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MAYER* BROWN
December 22, 2017 VIA E-MAIL
Barnes Johnson, Director Office of Resource Conservation
and Recovery
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Re: Importation of Spent Precious Metal Material
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with Sabin Metal Corporation about f precious metal bearing catalysts for
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state-of-the-art facility in North Dakota.
Based on our discussion, the "transfer-based exclusion" (as described in the 2008
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of solid waste" rule, 73 Fed. facilitating the importation o
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may or may not include K171 and K172 wastes (which typically do not contain precious metals), but even if those materials are deemed to be ineligible for the reinstated exclusion, it still would cover other spent catalysts.
All requirements set out in the 2009 version of 40 C.F.R. 261.4(a)(24) would need
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'ger W. Patrick
Counsel for Sabin Metal
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