Impact of RCRA (PL 94-580) on utility solid wastes. Final report

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The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (RCRA) created a Federal and State regulatory authority over both solid and hazardous wastes. Most utility solid and liquid wastes fall under definitions in RCRA. The Technical Planning Study presented provides an initial data base on the range of potentially hazardous constituents in each solid waste stream. The data were assembled from both open and industry literature. The data show that almost all of the major solid waste streams contain measurable levels of compounds or elements for which limits have been set by either primary or secondary drinking water standards. In this report, the latest draft of Section 3001 regulations (dated March 24, 1978) was used to evaluate the various waste streams to determine which of those streams could be considered hazardous.The hazardous waste criteria have been divided into six categories: ignitable, reactive, infectious, corrosive, radioactive, and toxic. No evidence exists to suggest that any of the utility wastes streams are either ignitable or reactive. The major concern is with the toxic category which has the greatest potential applicability to the fossil fuel power plant waste streams, followed by the corrosive and radioactive criteria.

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