Summary for State Program Advisory Eighteen

SPA 18 covers the period July 1, 1996, through June 30, 1997, and includes this summary plus three attachments.  The first attachment, Attachment A, contains new Revision Checklists 153-159 and their corresponding summaries.  Attachment B contains updates to the State Authorization Manual (SAM), including Tables G-1 and G-2, the Checklist Linkage Table, the Model Revision Attorney General's Statement, and the Map of Revision Checklist Materials.   Also included in this attachment is a table that addresses superseded checklists.  This table lists those checklists that have been totally superseded by another checklist.  The table should be placed in the SAM after the linkage table, replacing the existing table.  Finally, this Attachment includes updates to the Model Federal Register Notices found in Appendix M.  These updates replace the models currently in the SAM manual.  Attachment C includes the updated (through June 30, 1997) special consolidated checklists for the Land Disposal Restrictions, Boilers and Industrial Furnaces, Toxicity Characteristic, Wood Preserving, the Bevill Exclusion for Mining Wastes, Recycled Used Oil Management Standards Consolidated Checklist, and Treatability Studies Consolidated Checklist.

The following points briefly highlight the content of SPA 18.  These points are organized by topic.

Checklists

	New

	•	This SPA provides seven new checklists (numbers 153 through 159), covering regulatory changes for the period July 1, 1996, through June 30, 1997.    All of the checklists in SPA 18 are in RCRA Cluster VII.  Revision Checklists 153, 154, 155, 157, and 159 contain only HSWA provisions; Checklists 156 and 158 contain only non-HSWA provisions.

•	Revision Checklist 154 consists of seven rules.   These rules include the final rule promulgated November 25, 1996 (61 FR 59932) and six rules which had previously been withdrawn.   These rules were addressed by former Revision Checklists 138, 143 (three separate rules), 146 and 149.  

	Existing

•	Through June 30, 1997, the Special Consolidated Land Disposal Restrictions Checklist had been updated to include all LDR revision checklists promulgated since the introduction of the program with Revision Checklist 34.   Beginning with SPA 18, since most States have adopted the LDR program at least in part, the special consolidated checklist for LDR will be the 1992 Special Consolidated LDR Checklist.  The 1992 checklist includes LDR rules promulgated through June 30, 1992, including the rule addressed by Revision Checklist 106.   The Special Consolidated LDR Checklist will no longer be updated to include all subsequent LDR revision checklists.  The Special Consolidated LDR Phases I-IV Checklist will consolidate all LDR rules promulgated after Revision Checklist 106.   States wishing to adopt the entire LDR program may use the 1992 Special Consolidated LDR combined with the Special Consolidated LDR Phases I-IV Checklist.   This combination will provide all LDR rules promulgated.

Cluster Information

	•	SPA 18 delineates timeframes by which States must obtain authorization for RCRA Cluster VII.  The due date is July 1, 1998 (July 1, 1999 if a State statutory change is necessary).  For further information on the Cluster Rule, see September 26, 1986 (51 FR 33712).

SAM

	•	This SPA provides updated Tables G-1 and G-2, a Model Revision Attorney General's Statement, and a Checklist Linkage Table to insert into the SAM.