APPENDIX XI 

RCRA HW REGULATORY SUMMARY 

July 1,2007 to June 30, 2008 

Docket No. 58-0105-0801 

Citation: 72 FR 39331·39353 (40 CFR Parts 260 and 278) (IDAPA 58'o! ,05.004 and .017) 

Date: July 18, 2007 

Status: Final Rule 

Title: Criteria for the Safe and Environmentally Protective Use ofGranular Mine Tailings 

Known as "Chat" 

Summary: EPA is promulgating mandatory criteria for the environmentally protective use of 

chat in transportation projects carried out, in whole or in part, with federal funds, The 

chat covered in this rule is specifically from the Tri·State Lead and Zinc Mining 

District ofKansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. 

Citation: 73 FR 57·72 (40 CFR Parts 260 and 261) (IDAPA 58,01,05,004 and ,005) 

Date: January 2, 2008 

Status: Final rule 

Title: Regulation of Oil·Bearing Hazardous Secondary Materials from the Petroleum 

Refining Industry Processed in a Gasification System to Produce Synthesis Gas 

Summary: EPA is revising hazardous waste regulations to further promote the environmentally 

sound recycling of oil·bearing hazardous secondary materials generated by the 

petroleum refining industry. Specifically, EPA is broadening an existing exclusion 

from the definition of solid waste for oil bearing secondary materials. 

Citation: 73 FR 18970· 18984 (40 CFR Parts 63, 264 and 266) (IDAPA 58,01.05,008 and .010) 

Date: April 8, 2008 

Status: Final Rule 

Title: NESHAP: National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Standards for 

Hazardous Waste Combustors; Amendments 

Summary: EPA is finalizing amendments to the NESHAPs for hazardous waste combustors, 

which EPA promulgated on October 12,2005. This amendment clarifies several 

compliance and monitoring provisions and also corrects several omissions and 

typographical errors. 

Citation: 73 FR 31756·31769 (40 CFR Parts 261 and 302) (IDAPA 58.01.05,005) 

Date: June 4, 2008 

Status: Final Rule 

Title: Hazardous Waste Management System: Identification and Listing of Hazardous 

Waste; Amendments to Hazardous Waste Code F019 

Summary: EPA is amending the list of hazardous wastes from non-specific sources (called Fwastes) by modifying the scope ofEPA hazardous waste FO 19. EPA is amending the 

FO 19 listing to exempt wastewater treatment sludges from zinc phosphating, when 

such phosphating is used in the motor vehicle manufacturing process. These exempt 

sludges must be disposed in landfills that meet specilied design criteria in the rule. 

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RCRA HW REGULATORY SUMMARY 

July 1,2008 to June 30, 2009 

Docket No, 58-0105·0901 

Citation; 13 FR 64668-64188 (40 CFR Parts 260,261 and 210) (!DAPA 58.01.05.004, .005 

and .012) 

Date: October 30, 2008 

Status: Final Rule 

Title: Revisions to the Definition of Solid Waste 

Summary; EPA is promulgating revisions to the definition of solid waste to exclude certain 

hazardous secondary materials from regulation under Subtitle C of RCRA The 

purpose of this rule is to encourage safe, environmentally sound recycling and 

resource conservation and to respond to several court decisions on the definition of 

solid wastc. 

Citation: 13 FR 12912-12960 (40 CFR Parts 261 and 262) (lDAPA 58.01.05.005 and .(06) 

Date: December 1, 2008 

Status; Final rule 

Title: Standards Applicable to Generators ofHazardous Waste; Alternative Requirements 

for Hazardous Waste Determination and Accumulation of Unwanted Material at 

Laboratories Owned by Colleges and Universities and Other Eligible Academic 

Entities Formally Affiliated with Colleges and Universities. 

Summary; This rule provides a flexible and protective set ofregulations that address the specific 

nature of hazardous waste generation and accumulation in laboratories at colleges 

and universities, as well as other eligible academic entities formally affiliated with 

colleges and universities. This rule is optional and a choice is provided to these 

facilities to notilY and implement these new regulations or manage laboratory waste 

under the existing hazardous waste regulations. 

Citation: 13 FR 11954·18011 (40 CFR Part 261)(IDAPA 58.01.05.005) 

Date: December 19, 2008 

Status: Final Rule 

Title: Expansion ofRCRA Comparable Fuel Exclusion 

Summary: EPA is establishing a new category of excluded .fuel that has its own set of 

conditions. These newly excluded hazardous secondary materials called emission 

comparable fuel (ECF) have conditions set in the rule for burning which assures that 

emissions from industrial boilers are comparable to emissions from burning fuel oil. 

There are also conditions that are set in the rule for storage of ECF in tanks and 

containers. 
Citation: 74 FR 30228-30235 (40 CFR Parts 260, 261, 262, and 266) (IDAPA 58.01.05.004, 

.005, .006 and .010) 

Date: June 25, 2009 

Status: Final Rule 

Title: Reorganization and Name Change for the Office ofSolid Waste (OSW) Within the 

Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response 

Summary: On January 18,2009, the Office ofSolid Waste (OSW) was reorganized and changed 

its name to the Office ofResource Conservation and Recovery CORCR). The name 

change reflects the breadth ofthe responsibilities/authorities that Congress provided 

to EPA under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the primary 

authorizing statute. EPA is taking final action to amend the Code of Federal 

Regulation (CFR) to reflect this reorganization and name change of the Office of 

Solid Waste. 

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RCRA HW REGULATORY SUMMARY 

July 1,2009 to June 30,2010 

Docket No. 58-0105-1001 

Citation: 75 FR 1236-1262 (40 CFR Parts 262, 263, 264, 265, 266 and 271) (IDAPA 

58,01.05,006, ,007, ,008, .009 and .010.) 

Date: January 8, 2010 

Status: Final rule 

Title: Revisions to the Requirements for: Transboundary Shipments of Hazardous Wastes 

between OECD Member Countries, Export Shipments ofSpent Lead-Acid Batteries, 

Submitting Exception Reports for Export Shipments of Hazardous Waste and 

Imports of Hazardous Wastes 

Summary: EPA is promulgating revisions to RCRA hazardous waste exporting and importing 

rules. The purpose of this rule is to implement changes to agreements for 

transboundary movement of hazardous waste among countries belonging to the 

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), It also 

establishes notice and consent requirements for spent lead-acid batteries when being 

reclaimed in a foreign country and clarifies where export/import exception reports 

should be sent within EPA HQs, 

Citation: 75 FR 12989-\3009 (40 CFR Parts 260, 261,262,263,264,265,266,268, and 270) 

(IDAPA 58,01.05,004, ,005, ,006, .007, .008, ,009, .010, ,011 and .012) 

Date: March 18,2010 

Status: Direct final rule 

Title: Hazardous Waste Technical Corrections and Clarifications Rule 

Summary: In this rule, EPA is making technical changes that correct or clarifY the existing 

RCRA hazardous waste regulations, 

Citation: 75 FR 31716-31717 (40 CFR Parts 260, 261,262,263, 264, 265, 266, 268, and 270) 

(IDAPA 58.01.05,004, .005, ,006, ,007, .008, .009, .010, .011 and ,012) 

Date: June 4, 2010 

Status: Partial withdrawal of direct final rule 

Title: Hazardous Waste Technical Corrections and Clarifications Rule 

Summary: In a corresponding proposed rule, published for the March 18,2010 direct final rule 

on the Hazardous Waste Technical Corrections and Clarifications Rule, EPA 

received adverse comments on four of the specific amendments and as a result, is 

now withdrawing those amendments for further review, A typographical error was 

also made in another specific amendment and that is being withdrawn for proper 

correction at a later date. 

Citation: 75 FR 33712-33724 (40 CFR Part 261) (IDAPA 58,01.05.005) 

Date: June 15,2010 

Status: Final rule 

Title: Withdrawal of the Emission-Comparable Fuel Exclusion Under RCRA 

Summary: This final action withdraws the conditional exclusion from regulations published on 

December 19, 2008 for Emission Comparable Fuels, (ECF), EPA is taking this 

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action because upon further review, the Agency has concluded that ECF is more 

appropriately classified as discarded material than fuel and regulated as a hazardous 

waste, 

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