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Georgia: Final Authorization of State Hazardous Waste Management Program Revision: Delay of Effective Date

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[Federal Register: January 29, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 19)]
[Rules and Regulations]               
[Page 8090]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 271

[FRL-6940-3]

 
Georgia: Final Authorization of State Hazardous Waste Management 
Program Revision: Delay of Effective Date

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Final rule; delay of effective date.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the memorandum of January 20, 2001, from 
the Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff, entitled 
``Regulatory Review Plan,'' published in the Federal Register on 
January 24, 2001, this action temporarily delays for 60 days the 
effective date of the rule entitled Georgia: Final Authorization of 
State Hazardous Waste Management Program Revision, published in the 
Federal Register on November 28, 2000, 65 FR 70804. Georgia has applied 
to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) for final 
authorization of the changes to its hazardous waste program under the 
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). EPA has determined that 
these changes satisfy all requirements needed to qualify for final 
authorization, and that rule authorizes the State's changes. To the 
extent that 5 U.S.C. 553 applies to this action, it is exempt from 
notice and comment because it constitutes a rule of procedure under 5 
U.S.C. 553(b)(A). Alternatively, the Agency's implementation of this 
rule without opportunity for public comment, effective immediately upon 
publication today in the Federal Register, is based on the good cause 
exceptions in 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(B) and 553(d)(3), in that seeking public 
comment is impracticable, unnecessary and contrary to the public 
interest. The temporary 60-day delay in effective date is necessary to 
give Agency officials the opportunity for further review and 
consideration of new regulations, consistent with the Assistant to the 
President's memorandum of January 20, 2001. Given the imminence of the 
effective date, seeking prior public comment on this temporary delay 
would have been impractical, as well as contrary to the public interest 
in the orderly promulgation and implementation of regulations.

DATES: The effective date of the rule titled Georgia: Final 
Authorization of State Hazardous Waste Management Program Revision, 
published in the Federal Register on November 28, 2000, at 65 FR 70804, 
is delayed for 60 days, from January 29, 2001 to a new effective date 
of March 30, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Narindar Kumar, Chief, RCRA Programs 
Branch, Waste Management Division, U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency, The Sam Nunn Atlanta Federal Center, 61 Forsyth Street, SW, 
Atlanta, Georgia 30303-8960; (404) 562-8440.

    Dated: January 25, 2001.
W. Michael McCabe,
Acting Administrator.
[FR Doc. 01-2560 Filed 1-26-01; 8:45 am]
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