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<br /> 72028 Federal
<br /> Register / Vol. 45, No. 212 / Thursday, October 30, 1980 / Rules and. Regulations
<br /> which is
<br /> ated
<br /> re tanks, effect
<br /> these amendments is t hazardous
<br /> or raw material storage tank;n a
<br /> g number of product Vl�IphRegulatory ct of II a
<br /> transport aw material8 o P g
<br /> operatorsof a large
<br /> manufacturingvehi vehicles
<br /> and vessels,and reduce the overall costs,economic product or raw material transport
<br /> so
<br /> vehicles an
<br /> process nits in which impact and reporting and recordkeeping vehicle or vessel,or in a manufacturing
<br /> hazardous wastes are
<br /> generated would impacts of EPA's hazardous waste process unit or an associated non-
<br /> have to prepare to operate these management regulations.This is waste-treatment manufacturing unit,is
<br /> facilitas hazardous waste and after November r9,e achieved by removing from regulation as not subject to regulation under Parts 262
<br /> facilitiesg facilities product and raw through 265 and Parts 122 through 124 of
<br /> and submission of a Part A permit vehicles materials storage tanks,transport this chapter or to the notification
<br /> re aration
<br /> and This would„ involve hicles and vessels,and manufacturing requirements of Section 3010 of RCRA
<br /> contingeincy plan and Implementation
<br /> of a prooess units that generate hazardous until it exits the unit in which it was
<br /> P 4 Agency generated,unless the unit is a surface
<br /> implementation of waste.The enc is unable to estimate
<br /> a number of administrative and these cost and impact reductions impoundment,or unless the hazardous
<br /> operational race waste storage Part' because it does not have an estimate of waste remains in the unit more than 90
<br /> Agency be y
<br /> the number of such tanks and units that days after the unit ceases to be operated
<br /> practices ces required
<br /> 285 for hazardous , „ for manufacturing, g
<br /> facilities.The Ag y believes it makes otherwise would be regulated.For the g,or for storage or
<br /> little sense to allow these requirements reasons already discussed, transportation or product or raw
<br /> promulgated on May 19 to become notwithstanding these cost and impact materials.
<br /> effective on November 19,1980,and reductions,the Agency believes that §260.10 [Amended)
<br /> then have them substantially modified human health and environmental 2.Amend the definition of
<br /> on a subsequent date,i.e.,the six-month
<br /> pro
<br /> will not be reduced by thison. "Generator”in§260.10 to read as
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<br /> I effective date for these amendments. follows:
<br /> The amendment to §261.4 in effect VIII.Request for Comments„
<br /> suspends regulation of certain facilities The Agency invites comments on all Generator means any person,by site,
<br /> by clarifying when certain hazardous aspects of these amendments and on all whose act or process produces
<br /> wasti,s
<br /> a rst s bj essening ss ng the interpretation
<br /> n is preamble, hazardous waste identified or listed in
<br /> waste regulatory requirements lsu surely is not the generlator,"the allowance of Part 261 of this chapter or whose act
<br /> hazardous of the issues discussed in'
<br /> of 90-day first causes a hazardous waste to
<br /> type of revision to regulations that accumulation to all generators,and the become subject to regulation.
<br /> Congress had in mind when it provided notification and EPA Identification
<br /> a six-month delay between the Number requirements.EPA is providing 3.Add the following definitions to
<br /> promulgatione . .d the effective date of a 60-day comment period. §260,10:
<br /> � an
<br /> revisions o regulations.Consequently, The Agency also invites comments on .
<br /> the Agency is setting an effective date of whether the amendment should also "Transport vehicle"means a motor
<br /> o§261.4
<br /> November
<br /> promulgated n tris amendment apply to hazardous wastes generated in vehicle or rail car used for the
<br /> '""'"' product or raw material containers other
<br /> than transportation vehicles and vessels transportation of cargo by any mode.
<br /> rulem [ §260.10 for definition of the term Each cargo-carrying,body(trailer,
<br /> Ile g "transport
<br /> sport vehicle" "containers").
<br /> 'railroad freight car,etc.)is a�separate
<br /> and"vessel"tiare mucase containers').The Agency has not
<br /> n
<br /> eranecessary for an transport vehicle."Vessel"includes
<br /> applied this amendment to such
<br /> understanding of the amendment to hazardous wastes because it is not every description of watercraft,used or
<br /> §261.4 and consequently they too have aware that significant amounts of capable of being used as a means of
<br /> an effective date of November 19,1980. hazardous wastes are generated in transportation on the water.
<br /> deli tion of"gene or' effective six e product or raw material containers [FR Doc.80-33866 Filed ill-29-80;8:45 am]
<br /> (exclusive of transportation vehicles or a'LL'"Q cons 6560-3o-M
<br /> after promulgation,as provided vessels).
<br /> In Section 3010(b)of RCRA.Although The Agency recognizes that a wide
<br /> many persons who remove hazardous variety of situations exist in the real
<br /> wastes from manufacturing units or from world,and it is anxious to make its
<br /> product or raw material storage tanks, regulations and regulatory
<br /> vehicles or vessels,recognized that in interpretations reasonable,
<br /> certain situations they fell within the understandable,and capable of
<br /> May 19,1980,definition of generators, implementation.The Agency can only
<br /> the amendment to the definition wiI3 do this by learning of situations where .
<br /> probably make some additional persons the regulation's do not work well.
<br /> generators,These people undoubtedly Dated:October 24,1980.
<br /> deserve the six month lead time that Douglas K Costle,
<br /> Congress provided in Section 3010(b). Administrator.
<br /> All persons who fit the May 19 Title 40 of the Code of Federal
<br /> definition of"generator must comply Regulations is amended as follows:
<br /> with all applicable generator 1.Add the following paragraph(c)to
<br /> requirements on November 19,1980. §2614:
<br /> Only those persons who are made
<br /> generators by today's amendment to the §269.4 Exclusions.
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<br /> definition have an before they must comply with Part262
<br /> * (c)Hazardous wastes which are
<br /> requirements.q ants. exempted from certain regulations.A
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