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associated with lung cancer, while
organic HAP emissions from secondary
lead smelting may lead to increases in
cardiovascular disease, as well as
developmental and reproductive effects.
In order to reduce HAP emissions
from secondary lead smelting, the EPA
developed the National Emission
Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants
(NESHAP) for Secondary Lead Smelters,
which were proposed on June 9, 1994
(59 FR 29750) and promulgated on June
23, 1995 (60 FR 32587). In response to
industry petitions to reconsider, the
final rule was amended on June 13,
1997 (62 FR 32209). Entities potentially
affected by this rule are owners or
operators of secondary lead smelters
that operate furnaces to reduce scrap
lead metal and lead compounds to
elemental lead. The rule applies to
secondary lead smelters that use blast,
reverberatory, rotary, or electric
smelting furnaces to recover lead metal
from scrap lead, primarily from used
lead-acid automotive-type batteries. The
rule provides protection to the public by
requiring all secondary lead smelters to
meet emission standards reflecting the
application of the maximum achievable
control technology (MACT). This
information is being collected to assure
compliance with 40 CFR part 63,
subpart X.
Owners or operators of the affected
facilities described must make one-time-
only notifications including:
notification of any physical or
operational change to an existing facility
which may increase the regulated
pollutant emission rate, notification of
the initial performance test, including
information necessary to determine the
conditions of the performance test, and
performance test measurements and
results. All reports are sent to the
delegated State or local authority. In the
event that there is no such delegated
authority, the reports are sent directly to
the EPA Regional Office. Owners or
operators must maintain records of
initial and subsequent compliance tests
for lead compounds, and identify the
date, time, cause and corrective actions
taken for all bag leak detection alarms.
Records of continuous monitoring
devices, including parametric
monitoring, must be maintained and
reported semi-annually. Owners or
operators are also required to maintain
records of the occurrence and duration ,
of any startup, shutdown, or
malfunction in the operation of an
affected facility, or any period during
which the monitoring system is
inoperative. Any owner or operator
subject to the provisions of this part
shall maintain a file of these
measurements, and retain the records
for at least five years following the date
of such measurements and records. At a
minimum, records of the previous two
years must be maintained on site.
Industry and EPA records indicate
that 23 sources are subject to the
standard, and no additional sources are
expected to become subject to the
standard over the next three years. 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. The
Federal Register document required
under 5 CFR 1320.8(d). soliciting
comments on this collection of
information was published on December
2, 1997 (62 FR 63711). No comments
were received.
Burden Statement: The annual public
reporting and recordkeeping burden for
this collection of information is
estimated to average 334 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:
Owners/Operators of secondary lead
smelters.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
23.
Frequency of Response: daily records/
semi-annual reports.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:
16,033 hours.
Estimated Total Annualized Cost
Burden: $150,000.
Send comments on the Agency's need
for this information, the accuracy of the
provided burden estimates, and any
suggested methods for minimizing
respondent burden, including through
the use of automated collection
techniques to the following addresses.
Please refer to EPA ICR No. 1686.03 and
OMB Control No. 2060-0296 in any
correspondence.
Ms. Sandy Farmer, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency. OPPE Regulatory
Information Division (2137). 401 M
Street, SW. Washington, DC 20460;
and
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for
EPA, 725 17th Street, NW,
Washington, DC 20503.
Dated: June 1, 1998.
Joseph Retzer,
Director. Regulatory Information Division.
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BILLING CODE 6560-60-U
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[SWH-FRL-6108-8]
Paper Products Recovered Materials
Advisory Notice II
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency.
ACTION: Notice of availability of
document.
SUMMARY: EPA is providing notice of the
availability of the Paper Products
Recovered Materials Advisory Notice II
(Paper RMANII), which revises EPA's
1996 recommendations for purchasing
specified printing and writing papers
containing postconsumer fiber. Under
section 6002 of the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act, which
establishes a buy-recycled program for
federal agencies, EPA designates items
that are or can be made with recovered
materials and provides
recommendations for government
procurement of these items. Under
Executive Order 12873, Federal
executive agencies are required to
purchase specified printing and writing
papers containing 30% postconsumer
fiber beginning on December 31, 1998.
Paper RMAN II incorporates this 30%
postconsumer fiber content level. This
action will promote paper recycling by
using government purchasing to expand
and maintain markets for recovered
paper.
EFFECTIVE DATE: December 31, 1998.
ADDRESSES: Supporting materials are
available for viewing in the RCRA
Information Center (RIC). located in
Crystal Gateway I, 1235 Jefferson Davis
Highway, First Floor, Arlington,
Virginia. The Docket Identification
Number is F-98-PPRA-FFFFF. The RIC
is open from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm,
Monday through Friday, excluding
federal holidays. To review docket
materials, it is recommended that the
public make an appointment by calling
(703) 603-9230. The public may copy a
maximum of 100 pages from any
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regulatory docket at no charge.
Additional copies cost $0.15 per page.
The supporting materials are also
available electronically. See section III
of the "Supplementary Information"
section for information on accessing the
materials electronically.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
general information, please contact the
RCRA Hotline at (800) 424-9346, TDD
(800) 553-7672 (hearing impaired) or, in
the Washington, DC area at (703) 412-
9810 or TDD (703) 412-3323.
For more detailed information
regarding the recommendations in
today's notice, contact Terry Grist of the
Office of Solid Waste at (703) 308-7257
or at U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (5306W), 401 M Street, S.W.,
Washington, DC 20460.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION :
Preamble Outline
I. Authority
II. Revisions to Purchasing Recommendations
III. Supporting Materials and Accessing
Internet
IV. Use of EPA's Recommendations
Paper Products Recovered Materials
Advisory Notice II
I. Authority
The Paper Products Recovered
Materials Advisory Notice II (Paper
RMANII) is published under authority
of sections 2002 (a) and 6002 of the Solid
Waste Disposal Act, as amended by the
Resource Conservation and Recovery
Act of 1976, as amended, 42 U.S.C.
6912 (a) and 6962, and Executive Order
12873, "Federal Acquisition, Recycling,
and Waste Prevention" (58 FR 54911,
October 22, 1993).
II. Revisions to Purchasing
Recommendations
A. Summary of the Revised Content
Level Recommendations
Today, the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) is publishing
Paper RMAN II, which contains revised
recommendations for procuring
agencies to use when purchasing
specified printing and writing papers in
accordance with section 6002 of the
Resource Conservation and Recovery
Act of 1976 (RCRA) and Executive
Order 12873.
Section 504 of Executive Order 12873
(58 FR 54916, October 22, 1993), as
amended by Executive Order 12995 (61
FR 13645, March 28, 1996) requires
Federal executive agencies to purchase
specified uncoated printing and writing
papers containing postconsumer fiber.
The Executive Order established a 20%
postconsumer content level for these
papers beginning December 31, 1994.
The level increases to 30%
postconsumer fiber beginning December
31, 1998. The specified printing and
writing papers are high speed copier
paper, offset paper, forms bond,
computer printout paper, carbonless
paper, file folders, white wove
envelopes, writing and office paper,
book paper, cotton fiber paper, and text
and cover paper. EPA incorporated the
20% postconsumer content level into its
recommendations for printing and
writing papers in the 1996 Paper
RMAN. See Tables A-la, A-lb, and A-
Ic (61 FR 26991, May 29, 1996).
Today, EPA is revising Tables A-la,
A-lb, and A-lc of the Paper RMAN to
incorporate the 30% postconsumer
content level. EPA is basing its
recommendations, in part, on its
determination, discussed below, that
printing and writing papers with 30%
postconsumer fiber are or will be
available for purchasing by procuring
agencies by December 31, 1998. This
revision will maintain the consistency
between EPA's recommendations and
the Executive Order requirements.
While Federal executive agencies are
not required to purchase paper products
containing 30% postconsumer fiber
until December 31, 1998, EPA
recommends that agencies begin now to
determine their paper performance
needs, research product availability, and
conduct any needed product testing.
In the 1996 Paper RMAN, EPA used
slightly different terminology than that
used in the Executive Order to reflect
the way in which terms are currently
used by paper mills, vendors, and
procuring agencies. The revised Table
A-la uses this same terminology.
B. Product Availability
EPA researched current availability of
the specified printing and writing
papers containing 30% postconsumer
fiber. EPA found that paper companies
either are or plan to manufacture most
of the specified printing and writing
papers with a 30% postconsumer fiber
content. Most of the paper products will
be offered for sale to government
agencies, and most will be available
from the vendors as stock items, rather
than as special order items. In the case
of three products—tablets, file folders.
and papeteries—initial availability of
the product containing 30%
postconsumer fiber may be limited.
Additional information on sources for
each paper product can be found in
EPA's report entitled. "Availability of
Uncoated Printing and Writing Papers
Containing 30 Percent Postconsumer
Fiber." See section HI below for
obtaining copies of this report or for
accessing the report on the internet.
There may be instances in which a
paper product containing 30%
postconsumer fiber is unavailable or
only available at an unreasonable price.
In these instances, procuring agencies
should purchase paper products
containing the highest levels of
postconsumer fiber available, consistent
with the RCRA section 6002
requirement that procuring agencies
purchase paper products containing
postconsumer fiber to the maximum
extent practicable.
HI. Supporting Materials and Accessing
Internet
EPA's research report, "Availability of
Uncoated Printing and Writing Papers
Containing 30 Percent Postconsumer
Fiber," is available in the RCRA
Information Center (RIC) and on the
Internet. The address and telephone
number of the RIC are provided in
ADDRESSES above.
Follow these instructions to access
the information electronically:
WWW: http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/
non-hw/procure.htm
FTP: ftp.epa/gov
Login: anonymous
Password: your Internet address
Files are located in /pub/epaoswer.
IV. Use of EPA's Recommendations
EPA encourages state and local
agencies to use the recommendations in
today's Paper RMAN II when
purchasing paper and paper products.
EPA also encourages private sector
purchasers to use the information
provided by EPA when purchasing
paper and paper products. EPA
recommends that purchasers establish
their minimum content standards at the
highest percentages available to them
that achieve their price and performance
objectives, even if these standards are
higher or lower than EPA's
recommendations. If a product is not
available at a competitive price
containing 30% postconsumer fiber,
purchasers should set their standards at
the highest levels available to them that
meet their price and performance
objectives. In this way, EPA's
recommendations will encourage both
public and private sector purchasers to
purchase paper products containing the
highest levels of postconsumer fiber
practicable.
EPA cautions persons using EPA's
recommendations to use them only for
the specific items for which they were
intended. It is not appropriate to
analogize from one type of printing and
writing paper to another without first
researching the use of postconsumer
fiber in the other item. The two items
could have different performance
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requirements necessitating different
levels of postconsumer fiber.
Dated: June 1, 1998.
Timothy Fields, Jr.,
Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of
Solid Waste and Emergency Response.
Paper Products Recovered Materials
Advisory Notice II
This Paper Products Recovered
Materials Advisory Notice II (Paper
RMANII) revises EPA's 1996
recommendations to procuring agencies
for purchasing paper and paper
products in compliance with section
6002 of the Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act of 1976 (RCRA). These
recommendations replace Tables A-la,
A-lb, and A-lc found in EPA's 1996
Paper RMAN (61 FR 26991, May 29,
1996). The remainder of EPA's 1996
recommendations are unchanged.
Part A—Paper and Paper Products
(Revised)
Section A-l—Printing and Writing
Papers (Revised)
Preference Program: EPA recommends
that procuring agencies establish
minimum content standards expressed
as a percentage of recovered fiber,
including a percentage of postconsumer
fiber. EPA recommends that procuring
agencies base their minimum content
standards for uncoated and coated
printing and writing papers based on
the content levels shown in Tables A-
la, A-lb, and A-lc, respectively. EPA's
revised recommendations are indicated
in Bold type. EPA further recommends
that if a paper product containing 30%
postconsumer fiber is not reasonably
available, then procuring agencies
establish the highest postconsumer fiber
content levels available.
Percentages are based on the fiber
weight of the product. The content
levels in the tables should be read as
X% recovered fiber, including Y%
postconsumer fiber and not as X%
recovered fiber plus Y% postconsumer
fiber. Where the content level is the
same in both columns (e.g., 30% in both
the recovered fiber and postconsumer
fiber columns), this means that EPA is
recommending that agencies establish
identical content levels for both
postconsumer and recovered fiber.
TABLE A-1 A.—RECOMMENDED RECOVERED FIBER CONTENT LEVELS FOR UNCOATED PRINTING AND WRITING PAPERS
Item
Reprographic Paper (e.g., mimeo and duplicator paper, high-speed copier paper, and bond paper*)
Offset Paper (e.g., offset printing paper*, book paper*, bond paper*)
Tablet Paper (e.g., office paper such as note pads, stationery* and other writing* papers)
Forms Bond (e.g., forms, computer printout paper, ledger*) '..
Envelope Paper:
Wove
Kraft White and colored (including manila)
Unbleached
Cotton Fiber Paper (e.g., cotton fiber papers, ledger*, stationery* and matching envelopes, and other writing* pa-
pers)
Text & Cover Paper (e.g., cover stock, book paper*, stationery* and matching envelopes, and other writing*
paper) :
Supercalendered
Machine finish groundwood
Papeteries
Check Safety Paper
Recovered
fiber (%)
30
30
30
10 --20
m
v\
30
m
m
10
Postconsumer
fiber (%)
30
30
on
10. °n
on
1fi
on
10
'These items can be made from a variety of printing and writing papers, depending on the performance characteristics of the item Some of
the papers are a commodity-type and some are specialty papers. EPA recommends that procuring agencies determine the performance charac-
teristics required of the paper prior to establishing minimum content standards. For example, bond, ledger, or stationery made from cotton fiber
paper or a text & cover paper have different characteristics than similar items made from commodity papers.
TABLE A-IB.—RECOMMENDED RECOVERED FIBER CONTENT LEVELS FOR COATED PRINTING AND WRITING PAPERS
Item
Coated Printing Paper
Carbonless
Recovered
fiber (%)
m
Postconsumer
fiber (%)
oil
TABLE A-lc.—RECOMMENDED RECOVERED FIBER CONTENT LEVELS FOR BRISTOLS
Item
File Folders (manila and colored)
Dyed Filing Products
Cards (index, postal, and other, including index sheets)
Pressboard Report Covers and Binders
Tags and Tickets
Recovered
fiber (%)
30
20—50
50
50
20—50
Postconsumer
fiber (%)
Oft
Oft
Oft
20
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BILLING CODE 6560-50-U
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[SWH-FRL-6108-7]
Recovered Materials Advisory Notice I
Update
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency.
ACTION: Notice of availability of
document.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) today is
providing notice of the issuance of an
update to its May 1, 1995 Recovered
Materials Advisory Notice I (RMAN I).
The update to RMAN I (RMAN I
Update) provides guidance to procuring
agencies for purchasing certain items
containing recovered materials. Under
section 6002 of the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976,
EPA designates items that are or can be
made with recovered materials and
provides recommendations for the
procurement of these items. In 1989,
EPA designated building insulation
products and in 1995, EPA designated
polyester carpet for use in low- and
medium-wear applications. EPA's
recommendations for purchasing these
items were published in the 1995
RMAN I. Todays RMAN I Update
contains a new reference to GSA's
carpet schedule and a recommendation
for the recovered materials content level
for plastic batt building insulation.
EPA's 1995 recommendations for
purchasing other types of building
insulation remain unchanged.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
general information contact the RCRA
Hotline at (800) 424-9346 or TDD (800)
553-7672 (hearing impaired). In the
Washington, DC metropolitan area, call
(703) 412-9810 or TDD (703) 412-3323.
For technical information on individual
item recommendations, contact Terry
Grist at (703) 308-7257.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION :
I. Authority
The Recovered Materials Advisory
Notice I Update (RMAN I Update) is
issued under the authority of sections
2002(a) and 6002 of the Solid Waste
Disposal Act, as amended by the
Resource Conservation and Recovery
Act of 1976 (RCRA), as amended; 42
U.S.C. 6912(a) and 2962; and section
502 of Executive Order 12873 (58 FR
54911, October 20, 1993).
II. Background
Section 6002 of RCRA establishes a
- Federal buy-recycled program. RCRA
section 6002 (e) requires EPA to (1)
designate items that are or can be made
with recovered materials and (2) prepare
guidelines to assist procuring agencies
in complying with affirmative
procurement requirements set forth in
paragraphs (c), (d), and (i) of section
6002. Once EPA has designated items,
section 6002 requires that any procuring
agency using appropriated Federal
funds to procure those items must
purchase them composed of the highest
percentage of recovered materials
practicable. For the purposes of RCRA
section 6002, procuring agencies
include the following: (1) any Federal
agency; (2) any State or local agencies
using appropriated Federal funds for a
procurement, or (3) any contractors with
these agencies (with respect to work
performed under the contract). The
requirements of RCRA section 6002
apply to such procuring agencies only
when procuring designated items where
the price of the item exceeds $10,000 or
the quantity of the item purchased in
the previous year exceeded $10,000.
Executive Order 12873 (the Executive
Order) (58 FR 54911, October 22, 1993)
directs EPA to designate items in a
Comprehensive Procurement Guideline
(CPG) and publish guidance that
contains EPA's recommended recovered
content levels for the designated items
in the RMANs. The Executive Order
further directs EPA to update the CPG
annually and the RMANs periodically to
reflect changes in market conditions.
EPA codifies the CPG designations in
the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR),
but, because the recommendations are
guidance, the RMANs are not codified
in the CFR. This process enables EPA to
revise its recommendations in response
to changes in a product's availability or
recovered materials content so as to
provide timely assistance to procuring
agencies in fulfilling their
responsibilities under section 6002.
EPA issued CPG I on May 1, 1995 (60
FR 21370) designating 19 new items,
including polyester carpet, and
published RMAN I for the designated
items on the same day (60 FR 21386).
These notices also consolidated the
guidelines previously issued for five
items designated between 1983 and
1989. including building insulation
products. At the time the 1995 RMAN
I was published, the U.S. General
Services Administration (GSA) offered
polyester carpet containing recovered
materials through the New Item
Introductory Schedule (NHS). RMAN I
referenced that schedule. Since then,
GSA has added polyester carpet
containing recovered materials to its
carpet schedule, and this item is no
longer1 available through the NIIS.
Accordingly, today's RMAN I Update
references the current GSA carpet
schedule.
Additionally, the RMAN I Update
contains an addition to the 1995
recommendations for building
insulation products—recovered
materials content levels for plastic non-
woven batt building insulation. EPA
recently learned that this type of
insulation is now available containing
recovered materials. EPA's 1995
recommendations for other types of
building insulation products remain
unchanged.
III. Accessing Internet
EPA's Comprehensive Procurement
Guidelines and eco-purchasing web
pages contain fact sheets about each
product category in which EPA has
designated recycled content products,
lists of manufacturers and vendors of
these products, copies of the
Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines
and related RMANs, and technical
background documents.
Follow these instructions to access
the information electronically:
WWW: http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/
non-hw/procure.htm.
FTP: ftp.epa.gov
Login: anonymous
Password: your Internet address
Files are located in /pub/epaoswer.
IV. Use of EPA's Recommendations
EPA encourages state and local
agencies to use the recommendations in
today's RMAN I Update when
purchasing plastic batt building
insulation or polyester carpet containing
recovered materials. EPA also
encourages private sector purchasers to
use the information provided by EPA
when purchasing these items. EPA
recommends that purchasers establish
their minimum content standards at the
highest percentages available to them
that achieve their price and performance
objectives, even if these standards are
higher or lower than EPA's
recommendations. If a product is not
available at a competitive price
containing the recommended recovered
material content levels, purchasers
should set their standards at the highest
levels available to them that meet their
price and performance objectives. In
this way, EPA's recommendations will
encourage both public and private
sector purchasers to purchase the
designated items containing the highest
levels of recovered material practicable.
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