Facilitating Compliance with Dual Regulation of Mixed Low-Level Waste

3 Facilitating Compliance with Dual Regulation of Mixed Low-Level Waste 

To address these issues, EPA and NRC developed and issued guidance documents on  

In addition to promulgating the treatment standards for most mixed waste in 1990, EPA established a 2 y National Capacity Variance for mixed waste for which there was no available treatment or 

13LDRs specified in RCRA required EPA to develop treatment standards for hazardous chemical waste and established deadlines for EPA to develop treatment standards for those wastes for which treatment standards did not exist. Congress divided LDR hazardous waste into several categories solvents and dioxins California listed wastes first, second, and third listed wastes and characteristically hazardous wastes. 

In order for facilities to be afforded the lower enforcement priority, they must demonstrate to EPA that they are managing their mixed waste in an environmentally sound manner. EPA indicated that it would consider a variety of indicators of environmentally responsible management in determining the civil enforcement priority at individual facilities. These indicators include, but are not limited to, whether the facility has  

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