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Definition of Hazardous Waste Applicable to Corrective Action for Releases From Solid Waste Management Units
The Environmental Protection Agency published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on March 6, 2024. It took effect on February 8, 2024. Comments closed on March 26, 2024.
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What the agency says
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is extending, until March 26, 2024, the comment period for the proposed rule published in the Federal Register on February 8, 2024. The proposed rule would amend the definition of hazardous waste applicable to corrective action to address releases from solid waste management units at RCRA-permitted treatment, storage, and disposal facilities and make related conforming amendments, thereby providing clear regulatory authority to fully implement the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) statutory requirement that permitted facilities conduct corrective action to address releases not only of substances listed or identified as hazardous waste in the regulations but of any substance that meets the statutory definition of hazardous waste. The proposed rule would also provide notice of EPA's interpretation that the statutory definition of hazardous waste applies to corrective action for releases from solid waste management units at permitted and interim status facilities.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-04712
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Proposed rule; extension of comment period
- Agency
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Published
- March 6, 2024
- Takes effect
- February 8, 2024
- Comments due
- March 26, 2024
- Dates
- The public comment period for the proposed rule published in the Federal Register (FR) on February 8, 2024 (89 FR 8598), originally ending March 11, 2024, is being extended by 15 days. Written comments must be received on or before March 26, 2024.
- Docket
- EPA-HQ-OLEM-2023-0085; FRL 9247-03-OLEM
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 2050-AH27
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 40 CFR 260; 40 CFR 261; 40 CFR 270
- Significant
- Yes, under Executive Order 12866
- Pages
- 2
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