COMPLIANCE INFO_2020 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

72028 Federal Register / Vol. 45, No. 212 / Thursday, October 30, 1980 / Rules and Regulations operators of a large number of product VII.Regulatory Impacts hazardous waste which is generated in,a and raw material storage tanks, The effect of these amendments is to~ product or raw material storage tank,a transport vehicles and vessels, and reduce the overall costs,economic product or raw material transport manufacturing process units in which impact and reporting and recordkeeping vehicle or vessel,or in a manufacturing hazardous wastes are generated would impacts of EPA's hazardous waste process unit or an associated non- have to prepare to operate these management regulations.This is waste-treatment manufacturing unit,is facilities as hazardous waste storage achieved by removing from regulation as not subject to regulation under Parts 266, facilities on and after November 19, storage facilities product and raw through 265 and Parts 122 through 124 of 1980.This would involve preparation materials storage tanks.transport this chapter or to the notification and submission of a Part A permit vehicles and vessels,and manufacturing requirements of Section 3010 of RCRA application,preparation of a process units that generate hazardous until it exits the unit in which it was contingency plan and implementation of waste.The Agency is unable to estimate generated, unless the unit is a surface a number of administrative and these cost and impact reductions impoundment,or unless the hazardous 90 operational practices required by Fart because it does not have an estimate of waste remains the unit more than i 265 for hazardous waste storage the number of such tanks and units that days after the unit ceases to be operatted facilities.The Agency believes it makes otherwise„would be regulated.For the for manufacturing, or for storage or little sense to allow these requirements reasons already discussed, transportation or product or raw promulgated on May 19 to become notwithstanding these cost and impact materials. reductions,the Agency believes that effective an November 19,198(},and §260.10 [Amended] then have them substantially modified human health and environmental 2 Amend the definition of on a subsequent date,i.e.,the six-month protection will not tae reduced by this "Generator" in §260.10 to read as effective date for these amendments, action, follows: The amendment to § 261.4 in effect VIII.Request for Comments suspends regulation of certain facilities The Agency invites comments on all Generator means any person, by site. by clarifying when certain hazardous aspects of these amendments and on all whose act or process produces wastes are first subject to the hazardous of the issues discussed in this preamble, hazardous waste identified or listed in waste regulations.This lessening of including the interpretation of Part 261 of this chapter or whose act regulatory requirernents surely is not the "generator," the allowance of 90-day first causes a hazardous waste to type of revision to regulations that accumulation to all genera#ors,and the become subject to regulation. Congress had in mind when it provided notification and EPA Identification a six-month delay between the Number requirements.EPA is providing 3.Add the following definitions to promulgation and the effective date of a 60-day comment period. § 260.10: revisions to regulations.Consequently, The Agency also invites comments on 1 . d + the Agency is setting an effective date of whether the amendment should also "Transport vehicle"means a motor November 19, 19%for the amendment apply to hazardous wastes generated in vehicle or rail car used for the to§ 261.4 promulgated in this product or raw material Containers other transportation of cargo by any mode. rulemaking action. than transportation vehicles and vessels Each cargo-carrying body(trailer, (seThe definitions of"transport vehicle" ..co t 26ers"for definition h the term railroad freight car,etc.)is a separate and"vessel"are necessary for an ..containers"). Agency has not transport vehicle. "Vessel"includes understandingof the amendment to applied this amendment to such every description of watercraft,used or hazardous wastes because it is not § 261.4 and consequently they too have aware that significant amounts of capable of being used as a means of an effective dente of November 19,1980. hazardous wastes are generated in transportation on the water. EPA is making the amendment to the product or raw material containers [FR Doc-au-X;8WHndIO-xrsEr.a:45Hritt definition of"generator"effective six (exclusive of transportation vehicles or BILLING CODE 6560-30-M months after promulgation,as provided vessels). in Section 3010(b)of RCRA.Although The Agency recognizes that a wide many persons who remove hazardous variety of situations exist in the real wastes from manufacturing units or from world,and it is anxious to make its product or raw material storage tanks, regulations and regulatory vehicles or vessels,recognized that in interpretations reasonable, certain situations they fell within the understandable,and capable of May 19,1960,definition of generators. implementation.The Agency can only the amendment to the definition will do this by learning of situations where probably make some additional persons the regulations do not work well. generators.These people undoubtedly Dated;October 24,19M. deserve the six month lead time that Douglas M.castle, Congress provided in Section 3010(b). Rdminh trator. All persons who fit the May 19 Title 40 of the Code of Federal definition of"generator"must comply Regulations is amended as follows: with all applicable generator 1.Add the following paragraph(c) to requirements on November 19, 1980. 9 261.4: Only those persons who are made generators by today's amendment to the §261.4 Exclusions. definition have an additional six months ' before they must comply with Part 262 lc1 Hazardous wastes which are requirements. exempted from certain regulations.A