Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
RCRA = Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
Subpart C Base program: The Subchapter I of RCRA "General Provisions" is the foundation of the base program, which includes requirements for safe recycling, compostage, storage and disposal of wastes.
Corrective Action: all facilities that have a TSD permit (Treatment, Storage and Disposal) or are operating under an interim status, are required to clean up current and former waste treatment, storage and disposal areas. Corrective action is the process through which areas of a facility which could have received hazardous waste are evaluated and if necessary are cleaned up. These areas of concern could be any area which has received, at any time, solid or hazardous waste through deliberate placement of the waste or because of an accidental release or spill. These areas are often referred to as solid waste management units. Once identified they must be evaluated to determine whether or not they present a threat to human health or the environment.
Mixed Waste: Regulation of treatment, storage and disposal of radioactive mixed wastes (hazardous wastes subject to RCRA and radioactive wastes subject to the Atomic Energy Act).
BIF: Regulation of Burning of Hazardous Wastes in Boilers and Industrial Furnaces: EPA has expanded controls on hazardous waste combustion to regulate air emissions from the burning of hazardous waste in boilers and industrial furnaces. The EPA rule controls emissions of toxic organic compounds, toxic metals, hydrogen chloride, chlorine gas and particulate matter from boilers and industrial furnaces burning hazardous waste.
Toxicity Characteristic: Toxicity Characteristics Revisions. Toxicity characteristics are used to identify those wastes defined as hazardous and which are subject to regulation under Subtitle C of RCRA. EPA established regulatory levels for the toxic chemicals based on health-based concentration thresholds and a dilution/ attenuation factor that was developed using a subsurface fate and transport model.
LDR California Wastes: Land Disposal Restrictions for a category of wastes previously banned in California, that subsequently have been incorporated into RCRA. It includes free liquids associated with sludge, heavy metals, acids with pH less than 2, polychlorinated byphenols and halogenated organic compounds. California wastes, with the exception of halogenated organic wastes must be rendered into a solid to be disposed of legally in a landfill.
LDR 1/3 Wastes: Land Disposal Restrictions for first scheduled wastes (first-third wastes). It is the first phase of LDR implementation for wastewaters, process residuals, preservative dippage, etc.
LDR 2/3 Wastes: Land Disposal Restrictions Phase II treatment standards for organic toxicity characteristic wastes and newly listed wastes. It refers to soil and debris contaminated with first scheduled wastes and to radioactive wastes mixed with first-third wastes.
LDR 3/3 Wastes: Land Disposal Restrictions for Third Scheduled Wastes. Under the rule, 2/3 scheduled wastes may be disposed of only if the landfill has a permit (or is in interim status), and complies with the requirements: It must have a liner to prevent migration of wastes to the adjacent surface or subsurface soil, surface or ground water; it must be constructed of materials with appropriate chemical properties and sufficient strength to prevent failure; it must have a leachate collection and removal system immediately above the liner designed to collect and remove leachate from the landfill, etc.
Subpart D (Solid Waste): Solid waste means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility and other discarded material, including soil, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges which are point sources subject to permits , or source, special nuclear, or byproduct material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act. The program deals with recycling, composting and disposal of solid waste.
Subpart I (UST) = Underground Storage Tanks. This program provides regulations for the storage, primarily of gasoline, crude oil, and other petroleum products and covers performance standards for new tanks, leak detection, leak prevention, corrective action, and financial responsibility. Subpart I includes requirements for tank notification, interim prohibition, new tank standards, reporting and recordkeeping requirements for existing tanks, corrective action, financial responsibility, compliance monitoring and enforcement, and approval of State programs.
An underground storage tank (UST) is defined as any one or a combination of tanks that have 10 percent or more of their volume below the surface of the ground in which they are installed. This definition includes the tank, connected underground piping, underground ancillary equipment, and containment system. Further, this definition specifically pertains to UST systems that contain regulated substances such as solvents, methanol, and ethylene glycol (anti-freeze).
key to codes
| C/ Base Program | C/ Corrective Action | C/ Mixed Waste | C/ BIF | C/ Toxicity Characteristic | C/ California LDR | C/ LDR 1/3 Wastes | C/ LDR 2/3 Wastes | C/ LDR 3/3 Wastes | D/ Solid Waste | D/ UST | |
| AL | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | P | Y |
| AK | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | P | Y |
| AZ | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | ND | N |
| AR | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N | Y | Y |
| CA | Y | Y | Y | IN | Y | Y | Y | Y | IN | ND | N |
| CO | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | IN |
| CT | Y | N | Y | N | N | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | Y |
| DE | Y | N | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | N | N | Y | Y |
| DC | Y | N | N | N | N | Y | Y | N | Y | NA | Y |
| FL | Y | N | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | ND | N |
| GA | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | ND | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| HI | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | ND | N |
| ID | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | S | Y | N | Y | S | N |
| IL | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | N |
| IN | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | N |
| KS | Y | N | Y | N | Y | N | N | N | N | Y | Y |
| LA | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | I | I | I | Y | Y |
| ME | Y | Y | Y | N | N | Y | Y | Y | N | N | Y |
| MD | Y | N | N | N | IN | N | N | N | N | P | Y |
| MA | Y | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | Y |
| MI | Y | Y | Y | IN | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N |
| MN | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | N |
| MS | Y | N | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | ND | Y |
| MO | Y | I | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| MT | Y | IN | Y | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | P7 | Y |
| NE | Y | N | Y | N | N | Y | Y | N | N | Y | Y |
| NV | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | ND | S/Y |
| NH | Y | Y | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | Y |
| NJ | IN1 | IN1 | IN1 | IN1 | IN1 | IN1 | IN1 | IN1 | IN1 | P | N |
| NM | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N | Y | Y |
| NY | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N |
| NC | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | ND | N |
| ND | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | IN | Y | Y |
| OH | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | N |
| OK | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| OR | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | S | Y | Y | Y | S | N |
| PA | Y | N | N | N | N | Y | N | N | Y | Y | N |
| PR | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | IN | N |
| RI | Y | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y |
| SC | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | N |
| SD | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| TN | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | ND | N |
| TX | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N | P | Y |
| UT | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| VT | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | N | N | N | N | Y | Y |
| VA | Y | N | N | N | N | Y | N | N | Y | P | N |
| WA | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | N | Y | Y | I | P | Y |
| WI | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | N |
| WV | Y | N | N | N | N | Y | N | N | N | N | Y |
| WY | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | IN |
ECOS Home | State Delegations | LGEAN