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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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