Conservation and 

Recovery. 

[FR Doc. 2012–26789 Filed 10–30–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–R09–RCRA–2011–0103; [FRL–9743–7] 

Adequacy of Arizona Municipal Solid 

Waste Landfill Permit Program 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of public hearing and 

continued opportunity to comment. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency Region IX will hold a public 

hearing concerning the agency’s 

tentative determination to approve a 

modification to Arizona’s municipal 

solid waste landfill (MSWLF) permit 

program to allow the State to issue 

research, development, and 

demonstration (RD&D) permits for new 

and existing MSWLF units and lateral 

expansions. EPA published its tentative 

determination on February 22, 2011 and 

offered an opportunity for a public 

hearing. Initially, EPA closed its 

comment period on April 25, 2011 and 

announced it would not hold a public 

hearing. Since that time, in response to 

public interest and updates to Arizona’s 

RD&D permit program, EPA decided to 

hold a public hearing, extend the 

comment period through the date of the 

public hearing, and make available for 

public review the updated information 

submitted by Arizona in support of its 

RD&D program. 


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65876 Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 211 / Wednesday, October 31, 2012 / Notices 

DATES: EPA will hold a public hearing 

on December 18, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. in 

Room 145 on the first floor of the office 

of the Arizona Department of 

Environmental Quality at 1110 West 

Washington Street, Phoenix, Arizona. 

Comments must be received on or 

before December 18, 2012. EPA will 

accept all comments received between 

February 22, 2011 and December 18, 

2012. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R09– 

RCRA–2011–0103 by one of the 

following methods: 

• www.regulations.gov: Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Email: ueno.karen@epa.gov. 

• Fax: (415) 947–3530. 

• Mail: Karen Ueno (WST–7), 

Environmental Protection Agency 

Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San 

Francisco, CA 94105–3901. 

• Hand Delivery: Environmental 

Protection Agency Region IX, 75 

Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 

94105–3901. Such deliveries are only 

accepted during the Docket’s normal 

hours of operation, and special 

arrangements should be made for 

deliveries of boxed information. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

Docket ID No. EPA–R09–RCRA–2011– 

0103. EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the public 

docket without change and may be 

made available online at 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided, unless 

the comment includes information 

claimed to be Confidential Business 

Information (CBI) or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Do not submit information that you 

consider to be CBI or otherwise 

protected through www.regulations.gov 

or email. The www.regulations.gov Web 

site is an ‘‘anonymous access’’ system, 

which means EPA will not know your 

identity or contact information unless 

you provide it in the body of your 

comment. If you send an email 

comment directly to EPA without going 

through www.regulations.gov your email 

address will be automatically captured 

and included as part of the comment 

that is placed in the public docket and 

made available on the Internet. If you 

submit an electronic comment, EPA 

recommends that you include your 

name and other contact information in 

the body of your comment with any disk 

or CD–ROM you submit. If EPA cannot 

read your comment due to technical 

difficulties and cannot contact you for 

clarification, EPA may not be able to 

consider your comment. Electronic files 

should avoid the use of special 

characters, or any form of encryption, 

and be free of any defects or viruses. 

Docket: All documents in the docket 

are listed in the www.regulations.gov 

index. Although listed in the index, 

some information is not publicly 

available, e.g., CBI or other information 

disclosure of which is restricted by 

statute. Certain other materials, such as 

the State’s prior applications for 

MSWLF permit program approval, are 

available only in hard copy. Publicly 

available docket materials are available 

either electronically in 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the Environmental Protection Agency 

Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San 

Francisco, CA 94105–3901. This Docket 

facility is open from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 

p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding 

legal holidays. It is located in a secured 

building. To review docket materials at 

the Docket facility, it is recommended 

that an appointment be made in 

advance by calling the Docket facility at 

(415) 947– 4406 during normal business 

hours. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Karen Ueno, Waste Management 

Division, WST–7, Environmental 

Protection Agency Region IX, 75 

Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 

94105–3901; telephone number: (415) 

972–3317; fax number: (415) 947–3530; 

email address: ueno.karen@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Background 

On March 22, 2004, EPA issued a 

final rule amending the municipal solid 

waste landfill criteria at 40 CFR 258.4 to 

allow for Research, Development, and 

Demonstration (RD&D) permits (69 FR 

13242). This rule allows for variances 

from specified criteria for a limited 

period of time. Specifically, the rule 

allows the Director of an EPA-approved 

State permit program to issue a timelimited RD&D permit for a new MSWLF 

unit, existing MSWLF unit, or lateral 

expansion, for which the owner or 

operator proposes to use innovative and 

new methods which vary from either or 

both of the following: (1) The run-on 

control systems at 40 CFR 258.26, and/ 

or (2) the liquids restrictions at 40 CFR 

258.28(a), provided that the MSWLF 

unit has a leachate collection system 

designed and constructed to maintain 

less than a 30 cm depth of leachate on 

the liner. The rule also allows the 

Director of an EPA-approved State 

permit program to issue a time-limited 

RD&D permit for which the owner or 

operator proposes to use innovative and 

new methods that vary from the final 

cover criteria at 40 CFR 258.60(a) (1) 

and (2), and (b) (1), provided that the 

owner or operator demonstrates that the 

alternative cover system will not 

contaminate groundwater or surface 

water, or cause leachate depth on the 

liner to exceed 30 cm. An RD&D permit 

cannot exceed three years and a renewal 

of an RD&D permit cannot exceed three 

years. Although multiple renewals of an 

RD&D permit can be issued, the total 

term for an RD&D permit including 

renewals cannot exceed twelve years. 

RD&D permits are only available in 

states with EPA-approved MSWLF 

permit programs that have been 

modified to incorporate the RD&D 

permit authority. Although a state is not 

required to seek approval for the RD&D 

permit provision, a state must obtain 

EPA approval before it may issue such 

a permit. Requirements for EPA’s 

determination of a state program’s 

adequacy and the approval procedures 

are contained in 40 CFR Part 239. 

In 1994, EPA Region IX approved the 

State of Arizona’s municipal solid waste 

landfill (MSWLF) permit program 

pursuant to Subtitle D of the federal 

Resource Conservation and Recovery 

Act (RCRA). By application dated June 

28, 2010, updated on January 26, 2011 

and September 27, 2012, the State of 

Arizona is seeking EPA approval for a 

modification to the State’s existing 

MSWLF permit program to include 

RD&D permits. On February 22, 2011, 

EPA published a tentative approval of 

Arizona’s RD&D permit program 

modification. (76 FR 9772). 

Following the close of the public 

hearing and the public comment period, 

and after consideration of comments 

received, EPA will issue a final 

determination. If EPA grants approval, 

Arizona will be able to issue variances 

for run-on control systems, liquid 

restrictions, and final cover criteria to 

allow for innovative and new methods, 

such as bioreactor landfills. The 

approval of the program modification 

will allow the Director of Arizona’s 

program to provide a variance from 

certain MSWLF criteria, provided that 

the MSWLF owner/operator 

demonstrates that compliance with the 

RD&D permit will not increase risk to 

human health and the environment. The 

Director may provide a variance from 

existing requirements of MSWLF 

criteria for run-on control systems, 

liquids restrictions, and final cover. EPA 

is seeking public comment on its 

tentative determination of the adequacy 

of Arizona’s RD&D modification to its 

MSWLF permit program. 


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B. Submitting Comments on EPA’s 

Tentative Determination 

Tips for Preparing Your Comments. 

When submitting comments, remember 

to: 

• Identify the rulemaking by docket 

number and other identifying 

information (subject heading, Federal 

Register date and page number). 

• Follow directions—The agency may 

ask you to respond to specific questions 

or organize comments by referencing a 

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 

or section number. 

• Explain why you agree or disagree; 

suggest alternatives and substitute 

language for your requested changes. 

• Describe any assumptions and 

provide any technical information and/ 

or data that you used. 

• If you estimate potential costs or 

burdens, explain how you arrived at 

your estimate in sufficient detail to 

allow for it to be reproduced. 

• Provide specific examples to 

illustrate your concerns, and suggest 

alternatives. 

• Explain your views as clearly as 

possible, avoiding the use of profanity 

or personal threats. 

• Make sure to submit your 

comments by the comment period 

deadline identified. 

Submitting Confidential Business 

Information (CBI). Do not submit this 

information to EPA through 

www.regulations.gov or email. Clearly 

mark the part or all of the information 

that you claim to be CBI. For CBI 

information in a disk or CD ROM that 

you mail to EPA, mark the outside of the 

disk or CD ROM as CBI and then 

identify electronically within the disk or 

CD ROM the specific information that is 

claimed as CBI. In addition to one 

complete version of the comment that 

includes information claimed as CBI, a 

copy of the comment that does not 

contain the information claimed as CBI 

must be submitted for inclusion in the 

public docket. Information so marked 

will not be disclosed except in 

accordance with procedures set forth in 

40 CFR Part 2. 

Docket Copying Costs. Copying 

arrangements will be made through the 

Docket facility and billed directly to the 

recipient. Copying costs may be waived 

depending on the total number of pages 

copied. 

Authority: Sections 2002, 4005, and 

4010(c) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as 

amended, 42 U.S.C. 6912, 6945, and 6949(a). 

Delegation 8–46. State/Tribal Permit 

Programs for Municipal Solid Waste 

Landfills. 

Dated: October 22, 2012. 

Jared Blumenfeld, 

Regional Administrator, Region IX. 

[FR Doc. 2012–26792 Filed 10–30–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2012–0771; FRL–9366–4] 

Notice of Receipt of Pesticide 

Products; Registration Applications To 

Register New Uses 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces receipt 

of applications to register new uses for 

pesticide products containing currently 

registered active ingredients pursuant to 

the provisions of section 3(c) of the 

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and 

Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended. 

This notice provides the public with an 

opportunity to comment on the 

applications. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before November 30, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–2012–0771 and the 

EPA Registration Number or EPA File 

Symbol of interest as shown in the body 

of this document, by one of the 

following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Do not submit electronically any 

information you consider to be 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. 

• Mail: OPP Docket, Environmental 

Protection Agency Docket Center (EPA/ 

DC), (28221T), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. 

NW., Washington, DC 20460–0001. 

• Hand Delivery: To make special 

arrangements for hand delivery or 

delivery of boxed information, please 

follow the instructions at http://

www.epa.gov/dockets/contacts.htm. 

Additional instructions on 

commenting or visiting the docket, 

along with more information about 

dockets generally, is available at http:// 

www.epa.gov/dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A 

contact person is listed at the end of 

each registration application summary 

and may be contacted by telephone, 

email, or mail. Mail correspondence to 

the Registration Division (RD) (7505P), 

Office of Pesticide Programs, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001. As part of the mailing 

address, include the contact person’s 

name, division, and mail code. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this action apply to me? 

You may be potentially affected by 

this action if you are an agricultural 

producer, food manufacturer, or 

pesticide manufacturer. The following 

list of North American Industrial 

Classification System (NAICS) codes is 

not intended to be exhaustive, but rather 

provides a guide to help readers 

determine whether this document 

applies to them. Potentially affected 

entities may include: 

• Crop production (NAICS code 111). 

• Animal production (NAICS code 

112). 

• Food manufacturing (NAICS code 

311). 

• Pesticide manufacturing (NAICS 

code 32532). 

B. What should I consider as I prepare 

my comments for EPA? 

1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this 

information to EPA through 

regulations.gov or email. Clearly mark 

the part or all of the information that 

you claim to be CBI. For CBI 

information in a disk or CD–ROM that 

you mail to EPA, mark the outside of the 

disk or CD–ROM as CBI and then 

identify electronically within the disk or 

CD–ROM the specific information that 

is claimed as CBI. In addition to one 

complete version of the comment that 

includes information claimed as CBI, a 

copy of the comment that does not 

contain the information claimed as CBI 

must be submitted for inclusion in the 

public docket. Information so marked 

will not be disclosed except in 

accordance with procedures set forth in 

40 CFR part 2. 

2. Tips for Preparing Your Comments. 

When Submitting Comments, remember 

to: 

i. Identify the document by docket ID 

number and other identifying 

information (subject heading, Federal 

Register date and page number). 

ii. Follow directions. The Agency may 

ask you to respond to specific questions 

or organize comments by referencing a 

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 

or section number. 

iii. Explain why you agree or disagree; 

suggest alternatives and substitute 

language for your requested changes. 

iv. Describe any assumptions and 

provide any technical information and/ 

or data that you used. 

v. If you estimate potential costs or 

burdens, explain how you arrived at 


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