[Federal Register: October 6, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 193)]
[Notices]               
[Page 57691-57692]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[RCRA-2003-0024; FRL-7558-5]

 
Announcement of Availability of the Results-Based Approaches and 
Tailored Oversight Guidance for Facilities Subject to Corrective Action 
Under Subtitle C of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is to announce the availability of 
the final ``Results-Based Approaches and Tailored Oversight Guidance 
for Facilities Subject to Corrective Action Under Subtitle C of the 
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act'' (Guidance). This guidance is 
designed to provide the EPA Regions, the States, Tribes, the regulated 
community, members of the public, and other stakeholders with a better 
understanding of EPA's general results-based strategy for RCRA 
Corrective Action. This document provides guidance on how EPA generally 
intends to exercise its discretion in implementing its statutory 
authorities and regulations. EPA wrote this guidance because we believe 
greater use of results-based approaches will help us achieve our short-
term goals established by the Government Performance and Results Act 
(GPRA).

DATES: This guidance was issued September 26, 2003.

ADDRESSES: The Agency is posting this document on the Corrective Action 
Web site: http://www.epa.gov/correctiveaction. If you would like to 
receive a hard copy, please call the RCRA Call Center at 800-424-0346 
or TDD 800-553-7672 (hearing impaired). In the Washington, DC, 
metropolitan area, call 703-412-9810 or TDD 703-412-3323.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For more detailed information on 
specific aspects of the guidance document, contact Karen Tomimatsu, 
Office of Solid Waste, Mail Code 5303W, U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460, (703-605-0698), (tomimatsu.karen@epa.gov), or Peter Neves, Office of Enforcement 
and Compliance Assurance, Mail Code 2273A, U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460, (202) 564-6072, (neves.peter@epa.gov).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The guidance document will be issued as a 
memorandum from EPA headquarters to the Regional offices. It will be 
available on the Internet at: http://www.epa.gov/correctiveaction.
    EPA has established an official public docket for this action under 
Docket ID No. RCRA-2003-0024. The official public docket is the 
collection of materials that is available for public viewing at the 
OSWER Docket in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room B102, 
1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The EPA Docket Center 
Public Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through 
Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the Public 
Reading Room is (202) 566-1744, and the telephone number for the OSWER 
Docket is (202) 566-0270.

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    You may access this Federal Register document electronically 
through the EPA Internet under the ``Federal Register'' listings at 
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/.
    An electronic version of the public docket is available through 
EPA's electronic public docket and comment system, EPA Dockets. You may 
use EPA Dockets at http://www.epa.gov/edocket/ to view public comments, 
access the index listing of the contents of the official public docket, 
and to access those documents in the public docket that are available 
electronically. Although not all docket materials may be available 
electronically, you may still access any of the publicly available 
docket materials through the docket facility identified in Unit I.B. 
Once in the system, select ``search,'' then key in the appropriate 
docket identification number.

    Dated: August 18, 2003.
Robert Springer,
Director, Office of Solid Waste.

    Dated: September 12, 2003.
Susan E. Bromm,
Director, Office of Site Remediation Enforcement.
[FR Doc. 03-25273 Filed 10-3-03; 8:45 am]

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