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In December 1978, the EPA issued its proposed RCRA regulations. For RCRA Subtitle C (hazardous waste management), the EPA defined six categories of "special wastes," which were generated in high volumes and were believed to be less hazardous than the other wastes for which RCRA Subtitle C was designed.
Congress enacted RCRA to address the increasing problems the nation faced from its growing volume of municipal and industrial waste. RCRA was an amendment of the Solid Waste Disposal Act of 1965. The act set national goals for: Protecting human health and the natural environment from the potential hazards of waste disposal.
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The laws listed below meet the following criteria: (1) they were passed by the United States Congress, and (2) pertain to (a) the regulation of the interaction of humans and the natural environment, or (b) the conservation and/or management of natural or historic resources.
Implementation of RCRA was relatively slow [34] and Congress reauthorized and strengthened RCRA through the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments (HSWA) of 1984. This was the beginning of the fourth phase. The 1984 RCRA Amendments suggested a policy shift away from land disposal and toward more preventive solutions.
Superfund Site Search [60] Superfund Policy, Reports and Other Documents [61] TOXMAP was a Geographic Information System (GIS) from the Division of Specialized Information Services [62] of the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) that was deprecated on December 16, 2019.
In general, RCRA regulations are waste-specific, not source-specific, and thus may apply to any facility that generates mercury-containing wastes. RCRA regulations assign specific waste codes to five types of wastes that are either "characteristic" wastes or "listed" wastes. Mercury is both a characteristic and a listed waste under RCRA. [40]
As codified in 42 U.S.C. chapter 116 of the United States Code from the LII; As codified in 42 U.S.C. chapter 116 of the United States Code from the US House of Representatives; Title III of Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (PDF/details) as amended in the GPO Statute Compilations collection; Tier II Online Chemical Inventory ...