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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>To:</b> <b>Subject:</b> RCRA 24 Final Federal Register<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">February 7, 2014 (79 FR 7518) -- Modification of the Hazardous Waste Manifest System; Electronic Manifests<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">SUMMARY:
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) is establishing new requirements that will<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">authorize the use of electronic manifests (or e-Manifests) as a means to track offsite shipments of hazardous waste from a generator’s site to the site of the
receipt and disposition of the hazardous waste. This final rule also implements certain provisions of the Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment Act, Public Law 112–195,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">which directs EPA to establish a national electronic manifest system (or e-Manifest system), and to impose<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">reasonable user service fees as a means to fund the development and operation of the e-Manifest system. The<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">requirements announced here clarify explicitly that electronic manifest documents obtained from the Agency’s<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">national e-Manifest system and completed in accordance with today’s regulation, are the legal equivalent of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">the paper manifest forms (EPA Forms 8700–22 and 8700–22A) that are currently authorized for use in tracking<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">hazardous waste shipments. Upon completion of the e-Manifest system, the electronic manifest documents<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">authorized by this final regulation will be available to manifest users as an alternative to the paper manifest forms,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">to comply with federal and state requirements respecting the use of the hazardous waste manifest. Users who<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">elect to opt out of the electronic submittal to the e-Manifest system may continue to use the paper manifest to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">track their shipments during transportation, which then will be submitted by the designated facility for<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">inclusion in the e-Manifest system. EPA recognizes that there will be a period of transition to electronic submittals and the Agency will, as we implement e-Manifest,
assess what measures might be effective to expedite the transition<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">from paper manifests to electronic manifests. This final regulation further clarifies those electronic signature<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">methods that the Agency recommends for executing electronic manifests in the first generation of the national e-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Manifest system. This regulation also specifies how issues of public access to manifest information will be addressed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">when manifest data are submitted and processed electronically. Finally, this regulation announces, consistent with<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">the mandate of the Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment Act, that the final electronic manifest<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">requirements promulgated today will be implemented in all states on the same effective date for the national e-Manifest system. Authorized states must adopt
program revisions equivalent to and consistent with today’s federal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">requirements, but EPA will implement these electronic manifest regulations unless and until the states are fully<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">authorized to implement them in lieu of EPA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">DATES:
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">This final rule is effective as a final agency action on August 6, 2014. However, the implementation and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">compliance date for these regulations will be delayed until such time as the e-Manifest system is shown to be ready<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">for operation and the schedule of fees for manifest related services has been announced. EPA will publish a further<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">document subsequent to this rule’s effective date to announce the user fee schedule for manifest related activities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">This document will also announce the date upon which compliance with this regulation will be required and upon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">which EPA will be ready to receive electronic manifests through the national e-Manifest system, in accordance with 40 CFR 3.2(a)(2).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Handwriting";color:#7030A1">Susan Horlick<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:BookAntiqua-Bold;color:#7030A1">Environmental Specialist III<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:BookAntiqua-Bold;color:#7030A1">Florida Department of Environmental Protection<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:BookAntiqua-Bold;color:#7030A1">Hazardous Waste Program & Permitting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:BookAntiqua-Bold;color:#7030A1">FAX (850) 245-8810<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri-Bold;color:blue"><a href="mailto:Susan.Horlick@dep.state.fl.us">Susan.Horlick@dep.state.fl.us</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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