Activists Ask EPA To Revisit RCRA Waiver For Wastewater Treatment Units

摘要

Environmentalists are asking EPA to revisit a 13-year-old petition seeking a rulemaking that would revoke a 31 -year-old exemption from hazardous waste rules for wastewater treatment units (WTUs)- an exemption that the activists say affects thousands of facilities.In 1998, environmental groups, including the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), petitioned EPA to repeal the "temporary" exemption under the Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA) that the agency promulgated in 1980. Relevant documents are available on JnsideEPA.com. Seepage 2 for details. (Doc ID: 2377634).But the exemption still stands, and activists are now asking the agency to revisit the issue. Mathy Stanislaus, EPA's assistant administrator for solid waste and emergency response, discussed the petition during a Sept 23 phone call with Lisa Evans, an attorney with the environmental group Earthjustice, according to the waste chiefs public schedule,Environmentalists are asking EPA to look at information currently available to the agency and access the current environmental impact of the regulatory exemption, according to one activist familiar with the issue. The environmentalists hope to discuss the issue further with agency officials in the near future, the activist says.