Document ID: EPA-HQ-RCRA-2002-0024-0001
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request; 2003 Hazardous Waste Biennial Report, Notice
Posted Date: 2002-08-13T04:00Z

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13,
2002
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Notices
 
Maintaining
or
operating
such
facilities
and
requiring
such
additional
qualifications
as
to
ownership,
continuity
of
operation,
training
for
personnel,
and
financial
responsibility
as
may
be
necessary
or
desirable.
The
regulations
implementing
these
requirements
are
codified
in
the
Code
of
Federal
Regulations
(
CFR)
Title
40,
parts
264
and
265.
The
collection
of
this
information
enables
EPA
to
properly
determine
whether
owners/
operators
or
hazardous
waste
treatment,
storage,
and
disposal
facilities
meet
the
requirements
of
Section
3004(
a)
of
RCRA.
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.
The
OMB
control
numbers
for
EPA's
regulations
are
listed
in
40
CFR
part
9
and
48
CFR
chapter
15.
Burden
Statement:
This
proposed
ICR
is
an
estimate
of
the
total
respondent
burden
for
all
activities
related
to
general
facility
operating
requirements,
record
keeping
requirements,
contingency
plan
and
emergency
reporting
requirements,
releases
from
solid
waste
management
units,
closure/
post­
closure
requirements,
financial
requirements,
corrective
action
management
unit
requirements,
and
conditions
applicable
to
all
permits.
The
total
burden
to
respondents
as
estimated
in
the
proposed
ICR
for
``
General
Facility
Standards
(#
1571.07)''
is
719,059
hours
per
year,
at
a
cost
of
$
45,380,950
per
year.
This
estimate
was
based
on
owners
and
operators
of
hazardous
waste
management
facilities
complying
with
the
information
collection
requirements
set
forth
in
40
CFR
parts
264
and
265,
subparts
B
 
H
and
by
using
an
average
hourly
respondent
labor
cost
(
including
overhead)
of
$
108.00
for
legal
staff,
$
77.00
for
managerial
staff,
$
57.00
for
technical
staff,
and
$
29.00
for
clerical
staff.
EPA
estimates
the
total
number
of
respondents
per
year
to
be
2,724,
which
includes
both
permitted
and
interim
status
facilities.
The
number
of
respondents
varies
depending
upon
the
category
of
each
facility
and
the
required
activity.
The
annual
public
reporting
burden
and
record
keeping
burden
for
this
collection
of
information
is
estimated
to
average
319
hours
per
respondent.
For
general
facility
operating
standards,
there
is
no
associated
reporting.
The
record
keeping
burden
for
general
facility
operating
standards
is
estimated
to
average
119
hours
per
respondent
per
year.
This
estimate
includes
time
for
reading
the
regulations,
preparing
and
submitting
notices,
collecting
and
documenting
waste
analysis
data,
and
developing
a
waste
analysis
plan,
inspection
schedule,
personnel
training
schedule,
and
construction
quality
assurance
plan.
For
operating
record
requirements,
the
record
keeping
burden
is
estimated
to
average
131
hours
per
year.
This
burden
includes
time
to
collect
and
file
information
in
the
operating
record.
There
is
no
associated
reporting
burden
for
these
requirements.
For
contingency
plan
and
emergency
procedure
requirements,
there
is
no
associated
reporting
burden.
The
record
keeping
burden
is
estimated
to
average
one
hour
per
respondent
per
year.
For
requirements
covering
releases
from
solid
waste
management
units,
the
public
reporting
burden
is
estimated
to
average
1
hour
per
respondent
per
year.
This
estimate
includes
time
to
read
the
regulations
and
prepare
and
submit
demonstrations.
There
is
no
associated
record
keeping
burden
for
these
requirements.
For
closure
and
post­
closure
requirements,
the
public
reporting
burden
is
estimated
to
average
45
hours
per
respondent
per
year.
This
estimate
includes
time
to
read
the
regulations;
prepare
and
submit
plans,
notices,
demonstrations,
certifications,
and
records;
and
make
modifications
to
plans.
The
record
keeping
burden
is
estimated
to
average
1
hour
per
respondent
per
year.
For
financial
requirements,
the
public
reporting
burden
is
estimated
to
average
16
hours
per
respondent
per
year.
This
estimate
includes
time
to
read
the
regulations
and
prepare
and
submit
financial
and
liability
assurance
documentation.
There
is
no
associated
record
keeping
burden
for
these
requirements.
For
permit
condition
requirements,
the
public
reporting
burden
is
estimated
to
average
6
hours
per
respondent
per
year.
This
estimate
includes
time
to
read
the
regulations,
and
prepare
and
submit
information
requested
by
EPA,
required
by
the
permit,
or
required
as
a
result
of
an
incident
that
occurs
at
the
facility.
There
is
no
associated
record
keeping
burden
for
these
requirements.
Burden
means
the
total
time,
effort,
or
financial
resources
expended
by
persons
to
generate,
maintain,
retain,
or
disclose
or
provide
information
to
or
for
a
federal
agency.
This
includes
the
time
needed
to
review
instructions;
develop,
acquire,
install,
and
utilize
technology
and
systems
for
the
purposes
of
collecting,
validating,
and
verifying
information,
processing
and
maintaining
information,
and
disclosing
and
providing
information;
adjust
the
existing
ways
to
comply
with
any
previously
applicable
instructions
and
requirements;
train
personnel
to
be
able
to
respond
to
a
collection
of
information;
search
data
sources;
complete
and
review
the
collection
of
information;
and
transmit
or
otherwise
disclose
the
information.

Dated:
August
2,
2002.
Elizabeth
A.
Cotsworth,
Director,
Office
of
Solid
Waste.
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Agency
Information
Collection
Activities:
Proposed
Collection;
Comment
Request;
2003
Hazardous
Waste
(
Biennial)
Report
AGENCY:
Environmental
Protection
Agency
(
EPA).
ACTION:
Notice.

SUMMARY:
We
are
announcing
our
plan
to
submit
the
following
Information
Collection
Request
(
ICR)
to
the
Office
of
Management
and
Budget
(
OMB):
The
2003
Hazardous
Waste
Report,
also
known
as
the
Biennial
Report.
Before
submitting
this
ICR
to
OMB
for
review
and
approval,
we
are
asking
for
comments
on
the
information
collection.

DATES:
Comments
must
be
submitted
on
or
before
October
15,
2002.
ADDRESSES:
EPA,
Office
of
Solid
Waste
(
5302W),
1200
Pennsylvania
Ave.,
NW.,
Washington,
DC
20460.

FOR
FURTHER
INFORMATION
CONTACT:
Robert
Burchard
(
703)
308
 
8450,
fax:
(
703)
308
 
8433,
burchard.
robert@
epa.
gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION:
Affected
entities:
Entities
affected
by
this
action
are
those
which
generate,
treat,
store,
or
dispose
of
hazardous
waste.
Title:
``
The
2003
Hazardous
Waste
Report
(
Biennial
Report)''
EPA
ICR
No.
0976.10,
OMB
Control
No.
2050
 
0024.
This
ICR
renews
an
on­
going
information
collection
from
hazardous
waste
generators
and
treatment,
storage,
or
disposal
facilities.
This
collection
is
done
on
a
two
year
cycle,
and
is
required
by
Sections
3002
and
3004
of
the
Resource
Conservation
and
Recovery
Act
(
RCRA).
The
information
collected
is
collected
via
a
mechanism
known
as
the
Biennial
Report.
The
Biennial
Report
provides
information
on
the
quantities,
type,
and
management
of
hazardous
waste
in
the
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2002
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United
States.
The
Biennial
Report
data
are
used
by
EPA
and
the
states
to
understand
available
capacity
to
treat,
store,
dispose,
and
recycle
hazardous
wastes;
to
provide
information
for
analysis
of
trends
in
waste
generation,
waste
treatment,
recycling,
and
source
reduction;
to
target
facility
inspections;
and
to
understand
how
much
waste
a
state
receives
from
out
of
state
or
sends
out
of
state.
Data
are
collected
from
respondents
and
entered
into
an
electronic
database
by
state
and
EPA
Regions.
States
coordinate
with
EPA
Regions
and
Headquarters
to
supply
EPA
with
the
data.
These
data
are
maintained
in
RCRAInfo,
a
database
residing
on
centrally
managed
servers
at
the
Agency's
National
Computing
Center
(
accessible
through
the
Envirofacts
web
page:
www.
epa.
gov/
enviro).
Once
an
initial
version
of
the
national
database
is
compiled,
EPA
Headquarters
coordinates
a
data
quality
review
with
the
states
and
EPA
Regions.
This
process
identifies
cases
where
the
state
or
Region
may
want
to
confirm
that
data
were
correctly
entered,
and
where
they
should
contact
a
respondent
to
confirm
what
they
reported
and
provide
them
with
the
opportunity
to
submit
an
updated
report
if
the
original
contained
errors.
Following
the
submittal
of
revised
data,
no
further
changes
are
made
to
the
database
and
it
becomes
the
final
version.
For
the
2003
cycle,
we
plan
to
use
most
of
the
2001
Biennial
Report
forms
and
instructions.
There
will
be
some
small
changes
for
2003:
eliminating
the
reporting
of
radioactive
mixed
waste,
clarifying
the
explanations
for
some
of
the
Source
and
Management
codes,
and
providing
better
directions
for
determining
which
North
American
Industrial
Classification
System
(
NAICS)
code
is
appropriate.
We
are
eliminating
radioactive
mixed
waste
because
the
information
is
not
used
by
program
implementers.
We
plan
to
have
the
2003
forms
and
instructions
available
to
the
public
by
the
beginning
of
the
2003
calendar
year.

Burden
Statement
An
agency
may
not
conduct
or
sponsor,
and
a
person
is
not
required
to
respond
to
a
collection
of
information
unless
it
displays
a
valid
OMB
control
number.
The
EPA
solicits
comments
to
help
us:
(
i)
Evaluate
whether
the
information
will
have
practical
utility;
(
ii)
evaluate
the
accuracy
of
the
Agency's
burden
estimate;
(
iii)
find
ways
to
enhance
the
quality
and
utility
of
the
information;
and
(
iv)
minimize
the
burden
of
the
information
collection,
such
as
using
automated
techniques.
Based
on
the
2001
Biennial
Report
ICR,
EPA
estimates
there
will
be
20,300
respondents
to
the
2003
Biennial
Report.
We
also
estimate
that
Biennial
Report
will
impose
an
annual
burden
of
195,200
hours
on
the
states
and
regulated
community
and
require
the
expenditure
of
$
10,260,000.
The
annual
reporting
burden
is
estimated
at
17
hours
per
respondent,
which
includes
time
for
reviewing
instructions,
gathering
data,
completing
and
reviewing
the
forms,
and
submitting
the
report.
The
annual
record
keeping
requirement
is
estimated
at
2.5
hours
per
respondent,
which
includes
the
time
for
filing
and
storing
the
Biennial
Report
submission
for
three
years.
Burden
means
the
total
time,
effort,
or
financial
resources
expended
to
generate,
maintain,
retain,
disclose
or
provide
information.

Dated:
August
6,
2002.
Elizabeth
A.
Cotsworth,
Director,
Office
of
Solid
Waste.
[
FR
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02
 
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8
 
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02;
8:
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am]

BILLING
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6560
 
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ENVIRONMENTAL
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Privacy
Act
of
1974:
System
of
Records,
Creation
of
a
New
Privacy
Act
System
of
Records
AGENCY:
Environmental
Protection
Agency
(
EPA).
ACTION:
Notice
of
establishment
of
a
new
system
of
records.

SUMMARY:
Pursuant
to
the
provisions
of
the
Privacy
Act
of
1974
(
5
U.
S.
C.
552a),
the
Office
of
the
Inspector
General
(
OIG)
is
giving
notice
that
it
proposes
to
establish
a
new
system
of
records,
AutoAudit.
This
system
of
records
is
an
automated
information
tracking
and
storage
system
employed
in
connection
with
OIG
audits,
consulting
services,
and
evaluations
commenced
on
or
after
April
8,
2002.

EFFECTIVE
DATES:
The
proposed
amendments
will
be
effective
without
further
notice
on
September
23,
2002
unless
comments
received
require
a
contrary
determination.
ADDRESSES:
Send
written
comments
to
Gary
Johnson,
Acting
Assistant
Inspector
General
for
Mission
Systems,
Office
of
Inspector
General
(
2441),
1200
Pennsylvania
Ave.,
Washington,
DC
20460.
FOR
FURTHER
INFORMATION
CONTACT:
Gary
Johnson,
Acting
Assistant
Inspector
General
for
Mission
Systems,
on
(
202
566
 
0848).
SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION:
The
OIG,
pursuant
to
the
Privacy
Act
of
1974,
currently
maintains
four
systems
of
records:
(
1)
Investigative
Files
of
the
Office
of
Inspector
General
(
EPA
 
40)
;
(
2)
Personnel
Security
Files
of
the
Office
of
Inspector
General
(
EPA
 
41);
(
3)
Inspector
General's
Operation
and
Reporting
(
IGOR)
System
Audit,
Assignment,
and
Timesheet
Files
(
EPA
 
42);
and
(
4)
Hotline
Files
of
the
Office
of
Inspector
General
(
EPA
 
30).
The
notice
for
the
first
three
systems
of
records
was
published
on
October
1,
2001
(
66
FR
49947).
The
notice
for
the
Hotline
system
of
records
was
published
on
February
22,
2002
(
67
FR
8246).
Section
552a(
e)(
4)
and
(
11)
of
Title
5,
United
States
Code,
provides
that
the
public
be
afforded
a
30­
day
period
in
which
to
comment
on
this
addition
to
OIG's
existing
record
systems.
Additionally,
a
copy
of
this
notice
has
been
submitted
to
the
Committee
on
Government
Reform
of
the
House
of
Representatives,
the
Committee
on
Governmental
Affairs
of
the
Senate,
and
the
Office
of
Management
and
Budget,
pursuant
to
5
U.
S.
C.
552a(
r).
AutoAudit,
OIG's
new
automated
information
tracking
and
storage
system,
is
an
electronic
database
which
organizes
and
contains
assignment
work
papers.
The
software
cross­
references,
indexes,
and
tracks
work
papers
in
a
centralized,
paper­
less
environment.
Records
maintained
in
AutoAudit
primarily
will
be
accessed
by
assignment
number.
In
addition,
records
may
be
accessed
by
reference
to
any
information
entered
into
such
system,
including
name,
alias,
social
security
number,
address,
etc.

EPA
 
50
SYSTEM
NAME:
OIG
AutoAudit
 
EPA/
OIG.

SECURITY
CLASSIFICATION:
None.

SYSTEM
LOCATION:
National
Technology
Service
Division,
Office
of
Technology
Operations
and
Planning,
U.
S.
Environmental
Protection
Agency;
79
Alexander
Drive;
Building
4201,
MD
 
34;
Research
Triangle
Park,
North
Carolina
27711.

CATEGORIES
OF
INDIVIDUALS
COVERED
BY
THE
SYSTEM:
Individuals
covered
by
the
system
include
the
assigned
OIG
auditor
or
evaluator,
the
audit
or
evaluation
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