Document ID: EPA-HQ-TRI-2006-0319-0001
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Acetonitrile Petition; Community Right-to-Know Toxic Chemical Release Reporting; Notice of Data Availability
Posted Date: 2008-03-07T05:00Z

[Federal Register: March 7, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 46)]
[Notices]               
[Page 12410-12411]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-TRI-2006-0319; FRL-8539-7]
RIN 2025-AA19

 
Acetonitrile Petition; Community Right-to-Know Toxic Chemical 
Release Reporting; Notice of Data Availability

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of data availability.

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SUMMARY: The purpose of this action is to solicit public comment on two 
documents developed in response to a petition to remove acetonitrile 
from the list of chemicals subject to reporting under section 313 of 
the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) of 1986, 
commonly referred to as the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI). The two 
documents EPA is making available for public comment are: The TRI 
Technical Review of Acetonitrile and the Acetonitrile External Peer 
Review charge. EPA is also providing the public with access to related 
reference documents.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before April 7, 2008.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
TRI-2006-0319 by one of the following methods:
     www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line instructions for 
submitting comments.
     E-mail: oei.docket@epa.gov.
     Fax: 202-566-9744.
     Mail: OEI Docket, Environmental Protection Agency, 
Mailcode: 2822T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.
     Hand Delivery: EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room 
3334, 1301Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460. 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-HQ-TRI-
2006-0319. 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. 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 e-mail comment 
directly to EPA without going through 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 submit 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 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, any form of 
encryption, and be free of any defects or viruses. For additional 
information about EPA's public docket visit the EPA Docket Center 
homepage at http://www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm. For additional 
instructions on submitting comments, go to Unit III. Public Comments of 
the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
    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 
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 www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at OEI 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 OEI 
Docket is 202-566-1752.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mavis Sanders, Environmental Analysis 
Division (EAD), Office of Information Analysis and Access (OIAA) 
(MC2842T), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone 
number 202-566-0646; fax number: 202-566-0677; or e-mail 
sanders.mavis@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information

 A. Does This Action Apply to Me?

    This document does not make any changes to existing regulations. 
However, you may be interested in this document if you manufacture, 
process, or otherwise use acetonitrile. Potentially interested 
categories and entities may include, but are not limited to the 
following:

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           Category            Examples of potentially affected entities
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Industry.....................  Facilities included in the following
                                NAICS manufacturing codes (corresponding
                                to SIC codes 20 through 39): 311*, 312*,
                                313*, 314*, 315*, 316, 321, 322, 323*,
                                324, 325*, 326*, 327, 331, 332, 333,
                                334*, 335*, 336, 337*, 339*, 111998*,
                                211112*, 212234*, 212235*, 212393*,
                                212399*, 488390*, 511110, 511120,
                                511130, 511140*, 511191, 511199, 511220,
                                512230*, 516110*, 541710*, or 811490*.
                               *Exceptions and/or limitations exist for
                                these NAICS codes.

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                               Facilities included in the following
                                NAICS codes (corresponding to SIC codes
                                other than SIC codes 20 through 39):
                                212111, 212112, 212113 [correspond to
                                SIC 12, Coal Mining (except 1241)]; or
                                212221, 212222, 212231, 212234, 212299
                                [correspond to SIC 10, Metal Mining
                                (except 1011, 1081, and 1094)]; or
                                221111, 221112, 221113, 221119, 221121,
                                221122 (Limited to facilities that
                                combust coal and/or oil for the purpose
                                of generating power for distribution in
                                commerce) (correspond to SIC 4911, 4931,
                                and 4939, Electric Utilities); or
                                424690, 425110, 425120 (Limited to
                                facilities previously classified in SIC
                                5169, Chemicals and Allied Products, Not
                                Elsewhere Classified.); or 424710
                                (corresponds to SIC 5171, Petroleum Bulk
                                Terminals and Plants); or 562112
                                [Limited to facilities primarily engaged
                                in solvent recovery services on a
                                contract or fee basis (previously
                                classified under SIC 7389, Business
                                Services, NEC).]; or 562211, 562212,
                                562213, 562219, 562920 (Limited to
                                facilities regulated under the Resource
                                Conservation and Recovery Act, subtitle
                                C, 42 U.S.C. 6921 et seq.) (correspond
                                to SIC 4953).
Federal Government...........  Federal facilities.
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    This table is not intended to be exhaustive, but rather provides a 
guide for readers regarding entities likely to be interested in this 
document. Some of the entities listed in the table have exemptions and/
or limitations regarding coverage, other types of entities not listed 
in this table may also be interested in this document are those covered 
in 40 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 372, subpart B. If you 
have any questions regarding whether a particular entity is covered by 
this section of the CFR, consult the technical person listed in the FOR 
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section.

B. How Should I Submit CBI to the Agency?

    Do not submit information that you consider to be CBI through 
www.regulations.gov or e-mail. Commenters wishing to submit proprietary 
information for consideration must clearly distinguish such information 
from other comments and clearly label it as CBI. Send submissions 
containing such proprietary information directly to the following 
address only, and not to the public docket, to ensure that proprietary 
information is not inadvertently placed in the docket: Attention: OEI 
Document Control Officer, Mail Code: 2822T, U.S. EPA, 1200 Pennsylvania 
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460. You may claim information that you 
submit to EPA as CBI by marking any part or all of that information as 
CBI (if you submit CBI on disk or CD ROM, 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 CBI). The EPA will disclose 
information claimed as CBI only to the extent allowed by the procedures 
set forth in 40 CFR part 2.
    In addition to one complete version of the comment that includes 
any 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 and EPA's electronic public docket. If you submit 
the copy that does not contain CBI on disk or CD ROM, mark the outside 
of the disk or CD ROM clearly that it does not contain CBI. Information 
not marked as CBI will be included in the public docket and EPA's 
electronic public docket without prior notice. If you have any 
questions about CBI or the procedures for claiming CBI, please consult 
the person identified in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section.

II. What Is the Purpose of This Document?

    On June 28, 2002, Innovene (formerly BP Chemicals Inc.) petitioned 
the Agency to remove acetonitrile (methyl cyanide) from the list of 
chemicals subject to the reporting requirements of EPCRA section 313. 
In response to the petition to delist acetonitrile, EPA has prepared a 
hazard assessment for acetonitrile entitled ``TRI Technical Review of 
Acetonitrile,'' which will shortly be submitted for external peer 
review. This notice provides the public access to EPA's ``TRI Technical 
Review of Acetonitrile'', the acetonitrile petition, related materials, 
peer review charge, and all associated references.

III. Public Comments

    EPA is accepting comments only on the two documents made available 
through this action. These documents are: (1) The TRI Technical Review 
of Acetonitrile and (2) the Acetonitrile External Peer Review charge. 
Comments submitted in response to this notification should be limited 
to the scientific findings in these documents. Comments responding to 
these documents will be made available to the peer reviewers for 
consideration during the external peer review process.
    EPA does not intend to respond to comments unrelated to the two 
documents identified as open for public comment and will not provide 
them to peer reviewers for consideration.

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 372

    Environmental protection, Chemicals, Reporting and recordkeeping 
requirements and Community right-to-know.

    Dated: February 27, 2008.
Michael P. Flynn,
 Director, Office of Information Access and Analysis, Office of 
Environmental Information.
[FR Doc. E8-4572 Filed 3-6-08; 8:45 am]

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