<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">The EPA will publish a proposed rule to the</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><i class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Federal Register</i><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">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.</span><br class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">Title:</i></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Revisions to Standards for the Open Burning/Open Detonation of Waste Explosives<b class=""></b></div></div></blockquote><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><i class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></i></b></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">Summary:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i></b>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.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">You can access a pre-publication version of and press release about the proposed rule:<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://www.epa.gov/hwpermitting/revisions-standards-open-burning-open-detonation-waste-explosives" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://www.epa.gov/hwpermitting/revisions-standards-open-burning-open-detonation-waste-explosives</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/biden-harris-administration-announces-latest-action-better-protect-communities" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/biden-harris-administration-announces-latest-action-better-protect-communities</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Thank you,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Paul Diss<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">US Environmental Protection Agency<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Office of Land and Emergency Management<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Program Implementation and Information Division<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Permits Branch</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>—</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Lenny Siegel<br class="">Executive Director<br class="">Center for Public Environmental Oversight<br class="">A project of the Pacific Studies Center<br class=""><a href="mailto:LSiegel@cpeo.org" class="">LSiegel@cpeo.org</a><br class="">P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042<br class="">Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918<br class="">http://www.cpeo.org</div><div>Author:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(See <a href="http://a3mreunion.org" class="">http://a3mreunion.org</a>)</div></div></div>
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