Environmental Protection Agency hazardous waste facilities

Carnes, R. A. Whitmore, F. C. "Siting and Design Consideration for the Environmental Protection Agency Combustion Research Facility," Proc. 8th Annu. Res. Symp. Incinera-tion and Treatment of Hazardous Waste, EPA-600/9-83-003, 1983. 

EPA. 1993a. Standards for the management of hazardous waste and specific types of hazardous waste facilities. Health-based limits for exclusion of waste-derived residues. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Code of Eederal Regulations. 40 CER 266, Subpart H. Appendix VII. 

EPA. 1997c. Standards for owners and operators of hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities. Ground-water monitoring list. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Code of Federal Regulations. 40 CER 264, Appendix IX. 

FIGURE 23.1 Number of incidents at combustion facilities and TSDFs. (Adapted from U.S. EPA, Report on Emergency Incidents at Hazardous Waste Combustion Facilities and Other Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facilities (TSDFs), EPA530-R-99-014, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, June 1999.)... 

U.S. EPA, Risk Burn Guidance for Hazardous Waste Combustion Facilities, EPA530-R-01-001, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, July 2001. 

United States Environmental Protection Agency (2005) Human Health Risk Assessment Protocol (HHRAP) for Hazardous Waste Combustion Facilities (Final) EPA530-R-05-006 Office of Solid Waste. Washington, DC... 

EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). 1998. Human Health Risk Assessment Protocol for Hazardous Waste Combustor Facilities, EPA 530-D-98-001, July. Washington, D.C. Environmental Protection Agency. 

EPA (1994c). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Extension of the policy on enforcement of RCRA Section 3004(j) storage prohibition at facilities generating mixed radioactive/hazardous waste, 59 FR 18813 (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington). 

Anonymous, National survey of hazardous waste treatment, storage, disposal and regulating facilities. Report to Environment Protection Agency by Kate Blow. United States Environmental Protection Agency. July 30, 1990. 

EPA. 1994o. Standards for Owners and Operators of Hazardous Waste Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facilities. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Subpart CC - Organic Air Emission Standards for Tanks, Surface Impoundments, and Containers. 59 FR 62896. 

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reported extensively on its R and D programmes for detoxifying hazardous waste, e.g., from deserted refineries, chemical plants, herbicide and pesticide factories and storage facilities, etc. An interesting contribution was made by Col. D. Naugle, the Deputy Director of Environmental Policy, U.S. Department of Defense, which inevitably has to handle immense quantities of hazardous waste. The... 

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) authorizes states to regulate hazardous wastes within their borders under RCRA using provisions that are no less stringent than the requirements adopted by the EPA (40 CFR 271). Kentucky and Colorado, as well as all of the states with currently operating chemical agent disposal facilities, have obtained EPA authorization to implement and enforce state requirements for the management of hazardous waste. 

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