[CPEO-MEF] Military Digest, Vol 235, Issue 13

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Communities are calling for a complete BAN on the proposed burn pit rules.
See
https://cswab.org/epa-open-burning-pfas-and-highly-toxic-chemicals-will-cont
inue-at-domestic-burn-pits/
More to come..
Laura Olah/ CSWAB.org

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Today's Topics:

   1. MUNITIONS: UPDATE: EPA to Publish NPRM: Revisions to the
      Standards for OB/OD of Waste Explosives (Lenny Siegel)


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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 11:16:09 -0400
From: Lenny Siegel <LSiegel at cpeo.org>
To: Military Environmental Forum <military at lists.cpeo.org>
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: UPDATE: EPA to Publish NPRM: Revisions
	to the Standards for OB/OD of Waste Explosives
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> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> 
> 
> Good morning all,
>  
> The proposed rule is now live in the Federal Register and open for a
60-day public comment period. Here are links to the web-version and official
print version of the proposal:
> https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2024-05088 
> <https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2024-05088>
> https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-03-20/pdf/2024-05088.pdf 
> <https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-03-20/pdf/2024-05088.pdf>
>  
> You may leave a comment on the proposal through the regulations.gov
<http://regulations.gov/> site during the 60-day public comment period
ending May 20, 2024:
> https://www.regulations.gov/document/EPA-HQ-OLEM-2021-0397-0001 
> <https://www.regulations.gov/document/EPA-HQ-OLEM-2021-0397-0001>
>  
> In addition, we will be hosting a public webinar to discuss the proposal
on Thursday, April 18th at 1:00PM EDT. We ask that you register at:
> https://www.epa.gov/remedytech/forms/registration-revisions-standards-
> open-burningopen-detonation-waste-explosives 
> <https://www.epa.gov/remedytech/forms/registration-revisions-standards
> -open-burningopen-detonation-waste-explosives>
>  
> Thank you,
> Paul Diss
> US Environmental Protection Agency
> Office of Land and Emergency Management Office of Resource 
> Conservation and Recovery Program Implementation and Information 
> Division Permits Branch
>  
> From: Diss, Paul (he/him/his)
> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2024 1:09 PM
> Cc: Gerhard, Sasha <Gerhard.Sasha at epa.gov 
> <mailto:Gerhard.Sasha at epa.gov>>; Kohler, Amanda <Kohler.Amanda at epa.gov 
> <mailto:Kohler.Amanda at epa.gov>>
> Subject: EPA to Publish NPRM: Revisions to the Standards for OB/OD of 
> Waste Explosives
>  
> Good afternoon,
>  
> The EPA will publish a proposed rule to the Federal Register to revise the
standards for open burning and open detonation of waste explosives. We will
send another notice when the proposal is published and the 60 day public
comment period begins.
>  
> Title: Revisions to Standards for the Open Burning/Open Detonation of 
> Waste Explosives
> Summary: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) 
> proposes to revise regulations that allow for the open burning and 
> detonation (OB/OD) of waste explosives. This allowance or ?variance? 
> to the prohibition on the open burning of hazardous waste was 
> established at a time when there were no alternatives for the safe 
> treatment of waste explosives. However, recent findings from the 
> National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) and 
> the EPA have identified safe alternatives which are potentially 
> applicable to treat some energetic/explosive waste streams. Because 
> there may be safe alternatives available and in use today that capture 
> and treat emissions prior to release, regulations would be revised to 
> describe specified procedures for the existing requirements to 
> evaluate and implement alternative treatment technologies. Today?s 
> proposed revisions would reduce OB/OD of waste explosives and increase 
> control of air emissions through improved implementation of
  existing requirements that facilities must evaluate and use safe and
available alternative technologies in lieu of OB/OD.
>  
> You can access a pre-publication version of and press release about the
proposed rule:
> https://www.epa.gov/hwpermitting/revisions-standards-open-burning-open
> -detonation-waste-explosives 
> <https://www.epa.gov/hwpermitting/revisions-standards-open-burning-ope
> n-detonation-waste-explosives> 
> https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/biden-harris-administration-announces
> -latest-action-better-protect-communities 
> <https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/biden-harris-administration-announce
> s-latest-action-better-protect-communities>
>  
> Thank you,
> Paul Diss
> US Environmental Protection Agency
> Office of Land and Emergency Management Office of Resource 
> Conservation and Recovery Program Implementation and Information 
> Division Permits Branch

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight A project of the Pacific Studies
Center LSiegel at cpeo.org P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford
University out of Southeast Asia - 1965?1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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