Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 13/10/1999

Hazardous Waste Management System; Proposed Exclusion for Identifying and Listing Hazardous Waste

The EPA (also, ``the Agency'' or ``we'' in this preamble) is proposing to grant a petition submitted by General Motors Corporation, Lansing Car Assembly--Body Plant (GM) in Lansing, Michigan, to exclude (or ``delist'') certain solid wastes generated by its wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) from the lists of hazardous wastes contained in Subpart D of Part 261. GM submitted the petition under 40 CFR 260.20 and 260.22(a). Section 260.20 allows any person to petition the Administrator to modify or revoke any provision of Secs. 260 through 266, 268 and 273. Section 260.22 (a) specifically provides generators the opportunity to petition the Administrator to exclude a waste on a ``generator specific'' basis from the hazardous waste lists. The Agency has tentatively decided to grant the petition based on an evaluation of waste-specific information provided by GM. This proposed decision, if finalized, conditionally excludes the petitioned waste from the requirements of hazardous waste regulations under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). We conclude that GM's petitioned waste is nonhazardous with respect to the original listing criteria.