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2001 National Hazardous Waste Biennial Report
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in partnership with the States, biennially collects information regarding the generation, management, and final disposition of hazardous wastes regulated under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (RCRA), as amended. The purpose of the 2001 National Biennial Report is to communicate the findings of EPA's 2001 hazardous waste reporting data collection efforts to the public, government agencies and the regulated community.
The Data Presented in the 2001 National Biennial Report
Beginning with the 2001 biennial reporting cycle, EPA changed the reporting requirements for RCRA hazardous wastes. EPA would like to caution all readers of this Report that the changes to these reporting requirements will make cursory comparisons of the 2001 National Biennial RCRA Hazardous Waste Report data to earlier National Biennial Report data misleading.
Prior to the 2001 National Biennial Report, EPA excluded wastes with wastewater characteristics and wastes described with only State Hazardous Waste Codes. Beginning with 2001 National Biennial Report, it has become the individual States', or implementing EPA offices', responsibility to properly identify data that is to be included in or excluded from the National Biennial Report.
For this 2001 National Biennial RCRA Hazardous Waste Report, EPA has included all data that were identified by the State or implementing EPA office for inclusion in the Report with the following two exceptions:
- Hazardous waste received from off site for storage/bulking and subsequently transferred off site for treatment or disposal is excluded from generation quantities; and
- Hazardous waste that is stored, bulked, and/or transferred off site with no prior treatment/recovery, fuel blending, or disposal at the site is excluded from management quantities.
In addition, previous National Biennial Reports have only included management
and receipts from permitted treatment, storage and disposal facilities.
The 2001 National Biennial Report includes management and receipts data
from both permitted treatment, storage and disposal facilities and generators
that are not required to be permitted (e.g., those that recycle solvent
hazardous waste generated on-site).
The 2001 National Biennial Report consists of three volumes of data:
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- The National Analysis (PDF) (71 pp, 2.9MB) data presents a detailed look at waste-handling
practices in the EPA Regions, States, and largest facilities nationally,
including (1) the quantity of waste generated, managed, shipped and
received, and imported and exported between States and (2) the number
of generators and managing facilities;
- The State Detail Analysis (PDF) (457 pp, 5.1MB) data is a detailed look at each
State's waste handling practices, including overall totals for generation, management, and shipments and receipts, as well as totals for the largest
fifty facilities; and
- The List of Reported RCRA Sites (PDF) (374 pp, 3.0MB) identifies every hazardous waste facility in the United States that submitted a hazardous waste report in 2001.
