Comment Response Document for Financial Test and Corporate Guarantee for Private Owners or Operators

Comment Response Document for Financial Test and Corporate Guarantee for PrivateOwners or Operators of Municipal Solid Waste Landfill FacilitiesOctober 12, 1994 Proposed Rule (59 FR 51523)1PrefaceEPA has endeavored to provide ample opportunity to comment on its October 12, 1994 proposedrule. EPA held a 60-day public comment period on its proposed rule. 59 FR 51523. On September27, 1996, EPA also published a Notice of Data Availability for a document inadvertently omittedfrom the docket, and provided additional opportunity to comment on the information. 61 FR 50787.EPA received thirty comments (twenty-eight on the October 12, 1994 notice and two on thesupplemental notice of data availability) on the proposed rule with the largest number of commentsfrom insurance companies and sureties. The States of Texas, Nebraska, Michigan, and Californiaalso commented along with several corporations and associations. EPA has considered andresponded to all significant comments in adopting its final rule. All public comments received areavailable in the public docket for this rulemaking.The preamble to the final regulation contains the rationale for the regulation. This documentsupplements the preamble by providing additional analyses and background on the comments andEPA=s responses. In some instances a contractor to EPA prepared analyses which EPAindependently reviewed and may have relied on in its decision making for this rulemaking. EPAidentifies such ...