Notice2022-17401
The Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest (e-Manifest) System Advisory Board; Notice of Public Meeting
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August 12, 2022
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Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will convene the Hazardous Waste Electronic System (e-Manifest) Advisory Board for a three (3) day virtual public meeting. The purpose of the meeting is for EPA to seek the Board's consultation and recommendations regarding the e-Manifest system (Meeting Theme: "Roadmap to 100% Electronic Manifests").
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 155 (Friday, August 12, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49830-49832]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-17401]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OLEM-2022-0611; FRL-10127-01-OLEM]
The Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest (e-Manifest) System
Advisory Board; Notice of Public Meeting
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will convene the
Hazardous Waste Electronic System (e-Manifest) Advisory Board for a
three (3) day virtual public meeting. The purpose of the meeting is for
EPA to seek the Board's consultation and recommendations regarding the
e-Manifest system (Meeting Theme: ``Roadmap to 100% Electronic
Manifests'').
DATES: Virtual Public Meeting: The meeting will be held October 4-6,
2022, from 10:00 a.m. to approximately 6:00 p.m. (EDT). See the
additional details and instructions for registration that appear in
sIII of this notice.
ADDRESSES: This public meeting will be conducted virtually.
Registration online is required to attend and/or provide oral public
comment during this meeting. Please refer to the e-Manifest Advisory
Board website at <a href="https://www.epa.gov/e-manifest/hazardous-waste-electronic-manifest-system-e-manifest-advisory-board">https://www.epa.gov/e-manifest/hazardous-waste-electronic-manifest-system-e-manifest-advisory-board</a> for information on
how to register as either a public audience attendee or as an oral
public commenter. For additional instructions related to this meeting,
see section III of this notice.
Comments: To make oral comments during the public meeting and be
included on the meeting agenda, please register by noon on September
27, 2022. Registration instructions will be posted on the e-Manifest
Advisory Board website at <a href="https://www.epa.gov/e-manifest/hazardous-waste-electronic-manifest-system-e-manifest-advisory-board">https://www.epa.gov/e-manifest/hazardous-waste-electronic-manifest-system-e-manifest-advisory-board</a>. Submit
written comments on or before September 27, 2022, in the public docket
under Docket number EPA-HQ-OLEM-2022-0611 at <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a>. Written comments submitted to the public docket on
or before September 27, 2022, will be provided to the e-Manifest
Advisory Board for their consideration before the meeting. Anyone who
wishes to submit comments after September 27, 2022, must send their
written public comments or their oral comment requests directly to the
Designated Federal Officer (DFO) listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT. For additional instructions, see section III of this notice.
Special accommodations. For information on access or services for
individuals with disabilities, and to request accommodation of a
disability, please contact the DFO listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT at least ten (10) days prior to the meeting to give the EPA as
much time as possible to process your request.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fred Jenkins, Designated Federal
Officer (DFO), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Resource
Conservation and Recovery, email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#345e515a5f5d5a471a52465150745144551a535b42"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e9838c878280879ac78f9b8c8da98c9988c78e869f">[email protected]</span></a>; phone: 202-564-
0344.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This meeting will be open to the public. The
full agenda and meeting materials will be available in the docket for
the meeting and at the e-Manifest Advisory Board website at <a href="https://www.epa.gov/e-manifest/hazardous-waste-electronic-manifest-system-e-manifest-advisory-board">https://www.epa.gov/e-manifest/hazardous-waste-electronic-manifest-system-e-manifest-advisory-board</a>. This public meeting will be conducted
virtually, and registration is required to attend and/or participate.
Registration instructions will be posted on the e-Manifest Advisory
Board website at <a href="https://www.epa.gov/e-manifest/hazardous-waste-electronic-manifest-system-e-manifest-advisory-board">https://www.epa.gov/e-manifest/hazardous-waste-electronic-manifest-system-e-manifest-advisory-board</a>. In the event EPA
needs to make subsequent changes to this meeting, EPA will post future
notices to its e-Manifest Board meeting website (<a href="https://www.epa.gov/e-manifest/hazardous-waste-electronic-manifest-system-e-manifest-advisory-board">https://www.epa.gov/e-manifest/hazardous-waste-electronic-manifest-system-e-manifest-advisory-board</a>.).
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EPA strongly encourages the public to refer to the e-Manifest website
for the latest meeting information, as sudden changes may be necessary.
I. General Information
A. Does this action apply to me?
This action is directed to the public in general. This action may
be of particular interest to persons who are or may be subject to the
Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment (e-Manifest) Act.
B. Where can I access information about the e-Manifest Advisory Board
and this meeting?
Information about the e-Manifest Advisory Board is available on the
e-Manifest Advisory Board website, <a href="https://www.epa.gov/e-manifest/hazardous-waste-electronic-manifest-system-e-manifest-advisory-board">https://www.epa.gov/e-manifest/hazardous-waste-electronic-manifest-system-e-manifest-advisory-board</a>.
Information about this meeting will be available by early September
2022 in the public docket, identified by docket ID number EPA-HQ-OLEM-
2022-0611, at <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a> and on the e-Manifest
Advisory Board website. You may also subscribe to the following
listserv for alerts when notices regarding this and other e-Manifest
Advisory Board related activities are published: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#36537b57585f505345421b4543544555445f5453765a5f4542451853465718515940"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="3b5e765a55525d5e484f16484e5948584952595e7b5752484f48155e4b5a155c544d">[email protected]</span></a>.
II. Background
A. Purpose of the e-Manifest Advisory Board
The Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest (e-Manifest) System
Advisory Board is established in accordance with the provisions of the
Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment Act, 42 U.S.C. 6939g,
and the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), 5 U.S.C. App.2. The e-
Manifest Advisory Board is in the public interest and supports the EPA
in performing its duties and responsibilities. The Board shall meet
annually to discuss, evaluate the effectiveness of, and provide
recommendations about the system to the EPA Administrator.
The sole duty of the Advisory Board is to provide advice and
recommendations to the EPA Administrator. As required by the e-Manifest
Act, the e-Manifest Advisory Board is composed of nine (9) members. One
(1) member is the EPA Administrator (or a designee), who serves as
Chairperson of the Advisory Board. The rest of the committee is
composed of:
<bullet> At least two (2) members who have expertise in information
technology;
<bullet> At least three (3) members who have experience in using or
represent users of the manifest system to track the transportation of
hazardous waste under the e-Manifest Act;
<bullet> At least three (3) members who are state representatives
responsible for processing manifests.
All members of the e-Manifest Advisory Board, except for the EPA
Administrator, are appointed as Special Government Employees or
Representatives.
B. Public Meeting
EPA launched the e-Manifest system on June 30, 2018. e-Manifest
provides those persons required to use a Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act (RCRA) manifest under either federal or state law the
option of using electronic manifests to track shipments of hazardous
waste and to meet certain RCRA requirements. By enabling the transition
from a paper-intensive process to an electronic system, EPA estimates
e-Manifest will ultimately save state and industry users more than $50
million annually, once electronic manifests are widely adopted.
Since system inception through May 2022, EPA has received roughly
25 thousand electronic manifests (both fully electronic and hybrid
manifests) out of a total of approximately 7 million manifests.
Electronic manifests thus represent less than a half of a percent of
manifests received by EPA. EPA seeks to dramatically increase this
percentage.
EPA hosted two virtual public meetings on October 27, 2021, and
November 3, 2021, to discuss how to increase electronic adoption and
solicit feedback from stakeholders. The meetings described existing
electronic manifest functionality and the feasibility of several
options to increase use of electronic manifests. As a next step in this
effort, EPA will convene its next public meeting of the e-Manifest
System Advisory Board from October 4-6, 2022. The meeting will include
discussion of the comments EPA received from the public meetings, as
well as related policy and technical changes EPA is considering for the
e-Manifest system to increase adoption of electronic manifests. The
general purpose of this meeting is for the Board to advise the Agency
on these potential changes.
C. e-Manifest Advisory Board Documents and Meeting Minutes
The meeting background paper along with related supporting
materials including the charge questions to the Advisory Board, the
Advisory Board membership roster (i.e., members attending this
meeting), and the meeting agenda will be available by approximately
early-September 2022. In addition, EPA may provide additional
background documents as the materials become available. You may obtain
electronic copies of these documents, and certain other related
documents that might be available at <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a> via the
docket ID number EPA-HQ-OLEM-2022-0611 and at the e-Manifest Advisory
Board website at: <a href="https://www.epa.gov/e-manifest/hazardous-waste-electronic-manifest-system-e-manifest-advisory-board">https://www.epa.gov/e-manifest/hazardous-waste-electronic-manifest-system-e-manifest-advisory-board</a>.
The e-Manifest Advisory Board will prepare meeting minutes
summarizing its recommendations to EPA approximately ninety (90) days
after the meeting. The meeting minutes will be posted on the e-Manifest
Advisory Board website, or they may be obtained from the public docket
at <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a> via the docket ID number EPA-HQ-OLEM-
2022-0611.
III. Public Participation Instructions
To participate in the virtual public meeting, please follow the
instructions in this section.
A. How can I provide comments?
1. Written comments. EPA encourages the electronic submission of
written comments via <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a>, into docket ID number
EPA-HQ-OLEM-2022-0611 on or before September 27, 2022, to provide the
e-Manifest Advisory Board the time necessary to consider and review the
written comments. Written comments are accepted until the date of the
meeting, but anyone submitting written comments after September 27,
2022, should contact the DFO listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT.
Do not submit electronically any information you consider to be
Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose
disclosure is restricted by statute. Copyrighted material will not be
posted without explicit permission of the copyright holder. Multimedia
submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be accompanied by a written
comment. The written comment is considered the official comment and
should include discussion of all points you wish to make. Members of
the public should also be aware that their personal contact
information, if included in any written comments, may be posted on the
internet at <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>.
The EPA will generally not consider comments or comment contents
located outside of the primary submission (e.g., on the web, cloud, or
other file sharing system). For additional submission methods, the full
EPA public comment
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policy, information about CBI or multimedia submissions, please visit
<a href="https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets">https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets</a>.When preparing and
submitting your comments, see Tips for Effective Comments at the same
website, <a href="https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets">https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets</a>.
2. Oral comments. The Agency encourages each individual or group
wishing to make brief oral comments to the e-Manifest Advisory Board
during the virtual public meeting to please register as an oral
commenter for the meeting at the e-Manifest Advisory Board website,
<a href="https://www.epa.gov/e-manifest/hazardous-waste-electronic-manifest-system-e-manifest-advisory-board">https://www.epa.gov/e-manifest/hazardous-waste-electronic-manifest-system-e-manifest-advisory-board</a>, by noon on September 27, 2022, in
order to be included on the meeting agenda. Requests to present oral
comments will be accepted until the date of the meeting. Registration
is required to attend and/or participate as an oral public commenter in
this public meeting. Please refer to the e-Manifest Advisory Board
website at <a href="https://www.epa.gov/e-manifest/hazardous-waste-electronic-manifest-system-e-manifest-advisory-board">https://www.epa.gov/e-manifest/hazardous-waste-electronic-manifest-system-e-manifest-advisory-board</a> for information on how to
register either as an oral public commenter or public audience
attendee. Anyone submitting an oral public comments request after
September 27, 2022, should also contact the DFO listed under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. To the extent that time permits, the Chair
of the e-Manifest Advisory Board may permit the presentation of oral
comments at the meeting by interested persons who have not previously
requested time. The request should identify the name of the individual
making the presentation, the organization (if any) that the individual
represents, and any requirements for audiovisual presentation support.
Oral comments before the e-Manifest Advisory Board are limited to
approximately five (5) minutes unless prior arrangements have been
made. In addition, each speaker should provide a copy of their comments
and presentation to the DFO so that they can be distributed to the e-
Manifest Advisory Board at the meeting.
Dated: August 9, 2022.
Jody Barringer,
Acting Director, Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery.
[FR Doc. 2022-17401 Filed 8-11-22; 8:45 am]
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