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Title: Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)


1
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
  • SAFE 210

2
Goals
  • Protect human health and environment from the
    potential hazards of waste disposal
  • Conserve energy and natural resources
  • Reduce the amount of waste generated
  • Ensure that wastes are managed in an
    environmentally sound manner

3
Major Amendments
  • Enacted in 1976 (as an amendment to the Solid
    Waste Disposal Act of 1965)
  • 1984 Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments (HSWA)

4
Major Programs/Subtitles
  • Subtitle C Hazardous Waste
  • Subtitle D Solid Waste
  • Subtitle I Underground storage tanks

5
Subtitle C Hazardous Waste Management Program
6
What is Hazardous Waste?
  • Solid waste Any garbage, refuse, sludge from a
    waste treatment plant, water supply treat
  • Hazardous waste A solid waste or combination of
    solid wastes that lead to an increase in illness
    or mortality or poses a hazard (or potential
    hazard) to human health or environment when
    improperly stored, treated, transported or
    disposed.

7
Some Excluded Hazardous Waste
  • Domestic sewage
  • Irrigation waters or industrial discharges
    allowed under the CWA
  • Nuclear material regulated by the Atomic Energy
    Act
  • Household wastes
  • Certain mining and mineral processing wastes

8
What is Hazardous Waste?
  • Listed wastes
  • F, K, P, and U lists
  • Characteristic wastes
  • Ignitability
  • Corrosivity
  • Reactivity
  • Toxicity

9
Typical Wastes Generated by Industries
  • Chemical manufacturers
  • Vehicle maintenance shops
  • Printing industry
  • Paper industry
  • Metal manufacturing
  • Acids, bases, reactive ignitable wastes
  • Paint wastes, ignitable wastes, spent solvents
  • Heavy metals, inks
  • Ignitable corrosive wastes, inks
  • Acids/bases,, cyanide wastes, sludges containing
    heavy metals

10
Cradle to Grave
  • Applies to those who
  • generate
  • recycle
  • transport
  • treat
  • store
  • dispose

11
Generators - Classifications
  • Large Quantity Generator
  • Generates greater than 1000 kg/mo (5 drums)
  • Small Quantity Generator
  • Generates 100 kg/mo to 1000 kg/mo (1/2 drum - 5
    drums)
  • Conditionally Exempt SQG
  • Generates less than 100 kg/mo (1/2 drum)

12
Generators - Responsibilities
  • Tracking
  • Identification number
  • Uniform Hazardous Waste Manifest
  • Package/mark/label waste
  • File biennial reports (LQG)

13
Specific Generator Responsibilities
  • Large quantity generator
  • 90 day storage limit
  • Contingency plan
  • Documented training
  • 45 day exception reports
  • Small quantity generator
  • 180 day storage limit (270 days if gt200 miles)
  • Undocumented training
  • 60 day exception reports

14
Transporters
  • Comply with DOT provisions for labeling, marking,
    placarding, and using proper containers
  • EPA ID Number
  • Maintain manifests
  • Spill cleanup

15
Treatment, Storage, and Disposal (TSD) Facilities
  • Some requirements include
  • EPA ID number
  • Permit
  • Physical and chemical analysis
  • Security
  • Inspection plan
  • Training
  • Equipment
  • Contingency plan
  • Manifests
  • Biennial reports
  • Closure/post closure

16
Tracking Permitting Systems
  • Tracking System
  • EPA Identification Number
  • Uniform Hazardous Waste Manifest
  • Permitting System
  • Precautions to manage waste

17
Land Disposal Restrictions
  • Requires treatment before land disposal
  • Types of land disposal include
  • - Landfills
  • - Surface impoundments
  • - Underground injection wells
  • - Waste piles

18
The States Role
  • Oversee hazardous waste tracking system
  • Operate the permitting system
  • Ensure public participation requirements are met
  • Act as enforcement

19
Subtitle D MSW and Industrial Solid Waste
  • Municipal solid waste (MSW)
  • Trash generated homes, industries, and
    commercial and institutional offices
  • Industrial solid waste/industrial hazardous waste
  • Wastes and wastewaters generated by manufacturing
    processes that are not considered hazardous
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