NOTICE OF EXPORT OF HAZARDOUS WASTE, DGGIMAR. 710/000162

UNCLAS MEXICO 000220 SIPDIS DEPT FOR OES/ENV, SUSAN GARDNER DEPT PLEASE PASS TO EPA/OECA, BHEISS/JSHAW E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: SENV EPA KSCA MX SUBJECT: NOTICE OF EXPORT OF HAZARDOUS WASTE, DGGIMAR. 710/000162 ¶1. Post ESTH office received on behalf of EPA, a letter dated 14 January, 2010 from Secretaria de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (SEMARNAT),concerning the exportation of hazardous waste from the following United States companies to Mexico: - Arcelor Mittal La Place, LLC. ¶2. The basic information in this letter from Alfonso Flores Ramirez, Director General, division for the management of hazardous waste is as follows: In reference to your letter dated January 4, 2010, received in this General Directorate on January 8, 2010, with document number DGGIMAR.710/000162 and in reference to the Export of Hazardous Waste Notification under number 01/2010, through which, the company ARCELOR MITTAL LA PLACE, LLC, requests authorization for the export of electric arc furnace dust to ZINC NACIONAL, S.A., during the period of January 1 - December 31, 2010, using the customs in Laredo, Texas and El Paso, Texas. I would like to inform you that this Directorate has no objection to the transborder actions being executed in accordance with the Export Notifications above mentioned. Nevertheless and according to Articles 50, 85, 86, 89, 90 and 91 of the General Law of Prevention and Integral Negotiations of Hazardous Waste (LGPGIR, initials in Spanish) and Articles 107, 108, 114, 115, 117 and 118 of the LGPGIR Regulation, for each of the transborder actions, ZINC NACIONAL, S.A. will have to negotiate before this Undersecretary's office the corresponding Authorizations of imports. Likewise, the company will import as a maximum 240,000 tons per year, which is its recycling capacity in accordance with its Authorization No. 19-46-PSVI-04 (RENEWAL), dated July 23, 2004. FEELEY