[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 123 (Tuesday, June 25, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32798-32799]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-15887]



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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[SW-FRL-5524-7]


Hazardous Waste Management System; Identification and Listing of 
Hazardous Waste; Public Notice

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of Extension of Delisting Delegation to Regions.

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SUMMARY: On October 10, 1995, the EPA Administrator extended the 
delegation of the hazardous waste delisting authority to EPA's ten 
Regional Offices. As result of this action, delisting petitions which 
require a Federal decision will now be reviewed by the appropriate EPA 
Regional Office instead of EPA Headquarters. This notice provides a 
list of Regional delisting contacts. They should be contacted for 
information about the delisting process and for guidance on submitting 
delisting petitions to EPA Regional Offices.

DATES: The EPA Regions have the authority for providing decisions on 
delisting petitions as of October 10, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: RCRA Hotline, toll free at (800) 424-
9346 or at (703) 412-9810, or Shen-yi Yang, Office of Solid Waste 
(5304W), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M Street SW., 
Washington, D.C. 20460, (703) 308-0437.


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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under Secs. 260.20 and 260.22 of the Code of 
Federal Regulations, facilities may petition the Agency to remove their 
wastes from the hazardous waste management system by excluding them 
from the lists of hazardous wastes contained in Secs. 261.31 and 
261.32. Petitioners must provide sufficient information to EPA to allow 
the Agency to determine that the waste to be excluded does not meet any 
of the criteria under which the waste was listed as a hazardous waste. 
In addition, the Administrator must determine that factors other than 
those for which the waste was listed (including additional 
constituents) would not warrant retaining the waste as a hazardous 
waste. The overall intent of the delisting process is to ease the 
regulatory burden on handlers of listed wastes that may have been 
improperly captured by the broad listing definitions. In addition, the 
delisting process can be used to exclude listed wastes that are 
sufficiently treated so that they no longer pose an adverse threat to 
human health or the environment.
    On October 10, 1995, the Administrator formally extended the 
delegation of the Federal hazardous waste delisting authority to the 
Regional Administrators [Delegation of Authority 8-19]. The Agency 
believes that decentralizing the delisting authority to the Regional 
Administrators would result in more timely responses to delisting 
petitions.
    Under RCRA, States authorized <SUP>1 to administer a delisting 
program in lieu of the federal program also may exclude wastes from 
hazardous waste regulations. Facilities that manage their wastes in 
States with delisting authorization should petition that State for an 
exclusion rather than EPA. Even in unauthorized States, EPA encourages 
petitioners to contact State authorities to determine what procedures 
might be necessary for delisting under State laws.
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    \1\ The following 18 States are authorized to implement the RCRA 
delisting program, including Alabama, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, 
Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, 
Nebraska, North Carolina, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon, South 
Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming. Note that Michigan has only obtained a 
``partial'' delisting authorization for wastes involving closure or 
partial closure activities. Kentucky would soon receive delisting 
authorization (61 FR 18504).
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    Regional delisting decisions will carry the same authority as a 
Headquarters delisting decision. A Regional delisting decision will be 
applicable in all States not currently authorized for delisting, 
regardless of the EPA Region in which they are located. EPA recommends 
that petitioners contact relevant state and EPA Regional Offices to 
determine where the petition should be submitted. The list of Regional 
delisting contacts is provided below:

Regional Delisting Contacts

EPA Region I, Sharon Leitch, John F. Kennedy Bldg., Mail Code CHW, 
Hazardous Waste Unit, Boston, MA 02203, (617) 565-4879
EPA Region II, Ernst Jabouin, 290 Broadway, Hazardous Waste, Facilities 
Branch (22nd Floor), New York, NY 10007, (212) 637-4104
EPA Region III, David Friedman, 841 Chestnut Building, Hazardous Waste, 
Management Division, Mail Code 3HW70, Philadelphia, PA 19107, (215) 
566-3395
EPA Region IV, Alan Farmer, 345 Courtland Street, NE, RCRA Branch, Mail 
Code 4WD-RCRA, Atlanta, GA 30365, (404) 347-3433
EPA Region V, Judy Kleiman, 77 W Jackson Blvd., Waste, Pesticides, and 
Toxics Division, Mail Code HRP-8J, Chicago, IL 60604, (312) 886-1482
EPA Region VI, Bill Gallagher, 1445 Ross Avenue, Oklahoma/Texas 
Section, Mail STOP 6PD-0, Dallas, TX 75202, (214) 665-6775
EPA Region VII, Ken Herstowski, 726 Minnesota Avenue, Air, RCRA, and 
Toxic Division, RCRA Permits and Compliance Branch, Kansas City, KS 
66101, (913) 551-7631
EPA Region VIII, Mike Gansecki, 999 18th Street, Hazardous Waste 
Program, Suite #500, Mail Code 8P2-HW, Denver, CO 80202, (303) 312-6150
EPA Region IX, Paula Bisson, 75 Hawthorne Street, RCRA Permit Section, 
Mail Code H-3-2, San Francisco, CA 94105, (415) 744-2052
EPA Region X, Jamie Sikorski, Linda Liu, 1200 Sixth Avenue, Office of 
Waste and Chemical Management, Mail Code WCM-126, Seattle, WA 98101, 
(206) 553-5153 (Sikorski), (206) 553-1447 (Liu)

    Dated: June 10, 1996.
Michael Shapiro,
Director, Office of Solid Waste.
[FR Doc. 96-15887 Filed 6-24-96; 8:45 am]
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