United SB
              Environmental Protection
              Agency
         Off ice of
         Solid Waste and
         Emergency Response
     &EPA
DIRECTIVE NUMBER: 9444.01(80)
TITLE:  Interpretations of §261.33

APPROVAL DATE: 9-4-so
EFFECTIVE DATE: 9-4-so
ORIGINATING OFFICE: office of solid Waste
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PART 261  SUBPART D - LISTS
                                                DOC:  9444.01(80)
Key Words     Commercial Chemical Products

Regulations:  40 CFR 261.33(e) and (f)

Subject:      Interpretations of §261.33

Addressee:    Robert B. Goodell, Regulatory Affairs Specialist

Originator:   Alan S. Corson, Chief, Waste Characterization Branch,
              Hazardous and Industrial Waste Division
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Date:

Summary:
#9444.01(80)

9-4-80
     40 CFR 261.33(e) and (f) are applicable to commercial chemical products
and their variants which are hazardous wastes if and when they are discarded.
These sections are not applicable to wastes which incidentally contain sub-
stances listed in these sections.

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•..'?* ich  yon  re
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s wasti'r?  if  untl  '/hc-n  tii
 applied  to  wastes vJilr
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)  Alao  you  did  j-ropcrl
 the ch/irnc ter i* i i c n  of
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                                            cy  are diocardad.
                                            h  incidentally
                                            -ia.   Thus the waste
                                            i^ercial cheaical
                                            vould be those  cases
                                            s  known by the
                                            ive  ingrodiont,
                                            y  indicate nn
                                             hazardous waste.
     /I  r'C(r«'la tory In tor pro ta clou He '-or ;»n.j HD  (P.ISi) on this
nj-eciftc  isnuu ( ' ?- 6 I • -"*• **• )  has  bo«r ,--r t7t:.i r>--lx and ta being-
r«vlsi>a uir'-.in t'if» Agency.   It ehoi'ld h»  publinhod in  the
reJer.il .^.ej, Is tar in about  two weeks.  
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       I hope  this provl.U s  the ir. f r > -M,-I t t'cn  you requested.
  Tlcase call  or  wri*:^  ir  I  -nay be if fftther  assistance.

                                Very truly  yours,
                                Alan : . '.or cnn ,  Chief
                            ..ai'tc Char'..">\f or t ration P.rancti
                        .".-ir clous  anH TaO'in trial  Waste Division
  Attachment
'ni-565:ASCorson:saj:x59137:9-3-80

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