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APPENDIX B

LAND DISPOSAL RESTRICTIONS

NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

Generators: Generators must send a notification with the initial shipment of every waste to a TSDF. If

the waste, process, or receiving facility changes, another notification is required. The information that the

notification must include varies according to the status of the waste. Waste that needs treatment before it

can be disposed of will have different information than waste that can be disposed of without treatment.

Below is a table that details the required elements for LDR notifications.

1. EPA hazardous waste and 

manifest numbers of first

shipment

2. Statement: This waste is

subject to LDR

3. Statement: This waste is not 

prohibited from land disposal

4. The constituents of concern 

and any underlying hazardous 

constituents (if applicable) 

5. Indication whether it is a 

wastewater or nonwastewater 

6. Waste analysis data 

(when available) 

7. Date the waste will be 

prohibited from land disposal 

8. For hazardous debris, when 

treating with the alternative 

treatment technologies, list the

contaminants subject to 

treatment 

9. A certification is needed 

(see applicable section

for exact wording)

Waste Needs to Meet 

Treatment Standard

Waste Meets 

Treatment Standard

Waste Is Not 

Subject to

Treatment Standard

Waste Is In 

Lab Packs

Required Notification 

Information

X X

X

X

X

X X

X

X

X X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X X
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Treatment Facilities: Treatment facilities have to send similar notifications along with the shipment of

treated wastes to disposal facilities. A certification must be included stating that the waste meets the

treatment standards and may be land disposed. Below is a table detailing the information required for

treatment facility notifications.

1. EPA hazardous waste and 

manifest number of first shipment

2. Statement that the waste is subject to LDR

3. The constituents of concern and any underlying 

hazardous constituents (if applicable) 

4. Indication whether it is a wastewater 

or nonwastewater 

5. Waste analysis data (when available)

6. A certification statement is needed (see applicable

section for exact wording) 

Waste Is Treated and 

Sent for Disposal Required Notification Information

X

X

X

X

X

X

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APPENDIX D

GLOSSARY

The terms below are defined as they pertain to the

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.

Abandoned For purposes of defining a material as

a solid waste under RCRA Subtitle C, a material

that is disposed of, burned, or incinerated.

Accumulated Speculatively Storage of a material

in lieu of expeditious recycling. Materials are

usually accumulated speculatively if the waste

being stored has no viable market or if a facility

cannot demonstrate that at least 75 percent of the

material has been recycled in a calendar year.

Acknowledgment of Consent Notice sent by EPA

to an exporter of hazardous waste, indicating that

the importing country has agreed to accept such

waste.

Action Levels For purposes of Subtitle C

corrective action, risk-based concentrations of

hazardous constituents in ground water, soil, or

sediment that may trigger further investigation into

possible contamination at a particular site.

Administrative Action Enforcement action taken

by EPA or a state under its own authority, without

involving a judicial court process.

Administrative Procedures Act The Act that

establishes rulemaking procedures as well as sitespecific licensing procedures, access to agency

information, and procedures and standards for

judicial review of agency actions. All

environmental rulemakings proposed and finalized

by EPA include public participation throughout the

process.

Aggregation Points Centers that accept used oil

only from places owned by the same owner and

operator as the aggregation point, or from do-ityourselfers.

Alternative Concentration Limits For purposes of

TSDF ground water monitoring, hazardous

constituent limits established by the EPA Regional

Administrator that are allowed to be present in

ground water.

Annual Aggregate For purposes of UST financial

responsibility, the total amount of UST financial

responsibility coverage required to cover all leaks

that might occur in one year.

Applicable or Relevant and Appropriate

Requirements Standards, criteria, or limitations

under federal or more stringent state

environmental laws, including RCRA, that may be

required during a Superfund remedial action,

unless site-specific waivers are obtained.

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Authorized State A state that has been delegated

the authority by EPA to implement and enforce its

own regulations for hazardous waste management

under RCRA. The state program must be at least

as stringent as the federal standards.

Automatic Tank Gauging A release detection

method for USTs that uses a probe in the tank that

is wired to a monitor to provide information on

product level and temperature.

Basel Convention The international treaty that

establishes standards for global trade of hazardous

waste, municipal waste, and municipal incinerator

ash. Because the United States is not a party to

the convention, U.S. businesses can only export

waste to those countries with which the U.S.

government has negotiated a separate waste trade

agreement.

Bentsen Wastes Geothermal exploration,

development, and production waste exempt from

RCRA Subtitle C regulation.

Best Demonstrated Available Technology The

technology that best minimizes the mobility or

toxicity (or both) of the hazardous constituents for

a particular waste.

Bevill Wastes Fossil fuel combustion wastes,

mining and mineral processing wastes, and

cement kiln dust wastes exempt from RCRA

Subtitle C regulation.

Biennial Report A report submitted by hazardous

waste LQGs and TSDFs in order to enable EPA

and the states to track the quantities of hazardous

waste generated and the movements of those

hazardous wastes.

Biennial Reporting System A database that tracks

hazardous waste activity reports, known as

biennial reports, that are submitted by LQGs and

TSDFs.

Boiler An enclosed device that uses controlled

flame combustion to recover and deliver energy in

the form of steam, heated fluid, or heated gases.

Bottom Ash Ash that collects at the bottom of a

combustion chamber.

Burners Handlers who burn used oil for energy

recovery in boilers, industrial furnaces, or

hazardous waste incinerators.

Burning for Energy Recovery Burning hazardous

waste for its heating value as a fuel, and using

wastes to produce fuels or as ingredients in fuels.

By-Products Materials that are not one of the

intended products of a production process. It is a

catch-all term and includes most wastes that are

not spent materials or sludges.

California List Interim LDR treatment standards

that ensured adequate protection of human health

and the environment during the time EPA was

promulgating final LDR treatment standards.

Capacity Assurance Plan A written statement

which ensures that a state has hazardous waste

treatment and disposal capacity. This capacity

must be for facilities that are in compliance with

RCRA Subtitle C requirements and must be

adequate to manage hazardous wastes projected

to be generated within the state over 20 years.

Cathodic Protection A form of corrosion

protection for USTs that uses sacrificial anodes or a

direct current source to protect steel by halting the

naturally occurring electrochemical process that

causes corrosion.

Change in Service Using a formerly regulated

UST system to store a nonregulated substance.

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Combustion The controlled burning in an

enclosed area as a means of treating or disposing

of hazardous waste.

Commercial Chemical Products Unused or offspecification chemicals, spill or container residues,

and other unused manufactured products that are

not typically considered chemicals. For the

purposes of hazardous waste listings, CCPs include

only unused, pure chemical products and

formulations.

Compliance Monitoring For purposes of RCRA

TSDF ground water monitoring, a program that

seeks to ensure that the amount of hazardous

waste that has leaked into the uppermost aquifer

does not exceed acceptable levels.

Composting Processes designed to optimize the

natural decomposition or decay of organic matter,

such as leaves and food. The end product of

composting is a humus-like material that can be

added to soils to increase soil fertility, aeration,

and nutrient retention.

Comprehensive Environmental Response,

Compensation, and Liability Act The Act that

authorizes EPA to clean up uncontrolled or

abandoned hazardous waste sites and respond to

accidents, spills and other emergency releases of

hazardous substances. CERCLA provides EPA with

enforcement authority to ensure that responsible

parties pay the cleanup costs of remediating a site

contaminated with hazardous substances.

Comprehensive Environmental Response,

Compensation, and Liability Information System

A computerized database used to track hazardous

substance sites.

Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines A list,

updated annually, which designates items with

recycled content that procuring agencies should

aim to purchase. This list currently contains 36

items within 8 product categories.

Characteristic Waste Waste that is considered

hazardous under RCRA because it exhibits any of

four different properties: ignitability, corrosivity,

reactivity, and toxicity.

Civil Action A formal lawsuit, filed in court,

against a person who has either failed to comply

with a statutory or regulatory requirement or an

administrative order, or against a person who has

contributed to a release of hazardous waste or

hazardous constituents.

Clean Air Act The Act that regulates air emissions

from area, stationary, and mobile sources. CAA

limits the emission of pollutants into the

atmosphere in order to protect human health and

the environment from the effects of airborne

pollution.

Clean Closure The process of completely

removing all waste that was treated, stored, or

disposed in a hazardous waste unit.

Clean Water Act The Act that sets the basic

structure for regulating discharges of pollutants to

surface waters of the United States. CWA imposes

contaminant limitations or guidelines for all

discharges of wastewater into the nation’s

waterways.

Closure Procedure that a solid or hazardous

waste management facility undergoes to cease

operations and ensure protection of human health

and the environment in the future.

Codification The process by which final

regulations are incorporated into the CFR, which

is published annually.

Collection Centers Centers that accept used oil

from multiple sources, including both businesses

and private citizens.

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Concentration Limits For purposes of TSDF

ground water monitoring, the maximum levels of

hazardous constituents allowed to be present in

the ground water.

Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity

Generators Facilities that produce less than 100

kg of hazardous waste, or less than 1 kg of acutely

hazardous waste, per calendar month. A CESQG

may only accumulate less than 1,000 kg of

hazardous waste, 1 kg of acutely hazardous waste,

or 100 kg of spill residue from acutely hazardous

waste at any one time.

Construction Quality Assurance A program

required by EPA to ensure that a landfill, surface

impoundment, or waste pile meets all of the

technological requirements.

Contained-In Policy EPA’s policy that determines

the health threats posed by contaminated

environmental media and debris, and whether

such materials must be managed as RCRA

hazardous wastes.

Containers Portable devices in which a material

is stored, transported, treated, or otherwise

handled.

Containment Building A completely enclosed

structure used to store or treat noncontainerized

waste.

Cooperative Agreement An agreement between

a state and EPA which ensures that the state will

spend money from the LUST Trust Fund for its

intended purpose.

Corporate Guarantee The demonstration that a

corporate grandparent, corporate parent, or

sibling corporation can meet financial assurance

requirements on behalf of a TSDF owner and

operator, or the financial responsibility

requirements on behalf of an UST owner and

operator. Firms with a “substantial business

relationship” with an UST owner and operator can

also make this demonstration.

Corrective Action EPA’s program to address the

investigation and cleanup of contamination from

solid waste facilities, hazardous waste facilities,

and USTs.

Corrective Action Management Unit A physical,

geographical area designated by EPA or states for

managing remediation wastes during corrective

action.

Corrective Measures Implementation A step in

the RCRA Subtitle C corrective action process

when the owner and operator performs detailed

design, construction, operation, maintenance, and

monitoring of a chosen cleanup remedy.

Corrective Measures Study A step in the RCRA

Subtitle C corrective action process when the

owner and operator identifies and evaluates

remediation alternatives at a given contaminated

site.

Corrosivity Characteristic The characteristic

which identifies wastes that are acidic or alkaline

(basic) and can readily corrode or dissolve flesh,

metal, or other materials.

Counting Totaling the hazardous wastes at a

given facility for a particular month in order to

determine hazardous waste generator status.

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Covered State States that participated in EPA’s

medical waste tracking program from June 22,

1989 to June 22, 1991, which included

Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island,

and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

Cradle to Grave The time period referring to the

initial generation of hazardous waste to its

ultimate disposal.

Criminal Action Enforcement action reserved for

the most serious violations, which can result in

fines or imprisonment.

De minimis Very small amounts of hazardous

waste that are discharged to wastewater treatment

facilities and thus, are exempt from the mixture

rule. De minimis also refers to small

concentrations of regulated substances in an UST.

Debris A broad category of large manufactured

and naturally occurring objects that are commonly

discarded (e.g., construction materials,

decommissioned industrial equipment, discarded

manufactured objects, tree trunks, boulders).

Delisting A site-specific petition process whereby

a handler can demonstrate to EPA that a particular

wastestream generated at its facility that meets a

listing description does not pose sufficient hazard

to warrant RCRA regulation. Owners and

operators can also use the delisting process for

wastes that are hazardous under the mixture and

derived-from rules that pose minimal hazard to

human health and the environment.

Derived-From Rule A rule that regulates residues

from the treatment of listed hazardous wastes.

Destination Facilities Facilities that treat, dispose

of, or recycle a particular category of universal

waste.

Destruction and Removal Efficiency Standard

which verifies that a combustion unit is destroying

the organic components found in hazardous

waste.

Detection Monitoring For purposes of RCRA

TSDF ground water monitoring, the first step of

monitoring at land disposal units, where the

owner and operator monitors for indication of a

leak from the unit, looking for potential changes in

the ground water quality from normal

(background) levels.

Dilution Prohibition The LDR requirement that

prohibits the addition of soil or water to waste in

order to reduce the concentrations of hazardous

constituents instead of treatment by the

appropriate LDR treatment standards.

Direct Discharges Discharges from point sources

into surface water pursuant to a CWA NPDES

permit.

Disposal The discharge, deposit, injection,

dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any solid

or hazardous waste on or in the land or water.

Disposal Prohibition The LDR requirement that

prohibits the land disposal of hazardous waste that

has not been adequately treated to reduce the

threat posed by such waste.

Distillation Bottoms Residues that form at the

bottom of a distillation unit.

Do-it-Yourselfers Individuals who generate used

oil through the maintenance of their own personal

vehicles and equipment, and are not considered

used oil generators.

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Drip Pads Engineering structures consisting of a

curbed, free-draining base, constructed of

nonearthen materials, and designed to convey

wood preservative chemical drippage from treated

wood, precipitation, and surface water run-on to

an associated collection system at wood

preserving plants.

Elementary Neutralization Units Containers,

tanks, tank systems, transportation vehicles, or

vessels which neutralize wastes that are hazardous

only for exhibiting the characteristic of corrosivity.

Emergency Planning and Community Right-toKnow Act The Act designed to help communities

prepare to respond in the event of a chemical

emergency, and to increase the public’s

knowledge of the presence and threat of

hazardous chemicals.

Environmental Justice The fair distribution of

environmental risks across socioeconomic and

racial groups.

Environmental Media Materials such as soil,

groundwater, and sediment.

EPA Identification Number A unique number

assigned by EPA to each hazardous waste

generator, transporter, or treatment, storage, and

disposal facility.

Episodic Generation The situation in which a

generator’s status changes from one month to the

next, as determined by the amount of waste

generated in a particular month. If a generator’s

status does in fact change, the generator is

required to comply with the respective regulatory

requirements for that class of generators for the

waste generated in that particular month.

Exception Report A report, submitted by LQGs

and SQGs, detailing efforts to locate wastes when

a signed copy of the manifest has not been

received.

Existing USTs USTs that were in service, or for

which installation had commenced on or before

December 22, 1988.

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide

Act The Act that provides procedures for the

registration of pesticide products to control their

introduction into the marketplace.

Federal Procurement Program A program that

sets minimum recycled content standards for

certain designated items and requires procuring

agencies to purchase those items composed of the

highest percentage of recovered materials

practicable.

Final Authorization Authorization by EPA that

indicates that a state's program is equivalent to, or

no less stringent than, as well as consistent with,

federal hazardous waste regulations.

Financial Assurance Under RCRA Subtitle C, the

requirements designed to ensure that TSDF

owners and operators will have the financial

resources to pay for closure, post-closure, and

liability costs. Under RCRA Subtitle D, the

requirements designed to ensure that MSWLF

owners and operators will have the financial

resources to pay for closure, post-closure, and

corrective action costs.

Financial Test A test of self-insurance which

demonstrates that an owner and operator has

sufficient financial strength to satisfy TSDF

financial assurance or UST financial responsibility

requirements.

Float The lighter materials present in petroleum

refinery wastewater. As components of oily waste,

float rises to the surface in the first step of

wastewater treatment.

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Fly Ash Particles of ash, such as particulate matter

which may also have metals attached them, that

are carried up the stack of a combustion unit with

gases during combustion.

Formal Action An enforcement action, frequently

in the form of an administrative order, that is taken

when a serious violation is detected, or when the

owner and operator does not respond to an

informal action.

Freedom of Information Act The Act that grants

private parties the right to obtain information in

the government’s possession. FOIA requires each

federal agency to establish procedures for

handling requests regarding government statutes,

regulations, standards, permit conditions,

requirements, orders, and policies.

Full Cost Accounting An accounting approach

that helps local governments identify all direct and

indirect costs, as well as the past and future costs,

of a municipal solid waste management program.

Generator Any person whose act first creates or

produces a hazardous waste, used oil, or medical

waste, or first brings such materials into RCRA

regulation.

Ground Water Monitoring Sampling and

analysis of ground water for the purpose of

detecting the release of contamination from a

solid or hazardous waste land-based unit. Ground

water monitoring is also a method of UST release

detection which senses the presence of liquid

product floating in ground water.

Hammer Provisions Requirements written

directly into RCRA by Congress, as in the case of

the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of

1984, that would automatically become

regulations if EPA failed to issue its own regulations

by certain dates.

Hazard Communication Standard The OSHA

standard that provides workers with access to

information about the hazards and identities of

the chemicals they are exposed to while working,

as well as the measures they can take to protect

themselves.

Hazard Ranking System A model devised under

CERCLA that determines the relative risk to public

health and the environment posed by hazardous

substances in ground water, surface water, air, and

soil. Only those sites with a score of 28.5 (on a

scale of 0 to 100) are eligible for placement on the

NPL.

Hazardous Constituents For purposes of RCRA

TSDF ground water monitoring, those constituents

that have been detected in the uppermost aquifer

and are reasonably expected to be in or derived

from the waste contained in the unit.

Hazardous Substance A comprehensive

designation under CERCLA for RCRA hazardous

wastes as well as other toxic pollutants regulated

by CAA, CWA, and TSCA. EPA has the authority

under CERCLA to designate any additional

element, compound, mixture, or solution as a

hazardous substance. The definition of hazardous

substance specifically excludes petroleum and

natural gas.

Hazardous Waste A waste with properties that

make it dangerous, or capable of having a harmful

effect on human health and the environment.

Under the RCRA program, hazardous wastes are

specifically defined as wastes that meet a

particular listing description or that exhibit a

characteristic of hazardous waste.

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Hazardous Waste Identification Rule for

Contaminated Media (HWIR-media) Rule that

proposes provisions for streamlined permits for

managing remediation wastes, increased flexibility

for staging wastes prior to off-site treatment or

shipment, an exclusion for dredged material, and

streamlined RCRA state authorization procedures.

Hazardous Waste Identification Rule for Waste

(HWIR-waste) Rule that proposes exit levels for

hazardous constituents in listed wastes.

Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency

Response Worker Protection Standard The

OSHA standard that protects the health and safety

of workers engaged in operations at hazardous

waste sites, hazardous waste treatment facilities,

and emergency response locations.

Ignitability characteristic The characteristic

which identifies wastes that can readily catch fire

and sustain combustion.

Incinerator An enclosed device that uses

controlled flame combustion and does not meet

the criteria for classification as a boiler, industrial

furnace, sludge dryer (a unit that dehydrates

hazardous sludge), or carbon regeneration unit (a

unit that regenerates spent activated carbon).

Incinerators also include infrared incinerators

(units that use electric heat followed by a

controlled flame afterburner) and plasma arc

incinerators (units that use electrical discharge

followed by a controlled flame afterburner).

Incorporation by Reference This occurs when

the regulatory language in a state’s regulation

actually cite, or refer to, the federal regulations.

Indirect Discharges Wastewater that is first sent

to a POTW, and then after treatment by the

POTW, discharged pursuant to an NPDES permit

that is sent to a POTW before being discharged as

allowed by a NPDES permit.

Industrial Furnace An enclosed unit that is an

integral part of a manufacturing process and uses

thermal treatment to recover materials or energy

from hazardous waste.

Informal Administrative Action Any

communication from EPA or a state agency that

notifies the handler of a problem.

Inherently Waste-Like For purposes of defining a

material as a solid waste under RCRA Subtitle C, a

material, such as dioxin-containing wastes, that is

always considered a solid waste because of its

intrinsic threat to human health and the

environment.

Insurance A policy to cover the TSDF financial

assurance or UST financial responsibility

requirements.

Interim Authorization A temporary mechanism

that is intended to promote continued state

participation in hazardous waste management

while encouraging states to develop programs that

are fully equivalent to the federal program and will

qualify for final authorization.

Interim Measures Under RCRA Subtitle C

corrective action, short-term actions to control

ongoing risks while site characterization is

underway or before a final remedy is selected.

Interim Status Facilities TSDFs that were already

in operation when the RCRA standards were

established, and that are operating under less

stringent standards until they receive a permit.

Interstitial Monitoring UST release detection

method that involves the use of secondary

containment, such as a barrier, outer wall, vault,

or liner around the UST or piping to prevent

leaking product from escaping into the

environment. If product escapes from the inner

tank or piping, it will then be directed towards an

interstitial monitor located between the walls.

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Inventory Control An UST release detection

method that involves taking measurements of tank

contents, recording the amount of product

pumped each operating day, and reconciling this

data at least once a month to determine is a tank

is leaking.

Jobs through Recycling A program EPA launched

in 1994 to support recycling markets. The goal of

the program is to foster markets for recycled goods

by promoting and assisting the development of

businesses using recovered materials, creating new

recycling jobs, and spurring innovative

technologies.

Lab Packs Drums filled with many small

containers packed in nonbiodegradable absorbent

materials.

Land Disposal For purposes of RCRA Subtitle C

regulation, placement in or on the land, except in

a corrective action unit, and includes, but is not

limited to, placement in a landfill, surface

impoundment, waste pile, injection well, land

treatment facility, salt dome formation, salt bed

formation, underground mine or cave, or

placement in a concrete vault, or bunker intended

for disposal purposes.

Land Treatment Units Also known as land farms,

land treatment units involve the application of

hazardous waste on the soil surface, or the

incorporation of waste into the upper layers of the

soil in order to degrade, transform, or immobilize

hazardous constituents present in hazardous

waste.

Landfill For purposes of RCRA Subtitle C, a

disposal unit where nonliquid hazardous waste is

placed in or on the land.

Large Quantity Generators Facilities that

generate more than 1,000 kg of hazardous waste

per calendar month, or more than 1 kg of acutely

hazardous waste per calendar month.

Large Quantity Handlers of Universal Waste

Handlers that accumulate a total of 5000 kg or

more of universal waste at any one time.

Leachate Any liquid, including any suspended

components in the liquid, that has percolated

through or drained from waste.

Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund

A fund created by SARA that provides money for

overseeing corrective action taken by a

responsible party, and provides money for

cleanups at UST sites where the owner and

operator is unknown, unwilling, or unable to

respond.

Letter of Credit A credit document issued to an

owner and operator to cover TSDF financial

assurance or UST financial responsibility

requirements.

Liabilities Damages that may result from an

unexpected release of contaminants into the

environment.

Listed Wastes Wastes that are considered

hazardous under RCRA because they meet

specific listing descriptions.

Manifest Paperwork that accompanies hazardous

waste from the point of generation to the point of

ultimate treatment, storage, or disposal. Each

party involved in the waste's management retains

a copy of the RCRA manifest, which contains

specific information about the waste.

Manual Tank Gauging A method of UST leak

detection that requires keeping the tank

undisturbed for at least 36 hours per week, during

which time the contents of the tank are measured

to determine if the tank is leaking.

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Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries

Act This Act requires a permit for any material

that is transported from a U.S. port or by a U.S.

vessel for deposition at sea.

Marketers Used oil handlers who either 1) direct

shipments of used oil to be burned as fuel in

regulated devices, or 2) claim that used oil to be

burned for energy recovery is on-specification.

Maximum Achievable Control Technology

Process Technology-based concentration limits

developed under CAA to limit emissions of

individual constituents from hazardous waste

combustion units.

Maximum Contaminant Levels For purposes of

RCRA ground water monitoring, contaminantspecific levels borrowed from SDWA that are the

maximum levels of hazardous waste or hazardous

constituents allowed to be present in the

groundwater.

Medical Waste Culture and stocks of infectious

agents, human pathological wastes, human blood

and blood products, used sharps, certain animal

wastes, certain isolation wastes, and unused

sharps.

Memorandum of Agreement An agreement

between a state's director and its EPA Regional

Administrator outlining the nature of the

responsibilities to enforce a regulatory program

and defining the level of coordination and

oversight between EPA and the state agency.

Military Munitions For purposes of defining a

material as a solid waste under RCRA Subtitle C,

ammunition products and components produced

for or used by the military for national defense

and security.

Miscellaneous Units Hazardous waste treatment,

storage, or disposal units regulated under RCRA

that do not meet any of the other definitions of

regulated units.

Mixed Waste Radioactive waste that is also a

hazardous waste under RCRA. Such wastes are

jointly regulated by RCRA and Atomic Energy Act.

Mixture Rule A rule that is intended to ensure

the regulation of mixtures of listed wastes with

nonhazardous solid wastes.

Municipal Solid Waste Durable goods (e.g.,

appliances, tires, batteries), nondurable goods

(e.g., newspapers, books, magazines), containers

and packaging, food wastes, yard trimmings, and

miscellaneous organic wastes from residential,

commercial, and industrial nonprocess sources.

Municipal Solid Waste Landfill A discrete area of

land or excavation that receives municipal solid

waste.

National Ambient Air Quality Standards

Regulations promulgated by EPA under the Clean

Air Act for six criteria pollutants — sulfur dioxide,

particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, carbon

monoxide, ozone, and lead — in order to protect

the public from toxic emissions to the atmosphere.

National Corrective Action Prioritization System

A resource management tool by which EPA sets

priorities for the Subtitle C corrective action

program.

National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air

Pollutants Controls set by EPA under the Clean

Air Act to control emissions from specific industrial

sources.

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National Oil and Hazardous Substances

Pollution Contingency Plan The NCP contains

the regulations that implement the CERCLA

response process. The NCP also provides

information about the roles and responsibilities of

EPA, other federal agencies, states, and private

parties regarding releases of hazardous substances.

National Priorities List EPA’s priority hazardous

substance sites for cleanup. EPA only funds

remedial actions at hazardous waste sites on the

NPL.

New USTs USTs that are installed, or for which

installation has commenced, after December 22,

1988. New USTs must be installed in compliance

with all of the applicable technical standards.

Nonsudden Accidental Occurrences For

purposes of TSDF financial assurance, events that

take place over time and involve continuous or

repeated exposure to hazardous waste.

Notice of Deficiency A notice requiring that a

TSDF permit applicant supply more information

for a complete permit application.

Notice of Intent to Deny A notice issued by a

permitting agency which tells a TSDF permit

applicant that the application does not

demonstrate compliance with the RCRA

standards.

Notice of Noncompliance An informal letter to a

handler written as part of an informal

administrative action.

Notice of Violation An informal letter to a

handler written as part of an informal

administrative action.

Occupational Safety and Health Act The Act

that is designed to save lives, prevent injuries, and

protect the health of employees in the workplace.

OSHA accomplishes these goals through several

regulatory requirements including the HCS and

HAZWOPER standards.

OECD Council Decision A multilateral agreement

by the Organization for Economic Cooperation

and Development that establishes procedural and

substantive controls for the import and export of

recyclables between member nations. Because

the United States is a member of the OECD, U.S.

businesses can trade recyclables with other

member nations.

Off-Specification Used Oil Used oil that is tested

and does not meet given parameters for arsenic,

cadmium, chromium, flash point, lead, and total

halogens.

Omnibus Provision The authority which allows

EPA to add conditions to a TSDF permit that are

not specifically addressed by the RCRA

regulations.

On-Specification Used Oil Used oil that meets

all the given parameters for arsenic, cadmium,

chromium, flash point, lead, and total halogens.

Open Dumps Solid waste disposal facilities that

fail to comply with the Subtitle D criteria.

Operating Requirements Parameters established

by a facility and written into a permit that will

ensure a combustion unit meets numerical

performance standards.

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Operation and Maintenance The operation and

maintenance phase of the CERCLA response

process. Operation and maintenance may include

activities such as ground water pump and treat,

and cap maintenance. EPA conducts review of

operation and maintenance activities to ensure

that the remedy selected is still protective of

human health and the environment.

Overfiling When a state fails to enforce its

hazardous waste program properly, EPA can

overfile, or enforce a provision for which a

particular state has authorization.

Particulate Matter Small dust-like particles

emitted from hazardous waste combustion units.

Payment Bond For purposes of TSDF financial

assurance, a type of surety bond that will fund a

standby trust fund in the amount equal to the

value of the bond.

Per Occurrence For purposes of UST financial

responsibility, the amount of money that must be

available to pay for the costs from one leak.

Performance Bond For purposes of TSDF

financial assurance, a type of surety bond that

guarantees that an owner and operator will

comply with their closure, post-closure, and

liability requirements.

Performance Standards The numerical pollutant

emission limits for hazardous waste combustion

units developed by EPA.

Permanent Closure Closure of an UST that

involves a number of steps designed to ensure that

the tank will pose no threat to human health or

the environment after it is closed.

Permit-as-a-Shield The provision which ensures

that TSDF permittees will not be enforced against

for violating new requirements that were not

established in the original permit.

Permit-by-Rule A special form of a RCRA permit

that is sometimes granted to facilities with permits

for activities under other environmental laws.

Permitted Facilities Facilities that have obtained

a TSDF permit from EPA or the state agency to

engage in the treatment, storage, or disposal of

hazardous waste.

Phase I RCRA Facility Investigations Also known

as release assessments, these are used to confirm

or reduce uncertainty about areas of concern or

potential releases identified during a RCRA

Subtitle C corrective action RCRA facility

assessment.

Point of Compliance For purposes of RCRA TSDF

ground water monitoring, the vertical point where

a TSDF owner and operator must monitor the

uppermost aquifer to determine if the leak

exceeds the ground water protection standard.

Point Source Discharges Discharges of treated

wastewater directly into a lake, river, stream, or

other water body. Point source discharges are

regulated under CWA.

Pollutants or Contaminants Any element,

substance, compound, or mixture that, after

release into the environment and upon exposure,

ingestion, inhalation, or assimilation into any

organism, will or may reasonably be anticipated to

cause illness, death, or deformation in any

organism. The definition of pollutant or

contaminant specifically excludes petroleum and

natural gas.

Post-Closure Period after closure during which

owners and operators of solid or hazardous waste

disposal units conduct monitoring and

maintenance activities in order to preserve the

integrity of the disposal system.

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Potentially Responsible Party The person or

persons who may be held liable for hazardous

substance contamination under CERCLA. PRPs

may include the owners and operators,

generators, transporters, and disposers of the

hazardous substances.

Precious Metals Reclamation The recycling and

recovery of precious metals (i.e., gold, silver,

platinum, palladium, iridium, osmium, rhodium,

and ruthenium) from hazardous waste.

Preliminary Assessment A review of all readily

available site information such as maps, deeds,

and other records to determine if further CERCLA

response action is necessary. During the PA, EPA

tries to determine what type of substances may

have been released and the potential impacts to

human health and the environment.

Principal Organic Hazardous Constituents

Selected organic constituents, which are high in

concentration and difficult to burn, that are

monitored to ensure a hazardous waste

combustion unit's destruction and removal

efficiency.

Processors and Rerefiners Facilities that process

used oil so that it can be burned for energy

recovery or reused.

Procuring Agency Agencies that purchase

$10,000 or more worth of an item designated

under the federal procurement program during

the course of a fiscal year. Procuring agencies

include: federal government departments or

agencies; state government agencies that use

appropriated federal funds for procurement of a

designated item; local government agencies that

use appropriated federal funds for procurement of

a designated item, and government contractors

that work on a project funded by appropriated

federal funds with respect to work performed

under the contract.

Publicly Owned Treatment Works A municipal

wastewater treatment plant that receives domestic

sewage from households, office buildings,

factories, and other places where people live and

work. Treatment at a POTW is regulated by CWA.

RCRA Facility Assessment Step in the RCRA

Subtitle C corrective action process where owners

and operators compile existing information on

environmental conditions at a given facility,

including information on actual and potential

releases.

RCRA Facility Investigation Site characterization

used to ascertain the nature and extent of

contamination of releases identified during a

Subtitle C RCRA facility assessment or the Phase I

RCRA facility investigation.

Reactivity Characteristic The characteristic

which identifies wastes that readily explode or

undergo violent reactions.

Rebuttable Presumption An objective test that

focuses on the halogen level in used oil to

determine whether the used oil has been mixed

with a listed hazardous waste.

Reclaimed For purposes of defining a material as

a solid waste under RCRA Subtitle C, a material is

reclaimed if it is processed to recover a usable

product, or regenerated by processing it in a way

that restores it to usable condition.

Record of Decision A remedial action plan

document that describes the remedy selected for a

Superfund site.

Recovered Materials Advisory Notice A notice

that provides a suggested recycled content levels

and other purchasing information for each item

designated in the CPG. Procuring agencies can

use these levels as guidelines, but are encouraged

to exceed EPA’s recommendations.

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Recovered Materials Content Standards The

minimum amount of recovered material that

designated items under the federal procurement

program should contain.

Recycled For purposes of defining a material as a

solid waste under RCRA Subtitle C, a material is

recycled if it is used or reused, or reclaimed.

Recycling The separation and collection of

wastes, their subsequent transformation or

remanufacture into usable or marketable products

or materials, and the purchase of products made

from recyclable materials.

Recycling Presumption The assumption that all

used oil that is generated will be recycled.

Regulated Community The group of

organizations, people, industries, businesses, and

agencies that, because they perform certain

activities, fall under the purview of RCRA.

Regulated Substance For purposes of UST

regulation, any hazardous substance defined

under CERCLA §101(14), and petroleum.

Regulations Rules issued by an agency, such as

EPA, that translate the general mandate of a

statute into a set of requirements that the

regulated community and the agency must work

within.

Remedial Action Longer-term CERCLA response

actions that ultimately represent the final remedy

for a site and generally are more expensive and of

a longer duration than removals.

Remedial Design/Remedial Action Remedial

design is a phase in the CERCLA response process

in which technical drawings are developed for the

chosen remedy, costs for implementing the

remedy are estimated, and roles and

responsibilities of EPA, states and contractors are

determined. During the remedial action phase,

the remedy is implemented generally by a

contractor, with oversight and inspection

conducted by EPA or the state (or both).

Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study A

remedial investigation is a phase in the CERCLA

response process that entails an in-depth

examination of the nature and extent of

contamination at a site and the associated risks to

human health and the environment. The

feasibility study entails an analysis of remedial

action alternatives comparing the advantages and

disadvantages of each.

Removal Action Short-term cleanup action taken

under CERCLA that usually addresses problems

only at the surface of a site. A removal is

conducted in response to an emergency, and

generally is limited to 12 months duration or $2

million in expenditures.

Resource Conservation and Recovery

Information System A database that tracks RCRA

Subtitle C facility-specific data and contains events

and activities related to hazardous waste

generators, transporters, and TSDFs.

Risk Retention Groups For purposes of UST

financial responsibility, entities formed by

businesses or individuals with similar risks to

provide insurance coverage for those risks.

Risk-Based Decision-Making A process that uses

risk and exposure assessment concepts to help

UST implementing agencies establish enforcement

priorities.

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Rulemakings Rules issued by an agency, such as

EPA, that translate the general

mandate of a statute into a set of requirements

that the regulated community and the agency

must work within.

Safe Drinking Water Act The Act designed to

protect the nation’s drinking water supply by

establishing national drinking water standards

(MCLs or specific treatment techniques), and by

regulating UIC wells.

Scrap Metal Worn or extra bits and pieces of

metal parts, such as scrap piping and wire, or

worn metal items, such as scrap automobiles and

radiators.

Secondary Materials The five categories of solid

wastes regulated under Subtitle C, which include:

spent materials, by-products, sludges, commercial

chemical products, and scrap metal.

Sham Recycling Illegitimate activities executed

under the guise of recycling in order to be exempt

from or subject to lesser regulation.

Site Inspection An in-depth assessment of on-site

conditions, conducted as part of the CERCLA

response process, to rank the site’s hazard

potential by determining the site’s hazard ranking

system score. Activities to assess the site may

include sampling, field reconnaissance, and

examination of site records (e.g., topographical

maps, logs).

Sludges Any solid, semisolid, or liquid wastes

generated from a wastewater treatment plant,

water supply treatment plant, or air pollution

control device.

Small Quantity Generators Facilities that

generate between 100 kg and 1,000 kg of

hazardous waste per calendar month.

Small Quantity Handlers of Universal Waste

Handlers that do not accumulate 5000 kg of all

universal waste categories combined at their

location at any one time.

Sole Active Ingredient For purposes of

determining if a waste is P or U listed, the only

chemical ingredient serving the function of a

commercial product formulation.

Solid Waste Any garbage, refuse, sludge from a

wastewater treatment plant, water supply

treatment plant, or air pollution control facility,

and other discarded material, including solid,

liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material,

resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and

agricultural operations and from community

activities. For the purposes of hazardous waste

regulation, a solid waste is a material that is

discarded by being either abandoned, inherently

waste-like, a certain waste military munition, or

recycled.

Solid Waste Management Units For purposes of

Subtitle C corrective action, discernible units

where solid or hazardous wastes have been

placed at any times, or any area where solid

wastes have been routinely and systematically

released.

Source Reduction Maximizing or reducing the

use of natural resources at the beginning of an

industrial process, thereby eliminating the amount

of waste produced by the process. Source

reduction is EPA’s preferred method of waste

management.

Spent Materials Materials that have been used

and can no longer serve the purpose for which

they were produced without processing.

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Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures

Regulations establishing spill prevention

procedures and equipment requirements for

nontransportation-related facilities with certain

aboveground or underground storage capacities

that could reasonably be expected to discharge oil

into or upon the navigable waters of the United

States or adjoining shorelines.

State Assurance Funds For purposes of UST

financial responsibility, state funds that are used to

help pay for cleanup and third-party liability costs

resulting from leaking USTs.

State Authorization Tracking System A tool used

by EPA to chart those states that have been

authorized to implement the RCRA hazardous

waste program.

Statement of Basis Document that summarizes a

proposed remedial action plan and the findings

supporting that selected remedy during the

Subtitle C corrective action process.

Statistical Inventory Reconciliation An UST

release detection method that involves using

sophisticated computer software to conduct a

statistical analysis of inventory, delivery, and

dispensing data in order to determine if a tank is

leaking.

Storage Holding hazardous waste for a temporary

period, after which the hazardous waste is treated,

disposed of, or stored elsewhere.

Storage Prohibition LDR provision that prevents

the indefinite storage of untreated hazardous

waste for reasons other than the accumulation of

quantities necessary for effective treatment or

disposal.

Sudden Accidental Occurrences For purposes of

TSDF financial assurance, events that are not

continuous or repeated.

Superfund The common name for CERCLA.

Superfund refers to the entire CERCLA program as

well as the trust fund established to fund cleanup

of contaminated sites where potentially

responsible parties cannot be identified, or are

unwilling or unable to pay.

Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization

Act SARA, enacted in 1986, reauthorized and

amended CERCLA to include additional

enforcement authorities, technical requirements,

community involvement requirements, and

various clarifications. SARA Title III authorized

EPCRA.

Supplemental Environmental Projects

Environmentally beneficial projects which a

defendant or respondent agrees to undertake in

the settlement of a civil or administrative

enforcement action, but which the defendant is

not otherwise legally required to perform.

Surety Bond A guarantee which certifies that a

surety company will cover TSDF financial

assurance or UST financial responsibility

requirements on behalf of the owner and

operator.

Surface Impoundment A natural topographic

depression, man-made excavation, or diked area

formed primarily of earthen materials that is used

to treat, store, or dispose of hazardous waste.

Tank Tightness Testing A variety of UST release

detection methods used to determine if a tank is

leaking; most of these methods involve monitoring

changes in product level or volume in a tank over

a period of several hours.

Tanks Stationary devices used to store or treat

hazardous waste.

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Technical Grade For purposes of determining if a

waste is P or U listed, a commercial chemical

product that is not 100 percent pure, but is of a

grade of purity that is either marketed or

recognized in general usage by the chemical

industry.

Temporary Closure A method by which an UST

owner and operator can close a tank temporarily

and bring it back into service at a later date. The

owner and operator must continue to operate and

maintain the corrosion protection system and the

leak detection system if any product remains in

the tank.

Temporary Units Containers or tanks that are

designed to manage remediation wastes during

corrective action at permitted or interim status

facilities.

Thermal Treatment The treatment of hazardous

waste in a device that uses elevated temperatures

as the primary means to change the chemical,

physical, or biological character or composition of

the waste.

Totally Enclosed Treatment Units Units that are

designed and constructed to practically eliminate

the potential for hazardous wastes to escape into

the environment during treatment.

Toxic Substances Control Act The Act that

controls the manufacture and sale of certain

chemical substances.

Toxicity Characteristic The characteristic which

identifies wastes that are likely to leach dangerous

concentrations of toxic chemicals into ground

water.

Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure A

lab procedure designed to predict whether a

particular waste is likely to leach chemicals into

ground water at dangerous levels.

Transfer Facilities Any transportation-related

facility such as loading docks, parking areas,

storage areas, or other similar areas where

shipments of hazardous waste, used oil, or

universal waste are held temporarily during the

normal course of transportation.

Transporter Any person engaged in the off-site

transportation of hazardous waste, used oil,

universal waste, or medical waste.

Treatment Any method, technique, or process

designed to physically, chemically, or biologically

change the nature of a hazardous waste.

Treatment Standards LDR criteria that hazardous

waste must meet before it is disposed.

Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facilities

Facilities engaged in the treatment, storage, or

disposal of hazardous waste. These facilities are

the last link in the cradle-to-grave hazardous

waste management system.

Trial Burn Burn conducted to test the

performance of a hazardous waste combustion

unit over a range of conditions.

Trust Fund A financial mechanism by which a

facility can set aside money in order to cover the

TSDF financial assurance or UST financial

responsibility requirements.

Underground Injection Control Well Units into

which hazardous waste is permanently disposed of

by injection 1/4 mile below an aquifer with an

underground source of drinking water (as defined

under SDWA).

Underground Storage Tanks A tank and any

underground piping connected to the tank that is

used to contain an accumulation of regulated

substances and that has at least 10 percent of its

combined volume underground.

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Underlying Hazardous Constituents

Constituents that must be treated in order to meet

contaminant-specific levels for purposes of the

LDR program.

Unit Pricing An economic incentive program

used to achieve source reduction and recycling,

also called variable rate refuse collection, where

customers who dispose of more waste pay more

for the collection and disposal services.

Universal Treatment Standards Contaminantspecific hazardous waste LDR treatment levels.

Universal Wastes Commonly recycled wastes

with special management provisions intended to

facilitate recycling. There are three categories of

universal wastes: hazardous waste batteries,

hazardous waste pesticides that have been

recalled or collected in waste pesticide collection

programs, and hazardous waste thermostats.

Upgrading Retrofitting existing USTs to come into

compliance with the UST regulations. The

upgrading period expires on December 22, 1998.

Use Constituting Disposal The direct placement

of wastes or waste-derived products (e.g., asphalt

with petroleum refining wastes as an ingredient)

on the land.

Used Oil Any oil that has been refined from

crude or synthetic oil that has been used and, as a

result of such use, is contaminated by physical or

chemical impurities.

Vapor Monitoring An UST release detection

method in which the equipment measures

product fumes in the soil around the UST to check

for leaks.

Waste Analysis Plan A plan that outlines the

procedures necessary to ensure proper treatment,

storage, or disposal of hazardous waste.

Waste Minimization The reduction, to the extent

feasible, in the amount of hazardous waste

generated prior to any treatment, storage, or

disposal of the waste. Because waste

minimization efforts eliminate waste before it is

generated, disposal costs may be reduced, and the

impact on the environment may be lessened.

Waste Pile An open pile used for treating or

storing nonliquid hazardous waste.

Wastewater Treatment Units Tanks or tank

systems that treat hazardous wastewaters and

discharge them pursuant to CWA.

Wastewise A program designed to assist

companies, states, local governments, Native

American tribes, and other institutions in

developing cost-effective practices to reduce solid

waste.

Zero Discharges Wastewater that is not directly

or indirectly discharged to a navigable water (e.g.,

wastewater that is land disposed through spray

irrigation) under CWA. Zero discharge facilities

are subject to federal or state regulatory limitations

that are as strict as those that apply to direct and

indirect dischargers under CWA..

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APPENDIX E

ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

ACL - Alternative Concentration Limit

AEA - Atomic Energy Act

APA - Administrative Procedures Act

API - American Petroleum Institute

ARAR - Applicable or Relevant and Appropriate

Requirement

ATSDR - Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease

Registry

BATF - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms

BDAT - Best Demonstrated Available Technology

BIF - Boiler or Industrial Furnace

BRS - Biennial Reporting System

CAA - Clean Air Act

CAMU - Corrective Action Management Unit

CAP - Capacity Assurance Plan

CBI - Confidential Business Information

CCP - Commercial Chemical Product

CDC - Centers for Disease Control

CERCLA - Comprehensive Environmental

Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

CERCLIS - Comprehensive Environmental

Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

Information System

CESQG - Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity

Generator

CFC - Chlorofluorocarbon

CFR - Code of Federal Regulations

CMI - Corrective Measures Implementation

CMS - Corrective Measures Study

CPG - Comprehensive Procurement Guideline

CWA - Clean Water Act

DOD - Department of Defense

DOE - Department of Energy

DOJ - Department of Justice

DOT - Department of Transportation

DRE - Destruction and Removal Efficiency

DSCM - Dry Standard Cubic Meter

ENU - Elementary Neutralization Unit

EPA ID - EPA Identification

EPCRA - Emergency Planning and Community

Right-to-Know Act

FIFRA - Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and

Rodenticide Act

FOIA - Freedom of Information Act

GPRA - Government Performance and Results Act

GWPS - Ground water Protection Standard

H - Hazard Code

HAZWOPER - Hazardous Waste Operations and

Emergency Response Worker Protection

Standard

HCS - Hazard Communication Standard

HRS - Hazard Ranking System

HSWA - Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments

HWIR-media - Hazardous Waste Identification

Rule for Media

HWIR-waste - Hazardous Waste Identification

Rule for Waste

kg - kilogram
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lb - pound

LDR - Land Disposal Restrictions

LQG - Large Quantity Generator

LQHUW - Large Quantity Handler of Universal

Waste

LUST - Leaking Underground Storage Tank

MACT - Maximum Achievable Control Technology

MCL - Maximum Contaminant Level

MOA - Memorandum of Agreement

MPRSA - Marine Protection, Research, and

Sanctuaries Act

MSWLF - Municipal Solid Waste Landfill

NAAQS - National Ambient Air Quality Standards

NCAPS - National Corrective Action Prioritization

System

NCP - National Oil and Hazardous Substances

Pollution Contingency Plan

NESHAP - National Emission Standards for

Hazardous Air Pollutants

NPDES - National Pollutant Discharge Elimination

System

NPL - National Priorities List

NSPS - New Source Performance Standards

O&M - Operation and Maintenance

OECA - Office of Enforcement and Compliance

Assurance

OECD - Organization for Economic Cooperation

and Development

OPA - Oil Pollution Act

OSHA - Occupational Safety and Health Act

OSWER - Office of Solid Waste and Emergency

Response

PA - Preliminary Assessment

PCB - Polychlorinated Biphenyl

PEI - Petroleum Equipment Institute

POHC - Principal Organic Hazardous Constituent

POTW - Publicly Owned Treatment Works

ppm - part per million

ppmw - part per million by weight

PRP - Potentially Responsible Party

RBAC - Recycling and Reuse Business Assistance

Center

RBDM - Risk-Based Decision-Making

RCRA - Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

RCRIS - Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

Information System

RD&D - Research, Development, and

Demonstration

RD/RA - Remedial Design/Remedial Action

REDA - Recycling Economic Development

Advocate

RFA - RCRA Facility Assessment

RFI - RCRA Facility Inspection

RI/FS - Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study

RIC - RCRA Information Center

RMAN - Recovered Materials Advisory Notice

ROD - Record of Decision

SARA - Superfund Amendments and

Reauthorization Act

SDWA - Safe Drinking Water Act

SIC - Standard Industrial Classification

SI - Site Inspection

SIR - Statistical Inventory Reconciliation

SPCC - Spill Prevention, Control, and

Countermeasures

SQG - Small Quantity Generator

SQHUW - Small Quantity Handler of Universal

Waste

StATS - State Authorized Tracking System

SWMU - Solid Waste Management Unit

TC - Toxicity Characteristic

TCLP - Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure

TETU - Totally Enclosed Treatment Unit

TSCA - Toxic Substances Control Act

TSDF - Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facility

UIC - Underground Injection Control

USPS - United States Postal Service

UST - Underground Storage Tank

UTS - Universal Treatment Standard

WIPP - Waste Isolation Pilot Project

WWTU - Wastewater Treatment Unit
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APPENDIX F

OSW ORGANIZATION CHART Municipal Information and Analysis Branch (MIAB) Municipal Waste Reduction Branch (MWRB) Industrial and Extractive Wastes Branch (IEWB) Permits Branch (PB) Corrective Action Programs Branch (CAPB) Federal, State, and Tribal Programs Branch (FSTPB) Economics, Methods, and Risk Analysis Division (EMRAD) Waste Identification Branch (WIB) Generator and Recycling Branch (GRB) International and Special Projects Branch (ISPB) Communications, Information, and Resources Management Division (CIRMD) Information Management Branch (IMB) Communications Services Branch (CSB) Resources Management Branch (RMB) Waste Minimization Branch (WMB) Waste Treatment Branch (WTB) Analysis and Information Branch (AIB)

DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF SOLID WASTE

Hazardous Waste

Identification 

Division

(HWID)

Municipal and

Industrial Solid

Waste Division

(MISWD)

Hazardous Waste 

Minimization 

and

 Management

 Division

(HWMMD)

Permits and

State Programs

Division

(PSPD)
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The Office of Solid Waste (OSW) contributes to the Agency’s goal of protecting human health and

the environment. Its principal responsibility is to build a national waste management program,

implemented through EPA Regional Offices and state programs, to manage solid and hazardous waste in

the United States. There are six divisions which follow:

The Communications, Information, and Resources Management Division (CIRMD) is responsible

for managing an outreach and communications program to increase public awareness about solid and

hazardous waste programs, managing the national RCRA information systems, and providing

administrative, budget, and contract management support to the Office of Solid Waste.

The Economics, Methods, and Risk Analysis Division (EMRAD) is responsible for evaluating

toxicological and exposure data; developing health and ecological risk assessment support; and applying

multimedia fate to transport models to assist in the evaluation of the ecological and human health

impacts of solid waste management systems. It prepares regulatory assessments, which include societal

costs and benefits of options for regulation development, policy analysis, and legislative initiatives under

consideration within OSW. The Division also develops and evaluates sampling, statistical, and analytical

methods to support RCRA regulations and policies, and implements the RCRA quality assurance

program.

The Hazardous Waste Identification Division (HWID) is responsible for conducting industry studies

to determine which wastes should be listed as hazardous, and identifying the hazardous waste

characteristics. It also develops Agency policies related to delisting, and develops regulations and

guidance regarding medical wastes, used oil, generators and transporters of hazardous waste, hazardous

waste recycling, and the definition of solid waste. The Division also develops policies related to

international hazardous waste management and is the lead on issues related to the import and export of

hazardous waste, such as the Basel Convention.

The Hazardous Waste Minimization and Management Division (HWMMD) is responsible for

encouraging hazardous waste minimization, establishing standards that assure safe treatment of

hazardous waste, and identifying data that must be reported on waste generation, treatment, storage,

and disposal. HWMMD’s responsibilities include the Waste Minimization National Plan, the LDR

program, the EPA Combustion Strategy, and the Waste Information Needs Project.

The Municipal and Industrial Solid Waste Division (MISWD) is responsible for ensuring safe

management of municipal, industrial, and extractive solid wastes by providing technical guidance,

regulations, policy, and information related to waste prevention, recycling, and disposal to industry, EPA

Regional, state and tribal officials, and the general public.

The Permits and State Programs Division (PSPD) is responsible for the nationwide implementation

of a program to control hazardous wastes including the permitting of facilities and the authorization of

states to operate their programs in lieu of the federal program. The Division develops regulations and

guidance for the national corrective action program which oversees site cleanups at facilities that store,

treat, or dispose of hazardous waste. PSPD also provides technical support for EPA Regions and states

that are implementing the programs.
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Environmental Contacts APPENDIX G

APPENDIX G

ENVIRONMENTAL CONTACTS

EPA INFORMATION SERVICES

Common Sense Initiative ........................................................................... (202) 260-7417

Congressional and Legislative Affairs ........................................................... (202) 260-5195

Control Technology Center; Clean Air Act .................................................. (919) 541-0800

Employment Information ........................................................................... (202) 260-6000

Environmental Appeals Board (EAB) ........................................................... (202) 501-7060

Environmental Justice Hotline.................................................................... (800) 962-6215

Environmental Recycling Hotline ................................................................ (800) 253-2687

Information Resource Center (IRC) ............................................................. (202) 260-5922

Lead Information Clearinghouse ................................................................. (800) 424-5323

Methods Information Communication Exchange

(MICE or Test Methods Hotline) .................................................................. (703) 821-4690

National Center for Environmental Publications and Information

(NCEPI) ..................................................................................................... (800) 490-9198

National Pesticides Telecommunications Network; Federal Insecticide,

Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act ...................................................................(800) 858-7378

Office of Research and Development (ORD) .............................................. (513) 569-7562

Pay-As-You-Throw Helpline ....................................................................... (888) 372-7298

RCRA, Superfund & EPCRA Hotline ........................................................... (800) 424-9346

Safe Drinking Water Act Hotline ................................................................. (800) 426-4791

Stratospheric Ozone Information Hotline ................................................... (800) 296-1996

Toxic Substances Control Act Hotline ......................................................... (202) 554-1404

WasteWi$e................................................................................................ (800) 372-9473

Wetlands Protection Hotline...................................................................... (800) 832-7828
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EPA DOCKETS

Clean Air Act .............................................................................................. (202) 260-7548

Clean Water Act ......................................................................................... (202) 260-3027

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation,

and Liability Act ......................................................................................... (703) 603-9232

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act ....................................(703) 305-5805

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ....................................................(703) 603-9230

Toxic Substances Control Act ...................................................................... (202) 260-7099

Underground Storage Tanks........................................................................ (703) 603-9231

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICES

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR).......................... (703) 603-9232

Council on Environmental Quality; National Environmental

Policy Act .................................................................................................. (202) 395-5750

Federal Information Center ....................................................................... (800) 688-9889

Government Printing Office (GPO) ............................................................. (202) 512-1800

Hazardous Materials Information Line ........................................................ (800) 467-4922

Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) ...... (202) 219-8031

National Technical Information Service (NTIS) ............................................ (800) 553-6847

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) .................. (800) 356-4674

National Response Center .......................................................................... (800) 424-8802

Nuclear Regulatory Commission ................................................................. (800) 362-5642

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)............................. (202) 219-8148

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