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Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

Press Releases

• New Law to Control Hazardous Wastes, End Open Dumping, Promote Conservation of Resources
  [EPA press release - December 13, 1976]

• EPA's Hazardous Waste Regulations Effective November 19, [1980]
  [EPA press release - November 19, 1980]

• EPA Issues First Storage Permit Under RCRA
  [EPA press release - October 16, 1981]

• Statement by the U.S. EPA on the President's Signing of the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984
  [EPA press release - November 9, 1984]

• EPA Sets Standards For Underground Storage Tanks
  [EPA press release - September 13, 1988]

• EPA Completes Land Disposal Restrictions for Hazardous Wastes
  [EPA press release - May 8, 1990]

  Related:
  EPA Tightens Standards for Air Emissions from Hazardous Waste Combustors
  [EPA press release - July 30, 1999]

Other Resources

• EPA summary of RCRA

• 25 Years of RCRA: Building on Our Past To Protect Our Future [838KB PDF - About PDF]

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