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Hazardous Waste Permitting

  • EPA Posts Financial Requirements Model Permit Module

    On September 23, 2025, EPA published a new model permit module on financial requirements for closure, post-closure, and third-party liability for hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities. Access the module in pdf and rtf formats.

  • EPA Launches the Hazardous Waste Information Platform

    On September 19, 2025, EPA replaced the RCRAInfo Web application with the Hazardous Waste Information Platform with a new look and feel, new geospatial search capabilities, detailed data visualizations, exportable datasets, and much more!

  • EPA Posts New and Updated Model Permit Modules

    In July, EPA published two new model permit modules on preparedness and prevention and contingency plans and updated the module on general facility conditions. Access these modules in pdf and rtf formats.

  • EPA Updates the TSDF Toolkit

    On May 9, EPA updated the "Toolkit Reference Document for Requirements Related to Hazardous Waste Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facilities (TSDFs)." This resource gathers, in one place, the main publicly available permitting resources, so that the public, permit writers, state permitting authorities, and permittees can easily access them.

    Check out the updated Toolkit

Basic Information

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  • What a hazardous waste permit is 
  • Types of units facilities manage hazardous waste in
  • Requirements for miscellaneous units in subpart X
  • Frequent questions
  • National permitting priorities

Permitting Process

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  • Steps in the hazardous waste permitting process
  • Hazardous waste application (Parts A and B)
  • Read our Permit Modifications Report

Tools and Resources

  • Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Model Permit
  • Tools for treatment, storage, and disposal facilities   
  • Table of Hazardous Waste Permitting Federal Register Notices 
  • Waste analysis plan guidance
  • Guidance on preparedness and prevention requirements for TSDFs (pdf) (1.21 MB)
  • Summary chart of hazardous waste permitting regulations
  • Search for permitted sites
  • Information Bulletin: Waste Analysis Plans for LDR Treatment Facilities (pdf)(691 KB)

Permit Requirements

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  • Specific areas a hazardous waste permit must include
  • Closure and post-closure
  • Explosive waste
  • Financial assurance
  • Groundwater monitoring
  • Land disposal restrictions
  • Organic air emissions standards

Public Participation

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  • Public Participation Tools and Resources
  • How you can participate in the permitting process
  • 2016 Public Participation Manual
  • Hazardous waste management facilities in my area
  • Search for data in the Hazardous Waste Information Platform 

Additional Information

  • Sign up for our newsletter "EPA Waste Management Updates"
  • Memorandum: Open Burning and Open Detonation of Waste Explosives Under RCRA
  • Memorandum: Applicability of RCRA Organic Air Emission Standards to Equipment and/or Closure Devices
  • Modernizing Public Notice for RCRA Hazardous Waste
  • The Backlog of Containerized Hazardous Waste Needing Incineration 
Contact Us about Hazardous Waste Permitting to ask a question, provide feedback, or report a problem.
Last updated on September 24, 2025
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