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CE 589 Industrial Materials and Waste

CE 589 Industrial Materials and Waste. Topic 2 Regulatory Overview: U.S. Laws, Regulations, and Standards. Chapters 8, 9, 11, 17, 18, and 19. Scenario. Owner of a plant that manufactures widgets 1 gallon of a hazardous waste per widget produced Free discharge into Cougar Lake

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CE 589 Industrial Materials and Waste

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  1. CE 589Industrial Materials and Waste

  2. Topic 2Regulatory Overview: U.S. Laws, Regulations, and Standards Chapters 8, 9, 11, 17, 18, and 19

  3. Scenario • Owner of a plant that manufactures widgets • 1 gallon of a hazardous waste per widget produced • Free discharge into Cougar Lake • Biological and chemical transformations in the lake to become harmless

  4. Why do you, as a manufacturer, want to properly manage hazardous material and waste?

  5. What are the methods used to regulate?

  6. Polluter’s Dilemma 1 • The situation • Each pair works for the same company. • The company is suspected of polluting. • The company is polluting. • Each are interrogated separately. • The options • Neither confesses. Both fined $500. • One confesses. Confessor goes free. Other serves 10 days and is fined $2,500. • Both confess. Both serve 5 days and are fined $1,000.

  7. Polluter’s Dilemma 2 • The situation • Each works for a different company. • There are no other regional competitors. • Production Method I generates BadStuff while Production Method II does not. • The options • Both use PM II. Each earns $2,000. • Both use PM I. Each earns $1,000. • One uses each. The company using PM I earns $4,000 while the other earns $0.

  8. Process of Regulating Laws (or Acts) Vs. Regulations and Standards

  9. What about the Judicial Branch?

  10. What about the states?

  11. Permitting • Ensure compliance by regulated community • Process…

  12. Key U.S. HMW Laws and International Treaties

  13. Regulatory Overview: Defining Hazardous Material and Waste

  14. How do you determine whether or not a substance is a regulated hazardous waste?

  15. Overlapping Regs

  16. Categories of Radioactive Waste • High-level radioactive waste (HLW) • Transuranic (TRU) waste • Low-level radioactive waste (LLW) • Uranium and thorium mill tailings • Naturally-occurring and accelerator-produced radioactive material (NARM) • Mixed waste

  17. Regulatory Overview: Administrative Requirements

  18. What do you want to see on a label for a hazardous substance?

  19. Placards

  20. Shipping Waste

  21. Who should receive training?

  22. What are you going to inspect?

  23. Paperwork Requirements - Plans and Controls • RCRA • OSHA • NRC

  24. Paperwork Requirements - Tracking and Reporting • RCRA • TSCA • SARA • CAA • CWA • NRC

  25. Spills/Releases Notification requirements under: • CERCLA • RCRA • SARA • DOT • CWA • CAA • NRC

  26. How can you stay up-to-date?

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