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Hazardous Waste Generators
Highlights
Hazardous Waste Generator Regulations: A User-Friendly Reference Document (PDF) (411 pp, 2.8MB)
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A hazardous waste generator is any person or site whose processes and actions create hazardous waste (see 40 CFR 260.10). Generators are divided into three categories based upon the quantity of waste they produce:
- Large Quantity Generators generate 1,000 kilograms per month or more of hazardous waste, more than 1 kilogram per month of acutely hazardous waste, or more than 100 kilograms per month of acute spill residue or soil.
- Small Quantity Generators generate more than 100 kilograms, but less than 1,000 kilograms, of hazardous waste per month.
- Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generators generate 100 kilograms or less per month of hazardous waste, or 1 kilogram or less per month of acutely hazardous waste, or less than 100 kilograms per month of acute spill residue or soil.
Each class of generator must comply with its own set of requirements. All generators are also required to:
- Obtain an EPA Identification number (available from State environmental offices).
- Comply with the manifest system.
- Handle wastes properly before shipment (packaging, labeling, marking, placarding, accumulation time, etc.).
- Comply with record keeping and reporting requirements.
- Comply with any additional State requirements for generators (contact your State environmental office for more information).
Laws, Regulations, and Information on the Regulatory Development Process
Permit
Improvement Team
The Permit Improvement Team (PIT) was created in July 1994 to examine
all of EPA's permitting programs—including the RCRA permitting process—and
identify how they can be improved. The Team consists of EPA, State, tribal,
and local government officials.
Public
Participation and Citizen Action
This Web site explains how the public plays an important role in the permitting
process for both hazardous and municipal solid waste facilities. Facilities
applying for a permit must involve the public in some aspects of the process.
Businesses and the State or federal permitting agency also must make information
available to the public.
Federal Register
Environmental Documents -- Wastes
This Web site allows users to search and review all Federal Register notices
and documents pertaining to wastes back to 1994.
Hazardous
Waste Manifest System
This Web site details the forms, reports, and procedures designed to seamlessly
track hazardous waste from the time it leaves the generator facility where
it was produced, until it reaches the off-site waste management facility
that will store, treat, or dispose of the hazardous waste.
Hazardous Waste Generator Standards — Information Collection Requests
RCRA Burden Reduction Initiative
For more information, see 40 CFR 262 or review a list of generator guidance documents and resources.
