Abstract:As required by the 1984 Hazardous and Solid Waste Act, EPA began a program to conduct in-depth evaluations of all hazardous wastes to determine applicable restrictions on some or all forms of land disposal. Under Section 3004(m) of the amendments, the EPA was required to develop treatment standards for wastes banned from land disposal. The waste streams that were identified as candidates for the Land-Ban Regulations included solvents, dioxin-containing wastes, halogenated organics, corrosives, metals, cyanides… Show more
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