[Federal Register: September 5, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 172)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[RCRA-2002-0024; FRL-7553-7]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment Request; The 2003 Hazardous Waste Report,
EPA ICR Number 0976.11, OMB Control Number 2050-0024
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501
et seq.), this document announces that an Information Collection
Request
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(ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
for review and approval. This is a request for a renewal of an existing
approved collection. This ICR is scheduled to expire on June 30, 2003.
Under OMB regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or sponsor
the collection of information while this submission is pending at OMB.
This ICR describes the nature of the information collection and its
estimated burden and cost.
DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before October 6,
2003.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number RCRA-
2002-0024, to (1) EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by
e-mail to RCRA-docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket Center,
Environmental Protection Agency, RCRA Docket, Mail Code 5305T, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB at: Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget
(OMB), Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dave Levy, Office of Solid Waste, Mail
Code 5303W, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave.,
NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 703-308-8479; fax number:
703-308-8433; e-mail address: levy.dave@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has submitted the following ICR to OMB
for review and approval according to the procedures prescribed in 5 CFR
1320.12. On March 18, 2003 (68 FR 12902), EPA sought comments on this
ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA has addressed the comments
received.
EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID
No. RCRA-2002-0024, which is available for public viewing at the RCRA
Docket in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room B102, 1301
Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The EPA Docket Center 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 Reading
Room is (202) 566-1744, and the telephone number for the RCRA Docket is
(202) 566-0270. An electronic version of the public docket is available
through EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at http://www.epa.gov/edocket.
Please use EDOCKET to submit or view public comments, access the
index listing of the contents of the public docket, and to access those
documents in the public docket that are available electronically. Once
in the system, select ``search,'' then key in the docket ID number
identified above.
Any comments related to this ICR should be submitted to EPA and OMB
within 30 days of this notice. EPA's policy is that public comments,
whether submitted electronically or in paper, will be made available
for public viewing in EDOCKET as EPA receives them and without change,
unless the comment contains copyrighted material, CBI, or other
information whose public disclosure is restricted by statute. When EPA
identifies a comment containing copyrighted material, EPA will provide
a reference to that material in the version of the comment that is
placed in EDOCKET. The entire printed comment, including the
copyrighted material, will be available in the public docket. Although
identified as an item in the official docket, information claimed as
CBI, or whose disclosure is otherwise restricted by statute, is not
included in the official public docket, and will not be available for
public viewing in EDOCKET. For further information about the electronic
docket, see EPA's Federal Register notice describing the electronic
docket at 67 FR 38102 (May 31, 2002), or go to www.epa.gov/edocket.
Title: The 2003 Hazardous Waste Report.
Abstract: This ICR renews an ongoing information collection from
hazardous waste generators and hazardous waste treatment, storage, or
disposal facilities. This collection is done on a two-year cycle as
required by sections 3002 and 3004 of the Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act (RCRA). The information is collected via a mechanism known
as the Hazardous Waste Report for the required reporting year (EPA Form
8700-13 A/B)(also known as the Biennial Report). Both RCRA sections
3002 and 3004 require EPA to establish standards for recordkeeping and
reporting of hazardous waste. Section 3002 applies to hazardous waste
generators and section 3004 applies to hazardous waste treatment,
storage, and disposal facilities. The implementing regulations are
found at 40 CFR 262.40(b) and (d); 262.41(a)(1)-(5), (a)(8), and (b);
264.75(a)-(e) and (j); 265.75(a)-(e) and (j); and 270.30(l)(9). This is
mandatory reporting by the respondents.
The respondents' submissions (reports) describe each generated
hazardous waste, the activity by which they generated the waste, and
the waste quantity; the reports also list the management method by
which each waste is treated, recycled, or disposed and the quantity
managed. There are a number of uses of Biennial Report data. EPA uses
Biennial Report data for planning and developing regulations,
compliance monitoring, and enforcement. Also, Biennial Report data
allows the Agency to determine whether its regulations are having the
desired effect on the generation and management of hazardous waste. For
example, Biennial Report data provides information on whether waste
management has shifted from one method of disposal to another. Some
State uses of Report data include support of planning, fee assessment,
compliance monitoring, and enforcement.
Some businesses consider some of their hazardous waste information
to be Confidential Business Information (CBI). A business may, if it
desires, protect its Biennial Report information from public disclosure
by asserting a claim of confidentiality covering all or part of its
information. When a claim is made EPA will treat the information in
accordance with the confidentiality regulations in 40 CFR part 2,
subpart B. EPA also ensures that the information collection procedures
comply with the Privacy Act of 1974 and OMB Circular 108.
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 in 40 CFR are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and are identified on
the form and/or instrument, if applicable.
Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average about
19 hours per response. 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.
Respondents/Affected Entities: Those facilities which generate,
treat, store, recycle, or dispose of hazardous waste.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 10,178.
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Frequency of Response: Biennially.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 196,976.
Estimated Total Annual Cost: $10,311,438, includes $0 annualized
capital and $25,336 O&M costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is an increase of 8,352 hours in
the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of
Approved ICR Burdens. This increase is due to several reasons. Based on
reported data for the 2001 Hazardous Waste Report, EPA estimates a
slight increase in the number of respondents, an additional 42; we
estimate the increase in the number of submitted forms to be 15,218.
The completion of the RCRA Subtitle C Site Identification Form will
require an estimated additional 20 minutes. This has resulted in a
minor increase for those manually filling out the forms (resulting in
an approximately one percent annual burden reduction to the regulated
community overall).
Dated: August 12, 2003.
Doreen Sterling,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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