The Hazardous Waste Subcommittee submitted a comment letter to the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) requesting the dataset in relation to the recent report published by OIG titled, “Evaluation of Trends in Resource Conservation and Recovery Act State-Level Enforcement Data.”
The Program Information Management (PIM) Task Force will host a webinar addressing common questions that regulatory users of RCRAInfo frequently receive from industry users. Because regulatory users operate in a different version of RCRAInfo than industry users, it can be challenging for regulatory users to answer questions without seeing the Industry Application interface. This webinar will provide a walkthrough of the industry application and offer guidance and answers to the most common inquiries we encounter. The webinar is open to both regulatory and industry participants. While it is designed primarily for regulatory users, industry users are welcome to attend and listen to the discussion of common questions and responses.
Objective: Foster collaboration between permitting and enforcement staff to support compliance and protect human health and the environment, while increasing awareness of key issues in RCRA permitting and compliance. The 2026 Workshop is presented by the ASTSWMO Hazardous Waste Subcommittee in collaboration with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery and Office of Compliance.
The ASTSWMO Hazardous Waste Subcommittee submitted comments to EPA on May 4, 2026 regarding the proposed Paper Manifest Sunset Rule; Modification of the Hazardous Waste Manifest Regulations.
The RCRA Subtitle C 101 webinar being planned by the ASTSWMO Hazardous Waste Subcommittee will provide a high-level overview of the federal hazardous program from the perspective of what it means to be an authorized State or Territory (State). Following the overview, the presentation will highlight the specific program areas of rulemaking and authorization; corrective action and permitting; compliance monitoring and enforcement; and program information management.
The pre-recorded presentation will be followed by a live Q&A segment with Subcommittee members.
The Hazardous Waste Program Authorization Issues Report presents detailed findings of two authorization surveys by the Rulemaking and Authorization Task Force within the ASTSWMO Hazardous Waste Subcommittee. An initial survey was conducted in 2023 and was followed up with another survey in 2024. The report also includes conclusions and recommendations based on survey responses.
The Hazardous Waste Subcommittee met with EPA Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery (ORCR) officials during the 2025 ASTSWMO Annual Meeting to discuss the RCRA Compliance Monitoring Strategies. This letter summaries discussions and written responses from EPA and States during the session.
The ASTSWMO Hazardous Waste Subcommittee provided comments on September 16, 2025 to the EPA e-Manifest Advisory Board for the Advisory Board’s September 2025 virtual public meeting on the theme, “Accelerating the Future: Phasing out Paper Manifests to Unlock the Full Potential of e-Manifest.”
The ASTSWMO Hazardous Waste Subcommittee developed this fact sheet, which draws upon the Subcommittee’s research into the costs of State and Territorial (State) implementation of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Subtitle C hazardous waste program.
EPA’s Compliance Monitoring Strategy (CMS) sets national inspection goals for treatment, storage, and disposal facilities (TSDF) and large quantity generator (LQG) universes. It also discusses alternatives to those goals: EPA can approve flexibilities for RCRA-authorized partner agencies to redirect some compliance monitoring resources from traditional CMS activities at routinely inspected facilities to inspections that may address more pressing needs or areas of interest. The CMS lays out processes for approval and end-of-year reporting for alternative CMS approaches. This webinar will present background on the CMS, common alternatives used by States, and how the approval and reporting processes work.
