['CERCLA, SARA, EPCRA', 'Waste']
['Waste Generators', 'Solid Waste', 'Waste Management', 'Toxic/Hazardous Substance Releases', 'TSD Facilities', 'Waste', 'Hazardous Waste']
07/24/2024
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EPA requires small and large quantity generators of hazardous waste to plan and prepare for emergencies involving hazardous waste spills and releases.
Scope
The extent of a hazardous waste generators’ obligations to plan and prepare for emergencies depends upon the generators’ status. Very small quantity generators (VSQGs) have minimal requirements, while Large Quantity Generators must comply with the full regulatory requirements of 262 Subpart M.
Regulatory citations
Key definitions
- Disposal: The discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any solid waste or hazardous waste into or on any land or water so that such solid waste or hazardous waste or any constituent thereof may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any waters, including ground waters.
- Hazardous waste: A solid waste, or combination of solid wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may:
- Cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness; or
- Pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, or disposed of, or otherwise managed.
- Hazardous waste generation: The act or process of producing hazardous waste.
- Hazardous waste management: The systematic control of the collection, source separation, storage, transportation, processing, treatment, recovery, and disposal of hazardous wastes.
- RCRA: The Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, as amended, 42 U.S.C. section 6901 et seq.
- Resource recovery: The recovery of material or energy from solid waste.
- Solid waste: Any garbage or refuse, sludge from a wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility and other discarded material, resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations, and from community activities.
- Solid waste management: The systematic administration of activities which provide for the collection, source separation, storage, transportation, transfer, processing, treatment, and disposal of solid waste.
- Used oil: Any oil which has been:
- Refined from crude oil,
- Used, and
- As a result of such use, contaminated by physical or chemical impurities.
Summary of requirements
- Train employees to respond to emergencies
- Install and maintain internal communication and alarms
- Install and maintain emergency response equipment (fire extinguishers, sprinkler system, etc.)
- Coordinate with local emergency responders and hospitals
- Prepare emergency contingency plans
- Prepare summary of emergency contingency plans
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['CERCLA, SARA, EPCRA', 'Waste']
['Waste Generators', 'Solid Waste', 'Waste Management', 'Toxic/Hazardous Substance Releases', 'TSD Facilities', 'Waste', 'Hazardous Waste']
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