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Recommendation HW7: Ensure hazardous waste management facilities are operated in a safe manner

Ecology should continue to work on its assessment of hazardous waste facilities to ensure:

• Waste handlers (TSDs, recyclers and used oil processors) assume full responsibility, including financial responsibility, for any necessary environmental remediation at their facilities.
• Waste handlers are regulated consistently and comprehensively.
• Ecology has the necessary funding mechanisms to implement an adequate technical assistance, permitting and compliance program for waste-handling facilities.
• The public understands the full costs (closure, investigation, cleanup, post-closure, and long-term monitoring) and risks of possible mismanagement of waste at waste-handling facilities.
• Establishment of an operating certificate program for recyclers and used oil processors, followed by increased Ecology presence at these facilities through visits by technical assistance and compliance staff.

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