Hazardous waste management program

Proper hazardous waste identification is essential to the success of the hazardous waste management program. The RCRA regulations require that any person who produces or generates a waste must determine if that waste is hazardous. For this purpose, the RCRA includes the following steps in the hazardous waste identification process2 ... 

The hazardous waste regulatory program as we know it today began with the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) in 1976. Since its enactment in 1976, the RCRA has been amended several times, to promote safer solid and hazardous waste management programs (Dennison, 1993). The Used Oil Recycling Act of 1980 and the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984 (HSWA) were the major amendments to the original law. 

Under the RCRA, the hazardous waste management program is based on a cradle-to-grave concept, so that all hazardous wastes can be traced and accounted for fully. Section 3010(a) of the act requires all generators and transporters of hazardous wastes as well as owners and operators of all TSD facilities to file a notification with the ERA within 90 days after the promulgation of the regulations. The notification should state the location of the facility and include a general... 

EPA requires that companies that transport, store, or dispose of /7-bromodiphenyl ether (a particular PBDE compound) follow the rules and regulations of the federal hazardous waste management program. EPA also limits the amount of /7-bromodiphenyl ether put into publicly owned waste water treatment plants. To minimize exposure of people to /7-bromodiphenyl ether, EPA requires that industry tell the National Response Center each time 100 pounds or more of /7-bromodiphenyl ether have been released to the environment. 

Georgia Department of Natural Resources Industrial and Hazardous Waste Management Program 3420 Norman Berry Drive - 7th Floor Hapeville, Georgia 30354 Telephone 404-656-2836... 

Solid and Hazardous Waste Management Program Mail Stop PV-11... 

The fourth characteristic which could make a waste a hazardous waste is toxicity. To determine if a waste is a toxic hazardous waste, a representative sample of the material must be subjected to a test conducted in a certified laboratory. The test procedure used from the inception of the hazardous waste management program was the EP-Toxicity test. The new test procedure is the Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure (TCLP). The TCLP is more aggressive than was the formerly used EP-Toxicity test for certain chemicals. Many industrial wastes which previously were not hazardous wastes may be considered hazardous waste when tested using the new procedure. 

Each of these states has adopted the basic EPA hazardous waste management program, including regulations for identification and listing of hazardous wastes requirements applicable to generators and transporters of hazardous waste requirements for facilities that treat, store, or dispose of hazardous waste and restrictions for the land disposal of specific hazardous wastes. 

Approved state hazardous waste management programs (Part 272)... 

In other words, regulation and market pressures have helped spark innovations that have eventually improved process efficiencies, tapped new markets, streamlined production and materials use, and led to many other benefits beyond reduced pollution.18 For example, Fortune 500 company Ashland thinks of their hazardous waste management program not as a necessary evil, but as a value-added customer service. Ashland Distribution Company offers a one-source, closed-loop process to not... 

An elfective hazardous waste management program cannot concern itself solely with disposal... 

Records are needed both to meet regulatory requirements and to help monitor the success of the hazardous waste management program. Because the central accumulation area is usually the last place where waste is dealt with before it leaves the facility, it is often the most suitable place for ensuring that all appropriate and required records have been generated. 

Records of costs, internal tracking, and so forth, can provide information on the success of the hazardous waste management program. 

Owners or operators of facilities located in unauthorized states i.e., states in which the U.S. EPA administers the hazardous waste management program) who cannot resolve significant differences in quantity or type within 15 days of receiving the waste must submit to their Regional Administrator a letter with a copy of the manifest at issue describing the discrepancy and attempts to reconcile it (40 CFR 264.72(c) and 265.72(c)). 

CFR 272, 1991, "Approved State Hazardous Waste Management Programs," Code of Federal Regulations, as amended. 

Provide technical support to states that lack hazardous waste management programs... 

Industrial and Hazardous Waste Management Program Floyd Towers East, 205 Butler Street, South East Atlanta, Georgia 30334 (404) 656-2833... 

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