&EPA	e-Manifest
Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery | www.EPA.Gov/e-MANiFEST | December 2020
e-Manifest Fact Sheet
On June 30, 2018, EPA launched a national system for tracking hazardous waste shipments electronically. This system,
known as "e-Manifest," modernizes the nation's cradle-to-grave hazardous waste tracking process while saving valuable
time, resources, and dollars for industry and states. EPA established e-Manifest per the Hazardous Waste Electronic
Manifest Establishment Act, which Congress enacted into law on October 5, 2012. e-Manifest is a multi-faceted program
that includes system development; regulation and policy; implementation and communication; and consultation with the
e-Manifest federal advisory committee.
Manifest regulations, such as collection of user fees, will
only be implemented by EPA.)
As electronic manifest use is optional, the system is
offering a range of alternatives to a fully electronic
manifest. These include submission of paper manifests as
image files, data plus image files, and a hybrid
electronic/paper option, all of which will enable EPA to
establish a national database of all manifest data.
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e-Manifest launched nationwide on June 30, 2018.
e-Manifest is available for testing in the pre-
production environment
(https://rcrainfopreprod.epa.gov)
All receiving facilities, e.g., facilities that receive
waste that must be manifested under federal or state
law must submit those manifests to EPA. EPA
charges receiving facilities an associated fee for each
manifest submitted.
Handlers are required to register for e-Manifest to
submit manifests electronically and to make
corrections.
e-Manifest data is generally available to the public
90 days post-receipt of the manifest.
Scope of e-Manifest
e-Manifest facilitates the electronic transmission of the
uniform manifest form, which accompanies shipments of
hazardous waste. e-Manifest affects any regulated waste
shipped on a manifest, including:
•	RCRA federal hazardous waste,
•	Regulated PCB waste shipped on a manifest,
•	State-regulated hazardous waste (if manifest is
required by origination or destination state),
•	Very Small Quantity Generator waste (if manifest
required by state), and
•	Imported hazardous waste.
EPA implements the e-Manifest regulations until
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
authorized states adopt and become authorized for the
e-Manifest regulations. (Note: some parts of the e-
RCRAInfo
e-Manifest is linked to the existing RCRA Information
System (RCRAInfo) and has the ability to validate
information entered on an electronic manifest against
information in RCRAInfo. RCRAInfo is an EPA information
system that collects information on hazardous waste
sites, publicly available here:
https://rcrapublic.epa.gov/rcrainfoweb.
Benefits of e-Manifest
e-Manifest improves access to higher quality and timely
data while saving time and resources for industry and
states. Benefits include:
Cost savings,
Accurate and more timely information on waste
handling,
Rapid notification of discrepancies or other
problems related to a shipment,
One-stop reporting of data to EPA and the states
through a single hub,
Increased effectiveness of monitoring of waste
shipments by regulators, and

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•	Potential for integrating manifest reporting with
other federal and state information systems.
Federal Links and Contacts
•	For more information on EPA's e Manifest Program
and frequently asked questions go to
http://www.epa.gov/e-manifest
•	To subscribe to the general program Listserv send a
blank message to: eManifest-
subscribe(5)|ists.epa.aov
•	To subscribe to the developers only Listserv send a
blank message to: e-manifestdev-
subscribe(5)lists.epa.aov
e-Manifest Conceptual Model
EPA
DATA SUBMISSION	DATA CAPTURE AND PROCESSING	DATA REPORTING
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
EPA 530-F-20-011

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