Laws & Regulations

TSCA Section 5(a)(3)(C) Determination for Premanufacture Number (PMN) P-16-0486

This document describes EPA's pre-manufacture notice review determination under amended TSCA for P-16-0486.

Peer Review of Two Draft Documents on a Proposed Approach for Cumulative Risk Assessment under TSCA

EPA will hold a virtual public meeting on May 8-11, 2023, for the Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC) to consider and review two draft documents

2012 Particulate Matter National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) Nonattainment Actions

These actions deal with the finding of failure to submit State Implementation Plans for the 2012 Particulate Matter NAAQS standards.

Lead (Pb) National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) Implementation - Training and Assistance for State and Local Air Agencies

Training for State and Tribal Officials implementing the Lead NAAQS.

2008 Lead (Pb) National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) Implementation Actions Fact Sheets

This page contains the fact sheets for the 2008 Lead (Pb) NAAQS. These actions deal with the finding of failure to submit various portions of the State Implementation Plans (SIPs) for the 2008 Lead NAAQS.

State Designations for 2008 Lead Standards

Tables displaying States and areas of non-attainment of 2008 Lead Standard.

Ozone Designations - 2015 Standards - Tribal Recommendation from Forest County Potawatomi Community

Ozone Designations - 2015 Standards. Forest County Potawatomi Community Recommendations and EPA Responses

Presentation Slides about EPA's Hazardous Waste Land Disposal Restrictions Program

These slides provide a training documents on key aspects of the LDR program. It includes numerous examples of how the regulations work in the real world.

Frequent Questions About Land Disposal Restrictions for Hazardous Waste

Frequent questions on land disposal restrictions such as Do the regulations allow dilution of an ignitable or characteristic waste to remove the characteristic? Does a decharacterized waste have to meet the land disposal restrictions?

Calculation of Hazardous Waste Land Disposal Restrictions (LDR) Treatment Standards

examples of calculations of treatment standards including for High Concentration Selenium Wastes Using Data Submitted by Chemical Waste Management (CWM) and Antimony Using Data Submitted by Chemical Waste Management and Data Obtained From Rollins.

A User-Friendly Reference Document for Hazardous Waste Listings

This document describes EPA’s hazardous waste listing regulations under the authority of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Subtitle C.

Land Disposal Restrictions for Hazardous Waste: A Snapshot of the Program

This document provides a short summary of the hazardous waste program's land disposal restrictions requirements.

Policy Statement: Clarification of the Dilution Prohibition and Combustion of Inorganic Metal-Bearing Hazardous Wastes for Land Disposal Restrictions

This memorandum sets out a Statement of Policy under the RCRA clarifying the application of the Land Disposal Restrictions (LDR) prohibition on dilution (see 40 CFR 268.3) to combustion of certain inorganic metal-bearing hazardous wastes.

Guidebook: Quality Assurance/Quality Control Procedures for Submission of Data for the Land Disposal Restrictions (LDR) Program

This document explains how to generate data which characterizes the performance of hazardous waste treatment systems in terms of the composition of treated hazardous waste streams plus treatment system operation and design.