United States Solid Waste and ' '! •
Environmental Protection Emergency Response EPA530-F-95-OU
Agency (5305W.) ' September 1995
Office of Solid Waste l ' :
&EPA Environmental
Fact Sheet
ELECTRONIC RESOURCES GUIDE
'The Environmental Protection, Agency's (EPA) Office of Solid Waste (OSW) has
placed a wide -variety of information about hazardous and non-hazardous solid waste
on the Internet and on Bulletin Board Systems (BBSs) fpr access-and retrieval by the
general public. The information posted includes consumer ihformation, supporting
materials for rulemakings, policy and guidance documents, and datafiles from EPA's
hazardous waste databases. ,
Internet servers
EPA maintains information on Public Access Servers accessible via both the Internet
and via modem. The servers carry many documents and resources related to OSW's
program areas, including on-line search functions. Users may also access and search
through archived Federal Registers (FR) dating back to October 1994. OSW documents
and related FR releases are available through the followingi routes: ~
Gopher: gopfaer.epa.gov ,
OSW documents;
Offices and Regions -> Office of Solid- Waste and Emergency Response ->
' Office of Solid Waste (RCRA) ,
Archived FRs (organized by date):
, ' Rules, Regulations, and Legislation -> The FEDERAL REGISTER (FR) ,
Environmental Subset -> FEDERAL REGISTER (FRi) - Waste
World Wide Web (WWW): http://www.epa.gov
Same pathways as Gopher
Modem: (919) 558-0335
Same pathways as Gopher
Ftp: ftp.epa.gov (vlserid: anonymous, password: Internet e-mkil address)
OSW documents are available under /pub/gopher/OSWRCRA
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Electronic Mailing Lists (Listservers)
EPA maintains several free,electronic mailing lists. Subscribers receive
electronically mailed copies of documents as .they are published. Archives of the
documents are maintained on the EPA Public Access Servers (See above).
To subscribe to a mailing list,, send an e-mail request to the following address;
listserver@unixmail.rtpnc.epa.gov
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The subject line of the e-mail should read SUBSCRIBE TO LISTSERVERS. The text of
the e-mail should read SUBSCRIBE (e.g.
SUBSCRIBE EPA-WASTE JOHN SMITH). Some OSW-related mailing lists are:
• EPA-WASTE - Hazardous and Solid Waste Federal Registers
• HOTLINE OSWER -, RCRA/UST, Superfund, and EPCRA Monthly Hotline Report and updates
• EPA-PRES"S - Environmental Protection Agency Press Releases
To receive a list of all EPA listservers, first subscribe to a list. After
subscribing, send an e-mail request to listserver@unixmail.rtpnc.epa.gov. The
subject line should read LISTS; the body of the message should also read LISTS.
Electronic submissions to the RCRA Information center
The RCRA Information Center (RIC) provides public access to regulatory materials
supporting Agency actions under RCRA and distributes OSW publications. The RIC
accepts electronic requests for paper copies of OSW publications and electronic
comments on OSW rulemakings at the following Internet e-mail address:
rcrm-docketeapaaail.epa.gov. Requests for OSW documents must include the name and
mailing address of the requestor. Submissions of comments on rulemakings must be in
ASCII format and must include the docket identification number.
For more information about OSW documents, the Catalogue of Hazardous and Solid Waste
Publications (EPA530-B-93-002) is available on EPA's Internet server under Offices
and Regions -> Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response -> office of Solid Waste
(RCRA) -> RCRA: General.
RCRA/UST, Superfund, and EPCRA Hotline
The RCRA/UST, Superfund, and EPCRA Hotline is a publicly-accessible service that
proV?SeV information on' several EPA programs, including information on accessing
osw' a electronic resources. For information about specific documents, or to ask
reguLSS £SSiS£? the Hotline is available *t (800) 424-9346, within the
metropolitan DC area at (703) 412-9810, or TDD (800) 553-7672.
Bulletin Board Systems
OSW contributes documents to a variety of electronic BBSs relevant to solid waste
issues. Following are some OSW-related BBSs.
BBS Na»e
CLU-IN BBS
Cleanup
Information
SWICH BBS
Solid Waste
Information
fl A»v»4 nnhoustl
Fedvorld
RTK-NET BBS
Right-to-Know
Computer Network
Modem
(301) 589-8366
(301) 585-0204
(703) 321-8020
(202) 234-8570
Internet Access
Through Fedworld
(see below)
None
fedworld.gov
http://www.fedworld.gov
ftp . f edwor Id . gov
rtknet . org
http://rtk.net
Sy«t««
Oparator
(301) 589-8368
(800) 677-9424
(703) 487-4608
(202) 797-7200
.(requires an
account for
access)
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information, please send them to: hearns.liza@epamail.epa.gov
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