What are the nuances of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)? It was approved by Congress on October 21, 1976, or about six years after EPA was formed. RCRA was an amendment to the Solid Waste Disposal Act 0f 1965, note five years before EPA was formed. RCRA was [...]
August Mack has been involved with remediation projects since the start of the company in 1988. Moreover, our founders, Geoff Glanders and Bryan Petriko (the company is named after their grandfathers), were involved in remediation since the early 1980s when State and Federal environmental laws and cleanup programs (e.g., underground [...]
ProUCL is a statistical software package developed by the USEPA using many of the concepts found in the RCRA Unified Guidance. Originally developed to evaluate concerns at a specific Superfund site, the USEPA has, after considerable feedback from the remediation community, continued to update the software with additional features and [...]
Commonly referred to as “cradle-to-grave” regulations, there are both federal and state laws that set standards for how hazardous wastes need to be managed from point of generation to final disposal. At the federal level, these laws fall under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (otherwise known as [...]
Historically, the use of Institutional Controls (ICs) was associated with large, complex sites involved in U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cleanup programs, such as Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Corrective Action and Superfund. The ICs were commonly used in conjunction with removal actions, soil and groundwater remediation, and risk [...]
Under the Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA), facilities that treat, store, or dispose of hazardous waste may be required to investigate and clean up hazardous releases into soil, groundwater, surface water, and/or air – a process known as RCRA Corrective Action. Corrective Action through RCRA could often be quite [...]
Under the Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA), facilities that treat, store, or dispose of hazardous waste may be required to investigate and clean up hazardous releases into soil, groundwater, surface water, and/or air – a process known as RCRA Corrective Action. Corrective Action through RCRA could often be quite [...]
Two agency notifications may be required for Small Quantity Generators (SQG’s) and Very Small Quantity Generators (VSQG’s). VSQG’s were formerly known as Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generators (CESQG’s). The 2016 Hazardous Waste Generator Improvement Rule requires SQG’s to re-notify the US EPA or state agency concerning their hazardous waste activities. [...]
The word “closure” has many meanings in the English language, including the more general - “a condition of being closed”, and the more ethereal - “an often comforting or satisfying sense of finality, or something that provides such a sense” (Merriam-Webster). In the environmental world, closure can have a similar [...]
August Mack began a working relationship with an Ohio-based glass manufacturing company providing environmental compliance support services. Initial projects involved the completion of air emission inventories and a ventilation survey at their main facility. August Mack was later retained to provide continued environmental compliance assistance by implementing our Compliance Assurance [...]
