Environmental - Solid and Hazardous Waste Regulations

The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA, 1976) stated the following as national goals for waste management:

• Protecting human health and the environment from the potential hazards of waste disposal
• Conserving energy and natural resources
• Reducing the amount of waste generated
• Ensuring that wastes are managed in an environmentally-sound manner

Meeting these objectives subject manufacturing and industrial facilities to the following programs:

• Hazardous Waste Program (RCRA Subtitle C),
• Solid Waste Program (RCRA Subtitle D), and 
• The Underground Storage Tank (UST) program (RCRA Subtitle I).

Contact Fairfax Compliance Group with any questions, and for assistance with waste reporting (Form R, Tier II), waste minimization and recycling, permitting, transport and disposal, for any of the following regulations:

• Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
• Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA, or Superfund)
• Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA)
• Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA)
• Pollution Prevention Act (PPA)
• Transport of Hazardous Waste (See DOT PHMSA - Hazardous Materials/Hazardous Waste Transport)
• Municipal and Residual Waste
• Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments (HSWA)