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<p class=MsoPlainText>Allen:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>The interpretation you relayed is consistent with EPA's
and many state agencies' interpretation of RCRA.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>EPA hazardous waste policy for many years has been that
the exemption from hazardous waste requirements in 40 CFR 261.4(b)(1) for
"household hazardous waste" applies throughout the waste management
cycle. Briefly stated, "once an exempt household hazardous waste,
always an exempt household hazardous waste." Congress put the HHW
exemption into RCRA so that the strict cradle to grave control and facility permitting
requirements that apply to hazardous waste would not apply to the occasional can
of hair spray or rubbing alcohol that we all generate in our homes. The reason
this interpretation is extended throughout the management cycle is that,
without it, municipal solid waste facilities that receive small amounts of
household hazardous waste in the regular trash would all have to obtain RCRA Hazardous
Waste Facility permits. EPA does encourage that HHW be sent to hazardous
waste facilities as a best management practice, however. See the
following summaries of EPA policy documents which support this interpretation (click
on the PDF icon to see the actual document):<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><a
href="http://yosemite.epa.gov/osw/rcra.nsf/0c994248c239947e85256d090071175f/b2213cd1350031738525670f006c22bd!OpenDocument">http://yosemite.epa.gov/osw/rcra.nsf/0c994248c239947e85256d090071175f/b2213cd1350031738525670f006c22bd!OpenDocument</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><a
href="http://yosemite.epa.gov/osw/rcra.nsf/0c994248c239947e85256d090071175f/2fd51915214ef63c8525670f006bdc88!OpenDocument">http://yosemite.epa.gov/osw/rcra.nsf/0c994248c239947e85256d090071175f/2fd51915214ef63c8525670f006bdc88!OpenDocument</a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><a
href="http://yosemite.epa.gov/osw/rcra.nsf/0c994248c239947e85256d090071175f/3b814bffdbb8f9a28525670f006bda2b!OpenDocument">http://yosemite.epa.gov/osw/rcra.nsf/0c994248c239947e85256d090071175f/3b814bffdbb8f9a28525670f006bda2b!OpenDocument</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><a
href="http://yosemite.epa.gov/osw/rcra.nsf/0c994248c239947e85256d090071175f/f00b95651a8f5f358525670f006becde!OpenDocument">http://yosemite.epa.gov/osw/rcra.nsf/0c994248c239947e85256d090071175f/f00b95651a8f5f358525670f006becde!OpenDocument</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><a
href="http://yosemite.epa.gov/osw/rcra.nsf/0c994248c239947e85256d090071175f/22fe8aa0ca59c99c8525693600683ce8!OpenDocument">http://yosemite.epa.gov/osw/rcra.nsf/0c994248c239947e85256d090071175f/22fe8aa0ca59c99c8525693600683ce8!OpenDocument</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Here in CT, when we established our HHW collection system
many years ago, we <u>required</u> that operators of one-day collection events
or permanent collection facilities manifest the waste off-site and send it to a
permitted RCRA disposal facility. We did this because we had heard that
in other states, waste collected at HHW collections was merely hauled off to a
solid waste disposal facility, making its careful collection and separation
from the regular solid waste stream a pointless exercise, and we wanted to be
sure that this didn't happen in CT.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>I think pharmaceuticals might be a horse of a different
color, however, than regular HHW. Because of their much smaller volume,
and the ability (as expressed in my earlier emails) of municipal solid waste
incinerators to safely handle and destroy them, I think that a different
approach might be environmentally justified. The cost savings may also
allow much more material to be collected, thereby keeping it out of medicine
cabinets and dumpsters where "pharming" of improperly secured medications
can take place. Of course, there would still have to be proper
precautions for the security of the collected material until it is destroyed,
to prevent exposure to solid waste facility handlers, and so forth. But,
I'm not sure that full hazardous waste requirements are necessary for this
waste stream, and may even have a deterrent effect for collection programs. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>--Ross Bunnell, Sanitary Engineer 3<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>CT Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Bureau of Materials Management and Compliance Assurance<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Waste Engineering & Enforcement Division<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Tel. 860.424.3274<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Fax 860.424.4059<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>ross.bunnell@ct.gov<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>-----Original Message-----<br>
From: pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us
[mailto:pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us] On Behalf Of Gilliam, Allen<br>
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 10:45 AM<br>
To: 'Tenace, Laurie'; pharmwaste@lists.dep.state.fl.us<br>
Subject: [Pharmwaste] Household pharms (even haz waste) excluded<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>How many of you have some major heartburn over this?
"The following statement can be made about your household/residential
(only) take-back programs' pharmaceuticals: 'House-hold pharmaceuticals
collected through take-back programs retains its residential hazardous waste
exclusion from collection through final disposal even if disposal is by
incineration.'"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>This has recently been coerced out of our haz waste
division "experts'" mouths and hopefully will make octomom look
childless once our State Drug Director gets a full push going on with all the
police agencies in the state. See<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>https://ardhs.sharepointsite.net/RX for more details.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>This state's Office of the Drug Director is approaching
take-back programs from the overdose/abuse viewpoint and seems to be outpacing
the "save the environment" viewpoint by several laps BEGINNING with
our law enforcement partners taking the lead.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Who'd thunk?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Allen g<o:p></o:p></p>
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