This RCRA class will teach you how to comply with the EPA regulations and requirements. In addition, you’ll learn how to read the Code of Federal Regulations and learn where all the important sections are in the regulations. The course will discuss the differences between “Satellite Accumulation” and 90-day storage requirements. You’ll learn the different ways that a waste can become hazardous and what those different letter codes mean.

Who Should Attend
The Environmental Protection Agency requires that any employee involved in the following activities must be trained on an annual basis:

• Determines if a waste is hazardous waste
• Adds or removes waste from tanks or accumulation points
• Transports waste to or from accumulation points or storage units
• Inspects waste accumulation points
• Works at hazardous waste accumulation points
• Completes hazardous waste manifest, annual reports, or exception reports
• Responds to fires, spills, leaks or explosions involving hazardous waste
• Works at a permitted TSD facility.

Course Objectives:

• Identify hazardous waste streams routinely generated.
• Properly mark, fill, inspect and route hazardous wastes in both hazardous waste satellite and 90-day central storage areas.
• Be familiar with the consequences of mishandling hazardous wastes.