RCRA Articles
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Redefining Solid Waste -- Again
On March 26, 2007, EPA announced the issuance of a sweeping proposal to modify the RCRA definition of solid waste. The proposal seeks to streamline regulation of hazardous secondary materials, and revise the definition of solid waste to exclude certain secondary materials from RCRA regulation to promote the legitimate recycling of these materials. Proposal elements The proposal would exclude ...
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Green products get green light
Untitled Document Green procedurement is not new. Congress recognized its potential when it enacted the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) in 1976. RCRA directs the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to identify products made with recycled waste materials or solid waste byproducts and develop guidelines for purchasing them. These are the four federal ...
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Legal Lookout: Redefining solid waste
Some hazardous secondary materials excluded from EPA's revised definition under RCRA. The definition of solid waste has long been the subject of controversy. At the heart of the debate is what constitutes 'discard,' versus legitimate recycle or reuse such that RCRA regulation should not apply. This question has been especially vexing for secondary materials, including spent materials, listed ...
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RCRA Waste Identification: Meaningful Reform Is Needed (PDF)
Earlier this year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its long-awaited Hazardous Waste Identification Rule (HWIR): Revisions to the Mixture and Derived-From Rules. 1 To industry’s chagrin, EPA decided to retain, while revising modestly, the so-called “mixture” and “derived-from” rules. Perhaps more than any others promulgated under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ...
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RCRA: Reducing Risk From Waste
This document provides an overview of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) solid and hazardous waste regulations. It describes the history of RCRA, the role of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the states, and hazardous waste definitions and management requirements, including the roles of generators, transporters, and treatment, storage, and disposal facilities. In ...
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Best practices in hazardous waste management
Environmental regulations in.the u.s. place the burdenof properly managing and disposing of hazardouswaste on the companies that generate the, waste. These companies bear significant liability-whiChcan be mitigated,but never entirely eliminated. The consequencesof mismanaging hazardous waste include substantialfinancial penalties and severe damage to an organization'spublic image. Fortunately, ...
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Nonaqueous Phase Liquids Compatibility with Materials Used in Well Construction, Sampling, and Remediation
The EPA Regional Ground Water Forum is a group of EPA professionals representing Regional Superfund and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Offices (RCRA), committed to the identification and resolution of ground-water issues impacting the remediation of Superfund and RCRA sites. The Forum is supported by and advises the Superfund Technical Support Project. The compatibility of remediation, ...
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Modification of the Hazardous Waste Program: Hazardous Waste Lamps. Final Rule - July 6, 1999
Today's final rule adds hazardous waste lamps to the federal list of universal wastes regulated under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Handlers of universal wastes are subject to less stringent standards for storing, transporting, and collecting these wastes. The Agency has concluded that regulating spent hazardous waste lamps as a universal waste under 40 CFR Part 273 will lead ...
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YES Management, Inc. Leverages Wastebits’ RCRAInfo Integration - Case Study
The Challenge Yuma Environmental Services (YES Management, Inc.) is a fully permitted Waste Transfer Facility that focuses on providing simple, cost-effective solutions for a variety of Non-RCRA and Non-Hazardous Waste Streams. In July of 2018, the Federal EPA went live with a requirement that all hazardous waste manifests be submitted through the RCRAInfo site. The transition to the online ...
By Wastebits
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Determination of the Environmental TCLP Metals in Waste-Waters, Solid Wastes, and Soils by Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry
Hazardous wastes can originate from many sources – industrial processes, product formulations, synthetic operations, virtually any manufacturing business. The nature and composition of the “wastes” can vary so much that one industry’s discharge can serve as another’s raw materials. It is the tremendous transfer of these materials – their storage, transportation, spillage and leakage into ...
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Encouraging Americans to Reuse, Recycle, and Conserve Natural Resources
When Congress passed the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) in 1976, it charged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with ensuring the safe disposal and management of municipal and industrial waste, and it broadly championed a new ethic of resource conservation. During the first two decades of RCRA, EPA, in partnership with the states, focused primarily on establishing a ...
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New EPA Draft Guidance on Vapor Intrusion
One of the primary objectives of the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER) under EPA’s Strategic Plan is stated as: “By 2005, EPA and its state, tribal and local partners will reduce or control the risk to human health and the environment at more than 374,000 contaminated Superfund, RCRA, underground storage tank (UST), brownfields and oil sites, and have the planning and ...
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Detecting Arsenic in Soil using Field Portable X-Ray Fluorescence
Abstract Rapid, accurate on site determination of arsenic and heavy metal levels in soil is a powerful tool in efforts to rebuild and revitalize abandoned and under-utilized industrial properties. The EPA is actively spearheading initiatives to encourage assessment, clean-up and re-use of these industrial properties. In the case of heavy metals (often the eight RCRA metals Pb, As, Cd, Cr, Hg, ...
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RCRA Regulation of Wastes from the Production, Use, and Disposal of Nanomaterials
The booming growth of nanotechnology in the U.S. economy has already begun to create an expanding universe of wastes from the manufacture, use, and disposal of products containing nanomaterials. Just as nanomaterial products offer useful novel properties, nanomaterial wastes may present regulators with unexpected and unique questions. Researchers are trying to assess how nanomaterials and ...
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What To Expect During an LDAR Program Audit
Many different local and state laws enforce emission regulations concerning leak-prone equipment. These laws include the New Source Performance Standards (NSPS), State Implementation Plans (SIPs), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP), and more. Inspectors visit refineries to test their systems’ efficacy to ensure ...
By LDARtools
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National Partnership for Environmental Priorities: Rewarding Waste Minimization
EPA seeks to reward efforts to reduce waste generation and emissions of chemicals that the agency believes are harmful. Their general strategy is to bestow public recognition and other rewards upon companies and other entities that choose to partner with the agency in a varied and growing number of partnership opportunities. This column describes one such partnership program, the National ...
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Internal Guidelines and TSCA: The Implications of EPA`s Case Against DuPont
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has urged industry for years to view federal environmental standards as floors, not ceilings. Companies have been urged at every opportunity to do better than what the law requires, and to improve upon federally enforced environmental standards whenever possible. Many in industry have heeded the call and have proactively established ...
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Medical and Hazardous Waste Management - case study
Waste stream regulatory and policy analysis Nationwide The Summary Our years of environmental regulatory knowledge and solid waste management expertise provide an understanding of state vs. federal requirement in the handling and disposal of medical and other hazardous waste. The Client A leading hazardous waste collection and disposal company The Rundown Compared individual ...
By AlterEcho
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Chesapeake Bay Expert analysis and litigation support - case study
Chesapeake Bay, Maryland The Summary Our experts review reports, analyze state and federal hazardous waste regulations, and provide consulting services and opinions during the course of litigation connected to the cleanup of a former steel mill on Chesapeake Bay. The Client A regional, private-sector non-profit organization The Rundown Provided a detailed analysis to determine ...
By AlterEcho
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When is material ‘spent?
The definition of solid waste has been frequently tested in the courts. A recent court decision provides new guidance on this meaning, and might have made things tougher for well-meaning enterprises. The definition of a hazardous waste under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) is nearly impossible to understand. A recent court ruling has not helped eliminate confusion and, some ...
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