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Hazardous Waste Policy Compendium
Below you will find copies of EPA Region I RCRA regulatory interpretation made in response to questions from the New England states and the public concerning different hazardous waste issues. The compendium will be updated periodically to reflect new information. If you should have any questions regarding the Hazardous Waste Policy Compendium, you may contact Lynda Boriskin (Boriskin.Lynda@epa.gov):
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2008 Compendium Letters
2007 Compendium Letters
- RCRA Subpart AA/BB/CC (PDF) (5 pp., 281 KB)
- Paperless Inspection E-signatures on profile (PDF) (5 pp., 242 KB)
- Hazardous Waste in Product & Raw Material Storage Tanks (PDF) (4 pp., 256 KB)
- New England Marinas and Boatyards Environmental Regulations (PDF) (4 pp., 242 KB)
2006 Compendium Letters
- Methanol-preserved Soil Samples and Exclusion from Hazardous Waste (PDF) (4 pp., 199 KB)
- Fuel to Fuel Exemption (PDF) (6 pp., 279 KB)
- Treatment of Hazardous Waste Without a Permit (PDF) (6 pp., 305 KB)
- Hazardous Waste Information (PDF) (3 pp., 104 KB)
2005 Compendium Letters
- EPA Region 1 Regulatory Interpretation (PDF) (4 pp., 236 KB)
- September 8 2005 EPA Region 1 Regulatory Interpretation (PDF) (3 pp., 179 KB)
- Zaclon's Compliance with Ohio's Hazardous Waste Laws and Regulations (PDF) (22 pp., 1.23 MB)
- Recycled Zinc Chloride Solution (PDF) (46 pp., 1.24 MB)
- Disposal of Footwear as Hazardous Waste (PDF) (2 pp., 80 KB)
2004 Compendium Letters
- RCRA Wastewater Treatment Unit Exemption (PDF) (5 pp., 292 KB)
2003 Compendium Letters
- Waste Machine Coolant Question (3 pp., 112 KB)
- Waste Aerosol Cans (PDF) (1 p., 33 KB)
- Oclansorb (PDF) (2 pp., 77KB)
2002 Compendium Letters
- Beryllium Waste (PDF) (1 pp., 61 KB)
- Rail Car Operations in RI (PDF) (5 pp., 203 KB)
- Mercury from the HoltraChem Manufacturing Co. (PDF) (5 pp., 304 KB)
- Silica Gel Solvents (E-mail Response) (PDF) (3 pp., 154 KB)
- Land Disposal Restriction Regulations (PDF) (6 pp., 343 KB)
2001 Compendium Letters
- HW Exemption University Dormitories (PDF) (2 pp., 103 KB)
- Closure Cert. Review (PDF) (1 p., 50 KB)
- Household Hazardous Waste (PDF) (2 pp., 73 KB)
- Land Disposal Restriction Regulations (PDF) (28 pp., 1.2 MB)
- Cyclone Dust Collector (PDF) (2 pp., 133 KB)
- Central Artery/Tunnel (CA/T) Project (PDF) (10 pp., 436 KB)
- Solid Waste Disposal Regulations (PDF) (4 pp., 115 KB)
- Spent Foundry Sand (PDF) (8 pp., 401 KB)
- Dust Collection Devices (PDF) (8 pp., 308 KB)
2000 Compendium Letters
- Hoyt Hydrocarbon Dry Cleaning Machine (PDF) (6 pp., 478 KB)
- Algonquin Gas Transmission Company, Cromwell, CT (PDF) (8 pp., 495 KB)
- Regulatory Interpretation on Expended or Unexploded Munitions (PDF) (3 pp., 139 KB)
- Pioneer Plastics Response to Questions (PDF) (3 pp., 163 KB)
- Hazardous Waste Status of Flameless Ration Heaters (PDF) (2 pp., 66 KB)
- Generator Requirements: Management of Unknown Waste; Point of Generation; and Logbooks (PDF) (6 pp., 316 KB)
- Plastic Media Blasting Recycling Program (PDF) (1 p., 52 KB)
- Regulations Applicable to Hazardous Waste Generators on College University Campuses (PDF) (2 pp., 98 KB)
- Interpretation on Area of Contamination Policy TCLP lead and PCB Soil (PDF) (4 pp., 193 KB)
- HW Regulation Interpretive Advice (PDF) (6 pp., 304 KB)
- Second Request for Concurrence of MADEP Exemption (PDF) (3 pp., 107 KB)
- RCRA Corrective Action Jurisdiction Nova Chemicals Inc (PDF) (2 pp., 84 KB)
1999 Compendium Letters
- Battery Recycling Program (PDF) (4 pp., 150 KB)
- Used Oil Filters (PDF) (5 pp., 228 KB)
- Status of F006 Waste Stream (PDF) (3 pp., 122 KB)
- Oxford Tire Supply vs Commissioner (PDF) (2 pp., 103 KB)
- Harzardous Waste at Metal Plating Facilities (PDF) (7 pp., 359 KB)
- MADEP EPA ERP Meeting Follow Up (PDF) (39 pp., 1.9 MB)
1998 Compendium Letters
- Classification of Unused Integrated Circuits (2 pp., 92 KB)
- Petition to Classify a Solid Waste as a Non-hazardous Waste (PDF) (2 pp., 80 KB)
- Hazardous Waste at Metal Plating Facilities (PDF) (5 pp., 244 KB)
- Windsor School Site - Windsor, Vermont (PDF) (2 pp., 78 KB)
- Satellite Accumulation (PDF) (5 pp., 226 KB)
- Metal Finishing Operations (PDF) (5 pp., 304 KB)
- Oxford Tire Supply vs Commissioner of Revenue Services (PDF) (2 pp., 103 KB)
- Regulatory Status of Newport NH Ash Landfill Leachate (PDF) (3 pp., 148 KB)
- South Bay Incinerator Ash Removal (PDF) (4 pp., 218 KB)
1997 Compendium Letters
- Central Artery tunnel (CA/T) Project (PDF) (9 pp., 425 KB)
- Solid Waste Variance (PDF) (4 pp., 172 KB)
- Distillate Treatment Tank and Fume Incinerator (PDF) (3 pp., 154 KB)
- Fluorescent Lamp Storage (PDF) (3 pp., 125 KB)
- Mixed Waste (PDF) (5 pp., 249 KB)
- Waste Determination Windsor School Site, Windsor, Vermont (PDF) (4 pp., 251 KB)
- Regulation of Mercury Bearing Lamps (PDF) (5 pp., 258 KB)
- Corporate Restructuring (PDF) (2 pp., 114 KB)
- Management of Spent Fluorescent Bulbs (PDF) (9 pp., 523 KB)
- Manhole Sediment Stabilization Process (PDF) (4 pp., 249 KB)
- Cellini Purification Systems (PDF) (10 pp., 423 KB)
1996 Compendium Letters
- Textiles Containing Hazardous Constituents (PDF) (6 pp., 243 KB)
- Global Recycling Technologies (PDF) (2 pp., 90 KB)
- Clean Harbors of Natick, Inc. (PDF) (2 pp., 119 KB)
- Aerosol Containers (PDF) (2 pp., 90 KB)
- Clean Harbors of Connecticut (PDF) (2 pp., 109 KB)
- Class 2 Permit Modification (PDF) (2 pp., 109 KB)
- Mercury Containing Lamps (PDF) (2 pp., 105 KB)
- MWC Ash Miane Energy Recovery Company (PDF) (2 pp., 66 KB)
- Mercury Containing Lamp Recycling Operations (PDF) (2 pp., 102 KB)
- Subtitle D Regulated Facilities (PDF) (2 pp., 73 KB)
- Purge Monomer (PDF) (2 pp., 82 KB)
1995 Compendium Letters
- Land Disposal Restriction (PDF) (2 pp., 72 KB)
- LDR Notification (PDF) (1 p., 50 KB)
- Metals precipitated from the Groundwater (PDF) (2 pp., 66 KB)
- Blastox - Sandblast Abrasives (PDF) (2 pp., 81 KB)
- Metal Hydroxide Sludge (PDF) (2 pp., 69 KB)
- Blastox (PDF) (2 pp., 76 KB)
- Pfizer for release of Treated Tank Vault Soils (PDF) (6 pp., 310 KB)
- Letter May 9 Blastox as an Additive (PDF) (3 pp., 153 KB)
- Blastox Army Study (PDF) (1 p., 56 KB)
- Hazardous Waste Full Regulation (PDF) (1 p., 51 KB)
- Household Hazardous Waste Lead Contaminated Soils (PDF) (2 pp., 69 KB)
- Waterworks International, Inc. (PDF) (5 pp., 253 KB)
- New Balance testing Footwear (PDF) (2 pp., 80 KB)
- Permit Renewal of a MA Laidlaw Facility (PDF) (2 pp., 76 KB)
- LDR on IBM (PDF) (1 p., 51 KB)
- Treatment of Lead Contaminated Soil (PDF) (2 pp., 60 KB)
1994 Compendium Letters
- Mercury Recovered and Recycled (PDF) (3 pp., 110 KB)
- Licensed Hazardous Waste Transporter (PDF) (8 pp., 262 KB)
- Ethidium Bromide EtB (PDF) (16 pp., 608 KB)
- Incinerator Ash (PDF) (11 pp., 453 KB)
- Municipal Solid Waste Incinerator (PDF) (14 pp., 498 KB)
- Pfizers Proposed Modifications to their Wastewater Treatment System (PDF) (5 pp., 221 KB)
- Circuit Boards for Metal content (PDF) (3 pp., 135 KB)
- Administrative Procedures for LUA (PDF) (4 pp., 200 KB)
- Halliburton NUS Corporation Letter Dated March 28 1994 (PDF) (6 pp., 226 KB)
- Regulations Promulgated Pursuant to the RCRA (PDF) (2 pp., 75 KB)
- Fluorescent Lamp Disposal Regulations (PDF) (4 pp., 104 KB)
- Silica Sand (PDF) (4 pp., 242 KB)
- Sampling Protocol for Construction and Demolition Debris (PDF) (1 p., 47 KB)
- Lead Contaminated Soils (PDF) (1 pp., 54 KB)
- Reycling Hazardous Wastewater Generated by Mass Facility (PDF) (7 pp., 465 KB)
1993 Compendium Letters
- Class A Recyclable Materials (PDF) (4 pp., 175 KB)
- Permitting Requirements for Portable Test Kits (PDF) (5 pp., 190 KB)
- BIW Paint Use or Reuse Issue (PDF) (4 pp., 145 KB)
- Lead Contaminated Debris (PDF) (2 pp., 68 KB)
- Battery Disposal (PDF) (2 pp., 93 KB)
- Discharge of Hazardous Waste (PDF) (2 pp., 74 KB)
- Treatment Standards (PDF) (4 pp., 172 KB)
- Excavate Contaminated Soils (PDF) (3 pp., 192 KB)
- Tank Cleaning Facilities and RCRA Standards (PDF) (1 pp., 65 KB)
- Activities of Clean Casco Bay Inc. (PDF) (2 pp., 98 KB)
- Baghouse Dust from a Canadian Facility (PDF) (2 pp., 71 KB)
- Fluorescent Light Bulbs (PDF) (2 pp., 69KB)
- Electronic Processing Associates (PDF) (2 pp., 71 KB)
- Regulatory Status of Soiled Textiles (PDF) (2 pp., 78 KB)
- Lead Paint (PDF) (2 pp., 93 KB)
- Mercury Containing Fluorescent Lamps (PDF) (4 pp., 202 KB)
- Mixed Radioactive Wastes and Debris (PDF) (2 pp., 80 KB)
- Release of contaminated Soils from RCRA Subtitle C (PDF) (2 pp., 88 KB)
- WR Grace's Rubber Toluene Slurry Waste (PDF) (1 pp., 58 KB)
- RCRA Permitting and Land Disposal Restriction (PDF) (5 pp., 238 KB)
1992 Compendium Letters
- Low Levels of Dioxin (PDF) (3 pp., 166 KB)
- Proposal to Re-deposit Excavated Soil (PDF) (9 pp., 484 KB)
- Treat Metal Contaminated Rinsewaters from Electroplating Operations (PDF) (3 pp., 172 KB)
- Regulatory Status of Printed Circuit Boards (PDF) (20 pp., 1.72 MB)
- Fluorescent Light Bulb Recycling (PDF) (3 pp., 140 KB)
- Interpretation of the Code of Federal Regulations (PDF) (5 pp., 272 KB)
- Fluorescent Light Bulb Recycling, T.Powers (PDF) (3 pp., 150 KB)
- Mercury-bearing Lamp Recycling (PDF) (3 pp., 155 KB)
- Solvent Contaiminated Wipers (PDF) (2 pp., 84 KB)
- Recycling of Fluorescent Bulbs to Recover Mercury (PDF) (5 pp., 277 KB)
- Specific Recyclable Wastes (PDF) (3 pp., 182 KB)
- Used Oil Filter Enquirer (PDF) (5 pp., 254 KB)
- Land Disposal Restrictions (LDR) to Lead Contaminated Debris (PDF) (3 pp., 177 KB)
- Consent Decree Regarding Olin Corporation (PDF) (2 pp., 72 KB)
1991 Compendium Letters
- Generator Tank Requirements (PDF) (2 pp., 94 KB)
- Lead Bullets (PDF) (3 pp., 70 KB)
- HW Absorbent (PDF) (4 pp.,115 KB)
- Clasification of Soils (PDF) (3 pp., 136 KB)
- Automotive Service Industry (ASI) (PDF) (3 pp., 192 KB)
- Fluorescent Bulbs (PDF) (1 p., 57 KB)
- Empty Container (PDF) (3 pp.,162 KB)
1990 Compendium Letters
- HW Classification of Pentachlorophenol Wastes (PDF) (3 pp., 104 KB)
- Land Disposal Restrictions (LDR) and Hazardous Waste Classification (PDF) (3 pp., 167 KB)
- LDR Written Clarification (PDF) (3 pp., 126 KB)
1988 Compendium Letters
- RCRA Facility Owner Operator Willingness (PDF) (10 pp., 875 KB)
1985 Compendium Letters
- Regulatory Status (PDF) (1 p., 52 KB)