Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 20/11/2001

Supplemental Proposal to the Corrective Action Management Unit Rule

In today's action, the Agency is proposing a regulatory change suggested by commenters on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) proposed "Amendments to the Corrective Action Management Unit Rule" (August 22, 2000). In that notice, EPA proposed amendments to the corrective action management unit (CAMU) regulations to tighten standards for wastes managed in CAMUs during cleanup. The comment period on the August 2000 proposal closed on October 23, 2000. EPA is now proposing additional regulations that would allow CAMU-eligible hazardous waste, treated in accordance with the treatment standard in the proposed CAMU amendment in lieu of otherwise applicable land disposal restriction standards, to be placed in hazardous waste landfills, under limited circumstances. We believe that allowing hazardous remediation waste generated during clean-up to be placed in hazardous waste landfills will promote more aggressive remediation. In this document, EPA is soliciting comment only on the issue of placement of CAMU-eligible wastes in hazardous waste landfills under the terms of today's supplemental proposal; we are not requesting comment on any aspect of the August 2000 proposal. If EPA go