DRAFT
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                                                           March 25,  1980
              RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY ACT REGULATIONS
                     AFFECTING OWNERS AMD OPERATORS OF
                          HAZARDOUS WASTE FACILITIES
                       (40 CFR Parts 264, 265, and 266)
              Supporting Documentation for Reporting Requirements

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                            Notice

     The attached document was prepared by one or more
contractors under the guidance of EPA.  It is printed here
largely as received from the contractor; the Agency has not
yet completed reviewing it.
     Because of the lead time necessary to produce this
study, it was necessary to base it on a preliminary draft
of the final regulations.  There were some changes made
later to the regulations.  Thus this document unavoidably
does not completely correspond to the regulations finally
promulgated.  The Agency is currently analyzing the effect
of the late regulatory changes on the findings of this
study.

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                           SUMMARY

     The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Sub-
title C, program is designed to control hazardous waste from
the generator to disposition facility.  The paperwork involved
is to document the generation, transportation, and disposal of
hazardous wastes so that liability for mishandling can be
established.

     The RCRA program regulations were first proposed in the
Federal Register in April and December 1978.  More than forty
formal meetings and hearings were held with interested groups.
The list of organizations and individuals consulted number
well over 1,000.  EPA is currently under a court order to
implement the program by September 1980.  The regulations are
being issued as final rules in phases as per the court order.

     On March 19, 1980, the Environmental Protection Agency
submitted to the Office of Management and Budget a clearance
request for the reporting and recordkeeping requirements of
Section 3004 of RCRA.  These provisions cover the documenta-
tion requirements imposed on treatment, storage and disposal
facilities.  At the time of this submission, companion regula-
tions defining hazardous wastes to be covered by RCRA were not
yet completed.  Thus, a burden imposed on treatment, storage
and disposal facilities could only be estimated at the time.
Definitions for what constitutes hazardous wastes have now
been largely agreed upon.  New definitions largely exclude
waste amounts of under 1,000 kilograms each, significantly
reducing previous estimates of reporting burdens.  This docu-
ment amends the previous submission based on revised estimates.

     The universe of treatment, storage and disposal facilities
potentially affected by Section 3004  is 26,400.  EPA's initial
estimate of the paperwork burden under Section  3004 regulations
identified only 5 recordkeeping and reporting functions, im-
posing  a total burden of $73.4 million.  The current paperwork
impact  analysis had recosted these five areas and finds that
they impose a burden of only $34.6 million.  However, nine
additional  information requirements have been identified,
bringing the total impact of RCRA, Section  3004, to $61.4
million or  3.7 million hours.  Of this $29.2 million  (2.3
million hours) are recurring costs.   These  estimates were
derived using conservative assumptions and  should be seen as
an upper cost limit until more precise information on  the
universe of treatment, storage and disposal facilities and
the  type of waste to be covered is known.

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                  CONTENTS

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•     Legal Requirements                    1

•     The Regulatory System                 4

•     Consultation Outside EPA             25

•     Consideration of Alternatives to
      Reduce Reporting Burdens             27

•     Changes the Environmental Pro-
      tection Agency has Made to
      Decrease the Reporting and
      Recordkeeping Burden                 30

•     Time Schedule for Publication        34

•     Tabulation and Publication Plans     37

•     Sensitive Questions                  38

•     Cost Reductions                      39

•     Evaluation Plan                      49

•     RCRA Form Being Submitted for
      Clearance                            51


Appendices

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                    LEGAL REQUIREMENTS
What the Law Requires
     The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (P.L. 94-580)
signed into law on October 21, 1976, establishes a Federal pro-
gram which will provide cradle to grave regulation of hazardous
wastes.  The Act requires EPA to identify the characteristics
of hazardous waste and to list particular wastes as hazardous
(Section 3001).  EPA is also required to establish standards
for hazardous waste management applicable to generators (Sec-
tion 5002) and transporters (Section 3003) of hazardous waste
as well as to treatment, storage and disposal facilities  (Sec-
tion 3004).  Waste generators, transporters and facilities must
notify EPA that they plan to handle hazardous wastes (Section
3010), and treatment, storage and disposal facilities must also
receive an EPA permit to operate (Section 5005).  EPA is  given
the authority to enter a hazardous waste establishment and in-
spect samples and records "(Section 3007) .  If violations  are
found, EPA has authority to enforce the provisions of the Act
and its regulations through  appropriate civil and criminal
proceedings  (Section 3008) .
     EPA is also to help States develop hazardous waste manage-
ment programs and can authorize States, upon application,  to  ad-
minister and enforce a hazardous waste program in lieu of EPA
(Section 3006):  Funds have been appropriated to this end
(Section 3011).  No State can impose less stringent regulations
concerning hazardous waste than EPA (Section 5009) .
     Requirements of Facilities.  Section 3004 of the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act requires that EPA establish re-
gulations covering owners and operators of facilities which
treat, store, or dispose of hazardous waste.  Such performance
standards are  to include:
     •  recordkeeping to identify wastes treated, stored  or
        disposed of and  the manner  in which they are handled;
     •  compliance with  the manifest system established under
        Section 3002.
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     •  handling of wastes received by the facility according
        to EPA standards;
     •  contingency plans in the event of accidental damage;
     •  facility operations, staff training, and financial
        responsibility;
     •  compliance with the permitting process required by
        Section 3005.
     EPA was required to consult with appropriate Federal and
State agencies and provide an opportunity for public hearings
within 18 months of the date of enactment, or by April 1978.
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The Court Order
     The Environmental Protection Agency was required by
statute to promulgate rules and regulations under the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 by April, 1978.  The
Agency did not meet this deadline.  In mid-1978, the State
of Illinois filed suit against the Environniental Pro-
tection Agency seeking to speed up promulgation of the regula-
tions.  Other groups joined Illinois in this effort.  The case
was heard by Judge Gessell of the District Court for D.C. who
ruled on January 3, 1979, that EPA should have  its regulations
in place by December of 1979.  Although Judge Gessell recognized
he had no enforcement tools and that the Congress should properly
use its oversight and budgetary powers to follow up on its own
legislation, he took the case on a Court of Appeals decision.
Following the January 3rd decision, EPA realized it would be
unable to meet the December deadline.  The Court permitted EPA
to draw up an order setting targets for promulgation of the
final regulations.  The order, filed by Judge Gessell on December
18, 1979, (Illinois v. Costle CA  £78-1689 et al. (DDC 12/18/79))
established the following deadline for promulgation of the regu-
lations:

      February, 1980 - Section 3002, Section 5005, and
                      Section 3010.

      April, 1980  - Sections  3001, parts of  Section  3004,
                   Section 3005,  and Section 5006.

      September, 1980  - The remaining parts  of  Section 3004 (financial
                        responsibility and technical standards).
      The  Environmental Protection Agency has scheduled its
issuance  of hazardous waste  regulations to  comply with Judge
Gessell"s court order.


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                     THE REGULATORY SYSTEM


Description of the Program

        Following is a brief summary of how the hazardous waste

control system will operate.  The determination of whether a waste

is covered by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act require-

ments is made by consulting the list of wastes and threshhold
levels in 40 CFR Part 261 and the applicability sections in Parts

264 and 265 (40 CFR Part 264.1 and 265.1).  For hazardous wastes

which are covered by the regulations, treatment, storage and

disposal facilities are subject to a variety of information

and recordkeeping requirements.  These requirements are des-

cribed in this section and,  for ease of understanding, have been

grouped into 11 functional  areas:



       Requirements Primarily  Involving Reporting

            Annual Report
            Manifests
              manifest  handling
              discrepancy  report
              unmanifested  waste report
            International shipments
            Notification of  new owners
            Emergency  reports

       Planning Requirements

            Contingency  plan
            Waste  analysis  plan
            Ground-water monitoring
            Closure  plans,  etc.
            Post-closure plan
            Land treatment  plan/records
            Inspection  schedule

       Recordkeeping  Requirements

            Operating  records
            Training records
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Annual Report
        RCRA requires facilities to submit annual reports to the
Administrator by March 1 of each year.  The annual report must
be submitted on a specified form and contains:
        •   the facility's EPA identification number
        •   the calendar year covered
        •   for off-site facilites, the identification number
            of each hazardous waste  generator from which shipments
            have been received
        •   a description and quantity of each hazardous waste
            received during the year -- for off-site facilities
            this information must be listed by the identification
            number of each generator
        •   methods of treatment, storage or  disposal for each
            hazardous waste
        e   monitoring data where required under  Sections 264.92  (b) (2)
            and 265.92(b)(2)
        t   current estimates of closure and  post-closure costs
        •   a certification signed by the owner  or operator or by
            his authorized representative

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Manifest System
      Regulations under Section  3004 prescribe the final steps
in the manifest system established  in Section 3002 rules to
track hazardous waste from  its origin with the generator
through its trip with the transporter to  its disposition at
a treatment, storage or disposal  facility.  Owners or operators
of facilities which receive waste from  off-site must sign, date
and return a copy of the manifest to the  transporter immediately,
and to the generator within 30 days of  receipt of  the waste.
The Agency believes that the  waste  generator has primary respon-
sibility to assure  safe delivery of his waste to an off-site
waste management  facility.   Consequently,  the manifest  is  required
to be returned  to the generator  because this action completes
the information feedback  loop,  thus assuring the generator that
his waste arrived at  the  facility to which it was  sent.  The
Agency specified  a  30-day period for  the  facility  to return  the
manifest to  the generator  in order  to allow  it  to  combine  return
of manifests with monthly billings  to generators,  thus  reducing
paperwork and  postage  costs.   Completed manifests  must  be  re-
tained for  a period of  three years  from the  date of delivery
of the waste at the facility.  EPA  anticipates  both short-range
and long-range  uses for  hazardous waste records.   Retention  of
manifests  for  a 3-year  period is deemed sufficient for  the
majority  of enforcement  cases.   Thus,  the EPA  has  specified  a
 3-year period  for manifests in the  generator and  transporter
 rules  as  well  as in these rules for facility owners  or  operators.
 For  longer-range uses,  such as responding to situations  such as Love
Canal  in  Niagara,  N.Y.,  the facility  recordkeeping rules require that
 records  (but not necessarily manifests) of all hazardous wastes
 handled  be maintained until facility closure.   However, that
 requirement allows the owner or operator the flexibility to  de-
 sign  a recordkeeping system suitable to the specific  needs of
 his  operation. Larger facilities may use automatic data proces-
 sing  systems.   Smaller facilities  nay  choose to retain manifests
 as the basis for recordkeeping.

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Discrepancy Reports
      Facility owners or operators receiving shipments which
differ in type and/or quantity of the waste identified on the
manifest must notify EPA if these discrepancies cannot be
resolved.  For bulk shipments, discrepancies of less than 10%
from the manifested amount need not be reported.  A study of
discrepancies which occured under a similar system in Great
Britain showed that most of them fall within the +_5% range.
EPA anticipates that there will be few discrepancies in excess
of 10%.  For shipments in containers, any discrepancy in the
manifested number of containers and those actually received
must be reported.  To reduce the discrepancy reporting burden,
EPA allows the facility 15 days in which to resolve any dis-
crepancy amounts.  To further minimize the burden, EPA does
not require discrepancy reporting in any fixed  format -- merely
a covering letter together with a copy of the manifest in
question.
Unmanifested Shipment Report
      Facilities are not required to accept  unmanifested
shipments.  However, if they do, they are asked to notify
EPA.  The Agency wants to have a record of how  this waste  is
managed, if it is accepted.  Furthermore, because of the uncer-
tainty associated with unmanifested hazardous waste, EPA would
also like to know as much as it can about the waste,as soon  as
possible.  Prompt submission of the details regarding unmani-
fested waste will enable EPA to insure that the facility is
managing the waste  in an appropriate manner, and will also  allow
the Agency to detect any suspicious patterns of  unusually high
incidences of unmanifested waste in particular  areas.  Such  in-
cidences should be  infrequent since it is illegal to transport
hazardous wastes without a manifest.
      EPA does not  require a special form for  the unmanifested
waste report.  Facility owners or operators must  submit, within
15  days  of receipt  of the unmanifested waste,  a report to  the
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EPA Regional Administrator containing:
      « their EPA identification number
      • the date of receipt
      • the word "unmanifested" under comments
      • the identification number of the generator or the
        transporter
      • description and quantity of the unmanifested waste
        received
      « methods of treatment, storage or disposal for the
        waste
      • and a brief explanation of why the shipment is
        unmanifested.
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International Shipments
        Owners or operators of facilities that have arranged to
receive hazardous wastes from foreign sources must notify the
Regional Administrator in writing at least two weeks in advance
of the expected date of arrival of the shipments at the facility.
This requirement will permit EPA to determine the quantities
and kinds of hazardous wastes being imported from abroad.  It
is anticipated that few such shipments will be received each
year.
Ownership Transfer Requirements
        Before transferring ownership or operation  of  a facility
during its operating  life, or a disposal facility during  the post-
closure care  period,  the owner or operator must  notify the new
owner  or operator  in  writing of RCRA requirements for  such faci-
liities.  EPA feels that it  is necessary that new owners  are
fully  aware  of their  obligations  at the  time  they agree to pur-
chase  facilities.
Emergency Reports^
        The  owner  or  operator pust not*3  in the operating  record
the  time, date,  and details  of any incident  that requires imple-
menting the  contingency plan.  Within 15 days after the incident,
he  must submit a \rrritten report on the  incident  to  the Regional
Administrator.   The report must  include:  (1)  Name,  address,  and
telephone number of the  owner or  operator;  C2) Name, address,  and
telephone number of the  facility;  (5) Date,  time and type of inci-
dent;  (4) Name and quantity  of material(s)  involved;  (5)  The extent
of injuries, if  any;  (6) An  assessment  of  actual or potential
hazards  to  the environment and human  health  outside the  facility;
 and (7)  Estimated  quantity and disposition of hazardous  waste
 involved  in the  incident.
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Preparedness. Prevention, Contingency Plan, and Emergency
    Procedures
      Section 3004 of RCRA requires EPA to issue regulations
respecting contingency plans for effective action to minimize
unanticipated damage from any treatment, storage or disposal
of any hazardous waste.  Requirements for preparedness and
prevention measures to minimize the need for ever using
contingency plans; and emergency response measures to be
taken during and after situations  in which a contingency
plan is  implemented, also are authorized by Section 3004
of RCRA.  EPA believes that  such requirements  are necessary
adjuncts  to contingency  plans to insure protection of human
health and the  environment.
      The final contingency  plan rules  are intended to
minimize  human  health  and environmental damage in the event
of an unplanned sudden or non-sudden  discharge of hazardous
waste to the  air,  soil,  or  surface water.  The contingency
plan must include:
      •   Spill  prevention provisions,
      •   Arrangements  agreed to by local  and  state  agencies
          to  provide  emergency response  support, where needed,
      •   A  list of facility emergency coordinators,
      •   A  list of facility emergency equipment, and
       •   An  evacuation plan where  necessary.
      Rules  for the  distribution and ammendment of  the  plan
 are  specified,  as well as  the requirement that a facility
 emergency coordinator must  be either present,  or on call,
 whenever the facility is in operation.
       Emergency procedures  specified in the  final rules
 include:
       •  Immediate notification of employees  and local,
          state, and federal authorities of any imminent
          or actual emergencies,
       •  Immediate assessment of possible hazards to the
          environment and human health outside  the facility,
       •  Measures to preclude the spread of fires and explo-
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      •  Proper management of residues,
      •  Rehabilitation of emergency equipment and notification
         of authorities before operations are resumed, and
      o  Recordkeeping and reporting to EPA on the nature
         and consequences of any emergency.
      EPA requires that contingency plans be prepared by each
facility and ammended as necessary.  Although these plans must
be prepared within six months of the effective date of the
regulations, they need not be submitted to EPA at that time.
Facilities must make these plans available to EPA inspectors
during any on-site reviews and submit them to EPA together
with Part B of the permit application when this is requested.
      The contingency plan must be ammended as required by the
following cases:
      •  Revisions to applicable regulations (interim status],
      o  Revisions to the facility permit (permitted status] ,
      •  Failure of the plan in an emergency;
      •  Changes in the facility design, construction,
         operation, maintenance, or other circumstances
         that materially increase the potential for dis-
         charge of hazardous waste or change the response
         necessary in an emergency,
      •  Changes in the persons qualified to act as facility
         emergency coordinators,
      •  Changes in the emergency equipment at the facility.
      EPA believes all these reasons for plan ammendment are
important and that local authorities, where appropriate,
have a need to know about these changes.  The first four
cases could involve significant ammendments to a facility's
contingency plan,  but such ammendments should occur infrequently
The last two cases may occur more often, but -- in EPA's
opinion -- are not burdensome.
      The proposed rule requires that facility owners or
operators file contingency plans with local authorities.
It does not require these authorities to accept them.
Nevertheless,  a facility owner or operator will have complied
with the rule if he can document that he submitted a contingency
plan to local authorities who may be called upon to provide
emergency services and that they refused to accept it.
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        When an emergency occurs, the facility owner or operator
must submit a report of the event to the Regional Administrator
within 15 days.  The report must include information about the
emergency, the extent of injuries or possible hazards to human
helath or the environment outside the faciltiy,  and the estimated
quantity and disposition of hazardous material that results from
the incident. In addition, before the affected area can resume oper-
ations, the faciltiy must notify the Regional Administrator
and local authorities that cleanup  procedures are completed and
emergency equipment is  fit for  reuse.
Waste Analysis Plans
        The owner  or operator must  develop and follow a written
waste analysis plan which describes the procedures which he will
carry out to obtain a detailed  chemical and physical analysis of
the waste.  He must keep this plan  on the premises.  At a minimum,
the plan must specify:
         (1) The parameters  for  which each hazardous waste will
be analyzed and the rationale  for  the selection  of these parameters;
         (2) The test methods which  will be used  for these param-
eters .
         (3) The sampling method which will be  used to obtain  a
representative sample of the waste  to be analyzed;
         (4) The frequency with  which the initial analysis of  the
waste will be  reviewed  or repeated;
         (5)  For off-site facilities, the waste analysis  that
hazardous waste generators  have agreed  to  supply.
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Ground-Water Monitoring
      Ground-water monitoring is only required for surface
impoundments, landfills, and land treatment facilities.   The
final regulations also include a provision whereby the Regional
Administrator may require some degree of ground-water monitoring
if it is determined there is a high potential for discharge of
hazardous waste to ground-water from a tank.  This determination
of discharge potential will be based on the ability to visually
inspect for and detect leakage and the integrity of the struc-
tural material of the tank.  A variance on the ground-water
monitoring requirement may be permitted if the facility can
demonstrate that there is a low potential for the migration of
hazardous waste constituents to an underground source of drinking
water or water supply wells.
      An owner or operator of a surface impoundment, landfill
or land treatment facility must, within one year of the effective
date of these regulations, install and operate a ground-water
monitoring system including compliance with the sampling, analysis,
recordkeeping, and reporting requirements.• The facility must
maintain records of the analyses of  samples from all ground-water
monitoring wells and other required  evaluations throughout the
active  life of the facility, and for disposal facilites, through-
out  the post-closure care period.  During the first year, the
facility is required to submit  to  the Regional Administrator
the  results of quarterly analyses  within  15 days of when they
are  completed.  This will establish  the level of initial background
concentrations for the  facility.  Thereafter,  ground-water monitoring
data can be  submitted  on an annual basis  during the active  life
of the  facility.  In addition,  the owner  or operator must prepare
an outline of and time  estimate  for  completion of a damage
assessment program describing an accelerated  and modified ground-
water monitoring program capable of  determining the extent  and
severity of  ground-water contamination  caused by the  facility.
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Closure. Post-Closure, and Financial Requirements
        EPA has developed closure, post-closure and financial
requirement standards to assure, with a high degree of probability,
that all hazardous waste management facilities are closed so
as to minimize maintenance necessary to protect human health and
the environment.  Owners or operators of facilities must prepare
closure plans which  identify the steps necessary to completely
close the facility at any point during the expected life as well
as the  steps necessary to close the facility at the end of its
expected life.  These plans are to be prepared at  the time the
interim standards become effective and are to be submitted to
the Regional Administrator with Part B of the permit application
when this is requested.  When  facilities are closed, owners or
operators must notify the Regional Administrator in writing at
least 180 days  in advance.  When  closure is completed,  the owner
or operator'must submit  certification by a registered professional
engineer that  the facility has been closed in accordance with
the specifications  in  the closure  plan.
         In  addition, disposal  facilities must submit a  post-
closure plan  to  the  Regional Administrator at least ISO days before
the date    expected to  close. Ninety days after
closure,  the  facility must  notify both  the  local  land  authority
and the Regional Administrator and submit  to  each  a  survey  plat
showing the location and dimensions  of  landfill  cells,  trenches,
etc.   Disposal facilities  must also record  a  notation  on  :the
property deed that will  notify in perpetuity  any potential  pur-
chaser  that the land wasused  for hazardous  waste  disposal.
         Closure and post-Closure  financial  standards  are  required
of facility owners  or operators to insure  that  adequate funds
will  be available  to close each facility at  any point  during its
 operating life and comply with post-closure  requirements.   EPA
 requires that each  facility must  estimate  the cost of closing
 down  in accordance with specified requirements.   Whenever a change
 in the assumptions  on which the closure plan is based occurs,  a
 new closure plan must be prepared.  In addition, each year the
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annual gross national product implicit price deflator.
Land Treatment
        Food chain crops must not be grown on any part of a land
treatment facility, unless the owner or operator has the following
information based on actual field tests or extensive research.  He
must also provide this information upon request from the Regional
Administrator:
        (1) Analysis of the waste;
        (2) Evidence that the hazardous waste constituents either
will not be transferred to the food portion of the crop by plant
uptake or direct contact, or will not be otherwise ingested by food.
chain animals; will not occur in greater concentrations in the crops
grown on the  land treatment facility than in the same crops grotvn
on untreated  soils under similar conditions in the same region.
        The owner or operator must have in writing, and must  imple-
ment, an unsaturated zone  (zone of aeration) monitoring plan  which
is designed to:  (1) Detect the vertical migration of  hazardous
waste; and  (2) provide  information on  the background  concentrations
of the hazardous waste  constituents, in similar but untreated soils
nearby.  The  plan must  include, at minimum:  (1) soil  monitoring
using soil  cores, and  (2)  soil-pore water monitoring  using devices
such  as  lysimeters.
Inspection  Schedule
         The owner  or operator must develop  and  follow a written
schedule  for  inspecting all monitoring equipment, safety  and
emergency  equipment, security devices,  and  operating  and  structural
equipment  (such  as  dikes  and  sump pumps)  that  are important  to pre-
venting,  detecting,  or  responding to  environmental  or human  health
hazards.   He  must  keep  this  schedule  on the  premises.  The  schedule
must  identify the  types of problems  (e.g.,  malfunctions or  deteriora-
tion) which are  to  be  looked  for  during the  inspection.   The  fre-
quency  of inspection may vary  for the  items  on the  schedule.
However,  it should be  based  on  the  owner's  or  operator's  perception
of the  rate of possible deterioration  of  the  equipment  and  the
probability of an  environmental  or  human  health incident  if the
deterioration or malfunction or  any  operator error  goes  undetected
between inspections.
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Operating Record
        Facility owners or operators must keep an operating
record which contains much information basic to the receipt and
disposition of hazardous wastes received.  This record is not
required to be submitted to EPA, but must be open for inspection
at all reasonable times by any duly authorized employee or agent
of the Agency.  The following information is required as part
of the operating record:
        •   quantity and description of hazardous waste
            received
        •   location and quantity of hazardous waste within
            the facility
        o   records and results of waste analyses
        •   summary reports and records of all incidents that
            require implementing  the contingency plan
        a   records and results of  inspections (which must be
            kept  for only  three years)
        o   monitoring data
        e   closure cost  estimates  and,  for  disposal  facilities,
            the  estimate  of  annual  post-closure  care
        With  the  exception of inspection  records,  the operating
 record  must be maintained  by  the  facility  through  its active  life
 For  disposal  facilities,  it  must  be maintained also  through  the
 post-closure  care period.   EPA has  not  set  precise format  re-
 quirements for the  operating  record but permits  flexibility  such
 that many  normal  business  records can  be  used.   For  example,  the
 operating  record can include  series of documents generated at
 different  locations within facilities  and need not be a single
 record  located only at one place.  Additionally, information
 contained  in  automated data  processing systems is  acceptable as
 part of the operating record.
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Training Recordkeeping
      The purpose of the proposed training requirements is
to reduce the potential for mistakes which might threaten the
public or the off-site environment by insuring that facility
personnel acquire expertise in the areas to which they are
assigned.  The main concern of the training standards is  to
insure the protection of public health and the environment
beyond the facility's property line because the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration  (OSHA) is responsible for
promulgating standards which insure worker safety within the
property line.  However, in so much as these regulations
are designed to prevent all forms of accidents, workers are
generally protected incidentally  to protecting public health.
Some facilities may have already  established training programs
in compliance with existing OSHA  requirements.  Due to a lack
of data on these existing programs, they were not considered
as offsets to the cost of implementing RCRA requirements.
Consequently, compliance costs with RCRA requirements are
overstated to the extent that  facilities have already im-
plemented training programs under OSHA.
      The proposed training standards  include requirements
which specify the time by which  facility personnel must obtain
the training necessary to do their  jobs, the records to be
maintained at the facility of  the training received by  its
employees, and the minimum frequency with which the initial
training  received by  the employees  must be reviewed.   In
addition, the proposed rules require facility personnel to be
familiar  with the facility's contingency plans.
      Following  are  the documents and  records which must  be
maintained by the facility but need not be submitted to EPA
unless  requested as  part of complaince monitoring:
      • the  job  title for  each position at the  facility and
         the  name of  the person filling the job;
      • a written job description for  each position;
      • a written description  of the  type  and  amount  of
         both introductory  and  continuing  training that
         will be  given to each  person;
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      • records that document the training or job experience
        that has been given to, and completed by, facility
        personnel.
      Training records on current personnel must be maintained
until closure of the facility; training records on former
personnel must be maintained  for at least three years.
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Technical Requirements and Special Waste
        Interim standards proposed by EPA impose additional
technical requirements for certain types of storage (i.e., containers,
tanks, surface impoundments, waste piles, land treatment, landfills,
and incinerators).   These requirements supply more precision to
what is already required in general terms of all facilities.  No
new reporting or recordkeeping requirements are established.
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Additional Justification-Practical Utility Considerations
     The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act resulted in part
from a finding of the Congress that  "disposal of solid waste and
hazardous waste in or on the land without careful planning and
management can present  a danger to human health and the environ-
ment."  Congress was concerned that  hazardous waste presented
special dangers to health,  thus requiring a greater degree of
regulation than non-hazardous solid  waste.  The Act focuses on
establishing criteria for  facilities which can dispose of hazard-
ous waste through a permit system and making generators respon-
sible for insuring their waste disposed of off-site reaches such
permitted facilities.   Some of the practical utility considera-
tions have been addressed  above as part of regulatory program
description.  Additional considerations are highlighted in this
section.
     The manifest system.   The use of manifest system is required
by RCRA which states that  EPA shall  establish requirement respect-
ing "use of a manifest  system to assure that all such hazardous
wastes generated is designated for treatment, storage, or disposal
in treatment, storage,  or  disposal facilities (other than facili-
ties on the premises where the waste is generated) for which a
permit has been issued  ..."  The manifest system permits the
generator to track the  waste  from its site to the disposal facili-
ty to insure that none  is  disposed of in a way that would endanger
health or the environment.  In designing its manifest system, EPA
has piggy-backed on the system already  in use by the Department
of Transportation with  one critical  difference.  The Department
of Transportation regulations do not require the return of the
manifest to the generator  as  confirmation that the shipment has
been delivered.  Because the  generator  must know when and where
its waste ends up, EPA  requires  the  disposal facility to return a
signed copy of the manifest to the generator within 30 days.  By
using a  largely pre-existing  system  and not requiring additional
forms, EPA has been  able to minimize the information burden on
the public.

              The  need for  the identification numbers ties into
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Section 3010 of the Act which states that "no identified or
listed hazardous waste subject to this subtitle may be trans-
ported, treated, stored, or disposed of unless notification has
been given as required under this subsection."  The EPA identifi-
cation number, assigned after this notification has been given,
serves several purposes.  First, it insures that those involved
in the hazardous waste management process are in compliance with
the law.  Secondly, it assists in the identification of firms for
the purposes of tracking hazardous waste shipments through the
transportation system and to assist EPA in its enforcement efforts.
Note that the identification numbering system used by EPA will be
the Dun and Bradstreet universal numbering system with which
firms  are already  familiar.
     Exception reporting.  In order to enforce the provisions of
the law and insure that shipments were delivered as required, EPA
initially considered requiring that a copy of each manifest be
forwarded to the Agency.  However, it was quickly realized that
the Agency had  inadequate resources to deal with this flood of
paperwork.  The Agency  then considered a quarterly report covering
all manifests outstanding at the end of the quarter, but realized
that this would require reporting from many firms which may have
only recently shipped their wastes and would not be expected to
have received the  confirmation of delivery from the facility.
Based  on these  considerations, EPA has designed an exception
reporting system to highlight only those instances where special
action on the part of the Agency might be required.  EPA considers
that most hazardous wastes should be delivered within several
weeks  after  shipment and provides for a 30-day period for the
facility to  return a confirmation copy of the manifest.
      In addition,  facilities are expected to  report to EPA any
discrepancies in either quantity or description of hazardous
waste  received  which have not been  resolved within 15 days.  This
will  permit EPA to review compliance with manifest system require-
ments  and take  appropriate  action.  Although  generators do not
have  to accept  unmanifested  waste for which  a manifest  is required,
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EPA permits them to do so in order to minimize the possibility
that such waste is disposed of along the roadside.  EPA feels it
is important to keep informed of any such shipments received to
ensure the waste is properly handled at the facility and to
identify any patterns in the shipment of unmanifested waste for
possible enforcement action.
     Annual Report.  RCRA requires facilities to submit reports
to the Administrator covering facility activities during the
previous calendar year.  Little is known about the generation,
transportation, and disposal of hazardous waste.  In order for
EPA to both fulfill the reporting requirements established by law
and intelligently evaluate  the effectiveness of its hazardous
waste management regulations, EPA needs to know what hazardous
wastes are being stored or  disposed  of, in what quantities, where
they are being disposed of,  and what treatment or disposal
methods are being used.   In addition to providing information  for
planning and  evaluation, periodic reporting by generators can help
in setting priorities  for  enforcement activities  and permitting  in
much the same way as  the  Internal Revenue Service identifies tax
returns for  audit.   Facility reports will indicate  those  firms
which  are reporting much  less  hazardous waste than  is  typical  for
other  firms  of their size  in a particular industry; and can  also
show up any  major  increases or decreases  in hazardous  waste  gen-
eration as  a potential area for investigation.   Initially, EPA is
only requiring reporting  on an annual basis rather  than quarterly
or  semi-annually.   The Agency plans to fully  evaluate  the annual
reporting  requirements after the first two  such reports are
received  (mid-1982) to determine whether  any  burden-reduction
changes  in the format are appropriate and whether some kind  of
 sampling  procedures could be instituted without affecting either
 enforcement or program planning data.
      Recordkeeping.  The Act calls for the  establishment  of
 "recordkeeping practices that accurately identify the  quantities
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are significant in quantity or in potential harm to human health
or the environment, and the disposition of such wastes."  In
response to the Act, EPA is requiring that facilities maintain
records concerning their receipt of hazardous wastes, verification
of the types of wastes received, where such wastes are disposed
of and what methods are being used, and how these methods are
being monitored.  In addition, records of employee training in
the area of hazardous waste management and disposal are to be
kept.
     In general, records p^e\taining to the receipt of manifested
wastes are required for a three-year period to provide an appro-
priate record trail to be used in the event of enforcement pro-
ceedings.  EPA plans to review the three-year requirement in the
future in terms of actual program experience.  Operating records
which cover what happens to the waste once it is received by the
facility are generally required to be maintained for the life of
the  facility.  These records will be used as the basis of peri-
odic compliance reviews by EPA.   In addition, it is  important in
the  event of an emergency, new  technical knowledge about the
nature of wastes,  or the closure  of a facility, to have knowledge
of what wastes  are being stored,  how they were disposed of, and
where.  Storage and treatment facilities need not keep  records
past their closure, however disposal facilities are  expected to
maintain their  records through  the post-closure period  because
the  wastes remain  hazardous during this  time.
     Planning requirements.   Plans required  of  facilities by
Section 3004 regulations impose a significant information burden.
These  costs represent  a one-time  expenditure with minimal annual
updating requirements.  Plans are required to ensure that facili-
ties have  developed adequate  procedures  in the  areas of waste
analysis,  inspection,  handling  emergencies,  closure,  post-closure
 (for disposal  facilities),  and  training.   The plans  are required
of facilities which have registered  for  interim status, but need
not be submitted  at that time.   Even  though  EPA does not  have  the
resources  to  review the adequacy of  the  plans  at the outset,  the
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Agency feels it is important for facilities to have plans in
place to cover critical areas of operations which have direct
bearing on the safety and potential environmental impact of the
facilities.  Adequacy of facility plans will be review by EPA as
part of Part B of the permit granting process over the next few
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                    CONSULTATION OUTSIDE EPA

     The Environmental Protection Agency made every effort to
consult with the public and appropriate Federal agencies during
the development of the hazardous waste regulations.  This effort
started in November 1976, immediately after the law was enacted
and well before the first regulations were published for comment.
On May 2, 1977, EPA published an Advance Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking  (42 FR 22332) notifying the public of their intent
to develop  regulations under the Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act.
     Proposed regulations on standards applicable  to owners  and
operators of hazardous waste treatment,  storage and disposal
facilities  appeared for  public  review  and comment  in the  Federal
Register of December  18, 1978  (43 FR  58969).  The  Agency  sub-
sequently held  5  public  hearings on these proposals.  A  listing
of the  hearings,  their  dates,  and the  number  of persons  attending
follows:
      LOCATION                    DATE               No.  of Attendees
New  York City                Feb. 7-9,  1979               307
St.  Louis,  Missouri          Feb. 14-16, 1979            271
Denver,  Colorado             Mar. 7-9,  1979            no count
Washington, D.  C.           Feb. 22-23, 1979            195
 San  Francisco,  Calif.       Mar. 13,  1979                258
      EPA received a substantial number of written comments in
 addition to those received at  the hearings.   In all,  over 1,000
 comments were received pertaining  to RCRA proposed regulations.
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The public comment period closed for regulations applicable to



owners and operators of  facilities on March 16, 1979.  Comments



received by EPA at its hearings, in consultation with other



parties and by letter were carefully considered in terms of two



criteria.  First, the need to establish a hazardous waste management



program consistent with  the intent of Congress and the Resourc-



Conservation and Recovery Act.  Second,  the  need to .develop requirements



which implement the Act  with a minimum burden on those affected



and the business community.  As a result of comments received,



EPA has made a number of modifications to its original regulations



which reduce the reporting and recordkeeping burden imposed on



the public.  These are described below in the "Consideration



of Alternatives"section.
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    CONSIDERATION OF ALTERNATIVES TO REDUCE REPORTING BURDENS

        The Environmental Protection Agency has attempted to
minimize reporting and recordkeeping burdens imposed on the public
by its Hazardous Waste Regulations.   As part of this process,
EPA has analyzed a series of alternatives and selected approaches
to reduce private sector costs while maintaining the integrity
of the program envisaged by Congress.  The major alternatives
considered by EPA are summarized below with a more detailed
listing following.
        Selection of Material for Coverage'.  A major part of the
compliance burden relates to the type of materials which must be
tracked and recorded from generation to ultimate disposition.
Reductions in both the types of material and small volume amounts
can reduce recordkeeping for owners or operators of hazardous
waste facilities.  EPA has exempted pesticides used by farmers
from coverage under the Act provided certain criteria are met.
                                                         Other types
of waste excluded from the regulations include fly ash, sewage
sludge from publicly-owned treatment works, in-situ mining wastes,
and other types of wastes or discharges described in 40 CFR Part
261.4.  In addition, small quantities of waste will be exempt
from  EPA tracking system requirements.  The threshold  for such
small quantitites may range up  to 1,000 kilograms per month and
would reduce the costs to facilities of compliance \vith manifest
system requirements.
        Selection of Facilities  for Coverage. EPA has given
special consideration to reducing the regulatory burden for storage,
treatment and  disposal facilities handling  small quantities of
hazardous waste.  Threshold   below which compliance with  the
hazardous waste regulations are  not required  may range up  to
1,000 kg/mo  for some wastes.
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        Eliminating Duplication with Other Federal Regulations. EPA
has eliminated duplication with other Federal laws and regulations
by exempting facilities already covered by these.
                                    These include:  industrial waste
water discharges, which  are point sources subject to permits under
the Clean Water Act;  special nuclear or by-product material defined
by the Atomic Energy  Act. and point source air emissions regulated
under the Clean Air Act.   In addition, EPA has closely coordinated
its development of hazardous waste manifest regulations with the
Department of Transportation1^ regulations on transporting hazardous-
materials .
        Eliminating Duplication with State Regulation.  The
Resource  Conservation and  Recovery Act calls for close coordination
of Federal and State  regulatory programs.  EPA will encourage
the authorization of  States to operate their own hazardous waste
programs  to eliminate any  unnecessary duplication or overlap be-
tween Federal or State reouirements.  States which are so authorized
will carry out the program in lieu of the Federal program and the
private sector will not  be subject to two separate sets of regu-
latory requirements.
        Eliminating Duplication with Normal Operating Procedures.
Although  RCRA must, by law, impose new requirements, EPA has made
efforts to minimize the  disruption of normal operating procedures.
An example is the manifest system for tracking waste from "cradle
to grave."  The manifest was initially conceived by EPA as a
separate  required form.  After public consultation, EPA has agreed
to permit the use of  normal manifest documents -- merely requiring
the addition of certain  minimal information.  Another example
is the operating record  which forms the nucleus of ongoing infor-
mation and recordkeeping requirements imposed by RCRA.  EPA has
made every effort to  provide flexibility  in these recordkeeping
requirements so that  normal commercial records, including computerized
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information systems,  may be used to satisfy regulatory requirements.
        Use of Standard Identification Numbers.   EPA received
several comments from the public concerning the additional burden
of ever-increasing different identification numbers used by
Federal and State agencies.  To minimize this burden, EPA has
selected the Dun  and Bradstreet Data Universal Numbering System
as a uniform national identification numbering system.  These
numbers are already entered in business recordkeeping systems
and should facilitate compliance with EPA regulations.
        Cutting Unnecessary Information Requirements.  EPA has
carefully reviewed information requirements to delete any that
appear unnecessary at this time.  It must be remembered, however,
that RCRA is a new Act and the number of facilities, amounts of
waste, and possible behavior of those involved in waste disposal
is as yet unknown.  An example of a modification to reduce unnecessary
reporting is found in the  ground-water monitoring requirement.
Initially, this was conceived as a quarterly reporting system,
but has been shifted to an annual requirement once base levels
for ground-water have been established.  Another example is  the
discrepancy reporting requirement.  Initially, these reports
were to be provided for all discrepancies  in which the manifest
description did not match  what was actually received.  Now,
reports are only required  if the discrepancy cannot be resolved
within  a  15-day period, which has both reduced the number of
potential exception reports and improved EPA's enforcement  ability.
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     CHANGES THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY HAS MADE
      TO DECREASE THE REPORTING AND RECORDKEEPING BURDEN

   Standards Applicable to Owners and Operators of Hazardous
      Waste Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facilities
       1.  EPA has excluded waste generated by retail estab-
lishments, and has allowed special considerations for small in-
dustrial firms, based upon the amount of waste generated.  The ex-
clusion limits will be described in the final Part 261 regulations
These exclusions will reduce the paperwork burden on off-
site hazardous waste  facilities, which otherwise \vould have
had to handle numerous small waste shipments.
      2.  The number  of infectious wastes from hospitals
considered to be hazardous wastes has been reduced substan-
tially from those initially proposed.  Thus, hospitals will
have a smaller manifest and recordkeeping burden and the
number of smaller shipments which must be processed by
facilities will be decreased.
      3.  Recordkeeping and reporting requirements were
initially designed for intermittent and batched treatment
and disposal of solid wastes at industrial waste water
treatment plants.  They were inappropriate for the continuous
production of sludges and solid wastes.  The final regula-
tions clarify that facilities now have the option to use
different recordkeeping systems more appropriate to their
operations.  The concept of the operating log in the pro-
posed regulations has been broadened in the final regulations
so it is consistent with both an automatic data processing
system and continuous recording of unit processing operations.
      4.  Initially,  the rules required that each manifest
be signed by the person responsible for the overall operation
of the facility, such as a plant manager or superintendent.
However, EPA no longer feels it is necessary that manifests
be signed by a person of such high rank and has changed the
proposed requirement  so that the signature must be obtained
of "an owner or operator or his agent."

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      5.  A report on any discrepancies between the type
and quantity of hazardous waste actually received and its
description on the manifest was required to be immediately
sent to the EPA Regional Administrator.  EPA has since modified
its requirements to substantially reduce the reporting burden.
For bulk shipments, any variation within plus or minus ten
percent of the manifest waste amount need not be reported.
EPA no  longer requires the reporting of all discrepancies,
but only those which cannot be resolved satisfactorily with
the generator or transporter.  The facility is given 15
days in which to resolve these discrepancies after which
time they must be reported to the Regional Administrator.
      6.  EPA has designed flexible recordkeeping require-
ments which will let facilities adapt  or extend their
present recordkeeping, billing practices, operating logs,
and report to state, local, and other  federal agencies in
order to meet the incremental burden of RCRA.
      7.  EPA originally required maintenance of an
"operating log."  However, the log concept  did  not provide
adequate flexibility for the use of an ADP  system.  Further,
the large area  of some  facilities and  the variety of the
functions they  perform would make it very unlikely that  all
required information would be  recorded in one operating  log
at  only one  location.   EPA has changed the  term "operating
log" to "operating  record," which more accurately reflects
Agency intention and provides  flexibility  for  existing  commer-
cial practices.
      8.   In the  proposed  regulations, recordkeeping require-
ments were keyed to manifest  information  to which management
data were  added.  Waste  descriptions required  the use  of
Department of Transportation  shipping  descriptions and
Department of Transportation  hazard  classes,  as well as  EPA
waste names  and characteristics.  The  rules applied  to both
on-site and  off-site  facilities,  even  though   on-site  faci-
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lities do not use manifests and, thus, recordkeeping based
on DOT nomenclature is not appropriate for them.  To simplify
the rules and avoid confusion between on-site and off-site
facility recordkeeping requirements, EPA has decided to base
all facility recordkeeping and reporting on EPA nomenclature
for waste names and characteristics.
      9.  For on-site disposal, exact quantity measures of
waste would not be possible without expensive flow-meters
and weighing hoppers for which there would be no benefit
other than RCRA-required recordkeeping.  For off-site dis-
posal, truck scales or other measuring devices are typically
already available.  EPA recognises  that where no manifest is
used  Ci.e., at on-site facilities)  manifest-reported quanti-
ties will be non-existent.  The agency therefore is permitting
the use of estimated quantities at  on-site facilities as an
alternative to manifest-reported quantities.  However,
owners or operators of on-site facilities will be required
to certify the accuracy of these estimates in their annual
reports to EPA.
      10. The proposed rules required that proof of compliance
with  regular facility inspections  should be retained as a part
of the operating  log until closure  of the facility.  The
agency recognizes  that these records are now needed primarily
for compliance reviews and the retention period has been
reduced to three  years in  the  final rule.
      11. The proposed requirement  that facilities turn over
waste management  and landfill  disposal location records to
EPA upon  closure  was particularly  burdensome for larger
establishments.   As  a result,  the  agency will now receive
the waste management information  (waste description, quantity,
and management method) on  an annual basis via the annual report
and will  no  longer require the owner or operator to resubmit
cumulative records of this information upon  facility closure.
However,  waste disposal  location  records must still be turned
over  to EPA  upon  closure.
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      12. The proposed rules contained separate sections for
waste managed on-site and waste managed off-site.  Because
standards were similar in each section, EPA has simplified
the final rules by combining requirements for on-site and
off-site waste management in a single section.
      13. The annual report was originally required within 4
weeks of the end of the reporting year.  To permit facilities
more time to assemble the necessary data for the annual report,
the due date has been extended to March 1.
      14. To provide greater flexibility for facility owners
or operators, EPA has changed its final rules to permit
reporting of quantities of waste in either metric units or
English units.
      15. Facility owners or operators are allowed to accept
unmanifested hazardous waste.  Proposed rules required that
facilities submit a quarterly report to the EPA Regional
Administrator identifying any such shipments.  This require-
ment has been modified to reduce the reporting burden on
facilities.  Facilities need no longer provide information
which may be impossible to collect, such as the source of
the unmanifested waste.  EPA has also changed the frequency
of filing from quarterly to submission on a case-by-case
basis within 15 days of receipt of the waste.
      16. The proposed regulations required that owners or
operators report fires, explosions, or releases of hazardous
waste immediately.  EPA has modified this requirement to
include  only such conditions when they occur outside  the
facility.
      17. Ground water monitoring data was initially  required
to be submitted to EPA on a quarterly basis.   In response to
comments received on this issue, the frequency of reporting
has been reduced to an annual basis after the  first year.
      18. EPA has adopted the Dun and Bradstreet Universal
Numbering System as a uniform national identifiation  system.
These numbers are already entered in business recordkeeping
systems and should facilitate compliance with EPA regulations.

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 TIME SCHEDULE FOR INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS

Phase I
      There will be three phases to promulgating and implementing
regulations applicable to owners and operators of treatment,
storage and disposal facilities.  The first phase of regulations,
expected to be published as final in April, 1980, includes the
complete package of interim status standards and most of the
final administrative and non-technical standards.  Some of the
technical standards, particularly those dealing with monitoring
and closure and post-closure care, are included.  The following
regulations are being promulgated in full as part of Phase I
(i.e., both interim status and general standards):
      1.   Purpose, scope and applicability and other general
           standards.
      2.   Waste analysis requirements.
      3.   Security.
      4.   Inspections.
      5.   Training.
      6.   Preparedness  and prevention.
      7.   Contingency plans and emergency procedures.
      8.   Manifest system, recordkeeping, and  reporting.
      9.   Ground-water  monitoring.
      10.   Closure  and post-closure  care.
       In  addition, the  following  regulations include  only  those
which apply during  the  interim  status  period;
       1.   Financial  requirements.
       2.   Use and  management  of containers.
       3.   Tanks.
       4.   Surface  impoundments.
       5.   Waste  piles.
       6.   Land treatment.
       7.    Landfills.
       8.    Incinerators.
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      These regulations under Section 3004 will become effective
in two stages.   Initially, the interim status standards (40 CFR
Part 265)  will  apply to all facilities required to be registered
under Part 3010 of the Act until these facilities receive an
official EPA permit.  Once the permit is granted, facilities
will be expected to comply with the final standards for owners
and operators of hazardous waste treatment, storage and
disposal facilities (40 CFR Part 264).
      The regulations under Phase I are expected to be
published as final in April 1980.  However, they will not
become effective until six months after the promulgation
of 40 CFR Part 261 dealing with the identification and listing
of hazardous waste.  Under the Court Order, Section 261 must
be promulgated by the end of April 1980, thus the regulations
are expected to take force by October 1980.
Phase  II
       EPA believes  it will  take  an  extended period  to  resolve
some of  the  issues  surrounding the  more  complex  technical
regulations  for  some types  of facilities.  Therefore,  as an
interim  measure,  EPA will publish by  October of 1980  a  set  of
technical regulations which will allow permits to be processed
based  on the Agency's best  engineering judgement.   These
regulations  will  contain, at a minimum,  a  set  of factors
 (e.g., temperature, distance to  ground water,  waste mobility,
etc.)  which  must  be analyzed to  evaluate the  effect of the
facilitv on  the  environment.  In addition,  financial respon-

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 sibility requirements  for permitted  facilities will also be
 issued at this time.   This will constitute Phase II of the
 regulatory program  for hazardous waste management facilities.
 Phase III
       The third phase  of this  regulatory program will involve
 re-proposing and ultimately promulgating more definitive
 technical standards, as the technical issues are resolved.
 Over a period of time  (estimated at  5 years), these definitive
 technical standards  for incinerators, landfills, etc., will
 supplant the Phase  II  factors  in the permitting program and
 provide more certainty to the  permitting process.
New Information Burdens
       The 3-phase regulatory strategy will give maximum pro-
tection to human health and the environment without imposing
the more complex regulations before the controversial issues
surrounding them can be fully investigated.  Because the stan-
dards to be promulgated under Phases  II and III will provide
technical refinements in already existing requirements, no
significant new reporting requirements are anticipated.  Like-
wise, the promulgation  of financial requirements, many of which
are already imposed  on  facilities under the interim status regu-
lations, should not  add major new information burdens.
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                TABULATION AND PUBLICATION PLANS

        The Environmental Protection Agency is developing tabulation
and publication plans for the various RCRA information requirements.
Because of the significant information requirements, EPA is focusing
ADP systems development on those activities which will be implemented
first.  ADP plans are being phased in three steps, concentrating
first on the required notification process which will take place
following promulgation of the regulations, second on the permittig
process which will be initiated immediately following notification,
and thirdly on other information requirements including annual reports
received of generators, transporters, and facilities.  Data collec-
ted from the annual report   required by 40 CFR Parts 264 and 265
will be tabulated by computer for use by EPA in its enforcement
and internal program planning efforts.  Although EPA originally
anticipated receiving information so it could track every movement
of hazardous waste, this level of detail has been sacrificed  in
the interest of lessening the reporting burden on the public.  The
annual report will provide EPA with an overview of  facility opera-
tions and highlight problem areas, but will spare the heavy repor-
ting burden associated with the tracking of each shipment.  In
addition, the tabulated data will be used to support the Agency's
annual report to Congress.
        Data collected from the unminifested waste  report and
discrepancy report will be used primarily by the enforcement pro-
gram staff to ensure compliance with RCRA requirements.  Notifica-
tions to EPA of receipt of international shipments  will be tab-
ulated to provide data on the quantity and kinds of waste being
imported for abroad.  Because these reports may be  few  in number,
it has not yet been determined whether they need be computerized.
        The agency is integrating its tabulation plans  for data
collected under Parts 264 and 265 with those for the data required
by the other parts of the RCRA regulations.  Thus,  detailed tabula-
tion plans will not be available until April 1980 when  the final
version of the remaining  regulations has been agreed upon.
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                  SENSITIVE QUESTIONS

            It is not anticipated that EPA information requirements
of owners or operators of hazardardous waste treatment, storage,
and disposal facilities will involve questions of a sensitive
nature such as sex behavior and attitudes, religious beliefs, etc.
It is anticipated that some facilities may wish to maintain the
confidentiality of certain information concerning the types of
hazardous waste they handle.  This  is provided for in Section
3007(b) of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and is
also expressed in 40 CFR Part 2 which establishes EPA's overall
policy regarding public disclosure  of information.  Because it
is  duplicative to state EPA's policy in every regulation pro-
mulgated under RCRA, the Agency has decided to include a regulation
concerning confidentiality of information in Part 260 of the
final rules which covers general matters applicable to all aspects
of the hazardous system. Thus, the  Agency's policy is stated in
the general section  of  the final rules but not in the Section
3004 regulations.
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                        COST REDUCTIONS


        EPA's Draft of Reports Impact Analysis (March 19, 1979),
estimated that the cost of reporting and recordlceeping requirements
imposed  by RCRA's Section 3004 would affect 30,000 treatment,
storage and disposal facilities,  and that it will amount to 2,353,000
burden hours and $73,440,000.  The above analysis was limited to
the following five functions: (1) development and reporting data;
(2) monitoring reports; (3) development of systems for recordkeeping,
monitoring and reporting;  (4) manifest .handling, and (5) storage
and maintenance of data.
        Because 3004 regulations revised as of January 25, 1980,
identify fourteen functional areas involving recordkeeping and re-
porting, the total information costs associated with these
functional areas amount to 3.7 million hours ($61.4 million).  Of
this total, 1.4 million hours ($32.2 million) are one-time costs
and 2.3 million ($29.2 million) are recurring costs.
        Detailed supporting analysis of these cost estimates
follow in the remainder of this section.
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Population of Facilities Affected
        Section 3004 of RCRA regulations establishes minimum national
standards which define the acceptable management of hazardous waste.
It applies to owners and operators of facilities which treat, store
and dispose of hazardous waste  (HW)•
        Standards spelled out in Section 3004 do not apply to
TSDF's disposing HW by means of underground  injection, except in
cases when the TSDF treats and/or  stores HW  above ground before
underground injection.
        They do not apply to HW disposal by  means of ocean dumping,
except in instances when the TSDF  treats and/or stores HW ashore
before it is loaded into a vessel  to be disposed at sea.
        Of the 969 Publicly Owned  Treatment  Works (POTW's), only
about 100 are covered by Section  3004 regulations, and these are
required  to use manifests and report annually only.
         It  is  estimated that only about IOC  hospitals  and  labor-
 atories,  out  of a total of about  7.00C  will  be  included  in the
 management  control system constructed under  Section  3004.
         Most,  if not all of the 110  off-site TSDF's  indentified
 by  the  ADL  study and the 5,400 TSDF's identified by  WAPORA for the
 Notification  Process under Section 3010 are  likely  to  come under
 the system  and are considered in  calculations of the recordkeeping
 and reporting requirements.
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Figure 1, based  on Section 5004  of  RCRA regulations  revised as
of January  25,  1980,  presents a  flow chart identifying  the
exclusions  and  exceptions to the  exclusions.
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State Programs

          The  January 1979 GAO report on  hazardous waste management,
citing  fragmentary 1977  EPA  statistics,  stated that:

          "...although  25  (States)  had provisions for a permit  sys-
          tem  or standards requiring a permit  system, only  one  had
          a requirement  that covered all  parties in  the waste dis-
          posal chain (treats, stores and disposes)."

          EPA  data  as recent as December  1979  suggests  that as  many
as  ten  States,  with an estimated  6,700  on-site and off-site treat-
ment,  storage and disposal facilities  (TSDF's) had regulations
with requirements for  recordkeeping, reporting, monitoring, inspec'
tion,  manifest systems,  operating methods, contingency plans,
training, post-closure financing  and financial responsibility.

          TABLE I  identifies both on-site and  off-site  facilities
in  50  States and  the  District of  Columbia.
             State

             Alabama
             Alaska
             Araiona
             Arkansas
             California
             Colorado
             Connecticut
             Delaware
             0. C.
             Florida
             Georgia
             Hawaii
             Idaho
             Illinois
             Indiana
             Iowa
             Caasas
             Kentucky
             Louisiana
             Maine
             Maryland
             Massachusetts
             Michigan
             Minnesota
             Mississippi
             Missouri
             Montana
             Nebraska
             Nevada
             New Hampshire
             New Jersey
             New Mexico
             New York
             North Carolina
             North Dakota
             Ohio
              Oklahoma
              Oregon
              Pennsylvania
              Rhode Island
              South Carolina
              South Dakota
              Tennessee
              Texas
              Utah
              Veraont
              Virginia
              Washington
              West Virginia
              Wisconsin
              Wyoming
              U.S. TOTAL

              Sources:  EPA.
          TA3L3  I
   STATE HAZARDOUS -AST! PROGRAM SHE
Treatment. Storage I Ouposal facilities

   Total No.     On-Site      Off-Site WAPORA est. of
                                Off ind On-Site
                                  133
                                   6
                                  14
                                  28
                                  519
                                  336
                                  137
                                  25
                                  63
                                  123
                                  65
                                  37
                                  21
                                  :s6
                                  121
                                  56
                                  26
                                  142
                                  52
                                  33
                                  43
                                  218
                                  255
                                  12S
                                    9
                                  189
                                    7
                                   63
                                   13
                                   34
                                  178
                                    9
                                  412
                                   55
                                    8
                                  291
                                   33
                                   55
                                  418
                                   49
                                   32
                                   12
                                   50
                                  199
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680
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90
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1.425
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280
130
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170
165
215
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TABLE  II identifies TSDF's in  States  with regulations  covering
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reporting requirements.
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TABLE III  develops percentage  figures for  the universe of TSDF's
not  covered by  State  regulations.   These will be  used in  order  to
determine  the incremental cost of RCRA regulations  spelled out
in Section 3004  as they affect the  entire  universe  of TSDF's.
                                 TABLE  III
taatloa 3004:  Tru
                             cmac. Sta»t«. tad/or Disposal /Militia
                              Cov«r*d by Seats tafuUcloai
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On-Site Versus  Off-Site  Facilities

Data presented by the Arthur D. Little, Inc. (ADL)  Study entitled Draft Economic
Impact Analysis  (January 1979), in Tables VI-7 and VI-8 is summarized as follows:

                                    TABLE IV
                            Hazardous Waste Disposal



Manufacturing Plants (17 industries)

Plants

No
% of
Total
Universe of plants 119,622 100.00
Plants disposing HW on-site
5,632
Plants disposing HW off-site 13,940
Plants covered by State regulations
Plants not covered by State regulations
8,862
28.96
Volume of 1
Hazardous Waste !
Millions of
tons (metric)
21.27
16.85
71.04 ; 4.42
45.16 .
10,760 -54.84
% of |
Total j
100.00
79.20'
20.80
-
—
     The TRW study entitled,  Technical Environment^. Impacts(December 10, 1979),
p. 3-14, states that the percentage of the small generators (manufacturing) using
on-site disposal and the percentage of the waste handled at on-site facilities is
22.1 percent and 22.6 percent each.  There are 83,183 generators of HW in the manu-
facturirg industries with a monthly output of HW in excess of 100 kg.    Of these,
49,805 are small facilities generating less than 5,000 kg of HW per month and
33,378 generators in the above 5,000 kg/mo range of HW output.

     3y applying the on-site disposal percentages of 22.1 percent for small
generators and 28.96 percent for large generators to the universes of 49,805 and
33,183 generators respectively, we arrive at a total of 20,673 generators disposing
their HW on-site.  This figure approximates the 20,100 generators disposing on-site,
identified in the EPA study entitled, Resource Requirement Summary (RRS), revised
March 1, 1979.
Note:  Although chemical plants constituted only 12.5 percent (2,458 facilities) of
the universe of 19,622 plants analyzed by ADL, they accounted for 28.3 percent of HW dis-
posed either on- or off-site.  Specifically, on-site disposal was practiced by
1,072 plants involving approximately 5 million tons of HW, and 1,386 plants shipped
about 1 million tons of HW to off-site facilities.
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Program Reporting and Recordkeeping Costs

        A review of the  existing estimates of both on-site and
off-site TSDF's concluded that  there  are about 26,400 such faci-
lities that may be affected by  RCRA's  Section 3004 regulations.
Using ADL unit costs  developed  for  17  industries, we have construe
ted TABLE V which develops estimates  of costs and also takes into
consideration reductions affected by  existing State regulations.
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                                TABLE V
Section  3004:   Treatment,  Storage and Disposal Facilities (TSOF's)
              Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements
..,,-lro-n,,
Foielon 4M|»«nlt Report
Nodllctllun of Be- Omen
Vfatle Antlyl It f Itn
Intprciloti Schedule
It ainlng Record
Conl Ingency Pljn
IWBI yencr Reporl
(Unlfetl
""Handling
2 nitcrepincy Report
— 1 — UnMMFMtia Bltlt 	
Queriilng Record
1 Quantity. NMtgewnl
A lucilloji Method
I Ujtte/Anelrtlt/lilalt
1 fMMjfniy Record
4 Monitoring D«lt
4 Cloture/Pnit
Clotuic teporlt
6 Impeillon log
\imuil Rcpurt
1 Rttlc Inroilllqn
1 Hun II or Ing Data
1 Clotiire/l'ail-
Cloiuie Repoiit
Ciound Utter Muni lor Ing
j S j an 1 log/Ana lytli Plio
2 Monitoring Outline
1 Nnnllarlng Pltn
4 Ground Uiler Aittiiaenl
Clolure PUn
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Footnotes for Table V

I/  Assumes that approximately  100  shipments  of hazardous waste will enter
~~   this country from  abroad  annually.

2/  Assumes that 2.5 percent  of all TSDF's will change ownership annually.

y  Assumes that approximately  10 percent of  the  universe of 26,400 TSDF's
    will have a waste  analysis  plan.

4_/  Assumes that there will be  225  emergencies requiring a  report to the
   ' Regional Administrator.

5/ to  7/  TRW/EPA  estimates that the  66,845 generators with hazardous
    waste output of more than 1,000 kg/mo will fill  out  1,947,068 manifests.
    Projection  of  these ficures on  the  universe of 5,700 off-site TSDF's
    suggest a manifest handling task  of about 342 manifests per Tacility.
    It is estimated  that discrepancies  may  occur  in  5 percent  (97,353)  of
    the manifests  and  that 0.5  percent  (9,735) of shipments may not be
    manifested.

8/  Certification, Survey Plat/Records, and Deed  Notice  requirements affect
    disposal  facilities only.

9/  TRW estimates  that about  7.1 percent of the  hazardous waste  is  land-
    spread.
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                       EVALUATION PLAN
     Our evaluation plan for the paperwork involved in adminis-
tering the RCRA program is being designed to address uncertainties
and take advantage of experiences over the next two years.  At
that time, we will be fully prepared to seek appropriate modi-
fications to these clearance requests.  Indeed, we may seek some
modifications in advance of the two years because we will be
making evaluations of the program on a continuing basis, with each
step being taken as soon as we have the necessary information to
make an informed judgement.
     There are several reasons why an evaluation plan is  important
to the RCRA program.  First, it is a new program so that  our
plans and assumptions about how well the various parts of the
program will work  and interact will be evaluated on the basis of
experience.  For example, we have not specified the nature or
form of records required  for materials testing.  In the future,
we may  find  such stipulations necessary.  Second, there are many
uncertainties  about  the number of people  involved and burden  es-
timates.  Third, we  can expect still  further  legislative  develop-
ments  (see Appendix  II) which will affect how the RCRA program
should  be run.
     The  evaluation  plan  for  the  RCRA  regulatory segments is
currently under design.   Their  evaluation will be completed  in
five  years  or  as  required by  E.G.  12044.  The paperwork  require-
ments  will  be  evaluated within  two years  as  required  by  E.G.  12174,
and then  reevaluated as part  of  the  total program  of  the  five
ye'ar  work.
      The  evaluation  plan  will  have  a  series  of steps,  each  to
be taken as  soon  as  the  facts  are available  to make  an  informal
 judgement on whether any  changes are  necessary.   The  results  of
 the evaluations  completed during each year  will  be  included  in
 the annual  report to the  Congress and the President on  the RCRA
 program.

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Included  in  the  evaluation  plan will be  the  following:
1.  Extent to which  the  annual report of facilities may
    be cut by using  a  sample.  Once a file exists  of what
    hazardous wastes each  facility handles    annual changes
    in quantity  may  be needed on  a statistical  basis only.
2.  Item  by  item analysis  of the  practical utility for
    each  data element  on the annual report.
3.  The desirability of  the exemptions  and thresholds  for
    chemicals and waste  facilities in reducing  burden
    while covering major hazardous waste problems.
4.  The appropriateness  of three-year record retention
    requirements in  view of needs to  support inspection  and
    enforcement  activities.
6.  The use  of  the manifest discrepancy report  and whether
    its contribution to  the enforcement program warrants
    the burden  it places on the  public.
7.  The use  of  the unmanifested  waste report in view  of  how
    frequently  is it submitted  and whether  it contributes
    to  the enforcement program  or knowledge  about  the  move-
    ment  of  unmanifested waste.
8.  The need for informing EPA  about  international shipments
     in  view  of  the information  this  contributes about  the
     importation of waste.
9.  Requirements for items to  be included in plans required
    of  facilities should be reviewed  as these plans are
     submitted as part  of the Permitting process.
10.  The  RCRA program and its paperwork   requirements  should
     be  reexamined in light of new and related legislated
     programs and the impact of State-run hazardous waste
     programs.
11.   The need for each type of operating record  required
     to  be maintained during the  life  and post-closure
     period of the facility should be  reviewed in terms of
     use and need.

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                     GENERAL  INSTRUCTIONS

                    HAZARDOUS WASTE  REPORT


IMPORTANT;  READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS  BEFORE COMPLETING THIS  FORM

Section   TYPE OF HAZARDOUS WASTE  REPORT:
   I.
          Type A.  Genera-tor  -  Off-site Shipments  Only

          CSee Part  262  of this Chapter for instructions.]


          Type B;  Facility Annual Report

               For owners or  operators cf  on-site  or  off-

               site  facilities  that treat:,  store,  or  dispose

               of hazardous waste; fill  in the four Soxes

               with  the  reporting  year for this report

                (e.g.,  1984).

          Type C;   Unmanifested Waste Report

               For  facility  owners or operators who  accept

                for  treatment, storage, or disposal any  hazard-

               ous  waste from an off-site source without an

                accompanying  manifest; fill in the date  the

                waste was received at the facility (e.g.,  06-

                14-1984).

 Section   INSTALLATION  I.D.  NUMBER, NAME OF INSTALLATION,
   II.
  thru      INSTALLATION  MAILING ADDRESS,  LOCATION OF  INSTAL-
 Section
   VI.      LATION AND INSTALLATION CONTACT:

                If you received a preprinted label from SPA,
                attach it in the space provided and leave
                Sections II through  VI blank.   If  there is an
                error or omission on the label, cross out the
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               incorrect information and fill in the appro-
               priate item(s).  If you did not receive a
               preprinted label, complete Sections II tnrough

               VI.


Section   TRANSPORTATION SERVICES USED (For Type-A, Reports Only)


               CSee Part 262 of this Chapter  for instructions.]

 VII.


Section   CERTIFICATION


               The owner or operator of  the  facility or his


               authorized representative must review the


               report, read the certification,  and  sign and


               date  the  certification  where  indicated.  The


               printed or typed name of  the  owner or operator


               or his authorized  representative must also


               be included where  indicated.


 NOTE:      Since  more than one page is  required for  each report,


           indicate  the number of  each  sheet in the  lower  right


           corner where indicated and indicate the total number


           of pages.


                         TYPE-A REPORT


 [See Part 262 of this Chapter for instructions.]


                         TYPS-3 REPORT


                         INSTRUCTIONS


 Facility Annual  Report  for owners or operators of on-site or


 off-site  facilities  that treat,  store,  or dispose of hazardous


 waste.  Use EPA  For^is 3700-13 and 8700-133.


 IMPORTANT:  READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE COMPLETING THIS FORM.
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Section   FACILITY'S SPA  IDENTIFICATION NUMBER

  IX.
               Enter the  EPA  identification number  for your


               facility.


[Comment;  The EPA identification  number requested  here  for


private, municipal, and State-owned  facilities  is the Data


Universal Numbering System  (DUNS)  Numbe-- developed  by Dunn


and  Bradstreet,  Inc.   Most  business  establishments  in the


United States have already  been  assigned DUNS numbers, includ-


ing  all  types and  sizes of  business  establishments,  branches,


factories, distribution centers, and purchasing units.   State


and  municipal  facilities, including  publicly-owned  treatment


works, have  also been  assigned DUNS  numbers.


      All facilities  engaged in the generation,  transport, or


treatment, storage,  or disposal  of hazardous  waste  will  be


assigned an  E?A  identification number  under the authority of


Section  3010 of  RCRA as part of the  Hazardous Waste


Notification program.


      If  you  need an  EPA identification number for your  facility,


call the nearest EPA regional office.


      For Federal facilities, the General  Services Administration


 (G5A) real property number should be used.  All Federal  facili-


ties have already been assigned a real property number  by C-SA.


 If you don't know your nunber, call the nearest local office of


GSA.


      Fill in the number  as follows:


      o    STATE CODE  - In  the first two positions of the number


           insert the  U.S.  Postal  Service Stats Ccr.e for the
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          appropriate Stats or territory in which the facility

          is located, such as PA, MD, NJ, NY, or MA;

     o    DUHS or GSA Identifier and Number - In the remaining

          positions aftar the State code insert a "D" for a

          private, municipal, or Stats-owned facility followed

          by the nine-digit DUNS number; OR insert a "G" for

          a Federally-owned facility followed by the GSA

          number .

EXAMPLES

     1.   Private facility _ PAD784621383 in Pennsylvania.

     2.   Federal facility            IT"^ 843 70 155 in New Yor
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Section
  XI.
Section
  XII.
Section
 XIII.
GENERATOR'S NAME

     Enter the name of the generator corresponding

     to the generator's EPA  identification number

     in Section X.  Co not use colloquial names as

     a substitute  for the generator's official r.ane.

          If the waste was generated and treated,

     stored, or disposed of  at the  same installation,

     enter "ON-SITE."

          If the waste came  from  a  foreign generator,

     enter the name of the importer corresponding

     to the EPA identification number in Section X.

GENERATOR'S ADDRESS

     Enter the address of the generator corresponding

     to the generator's S?A  identification number  in

     Section X.   If the waste was generated  and

     treatad,  stored, or disposed of at the  same

     installation,  leave this section blank.   If the

     waste came from  a  foreign generator, en-ter  the

     address of the importer corresponding to  the  SPA

     identification number  in Section X.

WASTE  IDENTIFICATION

     All  information  in this section must be entered

     by line number.   Each  line  entry must describe

     a different  waste  or different amounts  of the

     same waste which wera  in a  different  status  at

     the  end of the reporting year.

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Section   WASTE DESCRIPTION:  DESCRIPTION OF WASTE
XIII-A-1
               On each line, enter a description of each


               different waste, from the generator identified


               in Sections X-XII. that your facility received


               during the reporting year.  Use a separate  line


               to describe different amounts of the same waste


               which were in a different status at the  end of


               the reporting year.


                    For hazardous wastes that are listed


               under  Part 261, Subpart  D, of this Chapter,


               enter  the listed  name, abbreviated if necessary.


               Where  mixtures  of listed wastes were  received,


               enter  the listed  name of the principal  component


               of the mixture.   For  unlisted hazardous waste


                identified under  Part  261,  Subpart C, of this


               Chapter,  describe each waste or waste mixture


               by the common name of the waste:  the  exact


                chemical or  generic chemical  name of  the


                waste, if known;  and  the specific manufacturing


                or other process  generating the  waste.


 Section   WASTE DESCRIPTION:  EPA HAZARDOUS  WASTE NUMBER
 XIII-A-2
                For each line,  for listed waste,  enter  the


                four-'iigit  EPA Hazardous Waste dumber from


                Table 1* which identifies the waste.


                     For a mixture of more than one listed waste,


                enter the principal EPA Hazardous Waste dumber
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               in the  upper  left  hand corner,  and  up  to  three

               other applicable SPA Hazardous  Wasta lumbers  in

               the remaining spaces.

                     For  unlisted  wastes, and  for mixtures of

               listed  and unlisted wastes,  enter the  principal

               EPA Hazardous Wasta Sunber  from Table  2*  appli-

               cable to  the  waste in  the upper left hand corner,

               and up  to three other  applicable SPA Hazardous

               Waste Numbers in the remaining  spaces.

                     If a waste PCS or PCS  Item meets  the des-

               cription  of any other  hazardous waste  (e.g.,

               used  engine oils contaminated with  more than

               50 ppra  PC3),  enter the SPA  Hazardous Waste

               Number  for the PC3 or  PCS Item.

                     (*Tables 1 and 2  will  be  included in these

               instructions  at the time Part  261 of this

               chapter is promulgated.)

Section   HANDLING METHOD
XIII-3
               Enter one SPA handling code for each waste line

               entry,  EPA handling codes  are  given in

               Appendix  I of this Part.  Report only  the

               handling  code representing  the  waste's status

               at the  end of the  reporting year.

Section   AMOUNT OF  WASTE
XIII-C
               For each  line, enter the total  amount  of  that

               waste received by  your facility during the

               reporting year corresponding to the unit  -sf
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               measure chosen for reporting in Section XIII-D.

               if more than 999,999,999 units of the waste

               are reported, enter 999,999,999 in the boxes,

               and report the line number and the correct

               amount with the unit of measure in Section

               XlV-Ccmntents.

Section   UNIT OF MEASURE
XIII-0
               Enter the unit of measure code for the amount

               of the waste described on each line.  Unit of

               measures which must be used in this report and

               the corresponding codes are:

               Unit of Measure                Code

               Pound                           P

               Short Ton  (2000 las)            T

               Kilogram                        X

               Tonne  (1000  kg)                 M

               Units of volume may  not be  used for  reporting

               but must be  converted  into  one of  the above

               units of weight,  taking into  account  the

               appropriate  density  or specific gravity of the

               waste.

 Section   COMMENTS
   XIV
               Enter  the  most  recent  closure cost estimate  under

               §265.141,  and for disposal  facilities,  the most

               recent  post-closure  cost  estimate  under  §265.143.

               This  space may  also  be used with  a cross  reference

               to the  appropriate Section  number  to explain

               or clarify any  an-ry.
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          CERTIFYING OFFICIAL  INITIALS  AND  PAGE  COUNT

               The responsible official certifying  the  cover

               sheet must  initial  each  attachment:.   Each

               attached sheet must be numbered as the second

               of two, the second  or the third of thrse,  and

               so on, so that all  sheets are  sequentially

               identified.

          MONITORING DATA

               Where required, attach to this report ground-

               water monitoring  data under  §255 .94(b) ( 2)  and
                         TYPE-C  REPORT

                          INSTRUCTIONS

Unnanif ssted Waste Report for  facility owners  or operators  who

accept for treatment,  storage,  or disposal  any hazardous waste

frcm an off -site  source  without an accompanying manifest .   Use

EPA Fornis 8700-13 and  3700-133.

IMPORTANT;  READ  ALL  INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE  COMPLETING THIS FORM.

     For the Unmanifested Waste Report,  SPA Form 8700-133

must be filled our according to the diractions for the Type-3

Facility Annual Report except,  that:  (!)  blocks for which

information is not available to the owner or operator of the

reporting facility may be marked "UNKNOWN, " and (2) the follow-

ing special instructions apply:

Section XIII-A-1     DESCRIPTION OF MASTS

                     Use  as many line numbers as are needed  to

                     describe the waste.
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Section X11I-B      HANDLING METHOD


                    Enter the handling code which describes


                    the status of the waste on the date the


                    report is filed.


Section XIII-C      AMOUNT OF WASTE


                    Enter the amount of waste received, rather


                    than a total annual aggregate.


Section XIV         COMMENTS


                    a.   Enter  the  SPA  Identification  number,


                         name,  and  address  of the  transporter,


                         if known.   If  the  transporter is  not


                         known  to you,  enter  the name  and  chauf-


                         feur license  number  of  the  driver


                         and  the  State and  license number  of


                         the  transporting vehicle  which


                         presented  the waste  to your facility,


                          if ?
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                               APPENDIX  I

           Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976

                        (Public Law 9^-530)
 Parts Relating to Generators and Transporters of Hazardous Wastes
Congressional Findings

Section 1002.  (a) Solid Waste - The Congress finds with respect to
solid waste -•
         (1) that the continuing technological progress and improve-
      ment in methods of manufacture, packaging, and marketing of
      consuaer products has resulted in an ever-mounting increase, and
      in a change in the characteristics, of the mass material discarded
      by the purchaser of such products;
         (2) that the economic and population growth of our Nation,
      and the improvements in the standard of living enjoyed by our
      peculation, have required increased industrial production to meet
      our needs, and have made necessary the demolition of old build-
      ings, the construction of new buildings, and the provision of high-
      ways and other avenues of transportation, which, together with
      related industrial, commercial, and agricultural operations, have
      resulted in a rising tide of scrap, discarded, and waste materials;
         (3) that the continuing concentration of our population in
      expanding metropolitan and other  urban areas has presented these
      communities with serious financial, management, intergovern-
      mental, and technical problems in the disposal of solid wastes
      resulting from the  industrial, commercial, domestic, and other
      activities carried  en in such areas;
         (U) that while the collection  and disposal of solid wastes
      should continue to  be primarily the function of State, regional,
      and local agencies, the problems  of waste disposal as set forth
      above have become a matter national in scope and in concern and
      necessitate Federal action through financial and technical assist-
      ance and leadership in the development, demonstration, and appli-
      cation of new and improved methods and processes to reduce the
      proper and  economical solid-waste disposal practices.

(b) Environment and  Health - The Congress finds with respect to the
environment and health, that -
          (1) although land  is too  valuable a national resource to be
       needlessly  polluted by  discarded  materials, most solid waste  is  dis-
       posed  of on land  in open  dumps and sanitary landfills;
          (2) disposal of  solid  waste and hazardous waste  ir. or  or. the
       land without  careful  planning  and management can present  a
       danger to  human health  and the environment;
          (3) as  a result  of the Clean Air Act,  the Water  Pollution  Con-
       trol  Act,  and other Federal  and State  laws  respecting public
       health and the  environment,  greater amcur.ts  of  solid waste  (in
       the  form of sludge  and  other pollution treatment  residues)  have
       been  created.  Similarly,  inadequate  ar.d  environmentally  unsound.

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       practices for the disposal or use of solid waste  have  created greater
       amounts of air and vater pollution and other problems  for  the
       environnent and for health;
          (U) open dumping is particularly haraful to health, contami-
       nates drinking vater from underground and surface supplies,  and
       pollutes the air and the land;
          (5) hazardous vaste presents, in addition to the problems asso-
       ciated with non-hazardous solid waste, special dangers to  health
       and requires a greater degree of regulation than does  non-hazard-
       ous solid waste;

Objectives

Section 1003.  The objectives of this Act are to promote the protection
of health and the environment and to conserve valuable material and energy
resources by -
          (3) prohibiting  future open dumping on the iand and requir-
       ing the" conversion  of existing open dumps to facilities which do
       not pose a danger to the environment or to health;
          (U) regulating the treatment, storage, transportation,  and dis-
       posal of hazardous  wastes which have adverse effects on health
       and the  environment;
          (5) providing for the promulgation of  guidelines for solid
       waste collection, transport,  separation,  recovery, and disposal
       practices  and systems;
SU3?IT1Z  C  -  rIAZ.AP.2CUS  VAST!  MAJIAGg-SiT

Identification  and listing of Hazardous  waste

        Section  3001.   (a)  Criteria for identification or listing - Not later
than  eighteen months  after the date of the  enactment of this Act, the
Administrator shall,  after notice and opportunity  for public nearing,
and after consultation with appropriate Federal  and State  agencies,
develop and Dromulgate criteria for identifying  the characteristics of
hazardous waste, and for listing hazardous  waste,  wnich should be subject
to the provisions of this subtitle, taking  into  account toxicity, persistence,
and degradability in nature,  potential for  accumulation in tissue, and other
related factors such as flammability , ccrrosiveness , and other hazardous
characteristics.  Such criteris shall be revised from time to time as may
be appropriate.
        (b) Identification and listing - Not later thar.  eighteen months
 after the date  of enactment of this section, and after  notice and opportunity
 for Dublic hearing, the Administrator shall promulgate  regulations
 identifying the characteristics of hazardous waste,  and listing particular
 hazardous wastes (within the meaning of section  100U(5)),  which shall be
 subject to the provisions of this subtitle.  Such regulations shall be based
 on the criteria" promulgated under subsection (a) and shall be revised from  time
 to time thereafter as may be appropriate.
        (c) Petition by State Governor - At any time after  the date  eighteen
 months after the enactment of this title, the Governor  of  any State may
 petition the Administrator to identify or list a material  as a  hazardous


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waste.  The Administrator shall act upon such petition vithin ninety days
following his receipt thereof and shall notify the Governor of such action.
If the Administrator denies such petition because of financial considerations,
in providing such notice to the Governor he shall include a statement
concerning such considerations.
Standards Applicable to Ovners and Operators cf Hazardous Waste Treatment,
Storage  and  Disposal Facilities

       Section  300^.   Not  later than eighteen months after the date of enact-
ment  of  this section,  and  after opportunity  for public hearings and after
consultation with appropriate  Federal  and  State agencies, the Administrator
shall promulgate regulations establishing  such performance standards, applicable
to  owners and operators of facilities  for  the treatment, storage, or disposal
of  hazardous vaste  identified  or listed under this  subtitle,  as may be necessary
to  protect human health and the environment.  Such  standards  shall  include:


          (1) maintaining  records  of all hazardous wastes identified or
       listed under  this  title  which is treated,  stored,  or disposed of,
       as the case say be,  and  the  manner in vr.ich such wastes were treated,
       stored,  or disposed of;
          (2) satisfactory reporting, monitoring,  and inspection  and
       compliance with the manifest system referred to in section 3002(5);
          (3) treatment,  storage,  or disposal of all such waste received
       by the facility pursuant to such operating methods,  techniques,
       and practices as nay be  satisfactory ta the Administrator;
          (U) the location, design, and construction of such hazardous
       waste treatment, disposal,  or storage facilities;
          (5) contingency plans for effective action to minimize  unan-
       ticipated damage from any treatment, storage, or disposal  of any
       such hazardous waste;
          (6) the maintenance of operation of such facilities and requir-
       irgsuch additional qualifications as to ownership, continuity of
       operation, training "for personnel, and financial responsibility  as
       may be necessary or desirable; and
          (7) compliance with the requirements of section 3005 respect-
       ing permits for treatment, storage, or disposal.

Mo  private entity  shall be precluded by rsascn of criteria established
under  paragraph (6)  from the ownership or operation of facilities providing
hazardous waste treatment,  storage or disposal services where such entity
can provide  assurances of  financial responsibility and continuity of oper-
ation consistent with  the  degree and duration of risks associated with
the treatment,  storage, or  disposal of specified hazardous waste.
                                 Appdx  1-3

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                            APPENDIX  II


Partial Listing of Pending Legislation Affecting Hazardous Waste


Senate
S. 1325 - Hazardous Waste Post-Closure Liability Ac- (ia Senate
          Environment and Public Works Committee - last hearing
          held September 28, 1979, more scheduled soon)

S. 131*! - Oil, Hazardous Substance and Hazardous Waste Response
          Liability and Compensation Act (in Senate Environment
          and Public Works Committee - last hearing held September
          28, 1979. acre scheduled soon)

S. 1-SO - Environmental Emergency Response Act (in Senate
          Environment and Public Works Committee - last hearing
          held September 28, 1979, nore scheduled soon)

S. 1156 - Solid Waste Disposal  Act Amendments  (passed the Senate on
          June !*, 1979; Senate reauested a conference on March ^,
          1980, the House responded on MArch 10 but conferees have
          not yet met)
House

HH  3991* - Resource  Conservation and  Recovery Act  Amendments  (passed
          the House on  February 20,  I960  and vas  laid  aside  in  favc:
          of S.  1156)

HR  5790 - Hazardous Waste  Response 7und Act  (Super  ~-^r.d)  (in
          House  Interstate and  Foreign Commerce Cccmittee, hearings
          scheduled soon)

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                                 APPENDIX III



Bibliography




I.  Federal Sources

    A.  United States Departae.it of Transportation

        "Display of Hazardous Materials Identification Nunbers; Improved
        Emergency Response Capability; Proposed Rule," in Federal Register,
        Vol. lik, Ho. ill, June 7, 1979= 32972 - 33019, Part IV

        Eighth Annual Report en Hazardous Materials Transport at i or., Materials
        Transportation Bureau, Washington, D. C., CY 1977

        Guide for Hazardous Materials Shipping Pagers ,  Materials Transpor-
        tation Bureau, 1979 (DMT-^3)

        Guide for Preparing Hazardous Materials Incident Reports. Materials
        Transportation Bureau, January, 1979  (revised

        Hazardous Materials Transrortaticr. -  Guide  for Brokers, "orvardlng
        Agents, Freight Forwarders and Warehouseaen, Materials Transportation
        Bureau, May  1978

        Hazardous Material Transportation -  Hazardous Materials -ef ir.itions,
        Materials Transportation  Bureau, January  1979 (DMT-^3)

        Hazardous Materials Transportation - Marking  Guide.  Materials
        Transportation Bureau, May 1973.

        Hazardous Materials Warning  labels,   Materials Transportation Bureau,
        1977  (Chart  k)

        Hazardous  Materials Warning  Placards.  Materials  Transport at icr.  Bureau,
        1977  (Chart  5)

         "Improved  Descriptions  of Hazardous  Materials for laergency  Response.
         (Notice of Proposed Ruleaaking),"  Docket  No.  HM-1265;  Notice  79-1^,
         in Federal  Register.  Vol. kk, No.  213,  November  8, 1979

         Proposal to Require Display  of Hazardous  Materials Identification
         Hunbers,  Materials  Transportation  Bureau (EM-126A)

         "Transportation of Hazardous Substances," in Federal Register.  Vol.
         kk, no". 37, February 22, 1979=   1C676 - 10695,  Part IV

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3.  United States Environmental Protection Agency

    1.  Federal Register

        "Consolidated Permit Regulations:  RCRA Hazardous Waste:
        SDWA Underground Injection Control; CAA Prevention..."
        in Federal Register, Vol. l»lt, No. 116, June lU, 1979:
              - 31*31*11, Section 3005
                                                    .,
"Criteria for Classification of Solid Waste Disposal
Facilities and Practices; Final, Interim Final, and
Proposed Regulations (as corrected in the FR of September
21, 1979)," in Federal Register, Vol. Ui* , No. 179,
September 13, 1979^  53^30 - 53^63

"Hazardous Waste Guidelines and Regulations," in Federal
Register, Vol. UU, No. 16U, August 22, 1979:  Il91*02 -
      , Part II
"Hazardous Waste:  Proposed Guidelines and Regulations and
Proposal on  Identification and Listing,"  in Federal Register.
Vol". 73, No.  2l»3,  December 13, 197S:  539^6 - 59023

"Identification of Regions and Agencies for Solid Waste
Management, " in Federal  Register. Vol. 1*2, No. 91* , -May la,
19777   9U926 - 2U930,  Part V

"Implementation of the Resource  Conservation and Recovery
Act" of  1976:  Interim  Regulations,"  in Federal Register.
Vol  i*2, No.  203,  October 20,  1977:   56050 - 56056, Part 17

"Preliminary Notification of  Hazardous Waste Activities:
Pro-nosed Procedures,"  in Federal Register, Vol.  -3, No. 133,
July 11, 1973: 29908  -  29916, Part  IV

"Standards Aurlicable  to Transporters of Hazardous Wastes,"
in Federal Register,  Vol.  1*3," No. 33, April 28,  1973:
13506 - 13512, Part  IV
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2.  Other EPA Studies

    Controlling Wastes for Public Safety and Resource  Censer-
    vat ion, May, 1979, OPA ok/9,  SW-799

    Developing a State Resource Conservation and Recovery Program,
    Office of Water and Waste Management, October,  1979,  5W-79I

    Environmental Information:  Hazardous Waste Facts,  Office of
    Public Awareness, Maryca, 1979, OPA 57/9

    A Guide to the Consolidated Application Fora,  Office of Water
    Enforcement, June, 1979, C-7

    A Guide to the  Dredge or Fill Permit Program,   Office of
    Wastes Planning and Standards, July, 1979, C-6

    Hazardous Waste:  A Guide for Obtaining Permits and Authori-
    zation for State Programs,  Office of Water and Waste Manage-
    ment, 1979, C-5, SW-765

    Proposed Hazardous Waste Guidelines and Regulations, Report
    to the Regulatory Review Group Submitted by the Council on
    Wage and Price Stability, ^arch 16, 1979

    Safe Storage and Disposal of  Pesticides, May, 1977

    Solid Waste Facts:  A  Statistical Handbook,  Office of Water
    and Waste Management,  1978, 3W-69U

 3.  Industry Studies  fcr EPA

    Draft  Economic Impact  Analysis for Subtitle C, Resource
    Conservation and  Recovery Act of 1976.  Arthur D. Little,  Inc.,
    January, 1979   (EPA Contract)

    Economic Impacts  of RCRA  Approaches  to  the  regulation of
    Generators  of  Small Volumes  of Hazardous Wastes.  Lexington,
    Massachusetts, Temple, Barker 4 Sloane, Inc., December 12,  1979
     (SPA  Contract  -  Draft)

    Economic Impacts  of RCRA  Approaches  to  the  Regulation of
    Generators  of  Small Volumes  of Hazardous Wastes.  Lexington,
    Massachusetts, Temple, Barker 4 Slcane, Inc., January 5,  1980
     (SPA Contract)
                           Appdx  III -3

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    Technical Environmental Impacts of Various Approaches  for
    Regulating Small Volume Hazardous Vaste Generators.  Vol.  I.
    Technical Analysis; Vol. II. Appendices.TEW,  lac., December
    10, 1979  (EPA Contract)

1*.  Drafts of Regulations, etc.

    Hazardous Waste Guidelines and Peculations - Part 250, (Draft)
    August 31, 1979

    Reports Impact Analysis, Resource Conservation and Recovery
    Act, Subtitle C - Hazardous Waste Mar.ager.ent,  Implementation
    Branch, Office of Solid Waste, March 19, 19?9

    Revised Resource Requirement Summary (?RS) and Sac:Around.
    Document for Incorporation  in RCRA Dccxet,  Hazardous  Vaste
    Management Division, March  1, 1979

    Standards Applicable to Trans-porters of Hazardous Waste,
    December 13, 1979   (Draft  regulations)

    Standards Applicable to Generators of Hazardous Vaste,  Decem-
    ber 13, 1979   (Draft regulations)

    Steering Committee  Drafts  for 3C?A Regulations Covering Hazardous
    Waste  Generators and Transporters,  December 1-, 1979

 5.  EPA Memoranda,  etc.

    California Hazardous Vaste Program, Memorandum:  Schaua to
    Drayton, November  7,  1979

    Coordination  of Hazardous  Waste  Projects,  Memorandum:  Schaum
    to Solid Waste Analytical  Team,  November  15, 1979

    Draft  Description  of  Regulations for  Economic  Impact  Analysis,
    Memorandum:   3uc to Branch Chiefs,  December  3, 1979

    Engacement  Plan, Memorandum:    Schaum to  Draytcn, November 6,
    1979"

    Memorandum of Understanding:   Department  of Transportation and
    Environmental Protection Agency, June,  1979

    Notification of Hazardous Waste Activity  Form, Memorandum:
    Plehn to Howell, November 29,  1979

    RC3A Reports impact Analysis,  Memorandum:  Melone to  3eal,
     November 21, 1979
                            Appdx III  -

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    C.  National Academy of Sciences

            Forum en Nuclear Waste, November 19, 1979, Media Advisory


    D.  United States Congress

            Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, ?.L. 9^-530

            Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, Report of
            the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, U.S. House
            of Representatives, on H.R. 1^96, House Report 9U-1U91

            Solid Waste Utilization Act of 1976, Report  of the  Senate
            Committee on Public Works on S. 2150, Senate Report 9U-369


    Z.  United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission

            Draft Regulator:/ Guide ar.d Value/Impact Statement,  (Reporting
            of Safeguards Events), October, 1979, Division  5, Task SG 901-i*.
            Transport of Hazardous Materials:   (Irradiated  Fuel)
H.   Nonfederal Sources

             American Petroleum Institute,  Assessment of Petroleum Industry
             Cost of Cogpliar.ee vith Proposed Hazardous Waste Regulations,
             Reston, Virginia,  SCS Engineers, April,  1979  I for API)

             American Petroleum Institute,  Hazardous  Waste Guidelines and
             Regulations, Comments,  API, May 15,  1979,  Part I- Comments
             and Part II- Appendices

             American Petroleum Institute,  Status  of RCHA regulations,,
             Dallas, Texas, API - HPRA Conference, January 31 - February
             1, 1980

             National Association of Manufacturers, Proposed Hazardous
             Waste Guidelines and Regulations; Stagemer.t by the :IAM to
             the EPA, Marcn lo, 1979
III. Additional Sources

     A.  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

            Annual Report to Congress Jan. - Dec. 1973 on the Administration
            of the Marine Protection. Researc.i, ar.d sanctuaries Act cf 1972,
            as Amended  (P.L. 92-532) and Irslesentir.g the International Ocean
            Dumping Csnventicr.,  June 197?


                                   Appdx  III  -  5

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Author!saticr. of Sta-e Hazardous Waste rrograns, Section 3006,
Draft, Jan. 2k., 196 0

Hazardous Waste Management:  Overview and  Defir.i-ior.s  (1*0 CF?. 260),
Internal Use Cniy, Jan.  ii, i960

Far- 122 - ZPA Administered Perait  Prcsrass:  -he National Pollu-ar.-s
Discharge Slisir.aticn Sys-ea; the Hazardous Was^e  ?erjl~ Program:
and the Underground  Injection Control Program,  Section 3005, Draft,
Feb. 8, I960

Part 123 - Sta-e Prograa ?equirer.ents -  Section 3006,  Draft, Feb.
7, I9SO                                       "~~~

Part 26l - Hazardous Waste Management Sys'ea:  Identification and
Listing of Hazardous Vas-e, Draft,  Jan.  26,  I960

Part 262 - Standards Applicable to  Generators of Hazardous  Waste,
Internal Use Only, Jan.  11, I960

Part 263 - Standards Applicable to  Trans-porters of Hazardous Waste,
Irrcerr-al Use Only, Jan.  11, I960

Part 26U - Standards for Owners and Operators of Hazardous  Was^e
Trea^aent, Stcrase.  ar.d Disrosal Facilities,  Draft, Jan.  25,  I960

Ocean  Dusroir.g  ir. the United States, Six^h Annual Repor- of the
IP A on Adninistra-ion  Title  I,  NG=?.S Act  of 1972,  Jan.  - Dec.  1977,
July  12,  1973.

Section 30Qli  -  Standards Applicable "o  Cvners and  Or;era-rors of
Hazardous  Vas^e Treatser.t. Storage, and Dis-sosal FaciliLies,
Draft  - Preanble RCRA,  Subtitle C - Hazardous WasT:e Manaeezent,
Jan.  25,  I960

Standards  Applicable to Generators  of Hazardous Waste, (Docket
JIo.  3002),  Internal Use Only, Jan.  11,  I960

Standards  Applicable to Transporters cf :-.s.zardcus Was-e, (Docket
No.  3003), Internal Use Only, Jan.  11,  I960

Support Document ?re=anufacture Motifiea-ion P.eauiresents and
 Reviev Procedures, Office of Toxic Substances, Jan. 1979
                         Appdx III  -6

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3.  Industry Studies for Z?A

       Arthur D. Little, Inc., Sstimated Cos-cs fcr Preparation and Sub-
       mission of Reprsposed Premanufactura Notice Fora,  Prepared for
       Office of Toxic Substances, U.S. Z?A, Sept. 1979

       Fred. C. Kart Assoc., Inc., HCRA Enforcement Management System,
       Prepared for Office of Enforcement, U.S. SPA, Nov. IT, 1976

       Performance Development Institute, Reviev cf FCPA Strategy
       Writeups, Feb. 6, i960

       Versar,  Inc., Classifying Solid Waste Disposal Facilities, A
       Guidance Manual  - Draft, Prepared fcr Office of Solid Waste, U.S.
       SPA,  1979

 C.   Other  Sources

       American Tracking Association.  Hazardous Waste Guidelines and
       Heeulations;  Connects  of ATA, Inc.,  Marca  io, 1979

       Gener'l '^"tric, Proposed  Rules  »*0  CF? 250  Suboart 3  - Standards
       etc.; Consents by G.Z.  on  Section 2001, 3002, 300^, March lU,  1979

       National Solid Waste Management Asscciation,  Various  Cacaents  on
       Section 2001. 3C02.  300^ of HCRA.  January,  March  and September  1979.
                                Appdx  III  -

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