Permits and Permitting
Highlights
- Financial Assurance and Liability Coverage for Hazardous Waste Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facilities (TSDFs)
- Standardized Permit Rule
- Notification and Part A Permit Application Instructions and Forms
- E-Permitting Initiative
- Environmental Management Systems Training
- GPRA Permitting Accomplishments
- Generators / Transporters
- Treatment, Storage & Disposal
- Preparedness and Prevention Requirements for RCRA TSDFs
- Combustion
- Subpart X Permitting
- Public Participation
- Environmental Justice
- Facility Siting
- Permitting-Related ICRs
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) hazardous waste permitting program helps ensure the safe treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous wastes by establishing specific requirements that must be followed when managing those wastes. Permits for the treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous wastes are issued by Authorized States or by EPA Regional Offices.
The Hazardous Waste Permitting Process: A Citizens Guide describes the hazardous waste permitting process using a question and answer format.
Managing Hazardous Waste in Your Community Page provides education and outreach about EPA's hazardous waste management program under RCRA. The fact sheets provide a basic overview of EPA's hazardous waste regulations and include state hazardous waste contacts.
Permit Improvement Team examines all of EPA's permitting programs (air, water, and hazardous waste) and identifies how they can be improved. The Team consists of EPA, state, tribal and local government officials. This site contains their reports.
Public Participation and Citizen Action
This Web site explains how the public plays an important role in the permitting process for both hazardous and municipal solid waste facilities. Facilities applying for a permit must involve the public
in some aspects of the process. Businesses and the State or federal permitting agency also must make information available to the public.
Regulations related to RCRA Permitting (40 CFR Parts 260-265 and 266-270). Specifically, parts 264 and 270 specify what a permit must contain.
Permit Resources
- Hazardous Waste Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facility (TSDF) Regulations: A User Friendly Reference Document for RCRA Subtitle C Permit Writers and Permittees (PDF) (63 pp, 2.0MB, About PDF) - To facilitate stakeholder’s understanding of RCRA’s requirements, EPA developed the TSDF tool. The tool gathers in one place all publicly available resources so that communities, permit writers, states and tribes can easily access them. These resources include permit appeals, proposed and final Federal Register Notices for Parts 264, 265, 266, 268, 270 and 124, flow charts of the permitting process that show how the public can be involved, training modules, example permits, and links to the actual regulations.
- RCRA Online - Locate documents covering cover a wide range of RCRA issues and topics.
- Sample Permits - Also includes a model permit
- RCRA Training Module - "Introduction to Permits and Interim Status" (PDF) (25 pp, 63K, about PDF)
Miscellaneous Reports and Rules
- Preparedness and Prevention Requirements for RCRA TSDFs (Response to Chemical Safety Board Recommendation 2007-01-I-NC) (PDF) (8 pp, 3.5MB, about PDF) - This memorandum provides guidance for Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) permitting authorities to ensure that state and local authorities and first responders have sufficient information for emergency preparedness, prevention, and response at RCRA treatment, storage, and disposal facilities (TSDFs).
- Reforming Permitting Report (PDF) (104 pp, 1.7MB, about PDF) - This report, developed by Resources for the Future (RFF) serves as a concise and realistic description of the US pollution control permitting process (e.g. air, water, and hazardous waste); provides an overview of the permitting reforms that are being tried in the United States, mostly at the state level, and in Europe; and makes policy recommendations to improve a system that the authors claim is suffering from major defects and weaknesses.
- Concept Paper on Environmental Permitting and Task Force Recommendations, July 1996. - This document was developed by the Permit Improvement Team
- RCRA Organic Air Emission Standards for TSDFs and Generators (PDF) (8 pp, 333K, about PDF)
Permitting-Related Information Collection Requests (ICRs)
- Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Requirements for Generators, Transporters, and Waste Management Facilities Under the RCRA Hazardous Waste Manifest System - September 21, 2011
- Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; 2011 Hazardous Waste Report, Notification of Regulated Waste Activity, and Part A Hazardous Waste Permit Application and Modification - September 8, 2011
- Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Facility Ground-Water Monitoring Requirements - August 9, 2011
- Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Standardized Permit for RCRA Hazardous Waste Management Facilities - August 9, 2009
- Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Requirements and Exemptions for Specific RCRA Wastes - July 19, 2011
- Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; 2011 Hazardous Waste Report, Notification of Regulated Waste Activity, and Part A Hazardous Waste Permit Application and Modification - March 29, 2011
- Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Hazardous Waste Specific Unit Requirements, and Special Waste Processes and Types (Renewal) - March 17, 2011
- Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Hazardous Waste Specific Unit Requirements, and Special Waste Processes and Types, EPA ICR Number 1572.08, OMB Control Number 2050-0050 - October 26, 2010
- Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Part B Permit Application, Permit Modifications, and Special Permits (Renewal), EPA ICR Number 1573.12, OMB Control Number 2050-0009 - November 25, 2009
- Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Notification of Regulated Waste Activity and 2009 Hazardous Waste Report (Renewal); EPA ICR Number 0976.14; OMB Control Number 2050-0024 - October 15, 2009
- Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; General Hazardous Waste Facility Standards (Renewal); EPA ICR Number 1571.09, OMB Control Number 2050-0120 - June 24, 2009
- Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Part B Permit Application, Permit Modifications, and Special Permits, EPA ICR Number 1573.12, OMB Control Number 2050-0009 - May 27, 2009
- Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Notification of Regulated Waste Activity (Renewal), EPA ICR Number 0261.16, OMB Control Number 2050-0028 - March 13, 2009
- Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; General Hazardous Waste Facility Standards; EPA ICR Number 1571.09, OMB Control Number 2050-0120 - February 5, 2009
- Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; RCRA Hazardous Waste Permit Application and Modification, Part A (Renewal), EPA ICR Number 0262.12, OMB Control Number 2050-0034 - January 28, 2009
- Information Requirements for Boilers and Industrial Furnaces: General Hazardous Waste Facility Standards, Specific Unit Requirements, and Part B Permit Application and Modification Requirements (Renewal), Information Collection Request, EPA ICR Number 1361.13, OMB Control Number 2050-0073 - October 22, 2008
- RCRA Hazardous Waste Permit Application and Modification, Part A; Information Collection Request; EPA ICR Number 0262.12, OMB Control Number 2050-0034 - September 8, 2008
- Standardized Permit for RCRA Hazardous Waste Management Facilities; Information Collection Request (Renewal); EPA ICR Number 1935.03, OMB Control Number 2050-0182 - August 20, 2008
- RCRA Expanded Public Participation;Information Collection Request; EPA ICR No. 1688.06, OMB Control No. 2050-0149 - June 10, 2008
- Facility Ground-Water Monitoring Requirements (Renewal); Information Collection Request); EPA ICR No. 0959.13; OMB Control No. 2050-0033 - May 28, 2008
- Requirements for Generators, Transporters, and Waste Management Facilities Under the RCRA Hazardous Waste Manifest System (Renewal); Information Collection Request; EPA ICR No. 0801.16; OMB Control No. 2050-0039 - May 28, 2008
- Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Standardized Permit for RCRA Hazardous Waste Facilities - March 27, 2008
- Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Part B Permit Application, Permit Modifications, and Special Permits - July 20, 2006
- Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Part B Permit Application, Permit Modifications, and Special Permits - February 16, 2006
- Agency ICR: Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Information Requirements for Boilers and Industrial Furnaces: General Hazardous Waste Facility Standards, Specific Unit Requirements, and Part B Permit Application and Modification Requirements (Renewal) - November 28, 2005
- Agency ICR: Proposed Collection; Comment Request; RCRA Hazardous Waste Permit Application and Modification, Part A (Renewal) - November 23, 2005
- Agency ICR: Proposed Collection; Comment Request; RCRA Expanded Public Participation, EPA ICR Number 1688.05, OMB Control Number 2050-0149 - August 16, 2005
- Agency ICR: Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Notification of Regulated Waste Activity - August 15, 2005
- Agency ICR: Proposed Collection; Comment Request; RCRA Hazardous Waste Permit Application and Modification, Part A, EPA ICR Number 0262.11, OMB Control Number 2050-0034 - May 2, 2005
- Agency ICR: Proposed Collection; Comment Request; RCRA Expanded Public Participation, EPA ICR Number 1688.05, OMB Control Number 2050-0149 - April 7, 2005
- Agency ICR: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Part B Permit Application, Permit Modifications, and Special Permits - April 2, 2003
- Agency ICR: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Part B Permit Application, Permit Modifications, and Special Permits - October 7, 2002
- Agency Information Collection Activities: Continuing Collection; Comment Request; Notification of Regulated Waste Activity - July 1, 2002
- Agency Information Collection Activities: Continuing Collection; Comment Request; RCRA Hazardous Waste Permit Application and Modification, Part A - May 9, 2002
- Agency ICR: Proposed Collection; Comment Request; 2001 Hazardous Waste Report (Biennial Report), Notification of Regulated Waste Activity, and RCRA Part A Permit Application ICR - July 2000
- Agency ICR:Continuing Collection; Comment Request; Part B: Permit Application, Permit Modifications and Special Permits - July 23, 1999
- Agency ICR: Notification of Regulated Waste Activity and RCRA Hazardous Waste Part A Permit Application and Modification - May 14, 1999