Hazardous Waste Management System; Identification and Listing of Hazardous Waste; Final Exclusion

Federal Register, Volume 79 Issue 227 (Tuesday, November 25, 2014)

Federal Register Volume 79, Number 227 (Tuesday, November 25, 2014)

Rules and Regulations

Pages 70108-70113

From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office www.gpo.gov

FR Doc No: 2014-27780

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 261

EPA-R07-RCRA-2014-0452; FRL-9919-72-Region-7

Hazardous Waste Management System; Identification and Listing of Hazardous Waste; Final Exclusion

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Final rule.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is granting the petition submitted by John Deere Des Moines Works (John Deere) of Deere & Company, in Ankeny, Iowa to exclude or ``delist'' up to 600 tons per calendar year of F006/F019 wastewater treatment sludge filter cake generated by John Deere's wastewater treatment system from the list of hazardous wastes. This final rule responds to a petition submitted by John Deere to delist up to 600 tons per calendar year of F006/F019 wastewater treatment sludge filter cake generated by John Deere's wastewater treatment system from the list of hazardous wastes.

After careful analysis and use of the Delisting Risk Assessment Software (DRAS), EPA has concluded the petitioned waste is not hazardous waste. The F006/F019 exclusion is a conditional exclusion for 600 cubic yards per year of the F006/F019 wastewater treatment sludge.

Accordingly, this final rule excludes the petitioned waste from the requirements of hazardous waste regulations under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).

DATES: This final rule is effective on November 25, 2014.

ADDRESSES: EPA has established a docket for this action under Docket ID No. EPA-R07-RCRA-2014-0452. All documents in the docket are listed on the www.regulations.gov Web site. 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, is not placed on the Internet and will be publicly

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available only in hard copy form. Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically through www.regulations.gov or in hard copy by contacting the further information contact below. The public may copy material from any regulatory docket at no cost for the first 100 pages and at a cost of $0.15 per page for additional copies.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kenneth Herstowski, Waste Remediation and Permits Branch, Air and Waste Management Division, EPA Region 7, 11201 Renner Blvd., Lenexa, KS 66219; telephone number (913) 551-7631; email address: herstowski.ken@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The information in this section is organized as follows:

  1. Overview Information

    1. What action is EPA finalizing?

    2. Why is EPA approving this action?

    3. What are the limits of this exclusion?

    4. How will John Deere manage the waste, when delisted?

    5. When is the final delisting exclusion effective?

    6. How Does this final rule affect States?

  2. Background

    1. What is a delisting petition?

    2. What regulations allow facilities to delist a waste?

    3. What information must the generator supply?

  3. EPA's Evaluation of the Waste Information and Data

    1. What waste did John Deere petition EPA to delist?

    2. How much waste did John Deere propose to delist?

    3. How did John Deere sample and analyze the waste data in this petition?

  4. Public Comments Received on the Proposed Exclusions

  5. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews

  6. Overview Information

    1. What action is EPA finalizing?

      After evaluating the petition for John Deere, EPA proposed, on August 20, 2014 (79 FR 49252), to exclude the waste from the lists of hazardous waste under section 261.31. EPA is finalizing the decision to grant John Deere's delisting petition to have its F006/F019 wastewater treatment sludge excluded, or delisted, from the definition of a hazardous waste, once it is disposed in a Subtitle D landfill.

    2. Why is EPA approving this action?

      John Deere's petition requests a delisting from the F006/F019 waste listing under 40 CFR 260.20 and 260.22. John Deere does not believe that the petitioned waste meets the criteria for which EPA listed it. John Deere also believes no additional constituents or factors could cause the waste to be hazardous. EPA's review of this petition included consideration of the original listing criteria, and the additional factors required by the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984 (HSWA). See Section 3001(f) of RCRA, 42 U.S.C. 6921(f), and 40 CFR 260.22(d)(1)-(4) (hereinafter all sectional references are to 40 CFR unless otherwise indicated). In making the final delisting determination, EPA evaluated the petitioned waste against the listing criteria and factors cited in Sec. 261.11(a)(2) and (a)(3). Based on this review, EPA agrees with the petitioner that the waste is nonhazardous with respect to the original listing criteria. (If EPA had found, based on this review, that the waste remained hazardous based on the factors for which the waste was originally listed, EPA would have proposed to deny the petition.) EPA evaluated the waste with respect to other factors or criteria to assess whether there is a reasonable basis to believe that such additional factors could cause the wastes to be hazardous. EPA considered whether the waste is acutely toxic, the concentrations of the constituents in the waste, their tendency to migrate and to bioaccumulate, their persistence in the environment once released from the waste, plausible and specific types of management of the petitioned waste, the quantities of waste generated, and waste variability. EPA believes that the petitioned waste does not meet the listing criteria and thus should not be a listed waste. EPA's final decision to delist the waste from John Deere's facility is based on the information submitted in support of this rule, including a description of the waste and analytical data from the John Deere Des Moines, Ankeny, Iowa, facility.

    3. What are the limits of this exclusion?

      This exclusion applies to the waste described in John Deere's petition only if the requirements described in 40 CFR part 261, appendix IX, table 1 and the conditions contained herein are satisfied.

    4. How will John Deere manage the waste, when delisted?

      The delisted F006/F019 wastewater treatment sludge will be disposed of in a Subtitle D landfill which is permitted, licensed or otherwise authorized by a state to manage industrial waste.

    5. When is the final delisting exclusion effective?

      This rule is effective November 25, 2014. The Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984 amended Section 3010 of RCRA, 42 U.S.C. 6930(b)(1), allows rules to become effective in less than six months after the rule is published when the regulated community does not need the six-month period to come into compliance. That is the case here because this rule reduces, rather than increases, the existing requirements for persons generating hazardous waste. This reduction in existing requirements also provides a basis for making this rule effective immediately, upon publication, under the Administrative Procedure Act, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 553(d).

    6. How does this final rule affect States?

      EPA is issuing this exclusion under the Federal RCRA delisting program. Thus, upon the exclusion being finalized, the wastes covered will be removed from Subtitle C control under the Federal RCRA program. This will mean, first, that the wastes will be delisted in any State or territory where the EPA is directly administering the RCRA program (e.g., Iowa, Indian Country). However, whether the wastes will be delisted in states which have been authorized to administer the RCRA program will vary depending upon the authorization status of the States and the particular requirements regarding delisted wastes in the various states.

      Some other generally authorized states have not received authorization for delisting. Thus, the EPA makes delisting determinations for such states. However, RCRA allows states to impose their own regulatory requirements that are more stringent than EPA's, under Section 3009 of RCRA. These more stringent requirements may include a provision that prohibits a Federally issued exclusion from taking effect in the state, or that requires a state concurrence before the Federal exclusion takes effect, or that allows the state to add conditions to any Federal exclusion. We urge the petitioner to contact the state regulatory authority in each state to or through which it may wish to ship its wastes to establish the status of its wastes under the state's laws.

      EPA has also authorized some states to administer a delisting program in place of the Federal program, that is, to make state delisting decisions. In such states, the state delisting requirements operate in lieu of the Federal delisting requirements. Therefore, this exclusion does not apply in those authorized states unless the state makes the rule part of its authorized program. If John Deere transports the federally excluded waste to or manages the waste in any state with delisting authorization, John

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      Deere must obtain a delisting authorization from that state before it can manage the waste as non-hazardous in that state.

  7. Background

    1. What is a delisting petition?

      A delisting petition is a request from a generator to EPA or to an authorized state to exclude or delist, from the RCRA list of hazardous wastes, waste the generator believes should not be considered hazardous under RCRA.

    2. What regulations allow facilities to delist a waste?

      Under Sec. 260.20 and 260.22, facilities may petition EPA to remove their wastes from hazardous waste regulation by excluding them from the lists of hazardous wastes contained in Sec. 261.31 and 261.32. Specifically, Sec. 260.20 allows any person to petition the Administrator to modify or revoke any provision of 40 CFR parts 260 through 265 and 268. Section 260.22 provides generators the opportunity to petition the Administrator to exclude a waste from a particular generating facility from the hazardous waste lists.

    3. What information must the generator supply?

      Petitioners must provide sufficient information to EPA to allow EPA to determine that the waste to be excluded does not meet any of the criteria under which the waste was listed as a hazardous waste. In addition, the Administrator must determine, where he/she has a reasonable basis to believe that factors (including additional constituents) other than those for which the waste was listed could cause the waste to be a hazardous waste and that such factors do not warrant retaining the waste as a hazardous waste.

  8. EPA's Evaluation of the Waste Information and Data

    1. What waste did John Deere petition EPA to delist?

      On January 28, 2014, John Deere (through its consultant) petitioned EPA to exclude from the lists of hazardous waste contained in Section 261.31 and 261.32, F006/F019 wastewater treatment sludge, generated from its John Deere Des Moines facility in Ankeny, Iowa.

    2. How much waste did John Deere propose to delist?

      John Deere requested that EPA grant an exclusion for 600 cubic yards per year of F006/F019 wastewater treatment sludge.

    3. How did John Deere sample and analyze the waste data in this petition?

      To support its petition, John Deere submitted: (1) Facility information on production processes and waste generation processes; (2) initial Filter Cake composite sample analytical results to determine constituents of concern (COC); and (3) Analytical results from six composite samples of Filter Cake for the COC. The initial sample was analyzed for EPA's list of hazardous constituents in 40 CFR part 261, Appendix VIII, pesticides, PCBs. The COC selected from the initial composite sample results are barium, chromium, hexavalent chromium, copper, lead, mercury, nickel, vanadium, zinc, cyanide, acetone and methyl ethyl ketone. Both total and leachable concentrations of the COC in the Filter Cake were determined.

      John Deere generated the sampling data used in the Delisting Risk Assessment Software (DRAS) under a Sampling Plan and Quality Assurance Project Plan (June 2012 Revision). EPA believes that the sampling procedures used by John Deere satisfy EPA's criteria for collecting representative samples of the F006/F019 waste.

  9. Public Comments Received on the Proposed Exclusions

    No comments were received during the comment period.

  10. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews

    Under Executive Order 12866, ``Regulatory Planning and Review'' (58 FR 51735, October 4, 1993), this rule is not of general applicability and therefore is not a regulatory action subject to review by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This rule does not impose an information collection burden under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) because it applies to a particular facility only. Because this rule is of particular applicability relating to a particular facility, it is not subject to the regulatory flexibility provisions of the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.), or to Sections 202, 204, and 205 of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (UMRA) (Pub. L. 104-4). Because this rule will affect only a particular facility, it will not significantly or uniquely affect small governments, as specified in Section 203 of UMRA. Because this rule will affect only a particular facility, this final rule does not have Federalism implications. It will not have substantial direct effects on the States, on the relationship between the national government and the States, or on the distribution of power and responsibilities among the various levels of government, as specified in Executive Order 13132, ``Federalism,'' (64 FR 43255, August 10, 1999). Thus, Executive Order 13132 does not apply to this rule. Similarly, because this rule will affect only a particular facility, this final rule does not have tribal implications, as specified in Executive Order 13175, ``Consultation and Coordination with Indian Tribal Governments'' (65 FR 67249, November 9, 2000). Thus, Executive Order 13175 does not apply to this rule. This rule also is not subject to Executive Order 13045, ``Protection of Children from Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks'' (62 FR 19885, April 23, 1997), because it is not economically significant as defined in Executive Order 12866, and because the Agency does not have reason to believe the environmental health or safety risks addressed by this action present a disproportionate risk to children. The basis for this belief is that the Agency used the DRAS program, which considers health and safety risks to children, to calculate the maximum allowable concentrations for this rule. This rule is not subject to Executive Order 13211, ``Actions Concerning Regulations That Significantly Affect Energy Supply, Distribution, or Use'' (66 FR 28355, May 22, 2001), because it is not a significant regulatory action under Executive Order 12866. This rule does not involve technical standards; thus, the requirements of Section 12(d) of the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995 (15 U.S.C. 272 note) do not apply. As required by Section 3 of Executive Order 12988, ``Civil Justice Reform,'' (61 FR 4729, February 7, 1996), in issuing this rule, EPA has taken the necessary steps to eliminate drafting errors and ambiguity, minimize potential litigation, and provide a clear legal standard for affected conduct.

    The Congressional Review Act, 5 U.S. C. 801 et seq., as added by the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996, generally provides that before a rule may take effect, the agency promulgating the rule must submit a rule report which includes a copy of the rule to each House of the Congress and to the Comptroller General of the United States. Section 804 exempts from Section 801 the following types of rules (1) Rules of particular applicability; (2) rules relating to agency management or personnel; and (3) rules of agency organization, procedure, or practice that do not substantially affect

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    the rights or obligations of non-agency parties (5 U.S.C. 804(3)). EPA is not required to submit a rule report regarding today's action under Section 801 because this is a rule of particular applicability. Executive Order (EO) 12898 (59 FR 7629 (Feb. 16, 1994)) establishes Federal executive policy on environmental justice. Its main provision directs Federal agencies, to the greatest extent practicable and permitted by law, to make environmental justice part of their mission by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of their programs, policies, and activities on minority populations and low-income populations in the United States.

    EPA has determined that this final rule will not have disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects on minority or low-income populations because it does not affect the level of protection provided to human health or the environment. The Agency's risk assessment did not identify risks from management of this material in a Subtitle D landfill. Therefore, EPA believes that any populations in proximity of the landfills used by this facility should not be adversely affected by common waste management practices for this delisted waste.

    List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 261

    Environmental protection, Hazardous waste, Recycling, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.

    Authority: Sec. 3001(f), RCRA, 42 U.S.C. 6921(f).

    Dated: November 11, 2014.

    Karl Brooks,

    Regional Administrator, Region 7.

    For the reasons set out in the preamble, EPA amends 40 CFR part 261 as follows:

    PART 261--IDENTIFICATION AND LISTING OF HAZARDOUS WASTE

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    1. The authority citation for part 261 continues to read as follows:

      Authority: 42 U.S. C. 6905, 6912(a), 6921, 6922, and 6938.

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    2. In Table 1 of Appendix IX to part 261 add the following waste stream in alphabetical order by facility to read as follows:

      Appendix IX to Part 261--Wastes Excluded Under Sec. Sec. 260.20 and 260.22

      Table 1--Wastes Excluded From Non-Specific Sources

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      Facility Address Waste description

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      John Deere Des Moines Works Ankeny, IA.......... Wastewater Treatment

      of Deere & Company. Sludge Filter Cake

      (WWTS Filter Cake)

      (Hazardous Waste

      No. F006/F019)

      generated from

      combined onsite

      wastewater

      treatment at the

      Ankeny, IA,

      facility wastewater

      treatment plant at

      a maximum annual

      rate of 600 tons

      per calendar year

      and disposed of in

      a Subtitle D

      Landfill which is

      licensed,

      permitted, or

      otherwise

      authorized by a

      state to accept the

      delisted WWTS

      Filter Cake.

      John Deere must

      implement a testing

      program that meets

      the following

      conditions for the

      exclusion to be

      valid:

    3. Delisting Levels:

      (A) The WWTS Filter

      Cake shall not

      exhibit any of the

      ``Characteristics

      of Hazardous Waste

      in 40 CFR 261,

      Subpart C. (B) All

      TCLP leachable

      concentrations (40

      CFR 261.24(a)) for

      the following

      constituents must

      not exceed the

      following levels

      (mg/L for TCLP):

      Arsenic--5.0;

      Barium--100.0;

      Cadmium--1.0;

      Chromium--5.0;

      Lead--5.0; Mercury

      0.2; and Nickel--

      32.4. (C) EPA SW--

      846 Method 1313

      Extraction at pH

      2.88, 7 and 13

      concentration of

      Chromium

      (hexavalent) must

      not exceed (mg/l)

      0.087. (D) All

      total

      concentrations for

      the following

      constituents must

      not exceed the

      following levels

      (mg/kg): Antimony--

      103; Arsenic--52;

      Barium--965;

      Beryllium--21;

      Cadmium--10;

      Chromium (total)--

      22,500; Cobalt--11;

      Copper--1439; Lead--

      437; Nickel--1,515;

      Selenium--52;

      Silver--26;

      Thallium--52; Tin--

      68; Vanadium--380;

      Zinc--5,085;

      Mercury--1;

      Chromium

      (hexavalent)--20;

      Cyanide--3, Oil and

      Grease--32,250;

      Acetone--8; Methyl

      Ethyl Ketone (MEK)--

      0.3.

    4. Waste Handling

      and Holding: (A)

      John Deere must

      manage as hazardous

      all WWTS Filter

      Cake generated

      until it has

      completed initial

      verification

      testing described

      in paragraph (3)(A)

      and valid analyses

      show that paragraph

      (1) is satisfied

      and written

      approval is

      received from EPA.

      (B) Levels of

      constituents

      measured in the

      samples of the WWTS

      Filter Cake that do

      not (1) exceed the

      levels set forth in

      paragraph (1) for

      two consecutive

      quarterly sampling

      events are non-

      hazardous. After

      approval is

      received from EPA,

      John Deere can

      manage and dispose

      of the non-

      hazardous WWTS

      Filter Cake

      according to all

      applicable solid

      waste regulations.

      (C) Not

      withstanding having

      received the

      initial approval

      from EPA, if

      constituent levels

      in a later sample

      exceed any of the

      Delisting Levels

      set in paragraph

      (1), from that

      point forward, John

      Deere must treat

      all the waste

      covered by this

      exclusion as

      hazardous until it

      is demonstrated

      that the waste

      again meets the

      levels in paragraph

      (1). John Deere

      must manage and

      dispose of the

      waste generated

      under Subtitle C of

      RCRA from the time

      that it becomes

      aware of any

      exceedance.

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    5. Verification

      Testing

      Requirements: John

      Deere must perform

      sample collection

      and analyses in

      accordance with the

      Quality Assurance

      Project Plan

      submitted with the

      ``John Deere Des

      Moines, Iowa,

      Sampling and

      Analysis Plan for

      Delisting of F006

      and F019 Filter

      Cake, June 2012.''

      All samples shall

      be representative

      composite samples

      according to

      appropriate

      methods. As

      applicable to the

      method-defined

      parameters of

      concern, analyses

      requiring the use

      of SW-846 methods

      incorporated by

      reference in 40 CFR

      260.11 must be used

      without

      substitution. As

      applicable, the SW-

      846 methods might

      include Methods

      0010, 0011, 0020,

      0023A, 0030, 0031,

      0040, 0050, 0051,

      0060, 0061, 1010A,

      1020B,1110A, 1310B,

      1311, 1312, 1313,

      1320, 1330A, 9010C,

      9012B, 9040C,

      9045D, 9060A, 9070A

      (uses EPA Method

      1664, Rev. A),

      9071B, and 9095B.

      Methods must meet

      Performance Based

      Measurement System

      Criteria in which

      the Data Quality

      Objectives are to

      demonstrate that

      samples of the John

      Deere sludge are

      representative for

      all constituents

      listed in paragraph

      (1). To verify that

      the waste does not

      exceed the

      specified delisting

      concentrations, for

      one year after the

      final exclusion is

      granted, John Deere

      must perform

      quarterly

      analytical testing

      by sampling and

      analyzing the WWTP

      sludge as follows:

      (A) Quarterly

      Testing: (i)

      Collect two

      representative

      composite samples

      of the WWTS Filter

      Cake at quarterly

      intervals after EPA

      grants the final

      exclusion. The

      first composite

      samples must be

      taken within 30

      days after EPA

      grants the final

      approval. The

      second set of

      samples must be

      taken at least 30

      days after the

      first set. (ii)

      Analyze the samples

      for all

      constituents listed

      in paragraph (1).

      Any waste regarding

      which a composite

      sample is taken

      that exceeds the

      delisting levels

      listed in paragraph

      (1) for the sludge

      must be disposed as

      hazardous waste in

      accordance with the

      applicable

      hazardous waste

      requirements from

      the time that John

      Deere becomes aware

      of any exceedance.

      (iii) Within thirty

      (30) days after

      taking each

      quarterly sample,

      John Deere will

      report its

      analytical test

      data to EPA. If

      levels of

      constituents

      measured in the

      samples of the

      sludge do not

      exceed the levels

      set forth in

      paragraph (1) of

      this exclusion for

      two consecutive

      quarters, and EPA

      concurs with those

      findings, John

      Deere can manage

      and dispose the non-

      hazardous sludge

      according to all

      applicable solid

      waste regulations.

      (B) Annual Testing:

      (i) If John Deere

      completes the

      quarterly testing

      specified in

      paragraph (3) above

      and no sample

      contains a

      constituent at a

      level which exceeds

      the limits set

      forth in paragraph

      (1), John Deere may

      begin annual

      testing as follows:

      John Deere must

      test two

      representative

      composite samples

      of the WWTS Filter

      Cake (following the

      same protocols as

      specified for

      quarterly sampling,

      above) for all

      constituents listed

      in paragraph (1) at

      least once per

      calendar year. (ii)

      The samples for the

      annual testing

      taken for the

      second and

      subsequent annual

      testing events

      shall be taken

      within the same

      calendar month as

      the first annual

      sample taken. (iii)

      John Deere shall

      submit an annual

      testing report to

      EPA with its annual

      test results,

      within thirty (30)

      days after taking

      each annual sample.

      The annual testing

      report also shall

      include the total

      amount of waste in

      tons disposed

      during the calendar

      year.

    6. Changes in

      Operating

      Conditions: If John

      Deere significantly

      changes the

      manufacturing or

      treatment process

      described in the

      petition, or the

      chemicals used in

      the manufacturing

      or treatment

      process, it must

      notify the EPA in

      writing and may no

      longer handle the

      WWTS Filter Cake

      generated from the

      new process as non-

      hazardous unless

      and until the WWTS

      Filter Cake is

      shown to meet the

      delisting levels

      set in

      paragraph(1), John

      Deere demonstrates

      that no new

      hazardous

      constituents listed

      in appendix VIII of

      part 261 have been

      introduced, and

      John Deere has

      received written

      approval from EPA

      to manage the

      wastes from the new

      process under this

      exclusion. While

      the EPA may provide

      written approval of

      certain changes, if

      there are changes

      that the EPA

      determines are

      highly significant,

      the EPA may instead

      require John Deere

      to file a new

      delisting petition.

    7. Data Submittals

      and Recordkeeping:

      John Deere must

      submit the

      information

      described below. If

      John Deere fails to

      submit the required

      data within the

      specified time or

      maintain the

      required records on-

      site for the

      specified time,

      EPA, at its

      discretion, will

      consider this

      sufficient basis to

      reopen the

      exclusion as

      described in

      paragraph (6). John

      Deere must: (A)

      Submit the data

      obtained through

      paragraph (3) to

      the Chief, Waste

      Remediation and

      Permits Branch,

      U.S. EPA Region 7,

      11201 Renner

      Boulevard, Lenexa

      KS 66219, within

      the time specified.

      All supporting data

      can be submitted on

      CD-ROM or some

      comparable

      electronic media;

      (B) Compile,

      summarize, and

      maintain on site

      for a minimum of

      five years and make

      available for

      inspection records

      of operating

      conditions,

      including monthly

      and annual volumes

      of WWTS Filter Cake

      generated,

      analytical data,

      including quality

      control information

      and, copies of the

      notification(s)

      required in

      paragraph (7); (C)

      Submit with all

      data a signed copy

      of the

      certification

      statement in 40 CFR

      260.22(i)(12).

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    8. Reopener: (A) If,

      any time after

      disposal of the

      delisted waste,

      John Deere

      possesses or is

      otherwise made

      aware of any

      environmental data

      (including but not

      limited to leachate

      data or groundwater

      monitoring data) or

      any other relevant

      data to the

      delisted waste

      indicating that any

      constituent is at a

      concentration in

      the leachate higher

      than the specified

      delisting

      concentration, then

      John Deere must

      report such data,

      in writing, to the

      Chief, Waste

      Remediation and

      Permits Branch,

      U.S. EPA Region 7,

      11201 Renner

      Boulevard, Lenexa

      KS 66219 within 10

      days of first

      possessing or being

      made aware of that

      data. (B) Based on

      the information

      described in

      paragraph (A) and

      any other

      information

      received from any

      source, the

      Regional

      Administrator, EPA

      Region 7, will make

      a preliminary

      determination as to

      whether the

      reported

      information

      requires Agency

      action to protect

      human health or the

      environment.

      Further action may

      include suspending,

      or revoking the

      exclusion, or other

      appropriate

      response necessary

      to protect human

      health and the

      environment. (C) If

      the Regional

      Administrator

      determines that the

      reported

      information does

      require Agency

      action, the

      Regional

      Administrator will

      notify John Deere

      in writing of the

      actions the

      Regional

      Administrator

      believes are

      necessary to

      protect human

      health and the

      environment. The

      notice shall

      include a statement

      of the proposed

      action and a

      statement providing

      John Deere with an

      opportunity to

      present information

      as to why the

      proposed Agency

      action is not

      necessary or to

      suggest an

      alternative action.

      John Deere shall

      have 30 days from

      the date of the

      Regional

      Administrator's

      notice to present

      the information.

      (D) If after 30

      days John Deere

      presents no further

      information or

      after a review of

      any submitted

      information, the

      Regional

      Administrator will

      issue a final

      written

      determination

      describing the

      Agency actions that

      are necessary to

      protect human

      health or the

      environment. Any

      required action

      described in the

      Regional

      Administrator's

      determination shall

      become effective

      immediately, unless

      the Regional

      Administrator

      provides otherwise.

    9. Notification

      Requirements: John

      Deere must do the

      following before

      transporting the

      delisted waste: (A)

      Provide a one-time

      written

      notification to any

      state Regulatory

      Agency to which or

      through which it

      will transport the

      delisted waste

      described above for

      disposal, 60 days

      before beginning

      such activities (B)

      Update the one-time

      written

      notification if it

      ships the delisted

      waste into a

      different disposal

      facility. Failure

      to provide this

      notification will

      result in a

      violation of the

      delisting petition

      and a possible

      revocation of the

      decision.

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      FR Doc. 2014-27780 Filed 11-24-14; 8:45 am

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