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DIRECTIVE NUMBER: 9493.01(35)
TITLE: Prohibition on Use of Hazardous Waste for Dust
Suppression or Road Treatment
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EFFECTIVE DATE: 7-
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PART 266 SUBPART C - RECYCLABLE MATERIALS USED IN A
MANNER CONSTITUTING DISPOSAL
DOC: 9493.01(35)
Key Words:
Regulations:
Subject:
Addressee:
Dust Suppression, Used Oil
40 CFR Part 266
Prohibition on Use of Hazardous Waste for Dust Suppression
or Road Treatment
Charles E. Findley, Director Hazardous Waste Division
(M/SE-529) Region X
Originator: John H. Skinner, Director Office of Solid Waste (WH-562)
Source Doc: #9493.01(85)]
Date: 7-12-85
Summary:
The memo discusses Congressional intent and EPA interpretation of the dust
suppression ban in RCRA §3004(1). EPA believes that Congress intended that tfie
ban should apply only to materials that are themselves hazardous wastes.
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9^93.01 (35)
JUL \ 2 **5
HKHORAHPOK
SUBJECT! Prohibition on 0ae of Har*rdous Wast* for Doat
Suppreaaion or Road Treacxent (Tour M»O dated 6-25-85)
PRO*! John R. Skinner, Director
Offie* of Solid Waste (WH-5C2)
TOt Charlea B. Pindley, Director
Raxardoua Waste Diviaion (K/S 529)
Region X
Baaed on th« legialat'ive hiatory to Section 9004(1), and
on th« structure of the atatuta and EPA'a currant regulatory
policy, we believe that the ban in flection 3004(1) appliea only
to eateriala that are thewaelvea hasardous waetae. The proriaion
will be codified in Part 2«€, a aubpart reserved for hasardoua
vaate uaea conatituting diapoaal.
The language of Section 3004(1) doea not specify whether
the Mixture of uaed oil and hasardoua waate aust, itaelf, be a
haaardoua waate in order for the ban to apply. However, the
conference report to the Hazardous and Solid Waate Aiaendventa
of 1994 explaina that Congreaa intended for the ban to apply to
the uae of "dioxin contaatinated waatea or any other haxardoua
waate aa a duat suppreaaant* (B.R. Rep. No. 1133, 98th Cong.,
2d Seaa. •• (1984)). tExiphaaia added.]
In aaMition, Congreaa placed the prohibition on duat
auppreaaioa in Section 3004 of RCPA, where regulatory juris-
diction ia generally limited to haxardoua wastes identified or
listed under Section 3001. Congreaa, if so inclined, could
have expressly extended the prohibition to uaed oila or other
•ateriala that are not haxardoua waatea. For example, the
prohibition could have been placed in section 3014(a) of RCPA,
which appliea to all uaed oila that are recycled, whether or
not the uaed oils are haxardoua waate.
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In te«%len 309-1 of KCBA, Congress gave EPA the authority to
define in tsjfvlations the hazardous waates subject to regulation
under Subtitle C. Section 261,3
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