South Carolina Code of Regulations › Chapter 61 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL › Subchapter 61-79 - Hazardous Waste Management Regulations › Part 61-79.264 - STANDARDS FOR OWNERS AND OPERATORS OF HAZARDOUS WASTE TREATMENT, STORAGE, AND DISPOSAL FACILITIES › Subpart FF - Fees for the Electronic Hazardous Waste Manifest Program › Section 61-79.264.FF.1310 - Definitions applicable to this subpart

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 6, June 28, 2024
The following definitions apply to this subpart:
"
Consumer price index"
means
					 the consumer price index for all U.S. cities using the "U.S. city average"
					 area, "all items" and "not seasonally adjusted" numbers calculated by the
					 Bureau of Labor Statistics in the Department of Labor.
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Cross Media Electronic Reporting Rule (CROMERR)
					 costs
" are the sub-category of operations and maintenance costs that are
					 expended by EPA in implementing electronic signature, user registration,
					 identity proofing, and copy of record solutions that meet EPA's electronic
					 reporting regulations as set forth in the CROMERR as codified at 40 CFR part
					 3.
"Electronic manifest submissions"
means
					 manifests that are initiated electronically using the electronic format
					 supported by the e-Manifest system, and that are signed electronically and
					 submitted electronically to the e-Manifest system by facility owners or
					 operators to indicate the receipt or rejection of the wastes identified on the
					 electronic manifest. Electronic manifest submissions include the hybrid or
					 mixed paper/electronic manifests authorized under section 262.24(c)(1).
"EPA program costs"
mean the Agency's
					 intramural and non-information technology extramural costs expended in the
					 design, development and operations of the e-Manifest system, as well as in
					 regulatory development activities supporting e-Manifest, in conducting its
					 capital planning, project management, oversight and outreach activities related
					 to e-Manifest, in conducting economic analyses supporting e-Manifest, and in
					 establishing the System Advisory Board to advise EPA on the system. Depending
					 on the date on which EPA program costs are incurred, these costs may be further
					 classified as either system setup costs or operations and maintenance
					 costs.
"Help desk costs"
mean the costs incurred by
					 EPA or its contractors to operate the e-Manifest Help Desk, which EPA will
					 establish to provide e-Manifest system users with technical assistance and
					 related support activities.
"Indirect costs"
mean costs not captured as
					 marginal costs, system setup costs, or operations and maintenance costs, but
					 that are necessary to capture because of their enabling and supporting nature,
					 and to ensure full cost recovery. Indirect costs include, but are not limited
					 to, such cost items as physical overhead, maintenance, utilities, and rents on
					 land, buildings, or equipment. Indirect costs also include the EPA costs
					 incurred from the participation of EPA offices and upper management personnel
					 outside of the lead program office responsible for implementing the e-Manifest
					 program.
"Manifest submission type
" means the type of
					 manifest submitted to the e-Manifest system for processing, and includes
					 electronic manifest submissions and paper manifest submissions.
"Marginal labor costs"
mean the human labor
					 costs incurred by staff operating the paper manifest processing center in
					 conducting data key entry, quality assurance (QA), scanning, copying, and other
					 manual or clerical functions necessary to process the data from paper manifest
					 submissions into the e-Manifest system's data repository.
"Operations and maintenance costs"
mean all
					 system related costs incurred by EPA or its contractors after the activation of
					 the e-Manifest system. Operations and maintenance costs include the costs of
					 operating the electronic manifest information technology system and data
					 repository, CROMERR costs, help desk costs, EPA program costs incurred after
					 e-Manifest system activation, and the costs of operating the paper manifest
					 processing center, other than the paper processing center's marginal labor
					 costs.
"Paper manifest submissions"
mean submissions
					 to the paper processing center of the e-Manifest system by facility owners or
					 operators, of the data from the designated facility copy of a paper manifest,
					 EPA Form 8700-22, or a paper Continuation Sheet, EPA Form 8700-22A. Such
					 submissions may be made by mailing the paper manifests or continuation sheets,
					 by submitting image files from paper manifests or continuation sheets in
					 accordance with section 264.1311(b), or by submitting both an image file and
					 data file in accordance with the procedures of section 264.1311(c).
"System setup costs"
mean all system related
					 costs, intramural or extramural, incurred by EPA prior to the activation of the
					 e-Manifest system. Components of system setup costs include the procurement
					 costs from procuring the development and testing of the e-Manifest system, and
					 the EPA program costs incurred prior to e-Manifest system activation.