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EIS No. 950162, FINAL EIS, FRC, CA,

NV, OR, Tuscarora Natural Gas

Pipeline Project, Construction and

Operation, Right-of-Way Grant,

Special-Use-Permit, NPDES Permit

and COE Section 404 Permit, Lassen

County, CA; Washoe and Storey

Counties, NV and Klamath County,

OR, Due: May 29, 1995, Contact: Alisa

Lykens (202) 208–0766.

EIS No. 950163, FINAL EIS, DOE, NAT,

Programmatic Spent Nuclear Fuel

Management and Idaho National

Engineering Laboratory

Environmental Restoration and Waste

Management Programs,

Implementation, Due: May 29, 1995,

Contact: Stan Lichtman (208) 586–

4600.

Amended Notices

EIS No. 950075, DRAFT SUPPLEMENT,

AFS, AK, Bohemia Mountain Timber

Sale, Updated Information concerning

Resolution of Three Appeal Issues

Regarding Harvesting Timber,

Tongass National Forest, Stikine Area,

AK, Due: June 12, 1995, Contact:

David E. Helmick (907) 772–3841.

Published FR 03–17–95—Review

period extended.

Dated: April 25, 1995.

William D. Dickerson,

Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office

of Federal Activities.

[FR Doc. 95–10533 Filed 4–27–95; 8:45 am]

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Notice of Meeting and Request for

Comment on Targeted Legislative

Changes to RCRA

AGENCY: U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency.

ACTION: Notice of meetings/request for

comment.

SUMMARY: As called for in the

President’s plan for ‘‘Reinventing

Environmental Regulation’’, EPA is

seeking to identify a package of targeted

legislative improvements to the

Resource Conservation and Recovery

Act (RCRA). The Agency will consider

the views of all stakeholders and

communicate the results, findings, and

recommendations to Congress by July

15, 1995. EPA is providing an

opportunity for interested individuals to

present their ideas and suggestions for

improving the solid and hazardous

waste system under RCRA. This notice

provides information on the initiative,

solicits input from all interested

individuals, and announces a series of

roundtable meetings that will be open to

the public. A limited number of

individuals will be invited to sit at the

‘‘roundtable’’ to participate in a public,

facilitated dialogue on various issues.

Space will be available for other

members of the public to observe and

comment on the dialogue as well.

DATES: EPA will accept public

comments until June 15, 1995. Both

written and electronic comments must

be submitted on or before this date.

Representatives from a cross-section of

the regulated community,

environmental groups, Environmental

Justice groups, and states will be invited

to participate in roundtable discussions.

At each such meeting, there will be an

opportunity for public comment.

Roundtable Meetings (open to the

public) will be held as follows:

May 10, 1995, 9 a.m. until 4 p.m., Lake

Michigan Room, EPA Regional Office,

77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago,

Illinois

May 25, 1995, 9 a.m. until 4 p.m.,

Sheraton Crown Center Hotel, 15700

J.F.K. Boulevard, Houston, Texas

June 7, 1995, 9 a.m. until 4 p.m., Hyatt

Regency Hotel, 2799 Jefferson Davis

Highway, Arlington, VA 22202

ADDRESSES: Commentors must send an

original and two copies of their

comments referencing docket number

F–95–LRRA–FFFFF to: RCRA

Information Center (5305), U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency, 401

M. Street, S.W., Washington, DC 20460.

Comments also may be submitted

electronically by sending electronic

mail to RCRA-Docket@epamail.epa.gov.

All electronic comments must be

submitted as an ASCII file avoiding the

use of special characters and any form

of encryption. Comments will also be

accepted on 3.5’’ disks in WordPerfect

in 5.1 file format or ASCII file format.

Electronic comments must also be

identified by docket number F–95–

LRRA–FFFFF. Confidential Business

Information (CBI) should not be

submitted through electronic mail.

Public comments and relevant

documents are available for viewing in

the RCRA Information Center (RIC)

located in room M2616, at the EPA

address listed above. The RIC is open

from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through

Friday, excluding Federal holidays. To

review docket materials, the public

must make an appointment by calling

(202) 260–9327. Materials may be

copied for $0.15 per page. Charges

under $25.00 are waived.

Roundtable meetings will be at the

following locations. These meetings are

open to the public. Call Denise Madigan

of JAMS-ENDISPUTE at (202) 942–9180

if you wish to attend, as space may be

limited.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

accessing information electronically, see

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION below.

For further information, contact one

of the following individuals at EPA in

the Office of Solid Waste, RCRA

Legislative Reform Team: David Hockey

at (202) 260–7596, Bob Hall at (202)

260–9355, or Judy Kertcher (202) 260–

4522.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This

Federal Register and other relevant

materials (meeting summaries, public

comments) will be available in

electronic format on the Internet System

through the EPA Public Access Server.

This notice is also available

electronically through INDIANnet,

operated by Americans for Indian

Opportunity. For information and

assistance with using INDIANnet, call

1–605–345–9642.

Paper copies are also available in the

RCRA Docket at the address listed in the

previous section.

This document and the background

package for this initiative signed April

13, 1995 are also available on the EPA’s

Clean-up Information Bulletin Board

(CLU–IN). To access CLU-IN with a

modem of up to 28,800 baud, dial (301)

589–8366. First-time users will be asked

to input some initial registration

information. Next, select ‘‘D’’

(download) from the main menu. Input

the file name ‘‘NOTICE.FR’’ to

download this notice and ‘‘RCRA.REF’’

to download the initiative

announcement and background

package. Follow the on-line instructions

to complete the download. More

information about the download

procedure is located in Bulletin 614; to

read this bulletin type ‘‘B614’’ from the

main menu. For additional help with

these instructions, telephone the CLU–

IN help line at (301)589–8368.

The Federal Register notice, minutes

of the public meetings, and copies of all

comments submitted also will be kept in

paper form. Accordingly, EPA will

transfer all comments received

electronically into printed paper form as

they are received, and will place the

paper copies in the public record which

will also include all comments

submitted directly in writing. The

official public record is the paper record

maintained at the address in ADDRESSES

at the beginning of this notice.

Follow these instructions to access

information electronically:

1. Through Gopher: Go to:

gopher.epa.gov. From the main menu,

choose ‘‘EPA Offices and Regions’’.

Next, choose ‘‘Office of Solid Waste and
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Emergency Response (OSWER)’’. Next,

choose ‘‘Office of Solid Waste’’. Then

choose ‘‘RCRA General/Notice of

Meetings’’.

2. Through FTP: Go to: ftp.epa.gov

Login: Anonymous Password: Your

Internet Address. Files are located in

directories/pub/gopher/OSWRCRA.

3. MOSAIC: Go to: http://

www.epa.gov Choose the EPA Public

Access Gopher. From the main (Gopher)

menu, choose ‘‘EPA Offices and

Regions’’. Next, choose ‘‘Office of Solid

Waste and Emergency Response

(OSWER)’’. Next, choose ‘‘Office of

Solid Waste’’. Then, choose ‘‘RCRA

General/Notice of Meetings’’.

4. Through dial-up access: Dial

(919)558–0335. Choose EPA Public

Access Gopher. From the main (Gopher)

menu, choose ‘‘EPA Offices and

Regions’’. Next, choose ‘‘Office of Solid

Waste and Emergency Response

(OSWER)’’. Next, choose ‘‘Office of

Solid Waste’’. Then choose ‘‘RCRA

General/Notice of Meetings’’.

Background

The Resource Conservation and

Recovery Act has been an enormously

effective tool in achieving a dramatic

transformation in the way that we

manage hazardous waste. RCRA has

allowed the Agency to develop a cradleto-grave system to ensure the protection

of human health and the environment

when generating, transporting, storing,

or disposing of hazardous waste. The

Agency believes that a successful

legislative process to make targeted

changes to RCRA, could make the

statute an even more effective tool in

safely managing our solid and

hazardous waste.

Eleven issue descriptions have been

developed by EPA to serve as a starting

point for discussions to prepare a

package of targeted reforms to RCRA.

Each of these issues, regarding certain

statutory requirements for managing

solid and hazardous waste, has been

previously identified by one or more

stakeholders as an area of concern in

which reforms would be helpful.

EPA will consider all comments

received in developing the legislative

proposal. However, due to the expedited

timeframe, EPA will not prepare formal

responses to all comments and

suggestions placed in the docket.

We caution the reader not to infer any

new EPA policy statements from this

list of issues. These papers are staff

drafts attempting to summarize

stakeholder concerns. The eleven issues

proposed for discussion are:

1. RCRA Permits

For low-risk hazardous waste

management facilities (e.g., storage-only

facilities), the requirement to obtain an

RCRA permit (and to meet associated

management requirements) can in some

cases lead to high administrative costs

while resulting in little or no increased

environmental benefit. Cumbersome

permit requirements can also delay the

transition from less stringent interim

status standards to other, more

appropriate, management standards.

2. Management Requirements

Once a waste is identified as

hazardous, through a listing or by

exhibiting a characteristic, all of the

applicable requirements for the

generator, transporter, and facility

treating, storing, or disposing of the

waste apply. Thus, the regulatory

implications of a decision about

whether a waste is hazardous are ‘‘all or

nothing’’; there is currently no middle

ground. However, it may be possible

that for certain wastes and scenarios the

full hazardous waste management

requirements are not needed; the

application and enforcement of specific,

tailored good management practices

could negate the risk posed for that

waste, and thus the need for a

hazardous waste designation.

3. Listing Determinations

When determining whether to list a

waste as hazardous, the Agency

considers plausible mismanagement

scenarios (e.g., management in an

unlined surface impoundment) in order

to be protective. However, if the waste

in question is currently or can be

managed under enforceable, good

management practices that protect

human health and the environment,

then mismanagement may no longer be

plausible, and full RCRA hazardous

waste requirements may not be

necessary.

4. Prescriptive Requirements

The RCRA requirements governing

certain hazardous wastes can be

prescriptive and may be impractical to

implement in certain situations (e.g.,

radioactive waste mixed with hazardous

waste). In addition, certain RCRA

requirements may be economically

unreasonable to implement, where they

have a major impact on the regulated

entity without a corresponding

environmental benefit (e.g., small

businesses that do not meet the

technical requirements for the small

quantity generator exemption from most

RCRA requirements).

5. Untreated Waste Disposal

The RCRA requirements preventing

the disposal of untreated waste on the

land unless it can be proven that the

waste will not migrate from the unit as

long as the waste remains hazardous

(potentially thousands of years), may

prevent the safe disposal of low-risk

untreated or partially treated waste in

certain land based units (i.e., deep well

injection).

6. Indian Tribal Program Approval

EPA has explicit statutory authority to

authorize states to implement hazardous

and solid waste management programs.

RCRA does not explicitly mention

Indian Tribes in its discussion of

authorization authorities; this omission

has led some to challenge EPA’s

authority to approve qualified Tribal

programs.

7. Land Disposal Restrictions

The land disposal restrictions prevent

the disposal of hazardous waste on the

land until levels of treatment are met

which ensure that short-term and longterm threats to human health and the

environment are minimized. For some

wastes, this provision could be

interpreted to require the treatment of

the waste’s hazardous constituents to

levels below those which the Agency

would consider necessary to protect

human health and the environment.

8. Treatment Requirements

The land disposal restrictions require

the treatment of waste to specified

levels or with a specified technology

before the waste can be dispose on the

land. However, under some

circumstances, the process of treating

certain wastes to meet LDR

requirements may itself pose a greater

risk to human health and the

environment than land disposal or other

alternative management practices.

9. Recycling of Hazardous Waste

Facilities treating or storing a

hazardous waste need to obtain a permit

and comply with all applicable

management standards (e.g., land

disposal restrictions, facility-wide

corrective action, financial assurance).

However, some facilities that recycle

hazardous waste may not pose

significant risks to human health and

the environment or may need less than

full RCRA hazardous waste regulation to

ensure safe handling of waste. The need

to comply with the full panoply of

hazardous waste requirements may

discourage the potential safe recycling

of hazardous wastes. To better

encourage appropriate recycling, certain

of these wastes may not need to be
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defined and regulated as a solid waste

under RCRA.

10. Corrective Action

Under current RCRA requirements,

hazardous wastes from cleanup

activities (e.g., corrective action and

related activities) are subject to the same

permitting, treatment, disposal and

other requirements as newly generated

and managed hazardous waste.

However, many of the requirements for

as-generated hazardous wastes are

inappropriate for soil and groundwater

contaminated with such wastes, and

EPA may lack sufficient authority to

modify these requirements. The

application of full RCRA hazardous

waste requirements to cleanup wastes

may act as a disincentive for cleanup,

eliminate practical and effective

remedies from consideration, deter the

use of innovative technologies, and

result in excessively costly cleanups.

11. Hazardous Waste Manifest

EPA may lack clear statutory

authority to provide flexibility to the

manifest system in order to provide

significant reductions in paper work

burdens.

Principles for Developing the Legislative

Proposal:

In developing the package of targeted

legislative reforms for RCRA, EPA will

be following the principles for

reinventing environmental protection

outlined in the President’s plan:

• Protecting public health and the

environment is an important national

goal, and individuals, businesses and

government must take responsibility for

the impact of their actions.

• Regulation must be designed to

achieve environmental goals in a

manner that minimizes costs to

individuals, businesses, and other levels

of government.

• Environmental regulations must be

performance-based, providing

maximum flexibility in the means of

achieving our environmental goals, but

requiring accountability for the results.

• Preventing pollution, not just

controlling or cleaning it up, is

preferred.

• Market incentives should be used to

achieve environmental goals, whenever

appropriate.

• Environmental regulation should be

based on the best science and

economics, subject to expert and public

scrutiny, and grounded in values

Americans share.

• Government regulations must be

understandable to those who are

affected by them.

• Decisionmaking should be

collaborative, not adversarial, and

decisionmakers must inform and

involve those who must live with the

decisions.

• Federal, state, tribal, and local

governments must work as partners to

achieve common environmental goals,

with nonfederal partners taking the lead

when appropriate.

• No citizen should be subjected to

unjust or disproportionate

environmental impacts.

Dated: April 24, 1995.

Elliott P. Laws,

Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste

and Emergency Response.

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS

COMMISSION

Public Information Collection

Requirement Submitted to Office of

Management and Budget for Review

April 19, 1995.

The Federal Communications

Commission has submitted the

following information collection

requirements to OMB for review and

clearance under the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1980 (44 U.S.C. 3507).

Copies of these submissions may be

purchased from the Commission’s copy

contractor, International Transcription

Service, Inc., 2100 M Street, NW, Suite

140, Washington, DC 20037, (202) 857–

3800. For further information on this

submission contact Dorothy Conway,

Federal Communications Commission,

(202) 418–0217 or via internet at

DConway@FCC.GOV. Persons wishing

to comment on this information

collection should contact Timothy Fain,

Office of Management and Budget,

Room 10214 NEOB, Washington, DC

20503, (202) 395–3561.

OMB Number: 3060–0010.

Title: Ownership Report.

Form No.: FCC 323.

Action: Extension of a currently

approved collection.

Respondents: Businesses or other forprofit.

Frequency of Response: Annually.

Estimated Annual Burden: 10,574

annual responses; 7.166 hours burden

per response; 75,773 hours total annual

burden.

Needs and Uses: Licensees/permitees

of commercial broadcast stations are

required to file ownership reports (FCC

323). The data is used by FCC personnel

to determine if the licensees/permittees

are abiding by FCC’s multiple

ownership rules and are compliance

with the transfer of control provisions,

the alien ownership restrictions and the

CATV-TV cross-ownership prohibitions

set fourth in the Communications Act.

Federal Communications Commission.

William F. Caton,

Acting Secretary.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

[Announcement 528]

National Institute for Occupational

Safety and Health; Cooperative

Agreement Program for Prevention

Center for Occupational Safety and

Health in the Construction Industry

Introduction

The Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (CDC), announces the

availability of fiscal year (FY) 1995

funds for a cooperative agreement to

support a prevention center for

occupational safety and health in the

construction industry. The Public

Health Service (PHS) is committed to

achieving the health promotion and

disease prevention objectives of Healthy

People 2000, a PHS-led national activity

to reduce morbidity and mortality and

improve the quality of life. This

announcement is related to the priority

area of Occupational Safety and Health.

(For ordering a copy of Healthy People

2000, see the Section Where to Obtain

Additional Information.)

Authority

This program is authorized under

Section 20 of the Occupational Safety

and Health Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. 669).

Applicable program regulations are

found in 42 CFR Part 87—National

Institute for Occupational Research and

Demonstration Grants.

Smoke-Free Workplace

The PHS strongly encourages all grant

recipients to provide a smoke-free

workplace and promote the nonuse of

all tobacco products, and Public Law

103–227, the Pro-Children Act of 1994,

prohibits smoking in certain facilities

that receive Federal funds in which

education, library, day care, health care,

and early childhood development

services are provided to children.