Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. Subtitle C, Hazardous Waste Management, Section 3001, Identification and Listing of Hazardous Waste; Section 261.33, Hazardous Waste from Discarding of Commercial Chemical Products and the Containers and Spill Residues Thereof: Background Document

摘要

The background document explains the basis for regulations concerning discarded commercial products, which are described and listed in Section 261.33 and for which exclusion levels are established in Section 261.5. Commercial chemical products or manufacturing chemical intermediates are divided into two categories: those which are acutely hazardous and subject to stringent exclusion levels; and those which are hazardous wastes. These regulations concern commercial chemical products, and associated off-specification chemical products, spill cleanup residues and debris. For acutely hazardous chemicals, the regulations also cover containers and inner liners which contain the acutely hazardous chemicals.