Reporting on the Evolving Field of Environmental Law
With EPA’s e-Manifest set to officially launch on June 30, 2018, companies need to begin preparing to register for the system. Here is the latest information from EPA about how the registration will work.
All receiving facilities must have an EPA ID number by June 30, 2018, regardless of whether they will be using paper…
The cradle-to-grave scheme is at the heart of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. RCRA, after first defining what a “hazardous waste” is and requiring permits for facilities accepting these materials, then requires a manifest to accompany the movement of the waste from the point of generation – through transportation – and then finally to…
Continuing on our discussion of the electronic manifest (e-Manifest) system, EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt, signed the e-Manifest User Fee Final Rule on December 20, 2017. EPA expects the final rule to be published in the Federal Register in the coming weeks. The pre-publication version of the final rule is attached here.
Under the final…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) e-Manifest system is anticipated to officially launch in June 2018. The e-Manifest is a nationwide system for tracking hazardous waste shipments electronically and will establish the first national repository of manifest data. This is a much overdue modernization and consolidation of the current paper system. The anticipated benefits…
