Oil Sector Raises Cost, Burden Concerns Over EPA Waste Generator Rule

摘要

The oil industry is warning that EPA's proposed update to regulations for hazardous waste generators could create significant costs and burdens for regulated entities, although industry says that some of the planned regulatory changes could make it easier for various sectors to know the mandates with which they must comply. EPA in a Sept. 25 Federal Register notice proposed to make over 60 changes to current Resource Conservation & Recovery Act regulations for the generators. The revisions are designed to improve the effectiveness of, and compliance with, the hazardous waste generator program. The agency took comment on the proposal through Dec. 24. The revisions include "rearranging some of the generator regulations that had outgrown their original numbering system so it will be easier for facilities of all sizes that generate hazardous waste to find everything they need to know in one place," EPA waste chief Mathy Stanislaus said in an Aug. 31 statement on the draft rule.