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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.
RCRA laws and regulations from the EPA; RCRA summary from the EPA; As codified in 42 U.S.C. chapter 82 of the United States Code from the LII; As codified in 42 U.S.C. chapter 82 of the United States Code from the US House of Representatives; Solid Waste Disposal Act aka RCRA (PDF/details) as amended in the GPO Statute Compilations collection
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Low-level waste buried under layers of soil at a storage facility. Low-level waste (LLW) or low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) is a category of nuclear waste.The definition of low-level waste is set by the nuclear regulators of individual countries, though the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) provides recommendations.
The RCRA Corrective Action Program requires TSDFs to investigate and clean up hazardous releases at their own expense. [31] In the 1980s, EPA estimated that the number of sites needing cleanup was three times more than the number of sites on the national Superfund list. [154]: 6 The program is largely implemented through permits and orders. [157]
Environmental Protection Agency illustration of the water cycle of hydraulic fracturing. Fracking in the United States began in 1949. [1] According to the Department of Energy (DOE), by 2013 at least two million oil and gas wells in the US had been hydraulically fractured, and that of new wells being drilled, up to 95% are hydraulically fractured.
In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulates household, industrial, manufacturing, and commercial solid and hazardous wastes under the 1976 Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). [92] Effective solid waste management is a cooperative effort involving federal, state, regional, and local entities. [93]
The RCRA was amended in 1984. In 1991, the EPA established new federal standards for municipal solid waste landfills that updated location and operation standards, added design standards, groundwater monitoring requirements, corrective action requirements for known environmental releases, closure and post-closure requirements, and financial ...