Document ID: EPA-HQ-RCRA-2003-0004-0445
Agency: epa
Document Type: Proposed Rule
Title: Hazardous Waste Management System: Identification and Listing of Hazardous Waste: Conditional Exclusion From Hazardous Waste and Solid Waste for Solvent-Contaminated Industrial Wipes; Extension of Comment Period
Posted Date: 2009-12-15T05:00Z

[Federal Register: December 15, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 239)]
[Proposed Rules]               
[Page 66259-66260]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 261

[RCRA--2003-0004; FRL-9092-6]
RIN 2050-AE51

 
Hazardous Waste Management System: Identification and Listing of 
Hazardous Waste: Conditional Exclusion From Hazardous Waste and Solid 
Waste for Solvent-Contaminated Industrial Wipes; Extension of Comment 
Period

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Data availability; extension of comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is extending the 
comment period for the document entitled ``Conditional Exclusion from 
Hazardous and Solid Waste for Solvent-

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Contaminated Industrial Wipes,'' which appeared in the Federal Register 
on October 27, 2009. The public comment period for this document was to 
close on December 28, 2009. The purpose of this document is to extend 
the comment period for 60 days until February 26, 2010.

DATES: EPA will accept public comments on the Notice of Data 
Availability (NODA) published October 27, 2009 (74 FR 55163), until 
February 26, 2010. Comments submitted after this date will be marked 
``late'' and may not be considered.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
RCRA-2003-0004 by one of the following methods:
     http://www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line 
instructions for submitting comments.
     E-mail: rcra-docket@epa.gov, Attention Docket No. EPA-HQ-
RCRA-2003-0004.
     Fax: 202-566-9744, Attention Docket No. EPA-HQ-RCRA-2003-
0004.
     Mail: Environmental Protection Agency, EPA Docket Center 
(EPA/DC), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Docket, 2822T, 
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460, Attention Docket 
No. EPA-HQ-RCRA-2003-0004. Please include 2 copies.
     Hand Delivery: Public Reading Room, EPA West, Room 3334, 
1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC, Attention Docket No. EPA-
HQ-RCRA-2003-0004. Such deliveries are only accepted during the 
docket's normal hours, and special arrangements should be made for 
deliveries of boxed information.
    Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-RCRA-
2003-0004. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included 
in the public docket without change and may be made available online at 
http://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 send information you 
consider CBI or that is otherwise protected through http://
www.regulations.gov or e-mail. The http://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 e-mail comment direct to EPA without going 
through http://www.regulations.gov, your e-mail 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 
send an electronic comment, EPA recommends that you include your name 
and other contact information in the body of your comment and with any 
disk or CD-ROM you send. If EPA cannot read your comment because of 
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, any form of encryption, and be free of 
any defects or viruses. For more information about EPA's public docket, 
visit the EPA Docket Center homepage at http://www.epa.gov/epahome/
dockets.htm.
    Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the http://
www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some 
information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information 
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such 
as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard copy. 
Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically 
in http://www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the Resource 
Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Docket, EPA/DC, EPA West, Room 
3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The Public Reading 
Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, 
excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the Public Reading 
Room is (202) 566-1744, and the telephone number for the RCRA Docket is 
(202) 566-0270.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Teena Wooten, Office of Resource 
Conservation and Recovery (ORCR), (703) 308-8751, wooten.teena@epa.gov. 
Direct mail inquiries to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 
Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery, (Mailstop 5304P), 1200 
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The subject of this notice is to extend the 
time to comment on a revised risk analysis for solvent contaminated 
wipes. The revised risk analysis was developed in support of a rule 
proposed on November 20, 2003 (68 FR 65586). The revised risk analysis 
and supporting documents are available through http://
www.regulations.gov under docket EPA-HQ-RCRA-2003-0004 and http://
www.epa.gov/epawaste/hazard/wastetypes/wasteid/solvents/wipes.htm.
    On November 20, 2003, EPA proposed to: (1) Conditionally exclude 
from the definition of solid waste industrial wipes contaminated with 
solvent and sent to laundries or dry cleaners for cleaning and reuse 
and (2) conditionally exclude from the definition of hazardous waste 
industrial wipes contaminated with solvent and sent to disposal. The 
proposed rule is available through http://www.regulations.gov under 
docket EPA-HQ-RCRA-0004 and http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/hazard/
wastetypes/wasteid/solvents/wipes.htm.
    The comment period for the NODA was scheduled to close on December 
28, 2009. However, EPA received a request to extend the comment period 
to allow the requester additional time to review the available 
information. In addition, EPA recently updated its contact list used to 
notify stakeholders when Federal Register notices about rulemaking 
activities in the areas of hazardous waste regulations are published. 
Extending the comment period responds to the commenter's request and 
allows recent additions to the contact list time to comment on the 
revised risk analysis. EPA has also received a request for the 
mathematical models and input/output files used to develop the revised 
risk analysis. Although this information is not necessary for review of 
the revised risk analysis, you may obtain a copy of the mathematical 
models and input/output files upon request through the contact listed 
above. EPA also notes that this rule is not subject to any statutory or 
judicial deadlines. We are therefore extending the comment period for 
this NODA until February 26, 2010.

    Dated: December 9, 2009.
Matthew Hale,
Director, Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery.
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