Environmental Management also manages other types of waste.
Some waste types have specific legal and technical definitions.
DOE manages hazardous and mixed waste according to requirements of numerous federal, state, Native American, and local environmental regulations. Some of these regulations are still being developed. Hazardous Waste Nuclear materials production and energy research activities also generate hazardous waste. Hazardous wastes are chemicals and nonradioactive materials that are toxic, corrosive, reactive, or ignitable. Like private industry, DOE must comply with strict federal, state, and Native American, and local environmental regulations in treating, storing, and disposing of hazardous waste.