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Constructed on or Before September 20,
1994.
ICR Numbers: EPA ICR Number
1847.04, OMB Control Number 2060–
0390.
ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to
expire on August 30, 2006. Under OMB
regulations, the Agency may continue to
conduct or sponsor the collection of
information while this submission is
pending at OMB. An Agency may not
conduct, or sponsor, and a person is not
required to respond to, a request for
collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number. The OMB control numbers for
EPA’s regulations in title 40 of the CFR,
after appearing in the Federal Register
when approved, are listed in 40 CFR
part 9, and displayed either by
publication in the Federal Register or
by other appropriate means, such as on
the related collection instrument or
form, if applicable. The display of OMB
control numbers in certain EPA
regulations is consolidated in 40 CFR
part 9.
Abstract: The Emission Guidelines
apply to all municipal waste
combustion (MWC) units with a
combustion capacity greater than 250
tons per day of municipal solid waste
(large MWC units), if construction of the
unit commenced on, or before
September 20, 1994, and the unit is not
covered by an Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA)-approved and currently
effective state or tribal plan.
The Emission Guidelines require
initial notifications, performance tests,
and periodic reports. Owners, or
operators also are required to maintain
records of the occurrence and duration
of any startup, shutdown, or
malfunction in the operation of an
affected facility, or any period during
which the monitoring system is
inoperative. Owners, or operators
subject to these regulations are required
maintain records of measurements and
reports for at least five years.
Burden Statement: The annual public
reporting and recordkeeping burden for
this collection of information is
estimated to average 1,701 hours per
response. Burden means the total time,
effort, or financial resources expended
by persons to generate, maintain, retain,
or disclose, or provide information to, or
for a Federal agency. This includes the
time needed to review instructions;
develop, acquire, install, and utilize
technology and systems for the purposes
of collecting, validating, and verifying
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information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; adjust the
existing ways to comply with any
previously applicable instructions and
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requirements which have subsequently
changed; train personnel to be able to
respond to a collection of information;
search data sources; complete and
review the collection of information;
and transmit, or otherwise disclose the
information.
Respondents/Affected Entities: Large
Municipal Waste Combustors.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 9.
Frequency of Response: Initially,
semiannually, annually, and on
occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:
38,417.
Estimated Total Annual Cost:
$384,000, includes $384,000 annualized
O&M costs and $0 capital costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is a
decrease of 650 hours in the total
estimated burden currently identified in
the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR
Burdens. The decrease in burden from
the most recently approved ICR is due
to an adjustment. In the previous ICR,
the number of MWCs (i.e., sources) was
reported rather than the number of
respondents. The costs associated with
O&M also decreased slightly due to the
decrease in the number of respondents.
Dated: June 29, 2006.
Richard T. Westlund,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies
Division.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[FRI–8193–9]
Underground Injection Control
Program; Hazardous Waste Injection
Restrictions; Petition for Exemption—
Class I Hazardous Waste Injection;
Merisol USA LLC
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency.
ACTION: Notice of Final Decision on No
Migration Petition Reissuance.
SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that an
exemption to the land disposal
restrictions under the 1984 Hazardous
and Solid Waste Amendments to the
Resource Conservation and Recovery
Act has been reissued to MERISOL USA
LLC (MERISOL) for two Class I injection
wells located at Houston, Texas. As
required by 40 CFR part 148, the
company has adequately demonstrated
to the satisfaction of the Environmental
Protection Agency by the petition and
supporting documentation that, to a
reasonable degree of certainty, there will
be no migration of hazardous
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constituents from the injection zone for
as long as the waste remains hazardous.
This final decision allows the continued
underground injection by MERISOL, of
the specific restricted hazardous wastes
identified in the exemption, into Class
I hazardous waste injection wells
WDW–147 and WDW–319, until
December 31, 2020, unless EPA moves
to terminate the exemption under
provisions of 40 CFR 148.24.
Additional conditions included in
this final decision may be reviewed by
contacting the Region 6 Ground Water/
UIC Section. As required by 40 CFR
148.22(b) and 124.10, a public notice
was issued May 8, 2006. The public
comment period closed on June 22,
2006. One comment was received and a
typographical error in the approval
conditions was corrected. This decision
constitutes final Agency action.
DATES: This action is effective as of June
28, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the petition and
all pertinent information relating thereto
are on file at the following location:
Environmental Protection Agency,
Region 6, Water Quality Protection
Division, Source Water Protection
Branch (6WQ–S), 1445 Ross Avenue,
Dallas, Texas 75202–2733.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Philip Dellinger, Chief Ground Water/
UIC Section, EPA—Region 6, telephone
(214) 665–7165.
Miguel I. Flores,
Director, Water Quality Protection Division
(6WQ).
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[FRL–8196–3; Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–
2004–0002]
Draft Toxicological Review of
Dichlorobenzenes: In Support of
Summary Information on the
Integrated Risk Information System
(IRIS)
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of Public Comment
Period and External Peer Review Panel
Meeting.
SUMMARY: The EPA is announcing a
public comment period and an external
peer review panel meeting to review
selected sections of the final draft
document titled, ‘‘Toxicological Review
of Dichlorobenzenes: In Support of
Summary Information on the Integrated
Risk Information System (IRIS)’’ (EPA/
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635/R–03/015), related to the inhalation
reference concentration (RfC) and
inhalation cancer assessment for 1,4-
dichlorobenzene. The document was
prepared by the National Center for
Environmental Assessment (NCEA)
within EPA’s Office of Research and
Development.
EPA is releasing this draft document
solely for the purpose of pre-
dissemination peer review under
applicable information quality
guidelines. This document has not been
formally disseminated by EPA. It does
not represent and should not be
construed to represent any Agency
policy or determination. EPA will
consider any public comments
submitted in accordance with this
notice when revising the document.
DATES: The public comment period
begins on July 11, 2006 and ends August
9, 2006. Technical comments should be
in writing and must be received by EPA
by August 9, 2006. The peer review
panel meeting will be conducted on
August 16, 2006 by teleconference and
will begin at 1 p.m. and end at 4 p.m.
Members of the public may call into the
teleconference meeting and are invited
to provide oral statements at the
commencement of the teleconference.
(For more information refer to the
instructions for registration provided in
the ADDRESSES section of this notice.)
ADDRESSES: The external peer review
panel meeting will be held by
teleconference. Under an Interagency
Agreement between EPA and the
Department of Energy, the Oak Ridge
Institute of Science and Education
(ORISE) is organizing, convening, and
conducting the peer review panel
meeting. To obtain the teleconference
call-in number and access code, register
by August 11, 2006, by calling ORISE,
P.O. Box 117, MS 17, Oak Ridge, TN
37831–0117, at (865) 576–2922 or (865)
241–3168 (facsimile). Interested parties
may also register on-line at: http://
www.orau.gov/dichlorobenzene. Public
comments submitted to the EPA by
August 9, 2006 will be provided to the
external peer review panel prior to the
teleconference meeting.
The draft ‘‘Toxicological Review of
Dichlorobenzenes: In Support of
Summary Information on the Integrated
Risk Information System (IRIS)’’ (EPA/
635/R–03/015) is available primarily via
the Internet on NCEA’s home page
under the Recent Additions menu at
http://www.epa.gov/ncea. A limited
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number of paper copies are available by
contacting the IRIS Hotline at (202) 566–
1676, (202) 566–1749 (facsimile), or
hotline.iris@epa.gov. If you are
requesting a paper copy, please provide
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your name, mailing address, the
document title, and the EPA number of
the requested publication. Copies are
not available from ORISE.
Copies of the study by Aiso et al.
(2005), referenced in the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section of this notice are
available from the IRIS Hotline in paper
or electronic format. If you are
requesting a copy, please provide your
name, mailing address or email address,
and document citation: Aiso et al.
(2005) Carcinogenicity and chronic
toxicity in mice and rats exposed by
inhalation to para-dichlorobenzene for
two years. J Vet Med Sci 67(10): 1019–
1029.
Technical comments may be
submitted electronically via
www.regulations.gov, by mail, by
facsimile, or by hand delivery/courier.
Please follow the detailed instructions
provided in the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section of this notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Questions regarding registration and
logistics for the external peer review
panel teleconference should be directed
to Margaret Lyday, ORISE, P.O. Box 117,
MS 17, Oak Ridge, TN 37831–0117, at
(865) 576–2922 or (865) 241–3168
(facsimile), lydaym@orau.gov (e-mail).
If you have questions about the
document, contact Audrey Galizia,
Chemical Manager, National Center for
Environmental Assessment telephone:
732–906–6887 facsimile: 732–452–6429
e-mail: galizia.audrey@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Information About the Document
IRIS is a database that contains
scientific Agency positions on potential
adverse human health effects that may
result from chronic (or lifetime)
exposure to specific chemical
substances found in the environment.
The database (available on the Internet
at http://www.epa.gov/iris) contains
qualitative and quantitative health
effects information for more than 500
chemical substances that may be used to
support the first two steps (hazard
identification and dose-response
evaluation) of the risk assessment
process. When supported by available
data, the database provides oral
reference doses (RfDs) and inhalation
reference concentrations (RfCs) for
chronic health effects, and oral slope
factors and inhalation unit risks for
carcinogenic effects. Combined with
specific exposure information,
government and private entities use IRIS
to help characterize public health risks
of chemical substances in a site-specific
situation and thereby support risk
management decisions designed to
protect public health.
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1,4-Dichlorobenzene is widely used as
a space deodorant for toilets and refuse
containers, as a moth repellent in moth
balls or crystals, and in other pesticide
applications. The current IRIS
assessment for 1,4-dichlorobenzene was
placed on the database in 1994 and
contains an inhalation RfC. A
reassessment of the potential health
effects of dichlorobenzenes has been
undertaken. The draft assessment for
dichlorobenzenes (including the 1,2-,
1,3-, and 1,4-isomers) was subject to an
external peer review and 30-day public
comment period in February 2004 (69
FR 4514, January 30, 2004). The scope
of the current external peer review and
public comment is limited to the
analyses based on a chronic inhalation
bioassay of 1,4-dichlorobenzene
published in the peer-reviewed
literature (Aiso et al., 2005. J Vet Med
Sci 67(10): 1019–29) that was not
included in the February 2004 external
peer review draft. This study was
identified originally as an unpublished
study report by the Japan Bioassay
Research Center (JBRC, 1995). Data from
Aiso et al. (2005) were used
subsequently in the quantitative dose-
response assessments for the 1,4-
dichlorobenzene RfC and inhalation
cancer assessment.
II. How To Submit Technical Comments
to the Docket at www.regulations.gov
Submit your comments, identified by
Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD 2004–
0002 by one of the following methods:
• http://www.regulations.gov: Follow
the online instructions for submitting
comments.
• E-mail: ORD.Docket@epa.gov.
• Fax: 202–566–1753.
• Mail: Office of Environmental
Information (OEI) Docket (Mail Code:
2822T), U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460. The phone
number is 202–566–1752.
• Hand Delivery: The OEI Docket is
located in the EPA Headquarters Docket
Center, EPA West Building, Room B102,
1301 Constitution Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC. The EPA Docket
Center Public Reading Room is open
from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday
through Friday, excluding legal
holidays. The telephone number for the
Public Reading Room is 202–566–1744.
Such deliveries are only accepted
during the docket’s normal hours of
operation, and special arrangements
should be made for deliveries of boxed
information.
If you provide comments in writing,
please submit one unbound original
with pages numbered consecutively,
and three copies of the comments. For
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attachments, provide an index, number
pages consecutively with the comments,
and submit an unbound original and
three copies.
Instructions: Direct your comments to
Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2004–
0002. EPA’s policy is that all comments
received will be included in the public
docket without change and may be
made available online at http://
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided, unless
the comment includes information
claimed to be Confidential Business
Information (CBI) or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
Do not submit information that you
consider to be CBI or otherwise
protected through http://
www.regulations.gov or e-mail. The
www.regulations.gov Web site is an
‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which
means EPA will not know your identity
or contact information unless you
provide it in the body of your comment.
If you send an e-mail comment directly
to EPA without going through
www.regulations.gov, your e-mail
address will be automatically captured
and included as part of the comment
that is placed in the public docket and
made available on the Internet. If you
submit an electronic comment, EPA
recommends that you include your
name and other contact information in
the body of your comment and with any
disk or CD–ROM you submit. If EPA
cannot read your comment due to
technical difficulties and cannot contact
you for clarification, EPA may not be
able to consider your comment.
Electronic files should avoid the use of
special characters, any form of
encryption, and be free of any defects or
viruses. For additional information
about EPA’s public docket visit the EPA
Docket Center homepage at http://
www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.
Docket: All documents in the docket
are listed in the www.regulations.gov
index. Although listed in the index,
some information is not publicly
available, e.g., CBI or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
Certain other material, such as
copyrighted material, will be publicly
available only in hard copy. Publicly
available docket materials are available
either electronically in http://
www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at
the OEI Docket in the EPA Headquarters
Docket Center.
Dated: July 5, 2006.
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Peter W. Preuss,
Director, National Center for Environmental
Assessment.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[FRL–8195–3]
‘‘Great Lakes Legacy Act—Request for
Projects’’
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency.
ACTION: Notice; funding availability.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (USEPA) Great Lakes
National Program Office (GLNPO) is
requesting proposals for projects, for up
to $29,600,000, addressing
contaminated sediment problems in
Great Lakes Areas of Concern located
wholly or partially in the United States
(U.S. AOCs) as outlined in the Great
Lakes Legacy Act of 2002 (the Legacy
Act).
DATES: The deadline for all Project
proposals is 5 p.m. Central Time,
September 15, 2006.
ADDRESSES: U.S. EPA Great Lakes
National Program Office (G–17J), 77 W.
Jackson Blvd. Chicago, IL 60604.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Marc Tuchman, 312–353–1369/
tuchman.marc@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Request for Projects (RFP) is available
on the Internet at http://www.epa.gov/
glla. The purpose of this request is to
solicit project proposals that would help
to implement the Great Lakes Legacy
Act. In order to receive funding under
the Legacy Act, projects must be located
in one of the 31 U.S. Great Lakes AOCs.
Top priority will be given to projects
that (1) Constitute remedial action for
contaminated sediment; (2) have been
identified in a Remedial Action Plan
and are ready to be implemented; (3)
use an innovative approach, technology,
or technique that may provide greater
environmental benefits, or equivalent
environmental benefits at a reduced
cost; or (4) included remediation to be
commenced not later than one year after
the date of receipt of funds for the
project. Remediation projects would
include, but are not limited to, remedial
options such as: dredging, capping,
monitored natural recovery, treatment
technologies, or a combination of
remedial alternatives for contaminated
sediment.
The next priority level would be given
to projects that seek to monitor or
evaluate contaminated sediment or
prevent further or renewed
contamination of sediment. These
projects could include: site
characterizations, site assessments,
source identification/source control,
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monitoring, risk assessments, remedial
alternatives evaluations and short-term/
long-term effects analyses.
The Legacy Act program is not a grant
program, and it is not an enforcement or
regulatory program. The process for the
selection of Legacy Act projects is not a
grants competition, but it is based on
the development of a negotiated Project
Agreement (PA) between USEPA and
the non-federal sponsor. USEPA will
consider projects based on the extent to
which they meet the requirements of the
Legacy Act and the RFP.
The non-federal share of the cost of a
project shall be at least 35% of the total
project costs in those cases where no
responsible parties are clearly
identified; when the non-federal
sponsor is a responsible party, USEPA
will require a substantially higher
contribution (minimum of 40–50%).
The non-federal sponsor is also
responsible for 100% of cost of
operation and maintenance of the
project. The non-federal share may
include the value of in-kind services
contributed by the non-federal sponsor,
and may include funds or in-kind
services provided pursuant to an
administrative order on consent or a
judicial consent decree. The non-federal
share of the cost of a project may not
include any funds paid pursuant to, or
the value of any in-kind service
performed under, a unilateral
administrative order or court order.
GLNPO will review Legacy Act
project proposals as they are received.
GLNPO intends to enter into PA
discussions with project applicants that
meet the required components outlined
in the RFP, and receive a high score (per
the Legacy Act Rule), subject to the
availability of funds. Projects that result
in a PA will be funded with FY06 funds
to the extent they are available. Other
projects that result in a PA will be
dependent upon funding, if any,
received for the Legacy Act in FY07.
Refer to ‘‘Final Rule: Implementation
of the Great Lakes Legacy Act of 2002’’
at http://www.epa.gov/glla/rule/ for
more detailed information on EPA’s
process for identification, evaluation,
selection, and implementation of
projects for funding under the Legacy
Act.
Funding (through project agreements)
is available pursuant to section 118(c) of
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act
(33 U.S.C. 1268(c)). States, tribes,
industry, non-governmental
organizations, and other stakeholders
are eligible to apply.
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