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April 26, 1999
Environmental Protection Agency
April 1999 Agenda Of
Regulatory And Deregulatory
Actions
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
40 CFR Ch. I
[FRL-6238-S]
April 1999 Agenda of Regulatory and
Deregulatory Actions
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency. • "
ACTION: Semiannual regulatory agenda.
SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) publishes the Semiannual
Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory
Actions to update the public about our:
• Regulations currently under
development,
• Reviews of existing regulations, and
• Rulemakings completed or canceled
since the last Agenda.
EPA believes that, if the people affected
by rules take part in developing them,
we will produce rules that are clearer,
less burdensome, and more effective.
TO BE PLACED ON THE AGENDA MAILING
LIST: If you would like to receive copies
of future Agendas, please call 1-
800/490-9198. There is no charge for the
Agenda.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: We
welcome your comments and
suggestions. If you have questions or
comments about a particular rule, please
get in" touch with the agency contact
listed for that rule. If you have general
comments dr Questions about the EPA's
rulemaking process, please direct therh
to: Philip Schwartz (2136),
Environmental Protection Agency, 401
M Street'SW., Washington, DC 20460;
phone: (202) 260-5493, fax: (202) 260-
5478, e-mail: Schwartz.Philip@epa.gov.
You can also get daily, updated
information on current EPA
rulemakings from our Internet site on
environmental regulations. This site
includes the text of proposed and final
environmental rules issued by the EPA
and by other agencies. It also includes
an electronic version of this Agenda.
The site is at http://www.epa.gov/
epahome/rules.html and is part of EPA's
large agencywide Internet site that we
invite you to visit at
http://www.epa.gov.
We expect that the EPA web site will
be an increasingly important means of
communication between EPA and the
public. We inaugurated this site about 4
years ago, and it has more than 100,000
documents and files currently available
on-line.
Table of Contents
Supplementary Information:
The Rulemaking Process
EPA's Regulatory Philosophy and
Priorities
Impacts on Small Entities
What Actions Are Included in the
Agenda?
How Is the Agenda Organized?
What Information Is in Agenda Entries?
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
The Rulemaking Process
Congress has created a number of
requirements that agencies must meet
when they issue regulations. These
requirements are designed to support
the creation of quality regulations and
protect the rights of people affected by
agencies' rules. These requirements are
contained in the Administrative
Procedure Act, the Regulatory
Flexibility Act as amended by the Small
Business Regulatory Enforcement
Fairness Act, the Unfunded Mandates
Reform Act, the Paperwork Reduction
Act, the National Technology Transfer
and Advancement Act, and the
Congressional Review Act. You can find
information on many of these statutes at
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/.
President Clinton has also ordered
that we meet a number of requirements
when we issue regulations. Of particular
significance for EPA rulemakings are
Executive Orders 12866 (Regulatory
Planning and Review), 12875
(Enhancing the Intergovernmental
Partnership), 13045 (Children's Health
Protection), and 13084 (Consultation
and Coordination with Indian Tribal
Governments). You can find information
on Executive orders at
http://library.whitehouse.gov/.
We encourage you to take part in the
rulemaking process to make your views
known and help us craft rules that:
• Protect human health,
• Preserve and enhance the
environment, and
• Meet environmental goals without
being unnecessarily burdensome.
In addition to contacting the expert
responsible for developing a particular
rule, you also can comment on proposed
rules that we publish in the Federal
Register. Once we have proposed a rule,
we Will consider your comments and
address them before issuing a final rule.
To be most effective, comments should
contain information and data which
support your position, and you should
explain why we should incorporate
your suggestion in the final rule. You
can be particularly helpful and
persuasive if you provide examples to
illustrate your concerns and offer
specific alternatives.
The Agenda also includes some of our
more important guidance documents.
While these documents are not legally
binding on EPA or outside parties, they
will guide our thinking in major policy
areas. We invite you to take part in
developing these documents.
EPA's Regulatory Philosophy and
Priorities
Since EPA's creation, the Nation
made great headway in cleaning up the
air, water, and land. But as the next
century approaches, we are finding that
many of the remaining problems are
more complex than those of the past,
and they require more sophisticated
remedies. Because of this, EPA has
reexamined its current public health
and environmental strategies to better
meet the challenges of today and the
future. And because this effort comes at
the same time the President and Vice
President are calling for a Government
that works better and costs less, EPA has
had an unprecedented opportunity to
develop tough, new protections that not
only solve today's difficult problems but
do so in cheaper and smarter ways.
EPA's efforts to develop a system that
works better and costs less are focused
on five areas:
1. Greater public access to information,
2. More regulatory flexibility to obtain
better results,
3. Stronger partnerships with States and
industries,
4. More compliance assistance, and
5. Less paperwork and red tape.
We are pursuing these through every
•possible means, internally and
externally, and we can already see
results.
Internally, EPA has streamlined its
management, restructured programs,
and given EPA employees broader
responsibilities. For example, enforcers
are emphasizing compliance assistance,
permitters are paying more attention to
pollution prevention and market
mechanisms, and rule writers are
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developing public health and
environmental protections that include
alternatives proposed by regulated
entities. These are innovative
alternatives that are less costly but
ivhich s^ill meet environmental and
public health protection goals.
i! Externally, EPA brings together
Stakeholders from businesses. State and
IpcaJ governments, tribal governments,
ind labor and public interest groups.
The goal is to assure that all interested
parties can take part in the design of
innovative, less costly approaches to
environmental and public health
protection. This stakeholder
Involvement fosters mpre creative
;: Splutions, promotes local stewardship,
;l!""1'hcf1 helps establish and strengthen
jSartherships between the public and
:; private sectors—all without sacrificing
invlrqrWiehtal or public health
T'prtiectSh. As compliance with today's
Environmental laws comes to be
regarded as a "floor to maintain" rather
than a "gelling to be reached," EPA is
differing incentives that encourage
facilities to go beyond the minimum
Requirements and continuously improve
environmental performance.
As EPA develops this innovative
l^gulatory system, we will increase our
focus on protecting the health of
children, taking into account their
unique characteristics and
vulnerabilities. Under President
Clinton's Executive order, EPA will
evaluate children's environmental
liealth for economically significant
regulations, further, as a matter of
policy. EPA will also assess potential
i'Jsks, to children for regulations that are
not economically significant. Following
an inclusive public process. EPA's
Children's Health Protection Advisory
Committee has recommended to the
Administrator five existing regulations
for reevaluation to ensure that they
sufficiently protect children's health.
Impacts on Small Entities
Regulatory Flexibility Act
Considerations
The Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA)
as ameficied by the Small Business
Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act
(SBREFA) requires that we pay
particular attention to the impact of
regulations on small entities (i.e., small
businesses, small governmental
jurisdictions, and small nonprofit
ffganizatlons). The RFA/SBREFA
pplles to rules we are now developing
and requires us to:
1. Convene a Small Business Advocacy
Review (SBAR) Panel prior to
proposing any rule with the potential
to impose a significant economic
impact on a substantial number of
, small entities (RFA section 609).
SBREFA also established the EPA's
Small Business Advocacy Chair who
chairs each SBAR Panel. A SBAR
Panel has four members: The Chair,
the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the
Small Business Administration, the
Administrator of the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs
within the Office of Management and
Budget, and a senior manager from
the EPA program office responsible
for the subject rule. In the case of
rules requiring a SBAR Panel, the
Agency's small entity outreach prior
to the convening of a Panel
culminates in the development of a
summary document that contains
information on the potential impact of
a proposed rule on small entities, and
particularly on the issues referenced
in RFA section 609. This summary
then serves as the basis for convening
the Panel. The Panel then conducts its
review, carries out its own small
entity outreach, and prepares a final
report based on the comments from
the small entity representatives and
the Panel's deliberations. The Panel's
final report is provided to the EPA
Administrator and is made a part of
the rulemaking record. Rules listed in
the first appendix at the end of the
Agenda may require Small Business
Advocacy Review Panels.
2. At the proposed and final rule stages
of rule development, the Agency must
prepare a regulatory flexibility
analysis for any rule subject to notice
and comment rulemaking
requirements (RFA sections 603 and
604), unless the Administrator
certifies that the rule will not have a
"significant economic impact on a
substantial number of small entities"
(RFA section 605). A regulatory
flexibility analysis must, among other
items specified in the RFA, identify
the extent to which small entities will
be subject to the rule's requirements
and describe any significant
alternatives to the rule that
accomplish the objectives of
applicable statutes and which
minimize any significant economic
impacts on small entities. We have
listed in the first index at the end of
the Agenda all rules under
development that may require a
regulatory flexibility analysis.
3. RFA section 610 requires that an
agency review within 10 years of
promulgation those regulations that
have or will have a significant
economic impact on a substantial
n'Umber of small entities. We
undertake these reviews to decide
whether we should continue the rule
unchanged, amend it, or withdraw it.
We announce our forthcoming 610
reviews in the "Prerule" section of the
Agenda. We encourage small entities
to provide comments on the need to
change these rules. We will consider
all of your comments as we decide
whether to continue, amend, or
withdraw these rules. We particularly
encourage comments by small entities
about how rules could be made
clearer, more effective, or remove
conflicting or overlapping
requirements with other Federal or
State regulations. Please direct your
comments to the contact person listed
in the Agenda entry. If you have
general questions about our 610
review program or suggestions for
other rules we should review under
section 610, please contact Philip
Schwartz (2136), Environmental
Protection Agency, 401 M Street SW.,
Washington, DC 20460; fax: (202) 260-
5478, e-mail:
schwartz.philip@epa.gov.
Rules under Development Expected To
Have Some Impact on Small Entities,
but Not a Significant Impact on a
Substantial Number
In the "Small Entities Affected"
section, we indicate whether we expect
an action will have an impact on small
businesses, governments, or nonprofit
organizations, but one which is less
than a significant impact on a
substantial number. In the second index
at the end of the Agenda, we list all
actions that we believe will not have a
significant impact on a substantial
number of small entities but which will
have some impact on small entities.
What Actions Are Included in the
Agenda?
EPA includes regulations and certain
major policy documents in the Agenda.
We do not generally include minor
amendments or the following categories
of actions in the Agenda:
• Under the Clean Air Act: Revisions to
State Implementation Plans;
Equivalent Methods for Ambient Air
Quality Monitoring; Deletions from
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the New Source Performance
Standards source categories list;
Delegations of Authority to States;
Area Designations for Air Quality
Planning Purposes.
• Under the Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act:
Actions regarding pesticide tolerances
and food additive regulations;
decision documents defining and
establishing registration standards;
decision documents and termination
decisions for the Special Review
Registration process; and data call-in
requests made under section
3(c)(2)(B).
• Under the Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act: Authorization of State
solid waste management plans;
hazardous waste delisting petitions.
• Under the Clean Water Act: State
Water Quality Standards; Deletions
from the section 307 (a) list of toxic
pollutants; Suspensions of toxic
testing requirements under the
National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System (NPDES);
Delegations of NPDES authority to
States.
• Under the Safe Drinking Water Act:
Actions on State underground
injection control programs.
The Office of Management and Budget
has exempted most of these actions from
the Executive Order 12866 review
procedures. There is no legal
significance to the omission of an item
from the Agenda.
How Is the Agenda Organized?
In accordance with E.O. 12866, we
publish the EPA Agenda of Regulatory
and Deregulatory Actions in April and
October of each year as part of the
Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory
and Deregulatory Actions.
We have organized the Agenda:
• First, by the law that would authorize
a particular regulation;
• Second, by the current stage of
development (proposal, final, etc.);
and
• Third, by the section number of the
statute which requires or authorizes
the rule.
The following 13 sections deal with
12 laws that EPA administers and a
thirteenth broader section called
"General" that includes cross-cutting
actions, such as rules authorized by
multiple statutes and general
acquisition rules:
1. General
2. The Clean Air Act (CAA)
3. The Atomic Energy Act (AEA)
4. The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide,
and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
5. The Toxic Substances Control Act
(TSCA)
6. The Emergency Planning and
Community Right-to-Know Act
(EPCRA)
7. The Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act (RCRA)
8. The Oil Pollution Act (OPA)
9. The Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and
Liability Act Superfund (CERCLA)
10. The Clean Water Act (CWA)
11. The Safe Drinking Water Act
(SDWA)
12. The Marine Protection, Research,
and Sanctuaries Act (MPRSA)
13. The Shore Protection Act (SPA)
In each of these 13 sections, there are
up to 5 headings covering the following
stages of rulemaking:
1. Prerulemakings—Prerulemaking
actions are intended to determine
whether EPA should initiate
rulemaking. Prerulemakings may
include anything that influences or
leads to rulemaking, such as advance
notices of proposed rulemaking
(ANPRMs), significant studies or
analyses of the possible need for
regulator/ action, announcement of
reviews of existing regulations
required by section 610 of the
Regulatory Flexibility Act, requests
for public comment on the need for
regulatory action, or important
preregulatory policy proposals.
2. Proposed Rules—This section
includes EPA rulemaking actions that
are within a year of proposal
(publication of Notices of Proposed
Rulemakings (NPRMs)).
3. Final Rules—This section includes
rules that: are within a year of final
promulgation.
4. Long-Term Actions—This section
includes rulemakings for which the
next scheduled regulatory action is
after March 2000.
5. Completed Actions—This section
contains actions that have been
promulgated and published in the
Federal Register since publication of
the October 1998 Agenda. It also
includes actions that we are no longer
considering. If an action appears in
the completed section, it will not
appear in future Agendas unless we
decide to initiate action again, in
which case it will appear as a new
entry. EPA also announces the results
of our Regultory Flexibility Act
section 610 reviews in this section of
the Agenda.
What Information Is in Agenda Entries?
Agenda entries include the following
information, where applicable:
Sequence Number. This indicates where
the entry appears in the Agenda.
Title: Titles for new entries (those that
haven't appeared in previous Agendas)
are preceded by a bullet ("•"). The
notation "Section 610 Review" follows
the title if we are reviewing the rule as
part of our periodic review of existing
rules under section 610 of the
Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C.
610).
Priority. Entries are placed into one of
five categories described below.
Economically Significant: As defined
in Executive Order 12866, a
rulemaking action that will have an
annual effect on the economy of $100
million or more or will adversely
affect in a material way the economy,
a sector of the economy, productivity,
competition, jobs, the environment,
public health or safety, or State, local,
or tribal governments or communities.
OMB reviews all economically
significant rules under E.O. 12866.
Other Significant: A rulemaking that
is not economically significant but is
considered significant by the agency.
This category includes rules that are
an EPA priority and rules that EPA
anticipates will be reviewed by the
Office of Management and Budget
under E.O. 12866 because they are
likely to:
• create a serious inconsistency or
otherwise interfere with an action
taken or planned by another agency;
• materially alter the budgetary
impact of entitlements, grants, user
fees, or loan programs or the rights
or obligations of recipients; or
• raise novel legal or policy issues.
Substantive, Nonsignificant: A
rulemaking that has substantive
impacts but is neither Significant, nor
Routine and Frequent, nor
Informational/Administrative/Other.
Routine and Frequent: A rulemaking
that is a specific case of a multiple
recurring application of a regulatory
program in the Code of Federal
Regulations and that does not alter the
body of the regulation.
Informational/Administrative/Other:
A rulemaking that is primarily
informational or pertains to agency
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matters not central to accomplishing
the agency's regulatory mandate but
that the agency places in the Agenda
to inform the public of the activity.
Also, if we believe that a rule may be
"major" as defined in the congressional
review provisions of the Small Business
Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act
(SBREFA) (5 U.S.C. 804; Pub. L. 104-
121) because it is likely to result in an
annual effect on the economy of $100
million or more or meets other criteria
specified in this law, we indicate this
under the "Priority" heading with the
statement "Major under 5 U.S.C. 801."
Legal Authority, The sections of the
United States Code (U.S.C.), Public Law
(P.L.), Executive Order (E.O.), or
common name of the law that
authorizes the regulatory action.
CFR Citation; The sections of the Code
of Federal Regulations that will be
affected by the action.
Legal Deadline: An indication of
whether the rule is subject to a statutory
or judicial deadline, the date of that
deadline, and whether the deadline
pertains to a Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking, a Final Action, or some
other action.
Abstract. A brief description of the
problem the regulation will address; the
need for a Federal solution; to the extent
available, the alternatives that the
agency is considering to address the
problem; and the potential advantages
and disadvantages of the action.
Timetable: The dates (and citations) that
documents for this action were
published in the Federal Register and,
where possible, a projected date for the
next step. Projected publication dates
frequently change during the course of
a rule development. The projections in
the Agenda are our best estimates as of
the date we submit the Agenda for
publication. For some entries, the
timetable indicates that the date of the
next action is "to be determined." Dates
in 2000 or later are printed in the same
form as other dates, using the last two
digits of the year.
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Indicates whether EPA has
prepared or anticipates that it will be
preparing a regulatory flexibility
analysis under section 603 or 604 of the
Regulatory Flexibility Act. Generally,
such an analysis is required for
proposed or final rules that EPA
believes may have a significant
economic impact on a substantial
number of small entities.
Small Entities Affected: Indicates which
small entities (businesses, governmental
jurisdictions, or organizations), if any,
may be affected by the rule.
General—Proposed Rule Stage
Government Levels Affected: Indicates
whether the rule is expected to affect
levels of government and, if so, whether
the governments are State, local, tribal,
or Federal.
Unfunded Mandates: Section 202 of the
Unfunded Mandates Reform Act
requires an assessment of anticipated
costs and benefits if a rule includes a
mandate that may result in expenditures
of more than $100 million in any 1 year
by State, local, and tribal governments,
in the aggregate, or by the private sector.
If we expect to exceed the section 202
threshold, we note that in this section.
Reinventing Government. If an action is
part of the President's Reinventing
Government Initiative, we indicate it in
this section.
Agency Contact. The name, address,
phone number, and e-mail address, if
available, of a person who is
knowledgeable about the regulation.
SAN Number. A code number that EPA
uses to identify and track rulemakings.
RIN: The Regulatory Identifier Number
is a code number that OMB uses to
identify and track rulemakings.
The April 1999 EPA Agenda follows.
Dated: March 10, 1999.
Robert Wolcott,
Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of
Policy.
Sequence
Number
3166
3167
3168
3169
3170
3171
3172
3173
3174
3175
3176
3177
3178
Title
SAN No. 4056 Utilization of Small, Minority and Women's Business Enterprises in Procurement Under Assist-
ance Agreements
SAN No. 4180 Rewriting of EPA Regulations Implementing the Freedom of Information Act
SAN No. 4270 Cross-Media Electronic Reporting (ER) and Recordkeeping Rule
SAN No. 3736 Revision to 40 CFR 35 Subpart A and Promulgation of Performance Partnership (State) Grant
Regulation
SAN No. 4128 Revision to 40 CFR 35 Subpart A and Promulgation of Performance Partnership (Tribal) Grant
Rule
SAN No. 4191 Revision to EPAAR 1552.211-73, Level of Effort
SAN No. 4226 Incorporating Informal Clauses (EP) Into the EPAAR
SAN No. 3580 Incorporation of Class Deviations Into EPAAR
SAN No. 3629 EPA Mentor-Protege Program ...
SAN No. 3876 Incrementally Funding Fixed Price Contracts
SAN No. 3874 Revision of EPA Acquisition Regulations for Quality Systems for Environmental Programs
SAN No. 3817 Implementation of Changes to 40 CFR Part 32
SAN No. 3807 Consolidation of Good Laboratory Practice Standards (GLPS) Regulations Currently Under TSCA
and FIFRA Into One Rule
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2020- AA39
2020- AA40
2020-AA41
2030-AA55
2030-AA56
2030- AA64
2030'AA66
2030-AA37
2030- AA40
2030-AA50
2030- AA51
2030- AA48
2020- AA26
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General—Final Rule Stage
Sequence
Number
3179
3180
3181
3182
3183
3184
3185
3186
SAN No 4185
SAN No 4183
SAN No 4184
SAN No 4186
SAN No 4187
SAN No 4188
SAN No 3671
SAN No 2662
Title
Electronic Funds Transfer
Agency Protest Solicitation Notification
Contracting by Negotiation
EPAAR Coverage on Contractor Performance Evaluations'
EPAAR Coverage on Local Hiring and Training
Service Contracting — Avoiding Improper Personal Services Relationships
Guidelines for Carcinogen Risk Assessment ...:
Amendments to Part 22 Consolidated Procedural Rules
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2030-AA57
2030-AA58
2030-AA59
2030-AA61
2030-AA62
2030-AA63
2080-AA06
2020-AA13
General—Long-Term Actions
Sequence
Number
3187
3188
Title
SAN No 3240 Public Information and Confidentiality Regulations
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2020-AA21
2020- AA34
General—Completed Actions
Sequence
Number
3189
3190
SAN
SAN
Nn
No
4215
2939
Acquisition
Regulation*
Types
Award
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^
Title
f Contracts .
Under Section 113{f) of the Clean Air Act
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2030-AA65
2020-AA31
Clean Air Act (CAA)—Prerule Stage
Sequence
Number
3191
3192
3193
3194
Title
SAN No 4268 Control of Highway Diesel Fuel Quality* Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
SAN No. 3553 Implementation of Ozone and Paniculate Matter (PM) National Ambient Air Quality Standards
(NAAQS) and Regional Haze Regulations
SAN No. 4120 Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Allowance System for Controlling HCFC Production, Import &
SAN No. 3525 Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Update of the Substitutes List Under the Significant New Alter-
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2060-AI32
2060-AF34
2060-AH67
2060-AG12
Clean Air Act (CAA)—Proposed Rule Stage
Sequence
Number
3195
3196
3197
3198
3199
3200
3201
39CI?
Title
SAN No 4105 NESHAP* Carbon Black Production
SAN No 4110 Alumina Processing NESHAP
SAN No. 4043 Control of Emissions of Air Pollution From 2004 and Later
SAN No 41 48 Conformity Pilot
Model Year Highway Heavy-Duty Die-
SAN No. 4219 Hospital/Medical/lnfectious Waste Incinerators— Federal Plan (Federal Plan for Existing
Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators) -
SAN No. 4246 Consumer and Commercial Products: Revised Schedule fo
SAN No. 4251 Control of Emissions of Air Pollution From New Compre
RAN No 39R1 No Backslidina Rule for PM-10 Nonattainment Areas
' Regulation :
ssion-Ignition and Spark-Ignition Rec-
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2060-AH68
2060-AH70
2060-AI12
2060-AI14
2060-AI25
2060-AI30
2060-AI36
2060-AI39
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Sequence
Number
3203
3204
3205
3206
3207
3208
3209
3210
3211
3212
3213
3214
3215
3216
3217
3218
3219
3220
3221
3222
3223
3224
3225
3226
3227
3228
3229
3230
3231
3232
3233
3234
3235
3236
3237
3238
3239
3240
3241
3242
3243
3244
3245
3246
3247
3248
3249
3250
3251
3252
Title
SAN No, 4252 Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Amendment to Halon Use, Halon Technician Training, and
Halon and Halon-Containing Equipment Disposal Rule
SAN No. 4253 Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Process for Exempting Quarantine and Preshipment Methyl
Bromide Used in the United States and Baseline Adjustments
SAN No, 4254 Revision to the Definition of Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) to Exclude Tertiary Butyl Acetate
SAN No. 4247 Revisions to Air Pollution Emergency Episode Requirements (Subpart H, 40 CFR Part 51)
SAN No, 3263 Performance Warranty and Inspection/Maintenance Test Procedures
SAN No. 3262 Inspection/Maintenance Recall Requirements
SAN No. 3407 Method 301 : Field Validation of Pollution Measurement Methods for Various Media; Revisions
SAN No. 3082 NESHAP: Ferroalloy Production
SAN No, 3569 Federal Implementation Plan To Control Emissions From Two Power Stations Located on Navajo
Nation Lands . .
SAN No. 3568 Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Yucca Mountain, Nevada
SAN No. 3819 NSPS: Sewage Sludge Incinerators
SAN No. 3820 NESHAP: Plywood and Particleboard Manufacturing
SAN No, 3970 NESHAP: Miscellaneous Cellulose Production
SAN No, 3969 NESHAP: Municipal Solid Waste Landfills
SAN No. 3966 Storage Tank Rule Revisions
SAN No. 3986 Consolidated Emission Reporting Rule
SAN No. 391 7 Transportation Conformity Rule Amendment: Clarification of Trading Provisions
SAN No. 3910 Streamlined Evaporative Test Procedures
SAN No. 4046 Revisions to New Source Review (NSR) Regulations to Implement the New National Ambient Air
Quality Standards (NAAQS) for Ozone
SAN No, 4022 NESHAP: Coke Ovens: Pushing, Quenching, and Battery Stacks
SAN No. 41 06 Final Rule To Amend the National Emission Standards for Magnetic Tape Manufacturing Oper-
ations
SAN No. 4111 NESHAP: Fumed Silica Production
SAN No, 4102 NESHAP' Taconite Iron Ore Processing .
SAN No. 4104 National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for the Hydrochloric Acid Production In-
dustry
SAN No. 4107 NESHAP: Asphalt/Coal Tar Application on Metal Pipes
SAN No. 4113 NESHAP: Clay Products Manufacturing
SAN No. 4103 NESHAP: Organic Hazardous Air Pollutants From the Synthetic Organic Chemical Industry
(SOCMI) & Other Processes Subject to the Negotiated Regulation for Equipment Leaks
SAN No 4114 NESHAP' Polyvinyl Chloride and Copolymers Production
SAN No. 4098 NESHAP: Uranium Hexafluoride Production
SAN No. 4119 Performance Specification 16 — Specifications and Test Procedures for Predictive Emission Moni-
toring Systems in Stationary Sources
SAN No. 4082 NESHAP: Wet-formed Fiberglass Mat Production
SAN No 4003 Technical Change to Dose Methodology for 40 CFR 191 Subpart A
SAN No, 4070 General Conformity Regulations; Revisions
SAN No 4077 Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Reconsideration on the 610 Nonessential Products Ban
SAN No. 421 1 Tier II Light-Duty Vehicle and Light-Duty Truck Emission Standards and Gasoline Sulfur Stand-
ards
SAN No. 1002 NAAQS: Sulfur Dioxide (Review and Implementation)
SAN No. 3470 Revision of Appendix W to 40 CFR Part 51
SAN No. 3656 NESHAP/NSPS: Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engine
SAN No 4243 Standards and Guidelines for Small Municipal Waste Combustion Units
SAN No. 3657 NESHAP/NSPS: Combustion Turbine
SAN No, 3461 NESHAP: Mineral Wool Production Industry
SAN No. 3343 NESHAP: Iron Foundries and Steel Foundries
SAN No. 3341 NESHAP: Cyanide Chemicals Manufacturing
SAN No. 3346 NESHAP: Integrated Iron and Steel
SAN No, 3123 NESHAP: Wool Fiberglass Manufacturing Industry
SAN No, 3326 NESHAP: Reinforced Plastic Composites Production
SAN No 3452 NESHAP: Miscellaneous Organic Chemical Production and Processes
SAN No, 3449 NESHAP: Chlorine Production
SAN No. 3467 NESHAP: Primary Lead Smelters
SAN No. 3550 NESHAP: Manufacturing of Nutritional Yeast
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2060-AI40
2060-AI42
2060-AI45
2060-AI47
2060-AE20
2060-AE22
2060-AFOO
2060-AF29
2060-AF42
2060-AG14
2060-AG50
2060-AG52
2060-AH11
2060-AH13
2060-AH15
2060-AH25
2060-AH31
2060-AH34
2060-AH53
2060- AH55
2060-AH71
2060-AH72
2060-AH73
2060-AH75
2060-AH78
2060-AH79
2060-AH81
2060-AH82
2060-AH83
2060-AH84
2060-AH89
2060-AH90
2060-AH93
2060-AH99
2060-AI23
2060-AA61
2060-AF01
2060-AG63
2060-AI51
2060-AG67
2060-AE08
2060-AE43
2060-AE45
2060-AE48
2060-AE75
2060-AE79
2060-AE82
2060-AE85
2060-AE97
2060-AF30
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Sequence
Number
QpCO
3254
QQKK
Wlfi
3257
3258
QOCQ
^pfin
3261
QOCO
qoco
QORA
Qpfic:
qpfifi
qpfi7
QOCQ
QpCQ
qpyn
Qp71
Qpyp
qpyq
QP7A
QP7C
qp7C
3279
3280
3281
3282
3283
3284
3286
3287
3288
qpqn
Qpqq
OpQ/1
Title
SAN No 3551 Am8ndm8nts to General Provisions Subparts A and B for 40 CFR 63
SAN No 3746 NESHAP' Paint Stripping Operations
SAN No 3747 NESHAP' Boat Manufacturing
SAN No 3749 NESHAP' Tire Manufacturing
SAN No. 3754 Petroleum Solvent Dry Cleaners Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) Standard
SAN No 3821 NESHAP' Ethylene Processes
SAN No 3823 Large Appliance (Surface Coating) NESHAP
SAN No 3655 NESHAP' Asphalt Roofing and Processing .
SAN No 3837 NESHAP' Industrial Commercial and Institutional Boilers
SAN No 3651 NESHAP' Lime Manufacturinq
SAN No 3899 NESHAP' Friction Products Manufacturing
SAN No 3902 NESHAP' Semiconductor Production
SAN No 3906 NESHAP' Metal Can (Surface1 Coating) Industry
SAN No 3905 NESHAP' Metal Coil (Surface Coating) Industry
SAN No 3909 NESHAP' Fabric Printing Coating and Dyeing
SAN No 3907 Automobile and Light-Duty Truck Manufacturing (Surface Coating) NESHAP
SAN No 3924 NESHAP' Primary Magnesium Refining
SAN No 3968 NESHAP' Site Remediation
SAN No 3967 NESHAP' Spandex Production
SAN No 3964 NESHAP' Leather Tanning and Finishing Operations
SAN No 3962 NESHAP' Manufacture of Carbon Black
SAN No 3903 NESHAP' Vegetable Oil Production
SAN No 3972 NESHAP* Rocket Engine Test Firing/Engine Test Facilities
SAN No 3973 NESHAP* Flexible Polyurethane Foam Fabrication Operations
SAN No 3939 NESHAP' Group 1 Polymers and Resins and Group IV Polymers and Resins* Amendments
SAN No. 3479 Amendments to Parts 51 , 52, 63, 70 and 71 Regarding the Provisions for Determining Potential
SAN No 4218 NESHAP' Process Heaters :
SAN No. 3613 NSPS: New Source Performance Standards and Emission Guidelines for Industrial and Commer-
SAN No. 3751 NSPS: New Source Performance Standards and Emission Guidelines for Other Solid Waste In-
SAN No. 4245 Consumer and Commercial Products: Flexible Package Printing Materials: Determination on Con-
SAN No. 3979 Review of Federal Test Procedures for Emissions From Motor Vehicles; Test Procedure Adjust-
SAN No. 3983 Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Servicing of Motor Vehicle Air Conditioners: Standards for
SAN No. 3640 Supplemental Rule To Require Certain Products Made With HCFCs To Bear Warning Label
SAN No. 4271 Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Additional Steps to Conform U.S. Methyl Bromide Program to
SAN No 3824 Metal Furn'ture (Surface Coatings) NESHAP
SAN No 3825 NESHAP Miscellaneous Metal Parts and Products (Surface Coating)
SAN No 3826 Plastic Parts (Surface Coating) NESHAP
SAN No 3827 Paper and Other Web Coating NESHAP
SAN No 3904 NESHAP' Wood Building Products (Surface Coating)
SAN No 3908 Offset Lithographic Printing National VOC Rule
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2060-AF31
2060-AG26
2060-AG27
2060-AG29
2060-AG34
2060-AG53
2060-AG54
2060-AG66
2060-AG69
2060-AG72
2060-AG87
2060-AG93
2060-AG96
2060-AG97
2060-AG98
2060-AG99
2060-AH03
2060-AH08
2060-AH12
2060-AH14
2060-AH17
2060-AH19
2060-AH22
2060-AH35
2060-AH42
2060-AH47
2060-AI01
2060-AI35
2060-AF91
2060-AG31
2060-AI31
2060-AH38
2060-AG20
2060-AH29
2060-AF93
2060-AI41
2060-AG55
2060-AG56
2060-AG57
2060-AG58
2060-AH02
2060-AHOO
Clean Air Act (CAA)—Final Rule Stage
Sequence
Number
3295
3296
Title
SAN No. 4115 NESHAP: Ch
SAN No. 4159 Redefinition
stances Under CERCLA
romium Electroplating Amendment
of Glycol Ethers Listed as HAPs Under the Clean Air Act, and Hazardous Sub-
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2060-AH69
2060-AI08
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Sequence
Number
3297
3298
3299
3300
3301
3302
3303
3304
3305
3306
3307
3308
3309
3310
3311
3312
3313
3314
3315
3316
3317
3318
3319
3320
3321
3322
3323
3324
3325
3326
3327
3328
3329
3330
3331
3332
3333
3334
3335
3336
3337
3338
3339
3340
3341
Clean Air Act (CAA)— Final Rule Stage (Continued)
Title
SAN No. 4242 Acid Rain Program Permits Regulations and SO2 Allowance System: Compliance Determination
SAN No. 4267 Compliance Baseline Modification NPRM .
SAN No. 4222 NESHAP: Ethylene Oxide Commercial Sterilization and Fumigation Operations
SAN No. 3626 Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Amendment to Transshipment Provision in Final Rule Accel-
erating the Phaseout of Ozone-Depleting Substances .
SAN No. 4256 Revisions to Reference Method for the Determination of Fine Particulate Matter as PM2.5 in the
Atmosphere
SAN No. 4066 Federal Plan Requirements for Municipal Solid Waste Landfills that Commenced Construction
Prior to 5/30/91 and Have Not Been Modified or Reconstructed Since 5/30/91 .. .
SAN No. 3259 New Source Revjew (NSR) Reform
SAN No. 3549 NESHAP: Petroleum Refineries — FCC Units, Reformers and Sulfur Plants
SAN N.O. 3412 Operating Permits: Revisions (Part 70) ;
SAN No. 2915 Methods for .Measurement of Visible Emissions— Addition of Methods 203A, 203B, and 203C to
Appendix M of Part 51 '.
SAN No 3741 Service Information Availability ,
SAN No. 3743 Amendments to Part 60, Part 61, and Part 63 and Addition of Method 14A to Part 60
SAN No. 3744 Amendment to Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources; Monitoring Requirements
(PS-1)
SAN No. 3748 Consolidated Federal Air Rule for the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturing Industry
SAN No. 3808 Acid Rain Program: Continuous Emission Monitoring (CEM) Rule Revisions
SAN No. 3900 Addition of Method 207 to Appendix M of 40 CFR Part 51 Method for Measuring Isocyanates in
Stationary Source Emissions
SAN No, 3868 Federal Operating Permits Program in Indian Country
SAN No. 3913 Revision to the Light-Duty Vehicle Emission Compliance Procedure (CAP 2000)
SAN No. 3958 Addition of Opacity Method to Appendix M of 40 CFR Part 51 (Method 203) .
SAN No. 4030 Expanded Definitions for Alternative-Fueled Vehicles and Engines Meeting Low-Emission Vehicle
Exhaust Emission Standards
SAN No. 4123 National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Source Category: Pulp and Paper
Production; Amendments to the Promulgated Rule
SAN No. 4096 Federal Implementation Plans (FlPs) To Reduce the Regional Transport of Ozone in the Eastern
United States
SAN No. 4095 Findings of Significant Contribution and Rulemaking on Section 1 26 Petitions for Purposes of Re-
ducing Interstate Ozone Transport
SAN No, 4073 Air Quality Index Reporting . . . . . .
SAN No. 4125 Electric Arc Furnace NSPS Amendment
SAN No. 4130 Acid Rain Program: Proposed Revision of Test Method 1, 2, and 2F for Measuring Volumetric
Flow in Stacks
SAN No. 4165 Optional Certification Streamlining Procedures for LDVs, LDTs, and HDEs
SAN No. 4078 Control of Emissions of Air Pollution From New Marine Diesel Engines At or Above 37 Kilowatts ..
SAN No. 4206 Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Incorporation of Montreal Protocol Adjustment for a 1999 In-
terim Reduction in Class I, Group VI Controlled Substances
SAN No. 3638 Revision of EPA's Radiological Emergency Response Plan
SAN No. 3105 Amendments — Integrated NESHAP and Effluent Guidelines1 Pulp and Paper
SAN No. 3229 NESHAP: Oil and Natural Gas Production and Natural Gas Transmission and Storage
SAN No. 3228 NESHAP for the Manufacturing of Amino and Phenolic Resins (Polymers and Resins Group III) ...
SAN No. 3303 NESHAP: Phosphoric Acid Manufacturing
SAN No. 3345 NESHAP: Steel Pickling, HC1 Process
SAN No. 3304 NESHAP: Phosphate Fertilizers Production
SAN No. 3340 NESHAP: Primary Copper Smelting
SAN No. 3078 NESHAP: Secondary Aluminum Industry
SAN No. 3079 NESHAP: Portland Cement Manufacturing
SAN No. 3408 NESHAP: Polyether Polyols Production
SAN No. 3450 NESHAP: Pesticide Active Ingredient Production (Production of Agricultural Chemicals)
SAN No. 3378 NESHAP: Acrylic/Modacrylic Fibers Manufacturing
SAN No. 3465 NESHAP: Polycarbonates Production
SAN No, 3377 NESHAP: Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTW)
SAN No. 3829 Revisions to the Regulation for Approval of State Programs and Delegation of Federal Authorities
112m
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2060-AI27
2060-AI29
2060-AI37
2060-AI46
2060-AI48
2060-AI50
2060-AE1 1
2060-AF28
2060-AF70
2060-AF83
2060-AG13
2060-AG21
2060-AG22
2060-AG28
2060-AG46
2060-AG88
2060-AG90
2060-AH05
2060-AH23
2060-AH52
2060-AH74
2060-AH87
2060-AH88
2060-AH92
2060-AH95
2060-AH97
2060-AI15
2060-AI17
2060-AI24
2060-AI49
2060-AD03
2060-AE34
2060-AE36
2060-AE40
2060-AE41
2060-AE44
2060-AE46
2060-AE77
2060-AE78
2060-AE81
2060-AE84
2060-AF06
2060-AF09
2060-AF26
2060-AG60
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Clean Air Act (CAA)—Final Rule Stage (Continued)
Sequence
Number
3342
3343
3344
3345
3346
3347
3348
3349
3350
3351
3352
Title
SAN No. 3901 Generic MACT for Source Categories (Acrylic Modacrylic Fibers, Polycarbonates, Hydrogen Fluo-
ride, and Acetal Resins)
SAN No. 3654 NESHAP-' Hydrogen Fluoride Production
SAN No. 3959 National Strategy for Urban Area Sources of Toxic Air Emissions
SAN No. 41.62 NESHAP: Oil and Natural Gas Production and NESHAP: Natural Gas Transmission and Storage,
Amendments to Proposed Rule : ;
SAN No. 3610 Transportation Conformity Rule Amendment and Solicitation for Participation in the Pilot Program
SAN No. 3828 Reduction of Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Emissions From Coatings Used in the Aero-
space Wood Furniture and Shipbuilding Industries Under Clean Air Act Section 183(e)
SAN No 2665 Importation of Nonconforming Vehicles* Amendments to- Regulations
SAN No. 3361 Nonroad Sparks-Ignition Engines At or Below 19 kilowatts (25 Horsepower) (Phase 2) •.
SAN No. 3556 Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Supplemental Rule Regarding a Recycling Standard Under
Section 608 ' • • , ' >
SAN No. 35.60 Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Refrigerant Recycling Rule Amendment To Include Substitute
Refrigerants' ..'....; . . ' .„ : .- • -....
SAN No. 4108 NESHAP: Off-Site Waste and Recovery Operations; Final Rule — Settlement Agreement; and
NESHAP for Off-Site Waste and Recovery Operations; Technical Amendments ...
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2060-AG91
2060-AG94
2060-AH21
2060-AI13
2060-AG79
2060-AG59
2060-AI03
2060-AE29
2060-AF36
2060-AF37
2060-AH96
Glean Air Act (CAA)—Long-Term Actions
Sequence
Number
Title
Regulation
Identifier
Number
3353
3354
3355
3356
3357
3358
3359
3360
3361
3362
3363
3364
3365
3366
3367
3368
3369
SAN No. 4154 Control of Emissions From Nonroad Spark-Ignition Engines Rated Over 19 kW and New Land-
Based Recreational Spark-Ignition Engines
SAN No. 4244 Amendment to Regulations Governing Equivalent Emission Limitations by Permit
SAN No. 4266 Review National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Carbon Monoxide
SAN No. 4255 Review of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter
SAN No. 3380 NSPS: Synthetic Organic Chemicals Manufacturing Industry— Wastewater
SAN No. 3649 Amendments to Method 24 (Water-Based Coatings)
SAN No. 3637 Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) To Control Emissions From Sources Located on the Fort Hall
Indian Reservation ..' „..„:.-.
SAN No. 3922 Revised Permit Revision Procedures for the Federal Operating Permits Program
SAN No. 3975 Review of Minor New Sources and Modifications in Indian Country
SAN No. 4045 Rulemaking To Modify the List of Source Categories From Which Fugitive Emissions Are Consid-
ered in Major Source Determinations ;
SAN No. 4112 NESHAP: Hydrogen Chloride Production
SAN No. 3652 NESHAP: Refractories Manufacturing
SAN No. ,3971 NESHAP: Organic'Liquid Distribution .' „.
SAN No. 4240 NESHAP: Chemical Recovery Combustion Sources at Kraft, Soda, Sulfite and Stand Alone
Semichemical Pulp Mills .....
SAN No. 2937 Field'Citation Program :..... .:
SAN No. 3919 Prevention of Significant Deterioration of Air Quality: Permit Application Review Procedures for
Non-Federal Class I Areas
SAN No. 3139 Location of Selective Enforcement Audits of Foreign Manufactured Vehicles and Engines; Amend-
ment
2060-AI11
2060-AI28
2060-AI43
2060-AI44
2060-AE94
2060-AF72
•2060-AF84
2060-AG92
2060-AH37
2Q60-AH58
20:60-AH80
2060-AG68
2060-AH41
2060-AI34
2020-AA32
2060-AH01
2060-AD90
Clean Air Act (CAA)—Completed Actions
'
Sequence
Number
3370
3371
3372
3373
Title
SAN No 4213 Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Allocation of 1999 Essential Use Allowances
SAN No 3516 Comprehensive Radiation Waste Management Regulation
SAN No 3573 Acid Rain Program' Deletion of Certain Units . .
SAN No. 3643 Sales Volume Limit Provisions for Small-Volume Manufacture Certification for Clean Fuel and
Conventional Vehicle Conversions and Related Provisions
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2060-AI26
2060-AF41
2060-AF46
2060-AF87
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Sequence
Number
3374
3375
3376
3377
3378
3379
3380
3381
3382
3383
3384
3385
3386
3387
3388
3389
3390
3391
3392
3393
3394
3395
3396
3397
3398
3399
3400
3401
3402
Sequence
Number
3403
Sequence
Number
3404
Clean Air Act (CAA) — Completed Actions (Continued)
Title
SAN No. 3750 Amendments to Residential Wood Heaters
SAN No. 3835 Amendment to the User Fees for Radon Proficiency Programs Rule
SAN No. 3898 1998 Revision of Acid Rain Allowance Allocations
SAN No, 3945 Finding of Significant Contribution and Rulemaking for Certain States in the Ozone Transport As-
sessment Group (OTAG) Region for Purposes of Reducing Regional Transport of Ozone
SAN No. 3977 Revisions to Clarify the Permit Content Requirements for State Operating Permits
SAN No. 4052 Revisions to the Permits and Sulfur Dioxide Allowance System Regulations Under Title IV of the
Clean Air Act: Allowance Transfer
SAN No. 4067 Acid Rain Program: Determination on Section 75.7 (EPA Study of Bias Test) and Section 75.8
(Relative Accuracy and Availability Analysis)
SAN No. 4126 NESHAP: Wood Furniture Manufacturing Operations, Amendments
SAN No, 4116 NESHAP: Ammonium Sulphate Production (Caprolactam By-Product)
SAN No. 4076 Supplemental Rulemaking for Certain States in the Ozone Transport Assessment Group Region
for Purposes of Reducing Regional Transport of Ozone
SAN No, 3893 Review of Operating Permits Issued by Indian Tribes
SAN No, 3951 Control of Emissions From New Nonroad Spark-Ignition Engines At or Below 19 Kilowatts, Minor
Amendments to the Phase I Emission Standards
SAN No. 4129 Notice of Promulgated Compliance Extension: Halogenated Solvent
SAN No. 4136 Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources; New Residential Wood Heaters (Com-
pleted Regulatory Flexibility Act Review)
SAN No, 3740 Transportation Conformity Rule Amendments: Flexibility and Streamlining
SAN No. 3338 NESHAP: Flexible Polyurethane Foam Production
SAN No. 2547 NESHAP: Radon Emissions From Phosphogypsum Stacks
SAN No. 3836 NESHAP: Aerospace Technical Amendments
SAN No 3872 Industrial Combustion Coordinated Rulemaking — ICCR Project
SAN No 3604 Standards for Reformulated and Conventional Gasoline, Individual Baseline Fuel Adjustments
SAN No 3281 National VOC Emission Standards for Automobile Refinish Coatings
SAN No 3351 VOC Regulation for Architectural Coatings
SAN No 3658 National VOC Emission Standards for Consumer Products
SAN No 3645 Control of Emissions of Air Pollution From Highway Heavy-Duty Engines and Diesel Engines
SAN No. 3091 Specification of Substantially Similar Definition for Diesel Fuels
SAN No 3843 Revision to the Covered Areas Provision for Reformulated Gasoline
SAN No. 3842 Applicability of On-Highway Heavy-Duty Certified Engines for Use in Nonroad Heavy-Duty Vehi-
cles and Equipment' Amendment
SAN No 3352 NSPS* Nitrogen Oxide Emissions From Fossil-Fuel Fired Steam Generating Units — Revision
SAN No. 3792 Technical Amendments to Hazardous Waste TSDF & Hazardous Waste Generators: Organic Air
Emission Standards for Tanks, Surface Impoundments & Containers
Atomic Energy Act (AEA) — Proposed Rule Stage
Title
SAN No. 4054 Radiation Waste Management Regulation
Atomic Energy Act (AEA) — Long-Term Actions
Title
SAN No. 3602 Protective Action Guidance for Drinking Water .
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2060-AG30
2060-AG64
2060-AG86
2060-AH10
2060-AH46
2060-AH60
2060-AH64
2060-AH66
2060-AH77
2060-AH91
2060-AH98
2060-AI02
2060-AI04
2060-AI05
2060-AI16
2060-AE86
2060-AF04
2060-AG65
2060-AG84
2060-AG80
2060-AE35
2060-AE55
2060-AF62
2060-AF76
2060-AD77
2060-AG77
2060-AG78
2060-AE56
2060-AG44
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2060-AH63
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2060-AF39
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Federal Insecticide,
Sequence
Number
Fungicide, and
Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)— Prerule Stage
Regulation
Title Identifier
Number
3^05 SAN No. 4170 Pesticides: Procedures for Reaistration Review Proaram 2070-AD29
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)—Proposed Rule Stage
Sequence
Number
3406
3407
3408
3409
3410
3411
3412
3413
341 4
3415
SAN No. 3892
Changes
SAN No. 4027
SAN No. 4175
SAN No 4143
SAN No 4216
SAN No 4260
SAN No 3890
SAN No 2687
SAN No 4173
SAN No 2659
Title
Registration Requirements for Antimicrobial Pesticide Products; and Other Pesticide Regulatory
Pesticides; Tolerance Processing Fees
Pesticide Tolerance Reassessment Program
Endocrine Disrupter Screening Program . .. .
Regulatory Review of Pesticide Emergency Exemption Regulations
Status of Pesticide-Treated Seeds under FIFRA
Tolerances for Pesticide Emergency Exemptions
Data Requirements for Pesticide Registration (Revision)
Data Requirements for Antimicrobial Registrations .
Pesticide Management and Disposal: Standards for Pesticide Containers and Containment
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2070- AD 14
2070-AD23
2070-AD24
2070-AD26
2070-AD36
2070-AD37
2070-AD15
2070-AC12
2070-AD30
2070-AB95
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)—Final Rule Stage
Sequence
Number
3416
3417
3418
3419
SAN No 3731
SAN No 2684
SAN No. 3222
SAN No. 3432
Title
WPS' Pesticide Worker Protection Standard' Glove Amendment
Plant Pesticide Regulations Under FIFRA and FFDCA
Ground Water and Pesticide Management Plan
Pesticide Management and Disposal
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2070-AC93
2070-AC02
2070-AC46
2020-AA33
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)—Long-Term Actions
Sequence
Number
3420
3421
SAN No 4026 Exemption of Certain
SAN No. 2720 Policy or Procedures
pended Registration
Title
Pesticide! Substances From FIFRA Requirements
for Notification to the Agency of Stored Pesticides With Cancelled or Sus-
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2070-AD21
2020-AA29
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)—Completed Actions
Sequence
Number
3422
3423
Title
SAN No. 3735 The 10-Acre Limitation for Pesticide Small-Scale Field Testing :
SAN No 1640 WPS' Pesticide Worker Protection Standards' Pesticide Hazard Communication
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2070-AC99
2070-AC34
Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)—Proposed Rule Stage
Sequence
Number
3424
3425
3426
SAN No 4176
SAN No. 4174
SAN No. 4015
Title
Chemical Right-to-Know Initiative
TSCA Section 4 Enforceable Consent Agreement for Certain Oxygenated Fuel Additives
TRl: Review of Chemicals on the Oriainal TRI List
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2070-AD25
2070-AD28
2070-AD18
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Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)—Proposed Rule Stage (Continued)
Sequence
Number
3427
3428
3429
3430
3431
3432
3433
3434
3435
3436
3437
3438
3439
3440
3441
3442
3443
Title
SAN No 3301 TSCA Inventory Update Rule Amendments
SAN No. 3244 Lead-Based Paint Activities Rules; Training, Accreditation, and Certification Rule and Model State
Plan Rule — Building and Structures
SAN No. 3243 Lead; Over of Rulemakings Under TSCA Section 402, Lead-Based Paint Activities for the Regu-
latory Plan
SAN No 3990 Multi-Chemical Test Rule' High Production Volume Chemicals
SAN No 3494 Test Rules* Generic Entry for Proposed Decisions
SAN No 2245 Test Rules' Negotiated Consent Order and Test Rule Procedures
SAN No. 2563 Test Rule; ATSDR Substances
SAN No 2865 Children's Health Test Rule
SAN No. 3882 Test Rule for Certain Metals
SAN No 1923 Follow-Up Rules on Existing Chemicals
SAN No 3894 TSCA Biotechnology Follow-Up Rules
SAN No 3148 Asbestos Model Accreditation Plan Revisions
SAN No 3047 Asbestos' Amendments to the Asbestos-Containing Materials in Schools Rule
SAN No 2249 Asbestos Worker Protection Rule Amendments
SAN No 4179 PCBs* Polychlorinated Biphenyl1 Use Authorizations
SAN No 3557 Lead-Based Paint Activities' Training and Certification for Renovation and Remodeling
SAN No 4172 Lead-Based Paint' Notification of Commencement of Abatement Activities
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2070-AC61
2070-AC64
2070-AD06
2070-AD16
2070-AB07
2070-AB30
2070-AB79
2070-AC27
2070-AD10
2070-AA58
2070-AD13
2070-AC51
2070-AC62
2070-AC66
2070-AD27
2070-AC83
2070-AD31
Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)—Final Rule Stage
Sequence
Number
3444
3445
3446
3447
3448
3449
3450
3451
3452
3453
3454
3455
3456
3457
3458
Title
SAN No 3508 Lead' Management and Disposal of Lead-Based Paint Debris
SAN No 3480 Guidance on Environmentally Preferable Purchasing for Federal Agencies
SAN No 3493 Test Rules' Generic Entry for Final Decisions
SAN No 3487 Test Rule' Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs)
SAN No 1976 Follow-Up Rules on Non-5(e) New Chemical Substances
SAN No. 3495 Chemical-Specific Significant New Use Rules (SNURs) To Extend Provisions of Section 5(e) Or-
ders .... ,...
SAN No. 2150 PCBs; Polychlorinated Biphenyls; Exemptions From the Prohibitions Against Manufacturing, Proc-
essing, and Distribution in Commerce
SAN No 3528 Refractory Ceramic Fibers* Significant New Use Rules on National Program Chemicals
SAN No 3021 PCBs* Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) Transformer Reclassification Rule
SAN No 2178 TSCA Section 8(a) Preliminary Assessment Information Rules
SAN No 1139 TSCA Section 8(d) Health and Safety Data Reporting Rules
SAN No 2779 Use of Acrylamide for Grouting
SAN No 3118 TSCA Section 8(e) Policy Notice of Clarification
SAN No. 3559 Notice of TSCA Section 4 Reimbursement Period and TSCA Section 12(b) Export Notification Pe-
riod Sunset Dates for TSCA Section 4 Substances
SAN No 3881 Lead-Based Paint* Fees for Accreditation and Certification Activities
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2070-AC72
2070-AC78
2070-AB94
2070-AC76
2070-AA59
2070-AB27
2070-AB20
2070-AC37
2070-AC39
2070-AB08
2070-AB1 1
2070-AC17
2070-AC80
2070-AC84
2070-AD1 1
Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)—Long-Term Actions
Sequence
Number
3459
3460
Title
SAN No 3243 Lead* TSCA Section 403* Identification of Dangerous Levels of Lead
SAN No. 3252 Lead; Regulatory Investigation Under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) To Reduce Lead
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2070-AC63
2070-AC21
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Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA)—Prerule Stage
Sequence
Number
Title
Regulation
Identifier
Number
3461 SAN No. 4023 TRI; Addition of Oil and Gas Exploration and Production to the Toxic Release Inventory 2070-AD19
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA)—Proposed Rule Stage
_ Regulation
Mqueunce Title - Identifier
Number . Number
3462 SAN No. 2425 TRI; Responses to Petitions Received To Add or Delete or Modify Chemical Listings on the Toxic
Release Inventory 2070-ACOO
3463 SAN No. 2847 TRI; Pollution Prevention Act Information Requirements 2070-AC24
3464 SAN No. 4259 TRI; Lowering of EPCRA Section 313 Reporting Thresholds for Lead and Lead Compounds 2070-AD38
3465 SAN No. 4265 TRI; Revisions to the Otherwise Use Activity Exemptions and the Coal Extraction Activities Ex-
emption i; 2070-AD39
3466 SAN No. 3007 TRI; Chemical Expansion; Finalization of Deferred Chemicals';..-. '.: 2070-AC47
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA)—Final Rule Stage
~' ~~| Regulation
S^queunce Title Identifier
Number Number
3467 SAN No. 3880 TRI; Reporting Threshold Amendment for Certain Persistent and Bioaccumulative Toxic Chemi-
cals (PBTs) 2070-AD09
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA)—Long-Term Actions
_ ' Regulation
Sequence Titie , Identifier
Number Number
3468 SAN No. 3215 Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act: Amendments and Streamlining Rule 2050-AE17
3469 SAN No. 3994 Response to a Petition Requesting Deletion of Phosmet from the Extremely Hazardous Sub-
stances (EHSs) List : 2050-AE42
3470 SAN No. 3993 Modification of Threshold Planning Quantity for Isophorone Diisocyanate 2050-AE43
3471 SAN No. 3877 TRI; Data Expansion Amendments; Toxic Chemical Release Reporting; Community Right-to-
Know | 2070-AD08
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA)—Completed Actions
• Regulation
Sequence Title Identifier
Number Number
3472 SAN No. 4163 Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Programs; Amendments to Hazardous
Chemical Reporting Thresholds for Gasoline and Diesel Fuel at Retail Gas Stations .' 2050-AE58
3473 SAN No. 4029 Accidental Release Prevention Requirements: Risk Management Programs Under the Clean Air
Act, Section 112(r)(7): Amendment 2050-AE46
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)—Prerule Stage
i Regulation
Sequence Title Identifier
Number Number
3474 SAN No. 4017 Hazardous Waste Storage and Disposal Regulation Related to Low Level Mixed Waste; Proposed
Modifications 2050-AE45
3475 SAN No. 4093 Reinventing the Land Disposal Restrictions Program 2050-AE53
3476 SAN No. 4094 Land Disposal Restrictions; Potential Revisions for Mercury Listed and Characteristic Wastes 2050-AE54
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Sequence
Number
3477
3478
3479
3480
Title
SAN No. 3886 Review of Toxicity Characteristic Level for Silver Under the Resource Conservation Recovery Act
(RCRA)
SAN No. 4084 RCRA Reporting and Recordkeeping Burden Reduction; Notice of Data Availability
SAN No. 4090 RCRA Appendix VIII Streamlining
SAN No. 3201 Regulatory Determination on Remaining Wastes From the Combustion of Fossil Fuels
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2050-AE37
2050-AE50
2050-AE55
2050-AD91
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)—Proposed Rule Stage
Sequence
Number
Title
Regulation
Identifier
Number
3481
3482
3483
3484
3485
3486
3487
3488
3489
3490
3491
3492
3493
3494
3495
3496
SAN No. 4091
SAN No. 4092
tions
Modifications to RCRA Rules Associated With Solvent-Contaminated Shop Towels and Wipers ....
Glass-to-Glass Recycling of Cathode Ray Tubes (CRTs): Changes to Hazardous Waste Regula-
SAN No. 4233 Land Disposal Restrictions; Treatment Standards for Spent Potliners from Primary Aluminum Re-
duction (K088)
SAN No. 4229 Revisions to Guidelines for the Storage and Collection of Residential, Commercial, and Institu-
tional Solid Waste
SAN No. 4230 Revisions to Solid Waste Landfill Criteria—Leachate Recirculation
SAN No. 3805 Paint Manufacturing Wastes Listing: Hazardous Waste Management System: Identification and
Listing of Hazardous Waste
SAN No. 3888 Mercury-Containing and Rechargeable Battery Management Act; Codification of Waste Manage-
ment Provisions
SAN No. 3989 Removal of Requirement To Use SW-846 Methods (Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Waste:
Physical/Chemical Methods)
SAN No. 4028 Standardized Permit for RCRA Hazardous Waste Management Facilities
SAN No. 4208 Proposed Regulatory Amendments on Recycling of Hazardous Wastes in Fertilizers
SAN No. 3151 Chlorinated Aliphatics Listing Determination
SAN No. 3328 Hazardous Waste Identification Rule (HWIR): Identification and Listing of Hazardous Wastes
SAN No. 3066 Listing Determination of Wastes Generated During the Manufacture of Azo, Anthraquinone, and
Triarylmethane Dyes and Pigments
SAN No. 3147 Hazardous Waste Manifest Regulation
SAN No. 2647 RCRA Subtitle C Financial Test Criteria (Revision)
SAN No. 3856 Management of Cement Kiln Dust (CKD)
2050-AE51
2050-AE52
2050-AE65
2050-AE66
2050-AE67
2050-AE32
2050-AE39
2050-AE41
2050-AE44
2050-AE69
2050-AD85
2050-AE07
2050-AD80
2050-AE21
2050-AC71
2050-AE34
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)—Final Rule Stage
Sequence
Number
3497
3498
3499
3500
3501
3502
Title
SAN No. 4088 Recycled Used Oil Containing PCBs
SAN No. 4178 180-Day Accumulation Time Under RCRA for Generators of F006 Waste Water Treatment
Sludges from the Metal Finishing Industry
SAN No. 3189 Final Determination of the Applicability of the Toxicity Characteristic Rule to Underground Storage
Tanks, Contaminated Media, and Debris
SAN No. 3237 Hazardous Waste Management System; Modification of the Hazardous
ardous Waste Lamps
SAN No. 3333 Revised Standards for Hazardous Waste Combustion Facilities
SAN No. 3545 Revisions to the Comprehensive Guideline for Procurement of Products
Materials
Waste Program; Haz-
Containing Recovered
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2050-AE47
2050-AE60
2050-AD69
2050-AD93
2050-AE01
2050-AE23
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Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)-—Long-Term Actions
Sequence
Number
Title
Regulation
Identifier
Number
3503
3504
3505
3506
SAN No. 4263 Suspension of Temporary Toxicity Characteristic Rule for Specific Lead-Based Paint Debris
SAN No. 3428 Hazardous Waste Management System: Slag Residues Derived From High Temperature Metals
Recovery (HTMR) Treatment of KO61, KO62 and F0006 Wastes
SAN No. 3668 Hazardous Waste Identification; Recycled Used Oil Management Standards
SAN No. 4083 Identification and Listing of Hazardous Waste; Inorganic Chemical Industry Wastes; and CERCLA
Hazardous Substance Designation and Reportable Quantities
2050-AE68
2050-AE15
2050-AE28
2050-AE49
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)—Completed Actions
Sequence
Number
3507
3508
3509
3510
3511
3512
3513
3514
Title
SAN No. 4158 Interim Emergency Rule Revising Land Disposal Restriction Treatment Standards
Potliners K088 Waste
for Aluminum
SAN No. 2872 Modifications to the Definition of Solid Waste and Regulations of Hazardous Waste Recycling:
General .
SAN No 3042 Hazardous Waste Management System* Post-Closure Requirements
SAN No. 2982 Hazardous Remediation Waste Management Requirements (Commonly Referred to as Haz-
ardous Waste Identification Rule for Contaminated-Media or HWIR-Media)
SAN No 4228 Landfill Leachate and Petroleum Waste Listings
SAN No. 2390 Corrective Action for Solid Waste Management Units (SWMUs) at Hazardous Waste
Facilities
SAN No. 2751 RCRA Subtitle D Solid Waste Facilities; State Permit Program — Determination
(State Implementation Rule)
Management
of Adequacy
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2050-AE59
2050-AD18
2050-AD55
2050-AD84
2050-AE22
2050-AE61
2050-AB80
2050-AD03
Oil Pollution Act (OPA)—Final Rule Stage
Sequence
Number
3515
Title
SAN No 2634 Oil Pollution Prevention Regulation: Revisions
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2050-AC62
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act—Prerule Stage
Sequence
Number
3516
3517
Title
SAN No 4201 Criteria for the Designation of Hazardous Substances under CERCLA Section 102(a)
SAN No. 4217 Facility Response Plan Regulation for Certain Non-Transportation-Related Facilities that Handle,
Store or Transport Vegetable Oils and Animal Fats
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2050-AE63
2050-AE64
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act—Proposed Rule Stage
Sequence
Number
3518
3519
3520
3521
Title
SAN No. 3885 Streamlining the Preauthorization Mixed Funding for Application and Implementation of Claims
Against Superfund
SAN No 3806 Grants for Technical Assistance Rule Reform— 40 CFR Part 35 Subpart M
SAN No 3423 Reportable Quantity Adjustments for Carbamates
SAN No 3439 National Priorities List for Uncontrolled Hazardous Waste Sites: Proposed and Final Rules
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2050-AE38
2050-AE33
2050-AE12
2050-AD75
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Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act—Long-Term Actions
Sequence
Number
3522
3523
Title
SAN No. 4T77 Cooperative Agreements and Superfund State Contracts
sio'n of 40 CFR Part 35 Subpart O
SAN No. 2394 Reporting Exemptions for Federally Permitted Releases of
for Superfund Response Actions; Revi-
Hazardous Substances
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2050-AE62
2050-AB'82
Comprehensive Environment^ Response, Compensation and Liability Act—Completed Actions
Sequence
Number
3524
Title
SAN No. 4075 Revocation of Caprolactam's Designation as a Hazardous Substance Under CERCLA
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2050-AE48
Clean Water Act (CWA)—Prerule Stage
Sequence
Number
3525
Sequence
Number
3526
3527
3528
3529
3530
3531
3532
3533
3534
3535
3536
3537
3538
3539
3540
title
SAN No. 4133 Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the Ore Mining and Dressing Point Source Category, Gold
Placer Mine Subcate'gory (Section 610 ReVfew)
Clean Water Act (CWA)— Proposed Rule Stage
Title
SAN No. 4153 Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the Feedlots Point Source Category, Swine and Poultry
Subcategories, and NPDES Regulation for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
SAN No. 4145 Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Program Regulations Revisions
SAN No. 4168 Revisions to Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the Coal Mining Point Source Category
SAN No, 3662 Water Quality Standards Regfjlation — Revision
SAN No. 4235 Amendments to the Final Water Quality Guidance for the Great-Lakes System to Reinstate the
Mixing Zone Elimination and Phase-Out Provision ,
SAN^ N"o, 4234 EPA Review and Approval of State and Tribal Water Quality Standards
SAN No. 4264 Water duality Standards for Alabama — Phase II
SAN No. 4047 Test Procedures for the Analysis of Cryptosporidium and Glardia Under the Safe Drinkirig Water
ana" Clean Water Acts
SAN No. 4214 Test Procedures for the Analysis of E. Coif and Eriterbcbeci Under the cfeein Water Act
SAN No. 3444 Minimizing Adverse Environmental Impact from Cooling Water Intake Structures Under Section
316(b) of the Clean Water Act , ,
SAN No. 3663 Streamlining thd General Pretreatment Regulations for Existing and New Source? of Pollution ,
SAN No. 3999 Revisions to NPDES Requirements for Compliance Reporting and Collection System Discharges
SAN No. 4051 Establishment of Electronic Reporting for NPDES Permittees
SAN No. 2804 Clean Water Act Definition of the Waters of the United States
SAN No. 3488 Standards for the Use or Disposal of Sewage Sludge (Round II)
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2040-AD13
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2040-AD19
2040-AD22
2040-AD24
2040-AC56
2040-AD32
204Q-AD33
2040-AD35
2040-AD08
2040-AD34
2040-AC34
2040-AC58
2040-AD02
2040-AD1 1
2040-AB74
2040-AC25
Clean Water Act (CWA)—Final Rule Stage
Sequence
Number
3541
3542
3543
3544
3545
SAN No. 2805
SAN No, 3209
SAN No. 3489
SAN No. 3767
SAN No. 4041
Title
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the Centralized Waste Treatment Industry
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the Industrial Laundries Point Source Category
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for Landfills
Reformatting of Effluent Guidelines and Standards in 40 CFR Parts 401 through 471
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for Industrial Waste Combustors
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2040-AB78
2040-AB97
2040-AC23
2040-AC79
2040-AD03
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Clean Water Act (CWA)—Final Rule Stage (Continued)
Sequence
Number
3546
3547
3548
3549
3550
3551
3552
3553
3554
3555
3556
3557
3558
3559
3560
3561
Jitle
SAN No. 4039 Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the Pulp, Paper, and Paperboard Category; Incentives
Amendment '. '.
SAN No.' 4192 Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the Pulp, Paper, and Paperboard Category; Monitoring
Amendment .-..
• SAN'No. 3504 Establishment of Numeric Criteria for Priority Toxic Pollutants for the State of California
SAN No. 4195 Water Quality Standards for Alabama — Phase I
SAN No. 41 93 Water Quality Standards; Establishment of Numeric Criteria for Priority Toxic Pollutants; States'
Compliance— Revision of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) Criteria
SAN No.' 3617 Guidelines Establishing Oil and Grease Test Procedures for the Analysis of Pollutants Under the
Clean Water Act ....:
SAN No. 3701 Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures for the Analysis of Cyanide Under the Clean Water Act
SAN No. 3713 Performance Based Measurement System (PBMS) Procedures and Guidance for Clean Water
Act Test Procedures
SAN No. 3155 Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures for the Analysis of Miscellaneous Metals, Anions, and
Volatile Organics Under the Clean Water Act, Phase One
SAN No. 4048 Test Procedures for the Analysis of Mercury Under the Clean Water Act
SAN No. 3925 Uniform National Discharge Standards for Armed Forces Vessels — Phase I
SAN No. 2501 NPDES Wastewater Permit Application Forms and Regulatory Revisions for Municipal Discharges
and Sewage Sludge Use or Disposal
SAN No. 3762 NPDES Streamlining Rule — Round II
SAN No. 3785 NPDES Comprehensive Storm Water Phase II Regulations
SAN No. 3288 Comparison of Dredged Material to Reference Sediment
SAN No. 3497 Amendments to Round I Final Sewage Sludge Use or Disposal Rule — Phase One
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2040-AD05
2040-AD23
2040-AC44
2040-AD25
2040-AD27
2040-AC63
2040-AC76
2040-AC93
2040-AC95
2040-AD07
2040-AC96
2040-AB39
2040-AC70
2040-AC82
2040-AC14
2040-AC29
Clean Water Act (CWA)—Long-Term Actions
Sequence
Number
3562
3563
3564
35,65
35.66
3567
3568
3569
3570
3571
3572
'3573
3574
3575
3576
3577
3578
Title
SAN No. 2806 Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the Metal Products and Machinery Category, Phases 1 and
2 ,
SAN No. 3204 Effluent -Guidelines and Standards for the Transportation Equipment Cleaning Category
SAN No. 3833 Effluent Guidelines and Standards for Iron and Steel Manufacturing Poirtt Source Category
SAN No 4050 Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the Pulp Paper and Paperboard Category Phase II
SAN No. 4QS6 Revisions to Effluent Guidelines and Standards for Synthetic-Based Drilling Fluids in the Oil and
Gas Extraction Point Source Category • • > •
SAN No. 4167 Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards for the Feedlots Point Source Category, Dairy and
Beef Cattle Subcategories
SAN No. 3661 Water Quality Standartis; Establishment of Numeric Criteria for Priority Toxic Pollutants; States'
Compliance
SAN No. 3921 Selenium Criterion Maximum Concentration for Water Quality Guidance for the Great Lakes Sys-
SAN No. 3618 Guidelines Establishing Whole Effluent Toxicity West Coast Test Procedures for the Analysis of
Pollutants Under the Clean Water Act
SAN No. 3702 Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures for the Analysis of Trace Metals Under the Clean Water
Act
SAN No. 3714 Increased Method Flexibility for Test Procedures Approved for Clean Water Act Compliance Moni-
toring
SAN No. 4049 Test Procedures for the Analysis of Co-Planar and Mono-Ortho-Substituted Polychlorinated
Biphenyls (PCBs) Under the Clean Water Act
SAN No. 4089 Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures for the Analysis of Miscellaneous Metals, Anions, and
Volatile Organics Under the Clean Water Act Phase Two
SAN No. 3234 Revision of NPDES Industrial Permit Application Requirements and Form 2C — Wastewater Dis-
charge Information
SAN No. 3786 NPDES Streamlining Rule — Round III
SAN No. 4207 Amendments to Round I Final Sewage Sludge Use or Disposal Rule — Phase Two
SAN No 3804 Streamlining 301 (h) Waiver Renewal Requirements
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2040-AB79
2040-AB98
2040-AC90
2040-AD10
2040-AD14
2040-AD21
2040-AC55
2040-AC97
2040-AC54
2040-AC75
2040-AC92
2040-AD09
2040-AD12
2040-AC26
2040-AC84
2040-AC53
2040-AC89
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Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)—Proposed Rule Stage
Sequence
Number
3579
3580
3581
3582
3583
3584
3585
3586
Title
SAN No. 4212 Use of Screening Procedures for Compliance Monitoring of Drinking Water Contaminants
SAN No. 2281 National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Radon
SAN No. 2340 National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Ground Water Rule
SAN No. 2807 National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Arsenic
SAN No. 4146 Filter Backwash Recycling Regulation
SAN No. 4147 Long Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
SAN No. 4009 Public Water System Public Notification Regulation
SAN No. 4131 Drinking Water Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Program
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2040-AD31
2040- AA94
2040-AA97
2040-AB75
2040-AD17
2040-AD18
2040-AD06
2040-AD15
Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)—Final Rule Stage
Sequence
Number
3587
3588
3589
3590
3591
3592
3593
3594
Title
SAN No. 4044 National Primary and Secondary Drinking Water Regulations: Analytical Methods for Certain Pes-
ticides and Microbial Contaminants
SAN No. 4257 National Primary and Secondary Drinking Water Regulations: Analytic Methods for Organic, Inor-
ganic and Microbiological Contaminants and Pesticides
SAN No. 4221 National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Analytical Methods for Microbial, Lead and Magne-
sium
SAN No. 3440 National Primary Drinking Water Regulations for Lead and Copper
SAN No. 3563 Reformatting of Drinking Water Regulations
SAN No. 3992 National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Radium, Uranium, Alpha, Beta and Photon Emitters
SAN No. 2778 Revisions to the Underground Injection Control Regulations for Class V Injection Wells
SAN No. 4152 Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Regulations
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2040-AD04
2040-AD29
2040-AD30
2040-AC27
2040-AC41
2040-AC98
2040-AB83
2040-AD20
Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)—Long-Term Actions
Sequence
Number
3595
3596
3597
SAN No. 3176
SAN No. 3238
SAN No. 3761
Title
National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Sulfate
National Primary Drinking Water Standards for Aidicarb
Streamlining Drinking Water Monitoring Requirements
Regulation
identifier
Number
2040-AC07
2040-AC13
2040-AC73
Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)—Completed Actions
Sequence
Number
3598
3599
Title
SAN
SAN
No.
No.
2772
2304
National
National
Primary Drinking Water
Primary Drinking Water
Regulations:
Regulations:
Stage I
Interim
Disinfectant/Disinfection By-Products Rule ..
Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule ...
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2040-AB82
2040-AC91
Marine Protection Research and Sanctuary Act (MPRSA)—Long-Term Actions
Sequence
Number
3600
Title
SAN No. 2737 Revisions to Ocean Dumping Regulations for Dredged Material
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2040-AB62
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Shore Protection Act (SPA)—Final Rule Stage
Sequence
Number
3601
Title
SAN No 2820 Shore Protection Act, Section 4103(b) Regulations
Regulation
Identifier
Number
2040-AB85
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
General
Proposed Rule Stage
3166. UTILIZATION OF SMALL,
MINORITY AND WOMEN'S BUSINESS
ENTERPRISES IN PROCUREMENT
UNDER ASSISTANCE AGREEMENTS
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: PL 101-507; PL 102-
389; PL 101-549 sec 1001; 42 USC
9605(f); PL 100-590; EO 12432; EO
12138; EO 11625
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 33
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The regulation will codify
revisions to the Agency's program for
the utilization of Small, Minority and
Women's Business Enterprises in
procurements under assistance
agreements (i.e., grants and cooperative
agreements awarded by EPA as well as
grants and cooperative agreements
awarded by other agencies under
interagency agreements with EPA). The
revisions are necessary to ensure
consistency with the Supreme Court's
decision in Adarand Constructors, Inc.
v. Pena, 115 S.Ct. 2097 (1995), and
were identified as part of the
Administration's recent review of
affirmative action programs. They
include: 1) placing greater emphasis on
requiring assistance agreement
recipients to submit documentation
supporting proposed fair share
procurement objectives for Minority
Business Enterprises (MBEs) and
Women's Business Enterprises (WBEs)
based on the availability of qualified
MBEs and WBEs in the relevant
geographic market; 2) authorizing or
requiring recipients and their prime
contractors to take reasonable
race/gender-conscious measures (e.g.
bidding credits) in the event that
race/gender-neutral efforts prove
inadequate to meet fair share objectives;
and 3) administering statutory
MBE/WBE objectives as a national goal,
allowing smaller or larger fair share
objectives for particular grants or
cooperative agreements based on the
availability standard.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
09/00/99
12/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4056
Agency Contact: Mark Gordon,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Small and Disadvantaged
Business Utilization, 1230, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-8886
Fax: 202 401-1080
Rebecca Neer, Environmental
Protection Agency, Office of Small and
Disadvantaged Business Utilization,
1230, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 280-4841
RIN: 2020-AA39
3167. REWRITING OF EPA
REGULATIONS IMPLEMENTING THE
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 5 USC 552
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 2
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This document sets forth
proposed revisions to the Agency's
regulations under the Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA). The FOIA
regulations have been streamlined and
condensed, in accordance with the
principles of the National Performance
Review, with more user-friendly
language wherever possible. These
revisions also reflect the principles
established by President Clinton and
Attorney General Reno in their FOIA
Policy Memoranda of October 4, 1993.
Additionally, the regulations have been
updated to reflect developments in the
case law and to include updated cost
figures to be used in calculating and
charging fees. These proposed revisions
also contain new provisions
implementing the Electronic Freedom
of Information Act Amendments of
1996. These revisions will simplify and
expedite responses to FOIA requests.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM 01/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 4180
Agency Contact: John Heinz,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Enforcement and Compliance
Assurance, 2377, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 260-5460
Fax: 202 260-0020
Email: heinz.john@epa.gov
Alan Margolis, Environmental
Protection Agency, Office of
Enforcement and Compliance
Assurance, 2377, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 260-5459
RIN: 2020-AA40
3168. • CROSS-MEDIA ELECTRONIC
REPORTING (ER) AND
RECORDKEEPING RULE
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
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Proposed Rule Stage
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: PL 105-277; PL 104-
13
CFR Citation: None
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The Cross-Media Electronic
Reporting (ER) and Recordkeeping Rule
will provide a uniform legal framework
for paperless ER, including electronic
signature/certification, across all EPA's
environmental compliance programs.
The rule will both remove current legal
requirements for "paper" that create
obstacles to ER and provide for
enforceable mechanisms to assure the
legal validity and authenticity of
electronic documents and associated
electronic signatures, whetiaer
transmitted as reports or maintained as
records. This rule is important because
the legal and electronic signature issues
remain the chief obstacle to
implementation of ER, and affect the
overall enforceability of environmental
programs both federally and under state
delegation/authorization. Also, the
Government Paperwork Elimination Act
of 1998 requirements and the
Administrator's Reinventing
Environmental Information (REI) Action
Plan goal of universal ER availability
by 2003 can only be met if this
rulemaking has active participation by
the AA-ships and moves on a fast track.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
12/00/99
01/00/01
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4270
Agency Contact: Evi Huffer,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Enforcement and Compliance
Assurance, 2137, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-0004
Fax: 202 260-9322
Email: huffer.evi@epa.gov
David Schwarz, Environmental
Protection Agency, Office of
Enforcement and Compliance
Assurance, 2137, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 260-2710
Fax: 202 260-9322
Email: schwarz.david@epa.gov
RIN: 2020-AA41
3169. REVISION TO 40 CFR 35
SUBPART A AND PROMULGATION OF
PERFORMANCE PARTNERSHIP
(STATE) GRANT REGULATION
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: PL 104-134; PL 105-
65
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 35
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This proposed regulation: (1)
updates, clarifies, and streamlines
requirements governing environmental
program grants; (2) establishes
requirements for the new Performance
Partnership Grant (PPG) program; and
(3) establishes requirements for grant
programs that began after the original
rule was published. (A regulation
governing environmental program
grants to Indian tribes and tribal
consortia is published elsewhere in this
issue of the Federal Register.)
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
07/00/99
11/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Governmental
Jurisdictions, Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3736
Agency Contact: Scott McMoran,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Administration and Resources
Management, 3903R, WashingtonTDC
20460
Phone: 202 564--S376
RIN: 2030-AA55
3170. REVISION TO 40 CFR 35
SUBPART A AND PROMULGATION OF
PERFORMANCE PARTNERSHIP
(TRIBAL) GRANT RULE
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort.'It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: PL 104-134; PL 105-
65
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 35
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This proposed regulation
will: (1) update, clarify, and streamline
requirements governing environmental
program grants; (2) establish
requirements for the new Performance
Partnership Grant (PPG) program; and
(3) establish requirements for grant
programs that were developed after the
original rule was published. (EPA is
also issuing a regulation governing
environmental program grants to State
and Interstate agencies.)
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 07/00/99
Final Action 11/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Governmental
Jurisdictions, Organizations
Government Levels Affected: Tribal,
Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4128
Agency Contact: Maureen Ross,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Administration and Resources
Management, 3903R, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-5356
RUM: 2030-AA56
3171. REVISION TO EPAAR 1552.211-
73, LEVEL OF EFFORT
Priority: Info./Admin./Other
Legal Authority: 5 USC 301 Sec 205(c);
63 Stat 390 as amended
-GFR-Gltatlon:-48 CFR 1552
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This rule will revise EPAAR
1552.211-73, Level of Effort, to define
more concisely the services being
acquired, and to more accurately reflect
the relationship between services
provided and fee payments.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
07/00/99
10/00/99
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EPA—GENERAL
Proposed Rule Stage
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: None
Procurement: This is a procurement-
related action for which there is no
statutory requirement. There is no
paperwork burden associated with this
action.
Additional Information: SAN No. 4191
Agency Contact: Larry Wyborski,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Administration and Resources
Management, 3802R, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-4369
Fax: 202 565-2551
Email: wyhorski.larry@epa.gov
RIN: 2030-AA64
3172. • INCORPORATING INFORMAL
CLAUSES (EP) INTO THE EPAAR
Priority: Info./Admin./Other
Legal Authority: 5 USC 301 Sec 205(c);
63 Stat 390, as amended
CFR Citation: Not yet determined.
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This rule is being
promulgated to amend the EPAAR to
incorporate Environmental Protection
(EP) clauses into the EPAAR. There are
a large number of EP clauses being
used by contracting officers. This
promulgation will capture those EP
clauses that have not been submitted
for public comment. Most of the EP
clauses are used in contracts on a case-
by-case basis. The contractor concurs
with use of such clauses.
Timetable:
Administration and Resources
Management, 3802R, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-4366
Fax: 202 565-2551
Email: schaffer.paul@epa.gov
RIN: 2030-AA66
3173. INCORPORATION OF CLASS
DEVIATIONS INTO EPAAR
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority. 40 USC 486(c)
CFR Citation: 48 CFR 1537; 48 CFR
1552
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The Agency has approved a
number of class deviations (e.g. changes
to reporting requirements and monthly
progress reports) to the EPAAR since
its promulgation in April 1994. This
proposed rule would incorporate most
of the class deviations to the EPAAR.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Rule
08/00/99
11/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Procurement: This is a procurement-
related action for which there is no
statutory requirement. The agency has
not yet determined whether there is a
paperwork burden associated with this
action.
Additional Information: SAN No. 4226
Agency Contact: Paul Schaffer,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Program. Participating prime
contractors serving as mentors will
provide technical and managerial
support to protege small disadvantaged
business subcontractors.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
05/00/99
07/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None-
Procurement: This is a procurement-
related action for which there is no
statutory requirement. There is a
paperwork burden associated with this
action.
Additional Information: SAN No. 3580
Agency Contact: Frances Smith,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Administration and Resources
Management, 3802R, Washington, DC
20460 .
Phone: 202 564-4368
Fax: 202 565-2475
RIN: 2030-AA37
3174. EPA MENTOR-PROTEGE
PROGRAM
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 40 USC 486 (c)
CFR Citation: 48 CFR 1544; 48 CFR
1552
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This proposed rule will.
amend EPA's Acquisition Regulation
(EPAAR) to establish a Mentor-Protege
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
07/00/99
09/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: None
Procurement: This is a procurement-
related action for which there is no
statutory requirement. There is no
paperwork burden associated with this
action.
Additional Information: SAN No. 3629
Agency Contact: Frances Smith,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Administration and Resources
Management, 3802R, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-4368
Fax: 202 565-2475
RIN: 2030-AA40
3175. INCREMENTALLY FUNDING
FIXED PRICE CONTRACTS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Unfunded Mandates: This action may
affect the private sector under
PL 104-4.
Legal Authority: 40 USC 486(c)
CFR Citation: 48 CFR 1532
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This proposed rule will add
subpart 1532.7, Contract Funding, to
the Environmental Protection Agency's
Acquisition Regulation (EPAAR). It also
will revise part 1552 of the EPAAR to
include a clause for incrementally
funding fixed price contracts.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
08/00/99
10/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: None
Procurement: This is a procurement-
related action for which there is no
statutory requirement. There is no
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Proposed Rule Stage
, paperwork burden associated with, this
action.
Additional Information: SAN No. 3876
Agency Contact: Frances Smith,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Administration and Resources
Management, 3802R, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 260 564-4368
Fax: 202 565-2475
RIN: 2030-AA50
3176. REVISION OF EPA ACQUISITION
REGULATIONS FOR QUALITY
SYSTEMS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL
PROGRAMS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 40 USC 486(c)
CFR Citation: 48 CFR 1546.2
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA is updating the quality
assurance requirements in its
Acquisition Regulation (EPAAR). The
Agency relies on environmental
measurement data in many of its
activities, including regulatory
development, the application of
regulations (e.g., permitting,
enforcement actions), and research
programs. The Agency must be ensured
that the data are of appropriate type
and quality to support the proposed use
(that data meet the needs for
rulemaking, enforcement action, etc.).
The extramural community has been
using the existing EPAAR QA
requirements since 1984 and recognizes
the need to update these requirements
to reflect the current understanding of
quality systems.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
06/00/99
09/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: None
Procurement: This is a procurement-
ralated action for which there is no
statutory requirement. The agency has
not yet determined whether there is a
paperwork burden associated with this
acuon.
Additional Information: SAN No. 3874
Agency Contact: Linda Avellar,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Administration and Resources
Management, 3802R, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-4356
Fax: 202 565-2475
RIN: 2030-AA51
3177. IMPLEMENTATION OF
CHANGES TO 40 CFR PART 32
Priorityrlnfo./Admin./Other
Legal Authority: EO 12549; EO 12689
and FASA
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 32
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: Periodically OMB amends the
Governmentwide Common Rule for
suspension and debarment of
contractors and assistance participants
who threaten the integrity of Federal
programs because of criminal
misconduct or poor performance. All
agencies must issue changes to their
individual codified versions to conform
to the Common Rule,. Recently, the
Interagency Suspension and Debarment
Coordinating Committee prepared
recommendations for comprehensive
changes to the Common Rule to
conform to changes made in the
Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)
as a result of the Federal Acquisition
Streamlining Act (FASA). In addition,
several other proposals to improve or
change the rule were recommended by
various agencies. In December 1996,
OMB declined to implement the
changes at that time due to differences
with some agencies about some changes
unrelated to those occasioned by FASA.
Among other things, FASA replaced the
small purchase threshold ($25,000)
with the simplified acquisition amount
($100,000). That change unintentionally
exposed certain EPA programs to
participation by contractors who may
have been debarred for serious
misconduct already. OMB has agreed to
permit agencies to amend the coverage
section of their individual agency rules
to reduce or eliminate exposure to
suspended or debarred persons.
EPA intends to issue a notice of
proposed rulemaking to amend 40 CFR
32.110 to reduce EPA exposure to such
consequences.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
09/00/99
12/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entitles Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3817
This is an assistance-related statutory
requirement. There is no paperwork
burden associated with this action.
Agency Contact: Robert Meunier,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Administration and Resources
Management, 3901R, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-5399
Fax: 202 565-2469
RiN: 2030-AA48
3178. CONSOLIDATION OF GOOD
LABORATORY PRACTICE
STANDARDS (GLPS) REGULATIONS
CURRENTLY UNDER TSCA AND
FIFRA INTO ONE RULE
Priority: Info./Admin./Other
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 7 USC 136 et seq; 15
USC 2601 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 160; 40 CFR 792
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: On November 29,1983, EPA
published Good Laboratory Practice
Standards (GLPS) regulations intended
to help ensure data integrity for studies
required to support marketing and
research permits under the Federal
Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide
Act (FIFRA) and the Toxic Substances
Control Act (TSCA). These rules were
last amended on August 17, 1989.
GLPS data integrity measures can be
applied to a wide variety of scientific
studies. Although the TSCA and FIFRA
GLPS contain identical provisions, they
were published as separate rules to
account for statutory and program
differences between TSCA and FIFRA,
such as differences in records retention
requirements. EPA believes it will be
able to address the differences between
TSCA and FIFRA, such as differences
in records retention requirements. EPA
believes it will be able to address the
differences of those programs without
duplicating the entire GLP standard in
two places.
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Proposed Rule Stage
This action is intended to consolidate
EPA's GLPS into one rule. Program-
specific requirements will be addressed
in either separate sections of the
consolidated rule, or in separate rules
as is determined appropriate. This
action is not intended to change the
requirements, applicability, or
enforceability of GLPS with respect to
any statute.
EPA has received comments from
stakeholders regarding the
understandability of many aspects of
the GLPS, and over the years has issued
numerous clarifications. EPA believes
that some clarifications, if included
directly in the rule, would make the
rule easier to understand and enhance
compliance. Therefore, EPA intends to
include such clarifications where
appropriate in this rulemaking. Finally,
in the interest of maintaining
consistency between EPA's and Food
and Drug Administration's regulations,
EPA will determine any modifications
that have occurred to the FDA GLP rule
and consider incorporation of such
changes into the EPA rule. This action
will serve to reduce the total regulatory
text in the Code of Federal Regulations
by an estimated 10 pages, by
consolidating 23 pages of text to
approximately 13. In the process it will
provide a generic GLP rule that may
be used by other programs in the
Agency.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 05/00/99
Final Action 05/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3807
Agency Contact: David Stangel,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Enforcement and Compliance
Assurance, 2225A, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-4162
Fax: 202 564-0028
RIN: 2020-AA26
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
General
Final Rule Stage
3179. ELECTRONIC FUNDS
TRANSFER
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 5 USC 301 Sec 205(c);
63 Stat 390 as amended
CFR Citation: 48 CFR 1532.11
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This rule complies with the
revised Federal Acquisition Regulations
(FAR) coverage regarding
implementation of the Debt Collection
Improvement Act. Because the revised
FAR offers choices in implementation,
each agency must communicate with its
vendor noTn.TniTn.ity its choices. This
rule will let our vendor community
know that EPA will require the use of •
FAR Clause 52.232-34, Payment by
Electronic Funds Transfer (Non-CCR),
as prescribed in FAR 32.1105(a)(2).
Within the Clause, under (c) the
payment office shall be inserted as the
prescribed designated office. Further
inserted shall be that the required EFT
information shall be provided no later
than 15 days prior to submission of the
first request for payment.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
Direct Final Rule 05/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: None
Procurement: This is a procurement-
related action for which there is no
statutory requirement. There is no
paperwork burden associated with this
action.
Additional Information: SAN No. 4185
Agency Contact: Cal McWhirter,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Administration and Resources
Management, 3802R, Washington, DC
20460
•Phone: 202 564-4379
Fax: 202 565-2552
Email: ames.sheila@epa.gov
RiN: 2030-AA57
3180. AGENCY PROTEST
SOLICITATION NOTIFICATION
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 5 USG 301 Sec. 205(c);
63 Stat 390 as amended
CFR Citation: 48 CFR 1533; 48 CFR
1552
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract:: This rule will establish a
solicitation notice regarding Agency
protests in the EPA Acquisition
Regulation. All solicitations currently
contain a notice on how to protest an
acquisition to the Agency. This
notification is to be published in the
EPAAR, since it affects parties outside
the Agency.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
Direct Final Rule
04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities^ Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: None
Procurement: This is a procurement-
related action for which there is no
statutory requirement. There is no
paperwork burden associated with this
action.
Additional Information: SAN No. 4183
Agency Contact: Linda Avellar,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Administration and Resources
Management, 3802R, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-4356
Fax: 202 565-2551
Email: avellar.linda@epa.gov
RIN: 2030-AA58
3181. CONTRACTING BY
NEGOTIATION
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 5 USC 301 sec 205(c);
63 Stat 390 as amended
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Final Rule Stage
CFR Citation: 48 CFR 1503; 48 CFR
1515; 48 CFR 1552
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This rule is being
promulgated to redesignate EPAAR
subparts and sections for structural
conformance with, the FAR part 15
rewrite as published on September 30,
1997, and EPA implemented on
December 19, 1997. The EPAAR is in
substantive compliance, but requires
extensive redesignation for structural
conformance to the FAR. Also, EPAAR
1515 is of critical importance to the
effective and efficient accomplishment
of EPA acquisitions. The substance of
EPAAR 1515 was published previously
for public comment.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM 12/28/98 63 FR 71415
Final Action 04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entitles Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: None
Procurement: This is a procurement-
related action for which there is no
statutory requirement. There is no
paperwork burden associated with this
action.
Additional Information: SAN No. 4184
Agency Contact: Louise Senzel,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Administration and Resources
Management, 3802R, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-4367
Fax: 202 565-2551
Email: senzel.louise@epa.gov
RIN: 2030-AA59
3182. EPAAR COVERAGE ON
CONTRACTOR PERFORMANCE
EVALUATIONS
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 5 USC 301 Sec 205(c);
63 Stat 390 as amended
CFR Citation: 48 CFR 1509; 48 CFR
1552
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This rule will establish a.
solicitation provision and contract
clause in the EPA Acquisition
Regulation to be used when evaluating
contractor performance. The rule
provides a uniform method for
determinuig and recording the
effectiveness of contractors in meeting
contractual obligations. It also provides
a systematic approach for identifying
and maintaining records of contractors'
performance histories. This rule will
satisfy the Federal Acquisition
Regulation requirements pertaining to
the establishment of a past performance
evaluation system.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
09/16/98 63 FR 49530
04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: None
Procurement: This is a procurement
related action for which there is a
statutory requirement. There is no
paperwork burden associated with this
action.
Additional Information: SAN No. 4186
Agency Contact: Frances Smith,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Administration and Resources
Management, 3802R, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-4368
Fax: 202 565-2475
Email: smith.frances@epa.gov
RIN: 2030-AA61
3183. EPAAR COVERAGE ON LOCAL
MIRING AND TRAINING
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 5 USC 301 sec 205(c);
63 Stat 390 as amended
CFR Citation: 48 CFR 1526; 48 CFR
1552
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This rule will amend the EPA
Acquisition Regulation (EPAAR) to
include part 1526, Other
Socioeconomic Programs, and to revise
part 1552, Solicitation Provisions and
Contract Clauses. The purpose is to
provide an incentive for prime
contractors to utilize local hiring and
provide training to local hires in
specific geographical locations where
contractual requirements will be
performed. This incentive will support
economic development in areas where
EPA contracts are performed.
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM 12/09/98 63 FR 67845
Final Action 06/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Procurement: This is a procurement-
related action for which there is no
statutory requirement. There is no
paperwork burden associated with this
action.
Additional Information: SAN No. 4187
Agency Contact: Frances Smith,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Administration and Resources
Management, 3802R, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-4368
Fax: 202 565-2475
Email: smith.frances@epa.gov
RIN: 2030-AA62
3134. SERVICE CONTRACTING—
AVOIDING IMPROPER PERSONAL
SERVICES RELATIONSHIPS
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 5 USC 301 sec 205(c);
63 Stat 390 as amended
CFR Citation: 48 CFR 1537; 48 CFR
1552
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This rule is being
promulgated to amend the EPAAR to
highlight the proper relationship
between the Government and its
contractors in nonpersonal services
contracts. The Agency recognizes that
regardless of the express terms of its
contracts, if a contract is administered
improperly, an improper personal
services relationship may be the result.
Accordingly, the Agency will use this
rule to state the manner in which
nonpersonal services contracts must be
administered to avoid creating an
improper employer-employee
relationship.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final
01/20/99 64 FR 3060
06/00/99 .
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Final Rule Stage
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: None
Procurement: This is a procurement-
related action for which there is no
statutory requirement. There is no
paperwork burden associated with this
action.
Additional Information: SAN No. 4188
Agency Contact: Louise Senzel,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Administration'and Resources
Management, 3802R, Washington, DC
.20460
Phone: 202 564-4367
Fax: '202 565-2551
• Email: senzel.louise@epa.gov
RIN: 2030-AA63
3185. GUIDELINES FOR CARCINOGEN
RISK ASSESSMENT
Priority: Info./Admin./Other
Legal Authority: Not applicable
CFR Citation: Not applicable
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The Agency will use these
guidelines to evaluate suspect
carcinogens in line with the -policies
and procedures established in the
statutes administered by the EPA.
These guidelines revise and replace
EPA Guidelines for Carcinogen Risk
Assessment published at 51 FR 33992,
September 24, 1986. These guidelines
provide EPA staff and decision-makers
with the directions and perspectives
necessary to develop and use risk
assessments. The guidelines also
provide the general public with basic
information about the Agency's
approaches to risk assessment.
To develop guidelines the Agency must
find a balance between consistency and
innovation. Consistent risk assessments
provide consistent bases to support
regulatory decision-making. On the
other hand, innovation is necessary so
the Agency will base its decisions on
current scientific thinking. In balancing
these and other science policies, the
Agency relies on input from the general
scientific community through
established scientific peer review
processes. The 'guidelines incorporate
basic principles and science policies
based on evaluation of the currently
available information. The revisions
place increased emphasis on the role
of carcinogenic mechanisms in risk
assessment and clearer explication of
underlying assumptions in risk
assessment.
These guidelines will have minimal tp
no impact on small businesses or State,
local, and tribal governments.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
Reproposecl 04/23/96 61 FR 17960
Guidelines
Implementation Policy 06/25/96 61 FR 32799
Rnal Guidelines 11/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3671
Agency Contact: William Wood,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Research and Development,
8103, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 564-3358
RIN: 2080-AA06
3186. AMENDMENTS TO PART 22
CONSOLIDATED PROCEDURAL
RULES
Priority: Info./Admin./Other
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 7 USC. 1361; 15 USC
2615'(a); 15 USC 2647; 33 USC 1319(g);
33 USC 1415(a); 33 USC 1418; 42 USC
69J2; 42 USC 7413(d)(l); 42 USC 7601;
42'USC 7607(a); 42 USC 9609; 42 USC
11045; 42 USC 300g-3(b)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 22
Legal .Deadline: None
Abstract: The Agency has proposed
(February 25, 1998) amendments to the
Consolidated Rules of Practice under 40
pFR part 22 which are the procedural
rules us.ed in administrative hearings
and practice. These amendments will
include technical corrections as well as
substantive amendments. The proposed
substantive amendments pertain to the
handling and use of Confidential
Business Information, burdens of proof,
motion practice, cross appeals, and
more;
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
02/25/98 63. FR 9465
04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 2662
Agency Contact: Scott Garrison,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Enforcement and Compliance
Assurance, 2 248A, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 260-0569
RIN: 2020-AA13
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
General
Long-Term Actions
3187. PUBLIC INFORMATION AND
CONFIDENTIALITY REGULATIONS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 5 USC 552; 7 USC 136
et seq; 33 USC 1251 et seq; 42 USC
300f et seq; 42 USC 6901 et seq; 42
USC 7401 et seq; 42 USC 9601 et seq;
42 USC 11001 et seq; 15 USC 2601 et
seq; 42 USC 4912; 33 USC 1414; 21
USC 346; 15 USC 2005
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 2; 40 CFR 57;
40 CFR 122; 40 CFR 123; 40 CFR 145;
40 CFR 233; 40 CFR 260; 40 CFR 270;
40 CFR 271; 40 CFR 281; 40 CFR 350;
40 CFR 403; 40 CFR 85; 40 CFR 86
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA regulations at 40 CFR
part 2, subpart B, provide procedures
for handling and disclosing information
claimed as CBI. Although these
regulations have succeeded in-
protecting business information,
changes in Agency workload, practice,
and statutory authority have
outstripped the ability of these
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Long-Term Actions
regulations to cut down on unnecessary
Erocedures, expedite activities
ivolving confidential business
Information, and simplify the
regulations. In addition, EPA would
consolidate confidentiality provisions
from other parts of 40 CFR.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 11/23/94 59 FR 60446
Final Action To Be Determined
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Yes
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3240
Agency Contact: Alan Margolis,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Enforcement and Compliance
Assurance, 2379, Washington, DC
20460
Phono: 202 260-5459
RIN: 2020-AA21
3188. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
ASSESSMENT OF
NONGOVERNMENTAL ACTIVITIES IN
ANTARCTICA
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 16 USC 2401 et seq,
as amended; 16 USC 2403a; PL 104-
227
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 8
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, October 2, 1998.
Abstract: The purpose of this action is
to develop regulations for: (1) the
environmental impact assessment of
nongovernmental activities, including
tourism, for which the United States is
required to give advance notice under
paragraph 5 of Article VII of the
Antarctic Treaty and (2) coordination
of the review of information regarding
environmental impact assessment
received by the United States from
other parties under the Protocol on
Environmental Protection. The Office of
Federal Activities (OECA/OFA) will use
the decisionmaking process of the
National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA) to analyze the environmental
setting; the types of nongovernmental
activities, including tourism, to be
addressed by the regulations; their
potential for impact; and the
alternatives available under rulemaking
for environmental impact assessments
for nongovernmental activities. An
interim final-rule, 40 CFR part 8,
promulgated April 30, 1997, and on
July 15, 1998 extended through the
2000-2001 austral summer, will be
replaced by a final rule. The interim
final rule was effective immediately so
that the U.S. could ratify the Protocol
and implement its obligations under
the Protocol as soon as it entered into
force. These rules are being developed
in coordination with other Federal
agencies with specific interests in and
expertise with Antarctica including the
Department of State, National Science
Foundation, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, U.S.
Coast Guard, Marine Mammal
Commission, Department of Justice, and
the Council on Environmental Quality.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
Interim Final Rule . 04/30/97 62 FR 23538
Extension of Effective 04/15/98 63 FR 18323
Date Interim Rule
Final Action 01/00/01
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3933
Agency Contact: Joseph Montgomery,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Enforcement and Compliance
Assurance, 2252A, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-7157
Fax: 202 564-0072
Email: montgomery.joseph@epa.gov
Katherine Biggs, Environmental
Protection Agency, Office of
Enforcement and Compliance
Assurance, 2252A, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-7144
Fax: 202 564-0072
Email: biggs.katherine@epa.gov
RIN: 2020-AA34
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
General
Completed Actions
3189. • ACQUISITION REGULATION:
TYPES OF CONTRACTS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 63 Stat 390 as
amended
CFR Citation: 48 CFR 1516; 48 CFR
1552
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing this
proposed rule to amend the EPA
Acquisition Regulation (EPAAR) (48
CFR Chapter 15) to extend the fee
limitations imposed at FAR
tS.404(c)(4)(i) to cost-plus-award fee
and cost-plus incentive fee contracts.
EPA has determined that its contracting
officers shall not negotiate a price or
maximum fee on cost- plus-award fee
contracts or cost-plus incentive fee
contracts that exceeds the following
statutory limitations, imposed for cost-
plus-fixed fee contracts by 41 USC
254(b): (1) For experimental,
developmental, or research work
performed under a cost-plus-award fee
or cost-plus incentive fee contract, the
maximum fee shall not exceed 15
percent of the contract's estimated
costs, excluding fee. (2) For architect-
engineering services for public works
or utilities, the contract price or the
estimated cost and fee for production
and delivery of designs, plans,
drawings, and specifications shall not
exceed 6 percent of the estimated cost
of the construction of the public work
or utility, excluding fee. (3) For other
cost-plus-award fee or cost-plus
incentive fee contracts, the maximum
fee shall not exceed 10 percent of the
contract's estimated cost,, excluding fee.
Additionally, this rule provides revised
references to parallel Federal
Acquisition changes.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
Direct Final Rule
01/26/99 64 FR 3875
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
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Completed Actions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Procurement: This is a procurement-
related action for which there is no
statutory requirement. There is no
paperwork burden associated with this
action.
Additional Information: SAN No. 4215
Agency Contact: Louise Senzel,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Administration and Resources
Management, 3802R, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-4367
Fax: 202 565-2551
Email: senzel.louise@epa.gov
BIN: 2030--AA65
3190. REGULATIONS GOVERNING
AWARDS UNDER SECTION 113(F) OF
THE CLEAN AIR ACT
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 65
Completed:
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Withdrawn-The 02/26/99
Agency Plans No
Further Action.
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Agency Contact: Gary Secrest
Phone: 202 564-8661
RIN: 2020-AA31
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Clean Air Act (CAA)
Prerule Stage
3191. « CONTROL OF HIGHWAY
DIESEL FUEL QUALITY: ADVANCE
NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7545(c)
CFR Citation: Not yet determined
Legal Deadline: None
• Abstract: This is an Advance Notice
of Proposed Rulemaking which will
seek comment on a range of issues
involved in possible future regulation
of pollutants in diesel fuel.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
ANPRM 04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 4268
Agency Contact: Don Kopinski,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, OMS/EPGD, Ann Arbor,
MI 48105
Phone: 734 214-4229
Fax: 734 214-4781
Email: kopinski.donald@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AI32
3192. IMPLEMENTATION OF OZONE
AND PARTICULATE MATTER (PM)
NATIONAL AMBIENT AIR QUALITY
STANDARDS (NAAQS) AND
REGIONAL HAZE REGULATIONS
Priority: Other Significant
Unfunded Mandates: This action may
affect the private sector under
PL 104-4.
Legal Authority: Clean Air Act
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 50; 40 CFR 51;
40 CFR 52; 40 CFR 81
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA issued new, updated air
quality standards for ozone (62 FR
38856) and particulate matter (PM) (62
FR 38652). Pursuant to President
Clinton's implementation strategy as
outlined in a July 16, 1997
memorand.um to EPA Administrator
Carol Browner, EPA is developing
guidance and rules for sensibly and
cost-effectively meeting the new
standards. EPA is publishing guidance
and rules in 1998 and 1999. For ozone,
the implementation plan will
emphasize a regional, State-sponsored
approach that addresses the long-
distance transport of ozone. On October
27, 1998, EPA published a final rule
(sometimes referred to as the NOx SIP
Call) to require broad regional
emissions reductions of NOx gases
which contribute to the formation of
ozone (63 FR 57356, October 27, 1998).
In order to help areas covered by EPA's
regional plan avoid burdensome
measures associated with
noncompliance, EPA will create a new
transitional classification. Areas that
attain the 1-hour standard but not the
new 8-hour standard as of the time EPA
promulgates designations for the 8-hour
standard could obtain this new
classification if they participate in a
regional strategy and?or opt to submit
early plans addressing the new 8-hour
standard. Because many areas will need
little or no additional new local
emission reductions to reach
attainment, beyond the reductions that
will be achieved through/the regional
control strategy, and will come into
attainment earlier than otherwise
required, EPA will exercise its
discretion under the law to eliminate
unnecessary local planning
requirements for such areas. EPA will
revise its rules for new source review
(NSR) and conformity so that States
will be able to comply with only minor
revisions to their existing programs in
areas classified as transitional, (cont)
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
ANPRM 12/13/96 61 FR 65764
Notice Proposed 12/13/96 61 FR 65752
Policy
NPRM Regional Haze ,07/31/97 62 FR 41138
Notice Review 10/23/97 62 FR 55201
Schedule for PM2.5
Standard
NPRM NOx Regional 11/07/97 62 FR 60318
Strategy SIP Call
Supplemental NPRM 05/11/98 63 FR 25902
NOx SIP Call
Supplemental
NPRM
Final Rule Areas
meeting 1 -hour
ozone standard
Final Rule Additional
areas meeting 1 -
hour ozone
standard
Final Rule NOx 10/27/98 63 FR 57356
Regional Strategy
SIP Call
Draft Guidance 11/17/98 63 FR 65593
implementation
Planning
ANPRM Extension of 04/00/99
Attainment Dates for
Downwind
Transport Areas
NPRM172e 04/00/99
Antibacksliding for
PM10
NPRM NSR for 05/00/99
Transitional Areas
06/05/98 63 FR 31013
07/22/98 63 FR 39432
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Action
Date FR Cite
Final Guidance 05/00/99
Implementation
Planning
Final Rule Regional 05/00/99
Haze
Final Rule 172e 09/00/99
Antibaokslidingfor
PM10
Final Rule Conformity 10/00/99
forTransitional
Areas
Final Rule NSR for 12/00/99
Transitional Areas
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3553
ABSTRACT CONT: In a final rule
promulgated on June 5,1998, EPA
identified areas that have air quality
meeting the 1-nour ozone standard and
revoked that standard for those areas
(63 FR 31013, June 5, 1998). A
subsequent final rule for additional
ozone areas attaining the 1-hour
standard was promulgated on July 22,
1998 (63 FR 39432).
For PM10, EPA revised the set of
standards that had existed since 1987.
Given that health effects from coarse
particles are still of concern, the overall
goal during this transition period is to
ensure that PM10 control measures
remain in place to maintain the
progress that has been achieved toward
attainment of the PMlO NAAQS
(progress which also provides benefits
for PM2.5) and protection of public
health. To ensure that this goal is met,
the pre-existing PM10 NAAQS will
continue to apply until certain critical
actions by EPA and by States and local
agencies nave been taken to sustain the
progress already made. For areas not
attaining the existing PM10 NAAQS
when the revised standards go into
effect, those existing standards remain
In effect until EPA has completed a
section 172(e) rulemaking to prevent
backsliding. EPA will propose this
rulemaking in the spring of 1998. For
areas attaining the pre-existing PMlO
NAAQS, EPA will retain that standard
until the State submits and EPA
approves the section 110 SIP which
States are required to submit within 3
years of a NAAQS revision. Once those
areas have an approved SIP, EPA will
take action so that the pre-existing
PMlO standard no longer applies. In
addition, EPA will take action within
3 years to designate areas for the
revised PMlO standards.
EPA's approach to addressing regional
haze was proposed concurrently with
the promulgation of the-final ozone and
PM NAAQS. EPA plans to promulgate
the regional haze rulemaking in the
'Spring of 1999.
Agency Contact: Denise Gerth,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-15, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5550
Fax: 919 541-0824
Email: gerth.denise@epa.gov
John Silvasi, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-15,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5666
Fax: 919 541-0824
Email: silvasi.john@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AF34
3193. PROTECTION OF
STRATOSPHERIC OZONE:
ALLOWANCE SYSTEM FOR
CONTROLLING HCFC PRODUCTION,
IMPORT & EXPORT
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 82.8
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action will begin with
development of an ANPRM which will
outline a variety of options under
whiclrthe Stratospheric Protection
Division could develop and implement
an allowance distribution system for
HCFCs, and request comment on which
options would be most appropriate.
SPD currently oversees an allowance
allocation system for the class I ozone-
depleting substances. A class n
allowance distribution system had not
been required, because of the early
estimates that the U.S. would not reach
its HCFC production and consumption
. cap imposed by the Montreal Protocol
in the near future. As people'phase out
of class I substances, the demand for
HCFCs has increased, as has the
production and importation to meet
that demand. As a consequence, EPA
is exploring potential options for an
allowance distribution system that
would ensure that the U.S. does not
violate its HCFC cap under the
Montreal Protocol.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
ANPRM
ANPRM Comment
Period End
NPRM
Final Action
04/05/99 64 FR 16373
06/04/99
11/00/99
03/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Yes
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 4120
Additional deadline: Montreal Protocol.
The Protocol requires compliance with
a formulary cap of all Parties'
consumption of HCFCs.
The ANPRM is available on the Internet
at:
http ://www. epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-AIR/
1999/April/Day-05/a8258.htm
Agency Contact: Sue Stendebach,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, 6205J, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-9117
Fax: 202 565-2093
Email: stendebach.sue@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AH67
3194. PROTECTION OF
STRATOSPHERIC OZONE: UPDATE
OF THE SUBSTITUTES LIST UNDER
THE SIGNIFICANT NEW
ALTERNATIVES POLICY (SNAP)
PROGRAM
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7414; 42 USC
7601; 42 USC 7671k CAA sec 612
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 9; 40 CFR 82
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: Section 612 of the Clean Air
Act requires EPA to identify
alternatives to Class I and II ozone
depleting substances and to publish
lists of acceptable and unacceptable
siibstitutes. Producers of substitutes
must notify EPA at least 90 days before
alternatives are introduced into
interstate commerce. Unlike acceptable
alternatives (see Notices), substitutes
which are deemed by EPA to be
unacceptable or acceptable subject to
use restrictions must go through notice
and comment rulemaking. Substitute
lists are updated intermittently
depending on the volume of
notifications.
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Prerule Stage
Timetable:
Action
ANPRM
NPRM
Final Rule
Notice
NPRM
Notice
Final Rule
Notice
NPRM
Notice
NPRM
Final Rule
Notice
Date FR Cite
01/16/92 57 FR 1984
05/12/93 58 FR 28094
03/18/94 59 FR 13044
08/26/94 59 FR 44240
09/26/94 59 FR 491 08
01/13/95 60 FR 331 8
06/13/95 60 FR 31 092
07/28/95 60 FR 38729
10/02/95 60 FR 51 383
02/08/96 61 FR 4736
05/22/96 61 FR 25604
05/22/96 61 FR 25585
09/05/96 61 FR 47012
Action
Final Rule
Notice
NPRM
Notice
NPRM
Notice
Notice
Notice 1 0
Interim Final Rule
Interim Final Rule
NPRM
NPRM
ANPRM
Final Rule
Date FR Cite
10/16/96 61 FR 54030
03/10/97 62 FR 10700
05/21/97 62 FR 27874
06/03/97 62 FR 30275
02/03/98 63 FR 5491
02/24/98 63 FR 91 51
05/22/98 63 FR 28251
01/21/99 64 FR 3296
01/26/99 64 FR 3861
01/26/99 64 FR 3865
02/18/99 64 FR 8038
02/28/99 -64 FR 8038
04/00/99
04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3525
(Generic SAN)
. Agency Contact: Kelly Davis,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, 6205J, Washington, DC
Phone: 202 564-2303
Fax' 202 565-2096
RIN: 2060-AG12
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Clean Air Act (CAA)
Proposed Rule Stage
3195. NESHAP: CARBON BLACK
PRODUCTION
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAA 112
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: The purpose of this action is
to develop a Maximum Achievable
Control Technology (MACT) Standard
for the production of carbon black. The
Clean Air Amendments of 1990 require
this action to be promulgated by
November 15, 2000. The production of
carbon black results in the release to
the air of three hazardous air pollutants
(HAPs) identified by the Act: carbon
disulfide, carbonyl sulfide, and
hydrogen cyanide. Health effects of
these chemicals include acute effects
such as nausea, headache, increased
rate of respiration, eye and skin
irritation and other effects. Chronic
effects can include cardiovascular and
respiratory effects. Additionally carbon
disulfide has been observed to cause
reproductive effects such as congenital
malformations, embryotoxicity, and
functional and behavioral disturbances
in animal studies. Carbon black is
widely used as a reinforcing agent for
rubber. It is also used as a colorant for
printing ink, painting, paper and
plastics. By far the largest use of carbon
. black is in the manufacture of
automotive tires. There are 21 carbon
black facilities in the Nation. Carbon
black is manufactured by burning
hydrocarbons in a limited supply of air.
This produces a black smoke
containing extremely small carbon
black particles which can be separated
from the combustion gases to form a
fluffy powder of intense blackness.
Timetable:
Action
. Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Sectors Affected: 325182 Carbon Black
Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 4105
Agency Contact: John Schaefer,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-0296
Fax: 919 541-3470
Email: schaefer.john@epa.gov
Penny Lassiter, Environmental
Protection Agency, Air and Radiation,
MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC
27711
Phone: 919 541-5396
RIN: 206Q-AH68
3196. ALUMINA PROCESSING
NESHAP
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 1857 et seq;
44 USC 350 et seq; 5 USC 605; EO
12866
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: The CAA required the EPA
to publish an initial list of all categories
of major and area sources of hazardous
air pollutants (HAPs) listed in section
112(b) of the CAA and to establish and
meet dates for promulgation of
emissions standards for each of the
listed categories of HAP emissions
sources. The standards are to be
technology based and are to .require the
maximum degree of reduction
determined to be achievable by the
Administrator. The EPA has
determined that the alumina processing
industry may be reasonably expected to
emit one of the pollutants listed' in
section 112(b) of the CAA. As a
consequence, the source category is
included on the initial list of HAP
emitting categories scheduled for
standards promulgation within 10 years
of enactment of the CAA Amendments
of 1990. The purpose of this action is
to pursue a regulatory development
program such that emissions standards
may be proposed and promulgated for
this industry.
Timetable:
Action
NPRM
Final Action
Date
11/00/99
11/00/00
FR Cite
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Sectors Affected: 325188 All Other
Basic Inorganic Chemical
Manufacturing
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Additional Information: SAN No. 4110
Agency Contact: Juan Santiago,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-1084
Fax: 919 541-5600
Email: santiago.juan@epa.gov
Jim Crowder, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5596
RIN: 2060-AH70
3197. CONTROL OF EMISSIONS OF
AIR POLLUTION FROM 2004 AND
LATER MODEL YEAR HIGHWAY
HEAVY-DUTY DIESEL ENGINES
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 to 7601;
42 USC 7521
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 86; 40 CFR 88
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action will focus on the
emission standards and related
requirements for control of air pollution
from 2004 and later model year
highway heavy-duty engines. It will
include an assessment of the feasibility
of the requirements for these engines
promulgated in 1997 plus further
consideration of a number of issues left
open in the rule including potential
diesel fuel changes, diesel particulate
control, and other initiatives to control
emissions ha use.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entitles Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 4043
Agency Contact: Glenn W. Passavant,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, EPCD, Ann Arbor, MI
48105
Phone: 734 214-4408
Email: passavant.glenn@epa.gov
Christopher Lieske, Environmental
Protection Agency, Air and Radiation,
EPCD, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Phone: 313 668-4584
Fax: 313 741-7816
Email: lieske.christopher@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AI12
3198. CONFORMITY PILOT
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401; 42 USC
7671g
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51; 40 CFR 93
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action would approve
the conformity procedures developed
by an area that has been selected to
participate in the transportation
conformity pilot program. Because EPA
may select up to six areas to participate
in the pilot program, there may be six
separate approval actions. These
approval actions will be in the form
of conformity SIP approvals.
The purpose and anticipated impact of
the pilot program itself were discussed
in the rulemaking that established the
pilot program. See Transportation
Conformity Rule Amendment and
Solicitation for Participation in the
Conformity Pilot Program.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 05/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 4148
Agency Contact: Meg Fatulski,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, NFEVL, Ann Arbor, MI
48105
Phone: 734 214-4842
Fax: 734 214-4531
Email: patulski.meg@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AI14
3199.*
HOSPITAL/MEDICAL/INFECTIOUS
WASTE INCINERATORS—FEDERAL
PLAN (FEDERAL PLAN FOR EXISTING
HOSPITAL/MEDICAL/INFECTIOUS
WASTE INCINERATORS)
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: CAA sections 111, 129
and 301(a)(d)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60.27
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, September 30, 1999,
CAA Section 129(b)(3j.
Abstract: The Clean Air Act
Amendments of 1990 directed the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
to set emission guidelines for existing
incinerators combusting hospital waste,
medical waste, and infectious waste
under sections 111 and 129. On
9/15/97, the EPA promulgated emission
guidelines for
Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste
Incinerators (HMTWI) under the
authority of section lll(d) and section
129 of the Clean Air Act (see 62 FR
48348). This action is a follow-on
activity to the 1997 HMIWI rulemaking
which applies to existing HMIWI. In
accordance with section 129, States
with affected sources must submit a
State Plan by 9/15/98 describing how
the State will implement the emission
guidelines for existing HMIWI. In this
proposed HMIWI Federal Plan
rulemaking, EPA becomes the
implementing authority in those
instances where the State or local
agency has failed to submit a plan or
a plan has not yet been approved.
Therefore, consistent with section
129(b)(3) of the Act, EPA is proposing
a plan that applies to HMIWI in any
State, tribe or locale that has not
submitted an approvable plan within
the time allotted. This action makes no
changes to the requirements in the 1997
rule, and is intended to fulfill EPA's
duty under section 129(b)(3) to
promulgate a Federal Plan as a gap-
filling measure until -the State fulfills
its statutory obligations. When the State
submits an approvable State Plan, the
Federal Plan will no longer apply to
units in that State.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final
04/00/99
09/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Sectors Affected: 6214 Outpatient Care
Centers; 6219 Other Ambulatory Healtii
Care Services; 622 Hospitals; 6212
Offices of Dentists
Additional Information: SAN No. 4219
Agency Contact: Valerie Broadwell,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-12, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-3310
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Fax: 919 541-2664
Email: broadwell.valerie@epa.gov
BIN: 2060-AI25
3200. * CONSUMER AND
COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS: REVISED
SCHEDULE FOR REGULATION
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 75llb(e)
CFR Citation: Not yet determined
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action revises the
schedule for issuance of standards
under section 183(e) of the Act for 4
product categories listed in the initial
schedule for regulation. Regulation of
4 product categories will be delayed
. until 2003 from their present schedules
for regulation in 1997 and 1999. The
products with new schedules for
regulation are: (1) Aerosol spray paints;
(2) lithographic printing materials; (3)
industrial cleaning solvents; and (4) flat
wood paneling coatings. These changes
to the regulatory schedule are necessary
to improve workload management and
to coordinate better with other
regulatory activities.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Sectors Affected: 324199 All Other
Petroleum and Coal Products
Manufacturing; 3255 Paint, Coating,
Adhesive, and Sealant Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 4246
This action revises the schedule for
regulation of consumer and commercial
products under section 183(e) of the
Clean Air Act. This is a list
maintenance activity and is being done
to reduce the risk of litigation over
failure to meet a statutory deadline.
Agency Contact: Jan Meyer,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5254
Fax: 919 541-5689
RIN: 2060-AI30
3201. • CONTROL OF EMISSIONS OF
AIR POLLUTION FROM NEW
COMPRESSION-IGNITION AND
SPARK-IGNITION RECREATIONAL
MARINE ENGINES
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7547(a)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 94
Legal Deadline:
NPRM, Judicial, November 23, 1999.
Final, Judicial, October 31, 2000.
Abstract: This NPRM will establish
numerical emission limits for
compression-ignition and spark-ignition
engines used on marine recreational
vessels. This action will complete
EPA's emission control program for
marine engines (commercial engines
and spark-ignition outboard and
personal watercraft engines are covered
in separate rules).
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
12/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Government Levels Affected: Federal
Sectors Affected; 3366 Ship and Boat
Building; 3336 Engine; Turbine, and
Power Transmission Equipment
Manufacturing :
Additional Information: SAN No. 4251
Agency Contact: Holly Pugliese,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, Ann Arbor, MI 48108
Phone: 734 214-4288
Fax: 734 214-4053
Email: pugliese.holly@epa.gov
Jean Marie Revelt, Environmental
Protection Agency, Air and Radiation,
Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Phone: 734 214-4822
Fax: 734 214-4050
Email: revejlt.jean-marie@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AI36
3202. • NO BACKSLIDING RULE FOR
PM-10 NONATTAINMENT AREAS
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: Not Yet Determined
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action is intended to
establish a rule (pursuant to section
172(e)) concerning no relaxation of PM-
10 control measures in existing PM-10
nonattainment areas during the interim
period before the implementation of the
new NAAQS for Particulate Matter. The
rule will help to maintain the current
level of health protection by ensuring
that the current controls for PM-10
continue to be enforced.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
04/00/99
09/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribals Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3961
Agency Contact: Robin Dunkins,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-15, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5335
Email: dunkins.robin@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AI39
3203. • PROTECTION OF
STRATOSPHERIC OZONE:
AMENDMENT TO HALON USE, HALON
TECHNICIAN TRAINING, AND HALON
AND HALON-CONTAINING
EQUIPMENT DISPOSAL RULE
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7414; 42 USC
7601; 42 USC 7671-7671q
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 82.250 to 82.270
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA promulgated a final rule
(63 FR 11084, March 5, 1998)
concerning numerous aspects of the
handling and processing of halons, a
group of gaseous or easily vaporized
hydrocarbons that are used in a wide
range of fire and explosion protection
applications. Halons are Class I ozone-
depleting substances regulated under
Title VI of the Clean Air Act (Act).
Following publication of this rule.
members of the regulated community
and other stakeholders requested
clarifications to two technical
provisions of this rule, and other,
editorial, clarifications. The two
technical clarifications relate to (1)
EPA's requirements regarding the
efficiency of equipment used during
halon recovery and recycling activities,
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and (2) EPA's requirements regarding
technician training. SPD therefore will
consider adding substantive or editorial
clarifications, and/or additional
preamble discussion, to address these
issues. These changes are expected to
bo fully consistent with the original
scope and intent of the March 5,1998
regulation. By providing greater clarity
and specificity to the requirements as
requested by members of the regulated
community and other stakeholders,
EPA will better ensure achievement of
the environmental objectives of this
action.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 06/00/99
Final Action 12/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Sectors Affected: 333319 Other
Commercial and Service Industry
Machinery Manufacturing; 5617
Services to Buildings and Dwellings
Additional Information: SAN No. 4252
Agency Contact: Lisa Chang,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, 6205J, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-9742
Fax: 202 565-2096
Email: chang,lisa@epa.^ov
RIN: 2060-AI40
1 •«».* «•* »• • • • >.•,
3204. • PROTECTION OF
STRATOSPHERIC OZONE: PROCESS
FOR EXEMPTING QUARANTINE>ND
PRESHIPMENT METHYL BROMIDE '
USED IN THE UNITED STATES $ftp
BASELINE ADJUSTMENTS
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7414; 42 USC
7671-7871(q)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 82.1 to 82.13
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract; EPA is proposing a revision
to the accelerated phaseout regulations
that govern the production, import,
export, transformation and destruction
of substances that deplete the ozone
layer under the authority of Title VI
of the Clean Air Act Amendments of
1990 (CAA or the Act). The proposed
amendment will reflect U.S. obligations
under the Montreal Protocol on
Substances that Deplete the Ozone
Layer (Protocol). EPA recognizes the
expressed intent of Congress in recent
changes to the Clean Air Act that direct
EPA to conform the U.S. phasedown
schedule to the Protocol's schedule for
developed nations. With this action,
EPA is proposing a process that would
exempt quantities of methyl bromide
used in the U.S. for quarantine and
preshipment from the phaseout
schedule and propose adjustments to
the existing methyl bromide baseline.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
07/00/99
12/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Sectors Affected: 115114 Posthatvest
Crop Activities (except Cotton
ginning); 32532 Pesticide and Other
Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 4253
Agency Contact: Tom Land,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, 6205J, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-9185
Fax: 202 565-2093
Email: land.tom@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AI42
3205. • REVISION TO THE DEFINITION
OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND
(VOC) TO EXCLUDE TERTIARY 3UTYL
ACETATE
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: Clean Air Act Title I
CFR Citatipp: 40 CFR 51.1pq.(s)
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The definition of VQC is
proposed to be revised to add tertiary
butyl acetate to the list of negligibly
reactive compounds. This is a
deregulatory action that will remove
tertiary butyl acetate from the necessity
to be controlled as a VOC in SEPs for
attaining the ozone standard. This is
not expected to have a significant
impact on small businesses or local
governments.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
04/00/99
08/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State
Additional Information: SAN No. 4254
Agency Contact: William L. Johnson,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-15, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5245
Fax: 919 541-0824-
Email: johnson.williaml@epa.gov
Jan Tierney, Environmental Protection--
Agency, Air and Radiation, 2344,
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-5095
Fax: 202 260-0586
Email: tierney.jan@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AI45
3206. • REVISIONS TO AIR
POLLUTION EMERGENCY EPISODE
REQUIREMENTS (SUBPART H, 40
CFR PART 51)
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7410(a)(2)(G);
42 USC 7603
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51.150 to 51.153;
40 CFR 51 Appendix L
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: 40 CFR part 51.150-51.153
require States to have contingency
plans to prevent air pollution levels
from-reaching the significant harm level
(SHL) for CO, 03, SO2, NOx, and PM.
Appendix L provides example guidance
to the States on appropriate courses of
action to take at each episode stage
(i.e., alert, warning, and emergency) to
ensure the SHL is not reached. These
requirements were developed in the
1970's, based on the NAAQS from that
era. Since that time, ambient air quality
levels have decreased nationwide.
Today, many areas/sources that no
longer need episode plans must still
develop them. This rule would update
and simplify the criteria used to
determine which areas would require
episode plans. Areas with no more than
one exceedance of the Alert level over
the past 5 years would not need to
develop emergency episode plans.
Sources with the potential to cause
exceedances of the SHL due to a
process/control equipment malfunction
would need to develop source
contingency plans to prevent (and to
respond to) such malfunctions.
Appendix L would also be revised to
reflect the revised program
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requirements. The result will be a
sensible, credible program replacing an
outdated, ignored progratm. While
minor SIP revisions may be needed,
these could be included witi. SIP
overhauls resulting from the NAAQS
revisions.
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
05/00/99
01/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No •
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4247
Agency Contact: Ted Creekmore,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-15, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5699
Fax: 919 541-0824
Email: creektnore.ted@epa.gov
John Silvasi, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-15,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5666
Fax: 919 541-0824
Email: silvasi.john@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AI47
3207. PERFORMANCE WARRANTY
AND INSPECTION/MAINTENANCE
TEST PROCEDURES
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7541; 42 USC
7601
Citation: 40 CFR 51; 40 CFR 85
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action establishes a new
short test procedure for use in I/M
programs required by the Clean Air Act
Amendments of 1990. Vehicles that are
tested and failed using this procedure
and that meet eligibility requirements
established by the act would be eligible
for free warranty repair from the
manufacturers.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 08/00/99
Final Action 01/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Federal
Additional mfbrmatiort: SAN No. 3263
Agency Contact: Eugene Tierney,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, NFEVL, Ann Arbor, MI
48105
Phone: 734 214-4456
RIN: 2060-AE20
3208. INSPECTION/MAINTENANCE
RECALL REQUIREMENTS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7511(A)(2)(b);
42 USC 7511(A)(2)(b)(2)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action specifies
requifintents for enhanced I/M
programs to establish a prdgram to
ensure compliance with recall -notices.
This is pursuant tci the Clean Air Act
Amendments of 1990.
Timetable:
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 06/00/99
Final Action ' 12/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3262
Agency Contact: Eugene Tierney,
Environmental Protection Agency,. Air
and Radiation, NFEVL, Ann-Arbor, MI
48105
Phone: 734 214-4456
RIN: 2060-AE22
3209. METHOD 301: FIELD
VALIDATION OF POLLUTION
MEASUREMENT METHODS FOR
VARIOUS MEDIA; REVISIONS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq;
PL 101-549; 42 USC 7410 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60; 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: After promulgation of .
Method 301, questions were raised
about the statistical calculations and
the procedure for determining the
quality of the data. This rule will
clarify those rule provisions.
Action-
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final
12/00/99
01/00/01
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Governmental
Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State
Additional Information: SAN No. 3407
Agency Contact: Gary McAlister,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-19, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-1062
RIN: 2060-AFOO
3210. NESHAP: FERROALLOY
PRODUCTION
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412/CAA
Il2;'44 USC 350 et seq (PRA); 5 USC
605; EO 12866
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: The Clean Air Act, as
amended November 1990, requires the
EPA to develop emission standards for
each major source category of
hazardous air pollutants. The standards
are to be technology-based and are to
require the maximum degree of
emission reduction determined to be
achievable by the Administrator of
EPA. The EPA has "determined that two
plants in the ferroalloy production
industry are major sources for one or
more hazardous air pollutants. As a
consequence, production facilities are
iamong the- HAP-emitting source
categories selected for regulation.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 08/04/98 63 FR 41508
Supplemental NPRM 04/00/99
Final Action 05/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Governmental
Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State
Additional Information: SAN No. 3082
Agency Contact: Conrad Chin,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
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Phone: 919 541-1512
Fax: 919 541=5600
Email: chin.conrad@epa.gov
Al Vervaert, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5602
RIN: 2060-AF29
3211. FEDERAL IMPLEMENTATION
PLAN TO CONTROL EMISSIONS
FROM TWO POWER STATIONS
LOCATED ON NAVAJO NATION
LANDS
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 1740
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA proposes to federalize
standards from the Arizona and New
Mexico State Implementation Plans
(SIPS) applicable to the Navajo
generating station and the Four Corners
Plant, respectively. Where necessary,
EPA's proposed emission standards
modify the standards extracted from the
States' regulatory programs to ensure
comprehensive emission control and
Federal consistency.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entitles Affected: No
Government Levels Affected:
Undetermined
Additional Information: SAN No. 3569
Agency Contact: Kenneth Bigos,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, Region IX, San
Francisco, CA 94105
Phone: 415 744-1240
RIN: 2060-AF42
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3212. ENVIRONMENTAL RADIATION
PROTECTION STANDARDS FOR
YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NEVADA
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: Energy Policy Act sec
801
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 197
Legal Deadline:
NPRM, Statutory, August 1,1996.
Abstract: This rulemaking is hi
response to section 801 of the Energy
Policy Act of 1992 which directs the
Administrator to promulgate public
health and safety standards for
protection of the public from releases
from radioactive materials stored or
disposed of in the repository at the
Yucca Mountain site. The only
regulated entity is the U.S. Department
of Energy.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Hnal Action
04/00/99
10/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3568
Agency Contact: Ray Clark,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, 6602J, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-9198
Fax: 202 565-9500
Email: clark.ray@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AG14
3213. NSPS: SEWAGE SLUDGE
INCINERATORS
Priority: Other Significant. Major status
under 5 USC 801 is undetermined.
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 to 7626
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: This source category is
subject to regulation by November 2000
under the Clean Air Act. The Agency
is currently considering which
regulatory authorities may be most
appropriate for this source category,
including the Clean Air Act and section
405(d) of the Clean Water Act.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
ANPRM
NPRM
Final Action
01/14/97 62 FR 1868
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local
Sectors Affected: 22132 Sewage
Treatment Facilities
Additional Information: SAN No. 3819
Agency Contact: Eugene Grumpier,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-0881
Fax: 919 541-5600
Email: crumpler.eugene@epa.gov
Al Vervaert, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Traingle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5602
RIN: 2060-AG50
3214. NESHAP: PLYWOOD AND
PARTICLEBOARD MANUFACTURING
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant.
Major status under 5 USC 801 is
undetermined.
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412(d)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: This project is to develop
national emission standards for
hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP) by
establishing maximum achievable
control technology (MACT) for facilities
manufacturing wood panels and
engineered wood products. MACT
standards are under development to
reduce the release of hazardous air
pollutants (HAP) from all industries to
protect the public health and
.environment. Emissions of HAP from
this industry have been associated
with, but are not limited to, the drying
of wood and binders. The scope of the
affected source category has not been
determined; however, this rule is
anticipated to apply to the manufacture
of products involving wood and some
kind of-binder or bonding agent. This
project may include, but is not limited
to, facilities that manufacture
waferboard, hardboard fiber board
(MDF), oriented strandboard (OSB),
medium density fiberboard,
particleboard, strawboard, hardwood
and softwood plywood, glue-laminated
lumber, laminated veneer lumber, and
engineered wood products. The
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plywood and particleboard source
category may also include lumber
drying kilns at sawmills which are
located on the same site as a facility
that manufactures any of the wood
products mentioned above. The project
may also include some coatings
operations. The name of the source
category is being changed to better
reflect how the industry refers to
themselves. The new name for the
source category will be plywood and
composite wood products. This project
commenced October 1997.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM 11/00/99
Final Action 11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Federal
Sectors Affected: 32192 Wood
Container and Pallet Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 3820
Agency Contact: Mary Tom Kissell,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-4516
Fax: 919 541-0246
Email: kissell.mary@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AG52
3215. NESHAP: MISCELLANEOUS
CELLULOSE PRODUCTION
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: This project is to develop
national emission standards for
hazardous air pollutants (NESHAPs) by
establishing maximum achievable
control technology (MACT) for facilities
manufacturing cellulose ether,
carboxymethyl cellulose, methyl
cellulose, cellulose food casing,
producing rayon, and producing
cellophane. MACT standards are under
development to reduce the release of
hazardous air pollutants (HAP) from all
industries to protect the public health
and environment. Emissions of HAP
from this industry have been associated
with, but are not limited to, product .
washing operations, material storage
tanks, and film drying. The scope of
the rule has not been determined. This
project started in the spring of 1997.
Data gathering efforts will continue
through 1998, That work will be
followed by development of a
regulatory package to propose and
promulgate a MACT standard.
Timetable:
Action'
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
12/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Sectors Affected: 325221 Cellulosic
Organic Fiber Manufacturing; 326113
Unsupported Plastics Film and Sheet
(except Packaging) Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No 3970
Project combined with SAN 3963
Agency Contact: Bill Schrock,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5032
Fax: 919 541-3470
Email: schrock.bill@epa.gov
Penny Lassiter, Environmental
Protection Agency, Air and Radiation,
MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC
27711
Phone: 919 541-5396
RIN: 2060-AHll
3216. NESHAP: MUNICIPAL SOLID
WASTE LANDFILLS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq .
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: This project is to develop
national emission standards for
hazardous air pollutants (HAP) by
establishing maximum achievable
control technology (MACT) for
municipal solid waste landfills. MACT
standards are under development to
reduce the release of HAP from all
industries to protect the public health
and environment. The scope of the rule
has not been determined. This project
is now scheduled to start in fiscal year
1998. The initial stage of this project
is to gather preliminary information on
landfills to establish a presumptive
MACT. That work will be followed by
development of a regulatory package to
propose and promulgate a MACT
standard.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Governmental
Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal
Sectors Affected: 92411 Air and Water
Resource and Solid Waste Management;
562212 Solid Waste Landfill
Additional Information: SAN No. 3969
Agency Contact: Michele Laur,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5256
Fax; 919 541-0246
Email: laur.michele@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AH13
3217. STORAGE TANK RULE
REVISIONS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 to 7671
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60 (Revision); 40
CFR 61 (Revision); 40 CFR 63
(Revision); 40 CFR 264 (Revision); 40
CFR 265 (Revision)
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The purpose of this action is
to revise storage tank air regulations in
several parts of title 40 of the CFR.
Such revisions include rule corrections,
the addition of test methods, and the
elimination of some recordkeeping
requirements.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 05/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State
Sectors Affected: 32411 Petroleum
Refineries; 32511 Petrochemical
Manufacturing; 325193 Ethyl Alcohol
Manufacturing
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Additional Information: SAN No. 3966
Agency Contact: Mark Morris,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5416
Fax: 919 541-3470
Email: morris.mark@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AH15
3218. CONSOLIDATED EMISSION
REPORTING RULE
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7410(a)(2)
CFR Citation: 12 CFR I20.2(d)(4); 40
CFR 51.321 to 51.323
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: Three sections of the Clean
Air Act and its amendments require
State agencies to report emission
estimates to EPA. Some of these
sections contain obsolete wording,
inconsistent instructions, and duplicate
reporting requirements. This rule will
consolidate the requirements into one
area, eliminate obsolete wording,
eliminate duplicate reporting
requirements, and provide options for
collecting and reporting data. There
will be no impact on small businesses.
State agencies will continue to report
the same or reduced amounts of data
to EPA. The rule will provide for
flexibility in collecting and reporting
data. There will be no effect on local
agencies.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Rule
06/00/99
06/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entitles Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State
Additional Information: SAN No. 3986
Agency Contact: Steven Bromberg,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-14, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-1000
Fax: 919 541-0684
Email: bromberg.steve@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AH25
3219. TRANSPORTATION
CONFORMITY RULE AMENDMENT:
CLARIFICATION OF TRADING
PROVISIONS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant.
Major status under 5 USC 801 is
undetermined.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 to 7671
CAA sec 176(c)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51; 40 CFR 93
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The transportation
conformity rule, promulgated in
November 1993, ensures that
transportation and air quality planning
are consistent withuClean Air Act air
quality standards. The Open Market
Trading Guidance provides guidance to
states for establishing a method to
quantify emissions reductions (called
discrete emissions reductions or DERs)
that can be traded among parties and
how such trading should occur. This
action will amend the transportation
conformity rule to clarify how
emissions trading could be reconciled
in the conformity process.
Timetable:
requires both two and three day diurnal
emission tests; as well as running lost
testing. The revisions will delete the
three day requirement and add
flexibilities for running loss
compliance. This will enable
manufacturers to save significant
resources without any loss in
environmental benefits.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 05/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: Local,
Federal
NPRM 09/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3910
Agency Contact: Lynn Sohacki,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, NFEVL, Ann Arbor, MI
48105
Phone: 734 214-4851
RIN: 2060-AH34
3221. REVISIONS TO NEW SOURCE
REVIEW (NSR) REGULATIONS TO
IMPLEMENT THE NEW NATIONAL
AMBIENT AIR QUALITY STANDARDS
(NAAQS) FOR OZONE
Priority: Economically Significant.
Major under 5 USC 801.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51.160 to 51.166;
40 CFR 52.21; 40 CFR 52.24
Additional Information: SAN No. 3917 Le9al Deadline: None
Agency Contact: Laura Voss,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, NFEVL, Ann Arbor, MI
48105
Phone: 734 214-4858
Fax: 734 214-4531
Email: voss.laura@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AH31
3220. STREAMLINED EVAPORATIVE
TEST PROCEDURES
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 752l(m)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 86 (Revision)
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action will streamline
the test procedure used to establish
compliance with evaporative emission
requirements for light duty vehicles
and trucks. The current test procedure
Abstract: The Clean Air Act requires
that construction permit programs for
new or modified major stationary
sources of air pollution be established
for areas not attaining the NAAQS.
Regulations setting forth requirements
for State and Federal permitting
programs are found at 40 CFR 51.160-
166 and 52.21 and 52.24, respectively.
The proposed regulations implement
preconstruction permit requirements for
new and modified major stationary
sources locating in areas that do not
meet the new, 8-hour NAAQS for
ozone, but do meet the 1-hour ozone
standard. The rules are intended to
implement the major NSR provisions in
a flexible, common sense, cost-effective,
and non-burdensome manner by
allowing States with these
nonattainment areas to make minimal
changes to their existing major
preconstructed permit programs in their
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State implementation plans. The EPA
will continue to work with other
Federal agencies, State and local
governments, small businesses,
industry, and environmental and public
health groups to develop the
requirements.
Timetable:
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Sectors Affected: 324199 All Other
Petroleum and Coal Products .
Manufacturing; 331111 Iron and Steel
Mills
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite Additional Information: SAN No. 4022
NPRM
Final Action
06/00/99
12/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4046
Agency Contact: Lynn Hutchinson,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-12, Research
Triangle. Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5795
Fax:919541-5509
Email: iutchinson.lynn@epa.gov
RIM: 2060-AH53
3222. NESHAP: COKE OVENS:
PUSHING, QUENCHING, AND
BATTERY STACKS
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: There are currently 25 active
domestic coke plants, 20 of which are
furnace coke plants and 5 of which are
foundry coke plants. Coke oven
batteries used to produce metallurgical
coke -at these .plants emit hazardous air
pollutants (HAPs) such as coke oven
emissions and polycyclic organic
matter listed in section 112 of the Clean
Air Act (CAA).
This action will establish a National
Emission Standard for Hazardous Air
Pollutants (NESHAP), for three specific ,
operations associated with coke ovens,
namely pushing, quenching, and
battery stacks. ,
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Agency Contact: Lula Melton,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-2910
Fax: 919 541-5600
Email: melton.lula@epa.gov
Al Vervaert, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5602
RIN: 2060-AH55
3223. FINAL RULE TO AMEND THE
NATIONAL EMISSION STANDARDS
FOR MAGNETIC TAPE
MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq
CFR Citaition: 40 CFR 63.703(c)(4); 40
CFR 63.705
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The EPA is amending the
promulgated national emission
standards for hazardous air pollutants
(NESHAP) for Magnetic Tape
Manufacturing to include an additional
compliance option for facilities that
choose to control their coatings
operation to a hazardous air pollutant
(HAP) reduction efficiency greater than
95% by weight. In the currently
promulgated standard, compliance
options are provided whereby a facility
operator may choose to control HAP
emissions from all coating operations ,
by an overall HAP control efficiency of
at least 97%, 98% or 99%, in lieu of
controlling 10, 15, or 20 HAP solvent
storage tanks, respectively. This
amendment would provide a further
option that a facility operator
controlling the coating operations by
one of those higher control efficiencies
could choose to leave uncontrolled
certain combinations of storage tanks
and/or pieces of mix preparation
equipment.
Action
Date FR Cite
04/09/99 64 FR 17465
04/09/99 64 FR 17459
05/10/99
NPRM
Direct Final Rule
NPRM Comment
Period End
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 4106
The NPRM is available on the Internet
at:
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-AIR/
1999/April/Day-09/a8780.htm
The direct final rule is available on the
Internet at:
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-AIR/
1999/April/Day-09/a8779.htm
Agency Contact: Michele Aston,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-2363
Fax: 919 541-0942
Email: aston.michele@epa.gov
Gail Lacy, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Reserach Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5261
Fax: 919 541-5689
Email: lacy.gail@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AH71
3224. NESHAP: FUMED SILICA
PRODUCTION
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAAA
Section 112; EO 12866
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: The CAA required EPA to
publish an initial list of all categories
of major and area sources of hazardous
air pollutants (HAP) listed in section
112(b) of the CAA and to establish and
meet dates for promulgation of
emissions standards for each of the
listed categories of HAP emissions
sources. The standards are to be
technology-based and are to require the
maximum degree of reduction
determined to be achievable by the
Administrator. The EPA has
determined that the fumed silica
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production industry may be reasonably
anticipated to emit one or more of the
pollutants listed in section 112 (b) of
the CAA. As a consequence, the source
category is included on the initial list
of HAP-emltting categories scheduled
for standards promulgation within ten
years of enactment of the CAA
Amendments of 1990. The purpose of
this action is to pursue a regulatory
development program such that
emissions standards may be proposed
and promulgated for this industry.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Rule
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entitles Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Sectors Affected: 325188 All Other
Basic Inorganic Chemical
Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 4111
Agency Contact: Jeff Telander,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5427
Fax: 919 541-5600
Email: telander.jeff@epa.gov
jf!m Crowder, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5596
Email: crowder.jim@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AH72
3225. NESHAP: TACONITE IRON ORE
PROCESSING
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Legal Authority: CAA 112; PL 91-190
sec 203
CFR Citation: Not yet determined
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: The taconite iron ore
processing source category is comprised
of nine facilities operating in the
United States. Seven facilities are
located in Minnesota and two are
located in Michigan. The expected
sources of HAP emissions for this
source category include: fossil fuel
combustion sources, and possibly the
handling and transfer of mined ore
containing naturally occurring
inorganic compounds. Anticipated HAP
emissions released from these sources
primarily include: formaldehyde,
manganese, nickel, arsenic, and
chromium. The quantities of HAP
released are expected to exceed major
source levels.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Rule
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Sectors Affected: 21221 Iron Ore
Mining
Additional Information: SAN No. 4102
There are nine taconite processing
facilities in the U.S.; seven are located
in Minnesota and two are located in
Michigan. The MACT standard for this
industry group will be shared between
EPA and the State of Minnesota. State
regulations currently in place include
both air emissions limitations and
prohibition of effluent-discharge to
Great Lakes waters, and both air-and
water monitoring requirements. Other
existing Federal regulations may be
affected under RCRA and TSCA.
Agency Contact: Conrad Chin,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-1512
Fax: 919 541-5600
Email: chin.conrad@epa.gov
Al Vervaert, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air arid Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5602
RIN: 2060-AH73
3226. NATIONAL EMISSION
STANDARDS FOR HAZARDOUS AIR
POLLUTANTS FOR THE
HYDROCHLORIC ACID PRODUCTION
INDUSTRY
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 1857 et seq;
44 USC 350 et seq; 5 USC 605; EO
12291; EO12866
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000,
Clean Air Act.
Abstract: Title IE of the Clean Air Act
Amendments of 1990 requires the EPA
to develop emission standards for each
major source category of-hazardous air
pollutants (HAPs). The standards are to
be technology-based and are to require
the maximum degree of emission
reduction determined to be achievable
by the Administrator of the EPA. The
EPA has determined that some
hydrochloric-acid plants may be major
sources for one or more HAPs. As a
consequence, a regulation (emission
standards) will be developed for the
hydrochloric acid production industry.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Sectors Affected: 325211 Plastics
Material and Resin Manufacturing;
325199 All Other Basic Organic-
Chemical Manufacturing; 325181
Alkalies and Chlorine Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 4104
Agency Contact: Joseph Wood,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5446
Fax: 919 541-5600
Email: wood.joe@epa.gov
Jim Crowder, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5596
RIN: 2060-AH75
3227. NESHAP: ASPHALT/COAL TAR
APPLICATION ON METAL PIPES
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: The Clean Air Act (CAA), as
amended in 1990, requires the EPA to
(1) publish an initial list of all
categories of major and area sources of
the hazardous air pollutants (HAPs)
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listed in section 112(b) of the CAA, (2)
promulgate a schedule establishing a
date for the promulgation of emission
, standards for each of the listed
categories of HAPs emission sources,
and (3) develop emission standards for
each source of HAPs. These standards
are to be technology-based and are to
require the maximum degree of
emission reduction determined to be
achievable by the Administrator. The
Agency has determined that the
application of asphalt or coal tar to
metal pipes may reasonably be
anticipated to emit several of the 189
HAPs listed in section 112(b) of the
CAA. As a consequence, a regulatory
development program is being pursued
for the asphalt/coal tar application on
metal pipes industry to promulgate
emission standards.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Sectors Affected: 332812 Metal
Coating, Engraving (except Jewelry and
Silverware), and Allied Services to
Manufacturers -
Additional Information: SAN No. 4107
Agency Contact: Bill Neuffer,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5435
Fax: 919 541-5600
Email: neuffer.bill@epa.gov
Jim Crowder, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5596
Email: crowder.jim@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AH78
3228. NESHAP: CLAY PRODUCTS
MANUFACTURING
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: The Clean Air Act (CAA), as
amended in 1990, requires the EPA to
(1) publish an initial 'list of all
categories of major and area sources of
the hazardous air pollutants (HAPs)
listed in section 112(b) of the CAA, (2)
promulgate a schedule establishing a
date for the promulgation of emission
standards for each of the listed
categories of HAPs emission sources,
and (3) develop emission standards for
each source of HAPs. These standards •
are to be technology-based and are to
require the maxinmm degree of
emission reduction determined to be
achievable by the Administrator. The
Agency has determined that the clay
products manufacturing industry may
reasonably be anticipated to emit
several of the 189 HAPs listed in
section 112(b) of the CAA'. As a
consequence, a regulatory development
program is being pursued for the clay
products manufacturing industry to
promulgate emission standards.
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Sectors Affected: 327121 Brick and
Structural Clay Tile Manufacturing;
327124 Clay Refractory Manufacturing;
327122 Ceramic Wall and Floor Tile
Manufacturing; 327123 Other Structural
Clay Product Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 4113
Agency Contact: Bill Neuffer,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone:*919 541-5435
Fax: 919 541-5600
Email: neuffer.bill@epa.gov
Jim Crowder, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5596
Email: crowder.jim@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AH79
3229. NESHAP: ORGANIC
HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS
FROM THE SYNTHETIC ORGANIC
CHEMICAL INDUSTRY (SOCMI) &
OTHER PROCESSES SUBJECT TO
THE NEGOTIATED REGULATION FOR
EQUIPMENT LEAKS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63.100 to 63.152
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The actions will amend the
HON that was first promulgated on
April 22, 1994, to clarify applicability
of process vent requirements. The
changes to the rule will clarify the
EPA's intent regarding the meaning of
the term process vent and address the
way these provisions are to be
implemented through the permit rule.
The need for this action became
apparent recently when it was learned
that industry was interpreting the
definition more narrowly than we
intended, and thus, not identifying all
process vents subject .to the HON.
These amendments will clarify the rule
to ensure consistent interpretations of
the term process vent while preserving
the intended applicability of the
requirements. These clarifications will
not increase or lower or otherwise
affect emissions or environmental
protection. Additionally, the actions
may clarify additional sections of the
HON and correct any typographical
errors noted. These actions may contain
guidance as well as amended rule
language.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM 09/00/99
Final Rule 06/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4103
Agency Contact: Jan Meyer,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5254
Fax: 919 541-5689
Email: meyer.jan@epa.gov
Trish Koman, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
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Phone: 919 541-4120
Fax: 919 541-5689
Email: koman.trish@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AH81
3230. NESHAP: POLYVINYL
CHLORIDE AND COPOLYMERS
PRODUCTION
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 1857 CAA 112
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: Title HI of the Clean Air Act
Amendments of 1990 requires EPA to
develop emission standards for each
major source category of hazardous air
pollutants (HAPs). The standards are to
be technology-based and are to require
the maximum degree of emission
reduction determined to be achievable
by the administrator of the EPA. The
EPA has determined that some plants
may be major sources for one or more
HAPs. As a consequence, a regulation
(emission standards) is being developed
for the polyviiiyl chloride Industry, to
be promulgated by November 15, 2000.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Rule
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State
Additional Information: SAN No. 4114
Agency Contact: Warren Johnson, Jr.,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5124
Fax: 919 541-3470
Email: johnson.warren@epa.gov
Penny Lassiter, Environmental
Protection Agency, Air and Radiation,
MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC
27711
Phone: 919 541-5396
RIN: 2060-AH82
3231. NESHAP: URANIUM
HEXAFLUORIDE PRODUCTION
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: This project will develop
national emissions standards for
hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP) by
establishing emissions limitations for
hazardous air pollutants (HAP) which
can be emitted by the two known
sources in this category. The emissions
limitations are to be based upon the
application of the maximum achievable
control technology (MAGT). The
purpose of the NESHAP is to reduce
emissions of HAP to protect public
health and the environment. The
project will begin in the spring of 1999.
Initially, information on the industry
processes and emissions of HAP will
be analyzed to identify available
emissions control technologies. That
work will be followed by the
development, proposal and
promulgation of NESHAP.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Federal
Sectors Affected: 331419 Primary
Smelting and Refining of Nonferrous
Metal (except Copper and Aluminum)
Additional Information: SAN No. 4098
Agency Contact: Ken Durkee,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5425
Fax: 919 541-5600
Email: durkee.ken@epa.gov
Jim Crowder, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5596
RIN: 2060-AH83
3232. PERFORMANCE
SPECIFICATION 16—SPECIFICATIONS
AND TEST PROCEDURES FOR
PREDICTIVE EMISSION MONITORING
SYSTEMS IN STATIONARY SOURCES
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant"
Legal Authority: CAA section 111
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: Performance Specification 16
is being proposed to provide
performance criteria for predictive
emission monitoring systems.
Predictive systems represent a new
technology that uses process
information or parameters to predict
pollutant emissions instead of directly
measuring them. The Agency is
allowing their use in recently-
promulgated rules and they are being
considered by a number of regulated
facilities. The specification lists the
requirements for acceptable systems
that are met by passing tests that
compare the monitoring system with
standardized methods and audit gases
to determine system accuracy and
stability. Performance Specification 16
will primarily apply to facilities whose
emissions can be predicted from
process parameters such as combustion
processes (including gas turbines and
internal combustion engines).
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Rule
06/00/99
06/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State
Sectors Affected: 33241 Power Boiler
and Heat Exchanger Manufacturing;
333611 Turbine and Turbine Generator
Set Unit Manufacturing; 336399 All
Other Motor Vehicle Parts
Manufacturing; 333618 Other Engine
Equipment Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 4119
Agency Contact: Foston Curtis,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-19, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-1063
William-H. Lamason, Environmental
Protection Agency, Air and Radiation,
MD-19
Phone: 919 541-5374
RIN: 2060-AH84
3233. NESHAP: WET-FORMED
FIBERGLASS MAT PRODUCTION
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
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Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000:
Abstract: The CAA required the EPA
to publish an initial list of all categories
of major and area sources of hazardous
aii pollutants (HAPs) listed in section
112(b) of the CAA and to establish and
meet dates for promulgation of
emission standards for each of the
listed categories of HAP emissions
sources. The wet-formed fiberglass mat
production industry is not included in
the initial list of categories for
standards development but information
available to the Administrator suggests
that the industry is a major source of
HAP emissions and, as such, emission
standards shall be developed for this
industry. The standards are to be
technology-based and are to require the .
maximum degree of reduction
determined to be achievable by the
Administrator. The EPA has
determined that the wet-formed
fiberglass mat production industry may
be reasonably expected to emit one ,of
the pollutants listed in section 112i[b)
of the CAA. The purpose of this action.
is to include the industry in the source
category list and to pursue a regulatory
development program such that
emission standards may be proposed
and promulgated for this industry.
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Rule
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4082
Agency Contact: Juan Santiago,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and'Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-1084
Fax: 919 541-5600
Email: santiago.juan@epa.gov
Jim Crowder, Environmental, Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5596
RIN: 2060-AH89
3234. TECHNICAL CHANGE TO DOSE
METHODOLOGY FOR 40 CFR 191,
SUBPARTA
Priority: Routine and Frequent
Legal Authority: Atomic Energy Act of
1954; Reorganization Plan No. 3 of
1970; Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 191(A)
Legal Deadline: None .
Abstract: This action is a technical
change to -the dose methodology for
subpart A, Envkonmental Standards for
Management and Storage, of 40 CFR
191, Environmental Radiation
Protection Standards-for the
Management and Disposal of Spent
Nuclear Fuel, High-Level and
Transuranic Radioactive Wastes. The
current methodology is outdated; The
new method, which would be
employed as a result of this action, is
consistent with recent radiation
protection standards as well as Federal
Guidance reports issued by EPA. No
significant impacts from this action are
anticipated.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
05/00/99
05/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected:
Undetermined
Additional information: SAN No. 4003
Agency Contact: Ray Clark,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, 6602J, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-9198
.Fax:'202 565-2065
RIN: 2060-AH90
3235. GENERAL CONFORMITY
REGULATIONS; REVISIONS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 to 7671
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51.850 to 51.860;
40 CFR 93.150 to 93.160
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: Section 176(c) of the Clean
Air Act prohibits Federal entities from
taking actions which do not conform
to the State implementation plan (SIP)
-for the attainment and maintenance of
the national ambient air quality
standards (NAAQS). In November 1993,
EPA promulgated two sets of
regulations to implement section
176(c). First, on November 24, EPA
promulgated the Transportation
Conformity Regulations to establish the
criteria and procedures for determining
that transportation plans, programs, and
projects which are funded under title
23 U.S.C. or the Federal Transit Act
conform with the SIP. Then, on
November 30, EPA promulgated
regulations, known as the General
Conformity Regulations, to ensure that
other Federal actions also conformed to
the SIPs. Since 1993, EPA has amended
the transportation conformity rule three
times in response to stakeholders'
requests. The EPA is working on a
separate revision to address
transportation conformity in
transitional areas which will be final
by December 1998. The EPA has not
reviewed or revised the General
Conformity Regulations since their
1993 promulgation. Several Federal
agencies have identified concerns over
the implementation of the General-
Conformity Regulations, including the
requirements for areas designated
nonattainment for the newly
promulgated NAAQS. In conjunction
with an ad hoc work group of
representatives from several Federal
agencies, EPA will review the
implementation of the General
Conformity Regulations. The EPA will
then propose and promulgate any
appropriate revision to those
regulations.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
07/00/99
12/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4070
Agency Contact: Annie Nikbakht,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-15, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5246
Fax: 919 541-0824
Email: nikbakht.annie@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AH93
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3238. PROTECTION OF
STRATOSPHERIC OZONE:
RECONSIDERATION ON THE 610
NONESSENTIAL PRODUCTS BAN
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7414; 42 USC
7601; 42 USC 7671 to 7671(q)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 82(C)
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action would propose to
extend the current class I and class n
bans on the sale and distribution of
nonessential uses of ozone-depleting
substances where sufficient substitutes
are already readily available. As part
of the initial 1993 rulemaking, EPA
banned the use of ozone-depleting
substances in aerosols, pressurized
dispensers, and foams where
substitutes were available. Since that
rulemaking was issued, the phaseout of
production and consumption of class I
substances has become effective and
the Significant New Alternatives Policy
(SNAP) Program under section 612 has
been promulgated. The phaseout of
newly manufactured class I substances
and the identification of new
acceptable substitutes for both class I
and class II applications provide
compelling reasons to reconsider the
initial decisions regarding both
product-specific exemptions and the
decision to limit the ban's effect on
major sectors that traditionally used
ozone-depleting substances. Most
domestic manufacturers have already
incorporated the non-ozone-depleting
substances in their products. The
continued availability and use of
ozone-depleting substances in parts and
products manufactured abroad, which
are sold or incorporated into larger
products that are then sold into
interstate commerce in the United
States, negatively affects the
competitiveness of domestic
manufacturers who use substitute
substances hi their production.
Therefore, it is appropriate to
reconsider the applicability of the class
I ban to both specific products and
product categories. Amending these
requirements would limit the potential
use of ozone-depleting substances in
applications where substitutes are
available and thus, further protect the
stratospheric ozone layer.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
04/00/99
07/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 4077
Agency Contact: Vera Au,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air-
and Radiation, 6205J, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-2216
Fax: 202 564-2096
RIN: 2060-AH99
3237. TIER II LIGHT-DUTY VEHICLE
AND LIGHT-DUTY TRUCK EMISSION
STANDARDS AND GASOLINE
SULFUR STANDARDS
Priority: Economically Significant.
Major under 5 USC 801,
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7521, 42 USC
7545
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 86 (Revision); 40
CFR 80
Legal Deadline:
Other, Statutory, December 31, 1999,
Determine need - tech. feasibility and
cost effectiveness of more stringent
standards.
Abstract: EPA is mandated by the
Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 to
study whether or not further reductions
in emissions from light-duty vehicles
and light-duty trucks should be
required through lowering tailpipe
emissions standards. EPA submitted a
report to Congress on July 31, 1998.
The report provided evidence that there
was a need for further reductions in
emissions and that cost-effective
technology is available to meet more
stringent standards. This rulemaking
will propose the next generation of
emission standards for light-duty
vehicles, light-duty trucks, and gasoline
heavy-duty vehicles. The primary focus
of this action will be reducing
emissions of nitrogen oxides and non-
methane hydrocarbons, pollutants
which contribute to ozone pollution.
Highway vehicles are significant
contributors to ozone pollution, though
tighter standards will also have
additional air quality benefits. The
light-duty vehicle and light-duty truck
standards cannot go into -effect before
the 2004 model year, as per Clean Air
Act requirements. The rulemaking will
also propose limitations on the sulfur
content of gasoline available
nationwide. Sulfur in gasoline has a
detrimental impact on catalyst
performance and could be a limiting
factor in the introduction of advanced
technologies on motor vehicles.
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
04/00/99
12/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Yes
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Sectors Affected: 32411 Petroleum
Refineries; 336111 Automobile
Manufacturing; 33612 Heavy Duty
Truck Manufacturing; 4227 Petroleum
and Petroleum Products Wholesalers
Additional Information: SAN No. 4211
Agency Contact: Tad Wysor,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Phone: 734 214-4332
Fax: 734 214-4816
Email: wysor.tad@epa.gov
RUN: 2060-AI23
3238. NAAQS: SULFUR DIOXIDE
(REVIEW AND IMPLEMENTATION)
Priority: Economically Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7409; CAA
sec 109
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 50.4; 40 CFR
50.5
Legal Deadline:
NPRM, Judicial, November 1, 1994.
Final, Judicial, April 22, 1996.
Abstract: On November 15, 1994, the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
proposed not to revise the existing 24-
hour and annual primary standards.
The EPA sought public comment on the
need to adopt additional regulatory
measures to address the health risk to
asthmatic individuals posed by short-
term peak sulfur dioxide exposure.
On March 7, 1995, EPA proposed
implementation strategies for reducing
short-term high concentrations of sulfur
dioxide emissions in the ambient air.
On May 22, 1996, EPA published its
final decision not to revise the primary
sulfur dioxide NAAQS. The notice
stated that EPA would shortly propose
a new implementation strategy to assist
States in addressing short-term peaks of
sulfur dioxide. The new
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implementation strategy - the
Intervention Level Program - was
proposed on January 2, 1997. In July
1996, the American Lung Association
and the Environmental Defense Fund
petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for
.the D.C. Circuit for a judicial review
of EPA's decision not to establish a
new 5-minute NAAQS. On January 30,
1998, the court found that EPA did not
adequately explain its decision and
remanded the case so EPA could ,
explain its rationale more fully. EPA
published a schedule for responding to .
the remand in the May .5, 1998 Federal
Register. The schedule calls for a final
response to the remand by December
2000. Any final action on the
intervention level program would occur
no sooner than December 2000.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
11/15/94 59 FR 58958
03/07/95 60 FR 12492
05/22/96 61 FR 25566
01/02/97 62FR210
05/05/98 63 FR 24782
09/00/99
12/00/00
01/00/01
NPRM NAAQS
Review
NPRM NAAQS
Implementation
(Part 51)
Final Rule NAAQS
Review
NPRM Revised
NAAQS
Implementation
(Part 51)
Notice Schedule for
Response to
NAAQS Remand
NPRM Response to
NAAQS Remand
Final Response to
NAAQS Remand
Final Rule NAAQS
Implementation
(Part 51)
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 1002
Agency Contact: Susan Stone
(Review), Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-15,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-1146
Fax: 919 541-0237
Email: stone.susan@epa.gov
Eric Crump (Implementation),
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-15, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-4719
Email: crump.eric@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AA61
3239. REVISION OF APPENDIX W TO
40 CFR PART 51
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: CAAA sec 110(a)(2);
CAAA sec 165(e); CAAA sec 172(a);
CAAA sec 172(c); CAAA sec 301(a)(l);
CAAA sec 320
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51.112; 40 CFR
51.160; 40 CFR 51.166; 40 CFR 52.21
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action proposes
revisions to the Guideline on Air
Quality Models, published as appendix
W to 40 CFR part 51. Such models are
used to predict ambient concentrations
of pollutants for programs ranging from
Prevention of Significant Deterioration
(PSD) to State Implementation Plans
(SIPs) for controlling air pollution
sources. Appendix W to 40 CFR part
51 fulfills a Clean Air Act mandate for
EPA to specify models for air
management purposes. This proposed
rulemaking enhances appendix W with
new and/or improved techniques.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
04/00/99
09/00/99
Regulator)' Flexibility Analysis
Required: Yes
Small Entities Affected: Governmental
Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3470
Agency Contact: Tom Coulter,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-14, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-0832
RIN: 2060-AF01
3240. NESHAP/NSPS:
RECIPROCATING INTERNAL
COMBUSTION ENGINE
Priority: Other Significant. Major status
under 5 USC 801 is undetermined.
Legal Authority: PL 101-549; 42 USC
7411 CAA sec 111; 42 USC 7412 CAA
sec 112
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60; 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: The stationary reciprocating
internal combustion engine source
category is listed as a major source of
hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) under
section 112 of the Clean Air Act (CAA),
A major source is one which emits
more than 10 tons/yr of one HAP or
more than 25 tons/yr of a combination
of 189 HAPs. Internal combustion
engines also emit NOx, SO2, CO, and
PM. The EPA will gather information
on HAP emissions from internal
combustion engines and determine the
appropriate maximum achievable
control technology (MACT) to reduce
HAP emissions, if any. The EPA will
also gather information for NOx, SO2,
CO, and PM and decide whether
standards are required to reduce these
emissions. The EPA will use
information that has already been
developed, if possible, by gathering
information by working with State/local
agencies, vendors, manufacturers of
internal combustion engines, owners
and operators of internal combustion
engines, and environmentalists. Some
small businesses that use internal
combustion engines may be directly
impacted as well as a few small
government entities who produce their
own power. The number of small
entities that would be affected is not
known at this time.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3656
Agency Contact: Amanda Agnew,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5268
Fax: 919 541-5450
Email: agnew.amanda@epa.gov
Doug Bell, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5568
Fax: 919 541-5450
Email: bell.doug@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AG63
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3241. • STANDARDS AND
GUIDELINES FOR SMALL MUNICIPAL
WASTE COMBUSTION UNITS
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 4111; CAA
sec 129
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 1992.
Abstract: The Clean Air Act
Amendments of 1990 direct the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
to set standards of performance and
omission guidelines for new and
existing municipal waste combustors
under Sections 111 and 129; to base
those standards and guidelines on
maximum achievable control
technology; and to include emission
limits for particulate matter, sulfur
dioxide, hydrogen chloride, oxides of
nitrogen! carbon monoxide, mercury,
lead, cadmium, and dioxins and
dibenzofurans. The standards for large
municipal waste combustors were
adopted in 1995. This rule would
establish standards for small MWC
units.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
04/00/99
05/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Governmental
Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4243
Agency Contact: Walt Stevenson,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5264
Email: stevenson.walt@epa.gov
R1N: 2060-AI51
3242. NESHAP/NSPS: COMBUSTION
TURBINE
Priority: Other Significant. Major status
under 5 USC 801 is undetermined.
LegalAuthority: CAA sec ill; CAA sec
112
CFR Citation: 44 CFR 60
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: The combustion turbine
source category is listed as a major
source of hazardous air pollutants
(HAPs) under section 112 of the Clean
Air Act (CAA). A major source is one
which emits more than 10 tons/yr of
one HAP or more than 25 tons/yr of
a combination of 189 HAPs.
Combustion turbines also emit NQx,
SO2, CO, and PM. Combustion-turbines
are already regulated for NOx and SO2
emissions under section 111 of the
CAA. This project is part of the
Industrial Combustion Coordinated
Rulemaking (ICCR) Project. The EPA
will gadier information on HAP
emissions from ICCR project sources
including combustion turbines and
determine the appropriate maximum
achievable control technology (MACT)
to reduce HAP emissions, if any. The
EPA will also gather information to
revise the 1979 NSPS for NOx and SO2
and decide whether CO and PM
standards are required for combustion
turbines. The EPA information, that has
already been developed will be used
if possible and additional information
will be gathered by working with
State/local agencies, vendors,
manufacturers of combustion turbines,
owners and operators of combustion
turbines, and environmentalists. A
limited number of sources may be
tested to gather emission data to
supplement the existing emissions data
base. The number of small entities that
would be affected is not known at this
time.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Government Levels Affected:
Undetermined
Additional Information: SAN No. 3657
Agency Contact: Sims Roy,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5263
Fax: 919 541-5450
Email: roy.sims@epa.gov
Doug Bell, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5568
Fax: 919 541-5450
Email: bell.doug@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AG67
3243. NESHAP: MINERAL WOOL
PRODUCTION INDUSTRY
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 1857 et seq;
44 USC 350 et seq; 4 USC 605; EO
12866
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 1997.
Abstract: The Clean Air Act, as
amended in 1990, requires the EPA to
(1) publish an initial list of all
categories of major and area sources of
the hazardous air pollutants (HAPs)
listed in section 112(b) of the CAA, (2)
promulgate a schedule establishing a
date for the promulgation of emissions
standards for each of the listed
categories of HAPs emission sources,
and (3) develop ^emission standards for
each source of HAPs. These standards
are to be technology-based and are to
require the maximum degree of
emission reduction determined to be
achievable by the Administrator. The
Agency has determined that the
mineral wool production industry emits
several of the 189 HAPs listed in
section 112(b) of the CAA. As a
consequence, a regulatory development
program is being pursued for the
mineral wool production industry to
promulgate emission standards.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Supp. Proposal
Final Action
05/08/97 62 FR 25370
04/00/99
05/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected:
Undetermined
Additional Information: SAN No. 3461
Agency Contact: Mary Johnson,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5025
Fax: 919 541-5600
Email: johnson.mary@epa.gov
Jim Crowder, Environmental-Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13V,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
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Phone: 919 541-5596
Email: crowder.jim@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AE08
3244. NESHAP: IRON FOUNDRIES
AND STEEL FOUNDRIES
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant.
Major status under 5 USC 801 is
undetermined.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAAA
sec 112
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: Iron foundries and steel
foundries have been identified by the
EPA as potentially significant sources
of air emissions of manganese
compounds, lead compounds, and
other substances that are among the
pollutants listed as hazardous air
pollutants in section 112 of the Clean
Air Act, as amended in November of
1990. As such, these industries may be
source categories for •which national
emission standards may be warranted.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Sectors Affected: 331511 Iron
Foundries; 331512 Steel Investment
Foundries; 331513 Steel Foundries,
(except Investment)
Additional Information: SAN No. 3343
Agency Contact: Jim Maysilles,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-3265
Fax: 919 541-5600
Email: maysilles.james@epa.gov
Al Vervaert, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5602
RIN: 2060-AE43
3245. NESHAP: CYANIDE CHEMICALS
MANUFACTURING
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAAA
sec 112
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: Cyanide compounds are
among the pollutants listed as
hazardous air pollutants in section 112
of the Clean Air Act Amendments of
1990. As a. consequence, the EPA has
determined that sources that
manufacture cyanide compounds may
reasonably be anticipated to emit
cyanide compounds in quantities
sufficient to qualify them as major
sources. Three source categories that
either produce hydrogen cyanide or use
it in the production of other chemicals,
specifically cyanuric chloride and
sodium cyanide, are on the initial list
of HAP emitting source categories
selected for regulation. The results of
an assessment of the three source
categories conducted by the. Agency
indicated that cyanuric chloride is an
unstable intermediate product and is
incorrectly listed. Also every facility
producing sodium cyanide also
produces hydrogen cyanide. As result
of this analysis, the cyanuric chloride
source category was delisted and the
sodium and hydrogen cyanide source
categories will be compressed into -one
cyanide source category. In addition,
this new cyanide category was
switched from the list of categories
scheduled to be regulated in 1997 to
the list of categories scheduled for
regulation in 2000.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM 11/00/99
Final , 11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No"
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Sectors Affected: 325188 All Other
Basic Inorganic Chemical
Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 3341
Agency Contact: Keith Barnett,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5605
Fax: 919 541-3470
Email: barnett.keith@epa.gov
Penny Lassiter, Environmental
Protection Agency, Air and Radiation,
MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC
27711
Phone: 919 541-5396
RIN: 2060-AE45
3246. NESHAP: INTEGRATED IRON
AND STEEL
Priority: Economically Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAAA
sec 112
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: The Clean Ah- Act, as
amended November 1990, requires the
EPA to regulate categories of major and
area sources of hazardous air pollutants
(HAP). The EPA has determined that
integrated iron and steel mills emit
several of the 189 HAP listed
(including compounds of chromium,
lead, manganese, toluene, and
polycyclic organic matter) in quantities
sufficient to designate them as major
sources. As a consequence, integrated
iron and steel facilities are among the
HAP-emitting source categories selected
for regulation.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Rule
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State
Additional Information: SAN No. 3346
Agency Contact: Phil Mulrine,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5289
Fax: 919 541-5600
Email: muhine.phil@epa.gov
Al Vervaert, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5602
RIN: 2060-AE48
3247. NESHAP: WOOL FIBERGLASS
MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 1857 et seq;
44 USC 350 et seq; 4 USC 605; EO
12866
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
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Legal Deadline:
Final, Judicial, May 15,1999.
Abstract: The Clean Air Act (CAA), as
amended in 1990, requires the EPA to
CD publish an initial list of all
categories of major and area sources of
the hazardous air pollutants (HAPs)
listed in Section 112(b) of the CAA, (2)
promulgate a schedule establishing a
date for the promulgation of emissions
standards for each of the listed
categories of HAPs emission sources,
and (3) develop emission standards for
each source of HAPs. These standards
are to he technology-based and are to
require the maximum degree of
emission reduction determined to be
achievable by the Administrator. The
Agency has determined that the wool
fiberglass manufacturing industry may
reasonably be anticipated to emit
several of the 189 HAPs listed in
section 112(b) of-the CAA. As a
consequence, a regulatory development
program is being pursued for the wool
fiberglass manufacturing industry to
promulgate emission standards.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM 03/31/97 62 FR 15228
Supp. Proposal 04/00/99
Final Action 05/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entitles Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Sectors Affected: 32742 Gypsum and
Gypsum Product Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 3123
Agency Contact: William Neuffer,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5435
Fax: 919 541-5600
Email: neuffer.william@epa.gov
Jim Crowder, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5596
Email: crowder.jim@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AE75
3248. NESHAP: REINFORCED
PLASTIC COMPOSITES PRODUCTION
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: This regulation would control
emissions of hazardous air pollutants
from plants engaged in the
manufacturing of homopolymers and/or
copolymers which contain materials
designed to enhance the chemical,
physical, and/or thermal properties of
the polymer. The source category
includes, but is not limited to
processing techniques such as hand
layup and spray layup of gelcoats that
incorporate styrene.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM 11/00/99
Final Action 11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State
Sectors Affected: 32614 Polystyrene
Foam Product Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 3326
Agency Contact: Keith Barnett,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5605
Fax: 919 541-3470
Email: barnett.keith@epa.gov
Penny Lassiter, Environmental
Protection Agency, Air and Radiation,
MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC
27711
Phone: 919 541-5395
Fax: 919 541-3470
Email: lassiter.penny@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AE79
3249. NESHAP: MISCELLANEOUS
ORGANIC CHEMICAL PRODUCTION
AND PROCESSES
Priority: Other Significant. Major status
under 5 USC 801 is undetermined.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAAA
sec 112
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: This regulation will cover
organic chemical manufacturing
processes not covered by the HON or
other MACT standards. The regulation
will control process vents (continuous
and batch), equipment leaks, storage
tanks and wastewater.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Rule
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: None
Sectors Affected: 325992 Photographic
Film, Paper, Plate and Chemical
Manufacturing; 32551 Paint and
Coating Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 3452
Agency Contact: Randy McDonald,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5402
Fax: 919 541-3470
Email: mcdonald.randy@epa.gov
Penny Lassiter, Environmental
Protection Agency, Air and Radiation,
MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC
27711
Phone: 919 541-5396
RIN: 2060-AE82
3250. NESHAP: CHLORINE
PRODUCTION
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAAA
sec 112
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: The chlorine production
source category includes facilities
engaged in the production of chlorine
and sodium hydroxide (caustic) by one
of the following electrolytic processes:
diaphragm cell, membrane cell, and
mercury cell. Hazardous air pollutants
emitted include chlorine, hydrogen
chloride, and mercury. None of the
facilities are major sources on their
own. However, several are co-located
with major sources (e.g.,'pulp and
paper plants, polymer plants, synthetic
organic chemical plants, etc.).
Emissions of chlorine and hydrogen
chloride are very minor and the Agency
is evaluating whether regulation of
these HAPs is warranted. Relative to
mercury, which is among five
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pollutants listed for regulation under
section il2(c)(6) due to their persistent
and bioaccumulative effects, the
Agency intends to subject to regulation
under section 112(d)(2) all mercury cell
facilities regardless of major source
status.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State
Additional Information: SAN No. 3449
Agency Contact: Iliam Rosario,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5308
Fax: 919 541-5600
Email: rosario.iliam@epa.gov
Al Vervaert, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5602
RIN: 2060-AE85
3251. NESHAP: PRIMARY LEAD
SMELTERS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: CAA sec 112
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 1997,
Statutory Section 112 of the CAA.
Final, Judicial, May 15, 1999.
Abstract: Primary lead smelters are a
major source category of hazardous air
pollutants. Potential emissions include
compounds of lead, and other metallic
HAPs as well as organic HAPs.
Emission standards would establish
maximum achievable control
technology requirements for affected
process units and fugitive dust sources.
This industry is comprised of two
companies which operate three
smelters in two states.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 04/17/98 63 FR 19200
Supplemental NPRM 04/00/99
Final Action 05/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Sectors Affected: 331419 Primary
Smelting and Refining of Nonferrous
Metal (except Copper and Aluminum)
Additional Information: SAN No. 3467
Agency Contact: Kevin Cavender,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-2364
Fax: 919 541-5600
Email: cavender.kevin@epa.gov
Al Vervaert, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5602
RIN: 2060-AE97
3252. NESHAP: MANUFACTURING OF
NUTRITIONAL YEAST
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: CAA sec 112 (d)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: Section 112 of the Clean Air
Act requires major sources of hazardous
air pollutants to achieve emission
reduction based on the maximum
achievable control technology (MACT).
This regulatory action will establish
this level of control for both new and
existing sources in the nutritional yeast
manufacturing industry. This industry
is currently comprised of 10 sources, of
5 different manufacturers located in 8
different states. The only known HAP
emission from this source is
acetaldehyde. It is produced as a by-
product during the fermentation
process. The proposed regulatory
options set maximum emission limits
of acetaldehyde, which will be
achievable by improved process control
to reduce formation of this by-product.
A supplemental proposal is being
developed to provide notice "and
comment opportunity for updated
industry information.
Timetable:
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State
Sectors Affected: 311999 All Other
Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 3550
Agency Contact: Michele Aston,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-2363
Fax: 919 541-0942
Email: aston.michele@epa.gov
Susan Wyatt, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5674
Fax: 919 541-0942
Email: wyatt.susan@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AF30
3253. AMENDMENTS TO GENERAL
PROVISIONS SUBPARTS A AND B
FOR 40 CFR 63
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: PL 101-549; 42,USC
7401 CAA sec 112
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63.1; 40 CFR
63.51
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The General Provisions
(subpart A) were promulgated on
March 16,1994 (59 FR 12408). The -
General Provisions create the technical
and administrative framework and
establish general procedures and
criteria for implementing MACT
standards. On May 16, 1994, six
litigants filed petitions for EPA to
review certain provisions of the General
Provisions. Subpart B, the procedures
for implementing section 112(j), were
promulgated on May 26, 19'94.,In June,
1994 litigants filed petitions for EPA
to review the promulgated procedures.
As a result of the litigation, it is
anticipated that a number of technical
and administrative amendments to
subpart A and B will be proposed.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Supplemental NPRM
Final Action
10/18/98 63 FR 55812
10/00/99
09/00/00
Action
Date
FR Cite
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
NPRM 07/00/99
Final Action 11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State
Additional Information: SAN No. 3551
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Agency Contact: James Szykman,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangld Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 54l-2452
Fax: 919 541-0942
Email: szykman.jim@epa.gov
Susan Wyatt, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5674
Fax: 919 541-0942
Email: wyatt.susan@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AF31
3254. NESHAP: PAINT STRIPPING
OPERATIONS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant.
Major status under 5 USC §0l is
undetermined.
Legal Authority: CAA sec 112
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: The Clean Air Act requires
EPA to publish an initial list of all
categories of major and area sources of
hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) listed
in section 112(b) of the Act and to
establish and meet dates for
promulgation of emission standards for
each of the listed categories, of HAP
emission sources. The standards are to
be technology-based atid are to require'
the maximum degree of emission
reduction determined to be achievable
by the Administrator. The' EPA Has
determined that paint stripping
operations emit at least one, of the
HAPs listed in section il2(b) of the
Act, specifically me'thylen'e chloride. As
a result, the source category is included
on the initial list of HAP-emitting
categories scheduled for promulgation
within 10 years of enactment of the
Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.
The purpose of this action is to begin
a regulatory development program such
that any emission standards may be
promulgated according to the mandated
schedule. It is unknown now whether
this action will impact small
businesses.
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Rule
11/00/99
11/00/00
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State
Additional Information: SAN No. 3746
Agency Contact: Jaime Pagan,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5340
Fax: 919 541-0942
Email: pagan.jainie@epa.gov
Carolyn Wigington, Environmental
Protection Agency, Air and Radiation,
MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC
27711
Phone: 919 541-5376
Fax: 919 541-0942
Email: wigington.carolyn@epa.gov
RlNr 2060-AG26
3255;
MANUFACTURING
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant.
Major status under 5 USiC 801 is
undetermined.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2"0'00.
Abstract: This action will result in the
fiductio'd of hazardous air pollutants
tariitted by the boat manufacturing
industry. The most abundant pollutant
emitted by this industry is styrene,
which is listed as a hazardous ait
pblltitEtnt in the 1990 Clean Air Adt.
The Agency will study the various
hazardous air pollutants emitted by the
industry and will evaluate pollution
prevention and abatement techniques
which can reduce emissions front these
pollutants.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
12/00/99
12/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Government Levels Affected: None
Sectors Affected: 336611 Ship
Building and Repairing; 336612 Boat
Building
Additional Information: SAN No. 3747
Agency Contact: Mark Morris,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5416
Fax: 919 541-3470
Email: morris.marfc^epa.goV
Penny Lassiter, Environmental
Protection Agency, Air and Radiation,
MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC
27711 i
Phone: 919 541-5396
Fax: 919 541-3470
Efnail: lassiter.penny@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AG27
3256. NESHAP: TIRE
MANUFACTURING
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: CAA sec 112
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: The Clean Air Act requires
EPA to publish ah initial list of all
categories of major and area sources df
hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) listed
in section 112(b) of the Act and to
establish and meet dates for
promulgation of emission standards for
each of the listed categories of HAP
•emission sources. The standards are to •
be technology-based and are to require
file rrtaximum degree of emission
reduction determined to be achievable
by the Administrator. The EPA has
determined that 43 major tire
manufacturing operations emit at least
one of the HAPs listed in section 112(b)
of the Act) specifically benzene,
nexafie, arid tolu&rid. As a result, the
source category is included on the list
of HAP'-emitting categories scheduled
for promulgation Within 10 years of
enactment of the Clean Ait Act
Amendments of 1990. The purpose of
this action is to continue a regulatory :
development program such that any
emission standards may be
promulgated according to the mandated
schedule.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 11/00/99
Final Action 11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State
Additional Information: SAN No. 3749
Agency Contact: Tony Wayne,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
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and Radiation, MD-13, Research.
triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5439
Fax: 919 541-0942.-
Email: wayne.tony@epa.gov
Susan Wyatt, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711-
Phone: 919 541-5674
Fax: 919 541-0942
Email: wyatt.susan@epa.gov
BIN: 2Q60-AG29
3257. PETROLEUM SOLVENT DRY
CLEANERS MAXIMUM ACHIEVABLE
CONTROL TECHNOLOGY (MACT)
STANDARD
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant.
Major status under 5 USC 801 is
undetermined.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAA sec
112
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: The Clean Air Act requires
EPA to publish an initial list of all
categories of major and area sources of
hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) listed
in section 112(b) of the Clean Air Act
Amendments an,d to establish and meet
dates for pronnilgatiori of e'missiQn
standards for each of the listed
categories of HAP emissipn. sources.
Thfe st&iidards, Eire1 to be techndlogy-
based and are to require the maximum
degree of emission reduction
determined to be achievable, by the
Administrator. The EPA has
determined that the petroleum solvent
dry cleaning industry emits several
HAPs listed in section 112(b.) of the
Act; these HAPs are: chlorobenzene,
cumene, ethyl benzene, polycyclic
organic matter, toluene, and xylene. As
a result, the source category is included
on the initial list of HAP-emitting
categories scheduled for promulgation
within 10 years of enactment of the
Cl&an Air Act Amendments of 1990.
The purpose of this action is to begin
a regulatory development program such
that any emission standards may be
promulgated according to the mandated
schedule. It is anticipated that this
action will impact small business, but
the extent of that impact has not yet
been determined.
Timetable:
Action
Date PR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined •
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State
Additional Information: SAN No. 3754
Agency Contact: James Szykman,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park; NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-2452
Fax: 919 541-0942
Email: szykmah.jim@epa.gov
Susan Wyatt, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5674
Fax: 919 541-0942
Email: wyatt.susan@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AG34
3258. NESHAP: ETHYLENE
PROCESSES
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: CAA sec 112
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
NPRM, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Final, Statutory, November 20,. 2000.
Abstract:: Title HI of the Clean Air Act
requires development of emission
standards for all rnajor sources ejnitting
any of the 188 hazardous air pollutants'
(HAPs) identified in section 112(b) of
the CAA,. Ethylene Processes is listed
as a category of major sources based
on process knowledge emissions of
benzene and butadiene. This action
will explore alternatives controlling the
release o;F HAPs from the following
process areas located at ethylene
process facilities: process streams,
storage, equipment leaks and other
fugitive sources, and wastewater
operations. There are no anticipated
impacts on small businesses.
Timetable:
Government Levels Affected:
Undetermined
Sectors Affected: 325193 Ethyl
Alcohol Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 3821
Agency Contact: Warren Johnson, Jr.,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5124
Fax: 919 .541-3470
Email: johnson.warren@epa.gov
Penny Lassiter, Environmental
Protection Agency, Air and Radiation,
MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC
27711
Phone:919541-5396
RIN: 2060-AG53
3259. LARGE APPLIANCE (SURFACE
COATING) NESHAP
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant.
Major status under 5 USC 801 is
undetermined.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory ."November 30, 2000.
Abstract: This regulation will apply to
surface coating of large appliance
products and parts for household,
. commercial, or recreational use. This
regulation will reduce nationwide
emissions of HAPs from surface coating
of large appliances, a measure required
by secticfp, tl£ of the Clean Air Act.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 11/00/99
Final 11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Tribal
Sectors Affected: 335222 Household
Refrigerator and Home Freezer
Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 3823
Agency Contact: Mohamed Serageldin,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-2379
Fax: 919 541-5689
Email: serageldin.mohamed@epa.gov
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Trish Koman, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-4120
Fax: 919 541-5689
Email: koman.trish@epa,gov
BIN: 2060-AG54
3260. NESHAP: ASPHALT ROOFING
AND PROCESSING
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAAA
sec 112
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: The CAA required EPA to
publish an initial list of all categories
of major and area sources of hazardous
air pollutants (HAPs) listed in section
112(b) of the CAA and to establish and
meet dates for promulgation of
emissions standards for each of the
listed categories of HAP emissions
sources. The standards are to be
technology-based and are to require the
maximum degree of reduction
determined to be achievable by the
Administrator. The EPA has
determined that the asphalt roofing and
processing industry may be reasonably
anticipated to emit one of the
pollutants listed in section 112(b) of the
CAA. As a consequence, the source
category is included on the initial list
of HAP-emitting categories scheduled
for standards promulgation within ten
years of enactment of the CAA
Amendments of 1990. The purpose of
this action is to pursue a regulatory
development program such that
emission standards may be proposed
and promulgated according to the
mandated schedule.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Interim Final Rule
10/00/99
10/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3655
Agency Contact: Juan Santiago,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NG 27711
Phone: 919 541-1084
Fax: 919 541-5600
Email: santiago.juan@epa.gov
Jim Crowder, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5596
Email: crowder.jim@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AG66
3261. NESHAP: INDUSTRIAL,
COMMERCIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL
BOILERS
Priority: Economically Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: The Clean Air Act, as
amended in 1990, requires EPA to
develop emission standards for sources
of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs).
Industrial boilers and
institutional/commercial boilers are
among the potential source categories
to be regulated under section 112 of
the CAA. Emissions of HAPs will be
addressed by this rulemaking for both
new and existing sources. EPA
promulgated an NSPS for these source
categories in 1*87 and 1990. The
standards for the NESHAP are to be
technology-based and are to require the
maximum achievable control
technology (MACT) as described in
section 112 of the CAA. This standard
is part of the Industrial Combustion
Coordinated Rulemaking.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Rule
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected:
Undetermined
Additional Information: SAN No. 3837
Agency Contact: James Eddinger,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5426
Fax: 919 541-5450
Doug Bell, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5568
RIN: 2060-AG69
3262. NESHAP: LIME
MANUFACTURING
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant.
Major status under 5 USC 801 is
undetermined.
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 CAA sec
112, 44 USC 350 et seq, 5 USC 605
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: Title IH of the Clean Air Act
Amendments of 1990 requires the EPA
to develop emission standards for each
major source category of hazardous air
pollutants (HAPs). The standards are to
be technology-based and are to require
the maximum degree of emission
reduction determined to be achievable
by the Administrator of the EPA. The
EPA has determined that some lime
manufacturing plants may be major
sources for one or more HAPs. As a
consequence, a regulation (emission
standards) is being developed for the
lime manufacturing industry.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Sectors Affected: 32741 Lime
Msinufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 3651
Agency Contact: Joseph Wood,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5446
Fax: 919 541-5600
Email: wood.joe@epa.gov
Jim Crowder, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5596
Email: crowder.jim@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AG72
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3263. NESHAP: FRICTION PRODUCTS
MANUFACTURING
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant.
Major status under 5 USC 801 is
undetermined.
Legal Authority: PL 91-190 sec 203; 42
USC 7401 CAA sec 112
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: The friction products
manufacturing source category includes
any facility that manufactures or
remamafactures friction products such
as brakes, brake pads, disk pads, and
clutch pads, including facilities that
use non-asbestiform mineral fibers and
asbestos replacement material.
Hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) are
emitted from solvents contained in the
adhesives used to bond the friction
material to the automobile part. During
1998, the Agency collected current
information from owners/operators
regarding business size, quantities of
pollutants, processes, air pollution
control devices, and workplace
practices in the industry. Some of the
HAPs reported include phenol, toluene,
methyl chloroform, chlorobenzene, o-
cresol, formaldehyde, n-hexane,
hydrogen cyanide, methanol, methylene
chloride, methylisobutyl carbon, 1,1,1-
trichloroethane, trichloroethylene,
chloroethylether, ethylbenzene,
xylenes, and methylethylketone.
Owners/operators reported that these'
particular HAPs are emitted during
heated processes such as curing,
bonding, and debonding processes. It is
expected that substantial reductions in
these emissions can be achieved at the
floor levels of controls under section
112(b). Based on this information and
any needed new information to be
developed by EPA and the industry, the
Agency plans to propose and
promulgate a maximum achievable
control technology (MACT) or generally
available control technology (GACT)
standard for existing sources and new
sources. The friction material industry .
is concentrated in, but not limited to,
the automotive markets. Impacts on
small businesses (including SBREFA
analyses) and on State/local/tribal
governments will be .assessed.
Timetable:
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3899
Agency Contact: Susan Zapata,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5167 -
Fax: 919 541-5600
Email: zapata.susan@epa.gov > ;
Jim Crowder, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5596
Email: crowder.jim@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AG87
3264. NESHAP: SEMICONDUCTOR
PRODUCTION
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: This rule will establish a
MACT (maximum available control
technology) for semiconductor
production facilities. There are
currently 6 major sources that would
be affected by the NESHAP. This action
will result in little or no additional
emission reduction but will establish a
Federal MACT level for large facilities.
It is anticipated that no major sources
will be subject to the rule at time of
promulgation.
Timetable:
Action
Date PR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
11/00/99.
11/00/00
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State
Additional Information: SAN No. 3902
Agency Contact: Tony Wayne,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5439
Fax: 919 541-0942
Email: wayne.tony@epa.gov
Susan Wyatt, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5674
Fax: 919 541-0942
Email: wyatt.susan@epa.gpv
RIN: 2060-AG93
3265. NESHAP: METAL CAN
(SURFACE COATING) INDUSTRY
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal. Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: This action will result in the
reduction of hazardous air pollutants
emitted by the metal can industry. The
Agency will study what pollutants are
emitted and evaluate the control
techniques, including pollution
..prevention, that are used to reduce
these emissions. The Agency will also
determine what, if any, impact the rule
would have on small businesses.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM 11/00/99
Final Action 11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3906
Agency Contact: George F. Smith,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-4120
Fax: 919 541-5689
Email: smith.george@epa.gov
Trish Koman, Environmental Protection
Agency, Ah* and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-4120
RIN: 2060-AG96
3266. NESHAP: METAL COIL
(SURFACE COATING) INDUSTRY
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: This action will result in the
reduction of hazardous air pollutants
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emitted by the metal coil surface
coating industry. The Agency will
study what pollutants are emitted and
evaluate the control techniques,
including pollution prevention, that are
used to reduce these emissions. The
Agency will also determine what, if
any, impact the rule would have on
small businesses.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entitles Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State
Additional Information: SAN No. 3905
Agency Contact: George F. Smith,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-1549
Fax: 919 541-5689
Email: smith.georgef@epa.gov
Trish Koman, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-4120
Fax: 919 541-5689
Email: koman.trish@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AG97
3267. NESHAP: FABRIC PRINTING,
COATING AND DYEING
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: This action will result in the
reduction of hazardous air pollutants
(HAP) emitted frbnvfabric printing,
coating, and dyeing. The Agency will
identify and study the types and
sources of HAP emissions from these
processes, and evaluate pollution
prevention and other control
techniques which can reduce these
emissions.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Aciion
11/00/99
11/00/00
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State
Additional Information: SAN No. 3909
Agency Contact: Paul Almodovar,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-0283
Fax: 919 541-5689
Email: almodovar.paul@epa.gov
Trish Koman, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
RTF, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-4120
Fax: 919 541-5689
Email: koman.trish@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AG98
3268. AUTOMOBILE AND LIGHT-DUTY
TRUCK MANUFACTURING (SURFACE
COATING) NESHAP
Priority: Economically Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: This action will result in the
reduction of hazardous air pollutants
(HAPs) emitted from the coatings used
by the automobile and light-duty truck
manufacturing industry. The Agency
will study the HAP emitted by the
industry and will evaluate pollution
prevention and other control
techniques which can reduce these
emissions.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local
Additional Information: SAN No. 3907
Agency Contact: Dave Salman,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-0859
Fax: 919 541-5689
Email: sahnan.dave@epa.gov
Trish Koman, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-4120
RIN: 2060-AG99
3269. NESHAP: PRIMARY
MAGNESIUM REFINING
Priority: Other Significant. Major status
under 5 USC 801 is undetermined.
Legal Authority: CAA sec 112
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: Section-112 of the Clean Air
Act (Act), as amended November 1990,
requires the EPA to regulate categories
of major and area sources of hazardous
air pollutants (HAPs) listed in section
112(b). The EPA has determined that
sources that manufacture primary
magnesium may reasonably be
anticipated to emit several of the 189
HAPs listed (including chlorine and
hydrochloric acid) in quantities
sufficient to designate them as a major
source. As a consequence, primary
magnesium refining is among the HAP
emitting source categories selected for
regulation and is iii the group of
categories for which final rules are
scheduled to be promulgated by
November 15, 2000 (58 FR 63941,
December 3, 1993).
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
.11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State
Additional Information: SAN No. 3924
Agency Contact: Iliam Rosario,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5308
Fax: 919 541-5600
Email: rosario.iliam@epa.gov
Al Vervaert, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5602
RIN: 2060-AH03
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3270. NESHAP: CHROMIUM
ELECTROPLATING AMENDMENT
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7402 CAA 112
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: Final standards under section
112(d) for chromium emissions from
hard and decorative chromium
electroplating and chromium anodizing
tanks (40 CFR 63, subpart N) were
promulgated on January 25, 1995. Since
promulgation, the Agency has
determined that a class of chromium
electroplating operations were
inadvertently excluded from regulation.
Specifically, the final standards do not
apply to sources engaged in continuous
chromium electroplating of steel sheet
used to make cans and other
containers. It is the Agency's intent to
regulate all facilities engaged in
chromium electroplating. Therefore, the
Agency plans to amend the chromium
electroplating rule to extend its
'applicability to continuous chromium
electroplating operations.
Timetable:
technology for site remediation.
Hazardous air pollutant emissions from
spills of organic liquids, the excavation,
transportation, and treatment of
contaminated soils and groundwater,
and other operations will be considered
in developing the rule.
Timetable:
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
04/00/99
06/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State
Additional Information: SAN No. 2841
Agency Contact: Phil Mulrine,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MB-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5289
Al Vervaert, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5602
RIN: 2060-AH08
3271. NESHAP: SITE REMEDIATION
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq;
PL 101-549 104 Stat. 2399
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: This rule will specify
maximum achievable control
Action
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
01/00/00
03/00/01
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required; No
Government Levels Affected:
Undetermined
Additional Information: SAN No. 3968
Agency Contact: Martha Smith,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-2421
Fax: 919 541-0246
Email: smith.martha@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AH12
3272. NESHAP: SPANDEX
PRODUCTION ,
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15,.2000.
Abstract: This project is to develop
national emission standards for
hazardous air pollutants by establishing
maximum achievable control
technology (MACT) for facilities
producing spandex. MACT standards .
are under development'to reduce the
release of hazardous air pollutants
(HAP] from all industries to protect the
public health and environment.
Emissions of HAP from this industry .
have been, associated with, but are not
limited to, fiber washing operations,
material storage tanks, fugitive
emissions, and polymer drying. Only
five U.S. spandex facilities have been.
identified. Currently, EPA is finalizing
the Presumptive MACT (P-MACT). P-
MACT is not an emission standard. P-
MACT serves as a statement of current
knowledge of MACT and a basis for
a,decision on how to develop the
emission standard for the source
category involved.
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Government Levels Affected: State
Additional Information: SAN No. 3967
Agency Contact: Mary Kissell,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-4516
Fax: 919 541-0246
Email: kissell.mary@epa.gov
K.C. Hustvedt, Environmental
Protection Agency, Air and Radiation,
MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC
27711
Phone: 919 541-5395
RIN: 2060-AH14
3273. NESHAP: LEATHER TANNING
AND FINISHING OPERATIONS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000,
The Clean Air Act requires
promulgation by -11/15/00.
Abstract: Title m of the Clean Air Act
requires EPA to develop air emission
standards for facilities that emit any of
the 189 hazardous air pollutants. This
action will develop a MACT standard
for sources involved in leather tanning
and finishing operations. Facilities
involved in these operations release
over 1.7 million pounds of hazardous
air pollutants per year. Regulation of
these facilities will result in a reduction
of the emissions of hazardous air
pollutants, several of which are highly
toxic.
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM 11/00/99
Final Action 11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Sectors Affected: 31611 Leather and
• Hide Tanning and Finishing
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Additional Information: SAN No. 3964
Agency Contact: Bill Schrock,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation. MD-13, Research
Triangle Park. NC 27711
Phone:919541-5032
Fax:919541-3470
Email: schrock.bill@epa.gov
Penny Lassiter. Environmental
Protection Agency. Air and Radiation,
MD-13. Research Triangle Park, NC
27711
Phone:919541-5396
RIN:2060-AH17
3274. NESHAP: MANUFACTURE OF
CARBON BLACK
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: CAA sec 112
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: The purpose of this
regulatory action is to develop a
Maximum Achievable Control
Technology Standard for the
manufacture of carbon black. This
standard will meet the Clean Air Act
Amendments of 1990 requirement to
regulate sources of hazardous air
pollutants. Three hazardous air
pollutants identified in the 1990 Clean
Air Act Amendments are emitted by
the carbon black process. These are
carbon disulfide, carbonyl sulfide, and
hydrogen cyanide.
Carbon black Is a product used
primarily in the manufacture of
automobile tires. There are
approximately 24 carbon black facilities
located In the nation. Of these it is
currently estimated there are 19 major
sources that will be subject to this
regulation. This rule is not expected to
have impacts on small business.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State
Sectors Affected: 325182 Carbon Black
Manufacturing
Additional information: SAN No. 3962
Agency Contact: John Schaefer,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-0296
Fax: 919 541-3470
RIN: 2060-AH19
3275. NESHAP: VEGETABLE OIL
PRODUCTION
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq
CFR Citation: Not yet determined
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action develops National
Emission Standards for Hazardous Air
Pollutants (NESHAP) for vegetable oil
production facilities as authorized
under section 112(d) of the Clean Air
Act (Act). The action is based on the
determination that vegetable oil
production plants emit organic
hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) listed
in section 112(b) of the Act. On July
16, 1992, EPA listed vegetable oil
production as a source for which
NESHAP-are to be promulgated. On
December 3, 1993, EPA published a
schedule for promulgating NESHAP for
vegetable oil production plants by
November 15, 2000. NESHAP
developed under section 112(d) apply
to both new and existing facilities.
NESHAP for existing facilities are to be
based on the average emission
limitation achieved by the best
performing 12 percent of existing
sources.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Rule
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State
Sectors Affected: 311223 Other
Oilseed Processing; 311222 Soybean
Processing; 311225 Fats and Oils
Refining and Blending
Additional Information: SAN No. 3903
Agency Contact: James Durham,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5672
Fax: 919 541-0246
K.C. Hustvedt, Environmental
Protection Agency, Air and Radiation,
MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC
27711
Phone: 919 541-5395
RIN: 2060-AH22
3276. NESHAP: ROCKET ENGINE
TEST FIRING/ENGINE TEST
FACILITIES
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: As required by section 112(c)
of the Clean Air Act, the Environmental
Protection Agency has developed a list
of categories of sources of hazardous
air pollutants (HAP's). The HAP's are
listed in section 112(b) of the Clean Air
Act. The Rocket Engine Test Firing
source category and the Engine Test
Facilities source category are included
on EPA's list of sources of HAP's. The
Rocket Engine Test Firing source
category includes facilities engaged in
test firing of rocket engines using solid
or liquid propellents. The Engine Test-
Facilities source category includes any
facility engaged in the testing of
stationary or mobile engines, including
turbines and reciprocating engines.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Government Levels Affected:
Undetermined
Additional Information: SAN No. 3972
Agency Contact: George F. Smith,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-1549
Fax: 919 541-5450
Doug Bell, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5568
RIN: 2060-AH35
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Proposed Rule Stage
3277. NESHAP: FLEXIBLE
POLYURETHANE FOAM
FABRICATION OPERATIONS
Priority: Info./Admin./Other
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAAA,
section 112
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: The Clean Air Act (CAA)
requires development of emission
standards for sources emitting any of
the hazardous air pollutants (HAP)
listed in section 112(b) of the CAA.
Flexible Polyurethane Foam Fabrication
Operations is listed as a category of
major sources based on documented
emissions of the following HAP:
methylene chloride, trichlorethane,
hydrogen cyanide, and hydrogen
chloride. This source category covers
emissions from various polyurethane
foam bonding operations, including
foam gluing and flame lamination. This
action will explore alternatives for
reducing HAP emissions from the
following emission sources located at
foam fabrication plants: process vents,
raw material storage and transfer
operations, and equipment leaks.
Ultimately, a NESHAP for this source
category will be developed based on
Maximum Achievable Control
Technology.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Sectors Affected: 326299 All Other
Rubber Product Manufacturing; 326199
All Other Plastics Product
Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 3973
Agency Contact: David Svendsgaard,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-2380
Fax: 919 541-3470
Email: svendsgaard.david@epa.gov
Penny Lassiter, Environmental
Protection Agency, Air and Radiation,
MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC .
27711
Phone: 919 541-5396
RIN: 2060-AH42
3278. NESHAP: GROUP I POLYMERS
AND RESINS AND GROUP IV
POLYMERS AND RESINS;
AMENDMENTS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63.480 to 63.506
(Revision); 40 CFR 63.1310 to 63.1335
(Revision)
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: During the development of
the National Emission Standard for
Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for
elastomers (Group I polymers and
resins) and thermoplastics (Group IV
polymers and resins) (RINs 2060-AD56
and 2060-AE37), many of the
provisions contained in the Hazardous
Organic NESHAP (HON) were
referenced directly by these polymers
and resins regulations due to
similarities in processes, emission
characteristics, and control
technologies. On January 17, 1997, the
EPA promulgated changes to the HON
to remove ambiguity, to clearly convey
EPA intent, and to make the rule easier
to understand and implement in
response to industry petitions. It is
necessary to make parallel changes to
the polymers and resins NESHAP; '
otherwise inconsistencies will exist for
NESHAPs regulating similar source
categories. An ANPRM was published
in the Federal Register on 11/25/96 (61
FR 59849), to explain the nature of
changes planned.
Subsequently, six litigants have
petitioned for review of the elastomers
and thermoplastics regulations. Four
companies have petitioned EPA to
reconsider specific provisions in the
thermoplastics regulation. Revisions
will be proposed to parallel HON
changes and to resolve petitioners'
issues. There are no impacts
anticipated for small businesses or
State/local/tribal governments.
Timetable;:
Action
Date FR Cite
ANPRM
NPRM
Final
11/25/96
04/00/99
11/00/99
61 FR 59849
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Sectors Affected: 325211 Plastics
Material and Resin Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 3939
Agency Contact: Bob Rosensteel,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5608
Fax: 919 541-3470
Email: rosensteel.bob@epa.gov
Penny Lassiter, Environmental
Protection Agency, Air and Radiation,
MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC
27711
Phone: 919 541-5396
RIN: 2060-AH47
3279. AMENDMENTS TO PARTS 51,
52, 63, 70 AND 71 REGARDING THE
PROVISIONS FOR DETERMINING
POTENTIAL TO EMIT
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action proposes to
amend regulations already established
to implement the new Federal air toxics
program under section 112, including
the General Provisions, the Federal
operating permit program under title V,
and the major source preconstruction
programs under parts C and D of title
I.
The proposed rule will address issues
related to the determination of a
stationary source's potential to emit in
response to three court decisions.
This action resulted from splitting of
RINs 2060-AC98 and 2060-AC63.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM '
Final Rule
05/00/99
05/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3479
Agency Contact: Carol Holmes,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, OECA (2242A),
Washington, DC 20460
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Phone: 202 260-8709
Lynn Hutchlnson, Environmental
Protection Agency, Air and Radiation,
OAQPS/ITPID (MD-12). Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5795
Fax: 919 541-5509
Email; hutchinson.lynn@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-A101
3280. • NESHAP: PROCESS HEATERS
Priority: Economically Significant.
Major status under 5 USC 801 is
undetermined.
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: The Clean Air Act, as
amended in 1990, requires EPA to
develop emission standards for sources
of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs).
Process heaters is among the potential
source categories to be regulated under
section 112 of the CAA. Emissions of
HAPs will be addressed by this
rulemaklng for both new and existing
sources. The standards for the NESHAP
are to be technology-based and are to
require the maximum achievable
control technology (MACT) as
described in section 112 of the CAA.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Government Levels Affected:
Undetermined
Additional Information: SAN No. 4218
Agency Contact: Bill Maxwell,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13. Research
Triangle Park. NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5430
Fax: 919 541-5450
Email: maxwell.bill@epa.gov
Doug Bell. Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park. NC 27711
Phone:919541-5568
RIN: 2060-AI35
3281. NSPS: NEW SOURCE
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS AND
EMISSION GUIDELINES FOR
INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL
WASTE INCINERATORS
Priority: Other Significant. Major status
under 5 USC 801 is undetermined.
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Legal Authority: CAA sec 129
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 1994.
NPRM, Judicial, November 15, 1999.
Final, Judicial, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: Section 129 of the Clean Air
Act Amendments requires the Agency
to finalize New Source Performance
Standards (NSPS) and Emission
Guidelines (EG) for Industrial and
Commercial Waste Incinerators (ICWIs).
Negotiations have been completed with
the litigants to grant an extension to
the Agency. The Agency has agreed to
propose standards by November 1999,
and promulgate standards by November
2000.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Rnal Action
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local
Additional Information: SAN No. 3613
Agency Contact: Richard Crume,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5294
Fax: 919 541-5450
Email: crume.richard@epa.gov
Doug Bell, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5568
Fax: 919 541-5450
Email: bell.doug@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AF91
3282. NSPS: NEW SOURCE
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS AND
EMISSION GUIDELINES FOR OTHER
SOLID WASTE INCINERATORS
Priority: Other Significant. Major status
under 5 USC 801 is undetermined.
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7509 CAA sec
129
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
.Abstract: Section 129 of the Clean Air
Act of 1990 requires the Agency to
promulgate New Source Performance
Standards (NSPS) and Emission
Guidelines (EG) for solid waste
incinerators. Section 129 specifically
required the Administrator to publish
a schedule for regulating Other Solid
Waste Incinerators (OSWI). A notice in
the Federal Register was published on
November 2, 1993 that announced that
the Administrator would promulgate
OSWI standards by November 15, 2000.
The notice also listed what classes of
incinerators would be covered by the
OSWI standards. Because it is believed
that these OSWI emit significant
amounts of air pollution that cause
public health and environmental
problems, the Administrator intends to
promulgate the NSPS and EG for OSWI
in accordance with section 129.
Standards will be set for the following
pollutants: particulate matter, opacity,
sulfur dioxide, hydrogen chloride,
oxides of nitrogen, carbon monoxide,
lead cadmium, mercury, and dioxins
and dibenzofurans.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
ANPRM 12/28/94 59 FR 66850
NPRM 11/00/99
Final Action 11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Governmental
Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: Local'
Additional Information: SAN No. 3751
Agency Contact: Richard Crume,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5294
Fax: 919 541-5450
Email: crume.richard@epa.gov
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Proposed Rule Stage
Doug Bell, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5568
Fax:919541-5450
Email: bell.doug@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AG31
3283. •CONSUMER ANP
COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS: FLEXIBLE
PACKAGE PRINTING MATERIALS:
DETERMINATION ON CONTROL
TECHNIQUES GUIDELINES IN LIEU OF
REGULATION
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 etseq
CFR Citation: Not yet determined
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, March 23, 1999,
Consumer and Commercial Products:
Schedule for Regulation 60 FR 15264
03/23/95.
Abstract: In accordance with Section
183{e) of the Clean Air Act, EPA
identified flexible package printing
materials as a category of consumer and
commercial products prioritized for
regulation to reduce VOC emissions in
ozone nonattainment areas. Section
183(e)(3)(C) gives EPA the authority to
issue CTG in lieu of regulation if the
Administrator determines that CTG are
substantially as effect as regulation in
reducing VOC emissions in ozone
nonattainment areas. This action will
put forward EPA's proposed
determination under section
183(e)(3)(C).
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
'NPRM Propose 04/00/99
• Determination
Final Action Fjnal 03/00/00
Determination/CTG
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 4245
Agency Contact: Dan Brown,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation; MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5305
Fax: 919 541-5689
Email: brown.dan@epa.gov
Trish Roman, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-4120
Fax: 919 541-5689
Email: koman.trish@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AI31
3284. REVIEW OF FEDERAL TEST
PROCEDURES FOR EMISSIONS FROM
MOTOR VEHICLES; TEST
PROCEDURE ADJUSTMENTS TO
FUEL ECONOMY AND EMISSION
TEST RESULTS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: PL 101-549
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 86; 40 CFR 600
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action considers
potential adjustments to fuel economy
and emission test results to compensate
for test procedure changes previously
adopted; it applies to light-duty
vehicles and light-duty trucks. This
aspect of the previous rulemaking
(SAN-3323, RIN 2060-AE27) was
deferred:
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
12/00/99
12/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional information: SAN No. 3979
Agency Contact: R. W. Nash,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, VPCD, Ann Arbor, Ml
48105
Phone: 743 214-4412
RIN: 2060-AH38
3285. PROTECTION OF
STRATOSPHERIC OZONE:
RECONSIDERATION OF SECTION 608
SALES RESTRICTION
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 767lg , CAA
sec 608
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 82{F)
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The rule will include the
reconsideration of the sales restriction
as it relates to split systems. The
Agency was petitioned to reconsider
the part of the sales restriction that
included the sale of pre-charged split
systems. It restricted such sales to
certified technicians. Since then, EPA
stayed that portion of the sales
restriction in response to the petition.
This rule will include the
determination of the Agency related to
the reconsideration. It addresses
environmental problems of ozone
depletion resulting from emissions of
chlorofluorocarbons,
hydrochlorofluorocarbons, and other
ozone-depleting substances. Through
restricting sales of certain pre-charged
items to persons certified as
technicians, emissions to the
atmosphere are decreased. The impact
on .small businesses and governments
would be negligible, since persons can
become certified if the EPA
determination is a full restriction. Most
businesses and governments will have
at least one certified technician on
board. This action has no impact on
small business and State, local, and
tribal governments.
timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
08/00/99
03/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3673
This action is combined with RIN 2060-
AG47, SAN 3809.
Agency Contact: Vera Au,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, 6205J, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-2216
Fax: 202 565-2093
RIN: 2060-AG20
3286. PROTECTION OF
STRATOSPHERIC OZONE: SERVICING
OF MOTOR VEHICLE AIR
CONDITIONERS: STANDARDS FOR
EQUIPMENT THAT RECOVERS AND
RECYCLES REFRIGERANTS OTHER
THAN CFC-12 AND HFC-134A
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7671
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 82(B) (Revision)
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This rule serves to amend the
regulations initially promulgated on
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July 14, 1992, under section 609 of the
CAA. Specifically, this rule fulfills the
statutory mandate set forth in section
609 requiring the Administrator to
promulgate regulations for the proper
recycling in motor vehicle air
conditioners (MVACs) of any
refrigerants that substitute for CFC-12.
Specifically, section 609 requires EPA
to establish standards for refrigerant
recycling equipment and for the proper
use of such equipment. This rule will
provide flexibility for service
technicians to meet section 609
requirements, because in addition to
using equipment that recovers and
recycles CFC-12 and HFC-134a
refrigerants, technicians will now be
permitted to use equipment that
recovers and recycles other substitute
refrigerants listed as acceptable under
EPA's SNAP program.
This rule will affect, although not
adversely affect, those small entities
such as independent repair shops,
service stations, truck fleet shops,
collision repair shops, new car and
truck dealers, car and truck rental
shops, and radiator repair shops that
choose to service vehicles that contain
refrigerants other than CFC-12 or HFC-
134a that are listed as acceptable under
EPA's SNAP program. Specifically, it
will allow them to use equipment to
recycle these refrigerants.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
11/00/99
08/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local. Tribal. Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3983
Agency Contact: Christine Dibble.
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, 6205J. Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-9147
Fax: 202 565-2095
Email: dibble.christine@.epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AH29
3287. SUPPLEMENTAL RULE TO
REQUIRE CERTAIN PRODUCTS MADE
WITH HCFCS TO BEAR WARNING
LABEL
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 etseq
Clean Air Act sec 611
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 82(F)
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: Friends of the Earth
submitted and withdrew a petition to
expand EPA's labeling requirements to
include products containing or
manufactured with HCFCs. EPA
anticipates that Friends of the Earth
will submit a revised petition later this
year. We are bound by statute to
respond by 180 days. If EPA grants the
petition, the proposed rulemaking will
be the response.
Timetable:
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
08/00/99
08/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3640
Agency Contact: Sue Stendebach,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, 6205J, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202564-9117
TDD: 202 565-2906
Fax: 202 233-9665
Email: stendebach.sue@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AF93
3288. • PROTECTION OF
STRATOSPHERIC OZONE:
ADDITIONAL STEPS TO CONFORM
U.S. METHYL BROMIDE PROGRAM
TO OBLIGATIONS UNDER THE
MONTREAL PROTOCOL AND RECENT
CHANGES TO THE CAA
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: Not Yet Determined
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 82
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This rulemaking will propose
remaining phaseout steps for methyl
bromide, adjust phaseout data, and
establish additional exemptions.
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
04/00/99
07/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Ciovernment Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 4271
Agency Contact: Tom Land,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, 6205J, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-9185
Fax: 202 565-2095
Email: land.tom@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AI41
3289. METAL FURNITURE (SURFACE
COATINGS) NESHAP
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant.
Major status under 5 USC 801 is
undetermined.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 30, 2000.
Abstract: This regulation will apply to
surface coating of metal furniture
products and parts for household or
commercial use. This regulation will
reduce nationwide emissions of HAPs
from surface coating of metal furniture
products and parts, which is required
under section 112 of the Clean Air Act.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM 11/00/99
Final Action 11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Tribal
Sectors Affected: 337124 Metal
Household Furniture Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 3824
Agency Contact: Mohamed Serageldin,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-2379
Fax: 919 541-5689
Email: serageldin.mohamed@epa.gov
Trish Roman, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
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Phone: 919 541-4120
Fax: 919 541-5689
Email: koman.trish@epa.gov
BIN: 2060-AG55
3290. NESHAP MISCELLANEOUS
METAL PARTS AND PRODUCTS
(SURFACE COATING)
. Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant.
Major status under 5 USC 801 is
undetermined.
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: This regulation will control
•emissions of hazardous air pollutants
(HAPs) from operations that apply
surface coatings to metal parts and
products. Although this rule would
cover a wide variety of coating
operations, it would not apply to
specific coating operations for which
regulations have been developed (e.g.,
plastic parts coating, can coating, large
appliance coating, etc.). This regulation
is required under section 112 of the
Clean Air Act of 1990.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State
Additional Information: SAN No. 3825
Agency Contact: Bruce Moore,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5460
Fax: 919 541-5689
Email: moore.bruce@epa.gov
Trish Koman, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-4021
Fax: 919 541-5689
Email: koman.trish@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AG56
3291. PLASTIC PARTS (SURFACE
COATING) NESHAP
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant.
Major status under 5 USC 801 is
undetermined.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 30, 2000.
Abstract: This action would address
both the and hazardous air pollutants •
(HAP) emissions from the coating of
plastic parts. Pollution prevention
approaches will be considered. Specific
sectors of lite plastic parts industry to
be included in this action have not yet
been determined.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State
Additional Information: SAN No. 3826
Agency Contact: Kim Teal,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5580
Fax: 919 541-5689
Email: teal.kim@epa.gov
Trish Koman, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-4120
Fax: 919 541-5689
Email: koman.trish@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AG57
3292. PAPER AND OTHER WEB
COATING NESHAP
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant.
Major status under 5 USC 801 is
undetermined.
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63; 40 CFR 59
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: This action would result in
the reduction of hazardous air
pollutants (HAPs) emitted by the paper
and other web coating industries. The
Agency will study the various HAP and
VOC pollutants emitted by the industry
and will evaluate pollution prevention
and control techniques which can
reduce these emissions. There are likely
to be small businesses in the paper and
other web coating industry, but at this
time it is not known how many of these
small businesses will be subject to
these rules.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State
Additional Information: SAN No. 3827
Agency Contact: Daniel Brown,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5305
Fax: 919 541-5689
Email: brown.dan@epa.gov
Trish Koman, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-4120
RIN: 2060-AG58
3293. NESHAP: WOOD BUILDING
PRODUCTS (SURFACE COATING)
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:,
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: This action will result in the
reduction of hazardous air pollutants
(HAP) emitted by the wood building
product surface coaling industry. The
Agency will study the various HAP
emitted by the industry and evaluate
pollution prevention and control
techniques which can reduce these
emissions.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
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Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3904
Agency Contact: Paul Almodovar,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-0283
Fax: 919 541-5689
Email: ahnodovar.paul@epa.gov
Trish Koman, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-4120
Fax: 919 541-5689
Email: koman.trish@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AH02
3294. OFFSET LITHOGRAPHIC
PRINTING NATIONAL VOC RULE
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 59
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action will result in the
reduction of volatile organic compound
(VOC) emissions from offset
lithographic printing.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
03/00/00
03/00/01
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Government Levels Affected: State
Additional Information: SAN No. 3908
Agency Contact: Daniel Brown,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5305
Fax: 919 541-5689
Email: brown.dan@epa.gov
Trish Koman, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-4021
Fax: 919 541-5689
Email: koman.trish@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AHOO
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Clean Air Act (CAA)
Final Rule Stage
3295. NESHAP: CHROMIUM
ELECTROPLATING AMENDMENT
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Direct Final Rule
06/00/99
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 (Revision)
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: Since the promulgation of the
chromium electroplating NESHAP we
have been informed of several sources
that are experiencing difficulty in
complying with the concentration limit
for new sources even though they have
installed and operate composite mesh
pad scrubber technology similar or
identical to that used as the basis for
the MACT emission limit. These
sources operate new state-of-the-art
plating tanks not encountered during
rule development which feature
enclosing hoods that completely cover
the surface of the plating tank. This
covered tank design allows for effective
capture and ventilation at substantially
lower exhaust air flow rates than
otherwise encountered with more
conventional exterior hooding.
Although these sources exceed the new
source standard concentration limit of
0.015 mg/dscm, actual mass rate
emissions are more than 50'percent
lower than would otherwise be
achieved with more conventional
hooding and higher ventilation rates.
The chromium electroplating standard
will he amended to include this
alternative type of control system.
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State
Sectors Affected: 332813
Electroplating, Plating, Polishing,
Anodizing and Coloring
Additional Information: SAN No. 4115
Agency Contact: Phil Mulrine,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5289
Fax: 919 541-5600
Email: mulrine.phil@epa.gov
Al Vervaert, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5602
RIN: 2060-AH69
3296. REDEFINITION OF GLYCOL
ETHERS LISTED AS HAPS UNDER
THE CLEAN AIR ACT, AND
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES UNDER
CERCLA
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq;
42 USC 9602, 9603, and 9604; 33 USC
1321; 33 USC 1361
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 (Revision); 40
CFR 302 (Revision)
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The proposed action will
redefine the glycol ethers category of
hazardous air pollutants (HAPs)
regulated under the Clean Air Act and
hazardous substances under the
Comprehensive Emergency Response,
Compensation, and Liability Act. The
new definition will omit specific
compounds of high molecular weight
used as surfactants by the soap and
detergent industry. These compounds
nave low volatility, so only minor
amounts are emitted during
manufacture and use of soaps and
detergents. The compounds also have
low toxicity, so the small amounts that
are released are extremely unlikely to
cause any harm to health or the
environment. The proposal will reduce
the burden of environmental
regulations on soap and detergent
manufacturers, and will have no
adverse environmental impact.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
01/12/99 64 FR 1780
06/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local
Sectors Affected: 325611 Soap and
Other Detergent Manufacturing
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Additional Information: SAN No. 4159
Development, implementation, and
enforcement of emission standards by
Federal and State government for the
soap and detergent industry will be
somewhat' simplified by the omission
of compounds of high molecular weight
and low volatility.
Agency Contact: Dr. Roy L. Smith,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5362.
Fax: 919 541-0237
Email: smith.roy@epa.gov
Karen Martin, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5274
RIN: 2060-AI08
3297. « ACID RAIN PROGRAM
PERMITS REGULATIONS AND SO2
ALLOWANCE SYSTEM: COMPLIANCE
DETERMINATION
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7651 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 72; 40 CFR 73
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This rulemaking would
amend certain provisions in the Permits
and Sulfur Dioxide Allowances rules
under Title IV.of the 1990 Clean Air
Act Amendments to improve the
operation of the Allowance Tracking
System and the allowance market. The
revisions are proposed in light of the
Agency's experience in implementing
the acid rain rules and would result
in allowing a limited number of
allowances to be held for a unit outside
the unit's account.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 08/03/98 63 FR 41357
Final Action 07/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: Federal
Additional information: SAN No. 4242
Agency Contact: Donna Deneen,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, 6204J, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-9089
Fax: 202 565-2139
Email: deneen.donna@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AI27
3298. e COMPLIANCE BASELINE
MODIFICATION NPRM
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7414 Sections
114; 42 USC 7545(c) Sections 211(c);
42 USC 7545(k) Sections 211(k); 42
USC 7601; 301 CAA as amended
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 80.101(f)(4)(ii)
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action proposes to
evaluate the compliance of
conventional gasoline which a refiner
sells in Puerto Rico in excess of that
refiner's baseline volume of Puerto Rico
gasoline using the same seasonal
version of the Complex Model for both
compliance and baseline
determinations. The proposal would
modify the reformulated gasoline
program's anti-dumping compliance
baseline calculation so as to replace the
winter Complex Model with the more
climatically appropriate summer
Complex Model for all baseline and
compliance calculations with respect to
Puerto Rico gasoline. The proposed
provision would apply to any refiner
which has Puerto Rico gasoline in its
baseline, has increased production of
gasoline for sale in Puerto Rico above
its baseline volume of Puerto Rico
gasoline, and which petitions the
Agency to apply the proposed modified
compliance baseline to its Puerto Rico
gasoline. EPA will require any refiner
submitting such a petition to
recalculate its individual baseline using
the summer Complex Model for any
Puerto Rico gasoline. We anticipate that
today's action will affect only a single
refiner. We have not yet fully evaluated
the implications of a general shift
toward a climate-sensitive use of the
summer and winter Complex Models
for other Puerto Rico refiners, or for
similarly situated refiners in other
regions. However, we are requesting
comment from other refiners that
produce gasoline for sale in areas not
subject to EPA's volatility requirements.
Based on the comments we receive, we
may or may not proceed with similar
future rulemaking action.
Timetable::
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional information: SAN No. 4267
Agency Contact: Christine Branner,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Phone: 734'214-4287
Fax: 734 214-4051
Email: brunner.christine@epa.gov
Patrice Simms, Environmental
Protection Agency, Air and Radiation,
2344, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-1298 ' "
Fax: 202 260-0586
Email: simms.patrice@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AI29
3299. * NESHAP: ETHYLENE OXIDE
COMMERCIAL STERILIZATION AND
FUMIGATION OPERATIONS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: Clean Air Act Section
112
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action suspends the
National Emission Standards for
Hazardous Air Pollutants for Ethylene
Oxide Commercial Sterilization and
Fumigation Operation (EO NESHAP) .
requirements for chamber exhaust and
aeration room vents. The suspension
allows affected sources subject to the
EO NESHAP to defer compliance with
the NESHAP requirements for chamber
exhaust and aeration room vents for
one year until December 6, 1999. This
suspension does not affect the
requirement for sources subject to the
EO NESHAP to comply with provisions
for sterilizer vents by December 6,
1998. This action does not change the
level of the standards or the intent of
the NESHAP promulgated in 1994.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
Interim Final Rule
-Final Action
12/04/98 63 FR 66990
12/00/99-
Action
Date
FR Cite
Direct Final Rule
04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4222
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Agency Contact: David Markwordt,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-0837
Email: markwordt.david@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AI37
3300. • PROTECTION OF
STRATOSPHERIC OZONE:
AMENDMENT TO TRANSSHIPMENT
PROVISION IN FINAL RULE
ACCELERATING THE PHASEOUT OF
OZONE-DEPLETING SUBSTANCES
Priority: Routine and Frequent
Legal Authority: Not Yet Determined
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 82
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: Amends current rule to
require those transshipping goods with
ozone-depleting substances through the
U.S. to notify EPA of the specifics of
the transshipment.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM Reproposal
Final Action
05/10/95 60 FR 25010
12/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3626
Agency Contact: Sue Stendehach,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, 6205 J, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-9117
RIN: 2060-AI46
3301. • REVISIONS TO REFERENCE
METHOD FOR THE DETERMINATION
OF FINE PARTICULATE MATTER AS
PM2.5 IN THE ATMOSPHERE
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7409-760l(a)
CFR Citation: 42 CFR 50 (Revision)
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: A new National Network of
fine particulate monitors is being
implemented over the next two years.
In order to assure that data is of the
highest quality and is comparable both
within and between air monitoring
agencies many specific design and
performance requirements were
detailed In 40 CFR part 50, appendix
L. Other requirements were not detailed
in 40 CFR part 50, appendix L,, but
referenced to documents such as
section 2.12 of the Quality Assurance
Handbook for Air Pollution
Measurement Systems, Volume II,
Ambient-Air Specific Methods,
EPA/600/R-94/038b. During the
comment period and subsequent review
of section 2:12 of the Quality Assurance
Handbook for Air Pollution
Measurement Systems, Volume II,
Ambient Air Specific Methods,
EPA/600/R-94/038b, a detailed .
examination of how fine particulate
will' be monitored was examined.
During this examination, two items
detailed in 40 CFR part 50, appendix
L were determined to need
modification. For transport of exposed
filters from the. sample location to -the
conditioning environment, it was
determined that there was no technical
merit to requiring use of "metal" as the
composition of protective container.
For verification of sampler flow rate,
it was determined that the +/- 2%
acceptable tolerance was too.tight and
may result in unnecessary calibrations
as a result of false positive flow rate
verifications. An acceptable tolerance of
+/- 4% was established for verification
checks, while yearly calibrations would
still require a tolerance of +/- 2%.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite,:
Direct Final Rule
04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local
Additional Information: SAN No. 4256
Agency Contact: Tim Hanley,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-14, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-4417
Fax: 919 541-1903
Email: hariley.tim@epa.gov
Mike Papp, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-14,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-2408
Fax: 919 541-1903
Email: papp.mike@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AI48
3302. • FEDERAL PLAN
REQUIREMENTS FOR MUNICIPAL
SOLID WASTE LANDFILLS THAT
COMMENCED CONSTRUCTION PRIOR
TO 5/30/91 AND HAVE NOT BEEN
MODIFIED OR RECONSTRUCTED
SINCE 5/30/91
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 74ll(d)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 62.13 (Revision);
40 CFR 62.14356 (New)
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: On 2-12r96r the EPA
promulgated emission guidelines for
control of non-methane organic
compound air. emissions from existing
municipal solid waste (MSW)' landfills,
under the authority of section lll(d)
of the Clean Air Act (61 FR 9905); State
or local regulatory agencies and Indian
Tribes were required to develop and
submit a Plan for implementing the
emission guidelines by .12-12-96. In the
event that a State, locality, or. Indian
Tribe should fail to submit an
approvable Plan in accordance with the
Clean Air Act, EPA is required to
prescribe a Plan for these areas and
enforce the provisions of such a Plan.
The time lines for such action'are
specified in 40 CFR 60 subpart B.
Under this action, EPA is initiating a
Federal Plan that regulates existing
MSW landfills in States, localities, and
Indian Tribes that' have not submitted
an approvable plan, within the time
allotted. This action makes no changes
to the requirements in the original rule,
and is intended as a gap-filling measure
until the State, locality,, or Indian Tribe
can receive the necessary
administrative approvals. When the
State, locality, or Indian Tribe submits
an approvable Plan, the- federal Plan
will be amended to no longer apply to .
existing MSW landfills in these areas.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
12/16/98 63 FR 69364
0(3/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4066
Agency Contact: Mary Ann Warner,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-12, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-1192
Fax: 919 541-2664
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Email: warner.maryann@epa.gov
BIN: 2060-AI50
3303. NEW SOURCE REVIEW (NSR)
REFORM
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: CAA as amended, title
I
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51.160 to 51.166;
40 CFR 52.21; 40 CFR 52.24
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action is to revise the
CAA new source review (NSR)
regulations, which govern the
preconstraction air quality review and
permitting programs that are
implemented by States and the Federal
Government for new and modified
major stationary sources of air
pollution. This rulemaking will
deregulate, that is, exclude from major
NSR program requirements those
activities of sources that, with respect
to air pollution, have little
environmental impact. The rulemaking
will encourage pollution control and
pollution prevention projects at existing
sources. Control technology
requirements will be clarified with
respect to when and how they apply
to sources that are covered. The action
seeks to more clearly define the
appropriate roles and requirements of
sources, permitting authorities and
Federal land managers and EPA in the
protection of air-quality-related values
in Federal Class I areas (i.e., certain
national parks and wilderness areas)
under the NSR regulations. State, local,
and tribal permitting agencies will be
given more flexibility to implement
program requirements in a manner that
meets then- specific air quality
management needs. Consequently, the
rulemaking decreases the number of
activities that are subject to NSR
requirements and also expedites the
permitting process for those sources
that are subject to NSR. This action is
designed to reduce the regulatory
burden over all industries without
respect to commercial size or capacity;
therefore, it should have no detrimental
impact on small businesses. Finally,
this action also addresses several
pending petitions for judicial review
and administrative action pertaining to
NSR applicability requirements and
control technology review
requirements. Regulations that will be
affected are State implementation plan
requirements for review of new sources
and modifications to existing sources
(40 CFR 51.160-166), the Federal
prevention of significant deterioration
program (40 CFR 52.21), and Federal
restriction on new source construction
(40 CFR 52.24).
Timetable:
Action
Pate FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
07/23/96 61 FR 38249
12/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3259
Agency Contact: Dennis Grumpier,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-12, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-0871
Fax: 919 541-5509
Email: crumpler.dennis@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AEll
3304. NESHAP: PETROLEUM
REFINERIES—FCC UNITS,
REFORMERS AND SULFUR PLANTS
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq;
PL 101-549 104 Stat. 2399
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Judicial, May 15, 1999.
Abstract: Title Hi of the Clean Air Act
Amendments of 1990 requires EPA to
develop national emission standards for
hazardous air pollutants (NESHAPs).
EPA promulgated NESHAP rules for
petroleum refineries on August 18,
1995 (RIN 2060-AD94). This action
covers three process vents not covered
under RIN 2060-AD94. These are the
catalyst regeneration vents from fluid
catalytic cracking units (FCCU) and
catalytic reformers 'and the tail gas
vents from 'sulfur recovery plants.
Timetable:
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: None
Sectors Affected: 32411 Petroleum
Refineries
Additional Information: SAN No. 3549
Agency Contact: Bob Lucas,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-0884
Fax: 919 541-0246
Email: lucas.bob@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AF28
3305. OPERATING PERMITS:
REVISIONS (PART 70)
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7661 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 70; 40 CFR 51
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: In response to litigation on
the operating permits rule regulations,
40 CFR Part 70, to provide more
effective implementation of part 70,
and to address comments provided in
response to notices of proposed
rulemaking, parts 70 and 51 are being
revised. In part, the changes streamline
the procedures for revising stationary-
source operating permits issued by
State and local permitting authorities
under title V of the Clean Air Act;
revise the certification of compliance
that is required to be submitted as part
of the permit documentation; clarify the
title V permitting requirements for
research and development facilities;
and modify public participation
requirements for minor new source
review actions at title V facilities.
Timetable:
Date
FR Cite
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
09/11/98 63 FR 48889
05/00/99
NPRM 08/29/94 59 FR 44460
NPRM Supplemental 08/31/95 60 FR 45530
Proposal for Part 70
NPRM Interim 07/27/98 63 FR 40053
Approval Extension
Direct Final Interim 07/27/98 63 FR 40054
Approval Extension
Final Action 02/00/00
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Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: State
Additional Information: SAN No. 3412
Agency Contact: Ray Vogel,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-12, Research.
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-3153
RIN: 2060-AF70
3306. METHODS FOR MEASUREMENT
OF VISIBLE EMISSIONS—ADDITION
OF METHODS 203A, 203B, AND 203C
TO APPENDIX M OF PART 51
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401(b)(l); 42
USC 7410; 42 USC 7470 to 7479; 42
USC 7501 to 7508; 42 USC 7601(a)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This rulemaking adds Test
Methods 203A, 203B, and 203C to 40
CFR part 51, appendix M (entitled
Example Test Methods for State
Implementation Plans). These methods
describe procedures for estimating the
opacity of visible emissions. States
have requested that EPA promulgate
these methods so that they can use
them ha State Implementation Plans in
enforcing visible emissions regulations
from Stationary Sources,
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Rnal Action
11/22/93 58 FR 61639
04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None.
Additional Information: SAN No. 2915
Agency Contact: Frederick Thompson,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-19, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-2707
Fax: 919 541-1039
Email: thompson.fred@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AF83
3307. SERVICE INFORMATION
AVAILABILITY
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 752i(m)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 86
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This rule will require
manufacturers of automobiles to
provide necessary information needed
to make use of emission control
diagnostic systems as well as that
needed to make emission-related •
diagnosis and repairs by any person .
engaged in the repairing or servicing
of motor vehicles or motor vehicle*
engines. This will allow independent
service repair garages, individual
owners, parts manufacturers, etc., to
have access to emission control
information to better service
automobiles and ensure clean air
compliance requirements.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
Final Action 04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3741
Agency Contact: David Dickinson,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 564-9296
Email: dickinson.david@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AG13
3308. AMENDMENTS TO PART 60,
PART 61, AND PART 63 AND
ADDITION QF METHQD 14A TO PART
60
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401; 42 USC
7410 to 7412; 42 USC 7/414; 42 USC
7416
CFR, Citation: 40 CFR 60; 40 CFR 61;
40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This rulemaking will amend
the emission test methods and
performance specifications in
appendices A and B of part 60,
appendix B of part 61, and appendix
A of part 63 by revising the method
format to conform with Environmental
Monitoring Management Council
(EMMC) guidelines. Conformance to the
guidelines will promote consistency
among inter-program methods. In
addition, minor technical and printing
errors in the methods will be corrected.
Similar errors in various subparts of
part 60 will also be corrected.
Performance specification 15 is also
being proposed in this rulemaking.
Timetable:
Action
.Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
08/27/97 62 FR 45369
04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3743
Agency Contact: Foston Curtis,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-19, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-1063
Fax: 919 541-1039
RIN: 2060-AG21
3309. AMENDMENT TO STANDARDS
OF PERFORMANCE FOR NEW
STATIONARY SOURCES;
MONITORING REQUIREMENTS (PS-1)
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: CAA sec 407
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action proposes to
clarify and update requirements for
source owners and operators who must
install and use continuous stack or duct
opacity monitoring equipment. This
action also proposes amendments
regarding design and performance
validation requirements for continuous
opacity monitoring system (COMS)
equipment in appendix B, PS-1, These
amendments to subpart A and PS-1 will
not change the affected facilities*
applicable: emission standards or
requirenient to monitor. Tb,e
amendments will: (1) clarify owner and
operator and monitor vendor
obligations, (2) reaffirm and update
COMS design and performance
requirements, and (3) provide EPA and
affected facilities with equipment
assurances for carrying out effective
monitoring. The specifications shall
apply to all COMS's installed or
replaced after the date of promulgation.
Following promulgation, a source
owner, operator, or manufacturer will
be subject to these performance
specifications if installing a new
COMS, relocating a COMS, replacing a
COMS, recertifying a. COMS that has
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undergone substantial refurbishing, or
has been specifically required to
recertify'the COMS With the'se
revisions.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 11/24/94 59 FR 6.0585
Supplemental NPRM 09/23/98 63FR50S24
Final Action 09/00/99 .
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3744
Agency Contact: Solomon Ricks,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-19, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5242
Fax: 919 541-1039
RIN: 2060-AG22
3310. CONSOLIDATED FEDERAL AIR
RULE FOR THE SYNTHETIC ORGANIC
CHEMICAL MANUFACTURING
INDUSTRY
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 74Q1 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 6Q; 40, CFR 61;
40GFR'63'
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: Over the past 25 years, EPA
has issued a series of national air
regulations, many of which affect the
same facility. Some facilities are now
subject to five or six national rules,
sometimes affecting the same emission
points. Each rule has emission control
requirements as well as monitoring,
recordkeeping, and reporting
requirements.
These requirements may be duplicative,
overlapping, difficult to understand, or
inconsistent. It is often difficult for
plant managers to determine
compliance strategies to satisfy all
requirements and for State and local
permitting agencies to determine the
applicability of different requirements
for permitting purposes. Resources are
often wasted by both industry and
States and localities in sorting out and
complying with the panoply of
multiple requirements.
All existing Federal air rules applicable
to an industry sector will be reviewed
to determine whether their provisions
can be consolidated into a single new
rule. Affected Industrie's, State agencies,
and other stakeholders will be
consulted to identify duplicative and
conflicting provisions and to provide
assistance in drafting the single rule.
The chemical industry and State
representatives have agreed to work on
a pilot project with EPA's air programs
to explore this approach. If.the
approach is successful with the
chemical industry, it may be expanded
to air rules for other industry sectors..
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM 10/28/98 63 FR 57748
Final 09/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3748
Agency Contact: Rick Colyer,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711 :
Phone: 919 541-5262
Fax: 919 541-3470
Email: colyer.rick@ep,a.gov
RIN: 2060-AG28
3311. ACID RAIN PROGRAM:
CONTINUOUS EMISSION
MONITORING (CEM) RULE REVISIONS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7651 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 75 (Revision); 40
CFR 72 (Revision)
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: On January 11,1993, EPA
promulgated the final core acid rain
rules, including the GEM regulation at
40 CFR part 75. Since the rule was
promulgated, the 263 Phase I and 783
Phase II utility units have already
begun to comply with this regulation
by installing and completing
certification testing by the January 1,
1995, statutory deadline.
As a result of on-going internal and
external assessment of the Acid Rain
Program monitoring and reporting
requirements, EPA, State environmental
agencies, and affected utilities have
identified areas of the part 75 GEM
regulations which would'benefit from
revision or clarification. Many of the
suggested revisions will add increased
flexibility to the utility industry in
implementing and complying with the
requirements of part 75. Other revisions
will clarify existing provisions in an
effort to make the regulation more
understandable. Still other revisions
will provide increased quality
assurance of the Acid Rain Program
CEM data. These issues include
allowing reduced monitoring and
reporting requirements for low emitting
units, more effective and economical
quality assurance requirements, greater
flexibility for fuel sampling and fuel
flowmeter testing procedures under
appendix D, clarification of span/range
equipment specifications, greater
flexibility for monitoring controlled
emissions, and greater flexibility for
using backup monitors during
malfunction of the primary monitor.
This action is necessary because of the
experience and additional information
both EPA and industry have gained
from. 1993 to the present. Industry
views this action as positive because
it provides industry with more
implementation flexibility.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
05/21/98 63 FR 28032
04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional information: SAN No. 3808
Agency Contact: Monika Chandra,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
arid Radiation, 6204J, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-9781
Fax: 202 565-2141
Email: chandra.monika@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AG46
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3312. ADDITION OF METHOD 207 TO
APPENDIX M OF 40 CFR PART 51
METHOD FOR MEASURING
ISOCYANATES IN STATIONARY
SOURCE EMISSIONS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7410
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The Clean Air Act
Amendments of 1990 listed certain
isocyanate compounds as hazardous air
pollutants (HAPs). The Agency does
not have any published test methods
that would measure air emissions of
these isocyanate compounds from
stationary sources. This action would
add a validated test method to measure
isocyanate emissions to appendix M of
part 51. Test methods in part 51 can
be adopted by any State for use in any
regulation that requires the
measurement of any of the isocyanate
compounds on the HAP list. This
action would not impose any new
regulatory requirements that do not
already exist. It should benefit State
governments by providing them with a
validated test procedure for measuring
the emissions of isocyanate
compounds.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
12/08/97 62 FR 64532
02/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3900
Agency Contact: Gary McAlister,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-19, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-1062
Fax: 919 541-1039
Email: mcalister.gary@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AG88
3313. FEDERAL OPERATING PERMITS
PROGRAM IN INDIAN COUNTRY
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7661a(d)(3)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 71.4
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 1997.
Abstract: Recognizing its trust
responsibilities to Indian tribes, EPA
plans to exercise its regulatory
authority to issue permits to sources of
air pollution in Indian country where
sources are not regulated by Indian
tribes. The Federal operating permits
program for stationary air sources
should extend to all of Indian country,
but the regulation that created the
program inadvertently created a
regulatory gap. A change hi regulations
is needed to assure that each major
source in Indian country is subject to
either a State, tribal, or Federal permit
program.
The regulatory change would create a
level playing field for industry. Also,
the regulatory change would assure that
EPA can regulate sources that create air
pollution problems in Indian country
or that are located in Indian country
and generate air pollution problems for
other areas.
There are no anticipated impacts on
small businesses or State or local
governments. The regulatory change
would eh'minate a burden on tribal
governments. They would not need to
demonstrate their jurisdiction over an
area in order for EPA to administer a
permit program for the area.
Timetable:
compliance procedures for light-duty
vehicles. These proposed changes will
streamline the current process
beginning with model year 2000. These
proposed changes will improve in-use
emissions with a potential decrease in
the net burden on auto manufacturers.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
07/23/98 63 FR 39653
04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3913
Agency Contact: Linda Hormes,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air .
and Radiation, NFEVL, Ann Arbor, MI
48105
Phone: 734 214-4502
RIN: 2060-AH05
3315. ADDITION OF OPACITY
METHOD TO APPENDIX M OF 40 CFR
PART 51 (METHOD 203)
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7410
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51
Action
NPRM 03/21/97 62 FR 13748
Final Action 04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3868
Agency Contact: Candace Carraway,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-12, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-3189
Fax: 919 541-5509
RIN: 2060-AG90
3314. REVISION TO THE LIGHT-DUTY
VEHICLE EMISSION COMPLIANCE
PROCEDURE (CAP 2000)
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: CAA
CFR Citation: Not yet determined
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The purpose of this NPRM
is to propose changes to the emissions
Date FR Cite Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This rulemaking proposes to
add a method, Method 203, for the
measurement of opacity from stationary
sources, to appendix M (Example Test
Methods for State Implementation
Plans) in 40 CFR part 51. This action
provides States with an instrumental
test method which can be used in
determining, on a continuous basis,
compliance with stationary source
opacity emission limitations.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 10/07/92 57 FR 46114
Final Action 12/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3958
Agency Contact: Solomon Ricks,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-19, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
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Phone: 919 541-5242
Fax: 919 541-1039
RIN: 2060-AH23
3316. EXPANDED DEFINITIONS FOR
ALTERNATIVE-FUELED VEHICLES
AND ENGINES MEETING LOW-
EMISSION VEHICLE EXHAUST
EMISSION STANDARDS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 15 USC 2001; 15 USC
2002; 15 USC 2003; 15 USC 2005; 15
USC 2006; 15 USC 213; 42 USC 7521;
42 USC 7522; 42 USC 7524; 42 USC
7525; 42 USC 7541; 42 USC 7542; 42
USC 7549; 42 USC 7550; 42 USC 7552
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 86; 40 CFR 88
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action will ease the
burden of certification for both Original
Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and
after-market conversion entities. This
action will, for vehicles and engines
meeting LEV emission standards,
broaden the definition of the term
dedicated fuel system, broaden the
criteria for engine families, and provide
an exemption from certification fees.
This action is not a deregulatory action.
This action will provide another means
for small business to remain active
entities hi supplying alternatively
fueled vehicles to the market place. The
above three changes are intended to
reduce the cost of complying with the
requirements of certification, and small
business will benefit from these
changes. This action will enhance the
ability for the regulated industry to
provide alternatively fueled vehicles to
the consumer in support of the
Executive Order 13031.
Timetable:
3317. NATIONAL EMISSION
STANDARDS FOR HAZARDOUS AIR
POLLUTANTS FOR SOURCE
CATEGORY: PULP AND PAPER
PRODUCTION; AMENDMENTS TO THE
PROMULGATED RULE
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63.440 to 63.459
(Revision.)
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract:: The purpose of this action is
to clarify sections of lie promulgated
pulp and paper industry maximum
achievable control technology (MACT)
standards where commenters have
indicated, that the wording is confusing.
This action will also correct any
typographical errors noted. This action
will contain guidance and amended .
rule language.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 07/20/98 63 FR 38767
Final Action 07/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 4030
Agency Contact: Clifford Tyree,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, AAVP, Ann Arbor, MI
48105
Phone: 734 214-4310
Email: tyree.clifford@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AH52
Action
Date
FR Cite
Final Rule 09/16/98 63 FR 49455
Interpretations and
Technical
Amendment
NPRM 12/28/98 63 FR 71408
Direct Final Rule 12/28/98 63 FR 71385
Amendment
Final Action 04/00/99
Interpretations and
Technical
Amendment
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4123
Agency Contact: Penny Lassiter,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5396
Fax: 919 541-0246
Email: lassiter.penny@epa.gov
Stephen Shedd, Environmental
Protection Agency, Air and Radiation,
MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC
27711
Phone: 919 541-5397
Fax: 919 541-0246
Email; shedd.steve@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AH74
3318. FEDERAL IMPLEMENTATION
PLANS (FIPS) TO REDUCE THE
REGIONAL TRANSPORT OF OZONE
IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES
Priority: Economically Significant.
Major under 5 USC 801.
Unfunded Mandates: This action may
affect the private sector under
PL 104-4.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7410
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 52; 40 CFR 97;
40 CFR 98
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action proposes to
require Nitrogen Oxides (NOx)
emissions decreases in 22 States and
the District of Columbia. The intended
effect is to reduce the transport of
ozone (smog) pollution and one of its
main precursors — NOx — across State
boundaries in the eastern half of the
United States.
On October 27, 1998, EPA published
a final rule (often referred to as the
"OTAG SIP Call") finding that the
transport of ozone from certain States
in the Ozone Transport Assessment
Group .(OTAG) region (the OTAG region
is comprised of the 37 easternmost
States and the District of Columbia)
contributes significantly to
nonattainment of the ozone national
ambient air quality standards (NAAQS)
in downwind States. Further, EPA
determined the appropriate levels of
NOx emissions that each of the affected
States will be required to achieve. The
final OTAG SIP Call rule allows States
12 months to develop, adopt, and
submit revisions to their State
Implementation Plans (SIPs) to address
the transport problem.
The Administrator is required to
promulgate a Federal Implementation
Plan (FIP) within 2 years of: (1) finding
that a State has failed to make a
required submittal or (2) rinding that
a submittal is not complete or (3)
disapproving a SIP submittal. Although
the Clean Air Act allows EPA up to
2 years after the finding to promulgate
a FIP, EPA intends to expedite the FIP
promulgations to help assure that the
downwind States realize the air quality
benefits of regional NOx reductions as
soon as practicable. Therefore, EPA
proposed FIPs at the same time as final
action was taken on the October 27,
1998 SIP Call final rule. Furthermore,
EPA intends to make a finding and
promulgate a FIP immediately after the
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SIP submittal due date for each upwind
State that fails to submit a SIP.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
10/21/98 63 FR 56393
09/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis •
Required: Yes
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: Local,
Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4096
Agency Contact: Doug Grano, *
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-15, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-3292
Fax: 919 541-0824
Email: grano.doug@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AH87
3319. FINDINGS OF SIGNIFICANT
CONTRIBUTION AND RULEMAKING
ON SECTION 126 PETITIONS FOR
PURPOSES OF REDUCING
INTERSTATE OZONE TRANSPORT
Priority: Economically Significant.
Major under 5 USC 801.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7426
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 52; 40 CFR 75;
40CFR97
Legal Deadline:
Other, Statutory.
Final, Judicial, April 30,1999,,Consent
decree.
Abstract: In August 1997, eight
northeastern States (Connecticut,
Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
New York, Rhode Island; Pennsylvania,
and Vermont) submitted individual
petitions to EPA under section 126 of-
the Clean Air Act. Each petition
requests that EPA make a finding that •
certain major stationary sources in
upwind States contribute significantly
to ozone nonattainment problems in the
petitioning State. The petitions target
sources in the eastern half of the
United States. If EPA grants the
requested findings, EPA.must establish
Federal emission control requirements
for the affected sources. Sources would
have to comply with the emissions
limits within three years from the
finding. These sources may also
subjected to State-adopted emission '
limitations and control schedules in
response to a separate EPA rulemaking
action on regional ozone transport that
EPA promulgated on October 27, 1998
(63 FR 57356, summarized elsewhere
in this Agenda as RIN 2060-AH10). In.
this related action, EPA made a finding
that emissions from 22 eastern States
and the District of Columbia
significantly contribute to
nonattainment-problems in downwind ;
States. EPA required, that'these States
and. DC must revise their-'State
implementation plans to include
provisions that .will- reduce Statewide .
nitrogen oxide emissions (an .ozone
precursor) to a specified level. Because
this ozone transport rulemaking ,
overlaps considerably with the section
126 petition process, EPA .believes it.
is important to coordinate the two
actions as much.as possible. On
December.17, 1997, EPA signed a
memorandum of agreement with the
eight petitioning States concerning the ,
schedule for EPA action on the
petitions. The agreement provides EPA
with additional time beyond the
statutory deadline for analyzing the
technical merits of-the petitions .and
carrying out the .ralemakingiprocess.
The agreement is designed to ensure
that EPA will take, timely action rat the
petitions while recognizing that EPA is
simultaneously examining ozone
transport through a State-based process.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
ANPRM 04/30/98 63 FR 24058
NPRM 09/30/98 63 FR 52213
NPRM 10/21/98 63 FR 56291
Supplemental NPRM 03/03/99 64 FR 10342
Final Action 05/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: Federal
Sectors Affected: 221112 Fossil Fuel
Electric Power Generation
Additional Information: SAN No. 4095
Agency Contact: Carla Oldham,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-15, Research .
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-3347
Fax: 919 541-0824
Email: oldham.carla@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AH88
3320. AIR QUALITY INDEX
REPORTING
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq
CFR Citation: Not yet determined
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This regulation- will update
the Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) to
reflect revisions to the NAAQS for
ozone and particulate matter. The PSI
program is codified in section .58.50
and appendix G to part 58. Section
58.50 and appendix. G to part 58
require that States report to the public
an. air quality index, the Pollutant
Standards Index, which translates
ambient concentrations of five of the
criteria pollutants to a uniform,
numerical index, .ranging from 0 to 500.
The scale of the PSI is based on human
health effects information. Revisions
will be made to the. ambient
concentrations which specify the
breakpoints between the PSI categories
(i.e., the good, moderate; unhealthful,
very unhealthful, and hazardous
categories) and associated example
health advisories.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
12/09/98 63 FR 67818
04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4073
Agency Contact: Susan Stone,
Environmental Protection'Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-15, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-1146
Fax: 919 541-0237
Email: stone.susan@epa.gov
Terence Fitz-Simons, Environmental
Protection Agency, Air and Radiation,
MD-14, RTF NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-0889
Fax: 919 541-1903
Email: fitz-simons.terence@epa.gov
RUM: 2060-AH92
3321. ELECTRIC ARC FURNACE NSPS
AMENDMENT
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: Not Yet Determined
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CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60 (Revision)
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The NSPS currently requires
monitoring of the furnace pressure by
installing a pressure sensor in the
furnace or in the duct connected to the
furnace. Maintaining an operating
pressure sensor under these conditions
of extreme temperatures is difficult.
The NSPS will be amended to allow
daily observations of visible emissions
•from the shop in conjunction with
monitoring of primary and secondary
emission control system parameters, in
lieu of monitoring internal furnace
pressure. This amendment was
recommended by the iron and steel
common sense initiative.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
Direct Final Rule
04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
.Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4125
Agency Contact: Kevin Cavender,
Environmental Protection Agency, Aii
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-2364
Fax: 919 541-5600
Email: cavender.kevin@epa.gov
Al Vervaert, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5602
RIN: 2060-AH95
3322. ACID RAIN PROGRAM:
PROPOSED REVISION OF TEST
METHOD 1, 2, AND 2F FOR
MEASURING VOLUMETRIC FLOW IN
STACKS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401; 42 USC
7411; 42 USC 7414; 42 USC 7416; 42
USC 7429; 42 USC 7601
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60; 40 CFR 60
(Appendix A) "Test Method 1 and 2";
40 CFR 75
Legal Deadline:
Other, Statutory, December 31, 1998,
Voluntary.
Abstract: EPA Test Methods are
Agency-approved procedures used by
test teams to accurately determine
emissions from sources; e.g., power
plants. The proposed revisions to Test
Methods 1, 2, and 2F will improve the
accuracy of the determination of
volumetric flow measurements in ,
utility stacks. These, revisions will
affect electric utilities and other sources
covered by EPA's Acid Rain Program
and possibly by other air quality
control regulations; e.g., New Source
Performance Standards, Prevention of
Significant Deterioration, and State
emission limits. Currently, the Test
Methods do not allow yaw or pitch
angles or wall effects to be considered
in calculating volumetric flow. In the
Acid Rain Program and in other
programs requiring reporting of mass
emission rates, e.g., Ibs SO2/hour, not
allowing these parameters in the
calculation of volumetric flow may
cause overreporting of pollutant
emissions in some situations. The Test
Method revisions are also expected to
help reduce such overreporting as well
as the disparity between stack-
measured power plant heat rate and
combustion-calculated heat rate. Heat
rate is important to power plants
because it affects, e.g., electric rates,
and limitations on plant operations in
State permits.
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
Direct Final Rule 04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4130
Agency Contact: John Schakenbach,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, 6204J, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-9158
Elliot Lieberman, Environmental
Protection Agency, Air and Radiation,
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 564-9136
RIN: 2060-AH97
3323. OPTIONAL CERTIFICATION
STREAMLINING PROCEDURES FOR
LDVS, LOTS, AND HDES
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 15 USC 2001; 15 USC
2002;. 15 USC 2003; 15 USC 2005; 15
USC 2006; 15 USC 213; 42 USC 7521;
42 USC 7522; 42 USC 7524; 42 USC
7525; 42 USC 7541; 42 USC 7542; 42
USC 7549; 42 USC 7550; 42 USC 7552
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 86; 40 CFR 88
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action will ease the
burden of certification for both Original
Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and
after-market conversion entities that
meet Clean-Fuel Vehicle requirements.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
07/20/98 63 FR 38767
08/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 4165
Agency Contact: Clifford Tyree,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Phone: 313 668-4310
Fax: 313 741-7869
Email: tyree.clifford@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AI15
3324. CONTROL OF EMISSIONS OF
AIR POLLUTION FROM NEW MARINE
DIESEL ENGINES AT OR ABOVE 37
KILOWATTS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7547(a)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 89
Legal Deadline:
NPRM, Judicial, November 25, 1998,
Consent Decree. '
Final, Judicial, November 26, 1999,
Consent Decree.
Abstract: The ANPRM notifies and
invites comments from the public on
EPA's plans to propose stringent
standards for control of emissions of
oxides, of nitrogen, hydrocarbons, and
particulate matter from diesel marine
engines at or above 37 kilowatts. The
ANPRM contains a broad outline of
EPA's plans for .defining a national
emission control program for these
engines, including engine categories to
be covered, emission standard levels
being considered, and potential
compliance programs. Results of a
Nonroad Engine and Vehicle Emission
Study conducted by EPA indicated the
need for regulation of categories or
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classes of new nonroad engines and
vehicles that are significant
contributors to ozone or CO in NAAQS
nonattainment areas. Such a finding led
to control of emissions from various
nonroad sources. This action outlines
a strategy to control emissions from one
nonroad source: diesel marine engines.
If the emission control program
discussed in the ANPRM is
implemented, EPA would expect to see
NOx and PM reductions comparable to
their land-based counterparts on a per
engine basis, for marine engines which
are derivatives of land-based engines.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
ANPRM
NPHM
FMal Action
05/22/98 63 FR 68507
12/11/98 63 FR 68507
11/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entitles Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: None
Sectors Affected: 336399 All Other
Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing;
335312 Motor and Generator
Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 4078
This was previously listed as RIN 2060-
AH65.
Agency Contact: Alan Stout,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Phone: 734 214-4805
Paul Machiele, Environmental
Protection Agency, Air and Radiation,
Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Phone: 313 668-4264
RIN: 2060-AI17
3325. • PROTECTION OF
STRATOSPHERIC OZONE:
INCORPORATION OF MONTREAL
PROTOCOL ADJUSTMENT FOR A
1999 INTERIM REDUCTION IN CLASS
I, GROUP VI CONTROLLED
SUBSTANCES
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 82
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action reconsiders a
certain reporting requirement in the
petition process to import previously
used ozone-depleting substances in
response to a legal stay. In addition,
technical changes that reflect
international decisions made in Vienna,
Austria in 1995, in San Jose, Costa Rica
in 1996 and in Montreal, Canada in
1997.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 02/25/99 64 FR 9290
Final Action 02/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 4206
Agency Contact: Tom Land,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, 6205J, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-9185
Fax: 202 565-2093
Email: land.tom@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AI24
3326. • REVISION OF EPA'S
RADIOLOGICAL EMERGENCY
RESPONSE PLAN
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: PL 96-295 Sec 304; EO
12777
CFR Citation: Not yet determined
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) Radiological
Emergency Response Plan (RERP)
establishes a framework for timely,
coordinated EPA action to protect
public health and safety and the
environment in response to a peacetime
radiological incident. The original EPA
RERP was approved in 1986. This new
revision updates authorities,
responsibilities, capabilities, and
procedures for implementing effective
radiological emergency response
actions by EPA Offices. The RERP
presents the EPA organizational
structure and concept of operations for
responding to radiological incidents as
a participant in a Federal multi-agency
response using the Federal Radiological
Emergency Response Plan (FRERP) and
the Federal Response Plan (FRP), and
the National Oil and Hazardous
Substances Pollution Contingency Plan
(NCP). This revision incorporates recent
changes to the FRERP and NCP, and
many other policy updates. In short,
this revision ensures that EPA
maintains a comprehensive strategy to
provide organized, effective assistance
to State and local governments in the
event of a radiological emergency.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
Final Plan 06/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3638
Was previously list'ed in the Regulatory
Agenda as RIN 2060-AF85.
Agency Contact: Craig Conklin,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, 6602J, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-9222
RIN: 2060-AI49
3327. AMENDMENTS—INTEGRATED
NESHAP AND EFFLUENT
GUIDELINES: PULP AND PAPER
Priority: Economically Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAAA
sec 112; 42 USC 7414 CAAA sec 114;
42 USC 7601 CAAA sec 301; 33 USC
1314 CWA sec 304; 33 USC 1316 CWA
sec 306-308; 33 USC 1317; 33 USC
1318; 33 USC 1361 CWA sec 301; CWA
sec 501
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63; 40 CFR 430
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The Clean Air Act (CAA)
Amendments of 1990 direct the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
to set National Emission Standards for
Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for
new and existing sources under section
112 and to base these standards on
maximum achievable control
technology (MACT). The Clean Water
Act (CWA) directs EPA to develop
effluent guidelines for certain categories
and classes of point sources. These
guidelines are used for setting
discharge limits for specific facilities
that discharge to surface waters or
municipal sewage treatment systems.
On April 15, 1998, the EPA
promulgated an integrated regulation
for the pulp and paper industry that
includes both effluent guidelines and
air emission standards to control the
release of pollutants to both the water
and the air. At the same time, the EPA
proposed MACT standards for the
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chemical recovery combustion sources.
The regulations were developed jointly .
to provide greater protection to human
health and the environment, to promote
the concept of pollution prevention, •
and to enable the industry to more
effectively plan compliance via a
multimedia approach.
Next Steps will be to issue final
effluent guidelines for Phase II and,
Phase IE mills. Phase n will address-
the effluent from mills not covered in
the Final Phase. I .effluent guidelines
(except dissolving grade mills) plus
will set limits for reserved parameters.•
for chemical oxygen demand (COD) and
chloroform at Phase I mills. Phase-Ill-
will set final effluent limits for
dissolving grade mills. .
This Regulatory Plan .entry also
includes RIN 2040-AB53, Effluent
Guidelines and Standards for .the Pulp,
Paper, and Paperboard Category,
reported in full in part III of this issue
of the Federal Register-
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM NESHAP 03/08/96 61 FR 9383
Phase III -
Nonchemical and
Other Mills
NPRM NESHAP 04/15/98 63 FR 18754
Phase II -
Combustion
Sources
Final NESHAP .04/15/98 63 FR 18504
Phases I and III and
Effluent Guidelines
Phase I
Final NESHAP Phase 04/00/99
II -Combustion
Sources
Final Effluent 02/00/00
Guidelines Phase !l
Final All NESHAP 08/00/00
Phases
Final Effluent 08/00/00
Guidelines Phase III
- Dissolving Grade
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: .No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3105
(Air), SAN No. 2712 (Water), SAN No.
4050 (Water Phase DO,
ADDITIONAL AGENCY CONTACT: Jeff
Telander (NESHAP Phase H -
Combustion Sources)
ADDITIONAL AGENCY CONTACT:
Elaine Manning (NESHAP Phase III -
Nonchemical and other Pulp and Paper
Mills)
See also RIN 2040-AB53
Agency Contact: Penny Lassiter,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5396
Donald F. Anderson, Environmental
Protection Agency, Air and Radiation,.
4303, Washington-, DC 20460'
Phone: 202 260-7189
.RIN: 2060-AD03
3328. NESHAP: :OIL AND NATURAL
GAS PRODUCTION AND- NATURAL
GAS TRANSMISSION AND STORAGE
Priorjty:' Other Significant •
Legal Authority':. Glean Air Act sec 112
CFR Citation! 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 1997.
Abstract: Hazardous air pollutants -
(HAPs) known to be. emitted from oil
and gas production, storage, and
transmission, facilities include benzene,
toluene, ethyl benzene, and xylene
isomers' (collectively referred to as
BTEX), along with 2,2,4r
trimethylpentane and n-hexane..
Potential HAP emission sources are
glycol dehydrator. reboilers (stand-alone
and. co-located);-condensate storage •
vessels; and equipment leaks at natural
gas processing plants.
Timetable:
3329. NESHAP FOR THE
MANUFACTURING OF AMINO AND
PHENOLIC RESINS (POLYMERS AND
RESINS GROUP III)
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAAA
sec 112
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November. 15, 1997.
Abstract: Title ID- of the amended.,
Clean Air Act requires development of
emission standards for all'major •
sources, and.selected area sources,
emitting any-of the 188 hazardous air
pollutants identified in section 112(b)
• of-the Act. Amino, and phenolic resins
productions have been listed as
categories of major sources: based on'
documented emissions of phenol
and/or formaldehyde. The purpose -of
the NESHAP for the Manufacturing of-
Amino and Phenolic Resins (Polymers
and Resins Group HI) project is to
initiate the regulatory process for
sources engaged in the production, of
amino, .and phenolic.resins, and to
.ultimately develop a NESHAP based on.
candidate Maximum Achievable-
Control Technology:
Timetable:
Action
Date
Cite
NPRM
Final Action
02/06/98 63 FR 6288
05/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State
Additional Information: SAN No. 3229
Agency Contact: Greg Nizich,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation,.MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-3078
Fax: 919 541-0246
Email: nizich.greg@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AE34
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
12/14/98-63-FR6883t
12/00/99-
Regulatory. Flexibility Analysis
' Required:-No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Sectors Affected:,325211 Plastics
Material and Resin Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 3228
Agency Contact: John Schaefer,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-0296
Fax: 919 541-3470
Email: schaefer.john@epa.gov
Penny Lassiter, Environmental
Protection Agency, Air and Radiation,
MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC
27711
Phone: 919 541-5396
RIN: 2060-AE36
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3330. NESHAP: PHOSPHORIC ACID
MANUFACTURING
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAAA
soc 112
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, Clean Air Act
Amendments of 1990.
Final, Judicial, May 15,1999.
Abstract: The CAAA required EPA to
publish an initial list of all categories
of major and area sources of the
hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) listed
in section 112[b) of the CAAA and to
establish dates for the promulgation of
emission standards for each of the
listed categories of HAP emission
sources and develop emission
standards for each source of HAPs so
that the schedule is met. The standards
are to be technology-based and are to
require the maximum degree of
emission reduction determined to be
achievable by the Administrator. The
Agency has determined that the
phosphoric acid manufacturing
industry emits several of the 189 HAPs
listed in section 112(b) of the CAAA.
The purpose of this action is to pursue
a regulatory development program that
would ensure that emission standards
may be proposed and promulgated for
this industry.
Timetable:
Action
NPRM
Final Action
Date
12/27/96
05/00/99
FR Cite
61 FR 68430
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entitles Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3303
Agency Contact: Ken Durkee,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5425
Fax: 919 541-5600
Email: durkee.ken@epa.gov
Jim Crowder, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5596
Email: crowder.jim@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AE40
3331. NESHAP: STEEL PICKLING, HC1
PROCESS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 741.2 CAAA
sec 112
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Judicial, May 15, 1999.
Abstract: Hydrochloric acid (HCl). and
chlorine are among the pollutants listed
as hazardous air pollutants in section
112 of the Clean Air Act, as amended
in November of 1990. Steel pickling
processes that use HCl solution and
HC1 regeneration processes have been
identified by the EPA as potentially
significant sources of HCl and chlorine
air emissions and, as such, a source
category for which national emission
standards may be warranted.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
09/18/97 62 FR 49052
05/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3345
Agency Contact: Jim Maysilles,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-3265
Fax: 919 541-5600
Email: maysilles.james@epa.gov
Al Vervaert, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Resarch Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5602
RIN: 2060-AE41
3332. NESHAP: PHOSPHATE
FERTILIZERS PRODUCTION
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAAA
sec 112
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 1997,
Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.
Abstract: EPA is required to publish
an initial list of all categories of major
and area sources of the hazardous air
pollutants (HAPs) listed in section
112(b) of the CAAA and, to establish
dates for the promulgation of emission
standards for each of the listed
categories of HAP emission sources and
develop emission standards for each
source of HAPs so that the schedule
is met. The standards are to be
technology-based and are to require the
maximum degree of emission reduction
determined to be achievable by the
Administrator. The Agency has
determined that the phosphate fertilizer
production industry emits several of
.the 189 HAPs listed in section 112(b)
of the CAAA. The purpose of this
action is to pursue a regulatory
development program that would
ensure that emission standards may be
proposed and promulgated for this
industry.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM 12/27/96 61 FR 68430
Final Action 05/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3304
Agency Contact: Ken Durkee,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5425
Fax:: 919 541-5600
Email: durkee.ken@epa.gov
Jim Crowder, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5596
Email: crowder.jim@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AE44
3333. NESHAP: PRIMARY COPPER
SMELTING
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAAA
sec 112
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: The primary copper smelting
industry is known to emit a number
of the hazardous air pollutants listed
in section 112 of the Clean Air Act.
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The industry is comprised of seven
•smelters located in four states. All have
extensive control systems for oxides of
sulfur and HAPs. However, fugitive
emissions may cause several smelters
to exceed major source levels.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
04/20/98 63 FR 19582
05/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State
Additional Information: SAN No. 3340
Agency Contact: Eugene Grumpier,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-0881
Fax: 919 541-5600
Email: crumpler.eugene@epa.gov
Al Verveart, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Reseach Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5602
RIN: 2060-AE46
3334. NESHAP: SECONDARY
ALUMINUM INDUSTRY
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 1857 et seq;
44 USC 350 et seq; 5 USC 605; EO
12866
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final; Statutory, November .15, 1997.
Abstract: The Act requires EPA to
publish an initial list of all categories ,
of major and area sources of the •
hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) listed
in section 112[b) of the Act, to
promulgate a schedule establishing a
date for the promulgation of emission
standards for each of the listed
categories of HAP emission sources,
and develop emission standards for
each source of HAPs such that the
schedule is met. The standards are to
be technology-based and are to require
the maximum degree of emission
reduction determined to be achievable
by the Administrator. The Agency has
determined that the secondary
aluminum industry may reasonably be
anticipated to emit several of the 189
HAPs listed in section 112(b) of the
Act. As a consequence, the source
category is included on the initial list
of HAP emitting categories and is- on
the list of categories scheduled for
standards promulgation within seven
years of enactment of the Act. The
purpose of this action is to pursue a
regulatory development program that
would help to ensure that emission
standards may be proposed and
promulgated.
Timetable::
regulation (emission standards) is being
developed for the Portland cement
manufacturing industry. Cement kilns
which burn RCRA hazardous waste are
subject to a separate rule that has been
proposed by the EPA Office of Solid
Waste.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM 02/11/99 64 FR 6946
Final Action 12/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3078
Agency Contact: Juan Santiago,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-1084
Fax: 919 541-5600
Email: santiago.juan@epa.gov
Jim Crowder, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5596
Email: crowder.jim@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AE77
3335. NESHAP: PORTLAND CEMENT
MANUFACTURING
Priority: Other Significant. Major under
5 USC 801.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 1857.et seq;
44 USC 350 et seq; 5 USC 605; EO
12866; EO 12291
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 1997.
Final, Judicial, May 15, 1999.
Abstract: Title HI of the Clean Air Act
Amendments of 1990 requires the EPA
to develop emission standards for each
major source category of hazardous air
pollutants. The standards are to be
technology-based and are to require the
maximum degree of emission reduction
determined to be achievable by the
Administcator of EPA. The EPA has
determined that most plants in the
Portland cement manufacturing
industry source category are major.
sources of hazardous air pollutants. A
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
03/24/98 63 FR 14182
05/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal
Sectors Affected: 32731 Cement
Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 3079
Agency Contact: Joseph Wood,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5446
Fax: 919 541-5600
Email: wood.joe@epa.gov
Jim Crowder, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5596
Email: crowder.jim@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AE78
3336. NESHAP: POLYETHER
POLYOLS PRODUCTION
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAAA
sec 112
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 1997.
Final, Judicial, May 15, 1999.
Abstract: Title III of the CAA requires
development of emission standards for
all major sources emitting any of the
hazardous air pollutants (HAPs)
identified in section 112(b) of the CAA.
Polyether Potyol Production is listed as
a category of major sources based on
documented emissions of.propylene
oxide and ethylene oxide. This action
will regulate the release of HAPs from
the following process areas located at
polyether polyol manufacturing
facilities: process vents (e.g., reactors),
storage, equipment leaks and other
fugitive sources, and wastewater
operations.
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Timetable:
Action
NPRM
Correction Notice
Final Action
Date FR Cite
09/04/97 62 FR 46804
10/20/97 62 FR 54410
05/00/99
variety of HAPs are emitted including,
toluene, methyl chloride, methanol,
chlorinated compounds, etc.
Timetable:
Action Date PR Cite
Timetable:
Action
NPRM
Final Action
Date
10/14/98
05/00/99
FR Cite
63 FR 551 78
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3408
Agency Contact: David Svendsgaard,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-2380
Fax: 919 541-3470
Email: svendsgaard.david@epa.gov
Penny Lassiter, Environmental
Protection Agency, Air and Radiation,
MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC
27711
Phone: 919 541-5396
RIN: 2060-AE81
3337. NESHAP: PESTICIDE ACTIVE
INGREDIENT PRODUCTION
(PRODUCTION OF AGRICULTURAL
CHEMICALS)
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: GAA sec 112
CFR Citation: Not yet determined
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15,1997.
Final, Judicial, May 15,1999.
Abstract: The following ten source
categories (which are all pesticide
active ingredients) are listed under the
Production of Agricultural Chemicals
(PAG) industry group: 1) 2,4-D Salts
and Esters Production; 2) 4-Chloro-2-
Methylphenoxyacetic Acid Production;
3) 4, 6-Dinitro-o-Cresol Production; 4)
Captafol Production; 5) Captan
Production; 6) Chloroneb Production; 7)
Chlorothalonil Production; 8) Dacthal
(tmj Production; 9) Sodium
Pentachlorophenate Production; 10)
Tordon (tm) Acid Production.
On November 10,1997, the EPA
proposed standards for all pesticide
active ingredient producers including
the 10 categories listed above. Any
other pesticide active ingredient
production plant which produces or
uses any of the 188 listed hazardous
air pollutants was also included. A
NPRf 1
Final Action
11/10/97 62 FR 60565
05/00/99 '
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Sectors Affected: 325199 All Other
Basic Organic Chemical Manufacturing;
32532 Pesticide and Other Agricultural
Chemical Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 3450
Agency Contact: Lalit Banker,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5420
Fax: 919 541-3470
Email: banker.lalit@epa.gov
Penny Lassiter, Environmental
Protection Agency, Air and Radiation,
MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC
27711
Phone: 919 541-5396
RIN: 2060-AE84
3338. NESHAP:
ACRYLIC/MODACRYLIC FIBERS
MANUFACTURING
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAAA
sec 112 (d)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 1997.
Abstract: This NESHAP will control
hazardous air pollutant emissions from
existing and new facilities that
manufacture or produce as an interim
process acrylic or modacrylic fibers.
Principal pollutants identified are vinyl
acetate and acrylonitrile. The majority
of emissions occur during the
polymerization reaction and spinning
process. There are only three major
sources in the United States that will
be affected by this regulation. This rule
is being developed as part of the
Generic MACT rule (see RIN 2060-
AG91) for more information.
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State
Additional Information: SAN No. 3378
Agency Contact: Tony Wayne,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5439
Fax: 919 541-0942
Email: wayne.tony@epa.gov
Susan Wyatt; Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research-Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5674
Fax: 919 541-0942
Email: wyatt.susan@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AF06
3339. NESHAP: POLYCARBONATES
PRODUCTION
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 CAA sec
112
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 1997.
Abstract: This NESHAP will control
hazardous air pollutant (HAP)
emissions from the production of
polycarbonate resins. This source
category is being developed as part of
the General MACT Standard (RIN 2060-
AG91). See Generic MACT entry for
more information.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
Final Action
05/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3465
Agency Contact: Mark Morris,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5416
Fax: 919 541-3470
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Email: morris.mark@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AF09
3340. NESHAP: PUBLICLY OWNED
TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: CAAA sec 112(e)(5);
CAAA sec 112(n)(3)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Judicial, May 15, 1999.
Abstract: This rule will specify
maximum achievable control
technology for publicly owned
treatment works (POTW), also known
as sewage/wastewater treatment plants,
or water reclamation facilities.
Hazardous air pollutant emissions from
the headworks, primary and secondary
treatment, solids handling, and other
operations will be considered in
developing the rule.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
12/01/98 63 FR 66084
10/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Governmental
Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local
Additional Information: SAN No. 3377
Agency Contact: Bob Lucas,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-0884
Fax: 919 541^0246
Email: lucas.bob@epa.gov
Kent C. Hustvedt, Environmental
Protection Agency, Air and Radiation,
MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC
27711
Phone: 919 541-5395
RIN: 2060-AF26
3341. REVISIONS TO THE
REGULATION FOR APPROVAL OF
STATE PROGRAMS AND
DELEGATION OF FEDERAL
AUTHORITIES 112(L)
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: CAA sec 112(1)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63 (E)
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: Guidance in the form of
rulemaking is being developed in
accordance with the requirements of
section 112(1) of the Clean Air Act
Amendments of 1990 for the approval
of State air toxic programs and the
delegation of Federal authorities to the
States for the 'implementation and
enforcement of section 112 Demission
standards and other requirements. This
regulatory document will provide some
flexibility to States in the following
areas: minimum requirements for EPA
approval of State air toxics regulations
that are equivalent to, or more stringent
than the Federal standards and
minimum requirements for EPA
approval of State air toxics programs
that are equivalent to or more stringent
than the Federal program. Specific
issues that will be addressed include:
alternative work practice standards; •
alternative monitoring, recordkeeping,
and reporting; alternative test method
approval process; equivalency by
permits; and mechanisms and
requirements for approval of State air
toxics programs. Additionally, the
Partial Approval and Delegable
Authorities rulemakings will be added
to this rulemaking. The Partial
Approval language will provide
flexibility to States by allowing States
to accept delegation of parts of
standards. This will allow them to
implement and .enforce these provisions
on a smaller scale. The delegable
authorities rulemaking will clarify what
authorities EPA has delegated to States
when the part 63, subpart A, general ,
provisions have been delegated. Due to
a lack of clear guidance, the EPA
. Regions have not been consistent in the
delegation of general provisions to
States.
Timetable:
Additional Information: SAN No. 3829
Agency Contact: Tom Driscoll,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-12, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5135
Fax: 919 541-5509
Email: driscoll.tom@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AG60
3342. GENERIC MACT FOR SOURCE
CATEGORIES (ACRYLIC
MODACRYLIC FIBERS,
POLYCARBONATES, HYDROGEN
FLUORIDE, AND ACETAL RESINS)
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: CAA sec 112
CFR Citation: Not yet determined
Legal Deadline:
Final, Judicial, May 15, 1999.
Abstract: Several of the source
categories that are subject to MACT
(maximum available control
technology) standards contain only a
few sources (e.g., less than five). For
such source categories, EPA plans to
develop the underlying information
through its MACT Partnership Program.
To do this, EPA needs to develop a ,
generic MACT standard for these
source categories. This reinvention to
the MACT standards development
process will allow for proper
participation by all stakeholders. Given
the relatively few affected sources
caught by the generic standard, the
overall cost and environmental effects
of this action are expected to be small,
nationally. The MACT program
addresses hazardous air pollutants.
This action will only affect major
sources of these HAPs. The source
categories included in this standard are:
Acrylic/Modacrylic (RIN 2060-AF06),
Polycarbonates (RIN 2060-AF09), Acetal
Resins, and Hydrogen Fluoride (RIN
2060-AG94).
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM" 01/12/99 64 FR 1880
Final Action 12/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Governmental
Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal
Action
Date
FR Cite
10/14/98 63 FR 55177
05/00/99
NPRM
Final Action
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3901
Agency Contact: David Markwordt,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
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and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-0837
Fax: 919 541-0942
Email; markwordt.david@epa.gov
Susan Wyatt, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5674
Fax: 919 541-0942
Email: wyatt.susan@epa.gov
FUN: 2060-AG91
3343. NESHAP: HYDROGEN
FLUORIDE PRODUCTION
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USG 7401 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Other, Statutory, November 15, 2000,
10 year source category BIN.
Abstract: This rule will establish
maximum achievable control
technology (MACT) for hydrogen
fluoride (HF) production facilities. The
rule will affect one HF production
facility, which is currently well-
controlled. This action will result in
little or no additional emission
reduction but will establish a Federal
MACT level for this plant. The rule is
being proposed as part of the Generic
MACT rule (RIN 2060-AG91).
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
Final Action
05/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State
Additional Information: SAN No. 3654
Agency Contact: Rick Colyer,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5262
Fax: 919 541-0942
Email: colyer.rick@epa.gov
Susan Wyatt, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5674
Fax: 919 541-0942
Email: wyatt.susan@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AG94
3344. NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR
URBAN AREA SOURCES OF TOXIC
AIR EMISSIONS
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412Ck) CAA
sec 112(k); 42 USC 7412(c)(3) CAA sec
CFR Citation: Not yet determined
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 1995.
NPRM, Judicial, August 31, 1998.
Final, judicial, June 18, 1999.
Abstract: Congress directed EPA in the
1990 Amendments to the Clean Air Act
to study the nature and magnitude of
.air toxic emissions, exposures and risks
in U.S. cities. This was in response to
growing evidence that an urban soup
existed that was causing cancer and
other effects, and which may not
adequately be addressed by the MACT
program on major sources. The 1990
Amendments call for EPA to appraise
the sources and pollutants which
contribute most to the urban soup
phenomenon, and to publish a national
strategy by 1995 that summarizes these
findings and identifies actions to
mitigate the problem. This strategy will
contain (1) general and specific
recommendations for additional-
research, (2) an accounting of actions
and measures undertaken by the EPA
and State and local agencies that
reduce emissions of the hazardous
substances of particular concern, and
(3) a call for additional measures
needed to complete sufficient
mitigation of the problem. This action
is not considered deregulatory. This
action has no direct impacts on small
businesses; however, as the strategy is
subsequently implemented through
later actions and specific rules, some
small businesses may be regulated as
a consequence of carrying out the
regulatory recommendations in the
strategy.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
Final 06/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3959
Agency Contact: Laura McKelvey,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-15, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5497
Fax: 919 541-7690
Email: mckelvey.laura@epa.gov
Susan Wyatt, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5674
RUN: 2060-AH21
3345. NESHAP: OIL AND NATURAL
GAS PRODUCTION AND NESHAP:
NATURAL GAS TRANSMISSION AND
STORAGE, AMENDMENTS TO
PROPOSED RULE
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: CAA sec 112
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 1997.
Abstract: Hazardous air pollutants
(HAPs) known to be emitted from oil
and gas production, storage, and
transmission facilities include benzene,
toluene, ethyl benzene, and xylene
isomers (collectively referred to as
BTEX), along with 2,2,4-
trimethylpentane and n-hexane.
Potential HAP emission sources are
glycol dehydrator reboilers (stand-alone
and co-located); condensate storage
v€issels; and equipment leaks at natural
gas processing plants.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
02/02/98 63 FR 6288
05/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State
Additional Information: SAN No. 4162
Agency Contact: Stephen Shedd,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5397
Email: shedd.steve@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AI13
3346. TRANSPORTATION
CONFORMITY RULE AMENDMENT
AND SOLICITATION FOR
PARTICIPATION IN THE PILOT
PROGRAM
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
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the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication,.or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 to 7671 .
CAA sec 176
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51; 40 CFR 93
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The Transportation
Conformity rule promulgated in
November 1993 ensures that
transportation and air quality planning .
are consistent with Clean Air Act air
. quality standards. This action is part
of an Agency effort to streamline the
existing conformity regulation, and offer
flexibility in the conformity process.
This action would amend, the
conformity regulation-to allow EPA to
create, and implement, a conformity
pilot program.
The rule amendment would, allow EPA
to exempt up to six areas from certain
requirements of the conformity rule.
The main objective of the pilot program
is to offer State and local air and.
transportatkra/agencies: the flexibility to
identify the conformity procedures that
work.best for their area. This action
will enable EPA to test out innovative
methods of streamlining the. conformity
regulation's requirements while
ensuring that Clean Air Act objectives.
are met. In addition to the rule.
amendment, this-action also includes
the pilot program's proposed eligibility
and application requirements, selection
criteria, and implementation .
procedures.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
07/09/96 61 FR 35994
05/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No..3610
Agency Contact: Meg Patulski,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, NFEVL, Ann Arbor, MI
48105
Phone: 734 214-4842
Fax: 734 214-4531
Email: patulski.meg@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AG79
3347. REDUCTION OF VOLATILE
ORGANIC COMPOUND (VOC)
EMISSIONS FROM COATINGS USED
IN THE AEROSPACE, WOOD
FURNITURE, AND SHIPBUILDING
INDUSTRIES UNDER CLEAN AIR ACT
SECTION 183(E)
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq .
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 59-
Legal Deadline:,.
Final, Judicial, July 1, 1999.
Abstract:, This action would result in
the reduction of volatile-organic
compound (VOC) emissions from the
coatings used by the Aerospace, Wood
Furniture and Shipbuilding industries.
The Agency will study the various VOC
pollutants, contained in these coatings
and will .evaluate pollution prevention
and control techniques which can
reduce these emissions; Control
Techniques Guidelines can-be issued in
lieu of regulations if they are
substantially as effective in reducing
VOC emissions from-the use of these
coatings in ozone.nonattainment areas.
This rulemaking. will be conducted in
accordance with statutory, requirements
for VOC emission reduction under .
section i83(e) of the Clean. Air Act.
Data recently, gathered for the
development of National.Emission
Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants
(NESHAP) for these industries will be
used to. maximize resources and avoid;
duplication of data gathering efforts.
Timetable::
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
08/22/97 62 FR 44672
07/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State
Additional Information: SAN No. 3828
Agency Contact:.Daniel Brown,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5305
Fax: 919 541-5689
Email: brown.dan@epa.gov
Trish Koman, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-4021
Fax: 919 541-5689
Email: koman.trish@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AG59
3348. IMPORTATION OF
NONCONFORMING VEHICLES;
AMENDMENTS TO. REGULATIONS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USG 7522-CAA sec
203; 42 USC 7525-CAA sec 206; 42
USC 7541 CAA sec 207; 42 USC 7542
CAA sec 208; 42 USC 7601 CAA sec
301; 42 USC 7522 CAA sec 203; 42
USC 7550 CAA sec 216; 42 USC 7601
CAA sec 301
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 85
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract:, This action will amend the
regulations in 40 CFR part 85, subpart
P to allow entry into the U.S. of
vehicles which are originally sold in
Canada and which are identical to their
U.S. counterparts, without obtaining a
certificate of conformity from EPA. This
action-is in response to a petition for
review of import rules. The final rule
also will, address certain other issues
in part 85, subpart P:and subpart R,
including: 1) formalizing a long-
standing EPA policy regarding the •
importation of owned vehicles that are
proven to-be identical to a vehicle
certified for sale in the U.S., 2)
establishing new emission standards
. applicable to imported nonconforming
vehicles,, 3) clarifying the regulatory
language.that concerns exclusions and .
exemptions from meeting Federal
emission requirements, and -4)
providing-several minor clarifications
to the existing regulations.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 03/24/94 59 FR 13912
Supplemental NPRM 02/12/96 61 FR 5840
Final Action 09/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 2665
Agency Contact: Len Lazarus,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, 6405J, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-9281
RIN: 2060-AI03
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3349. NONROAD SPARK-IGNITION
ENGINES AT OR BELOW 19
KILOWATTS (25 HORSEPOWER)
(PHASE 2)
Priority: Other Significant. Major under
5 USC 801.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7547 CAA sec
213
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 90
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action will establish the
second phase of emissions standards
for new nonroad spark-ignition engines
at or below 19 kilowatts (25
horsepower), as required by section
213(a)(3) of the Clean Air Act, as
amended. The Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) had been
developing the second phase of small-
engine regulations through a negotiated
rulemaking, with representation by
engine manufacturers, equipment
manufacturers, emissions control
manufacturers, equipment dealers,
environment and public health
interests, and State air programs. The
negotiations came to an end on
February 16, 1996 with no consensus
reached. EPA will now develop the
rulemaking through other means.
The affected engines are used in lawn,
garden, and utility equipment, such as
lawnmowers, string trimmers, chain
saws, and small pumps and generators.
The first phase was established July 3,
1995 (60 FR 34582), effective for the
1997 model year, and was very similar
to the tier 1 small-engine regulations
developed by California for the same
engines. Regulated pollutants are
hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, and
oxides of nitrogen.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
03/27/97 62 FR 14740
01/27/98 63 FR 3950
ANPRM
NPRM Hand-held
engines
NPRM Non-hand-held 06/30/98 63 FR 3950
engines
Final Action Hand-held 04/00/99
engines
Final Action Non- 03/00/00
hand-held engines
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entitles Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3361
Agency Contact: Betsy McCabe,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, NFEVL, Ann Arbor, MI
48105
Phone: 734 241-4344
RIN: 2060-AE29
3350. PROTECTION OF
STRATOSPHERIC OZONE:
SUPPLEMENTAL RULE REGARDING
A RECYCLING STANDARD UNDER
SECTION 608
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq
CAA sec 608
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 82(F)
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This rule will amend the
recordkeeping aspects of the technician
certification program, clarify aspects of
a sales restriction, and adopt an
updated version of ARI standard 740.
The rule will also clarify the distinction
between major and non-major repairs
and amend several definitions
including small appliances. The rule
also addresses the transfers of
unreclaimed refrigerant between
majority-owned and majority-controlled
subsidiaries.
Timetable:
Action
NPRM1
NPRM
Final Action
Date FR Cite
02/29/96 61 FR 7858
11/01/96 61 FR 56493
07/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3556
Additional SANs 3895, 3896. This rale
will address a potential adoption of a
more flexible method for cleaning
refrigerants for refrigerant transferred
between appliances with different
ownership with a potential adoption of
a 3rd party certification program for
labs.
Agency Contact: Michael Forlini,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, 6205J, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-9475
Fax: 202 564-9665
RIN: 2060-AF36
3351. PROTECTION OF
STRATOSPHERIC OZONE:
REFRIGERANT RECYCLING RULE
AMENDMENT TO INCLUDE
SUBSTITUTE REFRIGERANTS
Priority: Economically Significant
Legal Authority: PL 101-54; 42 USC
7671(g) CAA sec 608; 42 USC 7401 et
seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 82(F)
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 1995.
Abstract: This action would facilitate
fulfillment of the statutory mandate to
apply the venting prohibition to
substitute refrigerants. The action
would provide regulations covering
recovery/recycling equipment,
recovery/recycling practices, and
applicable certifications that would be
required to accomplish compliance
with the venting prohibition.
Requirements would parallel those of
the current section 608 regulations,
expanding applicability, where
appropriate, to substitute refrigerants.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 06/11/98 63 FR 32044
Final Action 10/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3560
Agency Contact: Sue Stendebach,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, 6205J, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-9117
Fax: 202 565-2093
Email: stendebach.sue@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AF37
3352. NESHAP: OFF-SITE WASTE AND
RECOVERY OPERATIONS; FINAL
RULE—SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT;
AND NESHAP FOR OFF-SITE WASTE
AND RECOVERY OPERATIONS;
TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline .
requirements.
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Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The actions will amend the
Off-Site Waste and Recovery Operations
rule that was promulgated on July 1,
1996, based on the settlement
agreement with the Chemical
Manufacturers Association, the
Hazardous Waste Management
Association, and the Environmental
Technology Council. The changes to
the rule will clarify the EPA's intent
and do not increase or lower or
otherwise affect emissions or
environmental protection. Additionally,
the actions will clarify sections of the
promulgated off-site waste and recovery
operations regulation and correct any
typographical errors noted. These
actions will contain guidance and
amended rule language.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
Direct Final Rule
04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local
Sectors Affected: 32411 Petroleum
Refineries; 325412 Pharmaceutical
Preparation Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 4108
Agency Contact: Elaine Manning,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5499
Fax: 919 541-0246
Email: manning.elaine@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AH96
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Clean Air Act (CAA)
Long-Term Actions
3353. CONTROL OF EMISSIONS FROM
NONROAD SPARK-IGNITION ENGINES
RATED OVER 19 KW AND NEW LAND-
BASED RECREATIONAL SPARK-
IGNITION ENGINES
Priority:. Economically Significant.
Major status under 5 USC 801 is
undetermined.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 to 767iq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 94
Legal Deadline:
Other, Statutory, Proposed Finding.
NPRM, Judicial, September 30, 2000.
Final, Judicial, December 31, 2001.
Abstract: Emissions from large spark-
ignition engines are currently
unregulated. EPA and GARB are
cooperating in an effort to set emission
standards for these engines to
substantially reduce their contribution
to the emission inventory.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
Proposed Finding
NPRM
Final Rule
02/08/99 64 FR 6008
09/00/00
09/00/01
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: None
Sectors Affected: 333924 Industrial
Truck, Tractor, Trailer and Stacker
Machinery Manufacturing; 42183
Industrial Machinery and Equipment
Wholesalers; 335312 Motor and
Generator Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 4154
Agency Contact: Alan Stout,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, EPCD, Ann Arbor, MI
48105
Phone: 734 214-4805
Fax: 734 214-4816
Email: stout.alan@epa.gov
Don Kopinski, Environmental
Protection Agency, Air and Radiation,
EPCD, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Phone: 734 214-4229
Fax: 734 214-4816
Email: kopinski.donald@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AIll
3354. • AMENDMENT TO
REGULATIONS GOVERNING
EQUIVALENT EMISSION LIMITATIONS
BY PERMIT
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: CAA Section 112
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action delays a permit
requirement triggered by the Agency's
failure to promulgate all of the 7 year
MACT standards by the 112(j) hammer
date of May 15, 1999. The Agency was
sued due to the fact that not all of the
7 year standards were promulgated by
the statutory, deadline of November 15,
1997. The settlement agreement
requires that all remaining 7 year
standards will be promulgated by
December 2000. This action will delay
the permit requirements triggered by
the Section 112(j) hammer until the
remaining standards are promulgated.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
Direct Final Rule 04/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State
Additional Information: SAN No. 4244
Agency Contact: David Markwordt,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, Research Triangle Park,
NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-0837
RIN: 2060-AI28
3355. • REVIEW NATIONAL AMBIENT
AIR QUALITY .STANDARDS FOR
CARBON MONOXIDE
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: Clean Air Act Title I
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 50
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, May 31, 2001, Clean
Air Act requires reviews every five
years.
Abstract: Review of the national
ambient air quality standards (NAAQS)
for carbon monoxide (CO) every 5 years
is mandated by the Clean Air Act. This
review assesses the available scientific
data about the health and
environmental effects of CO and
translates the science into terms that
can be used in making
recommendations about whether or
how the standards should be changed.
The last review of the CO NAAQS was
completed in 1994 with a final decision
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that revisions were not appropriate at
that time.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM 08/00/00
Final Action 05/00/01
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entitles Affected: No
Government Levels Affected:
Undetermined
Additional Information: SAN No. 4266
Agency Contact: David McKee,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-15, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5288
Fax: 919 541-0237
Email: mckee.david@epa.gov
Harvey Richmond, Environmental
Protection Agency, Air and Radiation,
MD-15, Research Triangle Park, NC
27711
Phone: 919 541-5271
Fax: 919 541-0237
RIN: 2060-AI43
3356. • REVIEW OF THE NATIONAL
AMBIENT AIR QUALITY STANDARDS
FOR PARTICULATE MATTER
Priority: Economically Significant.
Major under 5 USC 801.
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7408,; 42 USC
7409
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 50
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, July 1, 2002, Under the
Clean Air Act-the next standards
review is to be completed July 2002.
Abstract: On July 18,1997, the EPA
published a final rule revising the
national ambient air quality standards
(NAAQS) for particulate matter (PM)
(62 FR 38652). While staining the
PMlO standard levels, new standards
were added for fine particles (PM2.5)
to provide increased protection against
both health and environmental effects
of PM. On the same day, a Presidential
Memorandum (62 FR 38421, July 16,
1997) was published that, among other
things, directed EPA to complete the
next review of the PM NAAQS by July
2002. The EPA's plans and schedule for
the next periodic review of the PM
NAAQS were published on October 23,
1997 (62 FR 55201). As with other
NAAQS reviews, a rigorous assessment
of relevant scientific information will
be presented in a Criteria Document •
(CD), and the preparation of this
document is currently under way by
the EPA's National Center for
Environmental Assessment. The EPA's
Office of Air Quality Planning and
Standards will also prepare a Staff
Paper (SP) for the-Administrator which
will evaluate the policy implications of
the key studies and scientific
information contained in the CD and
additional technical analyses and
identify critical elements that EPA staff
believe should be considered in
reviewing the standards. The SP and
CD will be reviewed by the Clean Air
Scientific Advisory Committee
(CASAC) and the public; both will
reflect the input received through these
reviews. As me PM: NAAQS review is
completed, the Administrator's
proposal to revise'or reaffirm the PM
NAAQS will be published with a
request for public comment, input
received during the public comment
period will be reflected in the
Administrator's final decision which
will be published in July 2002.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Aqtion
08/00/01
07/00/02
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
€mal| Entities Affected,: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Sectors Affected: 21 Mining
Additional Information: SAN No. 4255
Agency Contact: Mary A. Ross,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-15, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5170
Fax: 919 541-0237
Email: ross.mary@epa.gov
Eric Ginsburg, Environmental
Protection Agency, Air and Radiation,
MD-15, Research Triangle Park, NC
27711
Phone: 919 541-5274
Fax: 919 541-0237
Email: ginsburg.eric@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AI44
3357. NSPS: SYNTHETIC ORGANIC
CHEMICALS MANUFACTURING
INDUStRY--WASTEWATER
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: CAAA
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60
Legal Deadline:
NPRM, Judicial, August 31, 1994.
Abstract: This rule will develop a new
source performance standard to control
air emissions of volatile organic
compounds from wastewater treatment
operations' of the synthetic chemical
manufacturing industry.
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM 09/12/94 59 FR 46780
Supplemental NPRM 10/11/95 60 FR 52889
(First)
Supplemental NPRM 12/09/98 63 FR 67987
(Second)
Final Action 04/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entitles Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State
Additional Information: SAN No. 3380
Agency Contact: Mary Kissell,
Environmental "Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-4516
Fax: 919 541-0246
Email: kissell.mary@epa.gov
jfent C. Hustvedt, Environmental
Protection Agency,, Air- and Radiation,
MD-13, Research Triangle Park, NC
27711
Phone: 919 541-5395
RIN: 3Q60-AE94
3358. AMENDMENTS; TO METHOD 24
(WATER-BASED COATINGS)
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7410
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The determination of volatile
organic compounds (VOCs) content of
a surface coating by reference Method
24 involves determination of its water
content and calculation of its VOC
content as the difference of the two
measurements (volatile content minus
w;ater content). Method 24 is inherently
less precise for water-based coatings
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than it is for solvent-based coatings and
the imprecision increases as water
content increases. This action will
amend Method 24 by adding a direct
measurement procedure for measuring
VOC content of water-based coatings.
This amendment will improve the
precision of Method 24 for water-based
coatings.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 06/00/00
Final Action 06/00/01
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3649
Agency Contact: Candace Sorrell,
Environmental Protection. Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-19, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone:. 919 541-1064
RIN: 2060-AF72
3359. FEDERAL IMPLEMENTATION
PLAN (FIP) TO CONTROL EMISSIONS
FROM SOURCES LOCATED ON THE
FORT HALL INDIAN RESERVATION
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: CAA, title I
CFR Citation: Not yet determined
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA willpropose1 Federal
ruleinaking' fdr sources located on the
Reservation to implement the intent bf
the Clean Air Act (CAA) title I program
to bring about attainment of the PM-
10 NAAQS both on and off the Fort
Hall.Indian Reservation.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite .
NPRM
Final Action
02/12/99 64 FR 7307
07/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3637
Agency Contact: Steve Body,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, Region 10, Seattle, WA
98101
Phone: 206 553-0782
RIN: 2060-AF84
3360. REVISED PERMIT REVISION
PROCEDURES FOR THE FEDERAL
OPERATING PERMITS PROGRAM
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7661a(d)(3)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 71.7
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The proposed regulatory
change would streamline permit
revisions procedures for stationary air
sources that are subject to the Federal
operating permits program. •
' The Agency does not anticipate any
significant impact on small businesses
and State/local/tribal governments.
Timetable: . ,
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
04/00/00
09/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3922
Agency Contact: Scqtt Voorhees,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-12, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5348
Fax: 913 541-5509
Email: voorhees.scott@epa.gov
RlN: 2060-ACJ92
3361. REVIEW OF MINOR NEW
SOURCES AND MODIFICATIONS IN
INDIAN COUNTRY
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant.
Major status under 5 USC 801 is
undetermined.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7410
CFR Citation: Not yet determined
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: As required by the Clean Air
Act's New Source Review provisions,
the EPA is proposing Federal
regulations governing preconstruction
permitting of minor stationary sources
of air pollution in Indian Country.
Pursuant to the Tribal Air Rule, eligible
Indian Tribes may receive EPA
authorization to develop and
implement such programs. The Federal
minor New Source .Review permitting
program would be effective throughout
Indian Country and would be
implemented by the EPA if eligible
Indian Tribes do not elect, or do not
receive authorization, to manage such
programs. The proposed iule would
require.sources in Indian Country, with
certain exceptions, to obtain a permit
prior to construction if they are: (1)
new minor sources, (2) existing minor
sources undergoing modification, or (3)
existing major sources undergoing
minor modification. The proposed rule
also would allow new or existing
stationary sources to accept enforceable
limits on their production capacity or
hours of operation in order to be
considered minor sources and avoid
being subject to other Clean Air Act
requirements such as the title V
operating permit program. This rule
would not impose any mandates on
Tribal governments to implement a
minor New Source Review permitting
program. Tribal governments may be
affected, however, insofar as they own
or operate sources that must obtain a
permit from the EPA under the final
Federal permitting program regulations.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
07/00/00
07/00/01
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: Local,
Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3975
Agency Contact: Michele Dubow,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-12, Research •
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-3803
Fax: 919 541-5509
Email: dubow.michele@epa.gov
Sara Terry, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-11,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-7576
Fax: 919 541-7925
Email: terry.sara@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AH37
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3362. RULEMAKING TO MODIFY THE
LIST OF SOURCE CATEGORIES
FROM WHICH FUGITIVE EMISSIONS
ARE CONSIDERED IN MAJOR
SOURCE DETERMINATIONS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7602; CAA
sec 302(j)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51; 40 CFR 52;
40 CFR 70; 40 CFR 71
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This rulemaking will
potentially expand the list of source
categories for which fugitive emissions
are to be considered in major source
determinations under the New Source
Review (Prevention of Significant
Deterioration and Nonattairunent New
Source Review) and title V programs.
As provided by section 302(j) of the
Act, EPA adopted rules on August 7,
1980 that require, for specific source
categories, the inclusion of fugitive
emissions when determining if a
stationary source is a major source.
In its 1980 rulemaking, EPA identified
one such specific source category as
those stationary-source categories being
regulated, as of August 7,1980, under
Sections 111 or 112 of the Clean Air
Act. EPA indicated that at the time of
any future rulemaking proposing to "
regulate additional categories of sources
under sections 111 or 112, the EPA
would conduct a parallel rulemaking
under section 302(j) to determine
whether fugitive emissions from
sources within these source categories
needed to be considered in determining
whether the sources were major
stationary sources. EPA did not
conduct these parallel rulemakings as
intended and is now conducting a
rulemaking pursuant to section 302(j)
to address the source categories which
became subject to section 111 and 112
standards after August 7,1980.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
12/00/00
12/00/01
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4045
Agency Contact: Steve Hitte,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-12, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-0886
Fax: 919 541-5509
RIN: 2060-AH58
3363. NESHAP: HYDROGEN
CHLORIDE PRODUCTION
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 1857 CAA 112
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: Title HI of the Clean Air Act
Amendments of 1990 requires the EPA
to develop emission standards for each
major source category of hazardous air
pollutants (HAPs). The standards are to
be technology-based and are to require
the maximum degree of emission
reduction determined to be achievable
by the Administrator of the EPA. The
EPA has determined that some plants
may be major sources for one or more
HAPs. As a consequence, a regulation
(emission standards) is being developed
for the hydrogen chloride industry, to
be promulgated by November 15, 2000.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
11/00/00
11/00/01
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Government Levels Affected: State
Sectors Affected: 325199 All Other
Basic Organic Chemical Manufacturing;
325188 All Other Basic Inorganic
Chemical Manufacturing; 325181
Alkalies and Chlorine Manufacturing;
325211 Plastics Material and Resin
Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 4112
Agency Contact: Kenneth Durkee,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5425
Joseph Wood, Environmental-Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5446
RIN: 2060-AH80
3364. NESHAP: REFRACTORIES
MANUFACTURING
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: CAA. sec 112
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: The Clean Air Act requires
EPA to publish an initial list of all
categories of major and area sources of
hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) listed
in section 112(b) of the Act and to
establish and meet dates for
promulgation of emission standards for
each of the listed categories of HAP
emission sources. The standards are to
be technology-based and are to require
the maximum degree of emission
reduction determined to be achievable
by the Administrator. The refractory
manufacturing source category is
included on the initial list of HAP-
emitting categories scheduled for
promulgation within ten years of
enactment of the Clean. Air Act
Amendments of 1990. Testing
conducted and information obtained to
date indicate 22 major sources exist in
this source category. The EPA has
determined that the refractory
manufacturing industry emits
chromium, ethylene glycol, phenol,
methanol, hydrochloric acid,
formaldehyde, polycyclic organic matte
(POM) and hydrogen fluoride; eight of
the 189 HAPs listed in section 112 of
the Act. The Agency estimates
approximately 146 facilities will be
affected by this rulemaking. Impacts on
small businesses and on
State/local/tribal governments will be
assessed.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
12/00/00
12/00/01
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3652
Agency Contact: Susan Zapata,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5167
Fax: 919 541-5600
Email: zapata.susan@epa.gov
Jim Crowder, Environmental Protection
Agency, Air and Radiation, MD-13,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5596
Email: crowder.jim@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AG68
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3365. NESHAP: ORGANIC LIQUID
DISTRIBUTION
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 15, 2000.
Abstract: This project is to develop
national emission standards for
hazardous air pollutants by establishing
maximum achievable control
technology (MACT) for facilities
distributing organic liquids. MACT
standards are under development to
reduce the release of hazardous air
pollutants (HAPs) from all industries to
protect the public health and
environment. The EPA has not
determined the scope of this project.
However, this project should include
but is not limited "to those activities
associated with the storage and
distribution of organic liquids other
than gasoline at sites that serve as
distribution points from which organic
liquids may be obtained for further use
and processing.
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
05/00/00
05/00/01
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3971
Agency Contact: Martha Smith,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-2421
Fax: 919 541-0246
Email: smith.martha@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AH41
3366. • NESHAP: CHEMICAL
RECOVERY COMBUSTION SOURCES
AT KRAFT, SODA, SULFITE AND
STAND ALONE SEMICHEMJCAL PULP
MILLS
Priority: Economically Significant.
Major under 5 USC 801.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7412 CAAA
sec 112; 42 USC 7414 CAAA sec 114;
42 USC 7601 CAAA sec 301; 33 USC
1314 CWA sec 304; 33 USC 1316 CWA
sec 306-308; 33 USC 1317; 33 USC
1318; 33 USC 1361 CWA sec 301; CWA
sec 501
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Federal
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63; 40 CFR 430 Additional Information: SAN No. 4240
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The Clean Air Act (CAA)
Amendments of 1990 direct the
Environmental .Protection Agency (EPA)
to set National Emission Standards for
Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for
new and existing sources under section
112 and to base these standards on
maximum achievable control
technology (MACT). The Clean Water
Act (CWA) directs EPA to develop
effluent guidelines for certain categories
and classes of point sources. These
guidelines are used for setting
discharge limits for specific facilities
that discharge to surface waters or
municipal sewage treatment systems.
On April 15, 1998, the EPA
promulgated an integrated regulation
for the pulp and paper industry that
includes both effluent guidelines and
air emission standards to control the
release of pollutants to both the water
and the air. At the same time, .the EPA
proposed MACT standards for the
chemical recovery combustion sources.
The regulations were developed jointly
to provide greater protection to human
health and the environment, to promote
the concept of pollution prevention,
and to enable the industry to more .
effectively plan compliance via a
multimedia approach.
Next steps will be to issue final effluent
guidelines for Phase n and Phase III
mills. Phase n will address the effluent
from mills not covered in the Final
Phase I effluent guidelines (except
dissolving grade mills) plus will set
limits for reserved parameters for
chemical oxygen demand (COD) and
chloroform at Phase I mills. Phase IE
will set final effluent limits for
dissolving grade mills.
This Regulatory Plan entry also
includes RIN 2040-AB53, Effluent
Guidelines and Standards for the Pulp,
Paper, and Paperboard Category,
reported in full in part HI of this issue
of the Federal Register. . ,
Timetable:
(Air), SAN No. 2712 (Water), SAN No.
4050 (Water Phase II),
ADDITIONAL AGENCY CONTACT: Jeff
Telander (NESHAP Phase II -
Combustion Sources)
ADDITIONAL AGENCY CONTACT:
Elaine Manning (NESHAP Phase IH -
Nonchemical and other Pulp and Paper
.Mills)
See also RIN 2040-AB53
Agency Contact: Steve Shedd,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, MD-13, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711
Phone: 919 541-5397
Email: shedd.steve@epa.gov
Donald F. Anderson, Environmental
Protection Agency, Air and Radiation,
4303, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-7189
RIN: 2060-AI34
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
12/28/98 63 FR 71408
12/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
3367. FIELD CITATION PROGRAM
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 74l3(d) CAA
sec 113(d)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 59
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The Clean Air Act
Amendments give EPA the authority to
issue on-the-spot field citations for
minor violations of the Clean Air Act,
with penalties of up to $5,000 per day
of violation. Section 113(d) of the Act
requires the field citation program to
be implemented through regulations
which provide the informal hearing
procedures. These hearing procedures
are not required to be as rigorous as
those imposed by the Administrative
Procedures Act (APA), but nevertheless
must provide due process. Agency
guidance providing appropriate
penalties for specific minor violations
will be prepared for EPA employees
and made available to the regulated
community. Training on the issuance
of field citations will also be
developed.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
05/03/94 59 FR 22776
To Be Determined
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Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 2937
Agency-Contact: Gary Secrest,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Enforcement and Compliance
Assurance, 2242A, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-8661
RIN: 2020-AA32
3368. PREVENTION OF SIGNIFICANT
DETERIORATION OF AIR QUALITY:
PERMIT APPLICATION REVIEW
PROCEDURES FOR NON-FEDERAL
CLASS I AREAS
Priority: Other Significant. Major status
under 5 USC 801 is undetermined.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7670 to 7479;
CAA sec 160; CAA sec 161; CAA sec
162; CAA sec 163; CAA sec 164; CAA
sec 165; CAA sec 166; CAA sec 167;
, CAA sec 168; CAA sec 169
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51.166; 40 CFR
52.21
Lagal Deadline: None
Abstract: Under the Clean Air Act's
prevention of significant deterioration
(PSD) program, a State or tribe may
rodcsignate their lands as class I areas
to provide enhanced protection for
their air quality resources. This rule
will clarify the PSD permit review
procedures for new and modified major
stationary sources near these non-
Federal class I areas. EPA seeks to
develop clarifying PSD permit
application procedures that are
effective, efficient, and equitable.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
ANPRM
NPRM
Final Rule
05/16/97 62 FR 27158
10/00/00
10/00/01
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3919
Agency Contact: David LaRoche,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, 6102, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 260-7652
Fax: 202 260-8509
Email: laroche.david@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AH01
3369. LOCATION OF SELECTIVE
ENFORCEMENT AUDITS OF FOREIGN
MANUFACTURED VEHICLES AND
ENGINES; AMENDMENT
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7525 CAA sec
206(b)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 86G (Revision);
40 CFR 86K (Revision)
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action would consider
an amendment to the existing
regulations to include ports of entry as
a location for EPA selection of foreign
produced vehicles and engines for SEA
emissions testing at laboratories in the
U.S. While the regulations do not
specify EPA authority to conduct such
port selections, the increased flexibility
provided by port selections warrants
amending title regulations. Presently,
EPA must travel overseas to conduct
SEA audits of foreign manufactured
vehicles and engines, even though most
manufacturers now have access to
laboratory facilities in the U.S. The
benefits include a reduction in Agency.
cost since fewer overseas trips would
be necessary. Also, EPA would be able
to conduct more audits of foreign
manufactured vehicles and engines.
Separate from the provisions proposed
in this NPRM for amendments to allow
port selection for SEAs, EPA is also
proposing to make two other
amendments to 40 CFR part 86. The
first would amend current Selective
Enforcement Auditing regulations to
change the minimum annual limit of
Selective Enforcement Audits per
manufacturer to two (2) per year.
Currently, the minimum annual limit
is one audit per manufacturer. Under
the proposed amendments EPA would
be able to perform a second audit on
those manufacturers that might
otherwise be limited to one audit.
The second additional proposed
amendment to part 86 would delete
from subparts A and E references to
the Agency representation in certain
types of administrative hearings. The
two provisions state that the Office of
General Counsel will represent the
Agency in administrative procedures
governing hearings on certification for
light-duty vehicles, light-duty trucks,
heavy-duty engines and motorcycles.
The Agency is proposing to delete these
two provisions in order to be consistent
with other hearing procedures in part
86.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
12/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3139
Agency Contact: Richard Gezelle,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, 6403J, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-9267
RIN: 2060-AD90
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Clean Air Act (CAA)
Completed Actions
3370. * PROTECTION OF
STRATOSPHERIC OZONE:
ALLOCATION OF 1999 ESSENTIAL
USE ALLOWANCES
Priority: Economically Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7414; 42 USC
7601; 42 USC 7671 to 7671q
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 82.4(t)(2)
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, Pharmaceutical
companies need allowances before
1/1/98.
Final, Statutory, to manufacture MDIs.
Abstract: EPA is proposing the
allocation of essential-use allowances
for the 1999 control period. The United
States nominated specific uses of
controlled ozone-depleting substances
(ODS) as essential for 1999 under the
Montreal Protocol on Substances that
Deplete the Ozone Layer (Protocol). The
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Parties to the Protocol subsequently
authorized specific quantities of ODS
for 1999 for the uses nominated by the
United States. Essential use allowances
permit a person to obtain controlled
ozone-depleting substances as an
exemption to the January 1, 1996
regulatory phaseout of production and
import. Essential use allowances are
allocated to a person for exempted
production or importation of a specific
quantity of a controlled substance
solely for the designated essential
purpose for the calendar year.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
11/20/98 63 FR 64437
01/07/99 64 FR 1091
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: None
Sectors Affected: 32541
Pharmaceutical and Medicine
Manufacturing; 33641 Aerospace
Product and Parts Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 4213
Agency Contact: Tom Land,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, 6205J, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-9185
Fax: 202 565-2093
Email: land.tom@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AI26
3371. COMPREHENSIVE RADIATION
WASTE MANAGEMENT REGULATION
Priority: Other Significant. Major status
under 5 USC 801 is undetermined.
CFR Citation: Not yet determined
Completed:
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Withdrawn 02/23/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: Federal
Agency Contact: Albert Colli
Phone: 202 564-9300
RIN: 2060-AF41
3372. ACID RAIN PROGRAM:
DELETION OF CERTAIN UNITS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 73.10
Completed:
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Withdrawn - Merged 02/18/99
With RIN 2060-
AG86
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Agency Contact: Kathy Barylski
Phone: 202 564-9074
Fax: 202 565-2139
Email: barylski.kathy@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AF46
3373. SALES VOLUME LIMIT
PROVISIONS FOR SMALL-VOLUME
MANUFACTURE CERTIFICATION FOR
CLEAN FUEL AND CONVENTIONAL
VEHICLE CONVERSIONS AND
RELATED PROVISIONS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 85; 40 CFR 86;
40 CFR 88
Completed:
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Direct Final 01/03/96 61 FR 140
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Agency Contact: Clifford Tyree
Phone: 313 668-4310
RIN: 2060-AF87
3374. AMENDMENTS TO
RESIDENTIAL WOOD HEATERS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
CFR Citation: Not yet determined
Completed:
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Final Action 11/24/98 63 FR 64963
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Agency Contact: Rick Colyer
Phone: 919 541-5262
Fax: 919 541-0942
Email: colyer.rick@epa.gov
Susan Wyatt
Phone: 919 541-5674
Fax: 919 541-0942
Email: wyatt.susan@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AG30
3375. AMENDMENT TO THE USER
FEES FOR RADON PROFICIENCY
PROGRAMS RULE
Priority: Other Significant
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 195; 40 CFR 700
(Revision)
Completed:
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Withdrawn
02/22/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal
Agency Contact: James Long
Phone: 202 564-9433
Fax: 202 565-2038
Email: long.james@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AG64
3376. 1998 REVISION OF ACID RAIN
ALLOWANCE ALLOCATIONS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Unfunded Mandates: This action may
affect the private sector under
PL 104-4.
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 73
Completed:
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Final Action
09/28/98 63 FR 51705
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Agency Contact: Kathy Barylski
Phone: 202 564-9074
Fax: 202 565-2139
RIN: 2060-AG86
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3377. FINDING OF SIGNIFICANT
CONTRIBUTION AND RULEMAKING
FOR CERTAIN STATES IN THE
OZONE TRANSPORT ASSESSMENT
GROUP (OTAG) REGION FOR
PURPOSES OF REDUCING REGIONAL
TRANSPORT OF OZONE
Priority: Economically Significant
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51; 40 CFR 52(a)
Completed:
Reason Date FR Cite
Final Action 10/27/98 63 FR 57355
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entitles Affected: No
Government. Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal
Agency Contact: Kimber Scavo
Phone: 919 541-3354
Fax: 919 541-0824
Email: scavo.kimber@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AH10
3378. REVISIONS TO CLARIFY THE
PERMIT CONTENT REQUIREMENTS
FOR STATE OPERATING PERMITS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 70.6
Completed:
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Withdrawn-The 02/16/99
Agency Plans No
Further Action.
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Governmental
Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Tribal
Agency Contact: Jeff Herring
Phone: 919 541-3195
RIN: 2060-AH46
3379. REVISIONS TO THE PERMITS
AND SULFUR DIOXIDE ALLOWANCE
SYSTEM REGULATIONS UNDER
TITLE IV OF THE CLEAN AIR ACT:
ALLOWANCE TRANSFER
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 72; 40 CFR 73
Completed:
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Federal
Agency Contact: Donna Deneen.
Phone: 202 564-9089
Fax:-202 565-2141
Email: deneen.donna@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AH60
3380. ACID RAIN PROGRAM:
DETERMINATION ON SECTION 75.7
(EPA STUDY OF BIAS TEST) AND
SECTION 75.8 (RELATIVE ACCURACY
AND AVAILABILITY ANALYSIS)
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 75
Completed:
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Withdrawn - Merged 02/18/99
With RIN 2060-
AG46
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected:. No
Government Levels Affected: Federal
Agency Contact: Elliot-Lieberman
Phone: 202 564-9136
Fax: 202 564-2141
Email: lieberman.elliot@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AH64
3381. NESHAP: WOOD FURNITURE
MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS,
AMENDMENTS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Completed:
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Final Action
12/11/98 63 FR 68400
Final Action - Final 12/28/98 63 FR 71376
Amendments
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Agency Contact: Paul Almodovar
Phone: 919 541-0283
Fax: 919 541-5689
Email: almodovar.paul@epa.gov
Irish Koman
Phone: 919 541-4021
Fax: 919 541-5689
Email: koman.trish@epa.gov
RUM: 2060-AH66
3382. NESHAP: AMMONIUM
SULPHATE PRODUCTION
(CAPROLACTAM BY-PRODUCT)
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Completed:
Reiason
Date
FR Cite
Merged Into RIN 2060- 04/01/99
AE82 • "
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis,
Required: Undetermined
Government Levels Affected: State,
Federal
Agency Contact: Jeff Telander
Phone: 919 541-5427
Fax: 919 541-5600
Email: telander.jeff@epa.gov
Jim Crowder
Phone: 919 541-5596
RIN: 2060-AH77
3303. SUPPLEMENTAL RULEMAKING
FOR CERTAIN STATES IN THE
OZONE TRANSPORT ASSESSMENT
GROUP REGION FOR PURPOSES OF
REDUCING REGIONAL TRANSPORT
OF OZONE
Priority: Economically Significant.
Major under 5 USC 801.
Unfunded Mandates: This action may
affect the private sector under
PL 104-4.
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51(G); 40 CFR
51; 40 CFR 52(A); 40 CFR 76; 40 CFR
96
Completed:
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Withdrawn - Merged 02/26/99
Into RIN 2060-
AH10, SAN 3945
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal
Agency Contact: Kimber Scavo
Phone: 919 541-3354
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Fax: 919 541-0824
Email: scavo.kimber@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AH91
3384. REVIEW OF OPERATING
PERMITS ISSUED BY INDIAN TRIBES
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 70.4
Completed:
Completed:
Reason
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Withdrawn
02/10/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
.Small Entities Affected: Governmental
Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: Tribal,
Federal
Agency'Contact: Candace Garraway
Phone: 919 541-3189
Fax: 919 541-5509
RIN: 2060-AH98
3385. CONTROL OF EMISSIONS FROM
NEW NONROAD SPARK-IGNITION
ENGINES AT OR BELOW 19
KILOWATTS, MINOR AMENDMENTS
TO THE PHASE ! EMISSION
STANDARDS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 90
Completed:
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Withdrawn - Merged 02/23/99
With RIN 2060-
AE29, SAN 3361.
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: None
Agency Contact: Paul Macblele
Phone: 734 214-4264
RIN: 2060-AI02
3386. NOTICE OF PROMULGATED
COMPLIANCE EXTENSION:
HALOGENATED SOLVENT
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Date
FR Cite
Final Rule- 12/11/98 63FR68397
Compliance
Extension for
Continuous Web
Cleaners
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State
Agency Contact: Paul Almodovar
Phone: 919 541-0283
Fax: 919 541-5689
Email: almodovar.paul@epa.gov
Trish Koman
Phone: 919 541-4120
Fax: 919 541-5689
Email: koman.trish@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AI04
3387. STANDARDS OF
PERFORMANCE FOR NEW
STATIONARY SOURCES; NEW
RESIDENTIAL WOOD HEATERS
(COMPLETED REGULATORY
FLEXIBILITY ACT REVIEW)
Priority: Info./Admin./Other
,, Legal Authority: 5 USC 610
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60, Subpart AAA
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This announces the results of
a completed Regulatory Flexibility Act
section 610 review. On September 11,
1996, as part of a program to reduce
regulatory burden, EPA issued a
proposal to reduce the reporting and
recordkeeping burden associated with a
number of existing EPA rules. One of
the rules being reviewed as part of this
effort was a 1988 rule entitled
"Standards of Performance for New
Stationary Sources: New Residential
Wood Heaters." Moreover, since this
1988 wood heater rule had been
determined to have a significant impact
on a substantial number of small
entities, it was also given an additional,
parallel review under Section 610 of
the Regulatory Flexibility Act, which
requires such rules to be reviewed
within 10 years after promulgation.
This Agenda entry announces the
results of that section 610 review, and
also summarizes the status of the
parallel review under the .
aforementioned burden-reduction
project.
In the November 9, 1998 issue of the
Regulatory Agenda (63 FR 62374, RIN
2060-AI05), EPA announced the section
610 review of the wood heater rule, and
solicited public comment on whether
additional changes to that rule could
be identified which would further
reduce impacts on small entities while
still accomplishing the objectives of the
authorizing statute. No public
comments were received, and EPA has
not found additional changes that
would benefit small entities beyond
those identified in the burden-
reduction effort cited below. EPA has
also determined that the wood heater
rule continues to be necessary to
reduce emissions of harmful particulate
matter as required by the Clean Air Act.
As outlined in the preamble to the 1988
final rule, the health effects associated
with particulate matter include both
mortality and. morbidity resulting from
respiratory disease, cardiovascular
disease, and carcinogenesis. Concern
about the effects of particulate matter
has only grown since 1988, particularly
in light of EPA's recently-issued revised
air-quality standards for particulate
matter..Therefore, EPA intends to retain.
the wood heater rule, as modified by
the final rulemakings cited below. With
this notice, EPA hereby concludes its
section 610 review of the wood heater
rule.
Regarding the aforementioned 1996
burden-reduction effort, .EPA's final
decisions are being issued in two final
rulemakings cited elsewhere in this
Regulatory Agenda. The first of these
is "Standards of Performance for New -
Stationary Sources: Residential Wood
Heaters, Final Rule, Amendments,"
published on 11/24/98 at 63 FR 64963,
and listed elsewhere in this Agenda as
SAN 3750, RIN 2060-AG30. The second
rulemaking, "Final Revisions to
Existing Standards for Recordkeeping &
Reporting Burden Reduction," was
published on 2/12/99, 64 FR 7457
(listed elsewhere in this Agenda as
SAN 4225, RIN 2060-AI33).
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
End Review - Decision 02/17/99
To Leave Rule
Unchanged.
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional information: SAN No. 4136
Agency Contact: Tom Eagles,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
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and Radiation, 6103, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 260-5585
Fax: 202 260-9766
Email: eagles.tom@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AI05
3388. TRANSPORTATION
CONFORMITY RULE AMENDMENTS:
FLEXIBILITY AND STREAMLINING
Priority: Economically Significant.
Major under 5 USC 801.
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce hurden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 51; 40 CFR 93
Completed:
3390. NESHAP: RADON EMISSIONS
FROM PHOSPHOGYPSUM STACKS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 61
Completed:
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Final Action • 02/03/99 64 FR 5573
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Agency Contact: Martin Offutt
Phone: 202 564-9766
RIN: 2060-AF04
3391. NESHAP: AEROSPACE
TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Completed:
Final Action 08/15/97 62 FR 43780
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Reason
Final Action -
Technical
Correction
Date FR Cite
09/01/98 63 FR 46526
Small Entitles Affected: Governmental
Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Agency Contact: Kathryn Sargeant
Phone: 734 214-4441
RIN: 2060-AI16
3389. NESHAP: FLEXIBLE
POLYURETHANE FOAM "RODUCTION
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Completed:
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Agency Contact: Barbara Driscoll
Phone: 919 541-0164
Fax: 919 541-0942
RIN: 2060-AG65
3392. INDUSTRIAL COMBUSTION
COORDINATED RULEMAKING—ICCR
PROJECT
Priority: Economically Significant.
Major under 5 USC 801.
CFR Citation: Not yet determined
Completed:
Final Action
10/07/98 63 FR 53979
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Agency Contact: David Svendsgaard
Phone: 919 541-2380
Fax: 919 541-3470
Email: svendsgaard.david@epa.gov
Penny Lassiter
Phone: 919 541-5396
RIN: 2060-AE86
Withdrawn - See RINs 02/18/99
2060-AG31.AG63,
AG67, AG69, and
SAN 4218
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State
Agency Contact: Fred Porter
Phone: 919 541-5251
Fax: 919 541-5450
Email: porter.fred@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AG84
3393. STANDARDS FOR
REFORMULATED AND
CONVENTIONAL GASOLINE,
INDIVIDUAL BASELINE FUEL
ADJUSTMENTS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 80
Completed:
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Final Action 03/04/97 62 FR 9872
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: None
Agency Contact: Christine Brunner
Phone: 734 214-4287
RIN: 2060-AG80
3394. NATIONAL VOC EMISSION
STANDARDS FOR AUTOMOBILE
REFINISH COATINGS
Priority: Other Significant
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 59
Completed:
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Final Action 09/11/98 63 FR 48806
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Federal
Agency Contact: Mark Morris
• Phone: 919 541-5416
Fax: 919 541-3470
Email: morris.mark@epa.gov
Penny Lassiter
Phone: 919 541-5396
RIN: 2060-AE35
3395. VOC REGULATION FOR
ARCHITECTURAL COATINGS
Priority: Other Significant
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 59
Completed:
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Final Action 09/11/98 63 FR 48848
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Yes
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local
Agency Contact: Linda Herring
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Phone: 919 541-5358
Fax: 919 541-5689
Email: herring.linda@epa.gov
Trish Koman
Phone: 919 541-4120
Fax: 919 541-5689
Email: koman.trish@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AE55
3396. NATIONAL VOC EMISSION
STANDARDS FOR CONSUMER
PRODUCTS
Priority: Other Significant
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 59
Completed:
Reason
Date
FR Cite
FinalAction 09/11/98 63FR48819
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal
Agency Contact: Bruce Moore
Phone: 919 541-5460
Fax: 919 54175689
Email: moore.bruce@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AF62
3397. CONTROL OF EMISSIONS OF
AIR POLLUTION FROM HIGHWAY
HEAVY-DUTY ENGINES AND DIESEL
ENGINES
Priority: Economically Significant.
Major under 5 USC 801.
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 9; 40 CFR 86;
40 CFR 89
Completed:
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Final Action - Nonroad 10/23/98 63 FR 56967
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Yes
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: None
Agency Contact: Tad Wysor
Phone: 734 214-4332
RIN: 2060-AF76
3398. SPECIFICATION OF
SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR
DEFINITION FOR DIESEL FUELS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 80
Completed:
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Withdrawn - The 02/22/99
Agency Plans No
Further Work on
This Rule.
Regulator)' Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: None
Agency Contact: David Korotney
Phone: 734 214-4507
RIN: 2060-AD77
3399. REVISION TO THE COVERED
AREAS PROVISION FOR
REFORMULATED GASOLINE
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 80
Completed:
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Final Action 09/29/98 63 FR 52093
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State
Agency Contact: Karen Smith
Phone: 202 564-9674
RIN: 2060-AG77
3400. APPLICABILITY OF ON-
HIGHWAY HEAVY-DUTY CERTIFIED
ENGINES FOR USE IN NONROAD
HEAVY-DUTY VEHICLES AND
EQUIPMENT; AMENDMENT
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort; It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 9; 40 CFR 89
Completed:
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Direct Final Rule 11/12/96 61 FR 58102
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Agency Contact: John Guy
Phone: 202 564-9276
RIN: 2060-AG78
3401. NSPS: NITROGEN OXIDE
EMISSIONS FROM FOSSIL-FUEL
FIRED STEAM GENERATING UNITS-
REVISION
Priority: Economically Significant.
Major under 5 USC 801.
Unfunded Mandates: This action may
affect the private sector under
PL 104-4.
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60.40
Completed:
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Final Action
09/16/98 63 FR 49442
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Agency Contact: James Eddinger
Phone: 919 541-5426
Fax: 919 541-5450.
Email: eddinger.jim@epa.gov
Doug Bell
Phone: 919 541-5568
Fax: 919 541-5450
Email: bell.doug@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AE56
3402. TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS TO
HAZARDOUS WASTE TSDF &
HAZARDOUS WASTE GENERATORS:
ORGANIC AIR EMISSION STANDARDS
FOR TANKS, SURFACE
IMPOUNDMENTS & CONTAINERS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 264;. 40 CFR 265;
40 CFR 262
Completed:
Reason
Date
FR Cite
FinalAction- 01/21/99 64FR3382
Technical
Amendment
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Agency Contact: Michele Aston
Phone: 919 541-2363
Fax: 919 541-0942
Email: aston.michele@epa.gov
Susan Wyatt
Phone: 919 541-5674
Fax: 919 541-0942 '
Email: wyatt.susan@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AG44
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Atomic Energy Act (AEA)
3403. RADIATION WASTE
MANAGEMENT REGULATION
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: Atomic Energy Act of
1954; Reorganization Plan No. 3 of
1970; Waste Policy Act of 1982
CFR Citation: 40 CFR193
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action is directed to the
disposal of low-activity radioactive
wastes in disposal facilities that meet
the design requirements for RCRA-C
disposal cells. The wastes to be
disposed of in these cells are intended
to be mixed wastes, consisting of a
chemically hazardous component and
low levels of radioactivity. These
wastes are anticipated to arise in the
commercial sector from various
sources. The rule is intended to
increase disposal options for these
wastes and offer a streamlined
regulatory process which melds
hazardous chemical protection and
radioactivity protection requirements
while protecting public health and
safety. The rule is permissive in the
sense that the disposal method
proposed is not a mandated disposal
method, but rather an alternative to
existing disposal methods. The U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission is
anticipated to be the implementing
Agency for the application of this rule.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM . 05/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4054
Agency Contact: Mary Kruger,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, 6602J, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-9310
Fax: 202 565-2062
Email: kruger.mary@epa.gov
RIN: 2060-AH63
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Atomic Energy Act (AEA) '
Long-Term Actions
3404. PROTECTIVE ACTION
GUIDANCE FOR DRINKING WATER
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 2021(h) AEA
of 1954 sec 274(h); Reorganization Plan
No. 3 of 1970; PL 96-295 sec 304; EO
12241
CFR Citation: 41 CFR 351
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action will result in
Federal protective action guidance
(PAG) for State and local officials to
use in the event of a nuclear accident
to protect the general public from the
adverse health effects associated with
the ingostion of drinking water that is
contaminated with radioactive- material.
As soon as the draft guidance is
developed it will be submitted to the
PAG Subcommittee of the Federal
Radiological Preparedness Coordinating
Committee (FRPCC) for review and
comment. Members of the PAG
subcommittee include representatives
from DOE, DOD, FEMA, NRG, HHS,
USDA, DOT, and the Conference of
Radiation Control Program Directors
(CRCPD). When a consensus among the
representatives is reached, the guidance
is recommended to the full FRPCC for
endorsement. After that endorsement is
obtained a notice of the availability of
a revised EPA 400-R-92-001, Manual of
Protective Action Guides and Protective
Actions for Nuclear Incidents will be
published in the Federal Register. This
action is temporarily delayed until the
FDA's revised PAGs for Food can be
evaluated.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
Notice of Availability 04/00/00
Notice of Submission 04/00/00
to FRPCC for
Endorsement
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3602
Agency Contact: Charles Blue,
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
and Radiation, 6602J, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-9488
RUN: 2060-AF39
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
Prerule Stage
3405. PESTICIDES; PROCEDURES
FOR REGISTRATION REVIEW
PROGRAM
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 7 USC 136a(g), I36w
CFR Citation: Not yet determined
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The Agency is establishing
procedures to implement section 3(g) of
the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and
Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) which
provides for periodic review of
pesticide registrations. The goal of
these regulations is to review a
pesticide's registration every 15 years.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
ANPRM
05/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: Federal
Sectors Affected: 32532 Pesticide and
Other Agricultural Chemical
Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 4170
Agency Contact: Vivian Prunier,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7506C, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-9341
Fax: 703 308-5884
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Email: prunier.vivian@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AD29
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
Proposed Rule Stage
3406. REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS FOR
ANTIMICROBIAL PESTICIDE
PRODUCTS; AND OTHER PESTICIDE
REGULATORY CHANGES
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 7 USC 136a(h); 7 USC
136w
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 152; 40 CFR 156
Legal Deadline:
NPRM, Statutory, May 1, 1997, Final
rule due 240 days after close of
comment period.
Abstract: This regulation will specify
antimicrobial registration reforms that
will reduce to the extent possible the
review time for antimicrobial
pesticides. The regulation will clarify
criteria for completeness of
applications, and will specify or refer
to a definition of the various classes
of antimicrobial pesticide use patterns
and the associated data and labeling
requirements that would be consistent
with the degree and type of risk
presented by each class. EPA will
evaluate the feasibility and cost-
effectiveness of various registration
process reforms, including registrant
certification, and expansion of the
current notification procedures. This
regulation will also implement some
general provisions of FIFRA pertaining
to all pesticides, including labeling
requirements and notification
procedures.
Timetable:
Agency Contact: Jean Frane,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and-
Toxic Substances, 7506C, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 703 305-5944
Email: frane.jean@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AD14
3407. PESTICIDES; TOLERANCE
PROCESSING FEES
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 21 USC 346a
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 180.33
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: In 1996, the Food Quality
Protection Act amended the Federal
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to
require EPA to charge tolerance fees
that, in the aggregate, will cover all
costs associated with processing
tolerance actions, including filing a
tolerance petition, and establishing,
modifying, leaving in effect, or revoking
a tolerance or tolerance exemption.
Since 1983 (the last time a cost analysis
was conducted), factors such as
expanded data requirements, changes
in risk assessment methods,
improvements in data base management
and tracking systems, and the
increasing complexity' of scientific
review of petitions have resulted in
costs substantially exceeding the fees
currently charged. This proposed rule
will adjust the fee structure and fee
amounts for tolerance actions.
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7506C, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 703 305-6598
.Fax: 703 305-5884
Email: peterson.carol@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AD23
3408. PESTICIDE TOLERANCE
REASSESSMENT PROGRAM
Priority: Other Significant. Major status
under 5 USC 801 is undetermined.
Legal Authority: 21 USC 346a(q)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 180; 40 CFR 185;
40 CFR 186
Legal Deadline:
Other, Statutory, August 3, 1999, See
. Additional Information.
Abstract: EPA will reassess pesticide
tolerances and exemptions for raw and
processed foods established prior to
August 3, 1996, to determine whether
they meet the reasonable certainty of
no harm standard of the Federal Food,
Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA).
FFDCA sec. 408(q),'as amended by the
Food Quality Protection Act, requires
that EPA conduct this reassessment on
a phased 10-year schedule. Based on
its reassessment, EPA will take a series
of regulatory actions to modify or
revoke tolerances.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite Timetable;
NPRM
Final Action
04/00/99
12/00/99
Action
Date
FR Cite
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: Federal
Sectors Affected: 32532 Pesticide and
Other Agricultural Chemical
Manufacturing; 32551 Paint and
Coating Manufacturing; 32561 Soap and
Cleaning Compound Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 3892
NPRM ' 04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entiities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: Federal
Sectors Affected: 32532 Pesticide and
Other Agricultural Chemical
Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 4027
Agency Contact: Carol Peterson,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM Modification or 04/00/99
revocation of
tolerances for 16
pesticides
Final Action 04/00/99
Modification or
revocation of
tolerances for 30
pesticides •
NPRM Modification or 07/00/99
revocation of
tolerances for 10
pesticides
Final Action 07/00/99
Modification or
revocation of
tolerances for 10
pesticides
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Action
Date FR Cite
Final Action 1 WOO/99
Modification or
revocation of
tolerances for 10
pesticides
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Sectors Affected: 32532 Pesticide and
Other Agricultural Chemical
Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 4175
LEGAL DEADLINE CONT: EPA, is
required to complete reassessments on
a phased schedule of: 33% by August
3, 1999, 66% by August 3, 2002, and
100% by August 3, 2006.
Agency Contact: Robert McNally,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7508C, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-8085
Fax: 703 308-8041
Email: mcnally.robert@epa.gov
Joseph Nevola, Environmental
Protection Agency, Office of
Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic
Substances, 7508C, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 703 308-8037
Email: nevola.joseph@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AD24
3409. ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR
SCREENING PROGRAM
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 21 USC 346A FFDCA;
7 USC 136 FIFRA; 15 USC 2603 TSCA;
42 USC 300J-17 SDWA
CFR Citation: Not yet determined
Legal Deadline:
NPRM, Statutory, August 3,1998, EDSP
must be developed.
Final, Statutory, August 3,1999,
Agency must implement EDSP.
Other, Statutory, August 3, 2000,
Agency must report to Congress on
EDSP.
Abstract: This final policy statement
will set forth EPA's Endocrine
Disrupter Screening Program. EPA
published a proposed policy statement
setting forth the Screening Program on
December 28., 1998. In the final policy
statement, EPA will describe the
screens and tests that it will require
as part of the Program. It also will
describe the universe of chemicals that
will be included in the program, the
priority setting mechanism .that it will
use to determine the order in which
those chemicals will be tested, and
certain issues related to implementing
the Program.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
Notice Outline of 08/11/98 63 FR 42852
Screening Program
Notice Proposed 12/28/98 63 FR 71542
Screening Program
& Request for
Comment
Notice Final Screening 08/00/99
Program
NPRM Proposed 12/00/99
Procedural Rule
Regulatory Flexibility-Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4143
Agency.Contact: Gary Timm,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-1859
Fax: 202 260-8850
Email: tiTm-n.gary@Rpa.gnv
Anthony Maciorowski, Environmental
Protection Agency, Office of
Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic
Substances, 7405, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 260-3048
Fax: 202 260-8850
Email: maciorowski.anthony@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AD26
3410. • REGULATORY REVIEW OF
PESTICIDE EMERGENCY EXEMPTION
REGULATIONS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 7 USC 136p
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 166
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA will propose revisions
to its regulations on emergency
exemptions under section 18 of the
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and
Rodenticide Act. Emergency
exemptions allow temporary use of a
pesticide not in accordance with
registration requirements when
emergency conditions exist. In the 1995
Presidential Reinvention Initiative, EPA
identified a number of issues and
options for change, which have been
refined through informal discussions
with States, user groups, and other
stakeholders. EPA is considering
revisions in four areas: 1} Options for
increased authority for States to
administer certain aspects of the
exemption-process, or increased use by
EPA of multi-year exemptions, or some
combination of these; 2) the use of
emergency exemptions to address
pesticide resistance; 3) the possibility
of granting of exemptions based upon
reduced risk considerations; and 4)
definitions of emergency situation and
significant economic loss, which affect
whether an exemption may be granted.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
03/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Flequired: No
Small Entities Affected: Governmental
Jurisdictions
Ciovernment Levels Affected: State,
Tribal, Federal
Sectors Affected: 9241 Administration
of Environmental Quality Programs ,
Additional Information: SAN No. 4216
Agency Contact: Robert A. Forrest, •
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7505C, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-9376
RIN: 2070-AD36
3411. • STATUS OF PESTICIDE-
TREATED SEEDS UNDER FIFRA
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: FIFRA sec. 25(a) and
25(b)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 152.25
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA will propose a revision
to its regulation on treated articles to
specifically address seeds treated with
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pesticides. Currently, pesticide-treated
seeds are considered treated articles
that are exempt from FIFRA only if the
treating pesticide is registered in the
United States for use on the specific
crop, and if the purpose of the
treatment is to protect the seed itself.
EPA and the Canadian Pest
Management Regulatory Agency will
work together under the auspices of the
North American Free Trade Agreement
to harmonize policies and practices
pertaining to pesticide-treated seed.
EPA expects to implement an agreed-
•upon policy by revising its current
regulations to define the status of
pesticide-treated seeds. Harmonization
will facilitate the import and export of
treated seeds.
Timetable:
Action .
Date FR Cite
NPRM 07/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: None
Sectors Affected: 111 Crop Production;
11511 Support Activities for Crop
Production
Additional Information: SAN No. 4260
Agency Contact: Jean M. Frane,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7506C, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 703 305-5944
Email: frane.jean@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AD37
3412. TOLERANCES FOR PESTICIDE
EMERGENCY EXEMPTIONS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 21 USC 346a
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 176
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, August 3, 1997.
Abstract: This regulation will set out
policies and procedures under which
EPA will establish foo~d tolerances
, associated with the use of pesticides
under' emergency exemptions.
Emergency exemptions are issued for
temporary use of pesticides where
emergency conditions exist. Under the
Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act,
as amended by the Food Quality
Protection Act, EPA must establish
time-limited tolerances for such
pesticides if the use is likely to result
in residues in food. EPA expects to
describe the procedures to be used, and
the criteria for establishing tolerances.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
04/00/99
Regulatory' Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Federal
Sectors Affected: 92614 Regulation of
Agricultural Marketing and
Commodities; 9241 Administration of
, Environmental Quality Programs
Additional Information: SAN No. 3890 -
Agency Contact: Ellen Kramer*
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7506C, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 703 305-6475
Fax: 703 305-5884
Email: kramer.ellen@epa.gov
• RIN: 2070-AD15
3413. DATA REQUIREMENTS FOR
.PESTICIDE REGISTRATION
(REVISION)
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 7 USC I36a to'l36y
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 158
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA will update the data
requirements specifically necessary for
the Agency to evaluate the registrability
of pesticide products. The revisions
will clarify all data requirements to
reflect current practice. Procedural and
explanatory sections of the current
regulations will be amended to make
them consistent with the revised data
requirements and new use indexing.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 40 CFR 158 11/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: None
Sectors Affected: 32532 Pesticide and
Other Agricultural Chemical
Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 2687
Agency Contact: Paul Parsons,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office, of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7506C, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-9073
Fax: 703 305-5884
Email: .parsons.paul@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AC12
3414, DATA REQUIREMENTS FOR
ANTIMICROBIAL REGISTRATIONS
. Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant •
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 7 USC 136a, 136c,
136w
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 158
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA will update and revise
its pesticide data requirements for
antimicrobial products. The data
requirements specify the data that are
required for EPA to evaluate the
registrability of a pesticide product.
The revisions will clarify all data
requirements to reflect current practice.
Procedural and explanatory sections of
the current regulations will be amended
to make them consistent with the
revised data requirements and new use
indexing.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM 08/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
.Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: Federal
Sectors Affected: 32532 Pesticide and
Other Agricultural Chemical
Manufacturing; 32551 Paint and
Coating Manufacturing; 32561 Soap and
Cleaning Compound Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 4173
Agency Contact: Paul Parsons,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7506C, Washington,
DC 20460
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Phone: 703 308-9073
Fax: 703 305-5884
Email: parsons.paul@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AD30
3415. PESTICIDE MANAGEMENT AND
DISPOSAL: STANDARDS FOR
PESTICIDE CONTAINERS AND
CONTAINMENT
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 7 USC 136q FIFRA sec
19; 7 USC 136a FIFRA sec 3; 7 USC
136w FIFRA sec 25
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 165; 40 CFR 156
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, December 24,1991.
Abstract: FIFRA sec. 19 gives EPA"
authority to regulate the management
of pesticides and their containers,
including storage, transportation and
disposal. As proposed, this rule would
establish standards for removal of
pesticides from containers and for
rinsing containers; facilitate the safe
use, refill, reuse, and disposal of
pesticide containers by establishing
standards for container design, labeling
and refilling; and establish
requirements for containment of
stationary bulk containers and for
containment of pesticide dispensing
areas.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM (Container 02/11/94 59 FR 6712
Design & Residue
Removal & Bulk
Containment)
Supplemental IOPRM 04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions •
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Sectors Affected: 32532 Pesticide and
Other Agricultural Chemical
Manufacturing; 44422 Nursery and
Garden Centers; 115112 Soil
Preparation, Planting, and Cultivating
Additional Information: SAN No. 2659
Agency Contact: Nancy Fitz,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7506C, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 703 305-7385
Fax: 703 308-3259
Email: fitz.nancy@epa.gov
Ju.de Andreasen, Environmental
Protection Agency, Office of
Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic
Substances, 7506C, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 703 308-9342
Fax: 703 308-3259
Email: .andreasen.jude@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AB95
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
Final Rule Stage
3416. WPS; PESTICIDE WORKER
PROTECTION STANDARD; GLOVE
AMENDMENT
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing .
Government effort. It will revise text in
the GFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements,
Legal Authority: 7 USC I36w
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 170
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: Since the issuance of the
1992 WPS and the January 1,1995
implementation, farmworker groups
have expressed an interest in enhancing
specific protection measures, while
grower groups, the National Association
of State Departments of Agriculture and
others have expressed an interest in
addressing practical, operational
concerns. The Agency received various
requests and comments in the form of
letters, petitions, and individual and
public meetings to address the concerns
with the WPS. As a result, there may
be a need to make further changes of
a minor nature to the WPS rule. EPA
will take such actions as rules, policy
statements or other documents as
appropriate, and provide Regulatory
Agenda entries when actions are
planned.
Timetable:
Action
Date- FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
09/09/97 62 FR 47544
•05/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Sectors Affected: nil Oilseed and
Grain Farming; 1112 Vegetable and
Melon Farming; 1113 Fruit and Tree
Nut Farming; 1114 Greenhouse,
Nursery and Floriculture Production
Additional Information: SAN No. 3731
Agency Contact: John R. MacDonald,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7506C, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 703 305-/370
Fax: 703 308-2962
Email: macdonald.john@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AC93
3417. PLANT PESTICIDE
REGULATIONS UNDER FIFRA AND
FFDCA
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will-revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 7 USC 136 et seq; 21
USC.346aet seq
.CFR Citation: 40 CFR 152.20; 40 CFR
174
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: Substances that plants
produce to protect themselves against
pests are pesticides under FIFRA if
humans intend to use them to destroy,
prevent, repel or mitigate any pest. The
Agency designates these substances,
ailong with the genetic material
necessary to produce them, plant-
pesticides. This rulemaking will
exempt several categories of plant-
pesticides from FIFRA and FFDCA
regulations; confirms that plants used
as biological control agents are exempt
from regulation under FIFRA; and
ei5tablish.es a new part' in title 40 of the
CFR, part 174, which consolidates
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regulations specific for plant-pesticides
in one part of the CFR. The proposed
consolidation is expected to benefit the
public by providing greater focus,
enhanced clarity and ease of use. These
actions will reduce burden on both the
regulated community and EPA.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM 11/23/94 59 FR 60496
Supplemental NPRM 07/22/96 61 FR 37891
Supplemental NPRM 05/16/97 62 FR 27132
Final Action 09/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: Federal -
Additional Information: SAN No. 2684
Agency Contact: Janet Andersen,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances^ 7501-W, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-8712
Email: andersen.janet@epa;gov
RIN:.2070-AC02
3418. GROUND WATER AND
PESTICIDE MANAGEMENT PLAN
Priority: Economically Significant.
Major under 5 USC 801.
Unfunded Mandates: This action may
affect State, local or tribal governments.
Legal Authority: 7 USC 136a FIFRA sec
3
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 152S170
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This regulation would
establish Pesticide Management Plans
(PMPs) as a new regulatory requirement
for certain pesticides. Unless a State or
tribal authority has an EPA-approved
Plan specifying risk-reduction
measures, use of the chemical would
be prohibited. The rule would also
specify procedures and deadlines for
development, approval and
modification, of plans by States and
tribal authorities.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR .Cite
NPRM
Final Action
06/26/96 61 FR 33259
08/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility'Analysis
Required:- Yes
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Sectors Affected: 9241 Administration
of Environmental Quality Programs
Additional Information: SAN No. 3222
Agency Contact:. Arthur-Jean B.
Williams, Environmental Protection
Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides
and'Toxic Substances, 7506C,
Washington, DC 2.0460
Phone: 703 305-5239
Fax: 703 308-3259
Email: williams.arty@epa.gov
Marcia Collins, Environmental
Protection Agency, Office of
Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic
Substances, 7506C, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 703 305-5239
Fax:703308-3259
Email: collins.marcia@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AC46
3419. PESTICIDE MANAGEMENT AND
DISPOSAL
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 7 USC 136 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 165
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action develops
procedures for mandatory and
voluntary recall actions under section
19(b) of FIFRA and would establish
criteria for acceptable storage and
disposal plans which registrants may
submit to this Agency to become
eligible for reimbursement 'of storage
costs. This action establishes .
procedures for indemnification of
owners of suspended and..canceled
pesticides for disposal.
Timetable: _^___
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
05/05/93 58 FR 26856
08/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required; No
Small Entities-Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected:. State,
Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3432
Agency Contact: David Stangel,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Enforcement and Compliance
Assurance, 2225A, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 564-4162
RIN: 2020-AA33
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
Long-Term Actions
3420. EXEMPTION OF CERTAIN
PESTICIDE SUBSTANCES FROM
FIFRA REQUIREMENTS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: FIFRA 25(b)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR I52.25(g)(i)
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA is considering
exempting from regulation under
section 25(b)(2) of the Federal
Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide
Act (FIFRA) certain substances when
used, sold or distributed as pesticide
active ingredients. EPA believes
regulation of these substances is not
necessary to prevent unreasonable
adverse effects on the environment or
human health, and these substances are
not of a character necessary to be
subject to FIFRA in order to carry out
its purposes. Substances exempted are
pesticides and would continue to be
distributed and sold as pesticides after
promulgation of a final rule. If
exemptions are established, false claims
and advertising would still be subject
to jurisdiction of the Federal Trade
Commission or could result in civil
liabilities for the manufacturer and
distributor. This proposal; and any
subsequent final rule, would not
establish or alter exemptions or
tolerances for the listed substance
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Long-Term Actions
under provisions of the Federal Food,
Drug and Cosmetic Act.
Timetable:
Action Date PR Cite
NPRM To Be Determined
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: Federal
Sectors Affected: 32532 Pesticide and
Other Agricultural Chemical
Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 4026
Agency Contact: Sheryl Reilly,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7503.C, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-8265
Fax: 703 308-7028
Email: reilly.sheryl@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AD21
3421. POLICY OR PROCEDURES FOR
NOTIFICATION TO THE AGENCY OF
STORED PESTICIDES WITH
CANCELLED OR SUSPENDED
REGISTRATION
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 7 USC 136 FIFRA sec
6
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 168
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This policy will clarify the
requirements of section 6(g) of the
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and
Rodenticide Act (FIFRA]. The policy
will provide procedures for certain
persons who possess canceled or
suspended pesticides td notify the EPA
and State and local officials of (1) such
possessions; (2) the quantity possessed;
and (3) the place the pesticide is stored.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final
03/28/91 56 FR 13042
To Be Determined
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Ftequired: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 2720
Agency Contact: David Stangel,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Enforcement and Compliance
Assurance, 2225A, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 2.02 569-4162
RIN: 2020-AA29
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
Completed Actions
3422. THE 10-ACRE LIMITATION FOR
PESTICIDE SMALL-SCALE FIELD
TESTING
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 172
Completed:
Reason
Data
FR Cite
Withdrawn - The 02/03/98
Agency Plans No
Further Action.
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Tribal
Agency Contact: Jim Tompkins
Phone: 703 305-5697
Fax: 703 308-1825
Email: tompkins.james@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AC99
3423. WPS; PESTICIDE WORKER
PROTECTION STANDARDS;
PESTICIDE HAZARD
COMMUNICATION
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant.
Major status under 5 USC 801 is
undetermined.
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 170
Completed:
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Withdrawn - Agency
Activities Not
Currently Planned.
02/03/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Ftequired: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
tribal, Federal
Agency Contact: Jeanne Keying
Phone: 703 308-3240
.Fax: 703 308-2962
Email: heying.jeanne@epa.gdv
RIN: 2070-AC34
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
Proposed Rule Stage
3424. CHEMICAL RIGHT-TO-KNOW
INITIATIVE
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 15 USC 4 TSCA; 15
USC 8 TSCA; 7 USC 136 FIFRA; 42
USC 313 EPCRA
CFR Citation: Not yet determined
Legal Deadline:
Other, Judicial, December 31, 1999,
Final Actions must be completed by
12/31/99.
Abstract: The Chemical RTK Initiative
was announced by Vice President Gore
on EPA's Earth Day 1998 in response
to the finding that most commercial
chemicals have very little, if any,
toxicity information on which to make
sound judgments about potential risks.
There are three key components to this
initiative, each of which is being
rapidly implemented, by EPA. These
are: baseline toxicity testing for 2,800
widely used commercial chemicals;
additional health effects testing for
chemicals to which children are
substantially exposed; and the listing
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and lowering thresholds for persistent,
bioaccumulative, toxic chemicals
reported to TRI. This Initiative will
involve several separate activities, with
any regulatory related actions included
as separate entries in the Regulatory
Agenda.
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
Initiative Completion 12/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected:
Undetermined
Additional Information: SAN No. 4176
This Initiative includes the following
Regulatory Agenda activities: TRI's
Reporting Threshold Rule [SAN 3830;
REST 2070-AD09); Test Rule; Multi-
Chemicals Test Rule for High
Production Volume Chemicals (SAN
3990; RIN 2070-AD16); Children's
Health Test Rule (SAN 2865; RIN 2070-
AC27).
Agency Contact: Dave Sarokin,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7408, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-6907
Fax: 202 401-8142
Email: sarokin.david@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AD25
3425. TSCA SECTION 4
ENFORCEABLE CONSENT
AGREEMENT FOR CERTAIN
OXYGENATED FUEL ADDITIVES
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 15 USC 2603; 15 USC
2611; 15 USC 2625
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 790 to 799
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: Methyl tertiary butyl ether
(MTBE) alcohol is commonly found at
concentrations above the current EPA
draft lifetime health advisory for
drinking water at many point source-
gasoline release sites. MTBE is
significantly more persistent than
benzene, toluene, ethyl-benzene and
xylenes (BTEX) in the subsurface.
Releases of fuel oxygenates occur
during manufacture, distribution,
storage, and use, particularly from
point sources such as underground
storage tanks, pipelines and refueling
facilities. The Toxic Release Inventory
(TRI) estimates that MTBE releases in
the United States exceeded 3.3 million
pounds in 1994. EPA has not
established water quality criteria for
fuel oxygenates for protection of
freshwater or marine aquatic life. The
American Petroleum Institute (API) has
recently completed a search and
evaluation of extant literature on the
acute and chronic toxicity of
oxygenates for aquatic organisms and
has provided the results to EPA. From
the data gaps identified through that
effort, testing to fill critical needs is
expected to be conducted within a year
of the API submission. Current actions
should provide an appropriate basis for
later determining whether additional
effects testing or research is needed.
Most of the testing and research on the
toxicity of oxygenates has been
concerned with the effects of inhaled
MTBE in laboratory and human
volunteers. Virtually no information
exists on the effects of ingested
oxygenates on humans, with the
notable exception of the extensive
database on the health effects of
ingested alcohol. The lack of a more
substantial health effects database has
made it difficult to develop a final
drinking water Health Advisory or
derive an oral Reference Dose (RfD) for
MTBE and other oxygenates. Further
subchronic and chronic data are
necessary to develop a final Health
Advisory. This action, which would
reflect a cooperative effort between EPA
and Industry to develop a testing
program, would serve as a mechanism
to develop the needed data.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
Notice Solicit
Interested Parties
Notice ECA
06/00/99
12/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 4174
Agency Contact: Charles M. Auer,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-3749
Fax: 202 260-8168
Email: auer.charles@epa.gov
J. Michael Davies, Environmental
Protection Agency, Office of
Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic
Substances, MD-52, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 919 541-4162
RIN: 2070-AD28
3426. TRI; REVIEW OF CHEMICALS
ON THE ORIGINAL TRI LIST
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 1101 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 372
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: When TRI was established by
Congress in 1986, the statutory
language placed 309 chemicals and 20
categories of chemicals on the TRI list;
that is referred to as the original TRI,
list. The chemicals on the original list
were taken from two existing lists of
toxic substances: the Maryland
Chemical Inventory Report List of
Toxic or Hazardous Substances, and the
New Jersey Environmental Hazardous
Substances list. This action constitutes
the first systematic review of toxicology
and environmental data for all the
chemicals on the original TRI list to
determine whether data for those
chemicals conform with the statutory
criteria for listing of chemicals on TRI.
Chemicals for which data do not meet
the statutory criteria will be delisted.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Rule
12/00/99
12/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entitles Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4015
AFFECTED SECTORS: Manufacturing
industries in SIC codes 20-39 plus the
following industries and SIC codes:
Metal Mining (SIC code 10 except SIC
codes 1011, 1081, and 1094); Coal
Mining (SIC code 12 except SIC code
1241); Electric Utilities (SIC codes
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4911, 4931, 4939); Commercial
Hazardous Waste Treatment (SIC code
4953); Chemicals and Allied Products-
Wholesale (SIC code 5169); Petroleum
Bulk Terminals and Plants (SIC code
5171); and Solvent Recovery Services
(SIC code 7389).
Agency Contact: Daniel R. Bushman,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7408, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-3882
Fax: 202 401-8142
Email: bushman.daniel@epa.gov
Maria Doa, Environmental Protection
Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides
and Toxic Substances, 7408,
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-9592
Fax: 202 401-8142
Email: doa.maria@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AD18
3427. TSCA INVENTORY UPDATE
RULE AMENDMENTS
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 15 USC 2607(a)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 710
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action would amend the
current Toxic Substances Control Act
(TSCA) Inventory Update Rule (IUR) to
require chemical manufacturers to
report to EPA data on exposure-related
information and the industrial and
consumer end uses of chemicals they
produce or import. Currently, EPA
requires chemical manufacturers to
report the names of the chemicals they
produce, as well as the locations of
manufacturing facilities and the
quantities produced. About 3,000
facilities reported data on about 9,000
unique chemicals during the last
reporting cycle under the IUR. Data
obtained would be used by EPA and
others to: better understand the
potential for chemical exposures;
screen the chemicals now in commerce
and identify those of highest concern;
establish priorities and goals for their
chemical assessment, risk management
and prevention programs, and monitor
the programs' progress; encourage
pollution prevention by identifying
potentially safer substitute chemicals
for uses of potential concern; and
enhance the effectiveness of chemical
risk communication efforts.
Additionally, EPA will consider other
amendments to the IUR. These include
removing the inorganic chemicals
exemption; providing the information
to better assess and manage risks of
inorganic chemicals; improving the
linkages of IUR data to other data
sources to enhance the data's
usefulness; and altering the confidential
business information (CBI) claim
procedures to reduce the frequency of
CBI claims, allowing the public greater
access to relevant information on toxic
chemicals. EPA has held meetings with
representatives of the chemical
industry, environmental groups,
environmental justice leaders, labor
groups, State governments and other
Federal agencies to ensure public
involvement hi the TSCA Inventory
Update Rule Amendments Project.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM 06/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3301
Agency Contact: Susan Krueger,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7406, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-1713
Fax: 202 260-1661 '
Email: krueger.susan@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AC61
3428. LEAD-BASED PAINT ACTIVITIES
RULES; TRAINING, ACCREDITATION,
AND CERTIFICATION RULE AND
MODEL STATE PLAN RULE-
BUILDING AND STRUCTURES
Priority: Other Significant. Major status
under 5 USC 801 is undetermined.
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Legal Authority: PL 102-550 sec 402;
PL 102-550 sec 404; 15 USC 2603;
TSCA Title IV
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 745
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, April 28, 1994.
Abstract: The Residential Lead-based
Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992
mandates EPA promulgate regulations
governing lead-based paint (LBP)
activities to ensure that individuals
engaged in such activities are properly
trained, that LBP training programs are
accredited, and that contractors
engaged in such activities are certified.
In addition, EPA must promulgate a
Model State program which may be
•adopted by any State which seeks to
administer and enforce a State Program.
EPA promulgated regulations for
training and certification of training
programs for LBP activities and child
occupied facilities in 1996. Regulations
for LBP activities in public and
commercial buildings and bridges and
other structures are still under
development.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM 1 (Residential) 09/02/94 59 FR 45872
Final Action 1 08/29/96 61 FR 45778
(Residential)
Interim Final Rule 08/04/98 63 FR 41430
Minor Amendment
to Grant Provisions
NPRM 2 (Buildings & 09/00/99
Structures)
Final Action 2 09/00/01
(Buildings & ,
. Structures)
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entitles Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3244
See discussion of related rules in Reg.
Plan entry (RIN 2070-AD06)
Agency Contact: Ellie Clark,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7404, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-3402
Fax: 202 260-0770
Email: clark.ellie@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AC64
3429. LEAD; OVER OF RULEMAKINGS
UNDER TSCA SECTION 402, LEAD-
BASED PAINT ACTIVITIES FOR THE
REGULATORY PLAN
Priority: Economically Significant.
Major status under 5 USC 801 is
undetermined.
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Legal Authority: 15 USC 2603; TSCA
Title IV
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CFR Citation: 40 CFR 745
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, April 28, 1994,
(Sections 402 (a) - 404).
Other, Statutory, October 28, 1996,
Section 402(c)(3)).
Abstract: The Residential Lead-Based
Hazard Reduction Act of 1992 (Title X)
amended TSCA by adding a new Title
IV. TSCA section 402, Lead-Based Paint
Activities Training and Certification
directs EPA to promulgate a number of
regulations intended to address the
nation's need for a qualified and
properly trained workforce to assist in
the prevention, detection, and
elimination of hazards associated with
lead-based-paint. EPA is required to'
promulgate (a) regulations governing '
lead-based paint activities to ensure
that individuals engaged in such
activities are properly trained, that
training programs are accredited, and
that contractors engaged in such
activities are certified (section 402(a);
•(b) a Model State program which may
be adopted by any State which seeks
to administer and enforce a State
Program for the requirements
established under TSCA section 402
(section 404); (c) a rule addressing lead
risks from renovation and remodeling
activities or state why no regulation is
necessary (section 402(c)(3)); and (d) a
rule establishing a fee schedule for the
lead-based paint training, certification,
and accreditation activities addressed
in the rules developed under TSCA
section 402 (section 402(a)(3)).
Additionally, in response to other
Federal agencies and several States and
advocacy groups who were concerned
that the high costs of disposing of lead-
based paint debris as a RCRA
hazardous waste were discouraging
residential lead abatements, EPA is
using its authority under TSCA section
402(a) to address the disposal of lead-
based paint debris that will result from
the lead-based paint activities regulated
under TSCA section 402. To minimize
duplication of waste management
requirements, EPA is developing a
companion RCRA rule to suspend
temporarily hazardous waste
management regulations (i.e., Toxicity
Characteristic Rule) applicable to lead-
based paint- debris which will be
subject to the new TSCA standards.
These rules are listed separately in the
Regulatory Agenda.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
09/02/94 59 FR 45872
08/29/96 61 FR 45778
08/04/98 63 FR 41430
09/02/98 63 FR 46734
09/02/98 63 FR 46668
10/16/98 63 FR 55547
12/18/98 63 FR 70190
09/00/99
09/00/99
09/00/99
11/00/00
09/00/01
09/00/01
NPRM Sections
402(a)and404
(Residential)
Final Rule Sections
402(a) and 404
(Residential).
Interim Final Rule
Section 404(g)
NPRM Sections
402(a)(3)/404(h)
Direct Final Rule
Sections
402(a)(3)/404(h)
Withdraw Direct Final
Rule Sections
402(a)(3)/404(h)
NPRM Section 402(a)
(Debris)
NPRM Section 402(a)
(Buildings &
Structures)
NPRM Section 402(c)
(Remodeling &
Renovation)
Final Rule Sections
402(a)(3)/404(h)
Final Rule Section
402(a) (Debris)
Final Rule Section
402(a) (Buildings &
Structures)
Final Rule Section
402(c) (Remodeling
& Renovation)
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3243
Also covers SANs 3244, 3557, 3881,
4172, 3506.
Lead-Based Paint Activities Rules:
Training, Accreditation and
Certification Rule and Model State Plan
Rule (sections 402 and 404)(SAN 3244;
RIN 2070-AC64); Lead-Based Paint
Activities, Training, and Certification:
Renovation arid Remodeling (section
402(c)(3))(SAN 3557; RIN 2070-AC83);
Lead Fee Rule for Lead-Based Paint
Activities Training and Certification
(section 402(a)(3)) (SAN 3881; REST
2070-AD11); Lead-Based Paint:
Notification of Commencement of
Abatement Activities (section 404(h))
(SAN 4172; RIN 2070-AD31); Lead:
TSCA Requirements for the Disposal of
Lead-Based Paint Debris (section
402(a)) and Temporary Suspension of
Toxicity Characteristic Rule for
Specified Lead-Based Paint Debris
(RCRA sections 1006(b)(l) and
2002)(SAN 3508; RIN 2070-AC72).
Agency Contact: Ellie Clark,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7404, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-3402
Fax: 202 260-0770
Email: clark.ellie@epa.gov
Mike Wilson, Environmental Protection
Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides
and Toxic Substances, 7404,
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-4664
Fax: 202 260-0770
Email: wilson.mike@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AD06
3430, MULTI-CHEMICAL TEST RULE;
HIGH PRODUCTION VOLUME
CHEMICALS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 15 USC 2603
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 790 to 799
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action is related to Vice
President Gore's challenge to industry...
on the eve of Earth Day, April 21, 1998,
to come forward quickly with needed
test data on high production volume
(HPV) chemicals. This challenge
encompasses approximately 2,800
chemicals which are manufactured
(including imported) in the aggregate at
more than 1 million pounds on an
annual basis. The data needed on these
chemicals are: acute toxicity, repeat
dose toxicity, developmental and
reproductive toxicity; mutagenicity;
ecotoxicity and environmental fate.
This rule will require testing and
recordkeeping requirements for those
chemicals for which industry does not
voluntarily agree to provide testing in
a timely manner. The action is part of
the Chemical Right-to-Know Initiative,
which is described in the Regulatory
Plan. The first rule will propose testing
for 803 of these chemicals, Future rules
will encompass the remaining 2,000
chemicals.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
06/00/99
12/00/99
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Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Sectors Affected: 32411 Petroleum
Refineries
Additional Information: SAN No. 3990
See also the Regulatory Plan entry
entitled "Chemical Right-to-Know
Initiative" (R1N 2070-AD25; SAN 4176).
Agency Contact: Frank Kover,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-1830
Fax: 202 260-1096
Email: kover.frank@epa.gov
Keith Cronin, Environmental Protection
Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides
and Toxic Substances, 7405,
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-8157
Fax: 202 401-3672
Email: cronin.keith@epa.gov
R1N: 2070-AD16
Action
Date FR Cite
Timetable:
3431. TEST RULES; GENERIC ENTRY
FOR.PROPOSED DECISIONS
Priority: Substantive,, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 15 USC 2603.TSCA 4;
15 USC 2611, TSCA 12.
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 700 to 799
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA is proposing to require
testing via rule, or will obtain testing
through negotiated enforceable consent
agreements (EGAs) or publish a notice
which provides the reasons for not
doing so. These chemicals have been
designated for priority testing
consideration by the ITC, recommended
for testing consideration (for which the
12-month statutory requirement does
not apply), or they have been identified
for testing consideration by other EPA
program offices and through EPA
review processes.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM ITC It 04/00/99
Chemicals (ITC List
28)
NPRM OSHA 04/00/99
Chemicals with
Insuf. Skin
Absorption Data
(ITC List 32)
NPRM OSHA 04/00/99
Chemicals with No
'Skin Absorption
Data (ITC List 31)
NPRM OSHA 04/00/99
Chemicals with No
Skin Absorption
Data (ITC List 35)
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small:Entities Affected: Businesses
•Government Levels Affected: State,
Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3494
NPRM must be published within-one
year of ITC designation.
Agency Contact: Frank Kover,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office'of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington,
DC 20460
, Phone: 202 260-8130
Fax: 202 401-3672
, Email: kover.frank@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AB07
:3432. TEST RULES; NEGOTIATED
CONSENT ORDER AND TEST RULE
PROCEDURES
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Reinventing Government: This
, rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 15 USC 2603, TSCA
sec 4; 15 USC 2611, TSCA sec 12
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 790; 40 CFR 799
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action will amend the
testing consent order and test rule
development process to increase
efficiency. The consent order process
was adopted by the Agency in June
1986. Based on experience to date, the
Agency needs to make changes in the
process to reduce the resources
required for consent order negotiation.
This rule would propose appropriate
procedural changes. Obsolete
provisions will be eliminated for test
rule development activities.
Action
Date FR Cite
Interim Final
Interim Final
Interim Final
(Technical
Modification)
NPRM
05/17/85 50 FR 20652
0(3/30/86 51 FR 23706
09/01/89 54 FR 36311
09/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 2245
Agency Contact: Frank Kover,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-8130
Fax: 202 401-3672
Email: kover.frank@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AB30
3433. TEST RULE; ATSDR
SUBSTANCES
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 15 USC 2603.TSCA 4;
42 USC 9604(i),CERCLA 104(i); 5 USC
2611, TSCA 12.
CFR. Citation: 40 CFR. 795 to 799
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA is proposing a test rule
under section 4(a) of 'the Toxic
Substances Control Act (TSCA)
requiring manufacturers and processors
of eight chemicals (benzene,
chloroethane, methylene chloride,
perchloroethylene, hydrogen cyanide,
sodium cyanide, toluene, and
trichloroethylene) to fulfill data needs
identified by the Agency for Toxic..
Substances and Disease Registry
(ATSDR), the National Toxicology
Program (NTP), and EPA pursuant to
the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability
Act (CERCLA) section 104(i).
Under CERCLA, the Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry
(ATSDR) is to establish a list of priority
hazardous substances found at
superfund sites, develop toxicological
profiles for the hazardous substances,
identify priority data needs, and
establish a research program obtaining
the necessary data. This action is a
component of ATSDR's research
program.
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Data from this action would provide
specific information about the
substances for the public and scientific
community. The information would be
used in conducting comprehensive
public health assessments .of
populations living near hazardous
waste, sites. Scientific data improves the
quality of risk assessments used by
EPA, other Federal agencies, and: State
and local governments. The risk •
assessments affect standards, .
.guidelines, .listing/delisting, and other
decisions affecting public-health and
the environment.
Timetable:
neurotoxicity, iminunotoxicity, 2-
generation reproductive toxicity,
mutagenicity, oncogenicity, and
pharmacokinetics. This Children's
Health test rule will focus on chemicals
with a high potential for exposure;
future test rules, may also consider
. chemicals with suggestive; but not fully
characterized, evidence of toxicity. The
purpose of this and future Children's •
Health test rules is to improve our
understanding- of the risks posed to
children's health by chemicals to which
they may be exposed in the-home,
school, and the environment-
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
Action
NPRM 04/00/99 •
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels- Affected: State,
Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 2563
Agency Contact: Frank Kover,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-8130
Fax: 202 260-1096
Email: kover.frank@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AB79
3434. CHILDREN'S HEALTH TEST
RULE
Priority: Other Significant.
Legal Authority: 15 USG 2603 TSCA
4
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 790 to 799
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The multi-chemical test rule
will propose the testing of chemicals
to which the general population,
including children, have potentially
high exposure. The chemical selection
criteria will include high production
-volume, indoor air pollutant present in
consumer products, presence with high
frequency in consumer products, TRI
chemical with annual release to
environment of more than 1 million
pounds, pesticide inert, unregulated
drinking water contaminant, and
nominations from other government
agencies. The test battery will include
acute and subchronic toxicity,
developmental neurotoxicity,
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 06/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required:: -No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Government Levels Affected: Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 2865
Agency Contact:-Catherine Roman,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-8155
Fax: 202 401-3672
Email: roman.catherine@epa.gov..
Frank Kover, 'Environmental Protection;
Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides
and Toxic Substances, 7405,
Washington, DC 2046.0
Phone: 202 260-8130.
Fax: 202 401-3672
RIN: 2070-AC27
3435. TEST RULE FOR CERTAIN
METALS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 15 USC 2603.TSCA 4;
15 USC 2611, TSCA 12; 15 USC 2625,
TSCA 26; 42 USC 9604(i), CERCLA .
(ATSDR), the National Toxicology
Program (NTP), and EPA pursuant to
the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability
Act (CERCLA) section 104(1).
Under CERCLA, the Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry
(ATSDR) is to establish a list of priority
hazardous substances found at
superfund sites, develop toxicological.
profiles for the hazardous substances,
identify priority data needs, and
establish a research program obtaining
the necessary data. This action is a.
component of ATSDR's research
program.
Data from this action would, provide
specific information about the
substances for the public and scientific'
community; The information would' be
used in conducting comprehensive
public liealth assessments of
populations living near hazardous
waste sites. Scientific data improves-the
quality of risk assessments used by
EPA, other Federal agencies, .and State
and local governments. The risk
assessments affect standards,
guidelines, listing/delisting,. and other
decisions affecting public health and
the environment.
The metals listed here, including
cadmium, are'also. hazardous air
pollutants. (HAPs) under the Clean Air1
Act (CAA) section 112. Data from this:
action would also be used to
implement several provisions of section
112 of the CAA, including determining
risks remaining after the application of
technology based on .standards under
section 112(d) of the CAAv estimating
the risks associated with accidental
releases, and determining whether or
not substances should be removed from
the CAA section (b)(l) list of HAPs
(delisting).
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
09/00/99
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 790 to 799
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA is proposing a test rule
under section 4(a) of the Toxic
Substances Control Act (TSCA)
requiring manufacturers and processors
of certain metals (beryllium, chromium,
manganese, mercury, nickel, and
selenium) to fulfill data needs
identified by the Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities-Affected:~Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local,' Tribal/Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3882
Agency Contact: Frank Kover,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington,
DC 20460
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Federal Register / Vol. 64, No. 79 / Monday, April 26, 1999 / Unified Agenda 21999
Proposed Rule Stage
Phone: 202 260-8130
Fax: 202 401-3672
Email: kovor.frank@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AD10
3436. FOLLOW-UP RULES ON
EXISTING CHEMICALS
Priority: Routine and Frequent
Legal Authority: 15 USC 2604 TSCA
5; 15 USC 2607 TSCA 8
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 704; 40 CFR 721
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA has established a
program to monitor the commercial
development of existing chemicals of
concern and/or to gather information to
support planned or ongoing risk
assessments on such chemicals. As
these chemicals are identified, EPA will
initiate rulemakings under the Toxic
Substances Control Act (TSCA) sections
5 and/or 8 to require reporting of
appropriate needed information by the
manufacturers, importers and/or
processors of these chemicals.
Individual proposed or final rules will
be published on at least the chemicals
listed below.
Timetable:
Action
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM 2 & 4-
Pentanedtone
SNUR
NPRM Chloranil
NPRM Benztdine-
based Chemical
Substances
Final Action
Benzidine-based
Chemical
Substances
NPRM p-Amlnophenol 05/00/99
& Bromochloro-
methane 8(a)
Chemical Specific
Rule
NPRM 05/00/99
Methyteyclopentane
SNUR
NPRM 2 & 4- 05/00/99
Pentanedfone
SNUR (Reproposal)
NPRM 2- 05/00/99
Ethoxyethanol&2-
Methoxyethanol &
2-Methoxyethanol
Acetate
NPRMo-Tolldine&o- 06/00/99
Dianisidine-based
Dyes (Benzidine
Congener Dyes)
09/27/89 54 FR 39548
05/12/93 58 FR 27980
08/30/95 60 FR 45119
10/07/96 61 FR 52287
Date FR Cite
NPRM Amendment to 06/00/99
Benzidine-based
Chemical
Substances SNUR
- NPRM Flame 09/00/99
Retardant
Chemicals
NPRM Heavy Metal- 10/00/99
Based Pigments in
Aerosol Spray
Paints SNUR
Final Action 12/00/99
Amendment to
Benzidine-based
Chemical
Substances SNUR
NPRM Certain 10/00/00
Chemical
Substances No
Longer in
Production SNUR
Final Action Final 10/00/00
Chloranil SNUR
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 1923
Agency Contact: Barbara Leczynski,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-1864
Fax: 202 260-8168
Email: leczynski.barbara@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AA58
3437. TSCA BIOTECHNOLOGY
FOLLOW-UP RULES
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant.
Major status under 5 USC 801 is
undetermined.
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 15 USC 2604; TSCA
5(a)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 720; 40 CFR 725
(Revision)
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: As a follow-up to the final
Biotechnology rule under the Toxic
Substances Control Act (TSCA), EPA
plans to address two actions. (1)
Intergeneric Scope of Oversight: OPPT
currently defines new microorganisms
which are subject to reporting under
TSCA section 5 as those resulting from
the deliberate combination of genetic
material originally isolated from
microorganisms classified in different
taxonomic genera. Such
microorganisms are referred to as
intergeneric microorganisms. EPA
indicated in its 1994 proposed
biotechnology regulations that it may
reconsider its interpretation of new
microorganism in a later rulemaking,
based on the more current state of
scientific knowledge about the manner
in which genetic material is exchanged
among microorganisms in the
environment. (2) TSCA Oversight of
Transgenic Plants: Certain transgenic
plants which express products or
which are used for purposes subject to
EPA jurisdiction under TSCA may be
used for commercial purposes in the
United States without oversight by
EPA. Such uses include: plants used
as intermediates to produce industrial
grade oils; and plants used for
phytoremediation (cleanup of
contaminated soils). Section 5 of TSCA
requires that new chemical substances
be reviewed by the Agency prior to
their introduction into commerce. In its
proposed rule, 59 FR 45526 (September
1, 1994), EPA stated that it was
reserving jurisdiction over certain
transgenic plants and animals: Plants
and animals could also be chemical
substances under TSCA. EPA is
reserving authority under TSCA to
screen transgenic plants and animals in
the future as needed, 59 FR 45526,
45527 (September 1, 1994). This action
will address whether EPA should
exercise jurisdiction under TCSA over
products produced by transgenic
plants, and/or certain plants.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
Policy Statement (2) 11 /00/99
TSCA Plants
Oversight Policy
NPRM (1) Intergeneric 06/00/00
Scope of Oversight
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
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Proposed Rule Stage
Sectors Affected: 212393 Other
Chemical and Fertilizer Mineral
Mining; 32551 Paint and Coating
Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 3894
Agency Contact: David Giamporcaro,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-6362
Fax: 202 260-0118
Email: giamporcaro.david@epa.gov •
BIN: 2070-AD13
3438. ASBESTOS MODEL
ACCREDITATION PLAN REVISIONS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant.
Major status under-5 USC 801 is
undetermined.
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 15 USC 2646 TSCA
sec 206
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 763
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 28, 1992.
Abstract: The Asbestos School Hazard
Abatement Reauthorization Act
(ASMARA) amended TSCA to require
that EPA revise its asbestos model
accreditation plan (MAP) to extend
training and accreditation requirements
to include persons performing certain
asbestos-related work in public or
commercial buildings, to increase the
minimum number of training hours
required for accreditation purposes and
to effect other changes necessary to
implement the amendments. The
upcoming notice of proposed
rulemaking (NPRM) will improve
harmony of the existing interim final
MAP with the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration's regulations to
the extent consistent with applicable
EPA statutes, and provide clarifications.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
Model Plan
Interim Final
NPRM
05/13/92 57 FR 20438
02/03/94 59 FR 5236
12/00/99
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3148
See entry 2070-AC62
Agency Contact: Cindy Fraleigh,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances', 7404, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-3933
Fax: 202 260-1724
Email: fraleigh.cindy@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AC51
3439. ASBESTOS; AMENDMENTS TO
THE ASBESTOS-CONTAINING
MATERIALS IN SCHOOLS RULE
Priority: Other Significant
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 15 USC 2605 TSCA
sec 6; 15 USC 2607 TSCA sec 8; 15
USC 2647 TSCA sec 207; 15 USC 2646
TSCA sec: 206; 15 USC 2643 TSCA sec
203; 15 USC 2614 TSCA sec 15; 15
USC 2615 TSCA sec 16
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 763
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA is proposing to amend
the Asbestos-Containing Materials in
Schools Rule in order to improve
harmony with the Occupational Safety
and Health Administration's regulations
and to provide clarifications regarding
several definitions, air clearance
monitoring techniques, and response
actions. As a part of this effort, the
Agency is also developing proposals to
amend the Asbestos Model
Accreditation Plan (RIN 2070-AC51)
and the Asbestos Worker Protection
Rule (RIN 2070-AC66). These activities
are already included in the Regulatory
Agenda as separate items, but were
included in this entry to highlight this
reinvention activity in the Regulatory
Plan for FY 1999.
Timetable:
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
12/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3047
Please also see Regulatory Agenda
entries for the Asbestos Model
Accreditation Plan Revisions (SAN
3148; RIN 2070-AC51) and the Asbestos
Worker Protection Rule Amendments
(SAN 2249; RIN 2070-AC66).
Agency Contact: Cindy Fraleigh,
Environmental Protection Agency,,
Office of. Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7404, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-1537
Fax: 202 260-1724
Email: fraleigh.cindy@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AC62
3440. ASBESTOS WORKER
PROTECTION RULE AMENDMENTS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 15 USC 2605 TSCA
sec 6; 15 USC 2607 TSCA sec 15; 15
USC 2614 TSCA sec 15; 15 USC 2615
TSCA sec 16
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 763
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA is proposing to amend
the Asbestos Abatement Projects,
Worker Protection Rule (WPR), by
incorporating certain revisions that
were made to the Occupational Safety
arid Health Administration (OSHA)
asbestos workplace standards issued
since EPA's WPR was promulgated in
1987 to the extent that the OSHA
revisions are consistent with applicable
EPA statutes. The proposal would
generally extend the coverage provided
under the OSHA Asbestos Standard for
Construction to State and local
government employees who are not
covered by OSHA or EPA approved
State plans. EPA also proposes to
delegate authority to grant or deny
State exclusions under the WPR to EPA
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Regional Administrators and to add
compliance and enforcement
requirements for State exclusions. In
addition, EPA is proposing to amend
the Asbestos-Containing Materials in
Schools Rule by relocating certain •
worker protection provisions relating to
schools, which are currently contained
in that rule, to the WPR.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM(1) 11/01/94 59 FR 54746
NPRM (2) 12/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entitles Affected: Governmental
Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 2249
Agency Contact: Cindy Fraleigh,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7404, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-1537
Fax: 202 260-1724
Email: fraleigh.cmdy@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AC66
3441. PCBS; POLYCHLORINATED
BIPHENYL; USE AUTHORIZATIONS
Priority: Other Significant. Major status
under 5 USC 801 is undetermined.
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
tho CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 15 USC 2605(e); TSCA
sec 6(e)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 761
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The notice of proposed
rulemaking that was published on
December 6,1994, covered the
manufacture (including import),
processing, distribution in commerce,
export use, disposal, and marking of
PCBs. On June 29, 1998, EPA issued
a final rule involving the disposal
related provisions. Other provisions,
e.g., certain use authorizations and
import provisions, were to be addressed
In separate actions. This rulemaldng
addresses a use authorization for
certain non-liquid PCB applications,
which although currently in use have
never been authorized under the PCB
regulations at 40 CFR part 761.
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
06/10/91 56 FR 26738
12/06/94 59 FR 62788
06/29/98 63 FR 35384
ANPRM
NPRM
Final Action 1 PCB
Disposal Provisions
. Supplemental NPRM 04/00/99
Use Authorizations -
Data Availability
Final Action 2 Use 05/00/00
Authorizations
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4179
Agency Contact: Peggy Reynolds,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7404, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-3965
Email: reynolds.peggy@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AD27
3442. LEAD-BASED PAINT
ACTIVITIES; TRAINING AND
CERTIFICATION FOR RENOVATION
AND REMODELING
Priority: Other Significant. Major status
under 5 USC 801 is undetermined.
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Legal Authority: PL 102-550 Sec
402(c)(3); 15 USC2603 TSCA Title IV
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 745
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, October 31, 1996.
Abstract: Under section 402(c)(2) of
TSCA Title IV, EPA conducted a study
of the extent to which persons engaged
in renovation and remodeling activities
in target housing are exposed to lead
in the conduct of such activities or
disturb lead and create a lead-based
paint hazard. EPA must use the results
of this study and consult with
interested parties to determine which
categories of renovation and remodeling
activities require training and
certification. EPA must then revise the
training and certification regulations
originally developed for individuals
performing lead-based paint abatement
under section 402(c)(a) of TSCA Title
IV to apply them to the renovation and
remodeling categories, If EPA
determines that any category'does not
require certification, EPA must publish
an explanation of the basis for that
determination.
Timetable:
Action Date FR-Cite
NPRM
Final Action
09/00/99
09/00/01
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Sectors Affected: 23321 Single Family
Housing Construction; 23322
Multifamily Housing Construction;
23521 Painting and Wall Covering
Contractors; 23551 Carpentry
Contractors
Additional Information: SAN No. 3557
Agency Contact: Ellie Clark,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7404, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-3402
TDD: 202 260-0770
Email: clark.ellie@epa.gov
Mike Wilson, Environmental Protection
Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides
and Toxic Substances, 7404,
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-4664
Fax: 202 260-0770
Email: wilson.mike@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AC83
3443. LEAD-BASED PAINT;
NOTIFICATION OF COMMENCEMENT
OF ABATEMENT ACTIVITIES
Priority: Info./Admin./Other
Legal Authority: PL 102-550; is USC
2603; TSCA 4
CFF1 Citation: 40 CFR 745
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, April 28, 1994.
Abstract: Section 402 of TSCA directs
EPA to establish regulations containing
standards for performing lead-based
paint activities. One of the standards
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EPA developed, codified at 40 CFR
section 745.227(e)(4), requires
notification to EPA of the
commencement of lead-based paint
abatement activities in a residential
dwelling or child-occupied facility or
as a result of a Federal, State, or local
order. This rule establishes
requirements for the notification of
commencement of lead-based paint
abatement activities. These provisions
include uniform procedures to notify
the Agency of routine and emergency
lead-based paint abatement activities.
The rule' will also prohibit lead-based
paint abatement activities' from starting
on any date other than the one
contained in the notification. This
information is necessary to provide
enforcement personnel with
information for compliance activities
and to prioritize inspections.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
04/00/99
09/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
•Required: No
'Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4172
This action has been split off from the
action entitled "Fees for Accreditation
and Certification of Lead-Based Paint
Activities" (SAN 3881; 2070-ADll).
Agency Contact: Ellie Clark,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7404, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-3402
Fax: 202 260-0770
Email: clark.ellie@epa.gov
Mike Wilson, Environmental Protection
Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides,
and Toxic Substances, 7404,
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-4664
Fax: 202 260-0770
Email: wilson.mike@epa.gov
BIN: 2070-AD31
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
Final Rule Stage
3444. LEAD; MANAGEMENT AND
DISPOSAL OF LEAD-BASED PAINT
DEBRIS
Priority: Other Significant. Major under
5 USC 801.
Legal Authority: 15 USC 2601 to 2671;
42 USC 6901 to 6992
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 745
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: Currently, waste derived from
lead-based paint (LBP) abatements is
managed under the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
hazardous waste regulations. Other
Federal agencies (Department of
Housing and Urban Development,
Department of Health and Human
Services) and several States, and
advocacy groups have expressed
concern that the costs associated with
the disposal of large volume
architectural components (e.g., doors
and windows) may interfere with
abatement activities. EPA's Office of
Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic
Substances and the Office of Solid
Waste have initiated a joint rulemaking
to address the disposal of these
architectural components. This
rulemaking would develop disposal
standards for these components under
the Toxic Substances Control Act
(TSCA) title IV, (the definition of
abatement under TSCA title IV, section
401(1)(B), includes disposal). The
TSCA regulations would establish
appropriate disposal standards for LBP
architectural components and identify
recycling and incineration activities
that would be controlled or prohibited.
To minimize duplication of waste
management requirements, EPA is
developing a companion RCRA rule to
suspend temporarily hazardous waste
management regulations applicable to
. lead-based paint debris which will be
subject to the new TSCA standards.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
Phone: 202 260-3402
Email: clark.ellie@epa.gov
BIN: 2070-AC72
NPRM Proposed 12/18/98 63 FR 70233
Temporaiy
Suspension of
Toxicity
Characteristic Rule
NPRM TSCA Proposal 12/18/98 63 FR 70189
Final Action 01/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, 'Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3508
This SAN and RIN includes RCRA
companion rule: Temporary Suspension
of Toxicity Characteristic Rule for
Specified Lead-Based Paint Debris.
Agency Contact: Ellie Clark,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7404, Washington,
DC 20460
3445. GUIDANCE ON
ENVIRONMENTALLY PREFERABLE
PURCHASING FOR FEDERAL
AGENCIES
Priority: Info./Admin./Other
Legal Authority: EO 13101
CFR Citation: Not yet determined
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: As mandated by Executive
Order 13101, OPPTS is developing final
guidance to direct Federal agencies in
their procurement of Environmentally
Preferable Products.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
09/29/95 60 FR 50722
05/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: Federal
Procurement: This is a procurement-
related action for which there is no
statutory requirement. There is no
paperwork burden associated with this
action.
Additional Information: SAN No. 3480
Agency Contact: Eun-Sook Goidel,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
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Toxic Substances, 7409, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-3296
Email: goidel.eun-sook@epa.gov
Julie Shannon, Environmental
Protection Agency, Office of
Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic
Substances, 7409, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 260-2736
Email: shannon.julie@epa.gov
BIN: 2070-AC78
3446. TEST RULES; GENERIC ENTRY
FOR FINAL DECISIONS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 15 USC 2603, TSCA
sec 4; 15 USC 2611, TSCA sec 12.
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 799
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA is requiring testing via
rules, or will obtain testing through
enforceable consent agreements (EGAs)
or publish a notice which provides the
reasons for not doing so for chemicals
listed herein. These chemicals have
been designated for priority testing
consideration by the ITC or
recommended for testing consideration
(for which the 12-month statutory
requirement does not apply). The list
also includes chemicals or categories of
chemicals which have been identified
for testing consideration by other
Federal or other EPA offices through
EPA review processes.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
ANPRMAryl 12/29/83 48 FR 57452
Phosphates (ITC
List 2)
NPRM Brominated 06/25/91 56 FR 29140
Flams Retardants
NPRMAryl 01/17/92 57 FR 2138
Phosphates (ITC
List2)
Final Action (ECA) 04/00/99
DiBasic Esters
(CPSC)
Final Action (ECA) 07/00/99
Aryl Phosphates
(ITC List 2)
Final Action ITC 12/00/99
Chemicals (ITC List
28)
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entitles Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3493
Agency Contact: Frank Kover,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-8130
'Fax: 202 401-3672
Email: kover.frank@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AB94
3447. TEST RULE; HAZARDOUS AIR
POLLUTANTS (HAPS)
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 15 USC 2603 TSCA
4; 42 USC 7412 CAA 112; 42 USC 7403
CAA 103; 15 USC 2611 TSCA 12
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 790 to 799
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA is proposing health
effects testing under TSCA section 4 in
support of programs and activities
required under section 112 of the Clean
Air Act (CAA), governing Hazardous
Air Pollutants (HAPs). Section 112 of
the CAA directs EPA to determine the
risk to health and the environment
remaining after application of
technology-based emissions standards
to major and area sources. Section 112
also sets forth a mechanism for revising
and modifying the statutory list of 189
HAPs under section 112(b), and
requirements for an accidental release
control program. These data will also
be important for the right-to-know
program given the large release of these
chemicals to the atmosphere. In order
to implement these and other programs
and requirements under section 112,
EPA must identify the health and
environment effects of potential
concern from exposure to HAPs,
ascertain the minimum data needed to
adequately characterize those health
and environmental effects, and assess
the risks posed by HAPs. In addition,
under section 103(d), EPA is required
to conduct a research program-on the
short- and long-term effects of air
pollutants on human health, ascertain
the minimum data needed to
adequately characterize those health
and environmental effects, and assess
the risks posed by HAPs.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 06/26/96 61 FR 33178
Supplemental NPRM 12/24/97 62 FR 67466
Supplemental NPRM 04/21/98 63 FR 19694
Final Action 12/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3487
Agency Contact: Richard Leukroth,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-0321
Fax: 202 401-3672
Email: leukroth.rich@epa.gov
David R. Williams, Environmental
Protection Agency, Office of
Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic
Substances, 7405, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 260-3468
Email: williams.daver@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AC76
3448. FOLLOW-UP RULES ON NON-
5(E) NEW CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES
Priority: Routine and Frequent
Legal Authority: 15 USC 2604 TSCA
sec 5
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 704; 40 CFR 721
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA regulates the commercial
development of new chemicals that
have completed premanufacture notice
(PMN) review, where activities
described in the PMN did not present
an unreasonable risk but uncontrolled
manufacture, import, processing,
distribution, use, or disposal putside
the activities described in the PMN
may present an unreasonable risk. EPA
will issue Significant New Use Rules
(SNURs) requiring 90-day notification
to EPA from any manufacturer,
importer, or processor who would
engage in activities that are designated
as significant new uses. Under the
Expedited Follow-up Rule (EFUR)
which became effective on October 12,
1989, EPA will identify such new
chemicals and publish them in a batch
SNUR 3-4 times per year. Chemicals
thait were subject to a proposed SNUR
before the effective date of the EFUR
or do not qualify under the EFUR, may
be regulated individually by notice and
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comment rulemaking and are listed
below.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
06/11/86 51 FR21199
52 FR 46496
53 FR 2857
12/08/87
02/02/88
NPRM Alkyl & Sulfonic
Acid & Ammonium
Salt (84-1056)
NPRM 1-Decanimine-
N-Decyl-N-Methyl-
N-Oxide (86-566)
NPRM Diphenyl-
2&4&6-
Trimethylbenzol
Phosphine Oxide
(87-586)
NPRM Aluminum
Cross-linked
Sodium Carboxy-
methylcellulose
NPRM Certain
Chemical
Substances (95-
158496-1674/75
and 97-267)
Final Action Certain
Chemical
Substances (95-
158496-1674/75
and 97-267)
Final Action Diphenyl-
2&4&6-
Trimethylbenzol
Phosphine Oxide
(87-586)
Final Action Alkyl &
Sulfonic Acid &
Ammonium Salt (84-
1056)
Final Action Aluminum
Cross-linked
Sodium Carboxy-
methylcellulose
Final Action 1 -
Decanimine-N-
Decyl-N-Methyl-N-
Oxide (86-566)
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 1976
Agency Contact: James Alwood,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-1857
Email: alwood.james@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AA59
06/11/93 58 FR 32628
08/13/97 62 FR 43297
11/30/98 6.3 FR 65705
01/29/99 64 FR 4605
06/00/99
OS/00/99
06/00/99
3449. CHEMICAL-SPECIFIC
SIGNIFICANT NEW USE RULES .
(SNURS) TO EXTEND PROVISIONS OF
SECTION S(E) ORDERS
Priority: Routine and Frequent
Legal Authority: 15 USC 2604; TSCA
sec 5
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 721
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: When the Agency determines
that uncontrolled manufacture, import,
processing, distribution, use or disposal
of a premanufacture notification (PMN)
substance may present an unreasonable
risk, it may issue a section 5(e) consent
order to limit these activities. However,
such orders apply only to the PMN
submitter. Once the new substance is
entered on the Toxic Substances
Control Act (TSCA) chemical inventory,
others can manufacture, import or
process the substance without controls.
Therefore, EPA extends the controls to
apply to others by designating
manufacture, import or processing of
the substances for uses without the
specified controls as significant new
uses. Under the Expedited Follow-Up
Rule, •which became effective on
October 10, 1989 (54 FR 31314), EPA
routinely publishes batch SNURs
containing routine section 5(e) and
. non-5(e) SNURs. However, certain
activities, such as modifications,
withdrawals, revocations, and SNURs
upon which comments are received in
the direct final publication process, are
subject to notice and comment
rulemaking and are listed below.
Timetable:
Action
Date . FR Cite
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM Batch SNUR:
84-660/-704&84-
105/-106/-107&85-
433
NPRM Aromatic
Amino Ether (P90-
1840)
NPRM Alkenyl Ether
of Alkanetriol.
Polymer (93-458)
NPRM Butanamide 2 ••
2'-(3' 3-dichloro)1
1 '-biphenyl 4 4'-diyl)
bisazob
NPRM Certain
Chemical
Substances (91-
1299/95-166791-
129891-1297
05/27/93 58 FR 30744
06/06/94 59 FR 29255
12/19/94 59 FR 65289
06/26/97 62 FR 34424
06/26/97 62-FR 34421
06/26/97 62 FR 34427
04/30/98 63 FR 23678
09/09/98 63 FR 48157
02/04/99 64 FR 5740
06/00/99
06/00/99
06/00/99
06/00/99'
12/00/99
NPRM Substituted
Phenol (89-1125
L91-87P92-41 92-
511 94-1527 etc.
Final Action
Substituted Phenol
(89-1125 L91-87
P92-41 92-511 94-
1527 etc.
NPRM Certain
Chemical
Substances
Final Action
Butanamide 2 2'- 3'
3-dichloro(1 1'-
biphenyl)-4 4'-diyl
bisazob
Final Action Alkenyl
- Ether'of Alkanetriol
Polymer (93-458)
Final Action Aromatic
.Amino Ether (P90-
1840)
Final Action Batch
SNUR: 84-660/-704
&84-105/-106/-107
& 85-433
Final Action Certain
Chemical
Substances (91 -
1299/95-166791-
129891-1297
Final Action Certain
Chemical
Substances
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3495
Agency Contact: James Alwood,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-1857
Email: alwood.james@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AB27
3450. PCBS; POLYCHLORINATED
BIPHENYLS; EXEMPTIONS FROM THE
PROHIBITIONS AGAINST
MANUFACTURING, PROCESSING,
AND DISTRIBUTION IN COMMERCE
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 15 USC 2605 TSCA
sec 6(e)(3)(B)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 761
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: Section 6(e)(3)(B) of the
Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
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provides that the Administrator may
grant, by rule, exemptions from the
prohibitions against manufacturing,
processing and distribution in
commerce of PCBs upon finding that
1) no unreasonable risk to health or the
environment will occur, and 2) good
faith efforts have been made by die
petitioner to develop a substitute for
PCB which does not pose an
unreasonable risk of injury to health or
the environment. In addition, the
Interim Procedural Rules were
amended to require certain petitioners
to reapply for EPA approval to continue
PCB activities previously approved by
EPA.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
1 a/06/94 59 FR 62875
09/00/99
09/00/99
NPRM(1)Groupl
NPRM (2) Group I!
Final Action Group I
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entitles Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 2150
Agency Contact: Peter Gimlin,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7404, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-3972
Fax: 202 260-1724
Email: gimlin.peter@epa.gov
BIN: 2070-AB20
3451. REFRACTORY CERAMIC
FIBERS; SIGNIFICANT NEW USE
RULES ON NATIONAL PROGRAM
CHEMICALS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 15 USC 2604; TSCA
5; 15 USC 2605; TSCA 6
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 704; 40 CFR 721
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA has instituted a program
to monitor the commercial
development of existing chemicals of
concern and/or to gather information to
support risk assessments on such
chemicals. As these chemicals are
identified, EPA will initiate
rulemakings under the Toxic
Substances Control Act (TSCA) sections
5 and/or 6 to require reporting by the
manufacturers, importers and/or
processors of these chemicals. Proposed
rules may be published on at least the
chemicals listed on the timetable
below.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM Refractory 03/21/94 59 FR 13294
Ceramic Fiber
Final Action Refractory 09/00/99
Ceramic Fiber
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3528
Agency Contact: Peter Gimlin,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7404, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-3972
Fax: 202 260-1724
Email: gimlin.peter@epa.gov
Cindy Fraleigh, Environmental
Protection Agency, Office of
Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic
Substances, 7404, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 260-3933
Fax: 202 260-1724
Email: fraleigh.cindy@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AC37
3452. PCBS; POLYCHLORINATED
BIPHENYLS (PCBS) TRANSFORMER
RECLASSIFICATION RULE
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 15 USC 2605 TSCA
sec 6(e)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 761
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This rule would relax the
regulatory requirements for
reclassifying PCB transformers to a
lower regulatory status by modifying
the current reclassification
requirements of 50 degree centigrade
temperature and 90-day testing. Results
of a preliminary analysis indicate that
many transformers never reach the
required temperature during operation,
but retrofitting still successfully
reduces PCB concentration. Safety risks
to employees and to the general public
occur in mandating the continued
adherence to the current regulations.
EPA may also address the
reclassification of voltage regulators.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
11/18/93 58 FR 60970
12/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3021
Agency Contact: Tom Simons,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7404, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-3933
Fax: 202 260-1724
Email: shnons.tom@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AC39
3453. TSCA SECTION 8(A)
PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT
INFORMATION RULES
Priority: Routine and Frequent
Legal Authority: 15 USC 2607(a) TSCA
sec 8 (a)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 712
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: These rules add chemicals to
the list of chemicals and designated
mixtures subject to the requirements of
the Toxic Substances Control Act
section 8 (a) Preliminary Assessment
Information Rule (40 CFR part 712).
These chemicals have been identified
by the Office of Pollution Prevention
and Toxics, other EPA offices, and
other Federal agencies, as well as
recommended for testing consideration
by the Interagency Testing Committee.
Manufacturers and importers are
required to submit exposure-related
data (EPA Form No. 7710-35) on the
chemicals. These data will be used to
monitor the levels of production,
import and/or processing of these
substances and the avenues of human
and environmental exposure to these
substances. These data will also
support risk assessment and test rule
decisions.
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Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
02/28/96 61 FR 7421
10/29/96 61 FR 55871 Action
12/11/96 61 FR 65186
01/07/98 63FR684
Final Action 37th ITC
List •
Final Action 38th ITC
List
Final Action 38th ITC
List - Stay
Final Action 38th ITC
List - Stay/Technical
Amendments
Final Action 38th ITC 04/00/99
List - Revocation
Final Action 39th ITC 04/00/99
List
Final Action 41 st ITC 04/00/99
List
Final Action 42nd ITC 05/00/99
List
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No ,
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 2178
Agency Contact: David R. Williams,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-3468
Fax: 202 401-3672
Email: williams.daver@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AB08
3454. TSCA SECTION 8(D) HEALTH
AND SAFETY DATA REPORTING
RULES
Priority: Routine and Frequent
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is, part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 15 USC 2607(d) TSCA
sec 8(d)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 716
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: These rules require
manufacturers, importers and
processors to submit unpublished
health and safety data on chemicals
added to the requirements of the Toxic
Substances Control Act section 8(d)
Health and Safety Data Reporting Rule
(40 CFR part 716). These chemicals
have been identified by the Office of
Pollution Prevention and Toxics, other
EPA offices, and other Federal agencies,
as well as recommended for testing
consideration by the Interagency ,
Testing Committee.
Timetable:
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
Date FR Cite
10/29/96 61 FR 55871
12/11/96 61 FR65186
01/07/98 63FR684
04/00/99
06/00/99
Final 38th ITC List
Final 38th ITC List -
Stay,
Final 38th ITC List -
Stay/Technical
Amendment
Final Action 38th ITC •
List - Revocation
Final Action 43rd ITC
List
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 1139
Agency Contact: David R. Williams,
' Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-3468
Fax:202401-3672
Email: Williams.daver@epa.gov
Keith Cronin, Environmental Protection
Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides
and Toxic Substances, 7405,
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-8157
Fax: 202 401-3672
Email: cronin.keith@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-ABll
3455. USE OF ACRYLAMIDE FOR
GROUTING
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 15 USC 2605 TSCA
sec 6; 15 USC 2607 TSCA sec 8
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 764
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: On October 2,1991, EPA
proposed a regulation of acrylamide
and NMA grouts based on the
unreasonable risk associated with their
usage. EPA's rule would prohibit the
manufacture, distribution in commerce,
and use of acrylamide grout. In
February 1996, EPA reopened the
record for 30 days to take additional
comments, specifically to seek data on
the durability of acrylamide and NMA
grouts. The Agency has reviewed the
comments and expects to promulgate
the final rule in the Spring of 1999.
NPRM
Notice Reopening
Record for
Comments on
Durability of NMA
Final Action
10/02/91-56 FR 49863
02/28/96 61 FR 7454
05/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 2779
Agency Contact: Edward Brooks,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7405, Washington,
DC. 20460
Phone: 202 260-3754
Fax: 202 260-1096
Email: brooks.edward@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AC17
3456. TSCA SECTION 8(E) POLICY;
NOTICE OF CLARIFICATION
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or .streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 15 USC 2607(e) TS.CA
sec 8(e) .
CFR Citation: Not yet determined
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The TSCA section 8(e) Notice
of Clarification and Solicitation of
Public Comment would amend certain
aspects of the 1978 TSCA section 8(e)
Statement of Interpretation and
Enforcement Policy (1978 Policy
Statement). The 1978 Policy Statement
describes the types of information that
EPA considers reportable under section
8(e), the substantial risk reporting
provision of TSCA, and describes the
procedures for reporting such
information to EPA. This clarification
effort derives from a review of the
existing section 8(e) guidance done hi
the context of questions raised by
companies considering participating in
the section 8(e) Compliance Audit
Program (CAP). As a result of this
review, EPA determined that parts of
the 1978 Policy Statement concerning
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the reportability of information on
widespread and previously
unsuspected distribution in
environmental media and emergency
incidents of environmental
contamination needed some refinement.
The subject Federal Register action
solicited comment on refined reporting
guidance concerning widespread and
previously unsuspected distribution in
environmental media and provides
additional circumstances where
information is not reportable because it
is considered known to the
Administrator. Finally, the notice
solicited comments on changes to the
section 8(e) reporting deadline and
reaffirmed the standards for claims of
confidentiality for information
contained in a notice of substantial risk
under section 8(e).
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
07/13/93 58 FR 37735
06/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entitles Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3118
Agency "Contact: Richard Hefter,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7403, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-3470
Email: hefter.richard@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AG80
3457. NOTICE OF TSCA SECTION 4
REIMBURSEMENT PERIOD AND TSCA
SECTION 12(13) EXPORT
NOTIFICATION PERIOD SUNSET
DATES FOR TSCA SECTION 4
SUBSTANCES
Priority: Info./Admin./Other
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 15 USC 2603; TSCA
see 4; 15 USC 2611; TSCA sec 12
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 707; 40 CFR 790;
40 CFR 791; 40 CFR 799
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA is developing a list of
substances that are or have been subject
to TSCA section 4 testing actions which
required testing under rules or
Enforceable Consent Orders. EPA will
identify sunset, or termination dates
that will identify: (1) the end of section
4 reporting requirements (40 CFR 790];
(2) the end of the reimbursement period
under which persons subject to test
rules are subject to an obligation to
reimburse test sponsors (40 CFR 791);
and (3) the end of the period during
which export notification requirements
under TSCA section 12(b) are triggered.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
Final Action
06/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3559
Agency Contact: Frank Kover,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic'Substances, 7405, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-8130
Email: kover.frank@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AC84
3458. LEAD-BASED PAINT; FEES FOR
ACCREDITATION AND
CERTIFICATION ACTIVITIES
Priority: Info./Admin./Other
Legal Authority: PL 02-550; 15 USC
2682(a)(3) TSCA 402(a)(3)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 745
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This rule is mandated by
section 402(a) of TSCA for the purpose
of implementing a fee schedule for
lead-based paint activities. (40 CFR part
745, Lead Requirements for Lead-Based
Paint Activities in Target Housing and
Child-Occupied Facilities, published
August 28, 1996). The rule will recoup
for the US Treasury, through
assessment of fees, the cost of EPA's
administrative and enforcement costs in
implementing this program. Regarding
the anticipated impact on small
business, section 402(a) does not
require or mandate the abatement of
-lead-based paint, nor require that any
particular enterprise participate in the
lead-based paint field. However, if
firms choose to participate, compliance
costs consist of two components that
may impact small businesses: (1)
accreditation and training costs for
workers and supervisors, as well as
certification fees that this rule will
establish and (2) incremental costs of
work practice standards for abatement
procedures.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Direct Final Rule
Withdrawn -
Withdrawal of DFR
and Effective Date
Final Action
09/02/98 63 FR 46734
09/02/98 63 FR 46668
10/16/98 63 FR 55547
04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal .
Additional Information: SAN No. 3881
This action is split from the action
Notification of Commencement of
Abatement Activities (SAN 4172; 2070-
AD31)
Agency Contact: Ellie Clark,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7404, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-3402
Fsix: 202 260-0770
Email: clark.ellie@epa.gov
Mike Wilson, Environmental Protection
Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides
and Toxic Substances, 7404,
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-4664
Fa*: 202 260-0770
Email: wilson.mike@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-ADll
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
Long-Term Actions
3459. LEAD; TSCA SECTION 403;
IDENTIFICATION OF DANGEROUS
LEVELS OF LEAD
Priority: Economically Significant
Legal Authority: 15 USC 2683
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 745
Legal Deadline:
NPRM, Judicial, May 26, 1998-, Consent
Decree.
Abstract: The Residential Lead-Based
Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992
(Title X) amended TSCA by adding a
new Title IV. TSCA section 403
requires EPA to promulgate regulations
that identify lead-based paint hazards,
lead-contaminated dust and lead-
contaminated soil for the purposes of
TSCA Title IV as well as for the entire
Title X. EPA developed an interim
guidance document in July 1994, to
provide public and private decision-
makers with guidance on identifying
and prioritizing lead-based paint
hazards for control. This interim
guidance, which was subsequently
published in 1995 (60 FR 47248,
9/11/95), will continue to serve as
EPA's official policy until the final
TSCA section 403 rule is promulgated.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM-
Notice Comment
Period Extended to
10/01/98
Notice Comment
Period Extended to
' 11/30/98
Notice Comment
Period Extended to
12/31/98&
Announces Public
Meeting
NPRM Correction
Notice Reopens
Comment Period to
03/01/99
Final Action
06/03/98 63 FR 30301
07/22/98 63 FR 39262
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3243
Agency Contact: Ellie Clark,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7404, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-3402
TDD: 202 260-0770
Email: clark.ellie@epa.gov
Jonathan Jacobson, Environmental
Protection Agency, Office of
Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic
Substances, 7404, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 260-3779
Fax: 202 260-0770
Email: jacobson.jonathan@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AC63
3460. LEAD; REGULATORY
INVESTIGATION UNDER THE TOXIC
SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT (TSCA)
TO REDUCE LEAD (PB)
CONSUMPTION AND USE
Priority: Other Significant. Major status
under 5 USC 801 is undetermined.
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Legal Authority: 15 USC 2605; TSCA
6
10/01/98 63 FR 52662 CFR Citation: 40 CFR 745
11/05/98 63 FR 59754
12/18/98 63 FR 70087
01/14/99 64 FR 2460
09/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action initiates a
regulatory investigation under the
Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
section 6 to determine if uses of lead
(Pb) present an unreasonable risk to
human health and the environment.
The investigation will involve
examination of the potential sources of
human or other exposure to lead
throughout the life cycle. Based on
information gathered EPA may propose
TSCA section 6(a) rules to control
existing or new uses of Pb which pose
an unreasonable risk to human health
or the environment, and to explore the
desirability and feasibility of
discouraging overall consumption of Pb
in general. Currently, EPA has ongoing
regulatory investigation on one -specific
use of lead: fishing sinkers. EPA is
exploring a combination of approaches
to address human health and wildlife
exposure to lead fishing sinkers
including voluntary initiatives and
education campaigns. EPA is
developing materials to explain the
dangers of lead through misuse and
improper handling of lead sinkers. EPA
is working with States to generally
distribute such materials and to include
information on lead hazards to human
health and wildlife in State fishing
guidelines booklets.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
ANPRM 05/13/91 56 FR 22096
NPRM Proposed Ban 03/09/94 59 FR 11122
of Fishing Sinkers
Final Action Fishing 12/00/01'
Sinkers
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected:,Businesses
Government Levels Affected: Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3252
Agency Contact: Ellie Clark,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7404, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-3402
Fax: 202 260-0770
Email: clark.ellie@epa.gov
Tova Spector, Environmental Protection
Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides
and Toxic Substances, 7404,
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-3467
Fax: 202 260-0770
Email: spector.tova@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AC21
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA)
Prerule Stage
3461. TR1; ADDITION OF OIL AND GAS
EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION TO
THE TOXIC RELEASE INVENTORY
Priority: Other Significant. Major status
under 5 USC 801 is undetermined.
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Legal Authority: 42 USC 11013 EPCRA
313; 42 USC 11023; 42 USC 1108; 42
USC 11076
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 372
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The original Toxics Release
Inventory (TRI) required reporting from
facilities in Standard Industrial
Classification (SIC) codes 20-39. These
SIC codes cover facilities whose
primary economic activity was
classified as manufacturing. This
requirement was specified under the
Emergency Planning and Community
Right-To-Know Act (EPCRA) section
313(b)(l)(A). EPCRA section
313(b)(l){B) and (b)(2) provide the
Administrator with the authority to add
or delete SIC codes and the discretion
to add particular facilities based on a
broad set of factors. The Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) has recently
expanded this original list of covered
industries. EPA began additional
analyses to determine whether facilities
which perform exploration and
production of oil and gas should also
be added to the list of facilities covered
under EPCRA section 313. Facilities
recently added include certain electric
generating facilities, waste management
facilities, metal and coal mining,
hazardous waste treatment facilities,
solvent recyclers, and wholesale
distributors of chemicals and petroleum
products.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
ANPHM
12/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Government Levels Affected: State,
Federal
Sectors Affected: 211111 Crude
Petroleum and Natural Gas Extraction
Additional Information: SAN No. 4023
Program is implemented at the Federal
level. States are designated as co-
recipients of the information, but are
not required to manage the information
in any particular manner.
Agency Contact: Tim Crawford,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7408, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-1715
Fax: 202 401-8142
Email: crawford.tim@epa.gov
Maria J. Doa, Environmental Protection
Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides
and Toxic Substances, 7408,
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-9592
Fax: 202 401-8142
Elmail: doa.maria@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AD19
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA)
Proposed Rule Stage
3462. TRI; RESPONSES TO PETITIONS
RECEIVED TO ADD OR DELETE OR
MODIFY CHEMICAL LISTINGS ON THE
TOXIC RELEASE INVENTORY
Priority: Routine and Frequent
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Major: Undetermined
Reinventing Government. This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 11013 EPCRA
sec 313
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 372
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: These actions grant or deny
petitions received to add or delete or
modify chemicals on the list of toxic
chemicals under section 313 of the
Emergency Planning and Community
Right to Know Act (EPCRA) that are
subject to reporting under the Toxic
Chemical Release Reporting Rule. The
actions cover individual chemicals or
groups of chemicals for which petitions
have been received.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
Notice DBNPA 10/27/95 60 FR 54949
(Request to Delete)
Proposed Rule Dioxin 05/07/97 62 FR 24887
& Dioxin-like
Compounds
(Furans & PCBs)
(Req. to Add)
Notice of Denial 01/23/98 63 FR 3566
Phosphoric Acid
(Request to Delete)
Notice of Denial 03/30/98 63 FR 15195
Methyl Ethyl Ketone
(MEK) (Request to
Delete)
Amendments to 01/05/99 64FR688
Proposed Rule
Dioxin and Dioxin-
like Compounds
(Furans & PCBs)
Req. to Add.)
NPRMChromiteOre 02/23/99 64 FR 8774
(Request to Delete)
Notice of Denial 02/23/99 64 FR 8769
Methyl Isobutyl
Ketone (MIBK)
(Request to Delete)
Response Acetonitrile 04/00/99
(Request to Delete)
Final Response Dioxin 09/00/99
& Dioxin-like
Compounds
(Furans &
PCBs)(Req. to Add)
Final Response 11/00/99
DBNPA (Request to
Delete)
Response Di(2- 12/00/99
ethylhexyl)
Phthalate (DEHP)
(Request to Delete)
Response Alloys-- 03/00/00
Chromium & Nickel
& and Copper Alloys '
(Req. to Modify)
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Giovernment Levels Affected: State,
Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 2425
Statutory deadline: Within 180 days of
receipt the Agency must either initiate
nilemaking or explain why not in the
Federal Register. Manufacturing
industries in SIC codes 20-39 plus the
following industries and SIC codes:
Metal Mining (SIC code 10 except SIC
codes 1011, 1081, and 1094); Coal
Mining (SIC code 12 except SIC code
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Proposed Rule Stage
1241); Electric Utilities (SIC codes
4911, 4931, 4939); Commercial
Hazardous Waste Treatment (SIC c.ode
4953); Chemicals and Allied Products-
Wholesale (SIC code 5169); Petroleum
Bulk Terminals and Plants (SIC code
5171); and, Solvent Recovery Services
(SIC code 7389).
Agency Contact: Daniel R. Bushman,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7408, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-3882
Fax: 202 401-8142
Email: bushman.daniel@epa.gov
Maria Doa, Environmental Protection
Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides
and Toxic Substances, 7408,
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-9592
Fax: 202 401-8142
Email: doa.maria@epa.mail.epa.gov
RIN: 2070-ACOO
3463. TRI; POLLUTION PREVENTION
ACT INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS
Priority: Other Significant. Major status
under 5 USC 801 is undetermined.
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Reinventing Government: This .
ruleinaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 11013
Pollution Prevention Act
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 372
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: Section 6607(b) of the
Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 (PPA)
(Pub. L. 101-508) requires the addition
of several data elements to the Toxic
Chemical Release Inventory (TRI)
reporting requirements as promulgated
under section 313 of the Emergency
Planning and Community Right-to-
Know Act of 1986 (EPCRA) (Pub. L.
99-499). Section 313 of EPCRA requires
owners or operators of certain facilities
that manufacture, process, or otherwise
use listed toxic chemicals to annually
report their releases of these chemicals
to each environmental medium. The
PPA mandates that section 313 covered
facilities also report on source
reduction and recycling activities
relating to the toxic chemicals
beginning with the 1991 reporting year.
Since 1991 covered facilities have been
providing this informatio'n- to EPA in
section 8A, Source Reduction and
Recycling Activities, of EPA Form R.
On September 25, 1991 (56 FR 48475),
EPA proposed regulations which would
provide definitions and instructions for
reporting the PPA data elements on the
EPA Form R. In this action, EPA will
amend certain aspects of the September
25, 1991, proposed rule.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM • 09/25/91 56 FR 48475
Supplemental NPRM 09/00/99
Final Action 03/00/01
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 2847
Affected Sectors Include:
Manufacturing industries in SIC codes
20-39 plus the following industries and
SIC codes: Metal Mining (SIC code 10
except SIC codes 1011, 1081, and
1094); Coal Mining (SIC code 12 except
SIC code 1241); Electric Utilities (SIC
codes 4911, 4931, 4939); Commercial
Hazardous Waste Treatment (SIC code
4953); Chemicals and Allied Products-
Wholesale (SIC code 5169); Petroleum
Bulk Terminals and Plants (SIC code
5171); and, Solvent Recovery Services
(SIC Code 7389).
Agency Contact: Sara Hisel McCoy,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7408, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-9592
Fax: 202 401-8142
Email: hisel-mccoy.sara@epa.gov
Maria Doa, Environmental Protection
Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides
and Toxic Substances, 7408,
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-9592
Fax: 202 401-8142
Email: doa.maria@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AC24
3464. • TRI; LOWERING OF EPCRA
SECTION 313 REPORTING
THRESHOLDS FOR LEAD AND LEAD
COMPOUNDS
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 11001 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 372
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The Toxics Release Inventory
(TRI) currently requires reporting from
facilities which manufacture or process
at least 25,000 pounds of a listed
chemical, or otherwise use 10,000
pounds of a listed chemical. These
thresholds were initially established
under the Emergency Planning and
community Right-To-Know Act
(EPCRA) section 313(f)(l). Section .
313(f)(2) of EPCRA gives the
Administrator the power to "establish
a threshold amount for a toxic chemical
different from the amount established
by paragraph (1)," and that such altered
thresholds may be based on "classes of
chemicals." EPA is considering
lowering the' thresholds for certain
persistent bioaccumulative toxic (PBT)
chemicals and has issued a proposed
rule that sets out the criteria EPA
intends to use for determining if a
chemical is persistent and •
bioaccumulative under EPCRA section
313. EPA is currently conducting
analysis to determine if lead and lead
compounds meet the proposed criteria
for persistence and bioaccumulation
and whether the EPCRA section 313
reporting thresholds should be lowered.
EPA is also evaluating the
environmental fate of lead.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
06/00/99
12/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4259
By Statute and Regulation, this rule
will affect SIC codes 20-39, 10 (except
SIC codes 1011, 1081, 1094), 12 (except
SIC code 1241), 4911, 4931, 4939, 4953,
5169, 5171, and 7389.
Agency Contact: Daniel R. Bushman,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
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EPA—EPCRA
Proposed Rule Stage
Toxic Substances, 7408, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-3882
Fax: 202 401-8142
Email: bushman.daniel@epa.gov
Maria Doa, Environmental Protection
Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides
and Toxic Substances, 7408,
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-9592
Fax: 202 401-8142
Email: doa.maria@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AD38
3465. • TRI; REVISIONS TO THE;
OTHERWISE USE ACTIVITY
EXEMPTIONS AND THE COAL
EXTRACTION ACTIVITIES EXEMPTION
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant. '
Major status under 5 USC 801 is
undetermined,
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Legal Authority: 42 USC 11001 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 372
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The Toxics Release Inventory
(TRI) requires reporting from facilities
which manufacture or process at least
25,000 pounds of a listed chemical, or
otherwise use 10,000 pounds of a listed
chemical. In determining amounts of
listed chemicals that are manufactured,
processed or otherwise used, facilities
may be entitled to consider specific
exemptions from reporting. EPA is
presently reviewing a group of these
exemptions. The categories of
exemptions presently being
reconsidered by EPA are the structural
component exemption, the routine
janitorial and facility grounds
maintenance exemption, the personal
use exemption, the motor vehicle
maintenance exemption, and the intake
water/air exemption. Also known as the
"otherwise use" exemptions because
they are limited to "otherwise use"
activities, these exemptions are
expressly provided for at 40 CFR
372.38(c). EPA is also considering
changes to the coal mining extraction
exemption provided for at 40 CFR
372.38{g).
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
02/00/00
12/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4265
By Statute and Regulation, this rule
will affect SIC codes 20-39, 10 (except
SIC codes 1011, 1081, 1094), 12 (except
SIC code 1241), 4911, 4931, 4939, 4953,
5169, 5171, and 7389.
Agency Contact: Lawrence A.
Reisman, Environmental Protection
Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides
and Toxic Substances, 7408,
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-2301
Fax: 202 401-8142
Email: reisman.larry@epa.gov
Maria Doa, Environmental Protection
Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides
and Toxic Substances, 7408
Phone: 202 401-8142
Fax: 202 260-9592
Email: doa.maria@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AD39
3466. TRI; CHEMICAL EXPANSION;
FINALI2ATION OF DEFERRED
CHEMICALS
Priority: Other Significant. Major status
under 5 USC 801 is undetermined.
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Legal Authority: 42 USC 11013; 42
USC 11023; 42 USC 11048; 42 USC
11076; EPCRA 313
CFR Citation: 40-CFR 372
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: On November 30, 1994, EPA
added'286 chemicals'and chemical
categories to the EPCRA section 313
list, including 39 chemicals as' part of
two delineated categories. Each
chemical and chemical category was
found to meet the statutory criteria
described in EPCRA section
313(d)(2)(A)-(C). At this time, EPA
deferred final action on 40 chemicals
and one chemical category until a later
date. These were deferred because the
comments received on them raised
difficult technical or policy issues
which required additional time to
address. EPA chose not to delay final
action on the 286 chemicals and
chemical categories because of the
additional time needed .to address the
issues surrounding the smaller group of
40 chemicals and one chemical
category; rather, EPA believed it to be
in the spirit of community right-to-
know to proceed with the final
rulemaking of the additional chemicals
and chemical categories.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 01/12/94 59 FR 1788
Final Finalizes Listing 11/30/94 59 FR 61432
of 286 Chemicals
iand Chemical
Categories
Supplemental NPRM 121/00/99
Deferred Chemicals
Final Action Deferred 12/00/00
Chemicals
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3007
Includes SIC codes: Manufacturing
industries in SIC codes 20-39 plus the
following industries and SIC codes:
Metal Mining (SIC code 10 except SIC
codes 1011, 1081, and 1094); Coal
Mining (SIC code 12 e>xcept SIC code
1241); Electric Utilities (SIC codes
4911, 4931, 4939); Commercial
Hazardous Waste Treatment (SIC code
4953); Chemicals and Allied Products-
Wholesale (SIC code 5169); Petroleum
Bulk Terminals and Plants (SIC code
5171); and, Solvent Recovery Services
(SIC code 7389).
Agency Contact: Daniel R. Bushman,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7408, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-3882
Fax: 202 401-8142
Email: bushman.daniel@epa.gov
Maria Doa, Environmental Protection
Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides
and Toxic Substances, 7408,
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-9592
Fax: 202 401-8142
Email: doa.maria@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AC47
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Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA)
Final Rule Stage
3457. TRI; REPORTING THRESHOLD
AMENDMENT FOR CERTAIN
PERSISTENT AND
BIOACCUMULATIVE TOXIC
CHEMICALS (PBTS)
Priority: Economically Significant.
Major under 5 USC 801.
Unfunded Mandates: This action may
affect State, local or tribal governments
and the private sector.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 11013 EPCRA
313; 42 USC 11023; 42 USC 11048; 42
USC 11076
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 372
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The Toxics Release Inventory
(TRI) currently requires reporting from
facilities which manufacture or process
at least 25,000 pounds of a listed
chemical, or otherwise use 10,000 Ibs
of a listed chemical. These thresholds
were initially established under the
Emergency Planning and Community
Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) section
313(f)(l). Section 313(f)(2) of EPCRA
gives the Administrator the power to
establish a threshold amount for a toxic
chemical different from the amount
established by paragraph (1) and that
such altered thresholds may be based
on classes of chemicals. EPA is
considering lowering the thresholds for
those chemicals which it determines to
be highly toxic at very low dose levels
and/or have physical, chemical, or
biological properties that make the
chemicals persist for extended periods
hi the environment, and/or
bioaccumulate through the food chain.
Persistent bioaccumulative toxic
chemicals are of particular concern in
ecosystems such as the Great Lakes
Basin due to the long retention time
of the individual lakes and the cycling
of the chemicals from one component
of the ecosystem to another.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
01/05/99 64FR688
09/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3880
OTHER DEADLINE: Presidential
Initiative with Final Rule in place and
effective -by 12/31/99. AFFECTED
SECTORS: Manufacturing industries in
SIC codes 20-39 plus the following
industries and SIC codes: Metal Mining
(SIC code 10 except SIC codes 1011,
1081, and 1094); Coal Mining (SIC code
12 except SIC code 1241); Electric
Utilities (SIC codes 4911, 4931, 4939);
Commercial Hazardous Waste
Treatment (SIC code 4953); Chemicals
and Allied Products-Wholesale (SIC
code 5169); Petroleum Bulk Terminals
and Plants (SIC code 5171); and,
Solvent Recovery Services .(SIC code
7389).
Agency Contact: Daniel R. Bushman,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7408, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-3882
Fax: 202 401-8142
Email: bushman.daniel@epa.gov
Maria Doa, Environmental Protection
Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides
and Toxic Substances, 7408,
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-9592
Fax: 202 401-8142
Email: doa.maria@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AD09
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA)
Long-Term Actions
3468. EMERGENCY PLANNING AND
COMMUNITY RIGHT-TO-KNOW ACT:
AMENDMENTS AND STREAMLINING
RULE
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 11002; 42
USC 11004; 42 USC 11048; 42 USC
11021; 42 USC 11022
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 355; 40 CFR 370
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This rule will address the
remaining issues from the proposed
rule of June 8, 1998. (Reporting
thresholds for gasoline and diesel fuel
at retail gas stations were included in
a separate final rule; 64 FR 7031,
February 11, 1999.) This rule will
include: reporting thresholds for rock
salt, sand, gravel and other chemicals
that pose minimal risk; plain language
rewrite; and may consider reporting
thresholds for facilities with some
similarities to gas stations (motor pools,
marinas, etc.) and guidance on
approaches to State flexibility.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
06/08/98 63 FR 31268
To Be Determined
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3215
Agency Contact: Meg Victor,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5104, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-1379
John Ferris, Environmental Protection
Agency, Solid Waste and Emergency
Response, 5104, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-4043
RIN: 2050-AE17
3469. RESPONSE TO A PETITION
REQUESTING DELETION OF
PHOSMET FROM THE EXTREMELY
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES (EHSS)
LIST
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 11002; 42
USC 11004; 42 USC 11048
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 355
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA has received a petition
to remove Phosmet from the extremely
hazardous substance (EHS) list under
the Emergency Planning and
Community Right-to-Know Act
(EPCRA). This rulemaking will address
the petitioner's claims.
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Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM To Be Determined
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3994
Agency Contact: _ Kathy Franklin,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5104, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-2250
Fax: 202 260-0927
RIN: 2050-AE42
3470. MODIFICATION OF THRESHOLD
PLANNING QUANTITY FOR
ISOPHORONE DIISOCYANATE
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 11002; 42
USC 11004; 42 USC 11048
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 355
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: On October 12,1994 (59 FR
51816), EPA proposed to modify the
listing of several chemicals on the
extremely hazardous substances (EHS)
list under the Emergency Planning and
Community Right-to-Know Act. One
petitioner requested the removal of
Isophorone diisocyanate (IPDI). EPA
rejected the petitioner's request.
However, in the review of the petition,
EPA noticed that there was an error in
the setting of the threshold planning
quantity (TPQ) for IPDI, and proposed
to correct the error in the October 12,
1994 notice of proposed nilemaking.
The other modifications to the EHS list
were made final on May 7,1996;
however, the TPQ for IPDI was not
included in that final rule. This rule
will finalize the TPQ for IPDI.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
Final Action
To Be Determined
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Sectors Affected: 325 Chemical
Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 3993
Agency Contact: Kathy Franklin,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5104, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-2250
Fax: 202 260-0927
RIN: 2050-AE43
3471. TRI; DATA EXPANSION
AMENDMENTS; TOXIC CHEMICAL
RELEASE REPORTING; COMMUNITY
RIGHT-TO-KNOW
Priority: Other Significant. Major status
under 5 USC 801 is undetermined.
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Legal Authority: 42 USC 11013 EPCRA;
42 USC 11023; 42 USC 11048; 42 USC
11076; 42 USC 13106
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 372
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The original Toxics Release
Inventory (TRI) required reporting from
manufacturing facilities on the releases
and other waste management activities
including waste treatment and disposal-
methods. This requirement was
imposed under the Emergency Planning
and Community Right-to-Know Act
(EPCRA) section 313(g). Information on
waste management practices, including
recycling, energy recovery, and source
reduction activities, were added to TRI
pursuant to the 1990 passage of the
Pollution Prevention Act. EPA is
currently considering whether
additional data elements related to a
mass balance/materials accounting
program should be considered for
incorporation into the TRI database.
The additional data elements included
for consideration include: quantity
brought on site; quantity produced on
site; quantity consumed on site;
quantity contained in or as product;
quantity stored on site as waste; and
beginning and ending raw materials
inventory. The issue of collecting mass
balance/materials accounting
information has been debated for over
a decade. Congress, in enacting EPCRA,
directed the National Academy of
Sciences (NAS) to study this issue
further. NAS recommended that the
issue of adding materials accounting
data merited further analysis. Because
of competing priorities, this project is
currently on hold. No activities are
planned for 1999.
Timetable:
Action
NPRM
NPRM
Date
10/01/96
12/00/00
FR Cite
61 FR51322
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3877
SECTORS AFFECTED: Manufacturing
industries in SIC codes 20-39 plus the
following industries and SIC codes:
Metal Mining (SIC code 10 except SIC
codes 101.1, 1081, and 1094); Coal
Mining (SIC code 12 except SIC code
1241); Electric Utilities (SIC codes
4911, 4931, 4939); Commercial
Hasiardous Waste Treatment (SIC code
4953); Chemicals and Allied Products-
Wholesale (SIC code 5169); Petroleum
Bulk Terminals and Plants (SIC code
5171); and, Solvent Recovery Services
(SIC code 7389).
Agency Contact: Sara Hisel-McCoy,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and
Toxic Substances, 7408, Washington,
DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-7937
Fax: 202 401-8142
Email: hisel-inccoy.sara@epa.gov
RIN: 2070-AD08
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Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA)
Completed Actions
3472. EMERGENCY PLANNING AND
COMMUNITY RIGHT-TO-KNOW
PROGRAMS; AMENDMENTS TO
HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL REPORTING
THRESHOLDS FOR GASOLINE AND
DIESEL FUEL AT RETAIL GAS
STATIONS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 370
Completed: ,
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Final Action
02/11/99 64 FR 7031
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Agency Contact: Meg Victor
Phone: 202 260-1379
John Ferris
Phone: 202 260-4043
RIN: 2050-AE58
3473. ACCIDENTAL RELEASE
PREVENTION REQUIREMENTS: RISK
MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS UNDER
THE CLEAN AIR ACT, SECTION
112(R)(7): AMENDMENT
Priority:, Other Significant
CFR Citaition: 40 CFR 68
Completed:
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Final Action
01/06/99 64FR963
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Agency Contact: Sicy Jacob
Phone: 202 260-7249
Fax: 202 260-0927
John Ferris
Phone: 202 260-4043
RIN: 2050-AE46
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
Prerule Stage
3474. HAZARDOUS WASTE STORAGE
AND DISPOSAL REGULATION
RELATED TO LOW LEVEL MIXED
WASTE; PROPOSED MODIFICATIONS
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise' text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
.Legal Authority: 42 USC 6905; 42 USC
6912(a); 42 USC 6921; 42 USC 6922;
42 USC 6924; 42 USC 6926
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 261.4; 40 CFR
262.34
Legal Deadline:
NPRM, Judicial, October 31, 1999.
Final, judicial, April 30, 2001.
Abstract: EPA is considering a
regulatory exemption from the RCRA
hazardous waste disposal requirements
for mixed low level waste (MLLW).
EPA will determine whether the
disposal of LLMW in facilities designed
to address radiological hazards which
are licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) will provide
adequate protection of human health
and the environment with respect to
chemical hazards. If the Agency
decides that such disposal is protective,
EPA will propose that for the purposes
of disposal these wastes meeting
requirements under the land disposal
restrictions program be conditionally
exempted from the RCRA subtitle C
disposal requirements. Commercial
mixed waste generators, particularly
nuclear power plants, contend that
NRC regulations covering design,
licensing and operation of low level
radioactive waste disposal facilities
offer human health and environmental
protection similar to that required by
EPA requirements governing chemical
hazards under RCRA regulations.
Furthermore, there is a serious shortage
of disposal capacity for MLLW. The
waste acceptance criteria of the only
dually regulated facility (i.e., having
both a RCRA permit and an NRC
license) severely limits the activity
levels of radionuclides they can
dispose. This rulemaking provides
alternatives to the disposal capacity
concern, EPA is also considering
alternatives to current EPA regulations
applicable to mixed waste storage. NRC
regulations also apply to storage of
commercial mixed waste. Current
RCRA regulation prohibits indefinite
storage of waste containing hazardous
constituents, despite the lack of
treatment technology or disposal
capacity for some mixed wastes.
Through this rulemaking action, EPA
seeks to explore regulatory alternatives
that could provide flexibility for MLLW
from hazardous waste storage
requirements while waste is subject to
NRC regulations and licensing
conditions.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
ANPRM
ANPRM Comment
Period End
NPRM
Final Action
03/01/99 64 FR 10063
04/15/99
10/00/99
04/00/01
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: State
Additional Information: SAN No. 4017
DOE mixed waste could exit RCRA if
disposed at commercial low level waste
disposal facilities.
Agency Contact: Rajani Joglekar,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5304W, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-8806
Fax: 703 308-0522
Email: joglekar.rajani@epa.gov
Nancy Hunt, Environmental Protection
Agency, Solid Waste and Emergency
Response, 5303W, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 703 308-8762
Fax: 703 308-8638
Email: hunt.nancy@epa.gov
RIN: 2050-AE45
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3475. REINVENTING THE LAND
DISPOSAL RESTRICTIONS PROGRAM
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 6905; 42 USC
6912(a); 42 USC 6921; 42 USC 6924
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 268
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The Land Disposal
Restrictions (LDR) program was
established to minimize threats posed
by the land disposal of untreated
hazardous wastes. The program has
boon in place for a number of years
and now regulates all but the most
recently listed hazardous wastes. The
Agency is now examining the LDR
program, exploring past
accomplishments, current issues, and
future possibilities. The goals of the
examination are to make the LDR
program cheaper, smarter, cleaner, and
more flexible. The Agency will develop
an Advance Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking (ANPRM) to present initial
thinking and the results of some
activities taken as part of the ongoing
LDR Reinvention Project so that the
public will have an opportunity to
comment. A proposed and final rule
will follow.
Timetable:
Action
ANPRM
NPRM
Date
09/00/99
09/00/00
FR Cite
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Sectors Affected: 325 Chemical
Manufacturing; 331 Primary Metal
Manufacturing; 2122 Metal Ore Mining;
32411 Petroleum Refineries
Additional Information: SAN No. 4093
Agency Contact: Sue Slotnick,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5302W, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-8462
RIN: 2050-AE53
3476. LAND DISPOSAL
RESTRICTIONS; POTENTIAL
flEVISIONS FOR MERCURY LISTED
AND CHARACTERISTIC WASTES
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 6905; 42 USC
6912(a); 42 USC 6921; 42 USC 6924
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 268
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This Advance Notice of
Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) will
solicit data and comments on treatment
data that the Agency has gathered on
the treatment of mercury wastes. Some
forms of mercury wastes are now
required to be treated by either
incineration or retorting. Both of these
forms of treatment have the potential
to emit mercury via air emissions. Also,
some information suggests that certain
waste types which are required to be
retorted are not amenable to that form
of treatment. There also is a shrinking
demand for mercury, which brings up
concerns about requiring recovery of
mercury wastes. The data and
information gathered by this ANPRM
process are intended to be used to
propose revised treatment standards for
some forms of mercury hazardous
wastes in a future rulemaking.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
ANPRM
04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Sectors Affected: 3353 Electrical
Equipment Manufacturing; 325181
Alkalies and Chlorine Manufacturing;
32551 Paint and Coating
Manufacturing; 3254 Pharmaceutical
and Medicine Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 4094
Agency Contact: Mary Cunningham,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5302W, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-8453
Fax: 703 308-8466
RIN: 2050-AE54
3477. REVIEW OF TOXICITY
CHARACTERISTIC LEVEL FOR
SILVER UNDER THE RESOURCE
CONSERVATION RECOVERY ACT
(RCRA)
Priority: Info./Admin./Other
Legal Authority: 42 USC 6905; 42 USC
6912(a); 42 USC 6921; 42 USC 6922;
42 USC 6938
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 261; 40 CFR 268
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action is a technical •
review of the possible risks associated
with management of silver-bearing
wastes and economic impacts of this
regulation, which is being conducted in.
response to petitions submitted to the
Agency to re-assess the toxicity
characteristic level for silver. EPA will
address all potential pathways for risks
from silver-bearing wastes, including
possible ecological effects.
Silver is on the toxicity characteristic
list because it was a regulated drinking
water contaminant. In January 1991, the
Agency deleted the primary drinking
water maximum contaminant level
(MCL) for silver based on consideration
that the major effect is "cosmetic" and
that silver is unlikely to occur- in
drinking water supplies. The
petitioners, users of silver materials and
silver waste generators, requested the
Agency to re-evaluate the basis for
silver's inclusion in the TC.
The Agency believes that before a
decision can be made to delete or
modify the toxicity characteristic level
for silver, a more complete assessment
of risks posed by management of silver-
bearing wastes must be conducted.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
Initial Study Complete 06/30/97
Peer Review 10/30/98
Complete
Final Study 04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
. Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3886
Agency Contact: Jan Young,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5307W, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-1568
Fax: 703 308-0522
RIN: 2050-AE37
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3478. RCRA REPORTING AND
RECORDKEEPING BURDEN
REDUCTION; NOTICE OF DATA
AVAILABILITY
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: PL 104-13; 42 USC
6907; 42 USC 6912(a); 42 USC 6921
to'6927; 42 USC 6930; 42 USC 6934;
42 USC 6935; 42 USC 6937 to 6939;
42 USC 6944; 42 USC 6949a; 42 USC
6974
CFR Citation: Not yet determined
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, The Paperwork
Reduction Act requires reduction of
record keeping and reporting burden by
2001.
Abstract: To comply with the
requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, EPA must •
reduce the information collection
burden associated with the reporting
and recordkeeping requirements
imposed on the regulated community
by the Agency's regulatory programs.
Information Collection Requests (ICRs)
approved by the Office of Management
and Budget provide a measure of the
reporting and recordkeeping
requirements associated with a
particular regulation. The Office of
Solid Waste (OSW) is conducting a
review of RCRA ICRs and developing
options _for reducing the associated
burden. OSW will solicit comment on
these ideas and estimates of actual
burden reduction hours in a Notice of
Data Availability. Comments on this
Notice will be considered when we
start preparing a proposed burden
reduction rulemaking.
Timetable:
Product Manufacturing; 334 Computer
and Electronic Product Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 4084
Agency Contact: Laurie Solomon,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5302W, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-8443 , -
Fax: 703 308-8433
Email: lsolomon@epa.gov
Robert Burchard, Environmental
Protection Agency, Solid Waste and
Emergency Response, 5302W,
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-8450
Fax: 703 308-7905
Email: rburchard@epa.gov
RIN: 2050-AE50
3479. RCRA APPENDIX VIII
STREAMLINING
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 6921
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 261
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract". This action will propose to
modify the list of chemicals found in
Appendix VIII of 40 CFR part 261 by:
(1) rearranging the Appendix into
groups of chemicals according to their
frequency of expected occurrence in
wastes; (2) clarifying ambiguous entries
currently on the Appendix such as
those marked "not otherwise
specified"; and (3) deleting those
chemicals for which the risk from
potential exposure is considered to be
minimal.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
Notice
NPRM
04/00/99
12/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Tribal, Federal
Sectors Affected: 325 Chemical
Manufacturing; 331 Primary Metal
Manufacturing; 332 Fabricated Metal
Action
Date
FR Cite
Phone: 703 308-0483
Fax: 703 308-0509
Email: barron.monica@epa.gov
RIN: 2050-AE55
3480. REGULATORY DETERMINATION
ON REMAINING WASTES FROM THE
COMBUSTION OF FOSSIL FUELS
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 692l(b)(3)(C) '
RCRA sec 3001[b)(3)(C)
CFR Citation: Not yet determined
Legal Deadline:
Other, Judicial, October 1, 1999,
Regulatory Determination for Phase II
Remaining Wastes.
Abstract: On December 1,1992, the
Agency determined that additional
study of four large-volume wastes — fly
ash, bottom ash, boiler slag and flue
gas emission control wastes — from the
combustion of coal by electric utility
power plants was not necessary. A
Final Regulatory Determination on
these wastes was signed on August 2,
1993 and published in the Federal
Register on August 9, 1993. The Agency
also determined that for the remaining
fossil-fuel combustion wastes,
additional data collection is necessary
to make a Regulatory Determination on
these wastes. A Final Regulatory
Determination will be made by October
1, 1999. These remaining wastes
include: (1) fly ash, bottom ash, boiler
slag, and flue gas emission control
wastes from the combustion of coal by
electric utility power plants when such
wastes are mixed with, co-disposed, co-
treated, or otherwise co-managed with
other wastes generated in conjunction
with the combustion of coal or other
fossil fuels, and (2) any other wastes
subject to section 8002(n) of RCRA
other than those subject to the August
1993 regulatory determination
referenced above.
Timetable:
ANPRM 04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 4090
Agency Contact: Dr. Monica A. Barron,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5307W, Washington, DC 20460
Action
Date
FR Cite
02/12/93 58 FR 8273
08/09/93 58 FR 42466
Notice of Availability
Regulatory
Determination
(Phase I Four Fossil
Fuel Wastes)
Regulatory 04/00/99
Determination
(Phase II Remaining
Wastes)
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
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Government Levels Affected:
Undetermined
Additional Information: SAN No. 3201
Agency Contact: Dennis Ruddy,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5306W, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-8430
RIN: 2050-AD91
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
Proposed Rule Stage
3481. MODIFICATIONS TO RCRA
RULES ASSOCIATED WITH SOLVENT-
CONTAMINATED SHOP TOWELS AND
WIPERS
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 6921
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 261; 40 CFR 268
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action would modify
RCRA rules that impact the
management of solvent-contaminated
shop towels and wipers. Solvent-
contaminated shop towels and wipers
are used throughout industry for
equipment cleaning and other related
facility operations. Many times the
spent shop towels and wipers are a
hazardous waste because the solvent
used is either a characteristic or listed
solvent. An examination of industry
use and management practices reveals
that many facilities may use only small
amounts of solvent on their disposable
wipers, and use small numbers of
wipers daily - suggesting that these
materials, particularly if listed solvents
are being used, may pose little or no
risk to human health and the
environment if disposed in municipal
landfills. Similarly, situations exist
where both disposable wipers and
reusable shop towels are not being
managed according to prescribed
Federal and States' rules and policies.
Problems with this issue have persisted
since the late 1980s.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
01/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entitles Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State
Sectors Affected: 323 Printing and
Related Support Activities; 325
Chemical Manufacturing; 332
Fabricated Metal Product
Manufacturing; 333 Machinery
Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 4091
Agency Contact: Jim O'Leary,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response;
5304W, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-8827
Fax: 703 308-0514
Email: oleary.jim@epa.gov
RIN: 2050-AE51
3482. GLASS-TO-GLASS RECYCLING
OF CATHODE RAY TUBES (CRTS):
CHANGES TO HAZARDOUS WASTE
REGULATIONS
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
. Government effort. It will revise text in
' the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 6912(a); 42
USC 6921; 42 USC 6922; 42 USC 6923;
42 USC 6924; 42 USC 6925
CFR Citation: Not yet determined
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action will revise the
existing Federal hazardous waste
regulations to remove unnecessary
regulatory barriers to glass-to-glass
recycling of Cathode Ray Tubes (CRTs).
A CRT is the main component of a
television or computer monitor. A CRT
is made largely of specialized glasses,
some of which contain lead to protect
the user from X-rays inside the CRT.
.Due to the lead, when they are
disposed of or reclaimed, some CRTs
are hazardous wastes under the Federal
Resource Conservation and Recovery
Act (RCRA) regulations. Glass-to-glass
recycling involves the return of used
CRT glass to manufacturing of new
CRTs.
This action is planned in response to
a June 9, 1998 recommendation on CRT
recycling from the Common Sense
Initiative (CSI) Council to the
Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA). CSI is a consensus-based process
for developing cleaner, cheaper, smarter
environmental improvements that
includes representatives of: industry;
environmental groups; community
groups; environmental justice groups;
labor; and, Federal, State, local, and
tribal governments. The
recommendation involves minimizing
RCRA requirements for glass-to-glass
recycling while retaining appropriate
controls to ensure protection of human
health and the environment. The goal
of the recommendation is to facilitate
an increase in glass-to-glass recycling,
thereby minimizing disposal of lead,
increasing resource recovery, and
enhancing protection of human health
and the environment.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
10/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Sectors Affected: 334411 Electron
Tube Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 4092
Agency Contact: Javier Garcia,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5304W, Washington, T)C 20460
Phone: 703 308-2628
Fax: 703 308-0514
Email: garcia.javiera@.epa.gov
RIN: 2050-AE52
3483. • LAND DISPOSAL
RESTRICTIONS; TREATMENT
STANDARDS FOR SPENT POTLINERS
FROM PRIMARY ALUMINUM
REDUCTION (K088)
Priority: Other Significant
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
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Legal Authority: 42 USC 6905; 42 USC
6912(a); 42 USC 6921; 42 USG 6924
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 268; 40 CFR 271
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: On September 21, 1998, the
Agency promulgated interim treatment
standards for spent potliners from
primary aluminum reduction (EPA
hazardous Waste K088). In this rule,
the Agency committed to establishing
final treatment standards within the
next two years. The Agency heeds to
gather data, review treatment
technologies and develop, treatment
standards for arsenic and fluoride based
on this new analysis.sln addition, the -
Agency must evaluate alternative
treatment technologies for the thermal
destruction of K088. In particular, the
Agency will assess the effectiveness of
vitrification on K088 waste.
Vitrification treatment enables K088 to
be treated while generating a "product"
from the vitrified K088. EPA, however,
needs to determine whether control
technologies are appropriate for the
vitrification units.
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM 10/00/99
Final 10/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Sectors Affected: 3334 Ventilation,
Heating, Air-Conditioning and
Commercial Refrigeration Equipment
Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 4233
Agency Contact: Elaine Eby,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5302W, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-8449
Katrin Krall, Environmental Protection
Agency, Solid Waste and Emergency
Response, 5302W, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 703 308-6120
RIN: 2050-AE65
3484. » RE-VISIONS TO GUIDELINES
FOR THE STORAGE AND
COLLECTION OF RESIDENTIAL,
COMMERCIAL, AND INSTITUTIONAL
SOLID WASTE
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 6907; 42 USC
6912; 42 USC 6944
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 243
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA promulgated Guidelines
for the Storage and Collection of
Residential, Commercial, and
.Institutional Solid Waste in 1976.
These guidelines referenced safety
standards that are now obsolete. The
Agency was petitioned to incorporate
current safety standards. Two sections
are revised. The revisions amend the •
requirements for waste containers used
for the storage of both solid waste and
materials that have been separated for
the purpose of recycling. The safety
requirements for mobile equipment and
stationary, compactors are revised.
Timetable:
3485. * REVISIONS TO SOLID WASTE
LANDFILL CRITERIA—LEACHATE
RECIRCULATION
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 6907; 42 USC
6912; 42 USC 6944; 42 USC 6949
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 258
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The Agency is reviewing and
evaluating the technology of leachate
recirculation in municipal solid waste
landfills (MSWLFs). If sufficient data is
found to justify a change in the
regulations, we will propose to revise
the regulations to allow leachate
recirculation in units constructed with
alternative liner designs resulting in a
significant cost savings to some
facilities.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Direct Final Rule
04/00/99
04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Sectors Affected: 562 Waste
Management and Remediation Services
Additional Information: SAN No. 4229
Agency Contact: Allen Geswein,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5306W, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-7261
Fax: 703 308-8686
Email: geswein.allen@epa.gov
Deborah Hanlon, Environmental
Protection Agency, Solid Waste and
Emergency Response, 5306W,
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-5824
Fax: 703 308-8686
Email: hanlon.deborah@epa.gov
RIN: 2050-AE66
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Sectors Affected: 562 Waste
Management and Remediation Services
Additional Information: SAN No. 4230
Agency Contact: Allen Geswein,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5306W, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-7261
Fax: 703 308-8686
Email: geswein.allen@.epa.gov
Deborah Hanlon, Environmental
Protection, Agency, Solid Waste and
Emergency Response, 5306W,
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-5824
Fax: 703 308-8686
Email: hanlon.deborah@epa.gov
RIN: 2050-AE67
3486. PAINT MANUFACTURING
WASTES LISTING: HAZARDOUS
WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM:
IDENTIFICATION AND LISTING OF
HAZARDOUS WASTE
Priority: Other Significant. Major status
under 5 USC 801 is undetermined.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 6905; 42 USC
6912(a); 42 USC 6921; 42 USC 6922;
42 USC 6926; 42 USC 6938; 42 USC
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9602; 42 USC 9603; 42 USC 9604; 33
USC 1321; 33 USC 1361
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 261; 40 CFR 271;
40 CFR 302
Legal Deadline:
NPRM, Statutory, February 8, 1986.
NPRM, Judicial, February 29, 2000.
Abstract: This action addresses the
potential risks posed by wastes from
the production of paints, and
determines whether these wastes
should be listed as hazardous under
RCRA to control any potentially
unacceptable risks. Any new wastes
listed as hazardous will also be added
to the CERCLA list of hazardous
substances. This action will be
implemented by EPA and States
authorized under RCRA. Impacts on
local governments are not expected,
and small business impacts are
undetermined.
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM 02/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Government Levels Affected: State,
Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3805
Agency Contact: Ron Josephson,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
S304W, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-0442
RIN: 2050-AE32
3487. MERCURY-CONTAINING AND
RECHARGEABLE BATTERY
MANAGEMENT ACT; CODIFICATION
OF WASTE MANAGEMENT
PROVISIONS
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 14303
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 271; 40 CFR 273
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The purpose of this rule is
to codify into the Code of Federal
Regulations certain provisions of the
Mercury-Containing and Rechargeable
Battery Management Act that impact
the May 11,1995 Universal Waste Rule
(60 FR 25492). The Act was signed by
the President on May 13, 1996 and
became immediately effective
nationwide on the date of signature.
Specifically, one provision of the law
requires the collection, storage, and
transportation of the following types of
batteries be managed according to
standards established in the Universal
Waste Rule: used rechargeable batteries,
lead-acid batteries not covered by 40
CFR part 266 or the equivalent
requirements of an approved state
program, rechargeable alkaline
batteries, certain mercury-containing
batteries banned from domestic sale,
and used consumer products containing
rechargeable batteries that are not easily
removable. The law prohibits State
imposed requirements that are not
identical to those found in the Federal
Universal Waste Rule, but allows States
to adopt and enforce identical
standards and to implement and
enforce collection, storage, and
transport requirements identical to
those included in the universal waste
rule if the standards are approved by
the EPA Administrator.
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM 07/00/99
Direct Final Rule 07/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local
Additional Information: SAN No. 3888
Agency Contact: Bryan Groce,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5304W, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-8750
Fax: 703 308-0522
RIN: 2050-AE39
3488. REMOVAL OF REQUIREMENT
TO USE SW-846 METHODS (TEST
METHODS FOR EVALUATING SOLID
WASTE: PHYSICAL/CHEMICAL
METHODS)
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will eliminate
existing text in the CFR.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 6905; 42 USC
6912(a); 42 USC 6921 to 6927; 42 USC
6930; 42 USC 6934 to 6939; 42 USC
6974; 42 USC 9601(37); 42 USC 9614(c)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 258; 40 CFR 260;
40 CFR 261; 40 CFR 264; 40 CFR 265;
40 CFR 266; 40 CFR 270; 40 CFR 279
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The EPA Office of Solid
Waste (OSW) has been actively working
to break down the barriers that the
environmental monitoring community
faces when trying to use new
monitoring techniques. As a first step,
OSW has accelerated its review process
for new methods by eliminating several
unnecessary internal review steps, and
by streamlining the internal approval
process for each new method. However,
there are currently 32 citations in title
40 of the Code of Federal Regulations
(CFR) where the use of SW-846
methods is required. As a second step
for speeding up the approval process,
OSW plans to remove the requirements
to use SW-846 methods for other than
method defined parameters (i.e., where
the method defines the regulations,
such as the Toxicity Characteristic
Leaching Procedure) from 40 CFR. This
will likely lead to an ,gven more
streamlined approval process since SW-
846 will then be able to be handled
strictly as guidance and not need the
regulatory process for approval. This
additional streamlining will permit
new, more cost-effective methods to
attain public and regulatory authority
acceptance in much less time, allowing
required monitoring to be done more
cheaply, faster and, in some cases,
more accurately.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 05/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3989
Agency Contact: Barry Lesnik,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5307W, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-0476
Fax: 703 308-0511
Email: lesnik.barry@epa.gov
RIN: 2050-AE41
34139. STANDARDIZED PERMIT FOR
RCRA HAZARDOUS WASTE
MANAGEMENT FACILITIES
Priority: Other Significant .
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
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duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 6905; 42 USC
6912; 42 USC 6924; 42 USC 6925; 42
USC 6927; 42 USC 6939; 42 USC 6974
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 124; 40 CFR 267;
40 CFR 270
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This rulemaking will allow
a type of general permit, called a
standardized permit, for facilities that
generate waste and routinely manage
the waste on-site in tanks, containers,
and containment buildings. Under the
standardized permit, facility owners
and operators would certify compliance
with generic design and operating
conditions set on a national basis. The
permitting agency would review the
certifications submitted by the facility
owners or operators. The permitting
agency would also be able to impose
additional site-specific terms and
conditions for corrective action or other
purposes, as called for by RCRA.
Ensuring compliance with the
standardized permit's terms and
conditions would occur during
inspection of the facility after the
permit has been issued.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
09/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Federal
Sectors Affected: 3251 Basic Chemical
Manufacturing; 325211 Plastics
Material and .Resin Manufacturing;
32551 Paint and Coating
Manufacturing; 3252 Resin, Synthetic
Rubber, and Artificial and Synthetic
Fibers and Filaments Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 4028
Agency Contact: Vernon Myers,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5303W, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-8660
Fax: 703 308-8609
RIN: 2050-AE44
3490. « PROPOSED REGULATORY
AMENDMENTS ON RECYCLING OF
HAZARDOUS WASTES IN
FERTILIZERS
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 1006 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 261; 40 CFR 266;
40 CFR 268; 40 CFR 271
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This rulemaking is intended
to revise the current RCRA regulations
that apply to recycling of hazardous
wastes in the manufacture of fertilizers.
Exemptions from RCRA standards are
currently provided for some hazardous
wastes used in this manner, while other
hazardous wastes that may be more
suitable as fertilizer ingredients are
subject to stringent-regulatory
requirements that can discourage
legitimate recycling practices. This
rulemaking effort is intended to
establish a more consistent regulatory
framework for this practice, to remove
current regulatory disincentives to
legitimate recycling of hazardous
wastes in fertilizer products, and to
establish a set of standards for
contaminant concentrations in
hazardous waste-derived fertilizers that
are more appropriate to fertilizers and
which are protective of human health
and the environment.
These regulatory revisions will directly
affect companies that manufacture zinc
micronutrient fertilizers from hazardous
wastes, and is likely to benefit such
manufacturers that are small businesses
by removing regulatory disincentives to
recycling.
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
01/00/00
01/00/01
Regulator/ Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Federal
Sectors Affected: 331492 Secondary
Smelting, Refining, and Alloying of
Nonferrous Metal (except Copper and
Aluminum); 325188 All Other Basic
Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing;
331419 Primary Smelting and Refining
of Nonferrous Metal (except Copper
and Aluminum); 331111 Iron and Steel
Mills; 562112 Hazardous Waste
Collection; 32531 Fertilizer
Manufacturing
Additional! information: SAN No. 4208
Agency Contact: Dave Fagan,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5301W, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-0603
Fax: 703 308-0513
Email: fagan.david@epa.gov
Mitch Kidwell, Environmental
Protection Agency, Solid Waste and
Emergency Response, 5304W,
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-8644
RIN: 2050-AE69
3491. CHLORINATED ALIPHATICS
LISTING DETERMINATION
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 6921 RCRA
sec 3001; 42 USC 9602 Superfund
(GERCLA) sec 102
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 261; 40 CFR 264;
40 CFR 265; 40 CFR 271; 40 CFR 302
Legal Deadline:
NPRM, Judicial, July 31, 1999.
Final, Judicial, September 30, 2000.
Abstract: This action addresses the
potential risks posed by wastes from
the production of chlorinated
aliphatics, and determines whether
these wastes should be listed as
hazardous wastes under RCRA to
control any potentially unacceptable
risks. Any wastes newly listed as
hazardous also will be added to the
CERCLA list of hazardous substances.
This action will be implemented by
EPA and States authorized under
RCRA. Impacts on local governments
are not expected, and small business
impacts are undetermined.
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM
07/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Government Levels Affected: State,
Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3151
Agency Contact: Wanda Levine,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5304W, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-0438
RIN: 2050-AD85
3492. HAZARDOUS WASTE
IDENTIFICATION RULE (HWIR):
IDENTIFICATION AND LISTING OF
HAZARDOUS WASTES
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
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Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 6905 RCRA
sec 1006; 42 USC 6912(a) RCRA sec
2002(a); 42 USC 6921 RCRA sec 3001;
42 USC 6922 RCRA sec 3002; 42 USC
6926 RCRA sec 3006
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 260; 40 CFR 261;
40 CFR 262; 40 CFR 264; 40 CFR 268
Legal Deadline:
Other, Judicial, October 31, 1999,
Reproposal.
Final, Judicial, April 30, 2001.
Abstract: Under the current Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
Mixture and Derived From rules, some
low-risk wastes are currently regulated
by the EPA's hazardous waste
regulations. To address this, EPA will
make modifications -to the Mixture and
Derived From rules and establish new
criteria that would provide the option
to exempt certain lower risk wastes
from the hazardous waste regulations.
In developing the 1995 proposal, EPA
considered the views of all members
of a Federal Advisory Committee Act
(FACA) committee. EPA will use the
comments from the 1995 proposal to
develop a reproposal by October 1999.
Because this action is deregulatory, it
is not expected to have adverse impacts
on small business. This action will be
implemented by EPA and authorized
States.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
NPRM Withdrawn
NPRM Reproposal
NPRM Reproposal
Final
05/20/92 57 FR 21450
10/30/92 57 FR 49280
12/21/95 60 FR 66344
10/00/99
04/00/01
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Federal
Sectors Affected: 325 Chemical
Manufacturing; 324 Petroleum and Coal
Products Manufacturing; 331 Primary
Metal Manufacturing; 332 Fabricated
Metal Product Manufacturing
Additional Information: SAN No. 3328
Agency Contact: Adam Klinger,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
S304W, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-3267
RIN: 2050-AE07
3493. LISTING DETERMINATION OF
WASTES GENERATED DURING THE
MANUFACTURE OF AZO,
ANTHRAQUINONE, AND
TRIARYLMETHANE DYES AND
PIGMENTS
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 6921 RCRA
sec 3001; 42 USC 9602 Superfund
(CERCLA) sec 102
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 261; 40 CFR 264;
40 CFR 265; 40 CFR 271; 40 CFR 302
Legal Deadline:
NPRM, Judicial, March 31, 1999, Dyes
n (deferred wastes). EPA is negotiating
an extension.
Other, Judicial, May 1, 1999, Dyes I
Notice of Data Availability.
Final, Judicial, March 31, 2000, Dyes
I - 05/01/00-Dyes II - 03/31/00.
Abstract: This action addresses the
potential human health and
environmental risks posed by wastes
from the manufacture of dyes and
pigments, and determines whether
these wastes should be listed as
hazardous wastes under RCRA to
control any potentially unacceptable
risks. If listed under RCRA, these
wastes would also be added to the
CERCLA list of hazardous substances.
This action will be implemented by
EPA and States authorized under
RCRA. Impacts on local governments
are not expected, and small business
impacts are undetermined at this time.
EPA proposed listing decisions for most
wastes in 1994 (Dyes-I), and deferred
decisions on several others. Two
deferred waste streams (filter aids,
triarylmethane, and sludges) are subject
to separate deadlines for proposed and
final action (Dyes n rulemaking). The
rule proposed in 1994 was incomplete
because it did not contain information
confidential by industry. Therefore, a
NODA will be necessary, when EPA is
able to release an adequate record. The
deadlines are based on recent
settlement discussions with plaintiffs in
EOF v. Browner, Civil Action No. 89-
0598 D.D.C.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM Dyes I
NPRM Dyes II
(Deferred Wastes)
Notice Dyes I (Notice 05/00/99
of Data Availability)
Final Action Dyes 11 03/00/00
(Deferred Wastes)
Final Action Dyes I 05/00/00
12/22/94 59 FR 66072
04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Giovernment Levels Affected: State,
Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3066
Agency Contact: Robert Kayser,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5304W, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-7304
Narendra Chaudhari, Environmental
Protection Agency, Solid Waste and
Emergency Response, 5304W,
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-0454
RIN: 2050-AD80
3494. HAZARDOUS WASTE MANIFEST
REGULATION
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 6922 RCRA
sec 3002; 42 USC 6923 RCRA sec 3003;
42 USC 6926 RCRA sec 3006
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 260; 40 CFR 261;
40 CFR 262; 40 CFR 263; 40 CFR 264;
40 CFR 265; 40 CFR 270; 40 CFR 271
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The Uniform Hazardous
Waste Manifest (Form. 8700-22) is a
multi-copy form used to identify the
quantity, composition, origin, routing,
and destination of hazardous waste
during its transportation. The manifest
system's reliance on paper results in
significant paperwork and cost burden
to waste handlers and States who
collect manifest information. The
Agency intends to pursue an optional
approach to redesign the manifest
system so that it utilizes .automated
technologies to increase access to
manifest related information, and to
facilitate the manifest process,
including the form's preparation,
transmission, and recordkeeping,
thereby lessening the total burden on
waste handlers and States.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 12/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
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Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3147
Agency Contact: Ann Codrington,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5304W, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-8825
Rich Lashier, Environmental Protection
Agency, Solid Waste and Emergency
Response, 5304W, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 703 308-8796
RIN: 2050-AE21
3495. RCRA SUBTITLE C FINANCIAL
TEST CRITERIA (REVISION)
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce hurden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 6912(a) RCRA
sec 2002(a); 42 USC 6924 RCRA sec
3004; 42 USC 6925 RCRA sec 3005; 42
USC 6926 RCRA sec 3006
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 264; 40 CFR 265;
40 CFR 280; 40 CFR 761
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The revised financial
responsibility test is intended to
improve the current test in predicting
which firms will enter bankruptcy and
not be able to. cover their financial
obligations for liability and closure
costs of hazardous waste treatment,
storage and disposal facilities. A
bankrupt firm may be unable to afford
the proper closure of a facility which
would require the government to incur
response costs at the facility. The rule
would also qualify owners and
operators of RCRA Treatment, Storage,
and Disposal Facilities which must
currently use more expensive ways,
such as surety bonds or letters of credit,
of demonstrating financial assurance, to
use the less expensive corporate
financial responsibility test for more of
their obligations. The combined savings
from screening out riskier firms and
making the test more available to viable
firms would be approximately $19
million annually in public and private
costs. These regulatory amendments
would have no effect on local or tribal
governments.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 07/01/91 56 FR 30201
NPRM 10/12/94 59 FR 51523
Notice Notice of Data 11/00/99
Availability
Final Action 06/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 2647
Agency Contact: Dale.Ruhter,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5303W, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-8192
RIN: 2050-AC71
3496. MANAGEMENT OF CEMENT
KILN DUST (CKD)
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or s.treamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 6912(a) RCRA
sec 2002(a); 42 USC 6921(a) RCRA sec
3001 (a)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 259; 40 CFR 261;
40 CFR 264; 40 CFR 266
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: CKD is a high volume
material by-product of the cement
manufacturing process. While it
contains potentially hazardous
constituents such as lead, cadmium and
chromium, it has been exempted since
November 1980 from hazardous waste
regulation under RCRA Subtitle C by
the Bevill Amendment, which modified
Section 3001 of RCRA to exempt
certain special wastes until further
studies could be completed and any
applicable regulations were
promulgated. In December 1993, EPA
submitted a Report to Congress with its
findings on the nature and management
practices associated with CKD. This
was followed in January 1995 by an
EPA regulatory determination
published in the Federal Register (60 .
FR 7366, 2/7/95), which concluded that
additional control of CKD is warranted.
In the regulatory determination EPA
committed to develop additional
tailored regulations under RCRA
Subtitle C and,, if necessary, the Clean
Air Act. As part of its regulatory
development effort, the Office of Solid
Waste within EPA's Office of Solid
Waste and Emergency Response has
initiated further studies and has held
informal discussions with stakeholders
interested in regulations under RCRA
Subtitle C for the management of CKD.
The proposed regulations will be
tailored to protect human health and
the environment while limiting burden
on the regulated community.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3856
Agency Contact: William Schoenborn,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5306W, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-8483
RIN: 2050-AE34
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
Final Rule Stage
3497. RECYCLED USED OIL
CONTAINING PCBS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 9601(37); 42
USC 9614(c); 42 USC 6905; 42 USC
6912(a); 42 USC 6921 to 6927; 42 USC
8930; 42 USC 6934; 42 USC 6974
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 261; 40 CFR 279
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The direct final rule,.
published May 6, 1998, eliminates
errors and clarifies ambiguities in the
used oil management standards.
Specifically, the rule clarifies (1) when
used oil contaminated with
polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) is
regulated under the used oil
management standards and when it is
not, (2) that the requirements
applicable to releases of used oil apply
in States that are not authorized for the
RCRA base program, (3) that mixtures
of conditionally exempt small quantity
generator (CESQG) wastes and used oil
are subject to the used oil management
standards irrespective of how that
mixture is to be recycled, and (4) that
the initial marketer of used oil that
meets the used oil fuel specification
need only keep a record of a shipment
of used oil to the facility to which the
initial marketer delivers the used oil.
This rule also amends three incorrect
references to the pre-1992 used oil
specifications in the provisions which
address hazardous waste fuel produced
from, or oil reclaimed from, oil bearing
hazardous wastes from petroleum
refining operations.
EPA received relevant adverse
comments on three of the amendments
included in the May 6, 1998 direct final
rule: the amendments to 40 CFR
261.5(j) (mixtures of conditionally
exempt small quantity generator waste
and used oil), 40 CFR 279.lO(i)
(applicability of the used oil
management standards to used oil
contaminated with polychlorinated
biphenyls (PCBs)), and 40 CFR
2 79.74 (b) (recordkeeping requirements
for marketers of used oil that meets the
used oil fuel specification). On July 14,
1998, the Agency removed these three
amendments and reinstated the
regulatory text that existed prior to the
May 8,1998 direct final rule. EPA will
promulgate a final rule addressing the
comments received and finalizing the
three amendments, as appropriate.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Direct Final Rule
Removal of 3
Amendments
Final Action
05/06/98 63 FR 25006
05/06/98 63 FR 24963
07/14/98 63 FR 37780
05/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State
Additional Information: SAN No. 4088
Agency Contact: Tom Rinehart,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5304W, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-4309
RIN: 2050-AE47
3498. • 180-DAY ACCUMULATION
TIME UNDER RCRA FOR
GENERATORS OF F006 WASTE
WATER TREATMENT SLUDGES FROM
THE METAL FINISHING INDUSTRY
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 6922
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 262
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA is proposing to allow
generators of F006 waste (sludges from
the treatment of electroplating
wastewaters) up to 180 days (or up to
270 days, if applicable) to accumulate
F006 waste without a RCRA permit or
interim status, provided that F006
waste generators: 1) recycle the F006
waste by metals recovery, 2)
accumulate no more than 16,000
kilograms of F006 waste at any one
time, 3) have implemented pollution
prevention practices that reduce the
volume or toxicity of the F006 waste
or that make it more amenable for
metals recovery, and 4) comply with
the applicable management standards.
EPA believes that the 180-day
accumulation time would minimize
economic barriers to recycling of F006
waste through metals recovery, thus
providing generators of F006 waste
with an incentive to choose metals
recovery over treatment and land
disposal as their waste management
option for F006 waste. The proposed
rule is part of the Agency's efforts
under the Common Sense Initiative
(CSI) for the Metal Finishing Industry
to identify and to implement cleaner,
cheaper, and smarter opportunities for
environmental protection.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
02/01/99 64 FR 4818
02/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4178
Agency Contact: Chip Vitarelli,
Environmental Protection-Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5304W, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-8286
Fax: 703 308-0514
Email: vitarelli.chip@epa.gov
RIN: 2050-AE60
3499. FINAL DETERMINATION OF THE
APPLICABILITY OF THE TOXICITY
CHARACTERISTIC RULE TO
UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANKS,
CONTAMINATED MEDIA, AND DEBRIS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 6921 RCRA
sec 3001
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 261
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: In the final hazardous waste
Toxicity Characteristic (TC) rule
published in June 1990, EPA decided
to temporarily defer application of the
TC rule to petroleum-contaminated
media and debris, such as soils and
groundwater, that result from
underground storage tank (UST)
corrective actions. This rule is part of
the Agency's commitment to make a
final determination regarding the UST
temporary deferral. The temporary
deferral was, in part, based on the
Agency's concern that without such a
deferral, UST cleanup procedures
would be adversely affected, resulting
in delays in remedial action and
increases in remediation costs. Since
this action is deregulatory, there are no
adverse effects on small businesses, or
on State, local, or tribal governments.
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EPA—RCRA
Final Rule Stage
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
02/12/93 58 FR 8504
12/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected:
Undetermined
Additional Information: SAN No. 3189
Agency Contact: Sammy Ng,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5401G, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 603-9900
RIN: 2050-AD69
3500. HAZARDOUS WASTE
MANAGEMENT SYSTEM;
MODIFICATION OF THE HAZARDOUS
WASTE PROGRAM; HAZARDOUS
WASTE LAMPS
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 6905; 42 USC
6912;.42 USC 6921; 42 USC 6922; 42
USC 6923; 42 USC 6930; 42 USC 6938
CFR Citation: 40 CFK 273
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This final rulemaking
addresses the management of spent
hazardous waste lamps. The
rulemaking is hased on data which
indicate that these lamps may be safely
managed outside of the full subtitle C
requirements of the RCRA hazardous
waste system, using a streamlined
regulatory structure under RCRA. The
rule would have positive impacts on
small businesses and State, local and
tribal governments interested in
collecting and managing lamps.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
07/27/94 59 FR 38288
05/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional information: SAN No. 3237
Agency Contact: Marilyn Goode,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5304W, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-8800
Fax: 703 308-0522
Email: goode.marilyn@epa.gov
Marybeth Sheridan, Environmental
Protection Agency, Solid Waste and
Emergency Response, 5304W,
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-4941
Fax: 703 308-0522
Email: sheridan.marybeth@epa.gov
RlN: 2050-AD93
3501. REVISED STANDARDS FOR
HAZARDOUS WASTE COMBUSTION
FACILITIES
Priority: Economically Significant.
Major under 5 USC 801.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 6924 RCRA
sec 3004; 42 USC 6925 RCRA sec 3005;
42 USC 7412 CAA sec 112; 42 USC
7414 CAA sec 114
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 60; 40 CFR 63;
40 CFR 260; 40 CFR 264; 40 CFR 265;
40 CFR 266; 40 CFR 270
Legal Deadline:
Final, Judicial, February 28, 1999,
Settlement agreement: industrial
furnaces and incinerators.
Abstract: The Environmental
Protection Agency's (EPA's) strategy for
hazardous waste minimization and
combustion and a Judicial settlement
agreement commit EPA to upgrade its
standards for burning hazardous waste
in incinerators, boilers, and industrial
furnaces.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM Cement Kilns & 04/19/96 61 FR 17358
Lightweight
Aggregate Kilns &
Incinerators
Final Action MACT 06/19/98 63 FR 33782
Fasttrack
Final Action Cement 07/00/99
Kilns & LWAKs &
Incinerators
NPRM Boilers & Other 01/00/01 *
Industrial Furnaces
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State
Additional Information: SAN No. 3333
Agency Contact: Larry Denyer,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5302W, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-8770
Fax: 703 308-8433
Email: denyer.larry@epa.gov
RIN: 2050-AE01
3502. REVISIONS TO THE
COMPREHENSIVE GUIDELINE FOR
PROCUREMENT OF PRODUCTS
CONTAINING RECOVERED
MATERIALS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Reinventing Government: This .
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority; 42 USC 6912(a) RCRA
sec 6002(e)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 247
Legal Deadline: None
•Abstract: RCRA section 6002 and E.O.
13101 require EPA to issue guidelines
in the Federal Register which designate
items that are or can be made with
recovered materials and to issue
recommendations for government
procurement of these items. Once
designated, procuring agencies are
required to purchase these items with
the highest percentage of recovered
materials practicable. Government
procurement of EPA-designated items
containing recovered materials fosters
markets for recovered materials and,
thereby, closes the recycling loop. To
date, EPA has designated 36 items
under two Comprehensive Procurement
Guidelines (CPGl and CPG2) and
proposed to designate 19 more items
under CPG3. EPA has also issued a
Recovered Materials Advisory Notice
(RMAN) with each CPG'which provides
recommendations on buying the
designated items. The E.O. requires
EPA to update the CPG every two
years. The new actions would (1)
finalize the designation of items and
recommendations proposed in CPG3;
(2) propose to designate new items in
CPG4; and (3] issue final item
designations in CPG4.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
Notice--Paper 06/08/98 63 FR 31214
Products Recovered
Materials Advisory
Notice
Notice--Recovered 06/08/98 63 FR 31217
Materials Advisory •
Notice I Update
NPRM(CPGS) 08/26/98 63 FR 45558
Final Action (CPG3) 06/00/99 '
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EPA—RCRA
Final Rule Stage
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM (CPG4)
Final Action (CPG4)
07/00/99
12/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions
Government Levefe Affected: State,
Local, Federal
Agency Contact: Terry Grist,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5306W, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-7257
Additional Information: SAN No. 3545 BIN: 2050-AE23
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
Long-Term Actions
3503. • SUSPENSION OF
TEMPORARY TOXICITY
CHARACTERISTIC RULE FOR
SPECIFIC LEAD-BASED PAINT
DEBRIS
Priority: Economically Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 6905; 42 USC
6912(a); 42 USC 6921; 42 USC 6922;
42 USC 6938
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 261
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: Currently, waste derived from
lead-based paint (LBP) abatements is
managed under the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
hazardous waste regulations. Other
Federal agencies (Department of
Housing and Urban Development,
Department of Health and Human
Services) and several States and
advocacy groups have expressed
concern that the costs associated with '
the disposal of large volunie
architectural components (e.g., doors
and windows) may interfere with
abatement activities. EPA's Office of
Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic
Substances (OPPTS) and die Office of
Solid Waste have proposed a joint
rulemaking to address the disposal of
these architectural components. (See
also RIN 2070-AC72 .) The final rule
being prepared by OPPTS would
develop disposal and management
standards for these components under
the Toxic Substances Control Act
(TSCA) title IV, (the definition of
abatement under TSCA title IV, section
401(1){B), includes disposal). The
TSCA regulations would establish
appropriate disposal and management
standards for LBP architectural
components and identify recycling and
incineration activities that would be
controlled or prohibited. To minimize
duplication of waste management
requirements, EPA is developing a
companion RCRA rule to suspend
temporarily hazardous waste
management regulations applicable to
lead-based paint debris: which will be
subject to the new TSCA standards.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM RCRA 12/18/98. 63 FR 70233
Temporary
Suspension
Final Action RCRA 11 /OO/OO
Temporary
Suspension
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Sectors Affected: 23321 Single Family
Housing Construction; 23332
Commercial and Institutional Building
Construction; 23322 Multifamily
Housing Construction; 23521 Painting
and Wall Covering Contractors
Additional Information: SAN No. 4263
Additional NAICS Codes affected:
23542 Drywall, Plastering, Acoustical,
and Insulation Contractors; 23551
Carpentry Contractors; 23561 Roofing,
Siding, and Sheet Metal Contractors;
23594 Wrecking and Demolition
contractors; 23592 Glass and Glazing
Contractors; 56291 Remediation
Services; 23599 All other special trade
contractors; 23511 plumbing, heating,
and air conditioning contractors; 23531
electrical contractors; 23552 Floor
Laying and Other Floor Contractors;
23311 Land Subdivision and Land
Development; 562111 Hazardous Waste
Treatment and Disposal; 562112
Hazardous Waste Collection; 562119
Other Waste Collection; 48411 General
Freight Trucking Local; 48421 Used
Household and Office Goods Moving;
48422 Specialized Freight (except Used
Goods) Trucking, Local; 48412 General
Freight Trucking, Long-Distance; 48423
Specialized Freight (except Used
Goods) Trucking, Long-Distance; 56292
Materials Recovery Facilities; 56221
Waste Treatment and Disposal; and!
54138 Testing Laboratories.
Agency Contact: Rajani Joglekar,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5304W, Washington, DC 20460
Plione: 703 308-8806
Fax: 703 308-0522
Email: joglekar.rajani@epa.gov
RIN.' 2050-AE68
3£i04. HAZARDOUS WASTE
MANAGEMENT SYSTEM: SLAG
RESIDUES DERIVED FROM HIGH
TEMPERATURE METALS RECOVERY
(HTMR) TREATMENT OF KO61, KO62
AND F0006 WASTES
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 6905 RCRA
sec 2002; 42 USC 6921; 42 USC 6922;
42 USC 6924; 42 USC.6934; 42 USC
6938; 42 USC 6912(a) RCRA sec
2CI02(a); 42 USC 6922 RCRA sec 3002;
42 USC 6924 RCRA sec 3004
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 261; 40 CFR 266
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA assessed the potential
risks to human health and the
environment from the use of slag
residues (slags) resulting from high
temperature metals recovery (HTMR)
treatment of specified hazardous wastes
(i.e., electric arc furnace dust, steel
finishing pickle liquor, and
electroplating sludges). This assessment
was used as a basis for the proposed
rule to reclassify these slags as
nonhazardous when they meet certain
exclusion levels and are managed and
used in a certain manner. EPA is
presently reevaluating the proposed
rule due to significant issues raised by
public commenters. There is currently
no deadline for final action on the
proposed rule.
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EPA—RCRA
Long-Term Actions
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 12/29/94 59 FR 67256
Final Action To Be Determined
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3428
Agency.Contact: Narehdia Chaudhari,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5304W,. Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-0454
RIN: 2050-AE15
3505. HAZARDOUS WASTE
IDENTIFICATION; RECYCLED USED
OIL MANAGEMENT STANDARDS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 9601(37); 42
USC 9614(c); 42 USC 6905; 42 USC
6912(a); 42 USC 6921 to 6927; 42 USC
6930; 42 USC 6934; 42 USC 6974
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 279
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA is reviewing whether the
provision of the used oil management
standards which governs mixtures of
recycled used oil and characteristic
hazardous waste, 40 CFR 279.10(b)(2)
(the used oil mixture rule), is consistent
with the United States Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia Circuit's
decision in Chemical Waste
Management, Inc. v. EPA. The decision,
which concerned a challenge to
portions of EPA's land disposal
restrictions, held that EPA .could not
authorize certain wastes exhibiting the
hazardous characteristics of ignitability,
reactivity, or corrosivity to be diluted
to eliminate the characteristic and then
be land-disposed unless the hazardous
constituents in the waste were
adequately treated to minimize threats
to human health and the environment.
The used oil mixture rule provides that
a mixture of hazardous waste and used
oil destined for recycling, if the mixture
is hazardous solely because it exhibits
a hazardous waste characteristic, is
regulated under the used oil
management standards. Under the used
oil mixture rule, such a decharacterized
mixture, therefore, is not subject to the
hazardous waste regulations, including
those relating to land disposal
restrictions. Further analysis is
necessary to determine whether
mixtures of used oil destined for
recycling and characteristic hazardous
wastes differ significantly from other
mixtures containing characteristic
wastes in terms of potential threat to
human health and the environment.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM To Be Determined
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State
Additional Information: SAN No. 3668
Agency Contact: Mike Suizzevo,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5304W, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-0046
RIN: 2050-AE28
3506. IDENTIFICATION AND LISTING
OF HAZARDOUS WASTE; INORGANIC
CHEMICAL INDUSTRY WASTES; AND
CERCLA HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE
DESIGNATION AND REPORTABLE
QUANTITIES
Priority: Other Significant. Major status
under 5 USC 801 is undetermined.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 6901 to
6992(k)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 261; 40 CFR 263;
40 CFR 264; 40 CFR 265; 40 CFR 268;
40 CFR 271; 40 CFR 302
Legal Deadline:
NPRM, Judicial, June 30, 2000.
Final, Judicial, August 21, 2001.
Abstract: EPA, under an Environmental
Defense Fund settlement agreement,
will amend, if necessary, the
regulations for hazardous waste •
management under, the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
to reduce hazards to human health and
the environment from inorganic
chemical industry wastes.. The wastes
to be studied include: sodium
dichromate production wastes, wastes
from the dry process for manufacturing
phosphoric acid, phosphorus
trichloride production wastes,
phosphorus pentasulfide production
wastes, wastes from tie production of
sodium phosphate from wet process
phosphoric acid, sodium chlorate
production wastes, antimony oxide
production wastes, cadmium pigments
production wastes, barium carbonate
production wastes, potassium •
dichromate production wastes, phenyl
mercuric acetate production wastes,
boric acid production wastes, inorganic
hydrogen cyanide production wastes,
and titanium dioxide production wastes
(except for chloride process waste
solids). This study is proposed under
the authority of sections 3001(e)(2) of
RCRA which directs EPA to make a
hazardous waste listing determination
for inorganic chemical wastes. After an
extensive study of the waste streams of
the above chemical industry processes,
including characterization of the wastes
generated and a risk assessment
evaluating plausible mismanagement
scenarios, EPA will propose which of
the above wastes, if any, should be
listed as a hazardous waste under 40
CFR part 261.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
06/00/00
08/00/01
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Government Levels Affected:
Undetermined
Sectors Affected: 32518 Other Basic
Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing;
325131 Inorganic Dye and Pigment
Manufacturing; 325312 Phosphatic
Fertilizer Manufacturing; 31611 Leather
and Hide Tanning and Finishing
Additional Information: SAN No. 4083
Agency Contact: Anthony Carrell,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5304W, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-0458
Fax: 703 308-0522
Email: carrell.anthony@epa.gov
Max Diaz, Environmental Protection
Agency, Solid Waste and Emergency
Response, 5304W, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 703 308-0439
RIN: 2050-AE49
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
Completed Actions
3507, INTERIM EMERGENCY RULE
REVISING LAND DISPOSAL
RESTRICTION TREATMENT
STANDARDS FOR ALUMINUM
POTLINERS—K088 WASTE
Priority: Other Significant
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 268; 40 CFR 271
Completed:
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Final Action 09/24/98 63 FR 51253
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Agency Contact: Elaine Eby
Phone: 703 308-8449
RIN: 2050-AE59
3508. MODIFICATIONS TO THE
DEFINITION OF SOLID WASTE AND
REGULATIONS OF HAZARDOUS
WASTE RECYCLING: GENERAL
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 261; 40 CFR 266
Completed:
Reason
Date
FR Cite
NPRM-Withdrawn 02/17/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Tribal, Federal
Agency Contact: Charlotte Mooney
Phono: 703 308-7025
RIN: 2050-AD18
3509. HAZARDOUS WASTE
MANAGEMENT SYSTEM: POST-
CLOSURE REQUIREMENTS
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
tho CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 264; 40 CFR 265;
40 CFR 270
Completed:
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Final Action 10/22/98 63 FR 56710
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Agency Contact: Barbara Foster
Phone: 703 308-7057
RIN: 2050-AD55
3510. SPENT SOLVENTS LISTING
DETERMINATION
Priority: Other Significant
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 261; 40 CFR 264;
40 CFR 265; 40 CFR 271; 40 CFR 302
Completed:
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Final Action 11/19/98 63 FR 64371
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Agency Contact: Ron Josephson
Phone: 703 308-0442
RIN: 2050-AD84
3511. HAZARDOUS REMEDIATION
WASTE MANAGEMENT
REQUIREMENTS (COMMONLY
REFERRED TO AS HAZARDOUS
WASTE IDENTIFICATION RULE FOR
CONTAMINATED MEDIA OR HWIR-
MEDIA)
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 260; 40 CFR 261;
40 CFR 264; 40 CFR 265; 40 CFR 268;
40 CFR 270; 40 CFR 271
Completed:
Reason
Date FR Cite
Agency Contact: Mike Fitzpatrick
Phone: 703 308-8411
RIN: 2050-AE22
3S12. « LANDFILL LEACHATE AND
PI-TROLEUM WASTE LISTINGS
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR.jp reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 6921 RCRA
sec 3001
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 261
Legal Deadline:
Other, Judicial, February 5, 1999,
Administrator Signature Deadline.
Abstract: This action addresses the
potential human health and
environmental risks posed by 14 waste
streams from petroleum refining
processes, and determines whether
these wastes should be" listed as
hazardous wastes under RCRA. If listed
under RCRA, these wastes would also
be added to the CERCLA list of
hazardous substances. As part of this
action, the Agency is considering
opportunities for source reduction,
recycling, reclamation or reuse in other
manufacturing processes. This action
will be implemented by EPA and
authorized States under RCRA. Impacts
on small business are expected but are
not significant.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
Final Action
02/11/99 64 FR 6806
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Withdrawn - The
Agency Plans No
Further Action.
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Federal
12/01/98 63 FR 66101 Additional Information: SAN No. 4228
Agency Contact: Maximo Diaz, Jr.,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5304W, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-0439
RIM: 2050-AE61
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3513. CORRECTIVE ACTION FOR
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT UNITS
(SWMUS) AT HAZARDOUS WASTE
MANAGEMENT FACILITIES
Priority: Economically Significant.
Major under 5 USC 801.
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing.
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce.burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 264; 40J5FR 270
Completed:
Reason Date FR Cite
Withdrawn - The
Agency Plans No
Further Action.
02/17/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Federal
Agency Contact: Barbara Foster
Phone: 703 308-7057
RIN: 2050-AB80
3514, RCRA SUBTITLE D SOLID
WASTE FACILITIES; STATE PERMIT
PROGRAM—DETERMINATION OF
ADEQUACY (STATE
IMPLEMENTATION RULE)
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 239
Completed:
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Final Action
10/23/98 63 FR 57025
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State
Agency Contact: Karen Rudek
Phone: 703 308-1682
RIN: 2050-AD03
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Oil Pollution Act (OPA)
Final Rule Stage
3515. OIL POLLUTION PREVENTION
REGULATION: REVISIONS
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1321 CWA sec
311(j)(l)(C); 33 USC 2720
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 112
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: Following a major inland oil
spill with substantial environmental
impacts (i.e., Ashland Oil in Floreffe,
PA, in January 1988), an interagency
task force recommended steps to
improve EPA's oil spill prevention
program (40 CFR part 112). This
program requires oil storage facilities to
prevent and contain discharges that
could reach waters of the United States.
On October 22,1991, the Agency
proposed revisions to implement some
of the task force recommendations and
on February 17, 1993, the Agency
proposed further clarifications and
technical changes to the spill
prevention regulations. On December 2,
1997, EPA supplemented the 1991 and
1993 proposed revisions with a
proposal to reduce burdens associated
with the oil spill prevention program
by reducing the recordkeeping
provisions or exempting some facilities
from some recordkeeping requirements.
This rule will take final action on the
1991, 1993, and 1997 proposals.
Timetable:
Action
Date
. Cite
NPRM . 10/22/91 56 FR 54612
NPRM 02/17/93 58 FR 8824
Supplemental NPRM 12/02/97 62 FR 63812
Final Action 09/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 2634
Agency Contact: Hugo Fleischman,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5203G, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 603-8769
RIN: 2050-AC62
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act
Prerule Stage
3516. • CRITERIA FOR THE
DESIGNATION OF HAZARDOUS
SUBSTANCES UNDER CERCLA
SECTION 102(A)
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 9602
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 302.4
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action will address the
development of evaluation criteria for
the designation of substances as
hazardous under CERCLA. It is
necessary to develop evaluation criteria
because the Agency has the authority
under CERCLA 102(a) to designate
substances as hazardous; however, the
Agency has never designated
substances as hazardous under the
CERCLA authority nor does it have
criteria to do so. To date the only
substances designated as CERCLA
hazardous substances are as a result of
their appearance on other Acts' lists
defined under CERCLA 101(14). Using
CERCLA designation criteria the
Agency may establish CERCLA
hazardous substances independently
from other Acts, in the interest of
public health and the environment.
The purpose of .this action is to have
well thought-out criteria for designating
hazardous substances that may be
applied to individual substances for
evaluation and decision as to whether
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or not tho substance should be
appropriately designated a CERCLA
102(a) hazardous substance. The
Agency already has the authority to
designate substances as hazardous; in
this action, criteria will be developed
to implement that authority.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
ANPRM
05/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 4201
Agency Contact: Lynn M. Beasley,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5204G, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 603-9086
Fax: 703 603-9104
Email: beasley.lynn@epa.gov
RIN: 2050-AE63
3517. • FACILITY RESPONSE PLAN
REGULATION FOR CERTAIN NON-
TRANSPORTATION-RELATED
FACILITIES THAT HANDLE, STORE,
OR TRANSPORT VEGETABLE OILS
AND ANIMAL FATS
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1321; 33 USC
1361; 33 USC 2720; EO 12777 (October
18 1991); PL 105-276
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 112 (Revision)
Legal Deadline:
Other, Statutory, September 30, 1999,
EPA FY1999 Appropriation (P.L. 105-
276).
Abstract: This regulation would modify
the existing regulations .:as they apply
to facilities that handle, store, or
transport vegetable oils 'and animal fats.
The Facility Response Plan (FRP) rule
applies only to high-risk facilities that
transfer large volumes of-oil over water
or store 1 million gallons or more of
oil and meet additional criteria.
Because worst-case discharges from
these facilities could cause substantial
harm to the environment, facility
owners and operators are required to
prepare and implement response plans.
The rule applies to a small number of
vegetable oil/animal fat facilities (an
estimated 50 to 100, based on
information provided by industry). The
current rule already provides greater
flexibility to vegetable oil/animal fat
facilities in the development of these
plans than what is required for
petroleum facilities. The EPA FY1999
Appropriation (P.L. 105-276) directs the
Agency to issue regulations amending
40 C.F.R. Part 112 (Oil Pollution
Prevention) to comply with the
requirements of the Edible Oil
Regulatory Reform Act (EORRA).
EORRA requires agencies to
differentiate between vegetable oils and
animal fats and other classes of oils,
based on properties and effects, in
issuing regulations. The notice will also
contain a request for public comment
as to what, if any, changes EPA should
make in the Spill Prevention, Control
and Countermeasures (SPCC)
requirements for the various classes of
oil listed in EORRA.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
ANPRM
NPRM
04/00/99
04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Government Levels Affected: None
Sectors Affected: 311222 Soybean
Processing; 311223 Other Oilseed
Processing; 311225 Fats and Oils
Refining and Blending; 311613
Rendering and Meat By-product
Processing
Additional Information: SAN No. 4217
Agency Contact: Barbara Davis,
Environmental Protection Agency;
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5203G, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 603-8823
Fax: 703 603-9116
RIN: 2050-AE64
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act
Proposed Rule Stage
3518. STREAMLINING THE
PREAUTHORIZATION MIXED
FUNDING FOR APPLICATION AND
IMPLEMENTATION OF CLAIMS
AGAINST SUPERFUND
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline .
requirements.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 9601
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 307
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: Current regulations at 40 CFR
part 307 provide for the
preauthorization of claims against the
Superfund in instances where the
Agency makes a determination that
mixed funding is appropriate. This
process has been labeled by many
stakeholders as overly burdensome. The
Agency has reviewed the current.
process in order to identify areas in
which burdens may be lessened and
requirements may be streamlined. As a
result, the Agency is considering a
proposal to amend the current
regulation to: streamline 'the application
process by eliminating duplicative
information requirements; minimize the
requirements related to management,
oversight, and reporting of the cleanup,
by removing the requirement to be
guided by the Federal Acquisition
Requirements, and replacing the
requirement of maximum free and open
competition with a bright-line standard;
allow claimants to provide independent
certification of claims and supporting
documentation; streamline the actual
payment process by taking advantage of
the electronic funds transfer process;
ensure that cost recovery concerns are
addressed by requiring claimants,
within a settlement document, to
reimburse the Fund for costs not
recovered (only in the event cost
recovery is initiated), due to claimants'
failure to provide adequate
documentary support or upon a
determination that response costs
expended (and claimed) were not
reasonable or not incurred consistent
with the National Contingency Plan;
and ensure proper accounting by
requiring offsets for funds owed to the
Agency by claimants.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
04/00/99
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Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3885
Agency Contact: Seth Bruckner,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5204G, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 603-8766
Fax:.703 603-9100
Email: bruckner.seth@epa.gov
RIN: 2050-AE38
3519. GRANTS FOR TECHNICAL
ASSISTANCE RULE REFORM—40 CFR
PART 35 SUBPART M
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing .
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 96l7(e)
Superfund (CERCLA) sec 117
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 35
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The proposed revisions to the
Technical Assistance Grants (TAG)
Rule are intended to simplify the
application and administrative
processes. The new TAG Rule would
eliminate the requirement that budget
periods may not exceed 3 years. Budget
periods would be negotiated with TAG
applicants so that they have flexibility
to synchronize the period of time
during which the recipient anticipates
having a technical advisor involved
with the schedule of work at a site.
In addition,.the new rule would
eliminate the 20 percent ceiling for
administrative costs of a grant so that
recipients do not need to differentiate
between programmatic and
administrative cost. The Agency is also
proposing to eliminate the distinction
between sole and multiple applicants
under the rule, since both must meet
identical criteria. The requirement that
the applicant demonstrate that there is
an actual or potential health threat
posed to group members by the site
would also be deleted since EPA
believes that there is a potential health
threat at all Superfund sites. EPA also
believes that all Superfund sites pose
potential economic and recreational
threats to adjacent communities, and
that there is no need for the applicant
to provide evidence of those threats.
Furthermore, EPA may already have
sufficient information from various
sources concerning the potential health,
economic, and recreational threats
posed by. Superfund sites. This
proposed rule also includes a new
provision that allows communities to
receive cash advances of up to $5,000.
Timetable:
would decrease the burden on 1) the
regulated community for complying
with the reporting requirements under
CERCLA and EPCRA; 2) Federal, State,
and local authorities for program
implementation; and 3) Federal, State,
or local authorities, if they release
hazardous substances at the RQ level
or greater.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
Action
NPRM 05/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3806
Agency Contact: Lois Gartner,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5204G, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 603-8889
RIN: 205Q-AE33
3520. REPORTABLE QUANTITY
ADJUSTMENTS FOR CARBAMATES
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: PL 96-510 Sec I02(a);
PL 99-499
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 302
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA has listed carbamate
waste streams as hazardous wastes
under the Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act (RCRA). RCRA listed
wastes, by statute, automatically
become hazardous substances under the
Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability
Act (CERCLA) and are assigned a one
pound statutory reportable quantity
(RQ) unless EPA adjusts them. These
substances also become subject to
reporting requirements under the
Emergency Planning and Community
Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) with a one
pound threshold. EPA, in this action,
will propose RQ adjustments for the
carbamates. Most RQ adjustments are
expected to be greater than one pound.
Raising the RQs for these substances
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 06/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3423
Agency Contact: Frank Awisato,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5202G, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 603-8949
RIN: 2050-AE12
3521. NATIONAL PRIORITIES LIST
FOR UNCONTROLLED HAZARDOUS
WASTE SITES: PROPOSED AND
FINAL RULES
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 9605
Superfund (CERCLA) sec 105
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 300.425
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action will revise the
sites included on the National Priorities
List (NPL) of uncontrolled waste sites
in the National'Contingency Plan
(NCP). CERCLA requires that the
Agency revise the NPL at least
annually. Periodic revisions will allow
EPA to include sites on the NPL with
known or threatened hazardous
substance releases and to delete sites
that have been cleaned up.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM 24
Final Action 20
NPRM 25
Final Action 21
Final Action (Tex-Tin
Corp)
NPRM 26
Final Action 22
NPRM 27
Final Action 23
03/06/98
03/06/98
07/28/98
07/28/98
09/18/98
09/29/98
09/29/98
01/19/99
01/19/99
63 FR 11 340
63 FR 11 332
63 FR 40247
63 FR 401 82
63 FR 49855
63 FR 51 882
63 FR 51 848
64 FR 2950
64 FR 2942
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Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM {Midnight Mine) 02/16/99 64 FR 7564
NPRM 04/00/99
Final Action 04/00/99
NPRM 07/00/99
Final Action 07/00/99
NPRM 10/00/99
Final Action
10/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3439
Agency Contact: Terry Keidan,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5204G, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 603-8852
BIN: 2050-AD75
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Aclt
Long-Term Actions
3522. • COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS
AND SUPERFUND STATE
CONTRACTS FOR SUPERFUND
RESPONSE ACTIONS; REVISION OF
40 CFR PART 35 SUBPART O
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements,
Legal Authority: 42 USC 9601 to 9675
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 35 Subpart O
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: 40 CFR Part 35 Subpart O
is the Superfund Administrative
Regulation that governs awarding of
Superfund cooperative agreements
(CAs) to States, Indian Tribes, and
political subdivisions. Subpart O covers
State-lead, site-specific cooperative
agreements for non-time-critical
removal, preremedial, remedial, and
enforcement actions, and site-specific
management assistance for federal-lead
projects. Also covered by Subpart O are
non-site-specific Core Program
Cooperative Agreements to build state
infrastructure. The requirements for
Superfund State Contracts, financial
administration, property, procurement,
reporting, recordkeeping, and closeout
are provided in Subpart O.
Subpart O was promulgated 6/5/1990,
and became effective on 7/5/1990.
Many changes in the administration of
the Superfund program have occurred
over the past eight years which could
be better reflected in Subpart O. The
six categories of CAs presently used in
Subpart O could provide greater
flexibility to accommodate the new
types of CAs that have developed. For
example, the number of Block Funding
Reform pilots, begun in 1997, to
consolidate several of the cooperative
agreements offered in Subpart O, has
grown to about 16 for Fiscal Year 1998,
and has generated at least 60 approved
deviation requests from Subpart O and
40 CFR Part 31 (Uniform
Administrative Requirements for Grants
and Cooperative Agreements
promulgated shortly after the
promulgation of Subpart O). These pilot
projects offer considerable
administrative relief to States, Tribes,
and EPA by reducing reporting
requirements, broadening scope
changes without amendment,
increasing the ability to move monies
within and among CAs, and relaxing
application requirements regarding site-
specific identification of cooperative
agreement funds to certain activities,
while maintaining site-specific
drawdown requirements needed for
cost recovery and Superfund
accounting. Subpart O also needs to be
conformed with Part 31. Differences
between these two companion
regulations were not institutionalized at
the time of promulgation.
EPA plans to examine the feasibility of
grant authority, institutionalize the
combining of CA types, create more
flexible reporting requirements, permit
greater scope changes without
amendment, provide more flexible
money movement within and among
CAs, and other advances in
State/Tribal/EPA interaction.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
ANPRM To Be Determined
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4177
Agency Contact: Kirby Biggs,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5204W, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-8506
Fax: 703 308-8433
Email: biggs.kirby@epa.gov
Stephen Caldwell, Environmental
Protection Agency, Solid Waste and
Emergency Response, 5204G,
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 308-8808
RIN: 2050-AE62
3523. REPORTING EXEMPTIONS FOR
FEDERALLY PERMITFED RELEASES
OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1321; 33 USC
1361;42 USC 9602
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 117; 40 CFR 302;
40 CFR 355
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action would clarify the
definition of federally permitted release
under the Comprehensive
Environmental Response,
Compensation, and Liability Act
(CERCLA). Federally permitted releases
of hazardous substances are exempt
from CERCLA reporting and liability,
and from reporting under section 304
of the Emergency Planning and
Community Right-to-Rnow Act.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 07/19/88 53 FR 27268
Supplemental Notice 07/11/89 54 FR 29306
Final Action To Be Determined
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 2394
Agency Contact: Lynn Beasley,
Environmental Protection Agency,
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Long-Term Actions
Solid Waste and Emergency Response,
5204G, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 703 603-9086
RIN: 2050-AB82
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act
Completed Actions
3524. REVOCATION OF
CAPROLACTAM'S DESIGNATION AS
A HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE UNDER
CERCLA
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
CFR Citation: 40 GFR 302.4
Completed:
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Direct Final Rule 12/15/98 63 FR 69165 Agency Contact: Lynn M. Beasley
„ .,...._ . ' Phone: 703 603-9086
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No RIN: 2050-AE48
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (E-PA)
Clean Water Act (CWA)
Prerule Stage
3525. EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND
STANDARDS FOR THE ORE MINING
AND DRESSING POINT SOURCE
CATEGORY, GOLD PLACER MINE
SUBCATEGORY (SECTION 610
REVIEW)
Priority: tnfo./Admin./Other
Legal Authority: 5 USC 610
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 440
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: In 1988, EPA issued final
effluent guidelines for the Gold Placer
Mine Subcategory. In the promulgation
notice, EPA noted that the effluent
limitations were economically
achievable for facilities of all sizes. Due
to the large number of small entities
covered by the final rule and EPA's
concern about the economic impact on
the small facilities, the final rule
included a request for comments
concerning the impact on small mines.
After evaluating all of the comments
and data submitted during this
comment period, the Agency reaffirmed
the conclusions regarding economic
achievability. hi January 1989, EPA
published a notice of the Agency's
response to the comments and the
Agency's conclusion not to modify the
final rule. This new action is a review
of the final rule as required by section
610 of the Regulatory Flexibility Act.
The purpose of the review is to
determine whether the Placer Mine
effluent guidelines should be continued
without change, or should be amended
or rescinded, to minimize economic
impacts on small entities while still
complying with the provisions of the
Clean Water Act. EPA will consider the
following factors: (1) the continued
need for lie rule; (2) the nature of
complaints or comments received
concerning the rule; (3) the complexity
of the rule; (4) the extent to which the
rule overlaps, duplicates or conflicts
with other Federal, State, or local
government rules; and (5) the degree
to which technology, economic
conditions, or other factors have
changed in the area affected by the
rule. EPA invites public comment on
the rule. EPA continues to view the
effluent guidelines for the Gold Placer
Mine Subcategory as a necessary
component of the comprehensive
program to restore and maintain the
quality of our Nation's waters. Unless
and until the Agency modifies the rule,
the discharges described in 40 CFR
440.140 remain subject to the final rule.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
Complete Review 04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Sectors Affected: 212221 Gold Ore
Mining
Additional Information: SAN No. 4133
Agency Contact: Ron Kirby,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-7168
Fax: 202 260-7185
Email: kirby.ronald@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AD13
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Proposed Rule Stage
3526. EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND
STANDARDS FOR THE FEEDLOTS
POINT SOURCE CATEGORY, SWINE
AND POULTRY SUBCATEGORIES,
AND NPDES REGULATION FOR
CONCENTRATED ANIMAL FEEDING
OPERATIONS
Priority: Other Significant. Major status
under 5 USC 801 is undetermined.
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311 CWA sec
301; 33 USC 1314 CWA sec 304; 33
USC 1316 CWA sec 306; 33 USC 1317
CWA sec 307; 33 USC 1318 CWA sec
308; 33 USC 1342 CWA sec 402; 33
USC 1361 CWA sec 501
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 412; 40 CFR
122.23
Legal Deadline:
NPRM, Judicial, December 31,1999,
Effluent Guideline.
Final, Judicial, December 31, 2001,
Effluent Guideline.
Abstract: Feedlot operations are
covered by existing effluent guidelines
at 40 CFR part 412 and concentrated
animal feeding operations (CAFOs) are
covered by regulations at 40 CFR part
122.23. This action will revise the
existing regulations for two of the
effluent guidelines subcategories to
address swine and poultry operations
and the NPDES regulation for
concentrated animal feeding operations.
The existing regulations, which require
the largest confined animal feeding
operations to achieve zero discharge of
wastes to surface waters except for
certain storm related discharges, have
not been sufficient to resolve water
quality impairment from feedlot
operations. Swine and poultry
operations have been identified as
substantial contributors of nutrients in
surface waters that have severe anoxia
(low levels of dissolved oxygen) .and
problem algae blooms.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 12/00/99
Final Action 12/00/01
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entitles Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Federal
Sectors Affected: 11221 Hog and Pig
Farming; 11232 Broilers and Other
Meat Type Chicken Production; 11231
Chicken Egg Production; 112112 Cattle
Feedlots
Additional Information: SAN No. 4153
Agency Contact: Jan Goodwin,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-7152
Fax: 202 260-7185
Email: goodwin.janet@epa.gov
Gregory Beatty, Environmental
Protection Agency, Water, 4203,
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-6929
Fax: 202 260-1460
Email: beatty.gregory@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AD19
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
3527. TOTAL MAXIMUM DAILY LOAD
(TMDL) PROGRAM REGULATIONS
REVISIONS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1313
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 130.7
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The Office of Water will be
proposing changes to the existing
regulations for implementing the Total
Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) program
under the Clean Water Act. The TMDL
program is a key component of
watershed management. It requires
States to identify water quality-limited
segments still in need of TMDLs for
these waters. EPA is required to
approve or disapprove State lists and
TMDLs, and to establish lists of waters
and TMDLs when it disapproves the
State action. In 1996, EPA convened a
Federal Advisory Committee to provide
comprehensive recommendations for
improving the TMDL program, with a
particular emphasis on the following
issues: listing waters needing TMDLs;
criteria for EPA approval of TMDLs;
State and Federal program oversight;
and science and tools for TMDL
development. On July 28, 1998 the
Committee submitted its
recommendations to the EPA
Administrator. EPA will carefully
consider the Committee's
recommendations and then propose
changes to the existing TMDL program
regulations. The ultimate purpose of
these changes is to improve water
quality by providing States with clear
direction regarding listing of impaired
waterbodies and the development of
TMDLs.
NPRM 07/00/99
Final Rule 05/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4145
Agency Contact: Hazel Groman,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4305F, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-7074
Fax: 202 260-7024
RIN: 2040-AD22
3528. REVISIONS TO EFFLUENT
GUIDELINES AND STANDARDS FOR
THE COAL MINING POINT SOURCE
CATEGORY
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311 CWA sec
301; 33 USC 1314 CWA sec 304; 33
USC 1316 CWA sec 306; 33 USC 1317
CWA sec 307; 33 USC 1318 CWA sec
308; 33 USC 1342 CWA sec 402; 33
USC 1361 CWA sec 501
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 434
Legal Deadline:
NPRM, Judicial, December 31, 1999.
Final, judicial, December 31, 2001.
Abstract: Coal mining discharges are
covered by existing effluent guidelines
at 40 CFR part 434. This new regulatory
action will revise the existing
regulations to address two new
subcategories: Coal Remining and
Western Alkaline Coal Mining. The
existing regulations do not cover
remining operations, which, when
appropriately planned and regulated,
will improve effluent quality from
abandoned mine lands while
reclaiming them and prevent
disturbance of unexploited lands.
Advances in treatment technologies and
Best Management Practices pertinent to
coal mines in the arid West show
promise of being more protective of
water quality.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
12/00/99
12/00/01
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
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Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4168
Agency Contact: Joe Vitalis,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-7172
Fax: 202 260-7185
Email: vitalis.joseph@epa.gov
BIN: 2040-AD24
3529. WATER QUALITY STANDARDS
REGULATION—REVISION
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government, effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1313 CWA sec
303(c)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 131
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: Water quality standards set
by States and Indian tribes establish the
water quality goals for surface waters
of the. U.S. and the means by which
attainment of these goals will be
measured and assured. They are the
foundation for protecting water quality
and related public health and welfare
and the ecological health of the nation's
waters. The Federal water quality
standards regulation at 40 CFR Part 131
governs the development, review and
revision of water quality standards
under section 303(c) of the Clean Water
Act by States and Indian Tribes, and
the review and approval of water
quality standards by EPA. Based upon
the Federal, State, Tribal and local
experience gained in the program over
the last 20 years, EPA's proposed
revisions to 40 CFR 131 are intended
to strengthen the water quality
standards regulation thus enhancing
water quality management on a
watershed basis, and focusing Federal,
State and Tribal resources on the areas
of greatest concern. Program areas
identified for revision include:
establishing and refining designated
uses, developing and implementing
water quality criteria, antidegradation
policies and procedures and mixing
zone policies and procedures.
Timetable:
Action
ANPRM
NPRM
Final Action
Date FR Cite
07/07/98 63 FR 36741
09/00/99
09/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Tribal, Federal
Additional information: SAN No. 3662
Agency Contact: Susan Gilbertson,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4305, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-1188
Fax: 202 260-9830
Email: -gilbertson.sue@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AC56
3530. ^AMENDMENTS TO THE FINAL
WATER QUALITY GUIDANCE FOR
THE GREAT LAKES SYSTEM TO
REINSTATE THE MIXING ZONE
ELIMINATION AND PHASE-OUT
PROVISION
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1268 CWA
118
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 132
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA is proposing to amend
the final Water Quality Guidance for
the Great Lakes System (Guidance) to
prohibit mixing zones for
bioaccumulative chemicals of concern
(BCCs) in the Great Lakes System,
subject to a limited exception for
existing discharges. For existing
discharges, the regulation would
prohibit mixing zones for BCCs after 10
years from the effective date of the final
rule. For new discharges of BCCs, the
mixing zone prohibition would apply
immediately upon commencing
discharge. EPA had promulgated this
mixing zone provision on March 23,
1995, as part of the Water Quality
Guidance for the Great Lakes System
required by section 118(c)(2) of the
Clean Water Act. The provision was
vacated by the U.S;-Gourt-of-Appeals
for the District of Columbia Circuit in
the case of American Iron & Steel
Institute v. EPA, 115 F.3d 979 (D.C. Cir.
1997), because the Court found that
EPA failed to address that the provision
was cost-justified, and remanded to the
Agency for further consideration. This
action reflects EPA's reconsideration of
the factual record in response to that
remand and proposes to amend the
final Guidance to reinstate the mixing
zone elimination and phase-out
provision as it was promulgated on
March 23, 1995.
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM 05/00/99
Final Action • 05/00/00.
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4235
Agency Contact: Mark Morris,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4301, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-0312
Fax: 202 260-5394
Email: mprris.markl@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AD32
3531. 9 EPA REVIEW AND APPROVAL
OF STATE AND TRIBAL WATER
QUALITY STANDARDS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1251 et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 131.21(c)
Legal Deadline:
Other, Judicial, July 1, 1999, See
additional information.
Abstract: EPA's water quality standards
(WQS) regulation at 40 CFR Part 131.21
currently provides that State and Tribal
WQS are in effect once adopted by the
State or authorized Tribe and remain
in effect, even if EPA disapproves
them, until the State or Tribe revises
them or EPA promulgates a federal rule
to supersede the State or Tribal WQS.
EPA's regulation is based on its
longstanding interpretation of the CWA.
In July, 1997, the U.S. District Court
for the Western District of Washington
held that the clear meaning of section
303(c)(3) of the CWA was that State
water quality standards do not go into
-effect-under-the-GWA unti-1-approved
by EPA (Alaska Clean Water Alliance
v. Clark; No. C96-1762R). Because
EPA's existing regulation remains in
effect, and the court has issued no
injunction against applying it, EPA's
interim policy is to continue to follow
our regulation (except in Alaska) until
the regulation is changed. EPA's
proposed rule would: 1) Delete
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131.21(c) and replace it with new
language which explains that standards
do not become the applicable WQS for
CWA purposes until approved by EPA,
and that previously approved standards
remain the CWA standards until EPA
approves State or Tribal revisions or
promulgates replacement WQS; and, 2)
Provide that the new rule would only
apply to WQS adopted after the
effective date of the final rule. EPA's
proposed rule will only address
administrative aspects of the WQS
approval process. This proposed rule
will not speak to any of the substantive
program issues currently being
addressed in the WQS Advance Notice
of Proposed Rulemaking (63 FR 36741).
Likewise, this proposed rule will not
overlap with any of the TMDL program
issues being-addressed in the TMDL
rulemaking.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 07/00/99
Final Action 04/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entitles Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4234
Legal Deadline: Draft Settlement
Agreement: July 1,1999 Proposal; April
1, 2000 Final.
Agency Contact: William Morrow,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4305, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-3657
Fax: 202 260-9830
Email: morrow.william@epa.gov
Cathy Winer, Environmental Protection
Agency, Water, 2355, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 260-7719
Fax: 202 260-7702
Email: winer.cathy@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AD33
3532. • WATER QUALITY
STANDARDS FOR ALABAMA—PHASE
II
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1313; CWA
303
CFR Citation: 40 CFR131
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: Under the CWA, States have
primary authority in developing water
quality standards for waters within
their jurisdiction. EPA maintains
oversight authority in that States must
submit their water quality standards to
EPA for review and approval or
disapproval. If a State's water quality
standards are not consistent with the
requirements of the CWA and its
supporting regulations, and are
subsequently disapproved by EPA, the
State must revise the disapproved water
quality standards. If the State does not
revise the disapproved water quality
standards, the CWA authorizes the EPA
Administrator to promulgate Federal
water quality standards to supersede
those disapproved provisions in the
water quality standards. EPA is
developing a proposed federal
rulemaking to determine the
appropriate use designations for five
waterbodies in Alabama subject to
outstanding EPA disapprovals. EPA
expects to propose federal water quality
standards in the Federal Register in
November, 1999.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 11/00/99
Final Action 11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4264
Agency Contact: Fritz Wagener,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, Atlanta, GA 30303
Phone: 404 562-9267
William Morrow, Environmental
Protection Agency, Water, 4305,
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-3657
Fax: 202 260-9830
Email: morrow.william@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AD35
3533. TEST PROCEDURES FOR THE
ANALYSIS OF CRYPTOSPORIDIUM
AND GIARDIA UNDER THE SAFE
DRINKING WATER AND CLEAN
WATER ACTS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1251 et seq
CWA 304 (h); 33 USC l>314(h) CWA
304(h); 33 USC 1361 SDWA 1401; 42
USC 300f SDWA 1412; 42 USC 300g-
1 SDWA 1413;_42 USC 300g-2 SDWA
1414; 42 USC 300g-3 SDWA 1415; 42
USC 300g-4 SDWA 1416; 42 USC 300g-
5 SDWA 1445; 42 USC 300J-4 SDWA
1450; 42 USC 300J-9
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 136; 40 CFR 141
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This regulatory action would
propose to amend the Guidelines
Establishing Test Procedures for the
Analysis of Pollutants under 40 CFR
part 136 and the analytical methods
under 40 CFR part 141 to approve EPA
Method 1622 for the detection of
Cryptosporidium and Giardia in
ambient waters and finished drinking
water by filtration of a 10-L sample in
laboratory, separation of target
organisms from other debris using
iminunomagnetic separation, and
detection of the organisms using
inamunofluorescence assay and
differential interference contrast
microscopy and confirmation
examination of the organisms using
vital dye stains. This method would be
used by public water systems to collect
occurrence and treatment data to
characterize Cryptosporidium and
Giardia in drinking water. EPA expects
that EPA Method 1622 would increase
recovery and would provide better
precision than the method included in
aii earlier EPA rulemaking, thus
providing for more reliable data.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
09/00/99
09/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4047
Agency Contact: William A. Telliard,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-7134
Fax: 202 260-7185
Email: telliard.william@epa.gov
Maria Gomez-Taylor, Environmental
Protection Agency, Water, 4303,
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-1639
Fax: 202 260-7185
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Email: gomez-taylor.maria@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AD08
3534. • TEST PROCEDURES FOR THE
ANALYSIS OF E. COLI AND
ENTEROCOCCI UNDER THE CLEAN
WATER ACT
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 33 USC I3l4(h) CWA
304(h); 33 USC 1361(a) CWA 501(a)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 136.3
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This regulatory action would
propose to amend the "Guidelines
Establishing Test Procedures for the
Analysis of Pollutants" under 40 CFR
Part 136 to approve microbiological
methods for monitoring ambient water.
Ambient water contamination is
determined by the presence of bacterial
indicators. In 1986^ EPA issued a
revision to its bacteriological ambient
water quality criteria recommendations
to include new indicator bacteria, E.coli
and enterococci. To support the
ambient water quality criteria for
bacteria, EPA is planning to promulgate
several analytical methods for
monitoring E.coli and enterococci in
ambient water. This proposed
regulation would approve test
procedures to be available for use by
testing laboratories. Test procedures in
Part 136 must be used in implementing
the NPDES program unless alternative
test procedures are approved by the
Regional Administrator.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM 08/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4214
Agency Contact: William A. Telliard,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-7134
Fax: 202 260-7185
Email: telliard.william@epa.gov
Maria Gomez-Taylor, Environmental
Protection Agency, Water, 4303,
Washington, DC
Phone: 202 260-1639
Fax: 202 260-7185
Email: gomez-taylor.maria@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AD34
3535. MINIMIZING ADVERSE
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT FROM
COOLING WATER INTAKE
STRUCTURES UNDER SECTION
316(B) OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT
Priority: Other Significant. Major status
under 5 USC 801 is undetermined.
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311 CWA sec
301; 33 USC 1316 CWA sec 306; 33
USC 1326 CWA sec 316; 33 USC 1361
CWA sec 501
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 125 (New); 40
CFR .401 (Revised)
Legal Deadline:
NPRM, Judicial, July 2, 1999.
Final, Judicial, August 31, 2001.
Abstract: EPA is currently developing
regulations for proposal.under section
316(b) of the Clean Water Act (CWA).
This regulation will apply to the intake
of water and not the discharge. Section
316(b) provides that any standard
established pursuant to sections 301 or
306 of the Clean Water Act and
applicable to a point source shall
require that the location, design,
construction, and capacity of cooling
water intake structures reflect the best
technology available (BTA) for
minimizing adverse environmental
impact. A primary purpose of section
316(b) is to rniniroize the impingement
and entrainment of fish and other
aquatic organisms by cooling water
intake structures. Impingement refers to
the trapping of fish and other aquatic
life in cooling water intake screens.
Entrainment occurs when aquatic
organisms, eggs and larvae are sucked
into the cooling system, through the
heat exchanger, and then pumped back
out.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
07/00/99
08/00/01
Regulator/ Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3444
Agency Contact: Deborah Nagle,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4203, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-2656
J. T. Morgan, Environmental Protection
Agency, Water, 4203, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 260-6015
Fax: 202 260-1460
Email: morgan.james@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AC34
3536. STREAMLINING THE GENERAL
PRETREATMENT REGULATIONS FOR
EXISTING AND NEW SOURCES OF
POLLUTION
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1314 CWA sec
304; 33 USC 1317 CWA sec 307; 33
USC 1342 CWA sec 402; 33 USC 1361
CWA sec 501
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 403
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The National Pretreatment
Program was established in 1972. The
Office of Water is exploring ways to
reduce federally mandated activities
under the program that don't result in
benefits to the environment and to
improve program efficiencies. For
example, this rule will consider
appropriate exclusions or variable
requirements for numerous smaller
facilities that contribute insignificant
amounts of pollutants.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
05/00/99
03/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3663
Agency Contact: Jeff Smith,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4203, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-5586
Fax: 202 260-1460
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Email: smith,jeff@epa.gov
Patrick Bradley, Environmental
Protection Agency, Water, 4203,
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-6963
Fax: 202 260-1460
Email: bradloy.patrick@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AC58
3537. REVISIONS TO NPDES
REQUIREMENTS FOR COMPLIANCE
REPORTING AND COLLECTION
SYSTEM DISCHARGES
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant.
Major status under 5 USC 801 is
undetermined.
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311 CWA sec
301; 33 USC 1318 CWA sec 308; 33
USC 1342 CWA sec 402; 33 USC 1361
CWA sec 501(a)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 122.41
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA has proposed to publish
an interim policy statement entitled
"National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System (NPDES) Permit
Requirements for Municipal Sanitary
Sewer Collection Systems." The interim
policy would clarify how existing
NPDES standard permit conditions
apply to municipal sanitary sewer
collection systems. The policy also
would give NPDES permit writers
guidance on how to clarify permit
requirements during permit reissuance
and provide additional permit
provisions, such as study requirements
and system specific operation,
maintenance and remediation
requirements, where appropriate.
EPA also proposes revisions to the
NPDES regulations at 40 CFR 122.42
and 125. The Agency is proposing three
standard permit conditions for
inclusion in permits for publicly owned
treatment works (POTWs) and
municipal sanitary sewer collection
systems. The three standard
requirements address: reporting
requirements for SSOs; operational,
maintenance and remediation
requirements for municipal sanitary
sewer collection systems; and a
prohibition on SSOs. In addition, the
Agency is proposing to codify criteria
for evaluating the peak flow capacity
of sanitary sewer collection systems.
These proposed revisions respond to
recommendations made by members of
a FACA Subcommittee (under Urban
Wet Weather Federal Advisory
Committee) that was convened by
USEPA to provide recommendations for
improving NPDES program
implementation efforts which address
sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs) and ,
sanitary sewer operation, management,
and maintenance.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
09/00/99
09/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Governmental
Juris dictions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3999
Agency Contact: Sharie Centilla,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4203, Washington, DC-20460
Phone: 202 260-6052
Fax: 202 260-1460
Email: centilla.sharie@epa.gov
Kevin Weiss, Environmental Protection
Agency, Water, 4201, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 260-9524
Fax: 202 260-1040
Email: weiss.kevin@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AD02
3538. ESTABLISHMENT OF
ELECTRONIC REPORTING FOR
NPDES PERMITTEES
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: CWA 301; CWA
304(i); CWA 308; CWA 402; CWA 501
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 122.22; 40 CFR
122.41(k); 40 CFR 122.41(j); 40 CFR
122.41(1); 40 CFR 122.63
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA is proposing changes to
its NPDES regulations to allow reports
and other information:to be submitted
electronically. When EPA promulgated
the current NPDES regulations, the
Agency did not anticipate the need or
technologies for electronic reporting.
Consequently, the current regulations
do not specifically address use of
electronic reporting technologies. The
proposed rule would establish criteria
for electronic reporting and a specific
process and conditions for electronic
reporting of discharge monitoring
reports (DMR) to EPA that are intended
to achieve reliable and secure
electronic reporting in the NPDES
program. The proposal addresses
electronic signature, certification, and
record keeping requirements that
permittees would follow when
submitting forms to EPA electronically.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 04/00/99 '
Final Action 04/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Simall Entities Affected: No
Ciovernment Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4051
Agency Contact: Robin Danesi,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4203, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-2991
Fax: 202 260-1460
Email: danesi.robin@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AD11
3539. CLEAN WATER ACT DEFINITION
OF THE WATERS OF THE UNITED
STATES
F'riority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1361; 33 USC
1362; CWA sec 501; CWA sec 502
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 232
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action involves joint
rulemaking by EPA and the Department
of the Army to amend the regulatory
definition of "waters! of the United
States" in two respects. First, the
proposal would clarify the basis for
asserting Clean Water Act (CWA)
jurisdiction over isolated intra-state
waters and wetlands. Second, the
proposal would clarify what types of
artificial waters excavated out of dry
land are generally not considered to be
subject to jurisdiction under the CWA.
The existing regulations contain
language asserting jurisdiction over
isolated intra-state waters, but that
regulatory provision has been the
subject of litigation, and, within the
confines of the Fourth Circuit, found
to be invalid (US v. Wilson, 133 F.3d
251 (4th Cir., 1998)). Revision of the
regulatory language is necessary to
address that decision, improve
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EPA—CWA
Proposed Rule Stage
regulatory clarity, and provide more
specificity regarding CWA jurisdiction
over intra-state isolated waters and
wetlands. With regard to artificial
waters excavated out of dry land,
preambles to past regulations have
discussed what types of such waters
would be considered to generally be
non-jurisdictional for CWA purposes,
and the proposed revision would
amend the regulations in a manner
consistent with those past statements of
Agency policy. The rulemaking would
apply to entities (e.g., industrial,
commercial, governmental) that
discharge pollutants, including dredged
or fill material, to isolated intra-state
surface waters or wetlands, or which
have created artificial waters from dry
land. Significant impacts on small
entities or state/local/tribal
governments are not anticipated, as the
proposed regulator}' revisions would be
consistent with current Agency practice
and policy in carrying out CWA
mandates.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final
08/00/99
05/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected:
Undetermined
Additional Information: SAN No. 2804
Agency Contact: John Lishman,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4502F, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-9180
Fax: 202 260-7546
Email: lishman.john@epa.gov
John Goodin, Environmental Protection
Agency, Water, 4502F, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 260-9910
Fax: 202 260-7546
Email: goodin.john@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AB74
3540. STANDARDS FOR THE USE OR
.DISPOSAL OF SEWAGE SLUDGE
(ROUND II)
Priority: Other Significant. Major status
under 5 USC 801 is undetermined.
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1361(a) CWA
sec 501(a); 33 USC 1345 CWA sec 405
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 503
Legal Deadline:
NPRM, Judicial, December 15,1999.
Final, Judicial, December 15, 2001, EPA
must identify final pollutant list for
Round H by 11/30/95. -
Abstract: Section 405 of the Clean
Water Act (CWA) requires EPA to
develop and publish regulations
providing guidelines for the use and
disposal of sewage sludge. The rules,
among other things, are to identify uses
for sewage sludge, including disposal,
and concentrations of pollutants which
interfere with such use or disposal. The
statute requires EPA to develop the
regulations in two phases and
periodically revise existing regulations.
In November 1992, EPA promulgated
regulations (58 FR 9247) for the first
round of pollutants identified in
sewage sludge. EPA is required by
consent decree to propose and
promulgate sewage sludge regulations
for a second round of pollutants before
the end of 2001. EPA currently is
considering only dioxins, dibenzofuran
and coplanar-PCBs for regulation in the
second round regulations. These
regulations will establish requirements
for sewage sludge when the sewage
sludge is applied to the land, placed
on surface disposal sites, or fired in a
sewage sludge incinerator. The
regulation may impact Federal, State,
and local governments. The impact on
small entities, including small
businesses, is undetermined at this
time.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
-NPRM
Final Action
12/00/99
12/00/01
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Governmental
Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3488
Agency Contact: Alan B. Rubin,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4304, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-7589
Fax: 202 260-1036
Email: rubin.alan@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AC25
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Clean Water Act (CWA)
Final Rule Stage
3541. EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND
STANDARDS FOR THE CENTRALIZED
WASTE TREATMENT INDUSTRY
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311 CWA
301; 33 USC 1314'CWA 304; 33 USC
1316 CWA 306; 33 USC 1317 CWA
307; 33 USC 1318 CWA 308; 33 USC
1342 CWA 402; 33 USC 1361 CWA 501
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 437
Legal Deadline:
Final, Judicial, October 1999.
Abstract: Centealized-Waste Treatment
(CWT-)-fa~cilifies receive hazardous and
nonrhazardous waste from off-site for
treatment or recovery operations
(excluding solvent recovery). EPA is
developing effluent limitations based
on Best Available Technology (BAT),
Best Practicable Control Technology
(BPT), New Source Performance
Standards (NSPS), Pretreatment
Standards for Existing Sources (PSES),
and Pretreatment Standards for New
Sources (PSNS). This rule was formerly•_
titled Waste TreatmentJEhase^Ir—~"
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM and Notice of
Availability of New
Information
Reproposal
Final
01/27/95 60 FR 5464
01/13/99 64 FR 2279
10/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Yes
-Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 2805
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Final Rule Stage
Agency Contact: Jan Matuszko,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-9126
Fax: 202 260-7185
Email: matuszko.jan@epa.gov
BIN: 2040-AB78
3,542. EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND
STANDARDS FOR THE INDUSTRIAL
LAUNDRIES POINT SOURCE
CATEGORY
Priority: Economically Significant.
Major under 5 USC 801.
Unfunded Mandates: This action may
affect the private sector under
PL 104-4.
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311 CWA sec
301; 33 USC 1317 CWA sec 307; 33
USC 1314 CWA sec 304; 33 USC 1361
CWA sec 501; 33 USC 1316 CWA sec
306; 33 USC 1318 CWA sec 308; 33
USC 1342 CWA sec 402
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 441
Legal Deadline:
NPRM, Judicial, November 7, 1997. .
Final, judicial, June 30,1999.
Abstract: EPA proposed pretreatment
standards for industrial laundries
(facilities that launder industrial textile
items, such as shop and printer towels,
mops, mats) in December 1997.
Following public comment and analysis
of new options, EPA will consider the
need to establish final pretreatment
standards.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Notice of Data
Availability
Final Action
12/17/97 62 FR 66182
12/23/98 63 FR 71054
06/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Yes
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3209
Agency Contact: Marta Jordan,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-0817
Fax: 202 260-7185
Email: jordan.marta@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AB97
3543. EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND
STANDARDS FOR LANDFILLS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311 CWA sec
301; 33 USC 1314 CWA sec 304; 33
USC 1316 CWA sec 306; 33 USC 1317
CWA sec 307; 33 USC 1318 CWA sec
308; 33 USC 1342 CWA sec 402; 33
USC 1361 CWA sec 501
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 445
Legal Deadline:
NPRM, Judicial, November 30,1997.
Final, judicial, November 30, 1999.
Abstract: EPA proposed.effluent
guidelines and standards for landfills
regulated under Subtitle C or Subtitle
D of the Resource Conservation and.
Recovery Act (RCRA) which discharge
directly to surface waters, and landfills
regulated under Subtitle C of RCRA .
which discharge indirectly to Publicly
Owned Treatment Works (POTWS).
The proposal did not apply to
wastewater discharges of contaminated
groundwater. The proposal also did not
apply to discharges of wastewater
associated with landfills operated in
conjunction with other industrial or
commercial operations which only
receive waste from off-site facilities
under the same corporate structure
(intra-company facility) and/or receive
waste generated on-site (captive
facility) so long as the landfill
wastewater is commingled for treatment
with other process wastewaters. After
reviewing public comments, EPA will
revise the analysis and issue final
standards. This rule was formerly titled
Waste Treatment Industry, Phase n and
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for
Landfills and Incinerators.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
02/06/98 63 FR 6425
11/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3489
Agency Contact: Mike Ebner,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-5397
Fax: 202 260-7185
Email: ebner.michael@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AC23
3544. REFORMATTING OF EFFLUENT
GUIDELINES AND STANDARDS IN 40
CFR PARTS 401 THROUGH 471
Priority: Info./Admin./Other
Reinventing Government: This
nilemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311 CWA sec
301; 33 USC 1314 CWA sec 304; 33
USC 1316 CWA sec 306; 33 USC 1317
CWA sec 307; 33 USC 1318 CWA sec
308; 33 USC 1362 CWA sec 502
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 405 to 471
(Revision)
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This regulatory action will
recodify the existing Effluent
Limitations and Standards in 40 CFR
piirts 401 through 471, without making
any changes in the requirements
therein. The purpose of this action is
to enable the Federal, State, and local
regulators and the regulated community
to more easily read, understand and
implement the regulations.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
Direct-Final Rule 08/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Government Levels Affected: None
Additional Information: SAN No. 3767
Agency Contact: Hugh Wise,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-7177
Fax: 202 260-7185
Email: wise.hugh@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AC79
3!545. EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND
STANDARDS FOR INDUSTRIAL
WASTE COMBUSTORS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311 CWA sec
301; 33 USC 1314 CWA sec 304; 33
USC 1316 CWA sec 306; 33 USC 1317
CWA sec 307; 33 USC 1318 CWA sec
, 308; 33 USC 1342 CWA sec 402; 33
USC 1361 CWA sec 501
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 444
Legal Deadline:
NPRM, Judicial, November 30, 1997.
Final, judicial, November 30, 1999.
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EPA—CWA
Final Rule Stage
Abstract: EPA proposed effluent
guidelines and standards for
commercial industrial waste
combustion facilities in February 1998.
Hazardous waste incinerators, boilers,
industrial furnaces, and non-hazardous
waste incinerators are all examples of
facilities included in the scope of the
project. The proposal applied only to
commercial industrial waste
combustors and not to sewage sludge
incinerators, medical waste
incinerators, municipal waste
combustors or other solid waste
combustors. Furthermore, EPA did not
include within the scope of the
proposal industrial waste ownership
(intra-company wastes) or industrial
waste combustors that only burn wastes
generated on-site. After reviewing
public comments, EPA will issue final.
standards. This rule was formerly titled
Waste Treatment Industry, Phase II:
Landfills and Incinerators.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 02/06/98 63 FR 6391
Final Action 11/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4041
(Formerly part of SAN 3489, KIN 2040-
AC23)
Agency Contact: Samantha Hopkins,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-7149
Fax: 202 260-7185
Email: hopkins.samantha@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AD03
3546. EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND
STANDARDS FOR THE PULP, PAPER,
AND PAPERBOARD CATEGORY;
INCENTIVES AMENDMENT
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311 CWA sec
301; 33 USC 1314 CWA sec 304; 33
USC 1316 CWA sec 306; 33 USC 1317
CWA sec 307; 33 USC 1361 CWA sec
501; 33 USC 1318 CWA sec 308; 33
USC 1342 CWA sec 402 •
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 430 -
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This amendment would
require those mills that choose to enroll
in the Voluntary Advanced Technology
Incentives Program (as established in
the April 1998 final rule) to submit a
plan (called a Milestone Plan)
specifying research, .construction, and
other activities leading to achievement
of the advanced technology effluent
limits, with accompanying dates for
achieving 'these milestones.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 04/15/98 63 FR 18795
Final Action 04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Federal ,
Additional Information: SAN.No. 4039
Agency Contact: Mark Perez,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-2275
Fax: 202 260-7185
Email: perez.mark@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AD05
3547. EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND
STANDARDS FOR THE PULP, PAPER,
AND PAPERBOARD CATEGORY;
MONITORING AMENDMENT
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311 CWA sec
301; 33 USC 1314 CWA sec 304; 33
USC 1316 CWA sec 306; 33 USC 1317
CWA sec 307; 33 USC 1361 CWA sec
501; 33 USC 1318 CWA sec 308
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 430
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The Agency proposed to
amend the Cluster Rules to provide for
a certification in lieu of monitoring for
one or more pollutants, including
chloroform, for mills using certain
processes. Basically, this amendment
would apply to elemental chlorine-free
mills, allowing them to submit a
certification based on process changes
and operational controls to demonstrate
compliance with the existing
limitations.
Timetable;
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
04/15/98 63 FR 18796
07/00/99
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4192
Agency Contact: Troy Swackhammer,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-7128
Fax: 202 260-7185
Email: swackhammer.j-troy@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AD23
3548. ESTABLISHMENT OF NUMERIC
CRITERIA FOR PRIORITY TOXIC
POLLUTANTS FOR THE STATE OF
CALIFORNIA
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1313 CWA
303 - .
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 131
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 3, 1997,
EPA is required to promulgate 90 days
after proposal.
Abstract: Several municipal entities
and one industry in California sued the
California State Water Resources
Control Board (SWRCB) in'State court
over whether the SWRCB's water
quality control plans for inland surface
waters and enclosed bays and estuaries
were adopted in compliance with
authorizing State law. The court issued
its final decision in March 1994; the
Court agreed with the plaintiffs and
found that the plans could not remain
in effect. The SWRCB was ordered to
rescind its plans which contain the
State's numeric criteria for priority
toxic pollutants. In the absence of State
criteria, the Clean Water Act requires
the Administrator to promulgate water
quality criteria for priority toxic
pollutants where EPA has issued
section 304(a) criteria guidance when
the discharge of such pollutants could
reasonably be expected to interfere with
the State's designated uses.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
08/05/97 62 FR 42160
07/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
NPRM
Final Action
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3504
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Final Rule Stage
Agency Contact: Matt Mitchell,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, Region IX, San Francisco, CA
94105
Phone: 415 744-2007
Fax: 415 744-1873
Email: mitchell.matthew@epa.gov
BIN: 2040-AC44
3549. WATER QUALITY STANDARDS
FOR ALABAMA—PHASE I
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1313; CWA
303,
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 131
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, June 3, 1998, EPA is
required to promulgate the rule 90 days
after proposal.
Abstract: Under the CWA, States have
primary authority hi developing water
quality standards for waters within
thoir jurisdiction. EPA maintains
oversight authority hi that States must
submit their water quality standards to
EPA for review and approval or
disapproval. If a State's water quality
standards are not consistent with the
requirements of the CWA and its
supporting regulations, and are
subsequently disapproved by EPA, the
State must revise the disapproved water
quality standards. If the State does not
revise the disapproved water quality
standards, the CWA authorizes the EPA
Administrator to promulgate Federal
water quality standards to supersede
those disapproved provisions in the
water quality standards.
On March 5,1998, EPA proposed water
quality standards applicable to nine
stream segments to replace those
provisions in Alabama's water quality
standards that were disapproved in
1986 and in 1991. Specifically, EPA
proposed use designations consistent
with those specified in section 101(a)
of the CWA to replace the State's
assigned Agricultural and Industrial
Water Supply use. The effect of the
proposed standards is to replace the
State-adopted water quality criteria,
which protect only for fish survival,
with water quality criteria based on
protection of propagation of fish,
aquatic life, and wildlife.
Timetable:
Action
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4195
Agency Contact: Fritz Wagener,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, Atlanta, GA 30303
Phone: 404 562-9267
William Morrow, Environmental
Protection Agency, Water, 4305,
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-3657
Fax: 202 260-9830
Email: morrow.william@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AD25
3550. WATER QUALITY STANDARDS;
ESTABLISHMENT OF NUMERIC
CRITERIA FOR PRIORITY TOXIC
POLLUTANTS; STATES'
COMPLIANCE—REVISION OF
POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS
(PCBS) CRITERIA
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1251
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 131
Legal Deadline:
Final, Judicial, September 30, 1999,
Settlement Agreement for publication
of final rule. .
Abstract: EPA is revising the rule
promulgated on December 22, 1992,
(National Toxics Rule or NTR) that
established water quality criteria for
twelve States and the District of
Columbia and Puerto Rico, that has not
adopted sufficient chemical-specific
numeric criteria for toxic pollutants
necessary to comply with the Clean
Water Act. Among the criteria
promulgated in the NTR were human
health "criteria for polychlorinated
biphenyls (PCBs). EPA has proposed
and taken comments on revisions to the
human health criteria for PCBs in the
NTR, based on the Agency's
reassessment of the cancer potency of
PCBs.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
04/02/98 63 FR 16182
09/00/99
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
03/05/98 63 FR 10799
12/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Aripr.ted: State,
Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4193
Agency Contact: Cindy Roberts,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4304, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-2787
RIIN: 2040-AD27
3«51. GUIDELINES ESTABLISHING
OIL AND GREASE TEST
PROCEDURES FOR THE ANALYSIS
OF POLLUTANTS UNDER THE CLEAN
WATER ACT
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 33 USC I3l4(h) CWA
304(h); 33 USC 1361(a) CWA 501(a)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 136
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This regulation will amend
the Guidelines establishing Test
Procedures for the Analysis of
Pollutants under section 304(h) of the
Clean Water Act- to replace existing
gravimetric test procedures for the
conventional pollutants, Oil and Grease
(40 CFR 401.16) with EPA Method 1664
consistent with the Chlorofluorocarbon
(CFG) phaseout requirements of the
Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.
Method 1664 uses normal hexane (n-
hexane) as the extraction solvent in
place of l,l,2-trichloro-l,2, 2-
trifluoroethane (CFC-113; Freon-113),
which is used in current 40 CFR part
136 approved methods for the
determination of oil and grease.
Presently approved methods are EPA
Method 413.1 in Methods for Chemical
Analysis of Water and Wastes (EPA-
600/4-79-020) and Method 5520B in
Standard Methods for the Examination
of Water and Wastewater, 18th edition.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Notice of Data
Availability
Final Action
01/23/96 61 FR1730
10/02/97 62 FR 51621
04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3617
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EPA—CWA
Final Rule Stage
Agency Contact: William A. Telliard,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-7134
Fax: 202 260-7185
Email: telliard.william@epa.gov
;R1N: 2040-AC63
3552. GUIDELINES ESTABLISHING
TEST PROCEDURES FOR THE
ANALYSIS OF CYANIDE UNDER THE
CLEAN WATER ACT
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 33 USC I3l4(h) CWA
304(h); 33 USC 1361(a) CWA 501(a)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 136
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This regulatory action would
amend the Guidelines Establishing Test
Procedures for the Analysis of
Pollutants under 40 CFR part 136 to
approve new procedures for the
analysis of cyanide under the Clean
Water Act. "Cyanides" is a toxic
pollutant as defined in the Clean Water
Act section 307 and total cyanide is
a priority pollutant listed at 40 CFR
part 423, -appendix A. The term total
cyanide refers to all forms of cyanide,
including those forms that are readily
bioavailable such as free and weakly
bound cyanide and those forms that are
less bioavailable because the cyanide is
strongly bound to a metal ion. EPA
Method 335.1, Cyanides Amenable to
Chlorination (CATC), is curitently
approved for the measurement of free
and weakly complexed forms of
cyanides. EPA Methods 335.2 and
335.3 are currently approved for
measurement of total cyanides. EPA
Methods 335.1 and 335.3 call for hour-
long distillation, chlorination requiring
an hour, and two separate aliquots of
a given sample distilled and analyzed
independently to determine the CATC
levels. In order to improve the accuracy
and reduce the cost of cyanide
measurements, EPA proposed new test
procedures for the determination of
cyanides.
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3701
Agency Contact: William A. Telliard,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-7134
Fax: 202 260-7185
Email: telliard.william@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AC76
3553. PERFORMANCE BASED
MEASUREMENT SYSTEM (PBMS)
PROCEDURES AND GUIDANCE FOR
CLEAN WATER ACT TEST
PROCEDURES
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1314(h) CWA
304(h); 33 USC 1361(a) CWA 501(a)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 136
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This regulatory action will
establish the use of performance-based
measurement procedures and guidance
for use in Clean Water Act compliance
monitoring under 40 CFR part 136,
Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures
for the Analysis of Pollutants. The new.
procedures -would include guidance
concerning the format, content, QA/QC,
and data validation requirements for
use of test methods. This regulatory
action would also describe increased
• program -guidance in the form of a
clearinghouse, technical bulletins,
and/or guidance documents geared
towards clarifying technical and policy
issues associated with the use of test
methods approved for use in the
program.
Timetable:
07/07/98 63 FR 36809
07/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Email: telliard.william@epa.gov
RIN: .2040-AC93
3554. GUIDELINES ESTABLISHING
TEST PROCEDURES FOR THE
ANALYSIS OF MISCELLANEOUS
METALS, ANIONS, AND VOLATILE
ORGANICS UNDER THE CLEAN
WATER ACT, PHASE ONE
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1314(h) CWA
304(h); 33 USC 1361(a) CWA 501(a)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 136
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This regulatory action will
amend the Guidelines Establishing Test
Procedures for the Analysis of
Pollutants under 40 CFR part 136 to
approve new procedures for the
analysis of miscellaneous metals,
anions, and volatile organics under the
Clean Water Act (CWA). These methods
are used for implementing water
quality based permits under the
National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System (NPDES) of the
CWA. This regulation will approve test
procedures to be used in measuring this
group of compounds under the NPDES
Program unless the Regional
Administrator approves an alternative
procedure. EPA plans to segment the
rulemaking into two phases to
accommodate different amounts of data
for the long list of compounds.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
03/28/97 62 FR 14975
07/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3713
Agency Contact: William A. Telliard,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water,-4303, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-7134
Fax: 202 260-7185
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
10/18/95 60 FR 53988
09/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3155
Agency Contact: William A. Telliard,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-7134
Fax: 202 260-7185
Email: telliard.william@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AC95
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3555. TEST PROCEDURES FOR THE
ANALYSIS OF MERCURY UNDER THE
CLEAN WATER ACT
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1314(h) CWA
304(h); 33 USC 1361{a) CWA 501(a)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 136
Legal Deadline:
Final, Judicial, May 31,1999.
Abstract: This regulatory action would
amend the Guidelines Establishing Test
Procedures for the Analysis of
Pollutants under 40 CFR part 136 to
approve EPA Method 1631 for the
determination of mercury at EPA's
recommended water.quality criteria
levels. This method is necessary for the
implementation of water quality-based
permits under the National Pollutant
Discharge Elimination System (NFDES)
of the Clean Water Act. Water quality-
based permits are necessary when
technology-based controls do not allow
a particular water body to meet the
State's designated water quality
standard. Because the methods
currently approved under 40 CFR part
136 were designed primarily to support
technology-based permitting needs, and
because these technology-based levels
are as much as two orders of magnitude
higher than water quality-based criteria
for metals, approval of new EPA test
procedures is necessary.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM 05/26/98 63 FR 28868
Final Action 05/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entitles Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4048
Agency Contact: William A. Telliard,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-7134
Fax: 202 260-7185
Email: telh'ard.william@epa.gov
Maria Gomez-Taylor, Environmental
Protection Agency, Water, 4303,
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-1639
Fax: 202 260-7185
Email: gomez-taylor.maria@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AD07
3556. UNIFORM NATIONAL
DISCHARGE STANDARDS FOR
ARMED FORCES VESSELS—PHASE I
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1322(n); CWA
sec 312(n)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 1700 (New)
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, February 10, 1998.
Abstract: Section 312 of the CWA, as
amended by the 1996 Defense
Authorization Act, requires EPA and
the Department of Defense, in
consultation with other Federal
agencies and affected States, to develop
Uniform National Discharge Standards
(UNDS) for discharges from armed
forces vessels. These regulations will
enable the Navy to design vessels to
one protective uniform standard, and
they preempt non-uniform State water
quality standards. Promulgation of
uniform standards may result in
innovative waste management
technologies that can be transferred to
the private sector. The first phase pf
the legislation requires promulgation of
joint regulations that specify which
discharges require regulation (i.e., the
use of marine pollution control
devices), as well as which will not
require regulation. Marine pollution
control devices may be a piece of
equipment designed to control a
particular waste stream, or a
management practice that would reduce
the impacts of a discharge. The Navy
and EPA will determine the nature and
environmental effects of vessel
discharges, as well as the practicability
of installing marine pollution control
devices. This regulation applies only to
vessels of the armed forces, and
therefore will have no impact on small
businesses. State governments will be
involved in the rulemaking process as
this rule may impact State standards,
if any exist, by preempting those
standards for vessels of the armed
forces. The uniform national standards
proposed by this action will regulate
those liquid vessel discharges that
would have adverse impacts on the
marine environment. If there is new
information that suggests the standard
should be changed, a State may submit
a petition for review to EPA and DoD
concerning any standard promulgated
under this action.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
08/25/98 63 FR 45298
04/00/99
NPRM
Final Action
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3925
Agency Contact: Ronald Jordan,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-7115
RIN: 2040-AC96
3557. NPDES WASTEWATER PERMIT
APPLICATION FORMS AND
REGULATORY REVISIONS FOR
MUNICIPAL DISCHARGES AND
SEWAGE SLUDGE USE OR DISPOSAL
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1314 CWA sec
304; 33 USC 1318 CWA sec 308; 33
USC 1342 CWA sec 402; 33 USC 1345
CWA sec 405; 33 USC 1361 CWA sec
501
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 122.21(j); 40 CFR
122.21(q); 40 CFR 501.15(a); 40 CFR
124.8(b); 40 CFR 123.25(a); 40 CFR
123.43(b)
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The purpose of this action is
to revise and consolidate existing
application forms and requirements for
Publicly Owned Treatment Works
(POTWs) and other Treatment Worka
Treating Domestic Sewage (TWTDS),
and to streamline the application
process for these facilities. The Agency
seeks to establish a unified process that
minimizes the need for additional
information from applicants while
providing permit writers the necessary
information, including toxics data, to
ensure that permits adequately address
concerns of permittees and
environmental protection. The Agency
seeks to allow the use of existing data
and to avoid unnecessary reporting.
The Agency is also considering how to
utilize electronic data submission.
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Although these forms will increase the
burden on permittees not already
required to submit these data, the
Agency is minimizing the need for
information from small entities,
including tribal facilities. The burden
on States would be minimized because
of improvements to the application
forms.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
12/06/95 60 FR 62545
04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 2501
Agency Contact: Robin Danesi,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4203, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-2991
Fax: 202 260-1460
Email: danesi.robin@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AB39
3558. NPDES STREAMLINING RULE-
ROUND II
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311 CWA sec
301; 33 USC 1314 CWA sec 304; 33
USC 1312 CWA sec 302; 33 USC 1316
CWA sec 306; 33 USC 1318 CWA sec
308; 33 USC 1342 CWA sec 402; 33
USC 1361 CWA sec 501
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 122; 40 CFR 123;
40 CFR 124; 40 CFR 125
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: On February 21, 1995,
President Clinton issued a directive
requesting that Federal agencies review
their regulatory programs to eliminate
any obsolete, ineffective, or unduly
burdensome regulations. In response to
that directive, the Office of Wastewater
Management plans to issue a
comprehensive rulemaking package
revising certain NPDES requirements in
parts 122, 123 and 124 to eliminate
redundant regulations, provide
clarification, and remove or streamline
unnecessary procedures which do not
provide any environmental benefits.
Some of these revisions include: 1)
consolidating regulatory definitions; 2)
removal of part 124, subpart F, non-
adversary panel hearings; 3) possible
removal of storm water group
application requirements; 4)
streamlining permit termination
procedures; and 5) removing part 124
evidentiary hearing procedures.
This rulemaking is expected to affect
entities who operate the NPDES
program or who are regulated by it.
This includes small businesses and
State and local governments. Most of
these effects are expected to be
deregulatory or streamlining in nature.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final
12/11/96 61 FR 65268
04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3762
Agency Contact: Howard Rubin,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4203, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-2051
Fax: 202 260-1460
RIN: 2040-AC70
3559. NPDES COMPREHENSIVE
STORM WATER PHASE II
REGULATIONS
Priority: Economically Significant.
Major under 5 USC 801.
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311 CWA sec
301; 33 USC 1314 CWA sec 304; 33
USC 1318 CWA sec 308; 33 USC 1342
CWA sec 402; 33 USC 1361 CWA sec
501
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 122; 40 CFR 123
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, October 1, 1993.
NPRM, Judicial, December 15, 1997.
Final, Judicial, October 29, 1999.
Abstract: EPA proposed changes to the
storm water regulations for the
remaining unregulated dischargers that
require regulation. Also known as
Phase II dischargers, these sources
potentially could have included all
storm water discharges from municipal
separate storm sewer systems serving
populations of less than 100,000 and
construction activities resulting hi the
land disturbance of less than 5 acres.
Data collected under sections 305(b)
and 402(p)(5) of the CWA indicate that
benefits will be derived from
addressing these discharges under the
Phase II program. Urban storm water
runoff is a real cause of water quality
use impairment. EPA invited
stakeholders to participate hi the
development of comprehensive Phase II
rules under the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (FACA). This FACA
subcommittee has assisted in the
development of the rule. Currently, all
Phase n dischargers are required to
have storm water permits by 2001. EPA
proposed to limit the universe of
designated Phase II sources and
proposed an approach that would
promote the use of general permits for
most Phase II sources. The proposed
changes would also provide regulatory
relief by waiving Phase I facilities that
have no exposure to storm water from
otherwise applicable permit
requirements.
Timetable:
Action
NPRM
Final Action
Date FR Cite
01/09/98 63 FR 1535
10/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3785
Agency Contact: George Utting,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4203, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-9530
Fax: 202 260-1460
RIN: 2040-AC82
3560. COMPARISON OF DREDGED
MATERIAL TO REFERENCE
SEDIMENT-
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1344 CWA sec
404
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 230
Legal Deadline: None
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Abstract: This action would revise the
testing provisions of the Clean Water
Act section 404(b)(l) Guidelines to
provide for comparisons between
dredged material proposed for
discharge and reference sediment.
Reference sediment would be defined
as sediment that reflects conditions at
the disposal site had no dredged
material disposal ever occurred there.
Because the disposal site itself is
currently used as the point of
comparison, this action would make a
technical improvement in assessing
cumulative impacts and help make
dredged material testing under section
404 more consistent with that
conducted for ocean disposal, which
currently employs a reference sediment
approach. This action is not expected
to have a significant impact on state,
local, or tribal governments or small
business, as the action will be limited
to Corps projects and permit
applications for which dredged material
testing is necessary, and because the
effect of the action will be limited to
changing the location of an otherwise
collected sample.
Timetable:
Action
Data
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
01/04/95 60FR419
06/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3288
Agency Contact: John Goodin,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4502F, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-9910
RIN: 2040-AC14
3561. AMENDMENTS TO ROUND I
FINAL SEWAGE SLUDGE USE OR
DISPOSAL RULE—PHASE ONE
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1361 CWA sec
501(a); 33 USC 1345 CWA sec 405
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 503
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA is amending the'Round
I Final Sewage Sludge Use or Disposal
Regulation in two phases (i.e., Phase
One and Phase Two). Ph'ase I will
respond to minor comments received
on the Final Sewage Sludge Use or
Disposal Round I Rule (part 503),
correct publication errors, and make
technical amendments. This action will
modify the existing regulation to make
the requirements for sewage sludge
incinerators self-implementing and
provide the regulated community
flexibility in meeting other Part 503
requirements. The changes should not
ha.ve any adverse impact on State,
local, or tribal government or small
businesses because no additional
requirements are being imposed.
Timetable:
Action
iDate
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
10/25/95 60 FR 54771
04/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3497
Agency Contact: Alan B. Rubin,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4304, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-7589
Fax: 202 260-1036
Email: rubin.alan@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AC29
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Clean Water Act (CWA)
Long-Term Actions
3562. EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND
STANDARDS FOR THE METAL
PRODUCTS AND MACHINERY
CATEGORY, PHASES 1 AND 2
Priority: Economically Significant.
Major under 5 USC 801.
Unfunded Mandates: This action may
affect the private sector under
PL 104-4.
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311 CWA sec
301; 33 USC 1314 CWA sec 304; 33
USC 1316 CWA sec 306; 33 USC 1317
CWA sec 307; 33 USC 1318 CWA sec
308; 33 USC 1342 CWA sec 402; 33
USC 1361 CWA sec 501
CFR Citation: 4.0 CFR 438
Legal Deadline:
NPRM, Judicial, October 31, 2000.
Final, Judicial, December 31, 2002.
Abstract: EPA is developing effluent
limitations guidelines for facilities that
generate wastewater while processing
metal parts; metal products; and
machinery, including manufacture,
assembly, rebuilding, repair, and
maintenance. A proposed rule in 1995
covered seven industrial groups:
aircraft, aerospace, hardware, ordnance,
stationary industrial equipment, mobile
industrial equipment, and electronic
equipment EPA has consolidated this
rulemaking with a second phase, and
coverage will include an additional
nine industrial groups: bus and truck,
household equipment, instruments,
motor vehicles, office machines,
precious metals and jewelry, railroads,
job shops and printed circuit boards,
and ships and boats. The deadlines and
timetable apply to the consolidated
Phase 1 and 2 rulemaking.
Timetable:
Action
FR Cite
NPRM (Phase 1) 05/30/95 60 FR 28210
NPRM (Consolidated 10/00/00
Phase 1 and 2)
Final 12/00/02
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Yes
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 2806
Merged with RIN 2040-AC30, SAN
3496.
Agency Contact: Steven Geil,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-9817
Fax: 202 260-7185
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Email: geil.steve@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AB79
3563. EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND
STANDARDS FOR THE
TRANSPORTATION EQUIPMENT
CLEANING CATEGORY
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311 CWA sec
301; 33 USC 1317 CWA sec 307; 33
USC 1314 CWA sec 304; 33 USC 1361
CWA sec 501; 33 USC 1316 CWA sec
306
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 442
Legal Deadline:
NPRM, Judicial, May 15, 1998.
Final, Judicial, June 30, 2000.
Abstract: EPA is developing effluent
limitation guidelines and pretreattnent
standards for transportation equipment
cleaning facilities, which clean the
interiors of tank trucks, rail tank cars,
intermodal tank containers, ocean/sea
tankers, tank barges, closed-top hopper
trucks, closed-top hopper rail cars, and
closed-top hopper barges.
Timetable:
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 420
Legal Deadline:
NPRM, Judicial, October 31, 2000.
Final, Judicial, April 30, 2002.
Abstract: EPA will propose
amendments to the effluent limitations
guidelines for the Iron and Steel
Manufacturing Point Source Category to
reflect significant industry changes
related to consolidation and
modernization within the U.S.
steelmaking industry as well as
advances in manufacturing
technologies, in process pollution
prevention, water conservation
practices, and end-of-pipe wastewater
treatment.
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
Action
Date
FR Cite
06/25/98 63 FR 34685
06/00/00
NPRM
Final Action
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3204
Agency Contact: John Tinger,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-4992
Fax: 202 260-7185
Email: tinger.johrL@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AB98
3564. EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND
STANDARDS FOR IRON AND STEEL
MANUFACTURING POINT SOURCE
CATEGORY
Priority: Other Significant. Major status
under 5 USC 801 is undetermined.
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311 CWA sec
301; 33 USC 1314 CWA sec 304; 33
USC 1316 CWA sec 306; 33 USC 1317
CWA sec 307; 33 USC 1362 CWA sec
502; 33 USC 1342 CWA sec 402
and New Sources (PSES and PSNS) for
8 of the 12 subcategories for this
industrial category: Unbleached Kraft;
Semi-Chemical; Mechanical Pulp; Non-
Wood Chemical Pulp; Secondary Fiber
Deink; Secondary Fiber Non-Deink;
Fine and Lightweight Papers from
Purchased Pulp; and Tissue, Filter,
Non-Woven, and Papefboard from
Purchased Pulp. EPA proposed
guidelines and standards for these eight
"Phase II" subcategories as part of the
Pulp and Paper Rules (also known as
the Cluster Rules) in December 1993.
The Agency intends to develop these
revised effluent limitations in close
coordination with the Office of Air
Quality Planning and Standards.
Timetable:
NPRM
Final
10/00/00
04/00/02
Action
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3833
Agency Contact: George Jett,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-7151
Fax: 202 260-7185
Email: jett.george@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AC90
3565. EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND
STANDARDS FOR THE PULP, PAPER,
AND PAIPERBOARD CATEGORY,
PHASE II
Priority: Other Significant. Major status
under 5 USC 801 is undetermined.
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311 CWA
301; 33 USC 1314 CWA 304; 33 USC
1316 CWA 306; 33 USC 1317 CWA
307; 33 USC 1318 CWA 308; 33 USC
1361 CWA 501
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 430
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA will consider revising
existing Best Practicable Technology
(BPT), Best Conventional Pollutant
Control Technology (BCT), Best
Available Technology (BAT), New
Source Performance Standards (NSPS),
and Pretreatment Standards for Existing
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 12/17/93 58 FR 66078
Final Action 12/00/02
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4050
Agency Contact: J. Troy
Swackhammer, Environmental
Protection Agency, Water, 4303,
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-7128
Fax: 202 260-7185
Email: swackhammer.j-troy@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AD10
3566. REVISIONS TO EFFLUENT
GUIDELINES AND STANDARDS FOR
SYNTHETIC-BASED DRILLING FLUIDS
IN THE OIL AND GAS EXTRACTION
POINT SOURCE CATEGORY
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311 CWA sec
301; 33 USC 1314 CWA sec 304; 33
USC 1316 CWA sec 306; 33 USC 1317
CWA sec 307; 33 USC 1318 CWA sec
308; 33 USC 1342 CWA sec 402; 33
USC 1361 CWA sec 501
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 435
Legal Deadline:
NPRM, Judicial, December 31, 1998.
Final, Judicial, December 31, 2000.
Abstract: This regulatory action will
establish effluent limitations for the use
of synthetic-based drilling fluids (SBF).
Although oil and gas extraction is
covered by existing effluent guidelines,
the SBFs are a new technology not
addressed in the guidelines, and
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applying the existing regulations which
were developed for water-based and
oil-based drilling fluids is not
appropriate. The use of SBFs presents
an opportunity for environmental gain.
On a drilling performance basis, SBFs
replace oil-based drilling fluids, but
unlike oil-based drilling fluids, SBFs
are free of aromatic hydrocarbon
priority pollutants, exhibit greatly
reduced toxicity, biodegrade relatively
rapidly, and do not bioaccumulate.
Compared to water-based drilling
fluids, SBFs have reduced aquatic.
toxicity and lower discharge volumes
resulting in lower toxic metals
discharge. To realize the potential
environmental gain, new guidelines
specific to the SBFs are necessary to
minimize the wastestream volume and
control potential contaminants, toxicity,
biodegradation, and bioaccumulation.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 02/03/99 64 FR 5487
Phial Action 12/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entitles Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4086
Agency Contact: Joseph M. Daly,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-7186
Fax: 202 260-7185
Email: daly.josoph@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AD14
3567. EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS
GUIDELINES AND STANDARDS FOR
THE FEEDLOTS POINT SOURCE
CATEGORY, DAIRY AND BEEF
CATTLE SUBCATEGORIES
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311 CWA sec
301; 33 USC 1314 CWA sec 304; 33
USC 1316 CWA sec 306; 33 USC 1317
CWA sec 307; 33 USC 1318 CWA sec
308; 33 USC 1342 CWA sec 402; 33
USC 1361 CWA sec 501
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 412
Legal Deadline:
NPRM, Judicial, December 31, 2000.
Final, Judicial, December 31, 2002.
Abstract: Feedlot operations are
covered fay existing effluent guidelines
at 40 CFR part 412. This new regulatory
action will revise the existing
regulations for two of the subcategories-
-dairy and beef cattle operations. The
existing regulations, which require the
largest confined animal feeding
operations to achieve zero discharge of
wastes to surface waters except for
certain storm related discharges, have
not been sufficient to resolve water
quality impairment from feedlot
operations. Beef and dairy cattle
operations represent a large segment of
the feedlot industry and have been
identified as substantial contributors of
nutrients in surface waters that have
severe anoxia (low levels of dissolved
oxygen) and affect drinking water
sources in the western_and central
regions of the country.
Timetable:
with section 303(2)(B) of the Clean
Water Act. The NTR promulgated total
recoverable metals criteria for 11 of
these 14 States. In May 1995, EPA
amended the materials criteria to reflect
EPA's new policy to use dissolved
metals criteria because they more
accurately reflect the bioavailable
fraction of waterborne metals for
aquatic life. The interim final rule was
deregulatory in nature, but is not
expected to impact the health of
aquatic life in the water column. EPA
expects the rule to result in less
stringent permit limits and therefore a
potential cost savings in wastewater
treatment for dischargers of metals in
the covered States. This action makes
the interim final rule final and is also
deregulatory in nature.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite Action
Date
NPRM 12/00/00
Final Action . 12/00/02
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4167
Agency Contact: Ron Jordan,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-7115
Fax: 202 260-7185
Email: jordan.ronald@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AD21
3568. WATER QUALITY STANDARDS;
ESTABLISHMENT OF NUMERIC
CRITERIA FOR PRIORITY TOXIC
POLLUTANTS; STATES' COMPLIANCE
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the1 Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1313 CWA sec
303
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 131
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA is revising its rule
promulgated on December 22, 1992,
(National Toxics Rule or NTR) that
established water quality criteria for 14
States that had failed to fully comply
FR Cite
Interim Final 05/04/95 60 FR 22229
Final Action To Be Determined
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3661
Agency Contact: Cindy Roberts,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4304, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-2787
RIN: 2040-AC55
35(59. SELENIUM CRITERION
MAXIMUM CONCENTRATION FOR
WATER QUALITY GUIDANCE FOR
THE GREAT LAKES SYSTEM
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1268 CWA sec
118
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 132
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This rulemaking proposes to
establish a new acute aquatic life
criterion for selenium in the final Water
Quality Guidance for the Great Lakes
System (the Guidance) that was
published on March 23, 1995 (60 FR
15366). The proposed new criterion
takes into account data showing that
selenium's two most prevalent
oxidation states, selenite and selenate,
present differing potentials for aquatic
toxicity, as well as new data indicating
that all forms of selenium are additive.
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The new approach produces a different
selenium acute criterion (also called the
Criterion Maximum Concentration, or
CMC) depending upon the relative
proportions of selenite, selenate, and
other forms of selenium that are
present. This effort is on hold until a
larger effort to amend the national
water quality criteria guidance for
selenium is complete. Once that effort
is completed EPA will reevaluate the
need for this action to amend the final
Water Quality Guidance for the Great
Lakes System and take appropriate
action.
Timetable:
Timetable:
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
11/14/96 61 FR 58444
12/16/96 61 FR 66007
To Be Determined
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
NPRM
Final Action
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3921
Agency Contact: Mark Morris,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4301, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-0312
RIN: 2040-AC97
3570. GUIDELINES ESTABLISHING
WHOLE EFFLUENT TOXICITY WEST
COAST TEST PROCEDURES FOR THE
ANALYSIS OF POLLUTANTS UNDER
THE CLEAN WATER ACT
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant.
Major status under 5 USC 801 is
undetermined.
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1313 CWA
303; 33 USC 1314(h) CWA 304(h); 33
USC 1314(a)(8) CWA 304(aK8); 33 USC
1361 CWA 501
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 136
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This rule would amend 40
CFR part 136, by adding test
procedures to measure chronic whole
effluent toxicity using species
indigenous to West Coast marine waters
for the analysis of pollutants under the
Clean Water Act. State, local and tribal
governments and small businesses on
the West Coast are already using
variations of these methods in NPDES
permits.
NPRM
Action
Date
FR Cite
To Be Determined NPRM
To Be Determined
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3618
Agency Contact: William A. Telliard,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-7134
Fax: 202 260-7185
Email: telliard.william@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AC54
3571. GUIDELINES ESTABLISHING
TEST PROCEDURES FOR THE
ANALYSIS OF TRACE METALS
UNDER THE CLEAN WATER ACT
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant.
Major status under 5 USC 801 is
undetermined.
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1314(h) CWA
304(h); 33 USC 1361(a) CWA 501
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 136
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This regulatory action would
propose to amend the Guidelines
Establishing Test Procedures for the
Analysis of Pollutants under 40 CFR
part 136 to approve new EPA methods
for the determination of trace metals at
EPA's water quality criteria levels.
These methods are necessary for die
implementation of water quality-based
permits under the National Pollutant
Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
of the CWA. Water quality-based
permits are necessary when technology-
based controls do not allow a particular
water body to meet die State's
designated water quality standard.
Because the metiiods currently
approved under 40 CFR part 136 were
designed to support primarily
technology-based permitting needs, and
because these technology-based levels
are as much as 280 times higher dian
water quality-based criteria for metals,
approval of new EPA test procedures
is necessary.
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3702
Agency Contact: William A. Telliard,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-7134
Fax: 202 260-7185
Email: telliard.william@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AC75
3572. INCREASED METHOD
FLEXIBILITY FOR TEST
PROCEDURES APPROVED FOR
CLEAN WATER ACT COMPLIANCE
MONITORING
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 33 USC I3l4(h) CWA
304 (h); 33 USC 1361(a) CWA 501 (a)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 136
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This regulatory action would
highlight the flexibility already
contained in the 600 and 1600 series
of EPA Methods diat are currently
approved for Clean Water Act
compliance monitoring under 40 CFR
part 136, Guidelines Establishing Test
Procedures for the Analysis of
Pollutants. These methods typically
contain a statement that, "In
recognition of advances that are
occurring in analytical technology, and
to allow the analyst to overcome
sample matrix interferences, the analyst
is permitted certain options to improve
separations or lower the costs of
measurements. These options include
alternate extraction, concentration,
cleanup procedures, and changes in
columns and detectors .... The methods
further require the analyst to
demonstrate diat the mediod
modifications will not adversely affect
die quality of data by generating quality
control results diat meet die
specifications contained in die
mediod." Despite this stated flexibility,
die Agency has found diat many
NPDES and pretreatment permitting
authorities are not aware of tiiis
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flexibility when issuing or enforcing
NPDES and pretreatment permits.
Therefore, this regulatory action will
highlight the existing method flexibility
and clarify EPA's position regarding its
application. This action will also
extend this flexibility to other methods
currently approved under 40 CFR part
136. The purpose of extending this
flexibility to other methods is to (1)
increase consistency between methods,
(2) provide for increased recognition of
advances in analytical technology, and
(3) reduce costs associated with "
analytical measurements.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
Direct Final Rule To Be Determined
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entitles Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3714
Agency Contact: William A. Telliard,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-7134
Fax: 202 260-7185
Email: telliard.william@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AC92
3573. TEST PROCEDURES FOR THE
ANALYSIS OF CO-PLANAR AND
MONO-ORTHO-SUBSTITUTED
POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS
(PCBS) UNDER THE CLEAN WATER
ACT
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant.
Major status under 5 USC 801 is
undetermined.
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Legal Authority: 33 USC I3l4(h) CWA
304(h); 33 USC 1361(a) CWA 501{a)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 136; 40 CFR 503
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This regulatory action would
propose to amend the Guidelines
Establishing Test Procedures for the
Analysis of Pollutants under 40 CFR
parts 136 and 503 to approve EPA
Method 1668 for the congener-specific
determination of co-planar and mono-
ortho-substituted polychlorinated
biphenyls (PCBs) in effluent ambient
water and sludge. This method is
necessary for the implementation of
water quality-based permits under the
National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System (NPDES) of the
Clean Water Act. Water quality-based
permits are necessary when technology-
based controls do not allow a particular
water body to meet the State's
designated water quality standard. At
present there is no EPA-analytical
method for determination of these
PCBs, therefore, approval of a new EPA
test procedure is necessary.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM To Be Determined
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Juris dictions;
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4049
Agency Contact: William A. Telliard,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4303, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-7134
Fax: 202 260-7185
Email: telliard.william@epa.gov
Maria Gomez-Taylor, Environmental
Protection Agency, Water, 4303,
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-1639
Fax: 202 260-7185
Email: gomez-taylor.maria@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AD09
3574. GUIDELINES ESTABLISHING
TEST PROCEDURES FOR THE
ANALYSIS OF MISCELLANEOUS
METALS, ANIONS, AND VOLATILE
ORGANICS UNDER THE CLEAN
WATER ACT, PHASE TWO
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant.
Major status under 5 USC 801 is
undetermined.
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Legal Authority: 33 USC I314(h) CWA
304(h); 33 USC 1361(a) CWA 501(a)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 136
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This regulatory action will
amend the Guidelines Establishing Test
Procedures for the Analysis of
Pollutants under 40 CFR Part 136 to
approve new procedures for the
analysis of miscellaneous metals,
anions, and volatile organics under the
Clean Water Act (CWA). These methods
are used for implementing water
quality based permits under the
National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System (NPDES) of the
CWA. This regulation will approve test
procedures to be used in measuring this
group of compounds under the NPDES
unless the Regional Administrator
approves an alternative procedure. This
rulemaking will constitute the second
of two segments of rulemaking initially
proposed as one action.
Timetable:
Action
Date " FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
10/18/95 60 FR 53988
To Be Determined
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4089
Agency Contact: William A. Telliard,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Wa.ter, 4303, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-7134
Fax: 202 260-7185
Email: telliard.william@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AD12
3575. REVISION OF NPDES
INDUSTRIAL PERMIT APPLICATION
REQUIREMENTS AND FORM 2C—
WASTEWATER DISCHARGE
INFORMATION
Priority: Other Significant. Major status
under 5 USC 801 is undetermined.
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1342 CWA sec
402
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 122.21(g)
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: All existing manufacturing,
commercial, mining, and silvicultural
operations requiring a National
Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
(NPDES) permit must submit an
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application in order to obtain a permit.
The existing indusliial application form
has not been revised since 1984 and
needs to be updated to reflect statutory
and regulatory changes in the NPDES
program, advances in analytical
methods and an increased emphasis on
toxic control. The purpose of this
action is to revise and consolidate
existing application forms and
requirements for industries, and to
streamline the permit application
process for these facilities. The Agency
seeks to establish a unified process that
minimizes the need for additional
information from applicants while
providing permit writers the' necessary
information, including toxics data, to
ensure that permits adequately address
concerns of permittees and
environmental protection. The Agency
will seek to allow the use of existing
data to the extent possible and to avoid
unnecessary reporting. The Agency is
also considering how to utilize
electronic data submission. Although
these forms will increase the burden on
permittees not akeady required to
provide these data, many other
permittees are already required to
submit the data. The Agency is
reviewing ways to minimize the need
for information from small dischargers,
including tribal facilities. EPA will also
seek to minimize and reduce the
burden on States through
improvements to the application forms.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM To Be Determined
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3234
Agency Contact: Jeff Lape,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4203, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-6057
RIN: 2040-AC26
3576. NPDES STREAMLINING RULE-
ROUND ill
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311 CWA sec
301; 33 USC 1312 CWA sec 302; 33
USC 1314 CWA sec 304; 33 USC 1316
CWA sec 306; 33 USC 1318 CWA sec
308; 33 USC 1342 CWA sec 402; 33
USC 1361 CWA sec 501
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 122; 40 CFR 123;
40 CFR 124
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: On February 21,1995,
President Clinton issued a directive
requesting that Federal agencies review
their regulatory programs to eliminate
any obsolete, ineffective, or unduly
burdensome regulations. In response to
that directive, EPA plans to issue
several rulemaking packages to revise
NPDES requirements in parts 122, 123,
and 124 to eliminate redundant
regulations, provide clarification, and
remove or streamline unnecessary
procedures. Revisions under
consideration in this rule include
adding additional permit modifications
that can be considered minor
modifications at 122:63, and changes to
requirements concerning EPA's review
of State permits. Other revisions may
be considered as work on this rule
progresses. This rulemaking is expected
to affect entities which implement the
NPDES program or are regulated by it.
This includes small businesses and
State, tribal and local governments.
Most of these effects are expected to
be deregulatory or streamlining in
nature. This rulemaking is in the very
early stages.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
10/00/00
10/00/01
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3786
Agency Contact: Thomas Charlton,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4203, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-6960
Fax: 202 260-1460
RIN: 2040-AC84
3577. AMENDMENTS TO ROUND I
FINAL SEWAGE SLUDGE USE OR
DISPOSAL RULE —PHASE TWO
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1361 (a) CWA
sec 501(a); 33 USC 1345 CWA sec 405
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 503
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA is amending the Round
I Final Sewage Sludge Use or Disposal
Regulation in two phases (i.e., Phase
One and Phase Two). Phase Two will
address issues presented by judicial
remand of specific requirements in the
final rule (part 503) and requests for
reconsideration and will modify certain
technical requirements. The proposed
changes will impact Federal, State,
local and tribal governments, as well
as small businesses and small
governmental jurisdictions. EPA
expects that these changes will increase
flexibility and thus reduce the
regulatory burden.
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
04/00/00
04/00/01
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4207
Agency Contact: Alan B. Rubin,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4304, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-7589
Fax: 202 260-1036
Email: rubin.alan@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AC53
3578. STREAMLINING 301 (H) WAIVER
RENEWAL REQUIREMENTS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1311 CWA sec
301;'33 USC 1314 CWA sec 304; 33
USC 1361(a) CWA sec 501(a)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 125(g)
Legal Deadline: None
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Abstract: EPA is proposing an
amendment to the regulations
contained in 40 CFR part 125, subpart
G. These regulations implement Section
301(h) of the Clean Water Act, 33 USC
section 1311 (h). Section 301(h)
provides publicly owned treatment
works (POTWs) discharging to marine
waters^an opportunity to obtain a
modification of secondary treatment
requirements if they demonstrate to
EPA that they comply with a number
of criteria aimed at protecting the
marine environment. This proposal is
designed to streamline the renewal
process for POTWs with 301(h)
modified permits. The action would
eliminate unnecessary paperwork. It
would specify that a completed
application would not be required for
renewals in cases where EPA already
has the required information.
Additional information would only be
required as necessary to determine
ongoing and continued predicted
compliance with the 301(h) criteria.
This regulation should reduce
paperwork submissions from
municipalities, which should save time
and resources.
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Flequired: No
Small Entities Affected: Governmental
Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3804
Agency Contact: David Redford^
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4504F, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202260-9179
Fax: 202 260-9920
NPRM
to Be Determined FUN: 2040-AC89
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)
Proposed Rule Stage
3579. • USE OF SCREENING
PROCEDURES FOR COMPLIANCE
MONITORING OF DRINKING WATER
CONTAMINANTS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 300f SDWA
sec 1401: 42 USC 300g-l SDWA sec
1412; 42 USC 300J-4 SDWA sec 1445
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 141: 40 CFR 143
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The 1996 SDWA
Amendments require EPA to review
new analytical methods that may be
used for regulated contaminants
screening or analysis, including
screening methods. After this review,
EPA may approve such methods that
are deemed more accurate or cost-
effective than established reference
methods for use in compliance
monitoring (SDWA, sec 1445(1)) or the
monitoring of unregulated
contaminants. In this regulatory eifort,
EPA proposes to integrate the use of
screening methods in the overall
scheme of drinking water compliance
monitoring. Efforts will be made to
keep the proposal consistent with the
Office of Water plan for Performance
Based Methods (PBMS). EPA will
identify regulated contaminates, types
of monitoring and specific areas within
each monitoring framework which are
amenable to the use of screening
methods. A logical application of
screening procedures will be in a tiered
monitoring mode where "Tier 1"
(screening phase) would identify the
principal problem areas while "Tier 2"
would use sampling and analysis to
more carefully identify and quantify
specific contaminants. EPA will
identify specific screening methods
which are available for use based on
their performance characteristics,
tolerance to sample interferences,
validation for drinking water analysis
and correlation of results with
traditional instrumental methods. The
use of screening methods is expected
to make drinking water compliance
monitoring cheaper arid faster, and
provide flexibility to the Public Water
Systems in the choice 'of analytical
methods. Laboratory acceptance limits
and other method performance
requirements that werp specified under
previous rules will not be changed in
this rule making. This proposal will
only add new analytical methods
and/or analytical approaches and will
not withdraw or modify previously
approved methods.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
08/00/99
04/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal ;
Additional Information: SAN No. 4212
Agency Contact: Dr. Jitendra Saxena,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4607, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-9579
Fax: 202 260-3762
Email: saxena-jitendra@epa.gov
Dr. Richard Reding, Environmental
Protection Agency, Water, U.S. EPA
Facilities, Cincinnati, OH 45268
Phone: 513 569-7961
Fax: 513569-7191
Email: reding.richard @epa.gov
FUN: 2040-ADS 1
3580. NATIONAL PRIMARY DRINKING
WATER REGULATIONS: RADON
Priority: Economically Significant.
Major under 5 USC 801.
Unfunded Mandates: This action may
affect State, local or tribal governments.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 300f SDWA
sec 1412
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 141; 40 CFR 142
Legal Deadline:
Other, Statutory, February 6, 1999,
Publish radon health risk reduction and
cost-analysis.
NPRM, Statutory, August 6, 1999.
Final, Statutory, August 6, 2000.
Abstract: Radon in drinking water
increases risk to public health, both
from inhalation of radon discharged
through normal household water use,
such as showering, and from ingestion
of water. In 1991, EPA estimated that
radon in public drinking water supplies
causes about 192 avoidable cancer
cases each year. EPA does not currently
regulate radon in drinking water. On
July 18, 1991, EPA proposed a
Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) for
radon in drinking water at 300 pCi/L,
to address radon in public water
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supplies (systems serving over 25
individuals or with greater than 15
service connections). EPA withdrew the
proposed radon regulation on August
6, 1997 (62 FR 42221). This rule will
impact small entities, including small
public water supplies and
municipalities. Tribal governments will
be affected if they provide water
through systems meeting the definition
of public water supply. States with
primacy will implement the final
regulation, and will be asked to assist
EPA in developing guidelines for multi-
media mitigation programs.
The 1996 Amendments to the Safe
Drinking Water Act add new radon
requirements. Congress directed EPA
to: (1) Withdraw the 1991 proposed
rule; (2) Work with the National
Academy of Sciences (NAS) to conduct
a risk assessment for radon in drinking
water and an assessment of the health
risk reduction benefits associated with
various mitigation methods of reducing
radon in indoor air; (3) Publish a radon
health risk reduction and cost analysis
for possible radon MCLs for public
comment, by February 1999; (4)
Propose MCL Goal and National
Primary Drinking Water Regulation
(NPDWR) for radon by August 1999;
and (5) Publish MCL Goal and Final
NPDWR for radon, by August 2000.
Pursuant to 1412 (b)(13) of SDWA, EPA
promulgates an MCL more stringent
than necessary to reduce the
contribution to radon in indoor air from
drinking water to a concentration that
is equivalent to the national a/erage
concentration of radon in outdoor air,
the Agency must establish an
alternative MCL. The level of the
alternative MCL is linked to average
outdoor radon levels. If an alternative
MCL is established, EPA must publish
guidelines for States to develop
multimedia radon mitigation programs.
If EPA approves a State multimedia
mitigation program, public water
supply systems within the State may
comply'with the alternative MCL. EPA
shall evaluate multimedia radon
mitigation programs every 5 years.
Timetable:
Action
ANPRM
NPRM
Notice
Reproposal
Final Action
Date
09/30/86
07/18/91
02/26/99
08/00/99
08/00/00
FR Cite
51 FR 34836
56 FR 33050
64 FR 9560
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Yes
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 2281
Agency Contact: Sylvia Malm,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4607, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-0417
RIN: 2040-AA94
3581. NATIONAL PRIMARY DRINKING
WATER REGULATIONS: GROUND
WATER RULE
Priority: Economically Significant.
Major under 5 USC 801.
Unfunded Mandates: This action may
affect State, local or tribal governments
and the private sector.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 300f SDWA
sec 1412
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 141; 40 CFR 142
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, May 31, 2002, After
August 6 1999 but before May 31 2002.
Abstract: The Safe Drinking Water Act
as amended in 1996 directs EPA to
promulgate regulations requiring
disinfection as necessary for ground
water systems. The intention is to
develop a protective public health
approach which assures a baseline of
protection for all consumers of ground
water and sets in place an increasingly
targeted strategy to identify high risk
or high priority systems that require
greater scrutiny or further action.
Development and implementation of
the rule will involve local, tribal, State
and Federal governments. The structure
of the rule is a series of barriers to
microbial contamination. The multiple-
barrier approach relies upon four major
components: 1) periodic onsite
inspections of ground water systems
requiring the evaluation of eight key
areas and the identification of
significant deficiencies; 2) source water
monitoring for systems drawing from- .
vulnerable aquifers without treatment
or with other indications of risk; 3) a
requirement for correction of significant
deficiencies; and 4) a requirement for
treatment where contamination or
significant deficiencies are not or
cannot be corrected, and alternative
sources of drinking water are not
available. EPA believes that the
combination of these elements strikes
an appropriate regulatory balance
which tailors the intensity or burden
of protective measures and follow-up
action to the risk being addressed.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final
11/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Yes
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 2340
Agency Contact: Tracy Bone,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4607, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-2954
RIN: 2040-AA97
3582. NATIONAL PRIMARY DRINKING
WATER REGULATIONS: ARSENIC
Priority: Other Significant. Major status
under 5 USC 801 is undetermined.
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Legal Authority: 42 USC 300f SDWA
sec 1412
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 141 (Revision); 40
CFR 142 (Revision)
Legal Deadline:
Other, Statutory, February 2, 1997,
Arsenic Study Plan.
NPRM, Statutory, January 1, 2000.
Final, Statutory, January 1, 2001.
Abstract: The Safe Drinking Water Act
(SDWA) Amendments of 1996 require
EPA to develop and carry out a study
plan to reduce the uncertainty in
assessing health risks of low levels of
arsenic. Currently the National Primary
Drinking Water Regulation (NPDWR)
for arsenic is 50 ppb, or 50 ug/L.
However, the existing risk assessment
projects the risk of skin cancer at 1 in
ten-thousand for 2 ppb arsenic. Arsenic
ingestion is also associated with
internal cancer, but the risk of internal
cancer has not been quantified. EPA is
to propose a revised NPDWR for
arsenic by January 1, 2000, and
promulgate the NPDWR by January 1,
2001.
The SDWA directs EPA to establish a
maximum contaminant level (MCL) as
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close to the maximum contaminant
level goal (MCLG) as feasible,
considering treatment efficacy and
costs. EPA must list affordable
technologies or treatment techniques
that achieve compliance with the MCL
for three categories of small systems
considering the quality of the source
waier. Furthermore, alternatives to
central treatment, such as point-of-use
and point-of-entry devices, can be
considered for small systems that
maintain control over operation and
maintenance. At the time of proposal,
EPA must seek comment on its
analyses of costs of compliance and
health risk reduction benefits likely to
occur as the result of treatment to
comply with the proposed MCL and
any alternatives being considered.
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
Arsenic Study Plan
NPRM
Final Action
12/24/96 61 FR 67800
01/00/00
01/00/01
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 2807
Agency Contact: Irene Dooley,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4607. Washington. DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-9531
Fax: 202 260-3762
Email: dooley.irene@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AB75
3583. FILTER BACKWASH
RECYCLING REGULATION
Priority: Economically Significant.
Major under 5 USC 801.
Unfunded Mandates: This action may
affect State, local or tribal governments.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 300f SDWA
1412
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 141; 40 CFR 142
Legal Deadline:
Final. Statutory. August 31. 2000.
Abstract: The regulation will control
the recycle, or reintroduction, of filter
backwash and other waste water
streams into the influent (untreated
source waters-entering the treatment
plant) of public utilities. The regulation
is required by the 1996 amendments to
the Safe Drinking Water Act. The
regulation is necessary to protect
against outbreaks of waterborne
microbial disease that can occur during
normal treatment plant operation,
operational upsets, or times of poor
source water quality. The regulation
will provide another barrier to prevent
occurrence of microbial pathogens in
finished drinking water supplies.
Systems of all sizes will be covered by
the regulation. Conventional, direct,
and in-line filtration plants, as well as
absorption clarification plants, will be
addressed by the final rule.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
11/00/99
08/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Yes
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4146
Agency Contact: William Hamele,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4607, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-2584
Email: hamele.william@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AD17
3584. LONG TERM 1 ENHANCED
SURFACE WATER TREATMENT RULE
Priority: Economically 'Significant.
Major under 5 USC 801.
Unfunded Mandates: This action may
affect State, local or tribal governments.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 300f SDWA
1412
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 141; 40 CFR 142
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory, November 30, 2000.
Abstract: The 1996 amendments to the
Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)
require the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) to establish National
Primary Drinking Water Regulations for
contaminants that may .have an adverse
public health effect and that present a
meaningful opportunity for health risk
reduction. The Agency's goal in the
Long Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water
Treatment Rule (LT1ESWTR) is to
reduce the risk from microbial
contaminants in public surface water
systems that serve 10,000 people or
less. In order to accomplish this, the
rule will focus on turbidity reduction
through filtration performance
improvement, and continued microbial
protection through the disinfection
benchmark (i.e. a measurement of
current Giardia inactivation). In
November 1998, EPA promulgated
Interim Enhanced Surface Water
Treatment Rule (IESWTR) , which
focuses on these same public health
goals and is applicable to public
surface water systems serving greater
than 10,000 people. Like the IESWTR,
the LTIESWTR will reflect the
fundamental principle that new
standards for control of disinfection
byproducts (i.e. compliance with the
Stage 1 DBP rule) must not result in
significant increases in microbial risk.
To develop the LT1ESWTR, EPA will
use the template of the Interim
Enhanced Surface Water Treatment
Rule (IESWTR) as a starting point. EPA
will then evaluate if the principles for
reduction in turbidity used to develop
the IESWTR will be appropriate for the
LT1ESWTR.
Timetable:
Action
NPRM
Final Action
Date
11/00/99
11/00/00
FR Cite
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Yes
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4147
Agency Contact: Steve Potts,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4607, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-5015
Email: potts.steve@epa.gov
William Hamele, Environmental
Protection Agency, Water, Washington,
DC .20460
Phone: 202 260-2584
Fax: 202 401-6135
Email: hamele.william@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AD18
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3585. PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM
PUBLIC NOTIFICATION REGULATION
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 300f et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 141.32; 40 CFR
142.14; 40 CFR 142.15; 40 CFR 142.16
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This action revises an
existing regulation to'incorporate the
new public notification provisions in
section 1414(c) of the Safe Drinking
Water Act. The basic requirement for
public water systems with violations of
drinking water standards to give public
notification is not changed by the 1996
SDWA amendments. A Public Water
System is required under section
1414(c) of the SDWA to provide
notification to its customers whenever:
(1) a violation of certain drinking water
regulations occurs (including MCL,
treatment technique, and
monitoring/reporting requirements); (2)
a variance or exemption to those
regulations is in place or the conditions
of the variance or exemption are
violated; or (3) results from unregulated
contaminant monitoring required under
section 1445 of the SDWA are received.
The Administrator is required under
this statute to prescribe by regulation
the manner, frequency, form, and
content for giving notice. The existing
regulation is in 40 CFR section 141.32.
States are required to adopt this rule
to retain primacy under 40 CFR section
142.10.
The 1996 amendments significantly
revise the public notification
requirements. The amendments: (1)
require notice within 24 hours for
violations posing a serious public
health risk from short term exposure
and give EPA discretion to set the
timing of the notification for all other
violations; (2) give EPA discretion to
set the method of delivery of the
notices as long as the public notice
reaches all persons served; (3) establish
a specific requirement for EPA
consultation with the States in issuing
revised regulations; (4) allow the
primary States to prescribe alternative
notification requirements by rule with
respect to the form and content of the
notice. One other new requirement —
for public water systems to prepare an
annual consumer confidence report —
is being implemented under a separate
regulatory action.
The benefits of the revised public
notification regulations will be to
streamline the existing requirements,
provide quicker and more effective
notification of violations that have a
serious adverse effect, and better inform
the customers of public water systems
of the quality of their drinking water
and the risk to their health.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final
04/00/99
12/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4009
Agency Contact: Carl Reeverts,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4606, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-7273
Fax: 202 260-4656
Email: reeverts.carl@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AD06
3586. DRINKING WATER
UNREGULATED CONTAMINANT
MONITORING PROGRAM
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 300(f) et seq
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 141.35 (a) to (d);
40 CFR 141.40(a) to (n)
Legal Deadline:
NPRM, Statutory, See additional
information.
Final, Statutory, August 6, 1999.
Abstract: The Unregulated
Contaminant Regulation is required by
the Safe Drinking Water Act as
amended in 1996. Under these
amendments EPA is required to publish
a list of not more than 30 unregulated
contaminants which public water
supply systems must monitor to
determine, on a national basis, the
location, concentration and related
information regarding the occurrence of
these contaminants and their potential
for migrating to sources of public
drinking water. EPA is to issue
regulations which establish criteria for
listing contaminants and for carrying
out the Unregulated Contaminant
Monitoring Program. The monitoring
results are to be used by the Agency
in determining which contaminants
pose the greatest risks to human health
and, if necessary, in setting priorities
for their regulation. Conversely,
contaminants that potentially pose risk
to human health but are not found in
drinking water supplies may be
removed from consideration for
regulation. The requirement to monitor
for unregulated contaminants was first
established by the 1986 Amendments
to the Safe Drinking Water Act,
requiring as many as 48 contaminants
to be monitored. Additionally, only
public water systems serving 500
persons or fewer were exempt from
monitoring provided that they made
their facilities available for the States
to monitor. Repeat monitoring was
required every 5 years. The 1996
Amendments reduce the burden upon
public water systems in several ways.
The Amendments limit the number of
contaminants that can be on the
unregulated contaminant monitoring
list to 30 or fewer. Instead of requiring
all systems to monitor for unregulated
contaminants, the amendments require
that only a representative sample of
systems serving 10,000 or fewer
persons monitor. The SDWA
Amendments authorize States to
develop representative sample
monitoring plans. Finally, the SDWA
Amendments authorize EPA to pay for
the reasonable cost of testing for the
small public water systems if funds are
appropriated.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Final Rule
04/00/99
08/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4131
Legal Deadline: Statutory deadline for
list of 30 or fewer unregulated
contaminants to be issued.
Agency Contact: Charles Job,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4607, Washington, DC 20460
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Phone: 202 260-7084
Fax: 202 260-3762
Yvette Selby, Environmental Protection
Agency, Water, 4607, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 260-4050
Fax: 202 260-3762
RIN: 2040-AD15
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)
Final Rule Stage
3587. NATIONAL PRIMARY AND
SECONDARY DRINKING WATER
REGULATIONS: ANALYTICAL
METHODS FOR CERTAIN PESTICIDES
AND MICROBIAL CONTAMINANTS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Lsgal Authority: 42 USC 300f SDWA
sec 1401J 42 USC 300g-l SDWA sec
1412
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 141; 40 CFR 143
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: In promulgating National
Primary Drinking Water Regulations,
EPA includes analytical methods for
determination of regulated drinking
water contaminants. EPA approved
methods include EPA methods,
Standard Methods (methods evaluated
and recommended for use by the
American Public Health Association
(APHA)), American Society for Testing
and Materials (ASTM) methods, United
States Geological Survey (USGS)
methods and others.
In this regulatory effort, EPA plans to
approve the use of a new membrane
filter medium for the simultaneous
detection of total coliform and
Escherichia coli (E. coli) and three
revised chemical analytical methods for
compliance determinations of acid
herbicides and diquat in drinking
water. EPA will withdraw approval of
one EPA Method for acid herbicides
due to a significant number of
complaints concerning problems with
the method. The cost of the new
method which will replace it is about
the same as the old method. The
Agency is also amending and clarifying
laboratory certification requirements to
make the current storage and transit
temperature-holding recommendation a
requirement (i.e., all source water
samples collected for the analysis of
total coliforms or fecal coliforms under
the Surface Water Treatment Rule
(SWTR) and water samples collected
for the analysis of heterotrophic
bacteria hi any distribution system be
held at a temperature below 10 degrees
C during storage and transit).
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
07/31/98 63 FR 41133
08/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4044
This regulation was split from RIN
2040-AC77, SAN 3726.
Agency Contact: Jeanne Campbell,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4607, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-7770
Fax: 202 260-3762
Email: campbell.jeanne@epa.gov
Dr. Richard Reding, Environmental
Protection Agency, Water, U.S.EPA
Facilities, Cincinnati, OH 45268
Phone: 513 569-7961
Fax: 513 569-7191
Email: reding.richard@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AD04
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3588. • NATIONAL PRIMARY AND
SECONDARY DRINKING WATER
REGULATIONS: ANALYTIC METHODS
FOR ORGANIC, INORGANIC AND
MICROBIOLOGICAL CONTAMINANTS
AND PESTICIDES
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 300f SDWA
sec 1401; 42 USC 300g(l) SDWA sec
1412
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 141; 40 CFR 143
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: In promulgating National
Primary Drinking Water Regulations,
EPA includes analytical methods for
determination of regulated drinking
water contaminants. EPA approved
methods include EPA methods,
Standard Methods (methods evaluated
and recommended for use by the
America Public Health Association
(APHA)), American Society for Testing
and Materials (ASTM) Methods, United
States Geological Survey (USGS)
Methods and others. Periodically, the
Agency updates and revises methods to
incorporate newer technologies.
Standard setting organizations such as
APHA, ASTM, and USGS also routinely
revise and update methods.
In this regulatory effort, EPA proposes
to approve newer versions of existing
methods for organic, inorganic and
microbiological contaminants. At the
same time, the Agency will withdraw
approval of selected outdated methods.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Direct Final Rule
Direct Final Rule
Withdrawn
Final Action
09/03/98 63 FR 47115
09/03/98 63 FR 47097
12/31/98 63 FR 72200
08/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entitles Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4257
Agency Contact: Jitendra Saxena,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4603, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-9579
RIN: 2040-AD29
3589. • NATIONAL PRIMARY
DRINKING WATER REGULATIONS:
ANALYTICAL METHODS FOR
MICROBIAL, LEAD AND MAGNESIUM
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 300f SDWA
sec 1401; 42 USC 300g-l SDWA sec
1412
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 141.21; 40 CFR
141.23
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: Under the Safe Drinking
Water Act, EPA is required to approve
analytical methods to be used in
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compliance monitoring of drinking
water. Periodically, the Agency amends
the regulations to approve additional
methods, or modifications to approved
methods, or withdraws methods that
become obsolete or amends other
requirements (such as laboratory
certification requirements) associated
with approved methods.
This regulatory action would approve
two new microbiological methods, one
lead method, and six magnesium
methods. Specifically, EPA is proposing
to approve the E*Colite test and
ColiBlue24 test that simultaneously
determine the presence of total
coliforms and E. coli in drinking water.
These organisms must be monitored
under the Total Coliform Rule (40 CFR
141.21). The Agency is also proposing
to approve differential pulse aniodic
stripping voltammetry for measuring
the level of lead in drinking water
under the Lead and Copper Rule. If
approved, systems may either use one
of these tests or any other approved test
for total coliforms/E. coli or lead in
drinking water. Finally, the Agency is
proposing to approve six methods for
measuring the level of magnesium in
source and finished water. The
magnesium methods would allow
certain surface water systems that are
unable to achieve the specified level of
total organic carbon removal required
by the Stage 1 Disinfection Byproduct.
Rule (DBPR) to meet instead one of
several alternative performance criteria
allowed by the DBPR, including die
removal of 10 mg/L magnesium
hardness from source water.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
01/14/99 64 FR 2538
08/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 4221
Agency Contact: Paul S. Berger,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4607, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-3039
RIN: 2040-AD30
3590. NATIONAL PRIMARY DRINKING
WATER REGULATIONS FOR LEAD
AND COPPER
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 300g-l SDWA
sec 1412
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 141; 40 CFR 142
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA will promulgate
revisions to the National Primary
Drinking Water Regulations for Lead
and Copper published June 7, 1991.
The basic lead and copper regulations
will remain intact; however, EPA will
promulgate minor revisions to refine
specific requirements and improve
implementation of the rule. Some of
these revisions are deregulatory in
nature, in that they will lessen
monitoring requirements for public
water systems which have consistently
shown very low levels of lead and
copper at the tap. EPA also plans to
promulgate changes that will provide
many community water systems more .
flexibility in the delivery of lead public
education requirements, and allow
States to invalidate inappropriate
samples. Other revisions would
promote consistent national
implementation by clarifying the
monitoring requirements that apply in
different circumstances. Finally, EPA
plans to respond to .a remand in
American Water Works Association v.
EPA, 40 F.3D 1266 (DC Circuit 1994),
on portions of the Lead and Copper
regulation by promulgating a revised
definition of control as it applies.to
lead service line replacement and to
address the current exemption of
transient non-community water systems
from coverage under the rule.
Nationally, EPA estimates the changes
will not affect the cost or benefits of
the Lead and Copper Rule significantly.
State governments may experience a
minor increase in costs as a result of
these revisions. Many local and tribal
governments and small businesses that
operate public water systems should
experience a small decrease in annual
costs.
Timetable:
Action
NPRM
NOA
NOA
Final Action
Date
04/12/96
04/22/98
08/18/98
06/00/99
FR Cite
61 FR 16348
63 FR 20038
63 FR 4421 4
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3440
Agency Contact: Judy Lebowich,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4607, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-7595
RIN: 2040-AC27"
3591. REFORMATTING OF DRINKING
WATER REGULATIONS
Priority: Info./Admin./Odier
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 42 USC 300f SDWA
sec 1412
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 141; 40 CFR 142
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This rule reformats the
current drinking water regulations to
make them easier to understand and
follow. This rule is not intended to
change any of the regulatory
requirements. The rule affects State,
local and tribal governments in diat it
makes the rules easier to implement
and thus facilitates their jobs.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR .Cite
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Direct Final Rule 08/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3563
Agency Contact: Carl Kes.sler,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4607, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-3995
RIN: 2040-AC41
3592. NATIONAL PRIMARY DRINKING
WATER REGULATIONS: RADIUM,
URANIUM, ALPHA, BETA AND
PHOTON EMITTERS
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 300f SDWA
sec 1412
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CFR Citation: 40 CFR 141; 40 CFR 142
Legal Deadline:
Final, Judicial, November 18, 2000,
Uranium.
Other, Judicial, November 30, 2000, See
Additional Information.
Abstract: Standards for radium, alpha,
and beta and photon emitters were
promulgated in 1976. They were
included in the list of 83 contaminants
for regulation (because they had MCLs
but not MCLGs), along with uranium
and radon, in the 1986 Safe Drinking
Water Act (SDWA) Amendments.
Regulations for uranium, radium 226,
radium 228, and gross alpha and beta
particles were proposed on July 18,
1991. The 1991 proposal was to raise
the standard for radium 226/226 from
combined level of 5 pOi/1 to a separate
standard of 20 pCi/1, and proposed
uranium at 20 ug/1 pursuant to court
order. EPA will take final action on
proposed .uranium regulations by
November, 2000, and final action on
radium, alpha, beta, and photon
emitters or state reasons for not taking
final action by November, 2000.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
ANPRM
NPRM
NODA
Final Action
09/30/86 51 FR 34836
07/18/91 56 FR 33050
04/00/99
11/00/00
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entitles Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3992
Judicial Deadline Description: Final or
stated rationale for not taking final
action on Radium, Alpha, Beta and
Photon emitters.
Agency Contact: David Huber,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4607, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-9566
Fax: 202 260-3762
Email: huber.david@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AC98
3593. REVISIONS TO JHB
UNDERGROUND INJECTION
CONTROL REGULATIONS FOR
CLASS V INJECTION WELLS
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 300h SDWA
1421 to 1425
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 144; 40 CFR 145;
40 CFR 146
Legal Deadline:
NPRM, Judicial, July 18, 1998.
Final, Judicial, August 29, 1999,
Unopposed motion for extension is
pending.
Abstract: This rule is formerly known
as Management of Class V Injection
Wells under Part C of the Safe Drinking
Water Act. The EPA proposed changes
to the Class V Underground Injection
Control (UIC) regulations that would
add new requirements for three
categories of Class V wells that pose
a high risk when located in ground
water-based source water protection
areas being delineated by States under
the 1996 Amendments to the Safe
Drinking Water Act (SDWA). EPA
proposed these new requirements to
address three categories of wells that
it has identified as posing a high risk
of ground water contamination based
on available information. Class V wells
that would be impacted by the
proposed regulation include motor
vehicle waste disposal wells, industrial
waste disposal wells, and large-capacity
cesspools in ground water-based source
water protection areas. Targeting the
requirements to those wells will
achieve substantial protection of
underground sources bf drinking water.
Timetable:
Action
Date FR Cite
NPRM
Reproposal
Final
08/28/95 60 FR 44652
07/29/98 63 FR 40'585
11/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Yes
Small Entities Affected: Businesses
Government Levels Affected: State,
Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 2778
Agency Contact: Robyn Delehanty,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4606, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-1993
Fax: 202 401-2345 ;
Email: delehanty.robyn@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AB83
3594. DRINKING WATER STATE
REVOLVING FUND REGULATIONS
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 300 et seq
SDWA 1452 (g)(3)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 35 (New)
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: The Safe Drinking Water Act
(SDWA) Amendments of 1996 (Pub, L.
104-182) authorize a Drinking Water
State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) to assist
public water systems in financing the
costs of infrastructure needed to
achieve or maintain compliance with
SDWA requirements and to further the
public health objectives of the Act.
Section 1452(a)(l) authorizes the
Administrator of the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
to award capitalization grants to States,
which in turn provide low cost loans
and other types of assistance to eligible
systems. A State determines the portion
of the funds from the capitalization
grant to conduct set-aside activities and
the remaining grant monies are
deposited into the project Fund to
finance infrastructure projects. Each
State has considerable flexibility, with
minimum Federal requirements
imposed, to determine the design of its
DWSRF program and to direct funding
toward its most pressing compliance
and public health needs. This
regulation is intended to codify the
DWSRF Final Guidelines published in
February, 1997 which explain: what
States must do to receive a DWSRF
capitalization grant; what States may do
with Federal capitalization grant funds;
what States may do with funds the law
intends for activities other than project
construction (set-asides); and the roles
of both the States and EPA in managing
and administering the program. The
DWSRF program helps to ensure that
the Nation's drinking water supplies
remain safe and affordable, that
drinking water systems that receive
funding are properly operated and
maintained, and that permanent
institutions exist in each State to
provide financial support for drinking
water needs.
Timetable:
Action
Interim Final Rule
Final Action
Date
11/00/99
06/00/00
FR Cite
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
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Final Rule Stage
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local
Additional Information: SAN No. 4152
Agency Contact: Kimberley Roy,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4606, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-2794
Fax: 202 401-2345
Email: roy.kimbejley@epa.gov
Jeff Robichaud, Environmental
Protection Agency, Water, 4607,
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-2568
Fax: 202 401-6135
Email: robichaud.jeff@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AD20
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)
Long-Term Actions
3595. NATIONAL PRIMARY DRINKING
WATER REGULATIONS: SULFATE
Priority: Other Significant
Legal Authority: 42 USC 300f SDWA
sec 1412
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 141; 40 CFR 142
Legal Deadline:
Other, Statutory, August 6, 2001,
Decision whether or not to regulate.
Abstract: Sulfate is on the list of 83 .
contaminants required to be regulated
under SDWA of 1986. The contaminant
was deferred from 'the Phase V
regulation in order to allow the Agency
time to. focus on implementation issues
arising from the proposal concerning
the risk of sulfate in drinking water to
specific subpopulations. Sulfate can
cause diarrhea in infants and in adults
not acclimated to high sulfate-
containing water, such as travelers.
Persons who are acclimated to high
sulfate-containing water suffer no
adverse effects from its consumption.
Sulfate occurs naturally in soil and is
also found in surface water as a result
of acid rain. Sulfate is also used as a
reagent in steel and copper industries
and in the manufacture of copper
sulfate, a fungicide/algicide. An
estimated 2,000 systems-serving a
population of 200,000 residents, 1
million travelers, and 30,000 infants--
are likely to be affected by this
regulation. Most of the affected systems
serve populations of less than 3,000
and are transient systems not in service
year-round. Known treatment
technologies include reverse osmosis,
ion exchange, and electrodialysis. EPA
proposed several options for
compliance 'which would be an
alternative to central treatment and less
costly. The alternatives would include
public education, public notification,
and provision of alternative water to
affected populations. The 1996
amendments to the SDWA call for a
definitive study to resolve remaining
health risk questions to be completed
by February 1999. Thereafter, EPA is
to make a determination by August 6,
2001, of whether or not to regulate
sulfate. If EPA determines to regulate
sulfate, the SDWA provides for a
proposal within 24 months of this
decision and final promulgation 18
months thereafter. EPA and the Centers
for Disease Control have conducted the
health risk study for sulfate. The results
of the study will serve as input for
EPA's contaminant identification and
selection protocol, which would be the
basis for the Agency's determination on
whether to regulate sulfate. In addition,
the Agency will need to make a
determination on the adequacy of
existing occurrence data for sulfate and,
if inadequate, consider approaches for
filling data gaps (if a decision is made
to develop a regulation),
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM 12/20/94 59 FR 65578
Notice of Sulfate Study 02/1 1/99 64 FR 7028
Final Action 08/00/01
Regulator/ Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3176
Agemsy_Contaet: ^ain
EhvirFfunlintarProtection Agency,
Water, 4603, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-5519
Email: taft.james@epa.gov
Irene Dooley, Environmental Protection
Agency, Water, 4607, Washington, DC
20460
Phone: 202 260-9531
Email: dooley.irene@epa.gov
RIN: 2040--AC07
3596. NATIONAL PRIMARY DRINKING
WATER STANDARDS FOR ALDICARB
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant.
Major status under 5 USC 801 is
undetermined.
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Legal Authority: 42 USC 300f SDWA
sec 1412
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 141; 40 CFR 142
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: EPA promulgated MCLs for
aldicarb, aldicarb sulfoxide, and
aldicarb sulfone in the Phase II
rulemaking in 1991 at levels of 7 ug/1
each. In response to an administrative
petition from the manufacture Rhone-
Poulenc, the Agency issued an
administrative stay of the effective date.
EPA will reexamine risk assessment
and occurrence data on aldicarb.'EPA
will then make a determination of what
further action may be appropriate.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM To Be Determined
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3238
Agency Contact: Carl Kessler,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4603", "Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-3995
RIN: 204D-AC13
3597. STREAMLINING DRINKING
WATER MONITORING
REQUIREMENTS
Priority: Other Significant
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
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Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements,
Legal Authority: 42 USC 300f-4 SDWA
sec 1445
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 141.2; 40 CFR
141,23; 40 CFR 142.14; 40 CFR 142.16;
40 CFR 142.18
Legal Deadline:
Final, Statutory. August 6,1998.
Abstract: The current drinking water
monitoring requirements vary by
contaminant (e.g., inorganic vs.
organic), the source of the supply (i.e.,
surface water vs. ground water] and by
system size. After an initial series of
samples, the sampling frequency
increases or decreases based on the
results of the initial series. Because
there are numerous permutations to the
possible frequencies at any one
sampling point, the requirements are
difficult to understand. And because
the requirements presume all systems
are contaminated, many systems have
conducted expensive monitoring
without finding any contamination.,
EPA intends to simplify and improve
the cost effectiveness of the current
requirements for chemical
contaminants by reducing the number
of variables upon which the sampling
frequencies turn, by providing greater
latitude for State discretion in
customizing the sampling frequencies
to local circumstances (i.e.,
vulnerability to contamination) and by
consolidating subsections wherever
possible. The Agency issued a Federal
Register Notice on July 30, 1998
indicating that the monitoring
requirements had been reviewed and
that no changes were being made at the
time. The Agency, however, is
evaluating additional data to determine
whether any changes may be necessary
in the future and looking at other
options to streamline the regulations.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
ANPRM
Notice of Review
NPRM
07/03/97 62 FR 36099
07/30/98 63 FR 40709
To Be Determined
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions,
Organizations
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 3761
(Combining with SAN 3565 and RIN
2040-AC52)
Agency Contact: Ed Thomas,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4606, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-0910
Fax: 202 401-2345
FIIN: 2040-AC73
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)
Completed Actions
3598. NATIONAL PRIMARY DRINKING
WATER REGULATIONS: STAGE I
DISINFECTANT/DISINFECTION BY-
PRODUCTS RULE
Priority: Economically Significant.
Major under 5 USC 801.
Unfunded Mandates: This action may
affect State, local or tribal governments.
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 141; 40 CFR 142
Completed:
Reason
Data
FR Cite
Final Action
12/16/98 63 FR 69389
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Yes
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: State,
Local, Tribal, Federal
Agency Contact: Thomas Grubbs
Phone: 202 260-7270
RIN: 2040-AB82
3599. NATIONAL PRIMARY DRINKING
WATER REGULATIONS: INTERIM
ENHANCED SURFACE WATER
TREATMENT RULE
Priority: Economically Significant.
Major under 5 USC 801.
Unfunded Mandates: This action may
affect State, local or tribal governments.
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 141; 40 CFR. 142
Completed:
Reason
Date
FR Cite
Final Action
12/16/98 63 FR 69477
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Flequired: No
Small Entities Affected: No
Government Levels Affected: State,
Loqal, Tribal, Federal
Agency Contact: Elizabeth Corr
Phone: 202 260-8907
RIN: 2040-AC91
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Marine Protection Research and Sanctuary Act (MPRSA)
Long-Term Actions
3600. REVISIONS TO OCEAN
DUMPING REGULATIONS FOR
DREDGED MATERIAL
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant.
Major status under 5 USC 801 is
undetermined.
Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
Reinventing Government: This
rulemaking is part of the Reinventing
Government effort. It will revise text in
the CFR to reduce burden or
duplication, or streamline
requirements.
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1401 et seq
MPRSA
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 225; 40 CFR 227;
40 CFR'228
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This rulemaking would revise
the regulations applicable to the ocean
dumping of dredged material. Issuance
of these regulations would respond to
the decision in National Wildlife
Federation v. Costle, 629 F. 2d. 118 (DC
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Cir.1980) and incorporate program
experience gained since the issuance of
the current regulations in 1977. The
revisions will make necessary technical
changes and will improve the clarity
of the regulations, with supporting
technical guidance on disposal site
selection, site management, and site
monitoring. These revisions will clarify
issues that have caused delays in the
evaluation of permit applications. The
regulations will improve environmental
assessments of permit applications, and
improve the protection of benthic
communities in the vicinity of a dump
site. The regulations will affect local
governments if they are responsible for
maintenance of navigable waters by
dredging and request a permit for
disposal of dredged material in the
ocean.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
To Be Determined
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Undetermined
Small Entities Affected: Governmental
Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: Local,
Federal
Additional Information: SAN No. 2737
Agency Contact: David Redford,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4504F, Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-9179
RIN: 2040-AB62
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
Shore Protection Act (SPA)
Final Rule Stage
3601. SHORE PROTECTION ACT,
SECTION 4103(B) REGULATIONS
Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
Legal Authority: 33 USC 2601 Shore
Protection Act of 1988; PL 100-688 sec
4103(b)
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 237
Legal Deadline: None
Abstract: This rule will implement the
Shore Protection Act (SPA) and is
designed to prevent the deposit of
municipal and commercial waste into
U.S. Coastal Waters. This rule
establishes minimum waste handling
practices for vessels and waste
handling facilities involved in the
transport of municipal or commercial
wastes in the coastal waters of the U.S.
The rule may require certain vessels
and waste handling facilities to develop
an operation and maintenance manual
that identifies procedures to prevent,
report, and clean up deposits of waste
into coastal waters. Local governments
and businesses involved with the vessel
transportation and shore side handling
of these wastes would be affected by
this rule. Currently no tribes are known
to be involved in waste handling of this
type; therefore none would be affected
by this rule. In regards to small
businesses, EPA has provided guidance
on development of operation and
maintenance manuals and encourages
the use amd documentation of existing
industry practices that meet or exceed
the EPA proposed minimum waste
handling standards. All indications are
that this regulation as proposed would
have a minimal economic impact. This
regulation will result in reduction of
municipal and commercial wastes
deposited in coastal waters.
Timetable:
Action
Date
FR Cite
NPRM
Final Action
08/30/94 59 FR 44798
05/00/99
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: No
Small Entities Affected: Businesses,
Governmental Jurisdictions
Government Levels Affected: Local
Additional Information: SAN No. 2820
Agency Contact: James Woodley,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Water, 4504F, Washington,. DC 20460
Phone: 202 260-1998
Fax: 202 260-9920
Email: woodley.james@epa.gov
RIN: 2040-AB85
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY INDEX TO ENTRIES SUBJECT TO 610 REVIEW
Section 610(c) of the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601) requires each agency to have a plan
for the periodic review of its rules that have significant economic impact on a substantial" number of small
entities. Each agency must publish annually in the Federal Register a list of the rules that it plans to
review in the next year. Some agencies use the Ur'fied Agerda to fulfill this requirement. Those agencies
indicate such entries by appending "(Section 610 Review)" to the titles.
The following ind'ex lists the regulatory actions for which agencies included this designation. The Se-
quence Number (Seq. No.) of the entry identifies the location of the entry in this edition of the Agenda.
For further information, see the Regulatory Information Service Center's Introduction to the Unified Agenda
in Part II of this issue.
Seq
No.
3525
Title
EPA
EHkient Guidelines and Standards
Ore Mining and Dressing Point
Category. Gold Placer Mine
category (Section 610 Review)
tor the
Source
Sub-
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY INDEX TO ENTRIES FOR WHICH A
REGULATORY FLEXIBILITY ANALYSIS IS REQUIRED
The Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601) requires that agencies publish regulatory agendas identifying
those rules that may have a significant economic impact ;on a substantial number of small entities. Agencies
meet that requirement by including the information in their submissions for the Unified Agenda.
The following index lists the regulatory actions in this publication for which agencies believe that
the Act may require a Regulatory Flexibility Analysis because the rule is likely to have such effects on
small businesses, small governmental jurisdictions, or small organizations. The Sequence Number (Seq. No.)
of the entry identifies the location of the entry in this edition. For further information, see the Regulatory
Information Service Center's Introduction to the Unified Agenda in Part II of this issue.
NO,
3187
3193
3237
3318
3395
3397
3418
3541
3542
3562
Small Businesses
Title
EPA
Public Information and Confidentiality
Regulations
Protection ol Stratospheric Ozone: Allow-
ance System lor Controlling HCFC Pro-
duction, Import & Export
Tier II bgm-Outy Ventcle and Light-Duty
Truck Emission Standards and Gasoline
Sulfur Standards
Federal Implementation Plans (FIPs) To
Reduce (he Regional Transport of
Ozone in the Eastern United States
VOC Regulation lor Architectural Coatings
Control of Emissions of Air Pollution From
Highway Heavy-Duty Engines and Die-
sel Engines
Ground Water and Pesticide Management
Plan
ErOuent Guidelines and Standards tor the
Centralized Waste Treatment Industry
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for trie
Inoustrial Laundries Point Source Cat-
egory
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the
Metal Products and Machinery Cat-
egory, Phases 1 and 2
Seq.
No.
3580
3581
3583
3584
3593
3598
Title
Seq.
No.
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Radon i
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Ground Water Rule
Filter Backwash Recycling Regulation
Long Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water
Treatment Rule
Revisions to the Underground Injection
Control Regulations for Class V Injec-
tion Wells
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Stage I Disinfectant/Disinfection
By-Products Rule
3562
3580
3581
3583
3584
3598
Small Governmental Jurisdictions
Seq.
No.
3239
3318
3418
Title
Seq.
No.
EPA
Revision of Appendix W to 40 CFR Part
51
Federal Implementation Plans (FIPs) To
Reduce the Regional Transport of
Ozone in the Eastern United States
Ground Water and Pesticide Management
Plan
3530
3581
3583
3584
Title
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the
Metal Products and Machinery Cat-
egory, Phases 1 and 2
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Radon
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Ground Water Rule
Filter Backwash Recycling Regulation
Long Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water
Treatment Rule
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Stage I Disinfectant/Disinfection
By-Products Rule
Small Organizations
Title
EPA
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Radon
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Ground Water Rule
Filter Backwash Recycling Regulation
Long Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water
Treatment Rule
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SMALL ENTITIES WHEN A REGULATORY FLEXIBILITY ANALYSIS IS NOT REQUIRED
The Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601) requires that agencies publish regulatory agendas identifying
those rules that may have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities. Agencies
meet that requirement by including the information in their submissions for the Unified Agenda. Some
agencies have chosen to identify additional regulatory actions that may have some impact on small entities
even though a Regulatory Flexibility Analysis may not be required.
The following index lists the regulatory actions in this publication for which agencies have chosen
to indicate that some impact on small entities is likely even though a Regulatory Flexibility Analysis may
not be required. The Sequence Number (Seq. No.) of the entry identifies the location of the entry in this
edition. For further information, see the Regulatory Information Service Center's Introduction to the Unified
Agenda in Part II of this issue.
Small Businesses
Seq.
No.
Seq.
No.
3166
3167
3171
3174
3175
3176
3179
3180
3181
3182
3184
3183
3189
3197
3199
3207
3208
3214
3221
3226
3228
3229
3233
Title
EPA
Utilization of Small, Minority and Women's
Business Enterprises in Procurement
Under Assistance Agreements
Rewriting ol EPA Regulations Implement-
ing Ida Freedom of Information Act
Revision to EPAAR 1552,211-73, Level of
Elton
EPA Mentor-Protege Program
Incrementally Funding Rxed Price Con-
tracts
Revision of EPA Acquisition Regulations
for Quality Systems for Environmental
Programs
Electronic Funds Transfer
Agency Protest Solicitation Notification
Contracting by Negotiation
EPAAR Coverage on Contractor Perform-
ance Evaluations
Service Contracting-Avoiding Improper
Personal Service? Relationships
Environmental Impact Assessment of Non-
governmental Activities in Antarctica
Acquisition Regulation: Types of Contracts
Control ol Emissions of Air Pollution From
2004 and Later Model Year Highway
Heavy-Duty Diesel Engines
Hosprtal/Medteal/lnfectkjus Waste Inciner-
ators-Federal Plan (Federal Plan for
Existing Hospital/Medlcal/lntectious
Waste Incinerators)
Performance Warranty and
Inspection/Maintenance Test Proce-
dures
Inspection/Maintenance Recall Require-
ments
NESHAP; Plywood and Particleboard
Manufactunng
Revisions to New Source Review (NSR)
Regulations to Implement the New Na-
tional Ambiam Air Quality Standards
(NAAQS) tor Ozone
National Emission Standards for Hazard-
ous Air Pollutants for the Hydrochloric
Acid Production Industry
NESHAP: Clay Products Manufacturing
NESHAP: Organic Hazardous Air Pollut-
ants From the Synthetic Organic Chemi-
cal Industry (SOCMI) & Other Proc-
esses Subject to the Negotiated~Regula-
tKxi for Equipment Lsaks
NESHAP- Wet-formeo F>oerglass Mat Pro-
auction
3236
3240
3243
3249
3253
3254
3257
3259
3261
3263
3265
3266
3267
3268
3270
3275
3277
3286
3289
3290
3291
3292
3293
3295
3304
3324
3327
3328
Title
Seq.
•Mo.
Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Recon-
sideration on the 610 Nonessential
Products Ban
NESHAP/NSPS: Reciprocating Internal
Combustion Engine
NESHAP: Mineral Wool Production Indus-
try
NESHAP: Miscellaneous Organic Chemi-
cal Production and Processes
Amendments to General Provisions Sub-
parts A and B for 40 CFR 63
NESHAP: Paint Stripping Operations
Petroleum Solvent Dry Cleaners Maximum
Achievable Control Technology (MACT)
Standard
Large Appliance (Surface Coating)
NESHAP
NESHAP: Industrial, Commercial and In-
stitutional Boilers
NESHAP: Friction Products Manufacturing
NESHAP: Metal Can (Surface Coating) In-
dustry
NESHAP: Metal Coil (Surface Coating) In-
dustry
NESHAP: Fabric Printing, Coating and
Dyeing
Automobile and Light-Duty Truck Manu-
facturing (Surface Coating) NESHAP
NESHAP: Chromium Electroplating
Amendment
NESHAP: Vegetable Oil Production
NESHAP: Flexible Polyurethane Foam
Fabrication Operations
Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Servic-
ing of Motor Vehicle Air Conditioners:
Standards for Equipment That Recovers
and Recycles Refrigerants Other Than
CFC-12 and HFC-134a
Metal Furniture (Surface Coatings)
NESHAP
NESHAP Miscellaneous Metal Parts and"
Products (Surface Coating)
Plastic Parts (Surface Coating) NESHAP
Paper and Other Web Coating NESHAP
NESHAP: Wood Building Products (Sur-
face Coating)
NESHAP: Chromium Electroplating
Amendment
NESHAP: Petroleum' Refinenes--FCC
Units. Reformers and Sulfur Plants
Control of Emissions of Air Pollution From
New Manne Diesel Engines At or Above
37 Kilowatts
Amendments-Integrated NESHAP and Ef-
fluent Guidelines: Pulp and Paper
NESHAP: Oil and Natural Gas Production
and Natural Gas Transmission and Stor-
age
3332
3335
3336
3342
3345
3347
3349
3353
3357
3361
3364
3366
3370
3375
3379
3385
3386
3389
3392
3393
3394
3396
Title
NESHAP: Phosphate Fertilizers Produc-
tion
NESHAP: Portland Cement Manufacturing
NESHAP: Polyether Polyols Production
Generic MACT for Source Categories
(Acrylic Modacrylic Fibers,
Polycarbonates. Hydrogen Fluoride, and
Acetal Resins)
NESHAP: Oil and Natural Gas Production
and NESHAP: Natural Gas Trans-
mission and Storage, Amendments to
Proposed Rule
Reduction- of Volatile Organic Compound
(VOC) Emissions From Coatings Used
in the Aerospace, Wood Furniture, and
Shipbuilding Industries Under Clean Air
Act Section 183(e)
Nonroad Spark-Ignition Engines At or
Below 19 Kilowatts (25 Horsepower)
(Phase 2).
Control of Emissions From Nonroad
Spark-Ignition Engines Rated Over 19
kW and New Land-Based Recreational
Spark-Ignition Engines
NSPS: Synthetic Organic Chemicals Man-
ufacturing Industry-- Wastewater
Review of Minor New Sources and Modi-
fications in Indian Country
NESHAP: Refractories Manufactunng
NESHAP: Chemical Recovery Combustion
Sources at Kraft, Soda. Sulfite and
Stand Alone Semichemical Pulp Mills
Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Alloca-
tion of 1999 Essential Use Allowances
Amendment to the User Fees for Radon
Proficiency Programs Rule
Revisions to the Permits and Sulfur Diox-
ide Allowance System Regulations
Under Title IV of the Clean Air Act: Al-
lowance Transfer
Control of Emissions From New Nonroad
Spark-Ignition Engines At or Below '.9
Kilowatts, Minor Amendments to the
Phase I Emission Standards
Notice of Promulgated Compliance Exten-
sion: Halogenated Solvent
NESHAP: Flexible Polyurethane Foam
Production
Industrial Combustion Coordinated Rule-
making-ICCR Project
Standards lor Reformulated and Conven-
tional Gasoline, Individual Baseline Fuel
Adjustments
National VOC Emission Stanaarss fcr
Automooile Hefinish Coatings
National VOC Emission Stanaarcs 'Or
Consumer Products
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Seq.
No.
Seq.
No.
3398
3405
3406
3407
3408
3411
3413
3414
3415
3416
3417
3419
3420
3424
3426
3427
3428
3429
3430
3431
3432
3433
3434
3435
3436
3437
343B
3439
3441
3442
3443
3444
3446
3447
3450
3451
3452
3453
Title
Specification of Substantially Similar Defi-
nition for Diesel Fuels
Pesticides; Procedures for Registration
Review Program
Registration Requirements for
Antimicrobial Pesticide Products; and
Other Pesticide Regulatory Changes
Pesticides; Tolerance Processing Fees
Pesticide Tolerance Reassessment Pro-
gram
Status of Pesticide-Treated Seeds under
FIFRA
Data Requirements for Pesticide Registra-
tion (Revision)
Data Requirements for Antimicrobial Reg-
istrations
Pesticide Management and Disposal:
Standards for Pesticide Containers and
Containment
WPS; Pesticide Worker Protection Stand-
ard; Glove Amendment
Plant Pesticide Regulations Under FIFRA
and FFDCA
Pesticide Management and Disposal
Exemption of Certain Pesticide Sub-
stances From FIFRA Requirements
Chemical Right-to-Knoyv Initiative
TRI; Review of Chemicals on the Original
TRI List
TSCA Inventory Update Rule Amend-
ments
Lead-Based Paint Activities Rules; Train-
ing, Accreditation, and Certification Rule
and Model State Plan Rule-Building
and Structures
Lead; Over of Rulemakings Under TSCA
Section 402, Lead-Based Paint Activi-
ties for the Regulatory Plan
Multi-Chemical Test Rule; High Production
Volume Chemicals
Test Rules; Generic Entry for Proposed
Decisions
Test Rules; Negotiated Consent Order
and Test Rule Procedures
Test Rule; ATSDR Substances
Children's Health Test Rule
Test Rule for Certain Metals
Follow-Up Rules on Existing Chemicals
TSCA Biotechnology Follow-Up Rules
Asbestos Model Accreditation Plan Revi-
sions
Asbestos: Amendments to the Asbestos-
Containing Materials in Schools Rule
PCBs; Polychlorinated Biphenyl; Use Au-
thorizations
Lead-Based Paint Activities; Training and
Certification for Renovation and Remod-
eling
Lead-Based Paint: Notification of Com-
mencement of Abatement Activities
Lead; Management and Disposal of Lead-
Based Paint Debris
Test Rules; Generic Entry for Final Deci-
sions
Test Rule; Hazardous Air Pollutants
(HAPs)
PCBs; Polychlorinated Biphenyls; Exemp-
tions From the Prohibitions Against
Manufacturing, Processing, and Dis-
tribution in Commerce
Refractory Ceramic Fibers: ' Significant
New Use Rules on National Program
Chemicals
PCBs: Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs)
Transformer Reciassification Rule
TSCA Section 8(a! Preliminary Assess-
ment Information Pules
3454
3455
3456
3457
3458
3459
3460
3462
3463
3464
3465
3466
3467
3471
3473
3481
3495
3501
3502
3503
3512
3526
3528
3533
3534
3535
3536
3539
Title
Seq.
No.
TSCA Section 8(d) Health and Safety
Data Reporting Rules
Use of Acrylamide for Grouting
TSCA Section 8(e) Policy; Notice of Clari-
fication
Notice of TSCA Section 4 Reimbursement
Period and TSCA Section 12(b) Export
Notification Period Sunset Dates for
TSCA Section 4 Substances
Lead-Based Paint; Fees for Accreditation
and Certification Activities
Lead; TSCA Section 403; Identification of
Dangerous Levels of Lead
Lead; Regulatory Investigation Under the
Toxic Substances' Control Act (TSCA)
To Reduce Lead (Pb) Consumption and
Use
TRI; Responses to Petitions Received To
Add or Delete or Modify Chemical List-
ings on the Toxic Release Inventory
TRI; Pollution Prevention Act Information
Requirements
TRI; Lowering of EPCRA Section 313 Re-
porting Thresholds for Lead and Lead
Compounds
TRI; Revisions to the Otherwise Use Ac-
tivity Exemptions and the Coal Extrac-
tion Activities Exemption
TRI; Chemical Expansion; Finalization of
Deferred Chemicals
TRI; Reporting Threshold Amendment for
Certain Persistent and Bioaccumulative
Toxic Chemicals (PBTs)
TRI; Data Expansion Amendments; Toxic
Chemical Release Reporting; Commu-
nity Right-to-Know
Accidental Release Prevention Require-
ments: Risk Management Programs
Under the Clean Air Act, Section
112(r)(7): Amendment
Modifications to RCRA Rules Associated
With Solvent-Contaminated Shop Tow-
els and Wipers
RCRA Subtitle C Financial Test Criteria
(Revision)
Revised Standards for Hazardous Waste
Combustion Facilities
Revisions to the Comprehensive Guideline
for Procurement of Products Containing
Recovered Materials
Suspension of Temporary Toxicity Char-
acteristic Rule for Specific Lead-Based
Paint Debris
Landfill Leachate and Petroleum Waste
Listings
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the
Feedlots Point Source Category, Swine
and Poultry Subcategories, and NPDES
Regulation for Concentrated Animal
Feeding Operations
Revisions to Effluent Guidelines and
Standards for the Coal Mining Point
Source Category
Test Procedures for the Analysis of
Cryptosporidium and Giardia Under the
Safe Drinking Water and Clean Water
Acts
Test Procedures for the Analysis of E. Coli
and Emerococci Under the Clean Water
Act
Minimizing Adverse Environmental Impact
from Cooling Water Intake Structures
Under Section 316(b) of the Clean
Water Act
Streamlining the General Pretreatment
Regulations for Existing and New
Sources of Pollution
Clean Water Act Definition of the Waters
of tne United States
3543
3551
3552
3553
3554
3555
3557
3558
3559
3561
3563
3564
3570
3571
3572
3573
3574
3575
3576
3577
3579
3582
3585
3586
3587
3588
3589
3590
Title
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for
Landfills
Guidelines Establishing Oil and Grease
Test Procedures for the Analysis of Pol-
lutants Under the Clean Water Act
Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures
for the Analysis of Cyanide Under the
Clean Water Act
Performance Based Measurement System
(PBMS) Procedures and Guidance for
Clean Water Act Test Procedures
Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures
for the Analysis of Miscellaneous Met-
als, Anions, and Volatile Organics
Under the Clean Water Act. Phase One
Test Procedures for the Analysis of Mer-
cury Under the Clean Water Act
NPDES Wastewater Permit Application
Forms and Regulatory Revisions for
Municipaf Discharges and Sewage
Sludge Use or Disposal
NPDES Streamlining Rule - Round II
NPDES Comprehensive Storm Water
Phase II Regulations
Amendments to Round I Final Sewage
Sludge Use or Disposal Rule-Phase
One
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the
Transportation Equipment Cleaning Cat-
egory
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for Iron
and Steel Manufacturing Point Source
Category
.Guidelines Establishing Whole Effluent
Toxicity West Coast Test Procedures for
the Analysis of Pollutants Under the
Clean Water Act
Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures
for the Analysis of Trace Metals Under
the Clean Water Act
Increased Method Flexibility for Test Pro-
cedures Approved for Clean Water Act
Compliance Monitoring
Test Procedures for the Analysis of Co-
Planar and Mono-Ortho-Sufastituted Pol-
ychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) Under
the Clean Water Act
Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures
for the Analysis of Miscellaneous Met-
als, Anions, and Volatile Organics
Under the Clean Water Act, Phase Two
Revision of NPDES Industrial Permit Ap-
plication Requirements and Form 2C--
Wastewater Discharge Information
NPDES Streamlining Rule -- Round, III
Amendments to Round I Final Sewage
Sludge Use or Disposal Rule -Phase
Two
Use of Screening Procedures for Compli-
ance Monitoring of Drinking Water Con-
taminants
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Arsenic
Public Water System Public Notification
Regulation
Drinking Water Unregulated Contaminant
Monitoring Program
National Primary and Secondary Drinking
Water Regulations: Analytical Methods
for Certain Pesticides and Microbial
Contaminants
National Primary and Secondary Drinking
Water Regulations: Analytic Methods for
Organic, Inorganic and Microbiological
Contaminants and Pesticioes
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Analytical Metnoos lor Microbiai.
Lead and Magnesium
National Primary Dnnkmg Water Regula-
tions for Lead ana Coccer
-------
Small Businesses—Cont.
Seq.
No.
Seq
No.
3592
3595
3596
3S97
3601
Tills
National Primary Dnnking Water Regula-
tions: Radium, Uranium, Alpha, Beta
and Photon Emitters
National Primary Dnnking Water Regula-
tions: Sulfate
NalHXial Primary Drinking Water Stand-
ards tor AKJicarb
Streamlining Drinking Water Monitoring
Requirements
Snore Protection Act, Section 4l03(b)
Regulations
Small Governmental Jurisdictions
Seq.
No.
3166
3167
3169
3170
3189
3209
3210
3216
3240
3241
3261
3282
3340
3341
3361
3375
3378
3379
33S4
3388
3392
3405
3408
3410
3*15
Title
EPA
Utilization of Small, Minonty and Women's
Business Enterprises in Procurement
Under Assistance Agreements
Rewriting of EPA Regulations Implement-
ing the Freedom ol Information Act
Revision to 40 CFR 35 Subpart A and
Promulgation of Performance Partner-
snip (State) Grant Regulation
Revision to 40 CFR 35 Subpart A and
Promulgation of Performance Partner-
ship (Tribal) Grant Rule
Acquisition Regulation: Types of Contracts
Method 301: Field Validation of Pollution
Measurement Methods for Various
Media: Revisions
NESHAP: Ferroalloy Production
NESHAP: Municipal Solid Waste Landfills
NESHAP/NSPS: Reciprocating Internal
Combustion Engine
Standards and Guidelines tor Small Mu-
ntcipal Waste Combustion Units
NESHAP: Industrial, Commercial and In-
stitutional Boilers
NSPS: New Source Performance Stand-
ards and Emission Guidelines for Other
Solid Wast* Incinerators
NESHAP; Publicly Owned Treatment
Works (POTW)
Revisions to the Regulation for Approval
ot State Programs and Delegation of
Federal Authorities 112(1)
Review ol Minor New Sources and Modi-
fications tn Indian Country
Amendment to th« User Fees for Radon
Proficiency Programs Rule
Revisions to Clarify the Permit Content
Requirements for State Operating Per-
mits
Revisions to the Permits and Sulfur Diox-
ide Allowance System Regulations
Under Title IV of the Clean Air Act: Al-
lowance Transfer
Review of Operating Permits Issued by In-
dian Tnoes
Transportation Conformity Rule Amend-
ments: Flexibility and Streamlining
Industrial Combustion Coordinated Rule-
maktng-lCCR Project
Pesticides: Procedures for Registration
Review Program
Pesticide Tolerance Reassessment Pro-
gram
Regulatory Review of Pesticide Emer-
gency Exemotion Regulations
Pestioos Management and Disposal:
Standards !of Pesticide Containers ana
3416
3424
3428
3429
3436
3438
3439
3440
3441
3442
3443
3444
3450
3452
3455
3457
3458
3459
3465
3467
3502
3503
3533
3534
3535
3536
3537
3539
3540
3543
3551
Title
Seq.
No.
WPS; Pesticide Worker Protection Stand-
ard; Glove Amendment
Chemical Right-to-Know Initiative
Lead-Based Paint Activities Rules; Train-
ing, Accreditation, and Certification Rule
and Model State Plan Rule-Building
and Structures
Lead; Over of Rulemakings Under TSCA
Section 402, Lead-Baked Paint Activi-
ties for the Regulatory Plan
Follow-Up Rules on Existing Chemicals
Asbestos Model Accreditation Plan Revi-
sions
Asbestos; Amendments to the Asbestos-
Containing Materials in Schools Rule
Asbestos Worker Protection Rule Amend-
ments
PCBs; Polychlorinated Biphenyl; Use Au-
thorizations
Lead-Based Paint Activities; Training and
Certification for Renovation and Remod-
eling
Lead-Based Paint; Notification of Com-
mencement of Abatement Activities
Lead: Management and Disposal of Lead-
Based Paint Debris
PCBs; Polychlorinated Biphenyls; Exemp-
tions From the Prohibitions Against
Manufacturing, Processing, and Dis-
tribution in Commerce ,
PCBs; Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs)
Transformer Reclassificatlon Rule
Use of Acrylamide for Grouting
Notice of TSCA Section 4 Reimbursement
Period and TSCA Section 12(b) Export
Notification Period Sunset Dates for
TSCA Section 4 Substances
Lead-Based Paint; Fees :for Accreditation
and Certification Activities
Lead; TSCA Section 403; Identification of
Dangerous Levels of Lead
TRI; Revisions to the Otherwise Use Ac-
tivity Exemptions and the Coal Extrac-
tion Activities Exemption
TRI; Reporting Threshold Amendment for
Certain Persistent and Bioaccumulative
Toxic Chemicals (PBTs)
Revisions to the Comprehensive Guideline
for Procurement of Products Containing
Recovered Materials
Suspension of Temporary Toxicity Char-
acteristic Rule for Specific Lead-Based
Paint Debris
Test Procedures for the Analysis of
Cryptosporidium and Giardia Under the
Safe Dnnking Water and Clean Water
Acts
Test Procedures for the Analysis of E. Coli
and Enterococci Under the Clean Water
Act
Minimizing Adverse Environmental Impact
from Cooling Water Ihtake Structures
Under Section 316(b) of the Clean
Water Act ;
Streamlining the General Pretreatment
Regulations for Existing and New
Sources of Pollution
Revisions to NPDES Requirements for
Compliance Reporting and Collection
System Discharges
Clean Water Act Definition of the Waters
of the United States
Standards for the Use or Disposal of Sew-
age Sludge (Round ll) .
Effluent Guioelines and Standards for
Landfills
Guioellnes Establishing Oil ana Grease
Test Proceoures for the Analysis of Pol-
'mams Under 'he Clean V/ate' Act
3552
3553
3554
3555
3557
3553
3559
3561
3564
3570
3571
3572
3573
3574
3576
3577
3578
3579
3582
3585
3586
3587
3588
3589
3590
3592
3595
3596
3597
Title
Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures
for the Analysis of Cyanide Under the
Clean Water Act
Performance Based Measurement System
(PBMS) Procedures and Guidance for
Clean Water Act Test Procedures
Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures
for the Analysis of Miscellaneous Met-
als, Anions, and Volatile Organics
Under the Clean Water Act, Phase One
Test Procedures for the Analysis of Mer-
cury Under the Clean Water Act
NPDES Wastewater Permit Application
Forms and Regulatory Revisions for
Municipal Discharges and Sewage
Sludge Use or Disposal
NPDES Streamlining Rule -- Round II
NPDES Comprehensive Storm Water
Phase II Regulations
Amendments to Round I Final Sewage
Sludge Use or Disposal Rule-Phase
One
Effluent_Guidelines and Standards for Iron
and Steel Manufacturing Point Source
Category
Guidelines Establishing Whole Effluent
Toxicity West Coast Test Procedures for
the Analysis of Pollutants Under the
Clean Water Act
Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures
for the Analysis of Trace Metals Under
the Clean Water Act
Increased Method Flexibility for Test Pro-
cedures Approved for Clean Water Act
Compliance Monitoring
Test Procedures for the Analysis of Co-
Planar and Mono-Ortho-Substituted Pol-
ychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) Under
the Clean Water Act
Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures
for the Analysis of Miscellaneous Met-
als, Anions, and Volatile Organics
Under the Clean Water Act, Phase Two
NPDES Streamlining Rule -- Round III
Amendments to Round I Final Sewage
Sludge Use or Disposal Rule -Phase
Two
Streamlining 301 (h) Waiver Renewal Re-
quirements
Use of Screening Procedures for Compli-
ance Monitoring of Drinking Water Con-
taminants
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Arsenic
Public Water System Public Notification
Regulation
Drinking Water Unregulated Contaminant
Monitonng Program
National Primary and Secondary Drinking
Water Regulations: Analytical Methods
for Certain Pesticides and Microbial
Contaminants
National Primary and Secondary Drinking
Water Regulations: Analytic Methods for
Organic, Inorganic and Microbiological
Contaminants and Pesticides
National Primary Dnnking Water Regula-
tions: Analytical Methods lor Microbial.
Lead and Magnesium
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions for Lead and Copper
National Primary Dnnking Water Regula-
tions: Radium, Uranium, Alpna, 3eta
and Photon Emitters
National Primary Dnnxmg Water Regula-
tions: Sulfate
National Primary Drmkinq Wats' Stand-
ards for Alaicarc
Streamlining DnnKing Water Monitennc
Retirements
-------
Small Governmental Jurisdictions—Cont.
Seq.
No.
Seq.
No.
3600
3601
Seq.
No.
3166
3167
3169
3170
3188
3189
3375
3416
3428
3429
3437
Title
Revisions to Ocean Dumping Regulations
for Dredged Material
Shore Protection Act, Section 4103(b)
Regulations
Small Organizations
Title
EPA
Utilization of Small, Minority and Women's
Business Enterprises in Procurement
Under Assistance Agreements
Rewriting of EPA Regulations Implement-
ing the Freedom of Information Act
Revision to 40 CFR 35 Subpart A and
Promulgation of Performance Partner-
ship (State) Grant Regulation
Revision to 40 CFR 35 Subpart A and
Promulgation of Performance Partner-
ship (Tribal) Grant Rule
Environmental Impact Assessment of Non-
governmental Activities in Antarctica
Acquisition Regulation: Types of Contracts
Amendment to the User Fees for Radon
Proficiency Programs Rule
WPS; Pesticide Worker Protection Stand-
ard; Glove Amendment
Lead-Based Paint Activities Rules; Train-
ing, Accreditation, and Certification Rule
and Model State Plan Rule-Building
and Structures
Lead; Over of Rulemakings Under TSCA
Section 402, Lead-Based Paint Activi-
ties for the Regulatory Plan
TSCA Biotechnology Follow-Up Rules
3439
3441
3442
3443
3444
3457
3458
3459
3503
3533
3534
3551
3552
3553
3554
Title
Seq.
No.
Asbestos; Amendments to the Asbestos-
Containing Materials in Schools Rule
PCBs; Polychlorinated Biphenyl; Use Au-
thorizations
Lead-Based Paint Activities; Training and
Certification for Renovation and Remod-
eling
Lead-Based Paint; Notification of Com-
mencement of Abatement Activities
Lead; Management and Disposal of Lead-
Based Paint Debris
Notice of TSCA Section 4 Reimbursement
Period and TSCA Section I2(b) Export
Notification Period Sunset Dates for
TSCA Section 4 Substances
Lead-Based Paint; Fees for Accreditation
and Certification Activities
Lead; TSCA Section 403; Identification of
Dangerous Levels of Lead
Suspension of Temporary Toxicity Char-
acteristic Rule for Specific Lead-Based
Paint Debris
Test Procedures for the Analysis of
Cryptosporidium and Giardia Under the
Safe Drinking Water and Clean Water
Acts
Test Procedures for the Analysis of E. Coli
and Enterococci Under the Clean Water
Act
Guidelines Establishing Oil and Grease
Test Procedures for the Analysis of Pol-
lutants Under the Clean Water Act
Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures
for the Analysis of Cyanide Under the
Clean Water Act
Performance Based Measurement System
(PBMS) Procedures and Guidance for
Clean Water Act Test Procedures
Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures
for the Analysis of Miscellaneous Met-
als, Anions, and Volatile Organics
Under the Clean Water Act, Phase One
3555
3558
3559
3570
3571
3572
3573
3574
3582
3585
3586
3590
3592
3595
3596
3597
title
Test Procedures lor the Analysis of Mer-
cury Under the Clean Water Act
NPDES Streamlining Rule - Round II
NPDES Comprehensive Storm Water
Phase II Regulations
Guidelines Establishing Whole Effluent
Toxicity West Coast Test Procedures for
the Analysis of Pollutants Under the
Clean Water Act
Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures
for the Analysis of Trace Metals Under
the Clean Water Act
Increased Method Flexibility for Test Pro-
cedures Approved for Clean Water Act
Compliance Monitoring
Test Procedures for the Analysis of Co-
Planar and Mono-Ortho-Substituted Pol-
ychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) Under
the Clean Water Act
Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures
for the Analysis of Miscellaneous Met-
als, Anions, and Volatile Organics
Under the Clean Water Act, Phase Two
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Arsenic
Public Water System Public Notification
Regulation
Drinking Water Unregulated Contaminant
Monitoring Program
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions for Lead and Copper
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Radium, Uraniurri, Alpha, Beta
and Photon Emitters
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Sulfate
National Primary Dnnking Water Stand-
ards for Aldicarb
Streamlining Drinking Water Monitoring
Requirements
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY INDEX TO ENTRIES THAT MAY AFFECT
GOVERNMENT LEVELS
Executive Order 12866 entitled "Regulatory Planning and Review" (October 4, 1993; 58 FR 51735) and
the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 "(P.L. 104-4) direct agencies to assess the effects of Federal
regulations on State, local, and tribal governments. In addition, Executive Order 12875 entitled "Enhancing
the Intergovernmental Partnership" (October 26, 1993; 58 FR 58093) directs agencies to reduce the imposition
of unfunded mandates upon State, local, and tribal governments. In keeping with these efforts, agencies
include in their submissions for the Unified Agenda information on whether their regulatory actions have
an effect on various levels of government.
The following index lists the regulatory actions in this publication that agencies believe may have
effects on State, local, tribal, or Federal levels of government. The Sequence Number (Seq. No.) of the
entry identifies the location of the entry in this edition. For further information, see the Regulatory Information
Service Center's Introduction to the Unified Agenda in Part II of this issue.
.
No.
3166
3168
3139
3189
3192
3196
3199
3200
3202
320S
3206
3207
3209
3210
3213
3214
3215
3216
3217
3218
3221
3222
State Government'
Title
EPA
Utilization ol Small. Minority and Women's
Business Enterprises in Procurement
Under Assistance Agreements
Cross-Media Electronic Reporting (ER)
and Recordkeeping Rule .
Revision to 40 CFR 35 Subpart A and
Promulgation of Performance Partner-
Ship (Slate) Grant Regulation
Acquisition Regulation: Types of Contracts
Implementation ol Ozone and Paniculate
Matter (PM) National Ambient Air Qual-
ity Standards (NAAQS) and Regional
Haze Regulations
Alumina Processing NESHAP
Hospital/MedteaWnfectious Waste Inciner-
ators-Federal Plan (Federal Plan for
Existing Hospital/Medlcal/lnfectious
Waste Incinerators)
Consumer and Commercial Products: Re-
vised Schedule for Regulation
No Backsliding Rule for PM-10 Nonattain-
ment Areas
Revision to the Definition of Volatile Or-
ganic Compound (VOC) to Exclude Ter-
tiary Butyl Acetate
Revisions to Air Pollution Emergency Epi-
sode Requirements (Subpart H, 40 CFR
Pan 51)
Performance Warranty and
• Inspection/Maintenance Test Proce-
dures
Method 301: Field Validation of Pollution
Measurement Methods for Various
Media; Revisions
NESHAP; Ferroalloy Production
NSPS: Sewage Sludge Incinerators
NESHAP: Plywood and Particleboard
Manufacturing
NESHAP: Miscellaneous Cellulose Pro-
duction
NESHAP' Municipal Solid Waste landfills
Storage Tank Rule Revisions
Consolidated Emission Reporting Rule
Revisions to New Source Review -'NSR)
Regulations to Implement the New Na-
tional Ambient Air Quality Standards
(NAAQSj lor Ozone
NESHAP- CcKe OvensrPusnmg, Quench-
ing, anq Saner/ StacKS
Seq.
No.
3226
3227
3228
3229
3230
3231
3232
3233
3235
3237
3238
3239
3240
3241
3244
3246
3247
3248
3250
3251
3252
3253
3254
3256
3257
3259
Title
Seq.
No.
3260 '
3262 ,
National Emission Standards for Hazard-
ous Air Pollutants for the Hydrochloric
Acid Production Industry
NESHAP: Asphalt/Coal Tar Application on
Metal Pipes
NESHAP: Clay Products Manufacturing
NESHAP: Organic Hazardous Air Pollut-
ants From the Synthetic Organic Chemi-
cal Industry (SOCMI) & Other Proc-
esses Subject to the Negotiated Regula-
tion for Equipment Leaks
NESHAP: Polyvinyl Chloride and Copoly-
mers Production
NESHAP: Uranium Hexafluoride Produc-
tion
Performance Specification 16~Specifica-
tions and Test Procedures for Predictive
Emission Monitoring Systems in Station-
ary Sources
NESHAP: Wet-formed Fiberglass Mat Pro-
duction
General Conformity . Regulations; Revi-
sions
Tier II Light-Duty Vehicle and Light-Duty
Truck Emission Standards and Gasoline
Sulfur Standards
NAAQS: Sulfur Dioxide (Review and Im-
plementation)
Revision of Appendix W to 40 CFR Part
51
NESHAP/NSPS: Reciprocating Internal
Combustion Engine
Standards and Guidelines for Small Mu-
nicipal Waste Combustion Units
NESHAP: Iron Foundries and Steel
Foundries
NESHAP: Integrated Iron and Steel
NESHAP: Wool Fiberglass-Manufacturing
Industry
NESHAP: Reinforced Plastic Composites
Production
NESHAP: Chlorine Production
NESHAP: Primary Lead Smelters
NESHAP: Manufacturing of Nutritional
Yeast
Amendments to General Provisions Sub-
pans A and B for 40 CFR 63
NESHAP: Paint Stripping Operations
NESHAP: Tire Manufacturing
Petroleum Solvent Dry Cleaners Maximum
Achievable Control Tecnnoiogy (MACT)
Standard
Large Appliance ! Surface Coating)
NESHAP
NESHAP: Asonalt Roofing ana Processing
NESHAP: L:me Manufacturing
Title
3264 NESHAP: Semiconductor Production
3266 NESHAP: Metal Coil (Surface Coating) In-
dustry
3267 NESHAP: Fabric Printing, Coating and
Dyeing
3268 Automobile and Light-Duty Truck Manu-
facturing (Surface'Coating) NESHAP
3269 NESHAP: Primary Magnesium Refining
3270 NESHAP: Chromium Electroplating
Amendment
3272 NESHAP: Spandex Production
3273 NESHAP: Leather Tanning and Finishing
Operations
3274 NESHAP: Manufacture of Carbon Black
3275 NESHAP: Vegetable Oil Production
3277 NESHAP: Flexible Polyurethane Foam
Fabrication Operations
3278 NESHAP: Group I Polymers and Resins
and Group IV Polymers and Resins:
Amendments
3281 NSPS:'. New Source Performance Stand-
ards land Emission Guidelines for jrlUus- •
trial and Commercial Waste Incinerators
3286 Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Servic-
ing of Motor Vehicle Air Conditioners:
Standards for Equipment That _Recovers
and Recycles Refrigerants Other Than
CFC-12 and HFC-134a
3289 Metal Furniture (Surface Coatings)
NESHAP
3290 NESHAP Miscellaneous Metal Parts and
Products (Surface Coating)
3291 Plastic Parts (Surface Coating) NESHAP
3292 Paper and Other Web Coating NESHAP
3294 Offset Lithographic Printing National VOC
Rule
3295 NESHAP: Chromium Electroplating
Amendment
3296 Redefinition of Glycol Ethers Listed as
HAPs Under the Clean Air Act. and
Hazardous Substances Under CERCLA
3299 NESHAP: Ethylene Oxide Commercial
Sterilization and Fumigation Operations
3301 Revisions to Reference Method tor the
Determination of Fine Paniculate Matter
as PM2.5 in the Atmosphere
3303 New Source Review (NSR) Reform
3305 Operating Permits: -Revisions (Pan 70)
3310 Consolidated Federal Air Rule for :ne Syn-
thetic Organic Chemical Manufacturing
Industry
3311 j Acid Ram Program: Continuous Emission
j Monitoring
-------
10
State Government—Cont.
Seq.
No.
Seq.
No.
Title
3317 National Emission Standards for Hazard-
ous Air Pollutants for Source Category:
Pulp and Paper Production; Amend-
ments to the Promulgated Rule
3320 Air Quality Index Reporting
3321 Electric Arc Furnace NSPS Amendment
3322 Acid Rain Program: Proposed Revision of
Test Method 1, 2, and 2F for Measuring
Volumetric Flow in Stacks
3327 Amendments-Integrated NESHAP and Ef-
fluent Guidelines: Pulp and Paper
3328 NESHAP: Oil and Natural Gas Production
and Natural Gas Transmission and Stor-
age
3330 NESHAP: Phosphoric Acid Manufacturing
3331 NESHAP: Steel Pickling, HC1 Process
3332 NESHAP: Phosphate Fertilizers Produc-
tion
3333 NESHAP: Primary Copper Smelting
3334 NESHAP: Secondary Aluminum Industry
3335 NESHAP: Portland Cement Manufacturing
3336 NESHAP: Polyether Polyols Production
3338 NESHAP: Acrylic/Modacrylic Fibers Manu-
facturing
3340 NESHAP: Publicly Owned Treatment
Works (POTW)
3341 Revisions to the Regulation for Approval
of State Programs and Delegation of
Federal Authorities 112(1)
3343 NESHAP: Hydrogen Fluoride Production
3345 NESHAP: Oil and Natural Gas Production
and NESHAP: Natural Gas Trans-
mission and Storage, Amendments to
Proposed Rule
3346 Transportation Conformity Rule Amend-
ment and Solicitation for Participation in
the Pilot Program
3347 Reduction of Volatile Organic Compound
(VOC) Emissions From Coatings Used
in the Aerospace, Wood Furniture, and
Shipbuilding Industries Under Clean Air
Act Section 183(e)
3351 Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Refrig-
erant Recycling Rule Amendment To In-
clude Substitute Refrigerants
3352 NESHAP: Off-Site Waste and Recovery
Operations; Final Rule-Settlement
Agreement; and NESHAP for Off-Site
Waste and Recovery Operations; Tech-
nical Amendments
3354 Amendment to Regulations Governing
Equivalent Emission Limitations by Per-
mit
3356 Review of the National Ambient Air Quality
Standards for Paniculate Matter
3357 NSPS: Synthetic Organic Chemicals Man-
ufacturing Industry- Wastewater
3360 Revised Permit Revision Procedures for
the Federal Operating Permits Program
3362 Rulemaking To Modify the List of Source
Categories From Which Fugitive Emis-
sions Are Considered in Major Source
Determinations
3363 NESHAP: Hydrogen Chloride Production
3365 NESHAP: Organic Liquid Distribution
3366 NESHAP: Chemical Recovery Combustion
Sources at Kraft. Soda. Sulfite and
Stand Alone Semichemical Pulp Mills
3368 Prevention of Significant Deterioration of
Air Quality: Permit Application Review
Procedures for Non-Federal Class I
I Areas
3375 ! Amendment to the User Fees for Radon
' Proficiency Programs Rule
3377
3378
3379
3382
3383
3386
3388
3389
3392
3394
3395
3396
3399
3408
3410
3412
3415
3416
3418
3419
3421
3422
3423
3426
3428
3429
3430
3431
3433
3435
3437
3438
3439
3440
3441
Title
Seq.
No.
Finding of Significant Contribution and
Rulemaking for Certain States in the
Ozone Transport Assessment Group
(OTAG) Region for Purposes of Reduc-
ing Regional Transport of Ozone
Revisions to Clarify the Permit Content
Requirements for State Operating Per-
mits
Revisions to the Permits and Sulfur Diox-
ide Allowance System Regulations
Under Title IV of the Clean Air Act: Al-
lowance Transfer
NESHAP: Ammonium Sulphate Produc-
tion (Caprolactam By-Product)
Supplemental Rulemaking for Certain
States in the Ozone Transport Assess-
ment Group Region for Purposes of Re-
ducing Regional Transport of Ozone
Notice of Promulgated Compliance Exten-
sion: Halogenated Solvent
Transportation Conformity Rule Amend-
ments: Flexibility and Streamlining
NESHAP: Flexible Polyurethane Foam
Production
Industrial Combustion Coordinated Rule-
making-ICCR Project
National VOC Emission Standards for
Automobile Refinish Coatings
VOC Regulation for Architectural Coatings
National VOC Emission Standards for
Consumer Products
Revision to the Covered Areas Provision
for Reformulated Gasoline
Pesticide Tolerance Reassessment Pro-
gram
Regulatory Review of Pesticide Emer-
gency Exemption Regulations
Tolerances for Pesticide Emergency Ex-
emptions
Pesticide Management and Disposal:
Standards for Pesticide Containers and
Containment
WPS; Pesticide Worker Protection Stand-
ard; Glove Amendment
Ground Water and Pesticide Management
Plan
Pesticide Management and Disposal
Policy or Procedures for Notification to the
Agency of Stored Pesticides With Can-
celled or Suspended Registration
The tO-Acre Limitation for Pesticide
Small-Scale Field Testing
WPS; Pesticide Worker Protection Stand-
ards; Pesticide Hazard Communication
TRI: Review of Chemicals on the Original
TRI Lisi
Lead-Based Paint Activities Rules; Train-
ing. Accreditation, and Certification Rule
and Model State Plan Rule-Building
and Structures
Lead; Over of Rulemakings Under TSCA
Section 402, Lead-Based Paint Activi-
ties for the Regulatory Plan
Multi-Chemical Test Rule; High Production
Volume Chemicals
Test Rules; Generic Entry for Proposed
Decisions
Test Rule: ATSDR Substances
Test Rule for Certain Metals
TSCA Biotechnology Follow-Up Rules
Asbestos Model Accreditation Plan Revi-
sions
Asbestos; Amendments to the Asbestos-
Containing Materials in Scnoois Rule
Asbestos Worker Protection Rule Amend-
ments
PCBs: Poiycnlonnated Biohenyl: Use Au:
thonzations
3442
3443
3444
3446
3447
3452
3455
3458
3459
3461
3462
3463
3464
3465
3466
3467
3471
3473
3474
3478
3481
3482
3483
3484
3485
3486
3487
3488
3489
349C
Title
Lead-Based Paint Activities; Training and
Certification for Renovation and Remod-
eling
Lead-Based Paint; Notification of Com-
mencement of Abatement Activities
Lead; Management and Disposal of Lead-
Based Paint Debris
Test Rules; Generic Entry for Final Deci-
sions
Test Rule; Hazardous Air Pollutants
(HAPs)
PCBs; Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs)
Transformer Reclassification Rule
Use of Acrylamide for Grouting
Lead-Based Paint; Fees for Accreditation
and Certification Activities
Lead; TSCA Section 403; Identification of
Dangerous Levels of Lead
TRI; Addition of Oil and Gas Exploration
and Production to the Toxic Release In-
ventory
TRI; Responses to Petitions Received To
Add or Delete or Modify Chemical List-
ings on the Toxic Release Inventory
TRI; Pollution Prevention Act information
Requirements
TRI; Lowering of EPCRA Section 313 Re-
porting Thresholds for Lead and Lead
Compounds
TRI; Revisions to the Otherwise Use Ac-
tivity Exemptions and the Coal Extrac-
tion Activities Exemption
TRI; Chemical Expansion; Finalization of
Deferred Chemicals
TRI; Reporting Threshold Amendment for
Certain Persistent and Bioaccumulative
Toxic Chemicals (PBTs)
TRI; Data Expansion Amendments: Toxic
Chemical Release Reporting; Commu-
nity Right-to-Know
Accidental Release Prevention Require-
ments: Risk' Management Programs
Under the Clean Air Act, Section
112(r)(7): Amendment
Hazardous Waste Storage and Disposal
Regulation Related to Low Level Mixed
Waste; Proposed Modifications
RCRA Reporting and Recordkeeping Bur-
den Reduction; Notice of Data Availabil-
ity
Modifications to RCRA Rules Associated
With Solvent-Contaminated Shop Tow-
els and Wipers
Glass-to-Glass Recycling of Cathode Ray
Tubes (CRTs): Changes to Hazardous
Waste Regulations
Land Disposal Restrictions: Treatment
Standards for Spent Potliners from Pri-
mary Aluminum Reduction (K088)
Revisions to Guidelines for trie Storage
and Collection of Residential, Commer-
cial, and Institutional Solid Waste
Revisions to Solid Waste Landfill Critena-
Leachate Recirculation
Paint Manufacturing Wastes Listing: Haz-
ardous Waste Management System:
Identification and Listing of Hazardous
Waste
Mercury-Containing and Rechargeable
Battery Management Act: Codification of
Waste Management Provisions
Removal of Requirement To Use SW-846
Methods (Test Methods for Evaluating
Solid Waste: Physical/Chemical Meth-
ods)
Standardized Permit for RCRA Hazardous
Waste Management Facilities
Proposed Regulatory Amendments on re-
cycling of Hazardous Wastes in Fer-
tilizers
-------
.11
State Government—Cont.
Seq.
No.
Seq
No,
3491
3492
3493
3494
3496
3497
3493
3500
3501
3502
3503
3505
3508
3511
3512
3513
3514
3S19
3520
3521
3522
352S
3527
3528
3529
3530
3531
3532
Tills
ChkxmateJ Altphalics Listing Determina-
tion
Hazardous Waste Identification Rule
(HWIR): Identification and Listing of
Hazardous Wastes
Listing Dasermmalion of Wastes Gen-
erated During the Manufacture of Azo,
Anlhraquinone, and Triarylmethane
Dyes and Pigments
Hazardous Waste Manifest Regulation
Management of Cement Kiln Dust (CKD)
Recycled Used Oil Containing PCBs
180-Day Accumulation Time Under RCRA
for Generators of FOGS Waste Water
Treatment Sludges from the Metal Fin-
ishing Industry
Hazardous Waste Management System;
Modification of me Hazardous Waste
Program; Hazardous Waste Lamps
Revised Standards for Hazardous Waste
Combustion Facilities
Revisions to the Comprehensive Guideline
for Procurement of Products Containing
Recovered Matanals
Suspension of Temporary Toxicity Char-
acteristic Rule for Specific Lead-Based
Paint Debns
Hazardous Waste Identification; Recycled
Used Oil Management Standards
Modifications to the Definition of Solid
Waste and Regulations of Hazardous
Waste Recycling: General
Hazardous Remediation Waste Manage-
ment Requirements (Commonly Re-
ferred to as Hazardous Waste Identifica-
tion Rule for Contaminated Media or
HWIR-Media)
Landfill Leachate and Petroleum Waste
Listings
Corrective Action for Solid Waste Manage-
ment Units (SWMUs) at Hazardous
Waste Management Facilities
RCRA Subtitle D Solid Waste Facilities;
Slate Permit Program - Determination
of Adequacy (State Implementation
Rule)
Grants for Technical Assistance Rule Re-
form-do CFR Part 35 Subpart M
Reportable Quantity Adjustments for
Carbamates
National Priorities List for Uncontrolled
Hazardous Waste Sites: Proposed and
Final Rules
Cooperative Agreements and Superfund
State Contracts for Superiund Re-
sponse Actions; Revision of 40 CFR
Part 35 Subpart O
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the
Feedfots Point Source Category, Swine
and Poultry Subcategones, and NPDES
Regulation for Concentrated Animal
Feeding Operations
Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDI.) Pro-
gram Regulations Revisions
Revisions to Effluent Guidelines and
Standards for the Coal Mining Point
Source Category
Waier Quality Standards Regulation -- Re-
vision
Amendments to the Final Water.Quality
Guidance for the Great Lakes System to
Reinstate the Mixing Zone Elimination
and Phase-Out Provision
EPA Review ano Approval of State and
Tribal Water Quality Standards
Waier Quality Standards lor Alabama-
Pnase II
3533
3534
3535
3536
3537
3538
3540
3541
3542
3543
3545
3546
3547
3548
3549
3550
3551
3552
3553
3554
3555
3556
3557
3558
3559
3561
3562
3563
Title
Seq.
No.
Test Procedures for the Analysis of
Cryptosporidium and Giardia Under the
Safe Drinking Water and Clean Water
Acts
Test Procedures for the Analysis of E. Coli
and Enterococci Under the Clean Water
Act
Minimizing Adverse Environmental Impact
from Cooling Water 'ntake Structures
Under Section 316(b) of the Clean
Water Act
Streamlining the General Pretreatrnent
Regulations for Existing and New
Sources of Pollution
Revisions to NPDES Requirements for
Compliance Reporting and Collection
System Discharges
Establishment of Electronic Reporting for
NPDES Permittees
Standards for the Use or Disposal of Sew-
age Sludge (Round II)
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the
Centralized Waste Treatment Industry
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the
Industrial Laundries Point Source Cat-
egory
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for
Landfills
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for In-
dustrial Waste Combustors
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the
Pulp, Paper, and Paperboard Category;
Incentives Amendment
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the
Pulp, Paper, and Paperboard Category;
Monitoring Amendment
Establishment of Numeric Criteria for Pri-
ority Toxic Pollutants for the State of
California
Water Quality Standards for Alabama-
Phase I
Water Quality Standards; Establishment of
Numeric Criteria for Priority Toxic Pollut-
ants; States' Compliance -- Revision of
Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) Cri-
teria
Guidelines Establishing Oil and Grease
Test Procedures for the Analysis of Pol-
lutants Under the Clean Water Act
Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures
for the Analysis of Cyanide Under the
Clean Water Act
Performance Based Measurement System
(PBMS) Procedures and Guidance for
Clean Water Act Test Procedures
Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures
for the Analysis of Miscellaneous Met-
als, Anions, and Volatile Organics
Under the Clean Water Act, Phase One
Test Procedures for the Analysis of Mer-
cury Under the Clean Water Act
Uniform National Discharge Standards for
Armed Forces Vessels-Phase I
NPDES Wastewater Permit Application
Forms and Regulatory Revisions for
Municipal Discharges and Sewage
Sludge Use or Disposal
NPDES Streamlining Rule - Round II
NPDES Comprehensive Storm Water
Phase II Regulations
Amendments to Round I Final Sewage
Sludge Use or Disposal Rule-Phase
One
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the
Metal Products and Machinery Cat-
egory, Phases 1 and 2
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the
Transportation Equipment Cleaning Cat-
egory
3564
3565
3566
3567
3S68
3569
3570
3571.
3572
3573
3574
3S75
3S76
3S77
3578
3579
3S80
3581
3582
3S83
3S84
3S85
3S86
3587
3588
3589
3590
3591
Title
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for Iron
and Steel Manufactunng Point Source
Category
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the
Pulp. Paper, and Paperboard Category.
Phase II
Revisions to Effluent Guidelines and
Standards for Synthetic-Based Drilling
Fluids in the Oil and Gas Extraction
Point Source Category
Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Stand-
ards for the Feediots Point Source Cat-
egory, Dairy and Beef Cattle Subcat-
egones
Water Quality Standards: Establishment of
Numeric Criteria for Priority Toxic Pollut-
ants; States' Compliance
Selenium Criterion Maximum Concentra-
tion for Water Quality Guidance for the
Great Lakes System
Guidelines Establishing Whole Effluent
Toxicity West Coast Test Procedures for
the Analysis of Pollutants Under the
Clean Water Act
Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures
for the Analysis of Trace Metals Under
the Clean Water Act
Increased Method Flexibility for Test Pro-
cedures Approved for Clean Water Act
Compliance Monitoring
Test Procedures for the Analysis of Co-
Planar and Mono-Ortho-Substituted Pol-
ychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) Under
the Clean Water Act
Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures
for the Analysis of Miscellaneous Met-
als, Anions, and Volatile Organics
Under the Clean Water Act, Phase Two
Revision of NPDES Industnal Permit Ap-
plication Requirements and Form 2C--
Wastewater Discharge Information
NPDES Streamlining Rule •- Round III
Amendments to Round I Final Sewage
Sludge Use or Disposal Rule -Phase
Two
Streamlining 301 (h) Waiver Renewal Re-
quirements
Use of Screening Procedures for Compli-
ance Monitoring of Drinking Water Con-
taminants
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Radon
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Ground Water Rule
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Arsenic
Filter Backwash Recycling Regulation
Long Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water
Treatment Rule
Public Water System Public Notification
Regulation
Drinking Water Unregulated Contaminant
Monitonng Program
National Primary and Secondary Drinking
Water Regulations: Analytical Methods
for Certain Pesticides and Microbial
Contaminants
National Primary and Secondary Drinking
Water Regulations: Analytic Methods for
Organic. Inorganic and Microoioiogical
Contaminants and Pesticides
National Primary DnnKing Water Regula-
tions: Analytical Methods for Microoial.
Lead and Magnesium
National Primary Dnnking Water Regula-
tions for Lead and Copoer
Reformanmg of Drinking Water Regula-
tions
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12
State Government—Cont.
Seq
No
'Seq.
No.
3592
3593
3594
3595
3596
3597
3598
3599
Title
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Radium, Uranium, Alpha. Beta
and Photon Emitters
Revisions to the Underground Injection
Control Regulations for Class V Injec-
tion Wells
Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Reg-
ulations
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Sulfate
National Primary Drinking Water Stand-
ards for Aldicarb
Streamlining Drinking Water Monitoring
Requirements
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Stage I Disinfectant/Disinfection
By-Products Rule
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Interim Enhanced Surface Water
Treatment Rule
Seq.
No.
3166
3168
3169
3189
3192
3196
3199
3200
3202
3206
3207
3213
3214
3215
3216
3219
32-21
3222
3226
3227
3226
Local Government
Title
EPA
Utilization of Small, Minority and Women's
Business Enterprises in Procurement
Under Assistance Agreements
Cross-Media Electronic Reporting (ER)
and Recordkeeping Rule
Revision to 40 CFR 35 Subpart A and
Promulgation of Performance Partner-
ship (State) Grant Regulation
'Acquisition Regulation: Types of Contracts
Implementation of Ozone and Paniculate
Matter (PM) National Ambient Air Qual-
ity Standards (NAAQS) and Regional
Haze Regulations
Alumina Processing NESHAP
Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Inciner-
ators-Federal Plan (Federal Plan for
Existing Hospital/Medical/Infectious
Waste Incinerators)
Consumer and Commercial Products: Re-
vised Schedule for Regulation
No Backsliding Rule for PM-10 Nonattain-
ment Areas
Revisions to Air Pollution Emergency Epi-
sode Requirements (Subpart H, 40 CFR
Part 51)
Performance Warranty and
Inspection/Maintenance Test Proce-
dures
NSPS: Sewage Sludge Incinerators
NESHAP: Plywood and Particleboard
Manufacturing
NESHAP: Miscellaneous Cellulose Pro-
duction
NESHAP: Municipal Solid Waste Landfills
Transportation Conformity Rule Amend-
ment: Clarification of Trading Provisions
Revisions to New Source Review (NSR)
Regulations to Implement the New Na-
tional Ambient Air Quality Standards
(NAAQS) for Ozone
NESHAP: Coke Ovens: Pushing, Quench-
ing, and Battery Stacks
National Emission Standards for Hazard-
ous Air Pollutants for the Hydrochloric
Acid Proouction Industry
NESHAP: Asphalt/Coal Tar Application on
Metal Pipes
NESHAP: Clay Products Manufacturing
322
323C
323
3238
3240
3241
3244
3247
3251
3260
326:
3268
3273
3277
3278
3281
3282
3286
3296
3299
3301
3311
3315
3317
3318
3320
3321
3322
3327
3331
3334
3335
•>336
3340
3341
Title
Seq
No.
NESHAP: Organic Hazardous Air Pollut-
ants From the Synthetic Organic Chemi-
cal Industry (SOCMI) & Other Proc-
esses Subject to the Negotiated Regula-
tion for Equipment Leaks
NESHAP: Wet-formed Fiberglass Mat Pro-
duction
Tier II Light-Du.y Vehic.e ana Jght-Duty
Taick Emission Standards and Gasoline
Sulfur Standards
NAAQS: Sulfur Dioxide (Review and Im-
plementation)
NESHAP/NSPS: Reciprocating Internal
Combustion Engine
Standards and Guidelines for Small Mu-
nicipal Waste Combustion Units
NESHAP: Iron Foundries and Steel
Foundries
NESHAP: Wool Fiberglass Manufacturing
Industry
NESHAP: Primary Lead Smelters
NESHAP: Asphalt Roofing and Processing
NESHAP: Lime Manufacturing
Automobile and Light-Duty Truck Manu-
facturing (Surface Coating) NESHAP
NESHAP: Leather Tanning and Finishing
Operations
NESHAP: Flexible Polyurethane Foam
Fabrication Operations
NESHAP: Group I Polymers and Resins
and Groiip IV Polymers and Resins;
Amendments
NSPS: New Source Performance Stand-
ards and Emission Guidelines for Indus-
trial and Commercial Waste Incinerators
NSPS: New Source Performance Stand-
ards and Emission Guidelines for Other
Solid Waste Incinerators
Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Servic-
ing of Motor Vehicle Air Conditioners:
Standards for Equipment That Recovers
and Recycles .Refrigerants Other Than
CFC-12andHFC-134a
Redefinition of Glycol Ethers Listed as
HAPs Under the Clean Air Act, and
Hazardous Substances Under CERCLA
NESHAP: Ethylene Oxide Commercial
Sterilization and Fumigation Operations
Revisions to Reference Method for the
Determination of Fine Paniculate Matter
as PM2.5 in the Atmosphere
Acid Rain Program: Continuous Emission
Monitoring .(GEM) Rule Revisions
Addition of Opacity Method to Appendix M
of 40 CFR Part 51 (Method 203)
National Emission Standards for Hazard-
ous Air Pollutants for Source Category:
Pulp and Paper Production; Amend-
ments to the Promulgated Rule
Federal Implementation Plans (FIPs) To
Reduce the Regional Transport of
Ozone in the Eastern United States
Air Quality Index Reporting
Electric Arc Furnace NSPS Amendment
Acid Rain Program: Proposed Revision of
Test Method 1, 2, and 2F for Measuring
Volumetric Flow in Stacks
.menclmems-lntegrated NESHAP and Ef-
fluent Guidelines: Pulp and Paper
1ESHAP: Steel Pickling, HC1 Process
NESHAP: Secondary Aluminum Industry
MESHAP: Portland Cement Manufacturing
^?SHAP: Polyether Polyols Production
\IESHAP: Publicly Owned Treatment
Works (POTW)
:evisions to the Regulation for Approval
of State Programs and Delegation oi
Feaerai Authorities li2flj
Title
3346 Transportation Conformity Rule Amend-
ment and Solicitation for Participation in
the Pilot Program .
3352 NESHAP: Off-Site Waste and Recovery
Operations; Final Rule-Settlement
Agreement; and NESHAP for Off-Site
Waste and Recovery Operations; Tech-
nical Amendments -•••'"
3356 Review of the National Ambient Air Quality
Standards for Paniculate Matter
3360 Revised Permit Revision Procedures for
the Federal Operating Permits Program
3361 Review of Minor New Sources and Modi-
fications in Indian Country
3362 Rulemaking To Modify the List of Source
Categories From Which Fugitive Emis-
sions Are Considered in Major Source
Determinations ' , ' ' .
3365 NESHAP: Organic Liquid Distribution
3366 NESHAP: Chemical Recovery Combustion
Sources at Kraft, Soda, Sulfite and
Stand Alone Semichemical Pulp Mills
3375 Amendment to the User Fees for Radon
Proficiency Programs Rule
3377 Finding of Significant Contribution and
Rulemaking for Certain States in the
Ozone Transport Assessment Group
(OTAG) Region for Purposes of Reduc-
ing Regional Transport of Ozone
3379 Revisions to the Permits and. Sulfur Diox-
ide Allowance System' Regulations
Under Title IV of the Clean Air Act: Al-
lowance Transfer
3383 Supplemental Rulemaking for Certain
States in the Ozone Transport Assess-
ment Group Region for Purposes of Re-
ducing Regional Transport of Ozone
3388 Transportation Conformity Rule Amend-
ments: Flexibility and Streamlining
3389 NESHAP: Flexible Poiyurethane Foam
Production
3395 VOC Regulation for Architectural Coatings
3396 National VOC Emission Standards for
Consumer Products
3408 Pesticide Tolerance Reassessment Pro-
gram
3415 Pesticide Management and Disposal:
Standards for Pesticide Containers and
Containment
3416 WPS; Pesticide Worker Protection Stand-
ard; Glove Amendment
3418 Ground Water and Pesticide Management
Plan
3428 Lead-Based Paint Activities Rules; Train-
ing, Accreditation, and Certification Rule
and Model State Plan Rule-Building
and Structures
3429 Lead; Over of Rulemakings Under TSCA
Section 402. Lead-Based Paint Activi-
ties for the Regulatory Plan
3430 Multi-Chemical Test Rule; High Production
Volume Chemicals
3435 Test Rule for Certain Metals
3437 TSCA Biotechnology Follow-Up Rules
3438 Asbestos Model Accreditation Plan Revi-
sions
3439 Asbestos: Amendments to the Asbestos-
Containing Materials in Schools Rule
3440 Asbestos Worker Protection Rule Amend-
ments
3441 PCBs: Polychlorinated Biphenyl; Use Au-
thorizations
3442 Lead-Based Paint Activities: Training and
Certification for Renovation and Remod-
eling
3443 Lead-Based Paint: Notification of Com-
mencement of Abatement Activities
3444 | Lead: Management and Disposal of Lead-
j Based Paint Debris
3455 i Use of Acryiamide for Grouting
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13
Local Government—Cont.
Seq.
No.
Seq.
No
3458
3459
3473
3482
3483
3484
3485
3487
3488
3500
3502
3503
3512
3S19
3520
3521
3522
3528
3532
3533
3534
3535
3536
3S37
3538
3540
3541
Title
Lead-Based Paint; Fees for Accreditation
and Certification Activities
Lead, TSCA Section 403; Identification of
Dangerous Levels of Lead
Accidental Release Prevention Require-
ments: Risk Management Programs
Under the Clean Air Act, Section
112(r)<7); Amendment
Glass-!o-G!ass Recycling of Cathode Ray
Tuces (CRTs): Changes to Hazardous
Waste Regulations
Land Disposal Restrictions; Treatment
Standards for Spent Potliners from Pri-
mary Aluminum Reduction (K088)
Revisions to Guidelines for the Storage
and Collection of Residential, Commer-
cial, and institutional Solid Waste
Revisions to Solid Waste Landfill Criteria-
Leacfiate Recirculation
Mercury-Containing and Rechargeable
Battery Management Act; Codification of
Waste Management Provisions
Removal of Requirement To Use SW-846
Methods (Test Methods for Evaluating
Solid Waste: Physical/Chemical Meth-
ods)
Hazardous Waste Management System;
Modification of the Hazardous Waste
Program; Hazardous Waste Lamps
Revisions to the Comprehensive Guideline
for Procurement of Products Containing
Recovered Materials
Suspension of Temporary Toxicity Char-
sctenstic Rule for Specific Lead-Based
Paint Debris
Landfill Leachate and Petroleum Waste
Listings
Grants for Technical Assistance Rule Re-
form-40 CFR Part 35 Subpart M
Reportable Quantity Adjustments for
Cartamates
National Priorities List for Uncontrolled
Hazardous Waste Sites: Proposed and
Final Rules
Cooperative Agreements and Superfund
State Contracts lor Superfund Re-
sponse Actions; Revision of 40 CFR
Pan 35 Subpart O
Revisions to Effluent Guidelines and
Standards for the Coal Mining Point
Source Category
Water Qualify Standards for Alabama-
Phase II
Test Procedures for the Analysis of
Cryptosporidium and Giardia Under the
Sale Drinking Water and Clean Water
Acts
Test Procedures for the Analysis of E. Coli
and Emerococci Under the Clean Water
Act
Minimizing Adverse Environmental Impact
(ram Cooling Water Intake Structures
Under Section 3l6(b) of the Clean
Water Act
Streamlining the General Pretreatment
Regulations for Existing and New
Sources of Pollution
Revisions to NPDES Requirements for
Compliance Reporting and Collection
System Discharges
Establishment of Electronic Reponmg for
NPDES Permittees
Standards for the Use or Disposal of Sew-
age Sludge : Round II)
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the
Centralized Waste Treatment Industry
3542
3543
3545
3546
3547
3549
3551
3552
3553
3554
3555
3556
3557
3558
3559
3561
356.2
3563
3564
,3565
3570
3571
3572
3573
3574
3576
3577
3578
Title
Seq.
No.
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the
Industrial Laundries Point Source Cat-
egory
Effluent Guidelines arid Standards for
Landfills
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for In-
dustrial Waste Combustors
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the
.Pulp, Paper, and Paperboard Category;
Incentives Amendment
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the
Pulp, Paper, and Paperboard Category;
Monitoring Amendment
Water Quality Standards for Alabama--
Phase I
Guidelines Establishing' Oil and Grease
Test Procedures for the Analysis of Pol-
lutants Under the Clean Water Act
Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures
for the Analysis of Cyanide' Under the
Clean Water Act
Performance Based Measurement System
(PBMS) Procedures and Guidance for
Clean Water Act Test Procedures
Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures
for the Analysis of Miscellaneous Met-
als, Anions, and Volatile Organics
Under the Clean Water Act, Phase One
Test Procedures for the Analysis of Mer-
cury Under the Clean Water Act
Uniform National Discharge Standards for
Armed Forces Vessels-Phase I
NPDES Wastewater Permit Application
Forms and Regulatory Revisions for
Municipal Discharges and Sewage
Sludge Use or Disposal
NPDES Streamlining Rule - Round II
NPDES Comprehensive Storm Water
Phase II Regulations
Amendments to Round I Final Sewage
Sludge Use or Disposal Rule-Phase
One
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the
Metal Products and Machinery Cat-
egory, Phases 1 and 2
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the
Transportation Equipment Cleaning Cat-
egory
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for Iron
and Steel Manufacturing Point Source
Category .
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the
Pulp, Paper, and Paperboard Category,
Phase II
Guidelines Establishing Whole Effluent
Toxicity West Coast Test Procedures for
the Analysis of Pollutants Under the
Clean Water Act
Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures
for the Analysis of Trace Metals Under
the Clean Water Act '
Increased Method Flexibility for Test Pro-
cedures Approved for Clean Water Act
Compliance Monitoring
Test Procedures for the Analysis of Co-
Planar and Mono-Ortho-Substituted Pol-
ychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) Under
the Clean-Water Act
Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures
for the Analysis of Miscellaneous Met-
als, Anions, and Volatile Organics
Under the Clean Water Act, Phase Two
NPDES Streamlining Rule -- Round III
Amendments to Round I Final Sewage
Sludge Use or Disposal Rule --Phase
Two
Streamlining 301 (h) Waiver Renewal Re-
quirements
3579
3580
35131
3582
3583
3584
3585
3586
3587
3588
3539
3590
3591
3592
3594
3595
3596
3597
3598
3599
3600
3601
Title
Seq.
No.
3166
3168
3170
3189
3192
3196
3199
Use of Screening Procedures for Compli-
ance Monitoring of Drinking Water Con-
taminants
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Radon
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Ground Water Rule
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Arsenic
Filter Backwash Recycling Regulation
Long Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water
Treatment Rule
Public Water System Public Notification
Regulation
Drinking Water Unregulated Contaminant
Monitoring Program "
National Primary and Secondary Drinking
Water Regulations: Analytical Methods
for Certain Pesticides and Microbial
Contaminants
National Primary and Secondary Drinking
Water Regulations: Analytic Methods for
Organic, Inorganic and Microbiological
Contaminants and Pesticides
N.ational Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Analytical Methods for Microbial,
Lead and Magnesium
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions for Lead and Copper
Reformatting of Drinking Water Regula-
tions
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Radium, Uranium, Alpha, Beta
and Photon Emitters
Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Reg-
ulations
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Sulfate
National Primary Drinking Water Stand-
ards for Aldicarb
Streamlining Drinking Water Monitoring
Requirements
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Stage I Disinfectant/Disinfection
By-Products Rule
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Interim Enhanced Surface Water
Treatment Rule
Revisions to Ocean Dumping Regulations
for Dredged Material
Shore Protection Act, Section 4l03(b)
Regulations
Tribal Government
Title
EPA
Utilization-of Small, Minonty and Women's
Business Enterpnses in Proc'.'rement
Under Assistance Agreements
Cross-Media Electronic Reporting (ER)
and Recordkeeping Rule
Revision to 40 CFR 35 Subpart A and
Promulgation of Performance Partner-
ship (Tribal) Grant Rule
Acquisition Regulation: Types of Contracts
Implementation of Ozone and Paniculate
Matter (PM) National Ambient Air Qual-
ity Standards (NAAQS) and Regional
Haze Regulations
Alumina Processing NESHAP
Hospital/Medicai/lntectious Waste Incne'-
ators-Feoeral Plan 'Feoeral Piar for
Existing Hospital Meaical/lntectious
Waste Incinerators/
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14
Tribal Government—Cont.
Seq.
No.
Seq.
No.
3200
3202
3206
3215
3216
3221
3222
3226
3227
3228
3233
3237
3240
3244
3247
3251
3259
3260
3262
3273
3277
3278
3286
3289
3299
3311
3315
3318
3320
3321
3322
3331
3334
3335
3336
3341
3356
336C
Title
Consumer and Commercial Products: Re-
vised Schedule for Regulation
N& Backsliding Rule for PM-10 Nonattain-
ment Areas
Revisions to Air Pollution Emergency Epi-
sode Requirements (Subpart H, 40 CFR
Part 51)
NESHAP: Miscellaneous Cellulose Pro-
duction
NES.HAP: Municipal Solid Waste Landfills
Revisions to New Source Review (NSR)
Regulations to Implement the New Na-
tional Ambient' Air Quality Standards
(NAAQS) for Ozone
NESHAP: Coke Ovens: Pushing, Quench-
ing, and Battery Stacks
National Emission Standards for Hazard-
ous Air Pollutants for the Hydrochloric
Acid Production Industry
NESHAP: Asphall/Coal Tar Application on
Metal Pipes
NESHAP: Clay Products Manufacturing
NESHAP: Wet-formed Fiberglass Mat Pro-
duction
Tier II Light-Duty Vehicle and Light-Duty
Truck Emission Standards and Gasoline
Sulfur Standards
NESHAP/NSPS: Reciprocating Internal
Combustion Engine
NESHAP: Iran 'Foundries and Steel
Foundries
NESHAP: Wool Fiberglass Manufacturing
Industry
NESHAP: Primary Lead Smelters
Large Appliance (Surface Coating)
NESHAP
NESHAP: Asphalt Roofing and Processing
NESHAP: Lime Manufacturing
NESHAP: Leather Tanning and Finishing
Operations
NESHAP: Flexible Polyurethane Foam
FabricatjonOperations
NESHAP: ^roup I Polymers and Resins
and Group IV Polymers and Resins;
Amendments
Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Servic-
ing of Motor Vehicle Air Conditioners:
Standards for Equipment That Recovers
and Recycles Refrigerants Other Than
CFC-12and HFC-134a
Metal Furniture (Surface Coatings)
NESHAP
NESHAP: Ethylene Oxide Commercial
Sterilization and Fumigation Operations
Acid Rain Program: Continuous Emission
Monitoring (CEM) Rule Revisions
Addition of Opacity Method to Appendix M
of 40 CFR Part 51 (Method 203)
Federal Implementation Plans (FIPs) To
Reduce the Regional Transport of
Ozone in the Eastern United States
Air Quality Index Reporting
Electric Arc Furnace NSPS Amendment
Acid Rain Program: Proposed Revision of
Test Method 1, 2, and 2F for Measuring
Volumetric Flow in Stacks
NESHAP: Steel Pickling, HC1 Process
NESHAP: Secondary Aluminum Industry
NESHAP: Portland Cement Manufacturing
NESHAP: Polyether Polyols Production
Revisions to the Regulation for Approval
of State Programs and Delegation of
Federal Authorities 112(1)
Review of me National Ambient Air Quality
Standards tor Paniculate Matter
Revised Permit Revision Procedures for
the Federal Ooerating Permits P-ocram
3361
3362
3365
3368
3375
3377
3378
3383
3384
3388
3389
3396
3408
3410
3415
3416
3418
3422
3423
3428
3429
3430
3431
3433
3435
3437
3438
3439
3440
3441
3442
3443
3444
3446
Title
Seq.
No.
Review of Minor New Sources and Modi-
fications in Indian Country
Rulernaking-To Modify the List of Source
Categories From Which Fugitive Emis-
sions' Are Considered in Major Source
Determinations
NESHAP: Organic Liquid Distribution
Prevention of Significant Deterioration of
•Air Quality: Permit Application Review
Procedures for Non-Federal Class I
Areas
Amendment to the User Fees for Radon
Proficiency Programs Rule
Finding of Significant Contribution and
Rulemaking for Certain States in the
Ozone Transport Assessment Group
(OTAG) Region for Purposes of Reduc-
ing Regional Transport of Ozone
Revisions to Clarify the Permit Content
Requirements for State Operating Per-
mits
Supplemental Rulemaking for Certain
States in the Ozone Transport Assess-
ment Group Region for Purposes of Re-
ducing Regional Transport of Ozone
Review of Operating Permits Issued, by In-
dian Tribes
Transportation Conformity Rule Amend-
ments: Flexibility and Streamlining
NESHAP: Flexible Polyurethane Foam
Production
National VOC Emission Standards for
Consumer Products
Pesticide Tolerance Reassessment Pro-
gram
Regulatory Review of Pesticide Emer-
gency Exemption Regulations
Pesticide Management and Disposal:
Standards for Pesticide (Containers and
Containment
WPS; Pesticide Worker Protection Stand-
ard; Glove Amendment
Ground Water and Pesticide Management
Plan
The 10-Acre Limitation for Pesticide
Small-Scale Field Testing
WPS; Pesticide Worker Protection Stand-
ards; Pesticide Hazard Communication
Lead-Based Paint Activities Rules; Train-
ing, Accreditation, and Certification Rule
and Model State Plan Rule-Building
and Structures
Lead; Over of Rulemakings Under TSCA
Section 402, Lead-Based Paint Activi-
ties for the Regulatory Plan
Multi-Chemical Test Rule; High Production
Volume Chemicals
Test Rules; Generic Entry for Proposed
Decisions
Test Rule; ATSDR Substances
Test Rule for Certain Metals
TSCA Biotechnology Follow-Up Rules
Asbestos Model Accreditation Plan Revi-
sions
Asbestos; Amendments to the Asbestos-
Containing Materials in Schools Rule
Asbestos Worker Protection Rule Amend-
ments
PCBs; Polychlonnated Biphenyl; Use Au-
thorizations
Lead-Based Paint Activities; Training and
Certification for Renovation and Remod-
eling
Lead-Based Paint: Notification of Com-
mencement of Abatement Activities
Lead: Management and Disposal of Lead-
Based Paint Deons
Test Rules: Generic Entry for Final Deci-
sions
3447
3455
3458
3459
3473
3478
3482
3483
3484
3485
3486
3488
3491
3493
3494
3500
3503
3508
3512
3519
3522
3527
3528
3529
3530
3531
3533
3534
3537
Title
Test Rule: Hazardous Air Pollutants
(HAPs)
Use of Acrylamide for Grouting
Lead-Based Paint; Fees for Accreditation
and Certification Activities
Lead: TSCA Section 403; Identification of
Dangerous Levels of Lead
Accidental Release Prevention Require-
ments: Risk Management Programs
Under the Clean Air Act, Section
112(r)(7): Amendment
RCRA Reporting and Recordkeeping Bur-
den Reduction; Notice of Data Availabil-
ity
Glass-to-Glass Recycling of Cathode Ray
Tubes (CRTs): Changes to Hazardous
Waste Regulations
Land Disposal Restrictions; Treatment
Standards for Spent Potliners from Pri-
mary Aluminum Reduction (K088)
Revisions to Guidelines for the Storage
and Collection of Residential, Commer-
cial, and Institutional Solid Waste
Revisions to Solid Waste Landfill Criteria-
Leachate Recirculation
Paint Manufacturing Wastes Listing: Haz-
ardous Waste Management System:
Identification and Listing of Hazardous
Waste
Removal of Requirement To Use SW-846
Methods (Test Methods for Evaluating
Solid Waste: Physical/Chemical Meth-
ods)
Chlorinated Aliphatics Listing Determina-
tion
Listing Determination of Wastes Gen-
erated During the Manufacture of Azo,
Anthraquinone, and Triarylmethane
Dyes and Pigments
Hazardous Waste Manifest Regulation
Hazardous Waste Management System;
Modification of the Hazardous Waste
Program; Hazardous Waste Lamps
Suspension of Temporary Tpxicity Char-
acteristic Rule for Specific Lead-Based
Paint Debris
Modifications; to the Definition of Solid
Waste and Regulations of Hazardous
Waste Recycling: General
Landfill Leachate and Petroleum Waste
Listings
Grants for Technical Assistance Rule Re-
form--40 CFR Part 35 Subpart M
Cooperative Agreements and Superfund
State Contracts for Superfund Re-
sponse Actions; Revision of 40 CFR
Part 35 Subpart 0
Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Pro-
gram Regulations Revisions
Revisions to Effluent Guidelines and
Standards for the Coal Mining Point
Source Category
Water Quality Standards Regulation - Re-
vision
Amendments to the Final Water Quality
Guidance for the Great Lakes System to
Reinstate the Mixing Zone Elimination
and Phase-Out Provision
EPA Review and Approval of State and
Tribal Water Quality Standards
Test Procedures for the Analysis of
Cryptosporidium and Giardia Under the
Safe Drinking Water and Clean Water
Acts
Test Procedures for the Analysis of E. Coli
and Enterococci Under the Clean Water
Act
Revisions to NPDES Requirements 'or
Compliance Reporting and Collection
Svstem Oisona"*"
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is
Tribal Government—Cont.
Seq.
No.
Seq.
No!
3538
3551
3552
3553
3554
3555
3557
3558
3559
3561
3562
3565
3S69
3570
3571
3572
3573
3574
3576
3577
3579
3580
3581
3582
3583
3584
3585
3586
3587
Tills
3588
3589
3590
3591
3592
3593
3595
3596
3597
3598
3599
Title
Seq.
No.
Seq.
No.
Establishment of Electronic Reporting for
NPDES Permittees
Guidelines Establishing Oil and Grease
Test Procedures for the Analysis of Pol-
lutants Under the Clean Water Act
Guidelines Establishing Test Procadures
for the Analysis of Cyanide Under the
Clean Water Act
Performance Based Measurement System
(PBMS) Procedures and Guidance for
Clean Water Act Test Procedures
Guidelines Establishing Test Procadures
tor the Analysis of Miscellaneous Met-
als, Anions, and Volatile Organics
Under tha Clean Water Act, Phasa One
Test Procedures for the Analysis c-f Mer-
cury Undar the Clean Water Act
NPDES Wastewater Permit Application
Forms and Regulatory Revisions for
Municipal Discharges and Sewage
Sludge Use or Disposal
NPOES Streamlining Rule - Round II
NPDES Comprehensive Storm Water
Phase II Regulations
Amendments to Round I Final Sewage
Sludge Use or Disposal Rule-Phase
One
Effluent Guidelines and Standards tor the
Metal Products and Machinery Cat-
egory, Phases 1 and 2
Effluent Guidelines and Standards (or the
Pulp, Paper, and Paperboard Category,
Phase II
Selenium Criterion Maximum Concentra-
tion for Water Quality Guidance for the
Great Lakes System
Guidelines Establishing Whole Effluent
Toxteity West Coast Test Procedures for
the Analysis of Pollutants Under the
Clean Water Act
Guidelines Establishing Test Procadures
for the Analysis of Trace Metals Under
the Clean Water Act
Increased Method Flexibility for Test Pro-
cedures Approved for Clean Water Act
Compliance Monitoring
Test Procedures for the Analysis of Co-
Planar and Mono-Ortho-Substituted Pol-
ychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) Under
the Clean Water Act
Guidelines Establishing Test Procadures
tor the Analysis of Miscellaneous Met-
als, Anions, and Volatile Organics
Under the Clean Water Act, Phase Two
NPDES Streamlining Rule — Round III
Amendments to Round I Final Sewage
Sludge Use or Disposal Rule -Phase
Two
Use of Screening Procedures for Compli-
ance Monitoring of Drinking Water Con-
taminants
National Pnmary_ Dnnking Water Regula-
tions: Radon
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions; Ground Water Rule
National Primary Dnnking Water Regula-
tions; Arsenic
Filter Backwash Recycling Regulation
Long Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water
Treatment Rule
Public Water System Public Notification
Regulation
Dnnking Water Unregulated Contaminant
Monitonng Program
National Primary and Secondary Drinking 3212
Water Regulations: Analytical Methods
tor Certain Pesticides ana Microoiai 32H I
Con:amtrants '
3166
3168
3169
3170
3186
3189
3194
3196
3199
3200
3201
3202
3206
3207
National Primary and Secondary Drinking
Water Regulations: Analytic Methods for
Organic, Inorganic ahd Microbiological
Contaminants and Pesticides
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Analytical Methods for Microbial,
Lead and Magnesium
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions for Lead and Copper
Reformatting of Drinking Water Regula-
tions
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Radium, Uranium, Alpha, Beta
and Photon Emitters
Revisions to the_ Underground Injection
Control Regulations for Class V Injec-
tion Wells
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Sulfate
National Primary Drinking Water Stand-
ards for Aldicarb
Streamlining Drinking Water Monitonng
Requirements
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Stage I Disinfectant/Disinfection
By-Products Rule
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Interim Enhanced Surface Water
Treatment Rule
Federal Government
Title
EPA
Utilization of Small, Minority and Women's
Business Enterprises in Procurement
Under Assistance Agreements
Cross-Media Electronic Reporting (ER)
and Recordkeeping Rule
Revision to 40 CFR 35 Subpart A and
Promulgation of Performance Partner-
ship (State) Grant Regulation
Revision to 40 CFR 35 Subpart A and
Promulgation of Performance Partner-
ship (Tribal) Grant Rule
Amendments to Part 22 Consolidated Pro-
cedural Rules ;
Acquisition Regulation: Types of Contracts
Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Update
of the Substitutes List Under the Signifi-
cant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP)
Program
Alumina Processing NESHAP
Hospital/Medical/lnfectious Waste Inciner-
ators-Federal Plan (Federal Plan for
Existing Hospital/Medical/Infectious
Waste Incinerators)
Consumer and Commercial Products: Re-
vised Schedule for Regulation
Control of Emissions of .Air Pollution From
New Compression-Ignition and Spark-
Ignition Recreational Marine Engines
No Backsliding Rule for PM-10 Nonattam-
ment Areas
Revisions to Air Pollution Emergency Epi-
sode Requirements (Subpart H, 40 CFR
Part 51)
Performance Warranty and
Inspection/Maintenance Test Proce-
dures
Inspection/Maintenance Recall Require-
ments
Environmental Radiation Protection Stand-
ards for Yucca Mountain. Nevada
NESHAP- Plywood ana Partiaeooard
Manufactunng '
3215
3219
3221
3222
3226
3227
3228
3229
3231
3235
3237
3238
3239
3241
3244
3247
3251
3262
3273
3277
3278
3236
3287
3297
3299
3302
3303
3310
'3311
3315
3317
3318
Title
NESHAP: Miscellaneous Cellulose Pro-
duction
Transportation Conformity Rule Amend-
ment: Clarification of Trading Provisions
Revisions to New Source Review (NSR)
Regulations to Implement the New Na-
tional Ambient Air Quality Standards
(NAAQS) for Ozone
NESHAP; Coke Ovens: Pushing, Quench-
ing, and Battery Stacks
National Emission Standards for Hazard-
ous Air Pollutants for the Hydrochloric
Acid Production Industry
NESHAP: Asphalt/Coal Tar Application on
Metal Pipes
NESHAP: Clay Products Manufacturing
NESHAP: Organic Hazardous Air Pollut-
ants From the Synthetic Organic Chemi-
cal Industry (SOCMI) & Other Proc-
esses Subject to the Negotiated Regula-
tion for Equipment Leaks
NESHAP: Uranium Hexafluoride Produc-
tion
General Conformity Regulations; Revi-
sions
Tier II Light-Duty Vehicle and Light-Duty
Truck Emission Standards and Gasoline
Sulfur Standards
NAAQS: Sulfur Dioxide (Review and Im-
plementation)
Revision of Appendix W to 40 CFR Part
51
Standards and Guidelines for Small Mu-
nicipal Waste Combustion Units
NESHAP: Iron Foundries and Steel
Foundries
NESHAP: Wool Fiberglass Manufacturing
Industry
NESHAP: Primary Lead Smelters
NESHAP: Lime Manufacturing
NESHAP: Leather Tanning and Finishing
Operations
NESHAP: Flexible Polyurethane Foam
Fabrication Operations
NESHAP: Group I Polymers and Resins
and Group IV Polymers and Resins;
Amendments
Protection of Stratosphenc Ozone: Servic-
ing of Motor Vehicle Air Conditioners:
Standards for Equipment That Recovers
and Recycles Refrigerants Other Than
CFC-12 and HFC-134a
Supplemental Rule To Require Certain
Products Made With HCFCs To Bear
Warning Label
Acid Rain Program Permits Regulations
and SO2 Allowance System: Compli-
ance Determination
NESHAP; Ethylene Oxide Commercial
Sterilization and Fumigation Operations
Federal Plan Requirements for Municipal
Solid Waste Landfills that Commenced
Construction Prior to 5/30/91 and Have
Not Been Modified or Reconstructed
Since 5/30/91
New Source Review (NSR) Reform
Consolidated Federal Air Rule lor the Syn-
thetic Organic Chemical Manufacturing
industry
Acid Rain Program: Continuous Emission
Monitonng (CEM) Rule Revisions
Addition of Opacity Method to Apoendix M
of 40 CFR Part 51 (Method 203)
National Emission Standards lor Hazarc-
ous Air Pollutants for Source Category-
Pulp and Paper Production. Amenc-
ments to the Promulgated Rule
Federal Implementation Plans FIPs ~<~.
Reduce the Regional Transccr 3!
Ozone in the Eastern United States
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16
Federal Government—Cont.
Seq.
No.
Seq.
No.
3319
3320
3321
3322
3327
3330
3332
3336
3346
3348
3349
3351
3356
3359
3360
3361
3362
3365
3366
3367
3368
3371
3379
3380
3382
3384
3388
3389
3394
3403
3405
3406
3407
3408
Title
Findings of Significant Contribution and
Rulemaking on Section 126 Petitions for
Purposes of Reducing Interstate Ozone
Transport
Air Quality Index Reporting
Electric Arc Furnace NSPS Amendment
Acid Rain Program: Proposed Revision of
Test Method 1, 2, and 2F for Measuring
Volumetric Flow in Stacks
Amendments-Integrated NESHAP and Ef-
fluent Guidelines: Pulp and Paper
NESHAP: Phosphoric Acid Manufacturing
NESHAP: Phosphate Fertilizers Produc-
tion
NESHAP: Polyether Polyols Production
Transportation Conformity Rule Amend-
ment and Solicitation for Participation in
the Pilot Program
Importation of Nonconforming Vehicles;
Amendments to Regulations
Nonroad Spark-Ignition Engines At or
Below 19 Kilowatts (25 Horsepower)
(Phase 2)
Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Refrig-
erant Recycling Rule Amendment To In-
clude Substitute Refrigerants
Review of the National Ambient Air Quality
Standards for Particulate Matter
Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) To
Control Emissions From Sources Lo-
cated on the Fort Hall Indian Reserva-
tion
Revised Permit Revision Procedures for
the Federal Operating Permits Program
Review of Minor New Sources and Modi-
fications in Indian Country
Rulemaking To Modify the List of Source
Categories From Which Fugitive Emis-
sions Are Considered in Major Source
Determinations
NESHAP: Organic Liquid Distribution
NESHAP: Chemical Recovery Combustion
Sources at Kraft, Soda, Sulfite and
Stand Alone Semichemical Pulp Mills
Field Citation Program
Prevention of Significant Deterioration of
Air Quality: Permit Application Review
Procedures for Non-Federal Class I
Areas
Comprehensive Radiation Waste Manage-
ment Regulation
Revisions to tha Permits and Sulfur Diox-
ide Allowance System Regulations
Under Title IV of the Clean Air Act: Al-
lowance Transfer
Acid Rain Program: Determination on Sec-
tion 75.7 (EPA Study of Bias Test) and
Section 75.8 (Relative Accuracy and
Availability Analysis)
NESHAP: Ammonium Sulphate Produc-
tion (Caprolactam By-Product)
Review of Operating Permits Issued by In-
dian Tribes
Transportation Conformity Rule Amend-
ments: Flexibility and Streamlining
NESHAP: Flexible Polyurethane Foam
Production
National VOC Emission Standards for
Automobile Refinish Coatings
Radiation Waste Management Regulation
Pesticides: Procedures for Registration
Review Program
Registration Requirements for
Antimicrobial Pesticide Products: and
Other Pesticide Regulatory Changes
Pesticioes; Tolerance Processing Fees
Pesticide Tolerance Reassessment Pro-
gram
3409
3410
3412
3414
3415
3416
3417
3418
3419
3420
3421
3423
3426
3427
3428
3429
3430
3431
3433
3434
3435
3436
3437
3438
3439
3440
3441
3442
3443
3444
3445
3446
3447
3450
3452
3455
3457
3458
3459 !
Title
Seq.
No.
Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program
Regulatory Review of Pesticide Emer-
gency Exemption Regulations
Tolerances for Pesticide Emergency Ex-
emptions
Data Requirements for Antimicrobial Reg-
istrations
Pesticide Management and Disposal:
Standards for Pesticide Containers and
Containment
WPS: Pesticide Worker Protection Stand-
a.rd; Glove Amendment
Plant Pesticide Regulations Under F1FRA
and FFDCA
Ground Water and Pesticide Management
Plan
Pesticide Management and Disposal
Exemption of Certain Pesticide Sub-
stances From FIFRA Requirements
Policy or Procedures for Notification to the
Agency of Stored Pesticides With Can-
celled or Suspended Registration
WPS; Pesticide Worker Protection Stand-
ards; Pesticide Hazard Communication
TRI; Review of Chemicals on the Original
TRI List
TSCA Inventory Update Rule Amend-
ments
Lead-Based Paint Activities Rules; Train-
ing, Accreditation, and Certification Rule
and Model State Plan Rule-Building
and Structures
Lead; Over of Rulemakings Under TSCA
Section 402, Lead-Based Paint Activi-
ties for the Regulatory Plan
Multi-Chemical Test Rule; High Production
Volume Chemicals
Test Rules; Generic Entry for Proposed
Decisions
Test Rule; ATSDR Substances
Children's Health Test Rule
Test Rule for Certain Metals
Follow-Up Rules on Existing Chemicals
TSCA Biotechnology Follow-Up Rules
Asbestos Model Accreditation Plan Revi-
sions
Asbestos; Amendments to the Asbestos-
Containing Materials in Schools Rule
Asbestos Worker Protection Rule Amend-
ments
RGBs; Polychlorinated Biphenyl; Use Au-
thorizations
Lead-Based Paint Activities; Training and
Certification for Renovation and Remod-
eling
Lead-Based Paint; Notification of Com-
mencement of Abatement Activities
Lead; Management and Disposal of Lead-
Based Paint Debns
Guidance on Environmentally Preferable
Purchasing for Federal Agencies
Test Rules; Generic Entry for Final Deci-
sions
Test Rule; Hazardous Air Pollutants
(HAPs)
PCBs; Polychlorinated Biphenyis; Exemp-
tions From the Prohibitions Against
Manufacturing, Processing, and Dis-
tribution in Commerce
PCBs; Polychlorinated Biphenyis (PCBs)
Transformer Rectification Rule
Use of Acrylamide for Grouting
Notice of TSCA Section 4 Reimbursement
Period and TSCA Section 12(b) Export
Notification Penod Sunset Dates for
TSCA Section 4 Substances
Lead-Based Paint; Fees for Accreditation
and Certification Activities
Lead; TSCA Section 403: Identification of
Dangerous Levels of Lead
3460
3461
3462
3463
3464
3465
3466
3467
3471
3473
3478
3482
3483
3484
3485
3486
3488
3489
3490
3491
3492
3493
3494
3496
3498
3500
3502
Title
Lead; Regulatory Investigation Under the
Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
To Reduce Lead (Pb) Consumption and
Use
TRI; Addition of Oil and Gas Exploration
and Production to the Toxic Release In-
ventory
TRI; Responses to Petitions Received To
Add or Delete or Modify Chemical List-
ings on the Toxic Release Inventory
TRI; Pollution Prevention Act Information
Requirements
TRI; Lowering of EPCRA Section 313 Re-
porting Thresholds for Lead and Lead
Compounds
TRI; Revisions to the Otherwise Use Ac-
tivity Exemptions and the Coal Extrac-
tion Activities Exemption
TRI; Chemical Expansion; Finalization of
Deferred Chemicals
TRI; Reporting Threshold Amendment for
Certain Persistent and Bioaccumulative
Toxic Chemicals (PBTs)
TRI; Data Expansion Amendments; Toxic
Chemical Release Reporting; Commu-
nity Right-to-Know
Accidental Release Prevention Require-
ments: Risk Management Programs
Under the Clean Air Act, Section
112(r)(7): Amendment
RCRA Reporting and Recocdkeeping Bur-
den Reduction; Notice of Data Availabil-
ity
Glass-to-Glass Recycling of Cathode Ray
Tubes (CRTs): Changes to Hazardous
Waste Regulations
Land Disposal Restrictions; Treatment
Standards for Spent Potliners from Pri-
mary Aluminum Reduction (K088)
Revisions to Guidelines for the Storage
and Collection of Residential, Commer-
cial, and Institutional Solid Waste
Revisions to Solid Waste Landfill Criteria-
Leachate Recirculation
Paint Manufacturing Wastes Listing: Haz-
ardous Waste Management System:
Identification and Listing of Hazardous
Waste
Removal of Requirement To Use SW-846
Methods (Test Methods for Evaluating
Solid Waste: Physical/Chemical Meth-
ods)
Standardized Permit for RCRA Hazardous
Waste Management Facilities
Proposed Regulatory Amendments on Re-
cycling of Hazardous Wastes in Fer-
tilizers
Chlorinated Aliphatics Listing Determina-
tion
Hazardous Waste Identification Rule
(HWIR): Identification and Listing of
Hazardous Wastes
Listing Determination of Wastes Gen-
erated During the Manufacture of Azo,
Anthraquinone, and Triarylmethane
Dyes and Pigments
Hazardous Waste Manifest Regulation
Management of Cement Kiln Dust (CKD)
180-Day Accumulation Time Under RCRA
for Generators of F006 Waste Water
Treatment Sludges from the Metal Fin-
ishing Industry
Hazardous Waste Management System:
Modification of the Hazardous Waste
Program; Hazardous Waste Lamps
Revisions to the Comprehensive Guideline
for Procurement of Products Containing
Recovered Materials
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17
Federal Government—Cont.
Seq.
No.
Seq,
NO.
3503
3508
3511
3S12
3513
3519
3520
3521
3522
3526
3527
3528
3529
3530
3531
3532
3533
3534
3535
3536
3537
3538
3540
3541
3542
3543
Title
Suspension ol Temporary Toxicity Char-
acteristic Rule for Specific Lead-Based
Paint Debns
Modifications to the Definition of Solid
Waste and Regulations of Hazardous
Waste Recycling: General
Hazardous Remediation Waste Manage-
ment Requirements (Commonly Re-
ferred to as Hazardous Waste Identifica-
tion Rule for Contaminated Media or
HWIR-Media)
LandfM Leachate and Petroleum Waste
Listings
Corrective Action for Solid Waste Manage-
ment Units (SWMUs) at Hazardous
Waste Management Facilities
Grants lor Technical Assistance Rule Re-
form-40 CFR Pan 35 Subpart M
Reportable Quantity Adjustments for
Cartamates
National Priorities List for Uncontrolled
Hazardous Waste Sites: Proposed and
Final Rules
Cooperative Agreements and Superfund
State Contracts for Superfund Re-
sponse Actions; Revision ol 40 CFR
Pan 35 Subpart O
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the
Feedtots Point Source Category, Swine
and Poultry Subcategories, and NPDES
Regulation • for Concentrated Animal
Feeding Operations
Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Pro-
gram Regulations Revisions
Revisions to Effluent Guidelines and
Standards for the Coal Mining Point
Source Category
Water Quality Standards Regulation - Re-
vision
Amendments to the Final Water Quality
Guidance for the Great Lakes System to
Reinstate the Mixing Zone Elimination
and Phase-Out Provision
EPA Review and Approval of State and
Tnbal Water Quality Standards
Water Quality Standards for Alabama-
Phase II
Test Procedures for the Analysis of
Cryptospondium and Giardia Under the
Sale Drinking Water and Clean Water
Acts
Test Procedures for the Analysis of E. Coli
and Enterococa Under the Clean Water
Act
Minimizing Adverse Environmental Impact
from Cooling Water Intake Structures
Under Section 316{b) ol the Clean
Water Act
Streamlining the General Pretreatrnent
Regulations for Existing and New
Sources of Pollution
Revisions to NPDES Requirements for
Compliance Reporting and Collection
System Discharges
Establishment ol Electronic Reporting for
NPDES Permittees
Standards for the Use or Disposal of Sew-
age Sludge (Round II)
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the
Centralized Waste Treatment Industry
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the
Industrial Laundnes Point Source-Cat-
egory
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for
LandRs
3545
3546
3547
3548
3549
3550
3551
3552
3553
3554
3555
3556
3557
3558
3559
3560
3561
3562
3563
3564
3565
3566
3567
3568
3569
3570
Title
Seq.
No.
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for In-
dustrial Waste Combustors
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the
Pulp, Paper, and Paperboard Category;
Incentives Amendment
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the
Pulp, Paper, and Paperboard Category;
Monitoring Amendment
Establishment of Numeric Criteria for Pri-
ority Toxic Pollutants for the State of
California
Water Quality Standards! for Alabama--
Phase I ;
Water Quality Standards: Establishment of
Numeric Criteria for Priority Toxic Pollut-
ants; States' Compliance -- Revision of
Polychlorinated Biphenyis (PCBs) Cri-
teria
Guidelines Establishing Oil and Grease
Test Procedures for the Analysis of Pol-
lutants Under the Clean Water Act
Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures
for the Analysis of Cyanide Under the
Clean Water Act
Performance Based Measurement System
(PBMS) Procedures and Guidance for
Clean Water Act Test Procedures
Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures
for the Analysis of Miscellaneous Met-
als, Anions, and Volatile Organics
Under the Clean Water Act, Phase One
Test Procedures for the Analysis of Mer-
cury Under the Clean Water Act
Uniform National Discharge Standards for
Armed Forces Vessels-Phase I
NPDES Wastewater Permit Application
Forms and Regulatory Revisions for
Municipal Discharges and Sewage
Sludge Use or Disposal
NPDES Streamlining Rule - Round II
NPDES Comprehensive Storm Water
Phase II Regulations
Comparison of Dredged Material to Ref-
erence Sediment
Amendments to Round I Final Sewage
Sludge Use or Disposal Rule-Phase
One
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the
Metal Products and Machinery Cat-
egory, Phases 1 and 2 ;
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the
Transportation Equipment Cleaning Cat-
egory
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for Iron
and Steel Manufacturing Point Source
Category
Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the
Pulp, Paper, and Paperboard Category,
Phase II
Revisions to Effluent Guidelines and
Standards for Synthetk>Based Drilling
Fluids in the Oil and Gas Extraction
Point Source Category
Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Stand-
ards for the Feedlots Point Source Cat-
egory, Dairy and Beef Cattle Subcat-
egories ;
Water Quality Standards; Establishment of
Numeric Criteria for PriorityToxic Pollut-
ants; States' Compliance
Selenium Criterion Maximum Concentra-
tion for Water Quality Guidance for the
Great Lakes System
Guidelines Establishing Whole Effluent
Toxicity West Coast Test Procedures lor
the Analysis of Pollutants Under the
Clean Water Act
3571
3572
3573
3574
3575
3576
3577
3578
3579
3580
3581
3582
3583
3584
3585
3586
3587
3588
3589
3590
3591
3592
3593
3595
3596
3597
3598
3599
3600
Title
Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures
for the Analysis of Trace Metals Under
the Clean Water Act
Increased Method Flexibility for Test Pro-
cedures Approved for Clean Water Act
Compliance Monitoring
Test Procedures for the Analysis of Co-
Planar and Mono-Ortho-Substituted Pol-
ychlorinated Biphenyis (PCBs) Under
the Clean Water Act
Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures
for the Analysis of Miscellaneous Met-
als, Anions, and Volatile Organics
Under the Clean Water Act, Phase Two
Revision of NPDES Industrial Permit Ap-
plication Requirements and Form 2C--
Wastewater Discharge Information
NPDES Streamlining Rule - Round III
Amendments to Round I Final Sewage
Sludge Use or Disposal Rule -Phase
Two
Streamlining 301 (h) Waiver Renewal Re-
quirements
Use of Screening Procedures for Compli-
ance Monitoring of Drinking Water Con-
taminants
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Radon
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Ground Water Rule
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Arsenic
Filter Backwash Recycling Regulation
Long Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water
Treatment Rule
Public Water System Public Notification
Regulation
Drinking Water Unregulated Contaminant
Monitoring Program
National Primary and Secondary Drinking
Water Regulations: Analytical Methods
for Certain Pesticides and Microbial
Contaminants
National Primary and Secondary Drinking
Water Regulations: Analytic Methods for
Organic, Inorganic and Microbiological
Contaminants and Pesticides
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Analytical Methods for Microbial,
Lead and Magnesium
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions for Lead and Copper
Reformatting of Drinking Water Regula-
tions
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Radium, Uranium, Alpha, Beta
and Photon Emitters
Revisions to the Underground Injection
Control Regulations for Class V Injec-
tion Wells
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Sulfate
National Primary Drinking Water Stand-
ards for Aldicarb
Streamlining Drinking Water Monitoring
Requirements
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Stage I Disinfectant/Disinfection
By-Products Rule
National Primary Drinking Water Regula-
tions: Interim Enhanced Surface Water
Treatment Rule
Revisions to Ocean Dumping Regulations
for Dredged Matenal
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY SUBJECT INDEX
Seq. No.
Acquisition regulations:
See Government procurement
Additives;
See Fuel additives
Administrative practice and procedure:
See also Environmental impact statements
Freedom of information
EPA,...,, 3419, 3421
EPA State operating permits 3378
Rulemaking:
EPA 3191
Agriculture:
See also Foods
Pesticides and pests
Worker protection standards 3416, 3423
Air pollution control:
See also Motor vehicle pollution
Acid rain 3311, 3372, 3380
Allowance allocations 3297, 3376
Acid Rain Pfogram:
Permits regulations 3297
Acrylic/modacrylic fiber manufacturing 3338
Aerospace industry... 3347, 3391
Aerospace manufacturing and rework facilities 3391
Agricultural chemicals , 3337
Air quality modeling , 3239
Air quality resources:
Class I area designations , 3368
Air quality standards 3238, 3355
Air storage tanks 3217
Aluminum industry , 3334
Asphalt roofing and processing 3260
Awards 3190
Baker's yeast manufacturing industry 3252
Boat manufacturing industry 3255
Boilers............... 3261
Caprolactam,..., 3524
Carbon monoxide 3355
Chemicals 3249, 3250, 3310
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) 3286
Chromium emissions 3270, 3364
Clean Air Act... 3235, 3243, 3281, 3312, 3350, 3351
Consumer products 3200, 3283, 3396
Copper smelters 3333
Cyanide chemical manufacturing 3245
Dioxin emission measurement 3209
Dry cleaners ,..., 3257
Electric arc furnaces 3321
Electric utility steam generating facilities 3401
Emergency episode requirements 3206
Emission control diagnostic systems 3307
Emission standards 3215. 3216. 3271, 3272, 3273, 3277, 3314,
3361
Coke ovens. , 3222
Halogenated solvents... 3386
Hydrogen fluoride production 3343
New marine engines 3201, 3324
Non-road spark-ignition engines 3353, 3385
Permit requirements 3354
Potential to emit 3279
Semiconductor facilities 3264
Emissions monitoring program 3220, 3275, 3284, 3308. 3309,
3311, 3315, 3344
Emissions reporting,.,., 3218
Emissions trades , 3219
Ethytene processing.,... : 3258, 3299
Seq. No.
Air pollution control—Continued
Fabric printing, coating and dyeing industry ,...3267
Ferroalloy industry 3210
Fugitive emissions 3362
Gas turbines 3242
General provisions amendments 3253
Glycol ethers 3296
Halons -....3203
Hazardous air pollutants 3214, 3215, 3216, 3240, 3242, 3247.
3248, 3249, 3250, 3251, 3254, 3255, 3256, 3257, 3258,
3259, 3260, 3261, 3262, 3271, 3272, 3273, 3274, 3275,
3276, 3277, 3278, 3289, 3290, 3291, 3292, 3327, 3328,
3334, 3335, 3336, 3337, 3338, 3339, 3344, 3347, 3349,
3364, 3365, 3377, 3389, 3391, 3392, 3402, 3447
Hazardous air pollutants source categories 3276, 3342
Hazardous waste combustion facilities 3501
Hazardous waste TDSF and generator sites 3402
HCFC allowance distribution system 3193
Highway diesel fuel quality 3191
Hospital/medical/infectious waste incinerators 3199
Indian reservations 3359
Industrial Combustion Coordinated Rulemaking 3392
Inspection/maintenance programs 3208
Internal combustion engines 3240
Iron and steel industry 3244, 3246
Large appliance coating industry 3259
Lead smelters 3251
Lime manufacturing industry 3262
MACT standards 3215, 3216, 3264, 3271, 3272, 3274, 3277,
3342, 3343, 3354, 3365
Measurement regulation 3209
Metal parts and products coating industry 3265, 3266, 3289,
', 3290
Methyl bromide 3204, 3288
Mineral wool production industry standards 3243
Municipal landfills , 3216, 3302
Municipal waste combustion units 3241
National Strategy for Urban Area Sources of Toxic Air
Emissions , 3344
Navajo nation lands 3211
NESHAP:
Alumina processing 3195
1 Ammonium sulphate production 3382
. Asphalt/coal tar application 3227
Carbon black 3195, 3274
Cellulose production 3215
Chemical recovery combustion sources 3366
Chromium electroplating 3295
Chromium emissions 3270
Clay products manufacturing 3228
', Elastomers 3278
: Ethylene oxide commercial sterilization and fumigation
operations 3299
Fabric printing, coating and dyeing industry 3267
Fumed silica production ' 3224
Hydrochloric acid production : 3226
Hydrogen chloride production 3363
Iron and steel industry 3225
Leather tanning 3273
Magnetic tape manufacturing ,.3223
Metal parts and products coating industry 3265, 3266
Metal pipes ." 3227
Natural gas production. 3345
Non-metallic minerals processing ,.3269
.Off-site waste and recovery operations , 3352
Oil production 3345
Organic liquids 3355
Polyurethane foam production 3277
19
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20
Seq. No.
Air pollution control—Continued
NESHAP—Continued
Polyvinyl chloride production 3230
Predictive emission monitoring 3232
Process heaters 3280
Pulp and paper production 3317, 3366
Site remediation I •. : 3271
Spandex 3272
Synthetic organic chemical manufacturing industry 3229
Thermoplastics 3278
Uranium hexafluoride production...'. 3231
Vegetable oil production 3275
Wet-formed fiberglass mat production 3233
Wood furniture industry 3381
New source performance standards 3282, 3392
New source review 3303
New stationary sources 3309, 3361
No backsliding rule for nonattainment areas 3202
Non-metallic minerals processing 3269
Opacity measurement of emissions 3306, 3315
Operating permits '. 3305, 3360, 3384
Indian reservations 3313
Ozone 3192, 3194, 3259, 3285, 3289, 3290, 3291, 3292, 3347,
3350, 3351, 3396, 3399
Ozone and ozone precursors:
Attainment and nonattainment areas 3377
National ambient air quality standards 3221
Pollutant standards index 3320
Significant harm level programs 3320
Transport 3318, 3319, 3377, 3383
Paint stripper users 3254
Paper, film and foif coating industry 3292
Particulate matter : 3192, 3301, 3356
PCB manufacturing 3450
Penalties for violations 3367
Petroleum refineries 3304, 3328
Phosphate fertilizer production 3332
Phosphogypsum stacks 3390
Phosphoric acid manufacturing 3330
Plastic composites manufacturing 3248
Plastic parts industry .' 3291
Plywood and particle board manufacturing 3214
Polycarbonates 3339
Polyether polyol production 3336
Polymers and resins 3329
Polyurethane foam production 3389
Portland cement manufacturing .' 3335
Power plants *...3322
Process heaters .'. 3261,3280
Publically owned treatment works study 3340
Pulp and paper mills 3327
Radon 3375, 3390
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements 3374
Residential wood heaters 3387
Sewage sludge incinerators 3213
Shipbuilding industry 3347
Solid waste incinerators 3282
State implementation plans 3192, 3211, 3303, 3341, 3346
Steel pickling processes 3331
Stratospheric ozone protection 3193,'3203, 3204, 3236, 3288,
3300, 3325, 3370
Sulfur dioxide 3379
Sulfur oxides 3238,3372
.Synthetic organic chemicals manufacturing 3357
Test rules.: 3322
Tire manufacturing 3256
Transportation Conformity Pilot Program 3198, 3388
Volatile organic compounds 3205. 3259, 3268. 3289, 3290.
3291. 3292. 3293, 3294. 3347, 3357. 3394. 3395, 3396
Waste incinerators performance standards 3281
Wood furniture industry 3293. 3347
Wool fiberglass manufacturing industry 3247
Aircraft:
Rocket engines , 3276
.3393
.3298
,.3438
..3341
Seq. No.
Airplanes:
See Aircraft
Airworthiness directives and standards:
See Aircraft
Antidumping:
Reformulated gasoline program requirements
Compliance baseline modification
Appeal procedures:
See Administrative practice and procedure
Appliances:
See Household appliances
Asbestos:
Model accreditation plan
Authority delegations:
EPA revisions
Automatic data processing:
See Computer technology
Automobiles:
See Motor vehicles
B
Balloons:
See Aircraft
Bankruptcy:
RCRA financial responsibility 3495
Barrels:
See Packaging and containers
Buildings:
Asbestos 3438
Business and industry 3562
See also specific industries
Bankruptcy
Confidential business information
Labeling
Packaging and containers
Acrylic/modacrylic fiber manufacturing:
Air pollution control 3338
Aerospace industry:
Air pollution control 3347, 3391
Aluminum industry:
Air pollution control 3334
Asphalt roofing and processing industry:
Air pollution control 3260
Baker's yeast manufacturing:
Air pollution control 3252
Boat manufacturing industry:
Air pollution control 3255
Cellulose manufacturing 3215 -
Cement manufacturing:
Air pollution control 3335
Chemicals:
Air pollution control 3249, 3250, 3337, 3357
Control ofPMNs. 3449
Hazardous wastes listing 3491, 3493, 3510
Manufacture 3310, 3392, 3427, 3436, 3448, 3453. 3454
Pollution standards 3450
Polychlorinated biphenyls 3441
Dry cleaning:
Air pollution control 3257
Effluent guidelines 3542
Effluent guidelines 3542, 3543, 3562. 3563. 3564
EPA operating permits 3305
Ethylene processing:
Air pollution control 3258, 3299
Ferroalloy industry:
Air pollution control ,,..3210
Friction products 3263
Industrial disposal wells 3593
Industrial laundries:
Effluent guidelines 3542
Iron manufacturing:
Effluent guidelines 3564
Large appliance coating industry:
Air pollution control L':59
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21
Seq. No.
Business and industry—Continued
Leather tanning and finishing , 3273
Lime manufacturing industry:
Air pollution control 3262
Manufacturing , 3392
Metal finishing industry:
Water pollution control , 3498
Metal parts and products coating industry:
Air pollution control 3289, 3290
Metal products and machinery:
Effluent guidelines 3562
Motor vehicle manufacturing:
Air pollution control. 3268, 3307
Emission standards 3314, 3349
Sales volume limit provisions 3373
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits
3575
Paint manufacturing:
Hazardous waste management 3486
Paper, film and foil coating industry:
Air pollution control..... ". 3292
Plastic parts-industry:
Air pollution control , 3291
Plywood and particle board manufacturing:
Air pollution control 3214
Polyether polyol production:
Air pollution control 3336
Polyurethane foam production 3277
Air pollution control 3389
Printing/publishing 3294
Pulp, paper and paperboard 3327, 3366
Spandex , 3272
Steel manufacturing:
Effluent guidelines 3564
Tires 3274
Manufacture, , 3255
Transportation equipment cleaning:
Effluent guidelines 3563
Vegetable oil production 3275
Wood furniture industry:
Air pollution control...". 3347
Wool fiberglass manufacturing:
Air pollution control 3247
Cancer;
See also specific hazardous substances
Carcinogen risk assessment , 3135
Charter buses:
See Motor vehicles
Chemicals:
See also specific chemicals
Hazardous substances
Pesticides and pests
Acrylamlde..,,..,, 3455
Air pollution control 3310, 3357
Arsenic in drinking water 3582
Assessment information rule 3453
Chemical inventory reporting 3468
Drinking water regulations 3596
Endocrine Disrupter Screening and Testing Program 3409
Health and safety reporting rule 3454
High-production-volume (HPV) chemicals 3430
New use rules for PMNs 3449
Ozone depleting:
Halons t 3203
Methyl bromide , 3204. 3288
Refrigerant recycling,,... 3286, 3350. 3351
Sales restrictions 3285
Substitutes..,. 3194
Transshipment provision 3300
Poiychlonnaied brphenyis 3441, 3450. 3550
Polvmers and resins.,.,.'. , 3273
Rigm-to-IC-.ow initiative..., , 3424
Seq. No.
Chemicals—Continued
Screening Information Data Set (SIDS) 3430
Test rules ...3431, 3434, 3446, 3451, 3457
Toxic substances 3436, 3462, 3479
Tpxic substances in new chemicals 3448
Toxicity profiles 3433
Toxics Release Inventory 3463. 3466
Coal.... ...:..... .....3465
Lead 3464
Othc .-wise use activity exemptions 3465
Use inventory rule 3427
Children:
See Infants and children
Clean Air Act:
See Air pollution control
Clean Water Act:
See Water pollution control
Coal:
Toxics Release Inventory 3455
Coal mines:
See Mines
Coastal zone: '
Biological test methods for pollutants 3570
Waste deposit prevention 3601
Computer technology:
Electronic records 3168
Confidential business information:
EPA regulations 3137
Consumer protection:
See also Labeling
Lead-based paint 3429, 3443, 3459
Containers:
See Packaging and containers
Contracts:
See Government contracts
Copper:
' Drinking water regulations 13590
Corporations:
See Business and industry
Crude oil:
See Petroleum
Dangerous cargo:
See Hazardous materials transportation
Data processing:
See Computer technology
Debarment and suspension:
EPA changes 3177
Defense acquisition regulations:
See Government procurement
Defense contracts:
See Government contracts
( Government procurement
Diseases:
See specific diseases
Drinking water:
See Water supply
Ecology:
See Environmental protection
Electric power plants:
Emissions
Electric utilities:
Steam generating facilities
Electronic data processing:
See Computer technology
Electronic funds transfers: "
Federal agency disbursements..
Energy:
See also Coal
Fuel economy
Natural gas
Petroleum
..3322
..3401
,.3179
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22
Seq. No.
Energy—Continued
Alternative fuels 3316
Fluorescent lamps exemption from Hazardous Waste
Management................! 3500
Wastes from fossil fuel combustion 3480
Environmental impact statements:
Antarctic impact assessment 3188
Environmental protection:
See also Air pollution control
Environmental impact statements
Pesticides and pests
Waste treatment and disposal
Water pollution control
Acquisition regulation:
Contract types 3189
Informal clauses 3172
Antarctic Treaty '. 3188
Chemicals 3427, 3430, 3434, 3-451
Class deviations incorporation into EPAAR 3173
Coastal waste deposit prevention 3601
Content requirements for state operating permits 3378
Cooperative agreements and Superfund state contracts 3522
Cross-media electronic reporting and recprdkeeping rule
3168
Designation of hazardous substances under CERCLA 3516
EPA acquisition regulations t 3177
Grant programs 3169
Pesticides ..3410, 3413
Protocol on Environmental Protection .....3188'
Radiological Emergency Response Plan, - 3326
Toxics Release Inventory:
Coal ." 3465
Lead 3464
Otherwise use activity exemptions 3465
Estuaries:
See Coastal zone
Ex parte communications:
See Administrative practice and procedure
Exports:
Chemicals 3457
FAR (Federal Acquisition Regulation):
See Government procurement
Farmers: " .
See Agriculture
Federal acquisition regulations:
See Government procurement
Federal aid programs:
See Technical assistance
Federal-State relations:
See Intergovernmental relations
Fines and penalties:
See Penalties
Foods:
See also specific foods
Pesticide residues 3408
Foreign relations:
See also specific countries
Foreign trade
Treaties
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD) 3430
Foreign trade:
See also Exports
Imports
Motor vehicles .' 3369
Freedom of information:
See also Confidential business information
Chemical inventory reporting 3468
Electronic Freedom of Information Act 3167
EPA 3167
Fuel:
See Energy
Seq. No.
Fuel additives:
Oxygenated 3425
Fuel economy:
Light trucks and light duty vehicles 3284
Gas exploration:
See Oil and gas exploration
Gas utilities:
See Natural gas
Government contracts:
See also Government procurement
Contractors:
Local hiring and training 3183
Performance evaluations 3182
Debarment and suspension 3177
EPA acquisition regulations 3177
EPA Mentor-Protege Program 3174
EPA protest solicitation notification.. 3180
Negotiation .' 3181
Penalty payments 3186
Government procurement:
See also Government contracts
Acquisition regulations:
EPA protest solicitation notification 3180
Quality of environmental data 3176
Contractors:
Local hiring and training 3183
Performance evaluations 3182
Contracts:
Incrementally funding fixed price contracts 3175
Negotiation.! ...3181
Personal services 3184
Environmentally preferable products 3445
EPA acquisition regulation:
Contract types 3189
Informal clauses 3172
Level of effort 3171
Protests 3180
Recycled products 3502
Small, minority, and-women's business utilization ,...3166
Grant programs-environmental protection:
Cooperative agreements and Superfund state contracts 3522
Drinking Water State Revolving Fund 3594
EPA technical assistance grants 3519
Performance Partnership Grants ....3169. 3170
H
Hazardous materials transportation:
Hazardous Waste Manifest rule 3494
Mercury-containing and rechargeable batteries 3487
Hazardous substances:
See also Hazardous materials transportation
Hazardous waste
Air pollutants 3210, 3213, 3214. 3215. 3216. 3240, 3242. 3243,
3244, 3245, 3246, 3247. 3248, 3249, 3251. 3252, 3254.
3255. 3256, 3257, 3258. 3259, 3260. 3261. 3262. 3263,
3265, 3266, 3267, 3268. 3269. 3270, 3271, 3272, 3273,
3274. 3275, 3277, 3278, 3282. 3289, 3290, 3291. 3292,
3293, 3304, 3327, 3328, 3329. 3330, 3331. 3332. 3333.
3334, 3335, 3336, 3337, 3338, 3339. 3340. 3342. 3344,
3347, 3349. 3364, 3365, 3376, 3377. 3389. 3391. 3392,
3402. 3447
Aluminum:
Spent potliners from primary reduction..... 3483
Asbestos ." 3438, 3439. 3440
Caprolactam 3524
Carcinogen risk assessment 3185
Chemical test rules 3446. 3447. 3457
Chemicals : 3433. 3462. 3471
Chromium 3364
Designation under CERCLA 3516
Drinking water regulations 3579. 35S9
Drinking water testing methods 3588
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Seq. No.
Hazardous substances—Continued
Environmentally preferable products guidelines 3445
Extremely Hazardous Substances List .....3469, 3470, 3473
Federally permuted releases 3523
Glycol ethers..,. , 3296
Iso'cyanates , 3312, 3470, 3473
Lead .....3251. 3428, 3429, 3442, 3443, 3458, 3459, 3590
Mercury-containing and rechargeable batteries 3487
Metals,,,.., , 3435
Method 24 amendment 3358
Microorganisms. 3437
Nitrogen oxides 3397
Ozone and ozone precursors 3377
Ozone depleting substances 3300
Pesticides.. 3406, 3412, 3415, 3432
Emergency exemption regulations 3410
EPA consolidation of GLPS regulations 3178
Field testing 3422
Produced by transgenic plants 3417
Worker protection standards 3416
Polychlorinated biphenyls 3452
Radon, 3375, 3390, 3580
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements 3456
Sulfur oxides 3238
Surface coatings 3358
Toxicolcgical profiles:
Metals 3435
Toxics Release Inventory:
Chemicals 3426, 3461, 3463, 3466, 3467, 3471
Coal,. 3465
Lead , 3454
Otherwise use activity exemptions '. 3465
Underground storage tanks 3472
Water pollution control 3548, 3552, 3571
Hazardous waste:
Carbamates ., 3520
Cathode ray rubes 3482
Cement kiln dust 3496
Cleanups 3511, 3519
Disposal facilities:
Combustion facilities 3501
Low level mixed waste 3474
Radioactive waste 3403
Effluent limitation guidelines 3541
Groundwater contamination 3271, 3593
Hospital/medical/infectious waste incinerators 3199
Identification and listing 3486, 3492, 3505, 3506, 3511
Land disposal:
Post-closure requirements ,...3509
Restrictions...., 3476, 3504, 3507
Spent potliners from primary aluminum reduction 3483
Lead 3444
Lead-based paint debris 3503
Manifest regulations 3494
Mercury.,., 0476
Paint manufacturing , 3486
Permit program... 3489
Petroleum waste 3512
Polychlorinated biphenyls 3497
Radioactive waste:
Dose methodology 3234
Waste management rules 3371
Yucca Mountain. NV 3212
Recycled used oil 3497, 3505
Recycling,. , 3482, 3508
Recycling in fertilizers 3490
Silver-bearing waste 3477
Solid waste 3484, 3485, 3508
Solvents 3481, 3510
Spent solvents.... 3505
Technical standards for corrective action for cleanup 3513
Toxic waste site 3433
Toxicity characteristic rule , 3499
Treatment and disposal;
Fluorescent lamps 3500
Seq. No.
Hazardous waste—Continued
Treatment, storage, and disposal facilities and generators
.3402
Triarylmethane dye and pigments 3493
Uncontrolled sites on the NPL 3521
Hearing and appeal procedures:
See Administrative practice~and procedure
Helicopters:
See Aircraft
Herbicides:
See Pesticides and pests
Household appliances:
Surface coating of large appliance products and parts 3259
Housing:
Lead-based paint 3444
Housing assistance payments:
See Housing
I
Imports:
See also Antidumping
Chemicals 3436, 3453, 3454
Control of PMN chemicals 3449
Motor vehicles 3348
Ozone-depleting substances 3325, 3370
Indians-lands:
Air pollution control implementation 3211, 3313, 3359, 3368
EPA new source reviews ..3361
Municipal solid waste landfills 3302, 3514
Water pollution control requirements 3531, 3592
Indians-tribal government:
Operating permits programs 3384
Performance Partnership Grants 3170
Industrial safety:
See Occupational safety and health
Industry:
See Business and industry
Infants and children:
Lead poisoning 3429, 3443, 3458, 3459
Sulfate in drinking water 3595
Information:
See Confidential business information
Freedom of information
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
Inland waters:
See Waterways
Insecticides:
See Pesticides and pests
Intergovernmental relations:
Air pollution control implementation 3192, 3211, 3303, 3305,
3341, 3346
EPA effluent guidelines and standards 3544
EPA Hazardous Waste Manifest rule .,...,.3494
EPA State implementation plans (SIPs) 3315, 3377, 3378
EPA water monitoring requirements .3597
EPA water quality standards : 3571
EPA water regulations streamlining 3576
EPA-California water quality standards 3548
Nuclear accident protection 3404
Performance Partnership Grants 3169, 3170
Water supply 3592
International agreements:
See Treaties
International trade:
See Foreign trade
Investigations:
Investigating and remediating releases at RCRA facilities
3513
Labeling:
See also Packaging and containers
HCFCs 3287
Pesticides '• 3415
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Seq. No.
Laboratories:
EPA consolidation of GLPS regulations 3178
Land:
See Indians-lands
Lead poisoning:
Hazard abatement 3429
Paint 3428/3429, 3442, 3443, 3444, 3458, 3459
Reducing lead consumption and use 3460
M
Marine engineering:
See Vessels
Marine pollution:
See Water pollution control
Marine resources:
Criteria for water quality 3569
Metals:
See also specific nietals
Emission standards for ferroalloy industry 3210
EPA trace metal analysis 3571
High temperature metal recovery residues 3504
Waste water treatment sludges from metal finishing 3498
Mines:
Water pollution control 3528
Mobile offshore drilling units:
See Vessels
Motor vehicle pollution:
After-market conversion entities certification 3323
Emissions control 3397
Emissions from refinishing coatings 3394
Emissions standards 3197, 3237, 3349, 3398
Emissions testing 3369
Gasoline:
Reformulated 3298, 3393, 3399
Highway diesel fuel quality 3191
Imported vehicles emissions standards 3348
Inspection/maintenance programs 3207
Low emission vehicles program 3316
Nitrogen oxides 3397
On-highway heavy-duty certified engines in nonroad heavy-
duty vehicles and equipment 3400
Original equipment manufacturers certification 3323
Particulate matter standards 3397
Motor vehicles:
See also Fuel economy
Air conditioning system 3286
Alternatively fueled vehicles 3316
Imports 3348
Light trucks 3220
Sales volume limit provisions 3373
Motorcycles:
See Motor vehicles
N
National defense contracts:
See Government contracts
Government procurement
Natural gas:
See also Oil and gas exploration
Reformulated gasoline 3298. 3393, 3399
Navigable waters:
See Waterways
Nuclear power plants and reactors:
Emissions 3322
Nuclear safety:
See Radiation protection
Occupational safety and health:
Agricultural pesticides
Ocean dumping:
See Water pollution control
Ocean resources:
See Marine resources
.3423
Seq. No.
Oil and gas exploration:
Addition to Toxics Release Inventory 3461
Oil pollution:
Prevention 3515, 3517
Packaging and containers:
See also Labeling
Printing materials control guidelines 3283
Paint:
See Lead poisoning
Paperwork requirements:
See Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
Parachutes:
See Aircraft
Penalties:
Air pollution control 3367
Pesticides and pests:
Antimicrobial pesticides 3406, 3412, 3414
Canceled or suspended 3419. 3421
Data requirements 3413
Disposal and storage guidelines 3415, 3419, 3421
Drinking water testing methods 3588
Emergency exemption regulations 3410
Endocrine Disrupter Screening and Testing Program 3409
Field testing..: 3422
FIFRA exemptions 3411, 3420
Groundwater protection 3418
Negotiated consent/procedural test rule 3432
Pesticide tolerance reassessment program 3408
Pesticide-treated seeds 3411
Registration review program .3405
Residue in agricultural products:
Emergency exemptions 3412
Scientific research 3178
Storage and disposal 3415, 3419, 3421
Tolerance fees 3407
Transgenic plants 3417
Worker protection standards 3416, 3423
Petroleum:
See also Fuel additives
Oil and gas exploration
Oil pollution
Air pollution from petroleum solvent dry cleaners 3257
Air pollution from production facilities 3328
Refineries 3304
Thresholds for gas and diesel at retail gas stations 3472
Toxicity characteristic rule 3499
Waste stream hazards 3512
Plastics materials and synthetics:
Air pollution control regulations 3248
Pollution:
See Environmental protection
Power resources:
See Energy
Practice and procedure:
See Administrative practice and procedure
Procurement:
See Government procurement
Public health:
See also Waste treatment and disposal
Air pollution effects 3447
Carcinogen risk assessment 3185
Radiological Emergency Response Plan 3326
Water contamination..." 3409. 3581. 3584. 3598
Public utilities:
See Electric utilities
Natural gas
Water supply
Radiation protection:
Dose methodology 3234
Drmking water 3404
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Radiation protection—Continued
Radiological Emergency Response Plan 3326
Yucca Mountain, NV. 3212
Radioactive waste:
See Hazardous waste
Rates and fares:
See Natural gas
Record retention:
See Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
Records:
See Freedom of information
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
Recycling;
Cathode ray tubes , 3432
Government purchase of recovered materials 3502
Hazardous waste 3508
Refrigerant 3286, 3350, 3351
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements:
Carbamates 3520
Chemical inventory reporting 3427, 3468
EPA., .". , 3173, 3374
Cross-media electronic reporting and recordkeeping rule
; 3168
Emissions reporting requirements 3218
Hazardous material releases , 3523
Hazardous substances 3455
Information collection requests 3478
NPDES permittee reporting 3538
Ozone-depleting substances importation 3325
Pesticides ,.,„,.. , 3178, 3421
RCRA, 3478
Toxic chemical test rules 3457
Toxics Release Inventory 3426, 3461, 3463, 3464, 3465, 3466,
3467
Research:
Biotechnology,..,. 3437
EPA consolidation of GLPS regulations 3178
Rockets:
See Aircraft
Rodenticides:
See Pesticides and pests
Rotorcraft;
See Aircraft
Sanitation:
See Public health
Waste treatment and disposal
Schools;
Asbestos >........ , 3439, 3440
Asbestos model accreditation plan 3438
Seaplanes:
See Aircraft
Seeds:
Pesticide-treated \ 3411
Sewage disposal;
Incinerator emissions standards 3213
Sewer collection systems 3537
Sludge use and disposal 3540, 3561, 3577
Shipbuilding industry:
Air pollution control 3347
Ships:
See Vessels
Solid waste disposal:
See Waste treatment and disposal
State-Federal relations:
See Intergovernmental relations
Superfund
Claims application streamlining 3518
Cooperative agreements and state contracts 3522
Grants for technical assistance 3519
Reportabie quantity adjustments for carbamates 3520
Symheticr
See Piasncs materials and synthetics
Seq. No.
Technical assistance:
Environmental Protection Agency grants 3519
Toxic substances:
See Hazardous substances
Transportation:
See also Vessels
Air pollution control conformity 3346
Environmental review 3219
< Transportation Conformity Pilot Program..... 3198, 3388
Transshipment of ozone depleting substances 3300
Water pollution control 3517
Treaties:
Antarctic Treaty 3188
; Montreal Protocol 3204, 3288, 3325, 3370
Trucks:
; See Motor vehicles
Vessels:
Armed forces vessels:
Uniform national discharge standards 3556
Emissions standards for new marine engines 3201
W
Waste treatment and disposal:
, See also Hazardous waste
Recycling
'. Sewage disposal
Armed forces vessels 3556
Effluent guidelines .' 3541, 3543, 3545, 3546, 3565
Financial test criteria , 3495
Fossil fuel combustion wastes 3480
Iron and steel manufacturing 3564
Land disposal:
Restrictions 3475, 3483, 3504
Landfill leachate 3512
Lead-based paint debris 3503
Metal machinery and equipment wastewater 3562
Municipal waste combustion units 3241
Ocean dumping 3600
Permit applications 3557, 3575
Radioactive waste , 3212
Recoverable metals criteria ', .....3568
'Recycling of hazardous waste in fertilizers 3490
Sewer grouting .....3455
Shore Protection Act , 3601
Sludges from metal finishing industry 3498
Solid waste disposal:
Guideline revisions ..3484, 3485
Hazardous waste recycling ; 3508
Landfill criteria , ,..,.3485
Landfills and incinerators 3199, 3282, 3302, 3543
Municipal landfills ,....3216
Physical/chemical evaluation methods 3488
Technical standards for corrective action 3513
State programs 3514
^Streamlining regulations 3558
Toxics Release Inventory , 3471
Underground storage tanks:
Toxicity characteristic rule : 3499
.Uniform national discharge standards .3556
Water pollution control:
.See 0)50 Oil pollution
Waste treatment and disposal
Biological test methods ......3570
Clean Water Act 3539, 3551. 3552. 3560. 3568. 3570. 3571.
3578
Test procedures i.,3534. 3553. 3554. 3572. 3574
Cyanide criteria ,.„. ,.,..3552
Effluent guidelines:
Animal feeding operations 3526. 356T
Coal mining -. - 3528
Industrial waste-combustors ,..,.,,..3545
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Waste treatment and disposal—Continued
Sewer grouting 3680
Shore Protection Act 3835
Solid waste disposal:
Hazardous waste recycling 3718
Landfills and incinerators 3578, 3796
Municipal landfills 3537, 3616
Physical/chemical evaluation methods 3717
Technical standards for corrective action 3739
State programs 3731
Streamlining regulations 136
Toxic Release Inventory 3684
Toxicity characteristic metals 3745
Underground storage tanks:
Toxicity characteristic rule 3738
Uniform national discharge standards 3784
Wood preserving wastes 3745
Water pollution control:
See also Oil pollution
Waste treatment and disposal
Biological test methods 3801
Clean Water Act 3761, 3763, 3769, 3777, 3778, 3787, 3792,
3801, 3809
Test procedures 3779, 3780, 3781, 3803
Cyanide criteria 3778
Effluent guidelines:
Animal feeding operations 3789, 3790
Coal mining 3791
Effluent Guidelines Plan for 1998 3806
Industrial waste combustors 3797
Industrial wastewater 137, 3794
Iron and steel manufacturing 3762
Landfills and incinerators 3796
Mining 3756
Oil and gas extraction 3758
Pharmaceuticals 3807
Pulp, paper and paperboard 128, 3775, 3798, 3799
Regulations reformatting 3760
Transportation equipment cleaning 3795
Great Lakes 3793
Marine pollution:
Ocean dumping 3834
NPDES permits 3767, 3804
NPDES permittee reporting 3768
Oil and grease test procedures 3777
Permit applications 121, 138
Pretreatment regulations 122, 3808
Publicly owned treatment works renewal process 3761
Seq. No.
Water pollution control—Continued
Radon 123
Recoverable metals criteria 3792
Sewer collection systems 3767
Sludge management programs 3719, 3788, 3805, 3810
Stormwater runoff 139
Test procedures for the analysis of pollutants 3771, 3782, 3802
Total maximum daily loads 3757, 3809
Trace metals criteria 3763
Water quality standards 3773, 3776, 3779, 3780, 3781, 3800,
3809
Alabama 3772
Criteria for acute aquatic life 3793
Water resources:
See also Water supply
Best technology available for cooling water intake
structures 120
Water supply:
Carcinogen risk assessment 3391
Drinking water ,..3833
Aldicarb and atrazine 3826
Analyzing regulated drinking water contaminants 3831
Arsenic 3824
Consumer confidence reports 3832
Contaminant level goals (MCLGs) 3827
Contaminants 123, 3625, 3815, 3822
Copper 3817
Disinfectants 124, 140, 141
Endocrine Disrupter Screening and Testing Program 106
Filter backwash recycling 3821
Injection wells 3820
Lead 3817
Monitoring requirements 3828
Oxygenated fuel additives 3650
Public notification requirements 125
Radionuclides 3827
Regulations reformatting 3818
Safe Drinking Water Act 3829, 3830
State revolving fund 3823
Sulfate 3825
Surface water treatment rule 141
Unregulated contaminant monitoring program 3811
Groundwater protection 133, 3646
Water transportation:
See Vessels
Wetlands:
See Coastal zone
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