Clarification to Technical Amendments to Solid Waste Programs; Management Guidelines for Beverage Containers and Resource Recovery Facilities Guidelines

On January 7, 1998 (63 FR 683), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published in the Federal Register a technical amendment correcting the effective date of a direct final rule published on December 31, 1996 (61 FR 69032) that concerned the removal of obsolete solid waste guidelines (40 CFR parts 244 and 245). The amendment corrected the effective date of the direct final rule to December 30, 1997 in order to be consistent with sections 801 and 808 of the Congressional Review Act, enacted as part of the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act. This document clarifies that the January 7, 1998 technical amendment established a new effective date of December 30, 1997 for the removal of 40 CFR part 245 but had no effect on the status of 40 CFR part 244 because of a prior notice that was published on May 2, 1997 (62 FR 24051) that announced the withdrawal, effective March 3, 1997, of the portion of the December 31, 1996 direct final rule which affected 40 CFR part 244.