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To subscribe, E-mail the words . . They are out of control quite literally because there is with sufficient resources or knowledge to control them or even track their behavior. At that time, the EPA estimated that American industry was producing 10 million tons of hazardous waste each year. If the latest ACS estimates are correct, it means that EPA originally underestimated the problem by somewhere between a factor of 58 and a factor of 290. The wastes not covered by RCRA were officially exempted from RCRA by EPA because the agency knew it did not have the resources to oversee their management.