vvEPA
United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5305W)
EPA530-F-96-006
.August 1996
Office of Solid Waste
Environmental
Fact Sheet
ELECTRONIC ACCESS TO OSW
The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Office of Solid Waste (OSW) provides a
wide variety of information about hazardous and nonhazardous waste on the Internet and
on certain bulletin board systems (BBSs). Products available to the public include con-
sumer information, policy and guidance documents, hazardous waste databases, and
supporting materials for rules.
Internet
OSW
World Wide Web (WWW):
http://www.epa.gov/epabswer
Gopher: gopher.epa.gov
Dial Up: 919-558-0335
From the main Gopher menu, choose:
(1) EPA Offices and Regions, (2) Office of
Solid Waste aand Emergency Response
(OSWER), and (3) Office of Solid Waste
FTP: ftp.epa.gov
Login: Anonymous
Password: Use your e-mail or Internet
address
OSW documents are under:
/pub/gopher/OSWRCRA
Federal Register (FR) Notices
The OSW directory usually contains only
the background information related to FR
notices. The actual notices are arranged by
date, and are found at:
http://www.epa.gov/EPA-WASTE
Agency-wide Information
All other EPA material is found at:
http://www.epa.gov
OSW's RCRA Information Center (RIC)
All OSW publications are available from the RIC. Use Internet e-mail to order paper
copies of documents, which are listed in The Catalog of Hazardous and Solid Waste Publi-
cations (EPA530-B-96-007). The Catalog is available on line under the OSW directory.
Document orders should include the requestor's name and mailing address. Address
orders to: rcra-docket@epamail.epa.gov.
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Bulletin Board Systems
BBS Name
FedWbrld
(National Technical
Information Service)
Envirosense
CLU-IN
(Clean-up
Information)
RTK-NETBBS
Right-to-Know
Computer Network
Access
(703)321-3339 . .
fedworld.gov
http://www.fedwbrld.gov,
ftp.fedworld.gov . .
(703) 908-2092
http://es.inel.gov
(301) 589-8366
clu-in.epa.gov
or
http://clu-in.com
ftp.clu-in.com
(202) 234-8570
rtknet.org (userid: public)
http://rtk.net
System Operator
(703) 487-4608 ,.;
(703) 908-2007
(208) 526-6956
(30.1) 589-83'68
(202) 234-8494
(requires an
account for access)
Electronic Mailing Lists (Listservers)
To receive a List of all EPA listservers, send an e-mail request to:
Hstserver@unixmail.rtpnc.epa,gov . The message should read: LISTS.
To subscribe to' a mailing list, send an e-mail request to:
listserver@unixmail.rtpnc.epa.gov
The message should read: SUBSCRIBE
(for example, SUBSCRIBE EPA-WASTE JOHN SMITH)
EPA Listservers that Distribute OSW-related Information
Name Description
HotHne-OSWER RCRA, Superfund, and EPCRA
Monthly Hotline Reports &Updates
EPA-PRESS EPA press releases and related
announcements
EPA-WASTE Federal Register Notices
EPA-MEETINGS All Meeting Notices
EPA-GENERAL Material Broadly Related to the
Environment and Agency Interests
More Information
For additional information,
call the RCRAHotline. Call-
ers within the Washington
Metropolitan Area must
dial 703-412-9810 or TDD
703-412-3323 (hearing im-
paired). Long-distance call-
ers may call 1-800-424-9346
or TDD 1-800-553-7672.
The RCRA Hotline is open
Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.
to 6:00 p.m., EST.
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