Approval is for
one year due to four month delay in response to OMB comments.
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
01/31/2023
36 Months From Approved
01/31/2020
644,345
0
80,746
526,989
0
253,519
63,345
0
40,040
Under the Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act (RCRA), as amended, Congress directed EPA to implement
a comprehensive program for the safe management of hazardous waste.
The core of the national waste management program is the regulation
of hazardous waste from generation to transport to treatment and
eventual disposal, or from "cradle to grave." Section 3001(d) of
RCRA requires EPA to develop standards for small quantity
generators. Section 3002 of RCRA states, among other things, that
EPA shall establish requirements for hazardous waste generators
regarding recordkeeping practices. Section 3002 also requires EPA
to establish standards on appropriate use of containers by
generators. Finally, Section 3017 of RCRA specifies requirements
for individuals exporting hazardous waste from the United States,
including a notification of the intent to export, and an annual
report summarizing the types, quantities, frequency, and ultimate
destination of all exported hazardous waste.
US Code:
42
USC 3002 Name of Law: Solid Waste Disposal Act
Three factors explain the
overall change in the total estimated burden. First, there was an
increase in the number of SQGs and LQGs. In estimating the hourly
burden for the 2010 ICR, the Agency estimated both a low and
high-end estimate for SQGs but provided a high end for purposes of
estimated hourly burden. In the 2014, the Agency estimated of the
SQG universe by taking the average of both the low and high end SQG
universes. In this ICR, the Agency went back to using the high-end
estimated hourly burden to ensure that all possible burden is
captured. Second, this ICR incorporates the applicable burden from
the 2016 Hazardous Waste Generator Improvements Rule, which added
requirements such as LQG contingency plans, LQG closure, and
intra-organizational transfers, for example. Some of the added
burden associated with the new flexibilities for SQGs and VSQGs
(intra-organizational transfers and episodic generation) is likely
overstated, because EPA expects them to be cost and burden savings
measures as a whole. The methodology used was initially developed
to estimate the number of SQGs for the “Hazardous Waste Generator
Improvements Rule." To derive an estimate of the number of SQGs,
EPA relied on information in the 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013 BR and
RCRAInfo databases. Specifically, EPA used the WR form in the BR
database to identify all facilities that shipped hazardous waste
off-site and compared this list against the Site ID form in
RCRAInfo to identify active SQGs. This analysis was conducted to
exclude inactive SQGs in the RCRAInfo database. SQGs that sent
multiple hazardous waste shipments to a single TSDF, or more than
one TSDF, were only counted once. Furthermore, as part of EPA’s
data collection effort, several states provided information on the
number of SQGs statewide. These states include Alabama, California,
Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin. Therefore, where
state-level data were provided, EPA relied on this information
rather than estimates derived from the BR and RCRAInfo databases.
Third, the number of generators exporting and importing hazardous
waste increased between 2016 and 2018 as a result of the
Export-Import rule that became effective in D of 2010 – too late to
impact the 2010 ICR. Between 2011 and 2014, the number of
generators either importing or exporting hazardous waste increased
from 1,293 to 3,256 for an increase of 152 percent. As noted, this
ICR incorporates new regulations from two recently promulgated
rules: The Hazardous Waste Generator Improvements rule of 2016 (OMB
Control No. 2050-0213) and the Hazardous Waste Export-Import
Revisions rule of 2016 (OMB Control No. 2050-0214). The hours and
costs incorporated from the rule ICRs into this ICRs is less than
the total hours and cost reported in those ICRs because the
notification and biennial reporting requirements associated with
those rules were incorporates into a separate ICR (OMB Control No.
2050-0024).
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
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