G/TBT/N/UGA/763  
 
3 October 2017  
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member: UGANDA   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible: Uganda National Bureau of Standards  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [ X], 5.7.1 [  ], other:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Laboratory 
chemicals, laboratory samples. Special wastes (ICS 13.030.30).  
5. Title, number of pages and language( s) of the notified document: DUS 1818: 2017, 
Standard Guide for Disposal of Laboratory Chemicals and Samples. (15 page(s), in English)    
6. Description of content: This draft guide is intended to provide the chemical laboratory 
manager, chemical laborator y safety officer, and other relevant staff with guidelines for the 
disposal of small quantities of laboratory wastes safely and in an environmentally sound 
manner. This guide is applicable to laboratories that generate small quantities of chemical 
or toxic  wastes. Generally, such tasks include, but are not limited to, analytical chemistry, 
process control, and research or life science laboratories. It would be impossible to address 
the disposal of all waste from all types of laboratories. This guide is inte nded to address 
the more common laboratory waste streams.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: Protection of human health or safety; Protection of the environment  
8. Relevant documents:   
1. 49 CFR 172  – Hazardous Materials Tables and Hazardous Materials 
Communications Regulations  
2. 49 CFR 172.203  – DOT Hazardous Materials Table, Additional Description 
Requirements  
3. 49 CFR 173  – Shippers –General Requirements for Shipments and Packagings  
4. 49 CFR 173.12(b)  – DOT Shippers' General Requirements for Shipments and 
Packagings. Exceptions for shipment of waste materials: Lab packs  
5. 49 CFR 178  – Shipping Container Specifications  
6. 49 CFR 179  – Specifications for Tank Cars  
7. 40 CFR 261  – Protection of Environment. Identification and Listing of Hazardous 
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  8. 40 CFR 261.3  – Definition of Hazardous Waste  
9. 40 CFR 261.33  – Discarded Commercial Chemical Products, Off -Specifications 
Species, Container Residues, and Residues Thereof  
10. 40 CFR 261.5  – Special Requirements for Hazardous Waste Generated by Small 
Quantity Generators  
11. 40 CFR 262.34  – RCRA Standards Applicable to Generators of Hazardous Waste. 
Accumulation Time  
12. 40 CFR 262.40  – EPA Standards Applic able to Generators of Hazardous Waste. 
Recordkeeping and Reporting: Recordkeeping.  
13. 40 CFR 262.42(b)  – EPA Standards Applicable to Generators of Hazardous Waste. 
Recordkeeping and Reporting: Exception reporting.  
14. 40 CFR 262.44  – EPA Standards Applicable to G enerators of Hazardous Waste. 
Recordkeeping and Reporting: Special requirements for generators of between 100 
and 1000 kg/mo  
15. 40 CFR 262.100 -108 – EPA Standards Applicable to Generators of Hazardous 
Waste. University Laboratories XL Project —Laboratory Envir onmental Management 
Standard, Subpart J, and 52380 Federal Register/Vol 64, No. 187/Tuesday, 
September 28, 1999/Rules and Regulations; Project XL Site -specific Rulemaking 
for University Laboratories at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, the 
Bosto n College, Chestnut Hill, MA, and the University of Vermont, Burlington, VT; 
Hazardous Waste Management System, EPA Final Rule  
16. 40 CFR 265.16  – RCRA Hazardous Waste Training  
17. 40 CFR 403.5  – EPA General Pretreatment Regulations for Existing and New 
Sources of  Pollution. National pretreatment standards: Prohibited discharges.  
18. 40 CFR 761  – Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) Manufacturing, Processing, 
Distribution in Commerce, and Use Prohibitions  
19. 29 CFR 1910.1450  – Occupational Exposure to Hazardous Chemicals in 
Laboratories  
20. Managing Hazardous Wastes  – HHMI Collaborative Project, Howard Hughes Medical 
Institute  
9. Proposed date of adoption: December 2017  
Proposed date of entry into force: Upon declaration as mandatory by the Minister for 
Trade, Industry and Cooperatives  
10. Final date for comments: 60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body: