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Waste System Issues, Permitting/Corrective Action-Introduction
Current Hazardous Waste System Issues
Permitting and Corrective Action
Ecology issues waste management permits to facilities that treat,
store, or dispose (TSD) of hazardous waste. A hazardous waste management
or TSD facility must meet the conditions of its permit and must
comply with state and federal regulations on its operation, when
it ceases operating, and when it closes. Releases of hazardous wastes
from TSD facilities during operation are cleaned up under a process
called "corrective action."
Recommendations and Five Year Milestones:
| HW
8 |
Ecology management
work with appropriate local health authorities to gain greater
oversight for Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facilities
(TSDs) currently permitted in part by local government. |
| HW
9 |
Ecology staff
continues to ensure all state permitted TSDs are operated
in a safe manner. |
| HW
10 |
Ecology continues
to make progress on the goal to have environmental contamination
under control at HWTR permitted corrective action sites
by 2020. |
| HW
11 |
Ecology staff,
through technical assistance and permitting authority, work
to encourage safe hazardous waste recycling at TSD facilities. |
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