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A wide variety of businesses handle used oil, from service stations to vehicle rental companies to manufacturing facilities. Federal EPA’s used oil management standards are a set of “good housekeeping” requirements for used oil handlers. State regulations governing the management of used oil may be more stringent than federal EPA’s.
Scope
Under many circumstances, used oil is a hazardous waste and must be managed as such if it is to be disposed of. However, EPA’s used oil management program allows the handling of used oil under less stringent standards as long as it is managed according to the regulations and the oil is ultimately sent to a recycler, recycled, or burned for fuel.
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Key definitions
- Container: Any portable device in which a material is stored, transported, treated, disposed of, or otherwise handled.
- Used oil: Any oil that has been refined from crude oil or any synthetic oil that has been used and as a result of such use is contaminated by physical or chemical impurities. The definition does not include products used as cleaning agency or used solely for their solvent properties along with certain petroleum-derived products such as antifreeze and kerosene.
- Used oil generator: Any person, by site, whose act or process produces used oil or whose act first causes used oil to become subject to regulation.
- Used oil processor or used oil re-refiner: A facility that processes used oil.
- Used oil transporter: Any person who transports used oil, any person who collects used oil from more than one generator and transports the collected oil, and owners and operators of used oil transfer facilities.
Summary of requirements
Arkansas’ state requirements regarding used oil management include some regulatory information beyond the federal requirements. A summary of the additional requirements includes the following:
- Arkansas requires that used oil handlers use the State’s Notification of Regulated Waste Activity form to obtain an EPA Identification Number (Requests via ordinary letter are not accepted.).
- Used oil transporters, processors, re-refiners, burners, and marketers who have previously obtained an EPA identification number must re-notify in order to register their used oil activities.
- Regulation 23 279.82 states that used oil used as a dust suppressant may not exhibit any characteristic of a hazardous waste, and no oil or any component of the oil bay be allowed to enter any waters of the State.