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EPA Envirofacts Data - Hazardous Waste Handlers |
What this map layer shows:
The locations of more than 534,000 hazardous waste facilities.
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Background Information |
Sample Map
Hazardous waste handlers treat, store, and dispose of hazardous wastes.
Hazardous wastes pose a substantial or potential hazard to human health
or the environment when improperly managed. The Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) requires that hazardous waste handlers provide
information concerning their activities to State environmental agencies.
These agencies then provide the information to regional and national
U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) offices. The EPA oversees
the regulation of hazardous waste handlers and develops approaches
and technologies to support efficient hazardous waste cleanup. This
map layer was produced by the EPA.
The EPA Envirofacts Data - Hazardous Waste Handlers map layer shows
locations of more than 534,000 hazardous waste facilities in the
United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands as of May,
2005. Descriptive information includes the facility name and identification
number. More detailed information on hazardous waste is available
from the EPA
RCRAInfo page and the EPA
Hazardous Waste page, and
definitions of environmental terms can be found in the EPA
Terms of Environment.
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