RCRA regulation Articles
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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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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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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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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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Drum & Tote Washing Wastewater Treatment
55 Gallon Drum 275 Gallon Tote Washing Wastewater Test Floccin™ 909 Treatment 100% Wastewater Reuse This facility receives 55-gallon drums (plastic) and 275 gallon totes (plastic and SS) from several different industries and manufacturer’s including paint, oil field chemicals, acids, caustics, and others. The RCRA regulated facility cleans the containers and returns them to the ...
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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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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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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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Environmentally sound - Case study
On March 16, 2018, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to add hazardous waste aerosol cans to the category of “universal wastes” regulated under the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) regulations, codified at Title 40 of the C.F.R., Part 273. 83 Fed. Reg. 11654. According to EPA, this action would benefit the many manufacturing facilities and ...
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RCRA Closure of Materials Disposal Area P, Los Alamos, New Mexico
Material Disposal Area P (MDA-P) is undergoing clean closure under the Resources Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) as regulated by the New Mexico Environmental Department. The MDA is located on the north-facing slope of Canyon de Valle, an ephemeral drainage in Technical Area 16 of the Laboratory. It was operated from 1950 to 1984 and received materials from the burning of high explosives ...
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HAZWOPER – Different, Not Less
When we think of a hazardous material event, we often think of firefighters and technicians rushing in with large plastic space-like suits to stop the leak and save the day. These first responders definitely play a large role in the mitigation of these emergency situations, but sometimes we tend to forget about the second – due responders who pick up the pieces and begin recovery. ...
By HazSim
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A Guide to Hazwoper Training Levels
Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (Hazwoper) is a crucial component in safeguarding the occupational safety of individuals involved in dealing with hazardous waste and emergency situations. With an array of roles and industries falling under the ambit of Hazwoper, it becomes essential to comprehend the various training levels associated with this vital safety program. In this ...
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Defining solid waste
Simultaneous to the publication of the final National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Boilers (the Boiler NESHAP) and the Commercial and Industrial Solid Waste Incinerator (CISWI) Rules, EPA issued a new regulation that for the first time defines what materials are a non-hazardous solid waste when combusted. This rule, Solid Wastes Used as Fuels or Ingredients in Combustion ...
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The need for specialized statistical software for ground-water analysis
Peer-reviewed guidance documents for the statistical analysis of ground-water monitoring data have been available for years, from the US EPA and from other bodies such as state Departments of Environmental Quality and ASTM. The truth, however, is that many of the statistical requirements are not being enforced by state regulators, with the result that statistics — where performed at all ...
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EPA Issues Proposed Revisions to Definition of Solid Waste
The definition of “solid waste” under the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) is unquestionably one of the most difficult environmental concepts to get one's head around. Even after 27 years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is still tinkering with revisions to the definition to better define the types of recycling activities that fall within the scope of the ...
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Integrated Site Closure Achieves Business and Regulatory Goals
A new concept for cleanup of contaminated properties and hazardous waste sites applicable under federal and state regulatory programs is helping clients achieve both business and regulatory goals at their sites. The concept, called 'Integrated Site Closure', is the seamless integration and delivery of services necessary to reach regulatory closure of contaminated properties. Regulatory closure ...
By AECOM
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Proposed boiler MACT sets aggressive emission limits
On June 4, 2010, U.S. EPA proposed National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for industrial, commercial, and institutional boilers and process heaters at both major and area sources of hazardous air pollutants (HAP) emissions. EPA proposed separate rules for units at major sources of HAP emissions (greater than 10 tons per year [tpy] of any single HAP and/or greater than ...
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Managing compliance: Hazardous Waste Management: Understanding EPA and state-level categories, numbers and reports
Many companies often are surprised to discover exactly how much hazardous waste they generate. A company can be considered a hazardous waste generator if it uses, produces or stores anything from oil-based paint to hydrofluoric acid. If a company uses, stores or generates a certain amount of materials ranging from oil-based paint to hydrofluoric acid, it is required to register with EPA and ...
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The Future of Secondary Materials as Fuel
Many questions related to the regulatory status of facilities that use secondary materials as alternative fuels are anticipated to be answered in 2010. In simple terms, if a combustion source uses a secondary material that is characterized as solid waste as an alternative fuel, then that source could be subject to a Clean Air Act (CAA) Section 129 standard. If the same source used a secondary ...
By All4 Inc.
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Legal lookout: competing coal ash proposals
Depending upon comments the EPA gathers, industry may have to or not have to close out their coal ash containment ponds within five years. On May 4, 2010, EPA issued its long-awaited proposal to manage coal ash – the byproduct of burning coal to generate power. The agency proposed two quite different approaches for regulating coal ash, somewhat to the consternation of critics, who had ...
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