Środowisko i energia · 15/07/2004

Hazardous Waste Management System; Proposed Exclusion for Identifying and Listing Hazardous Waste

The EPA (also, `the Agency' or `we') is proposing to grant a petition submitted by the United States Department of Energy, Richland Operations Office (DOE-RL) to exclude (or `delist') from regulation as listed hazardous waste certain mixed waste (`petitioned waste') that are treated at the 200 Area Effluent Treatment Site (200 Area ETF) on the Hanford Facility, Richland, Washington. The Agency proposes to conditionally grant the exclusion based on an evaluation of waste stream-specific and treatment process information provided by the DOE-RL. These proposed decisions, if finalized, would conditionally exclude the petitioned waste from the requirements of hazardous waste regulations under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) of 1976 as amended. If today's proposal is finalized, we will have concluded that DOE- RL's petitioned waste does not meet any of the criteria under which the wastes were originally listed, and that there is no reasonable basis to believe other factors exist which could cause the waste to be hazardous.