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Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest System

EPA Requests Comment on Remaining Issues with the Proposed Electronic Manifest System

Summary

This notice announces the availability of additional information on the electronic manifest (e-Manifest) project. Specifically, EPA’s Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER) has made significant progress on the e-Manifest project since the publication of the April 18, 2006 public notice, which announced and requested comment on our intention to develop a centralized web-based information technology (IT) system that would be hosted on EPA’s IT architecture. However, a few issues raised by commenters in response to the April 2006 public notice require further analysis on our part, as we make decisions concerning the e-Manifest system.

We received strong support in response to the April 2006 public notice to establish a national web-based system funded through user-fees. In addition, commenters generally supported our position that use of e-Manifests should be at the election of the users rather than mandatory. However, some commenters expressed concern that an optional system would create dual paper and electronic systems. Furthermore, industry and state comments in response to our position to allow confidential business information (CBI) claims for e-Manifests differed. Therefore, as explained in this notice, we are soliciting additional comment on EPA’s position on these two issues. We remain committed to finalizing a federal regulation, once the necessary legislation is enacted, that will authorize the regulated community to use electronic manifests as the legal equivalent of paper manifests, and will consider the comments received on this notice, as well as other comments received from previous actions, before we make a final decision.

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Federal Register Notice | PDF Version (7 pp, 84K) - February 26, 2008

The support materials for this notice and the public comments EPA received on the notice are available for public review online, as explained below. Please note that the notice materials will not be available from Regulations.gov until the notice is published in the Federal Register.

To use Regulations.gov:

  1. Select Docket Search.
  2. Select "Environmental Protection Agency" from the Agency drop-down menu.
  3. In the Docket ID box, type in the docket number (e.g., EPA-HQ-RCRA-2001-0032) and press the "Submit" button to receive search results. Be patient; loading the documents takes time.

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Presentations from a Public Meeting on Development and Implementation of Electronic Manifests to Accompany Hazardous Waste Shipments

EPA's Office of Solid Waste held a two-day public meeting on May 19-20, 2004, to discuss and obtain public input on a national electronic manifest ("e- manifest") system. Specifically, the purpose of the meeting was to present our rulemaking progress to date and to solicit input and preferences from stakeholders and other interested persons on the development and implementation of the e-manifest, as well as on alternative information technology (IT) systems. Interested parties were encouraged to attend the meeting and participate actively in these discussions. Participants were able to register on-line for the meeting.

The meeting consisted of a plenary session supplemented by concurrent breakout sessions. The meeting structure was governed by four main areas of e-manifest system development.

Available Presentations:

Full Proceedings (PDF) (28 pp, 342K)

Federal Register Notice - April 1, 2004 || Final Agenda (PDF) (4 pp, 23K)

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