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Line-by-Line Instructions for Completing New and Reactive Site ID Forms

For new notifications (i.e. initial notifications, new/changed ownership) and re-activation where ownership has changed must submit a paper copy of the Site ID Form. Reactivations where the ownership did not change and other Site Id Form updates and annual reports can be submitted electronically using TurboWaste.Net.

Need Help?
Call Iris Aguilera at 360.407.6734 or email at iagu461@ecy.wa.gov.

If you have questions about the hazardous waste regulations, contact your nearest Ecology regional office.

Please read all instructions before you complete the Site ID Form and use your most current information.

General Instructions

Please use blue or black ink.

Complete Sections 1 through 9.
In Section 10 check only the items that apply to your company.
Complete Section 11.
Don’t forget to sign and date the Site ID Form in Section 13.
Check the box in Section 14 if you want Ecology to contact you about electronic filing.
Mail your Site ID Form to Ecology and include any other required forms.

Section 1: Reason for Submittal

To Provide New Notification of Regulated Waste Activity
Check this box if you do not already have a RCRA Site ID Number and you will be generating or managing regulated amounts of dangerous waste at your site location. Continue to Section 3.

To Reactivate a Previously Withdrawn RCRA Site ID Number
Check this box if you want to reactivate a previously withdrawn RCRA Site ID Number. Enter the date the reactivation will occur. Continue to Section 2.

Section 2: RCRA Site ID Number

Request for a new RCRA Site ID Number:
If you apply for a new Site ID Number please leave this section blank. Ecology will fill this section in when they issue your number and send it to you in the mail.

Request to reactivate your old RCRA Site ID Number:
If you are applying to reactivate a previously withdrawn Site ID Number, please enter the inactive Site ID Number in this section.

Section 3: Site Location Information

Tax Registration Number: The Washington State Department of Revenue Registration (Tax) Number assigned to your business is required. It is also known as the Unified Business Identifier (UBI). Do not use your Federal Tax Number here. If you do not have a Department of Revenue Tax Registration Number leave it blank.

NAICS Code: Enter your North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) Code. For a list of NAICS codes, see http://www.census.gov/eos/www/naics/. NAICS is a new classification system developed jointly by the United States, Canada and Mexico to provide new comparability in statistics about business activity across North America. The NAICS code has replaced the U. S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC System).

Type of Business: Provide a brief description for the type of activity that takes place at your site location. For example, "Gas station with store".

Section 4: Company Mailing Address

Please provide the company name and mailing address.

Section 5: Legal Owner

A legal owner is the individual, company, corporation, or agency who owns the business at the site.

Please mark the box that best describes the legal status of the owner of this business. If you choose “Other”, specify the owner type in Section 12 (comments).

Section 6: Legal Land Owner

A legal land owner is the individual, company, corporation or agency who owns the property where the business is located.
Please mark the box that best describes the legal status of the land where the business is located. If you choose “Other”, please specify the legal land owner type in Section 12 (comments).

Section 7: Site Operator

The site operator is the person responsible for the operation of the site.
Please mark the box that best describes the legal status of the operator of this site. If you choose “Other”, please specify the operator type in Section 12 (comments).

Section 8: Site Contact

The site contact is the person, within your company, Ecology can contact for questions that relate to a site visit.

Section 9: Form Contact

The form contact is the person, within your company, Ecology can contact about your Site ID Form and future reporting requirements. Ecology will send all future notification and report mailings to this person.

Section 10: Types of Regulated Waste Activity

All companies must answer questions 1 and 2 in Part A.

For the remaining questions check the boxes that ONLY apply to your waste activities.

Section 10, Part A – Hazardous Waste Activities

1. Generator of Hazardous Waste
Check the box on the Site ID Form that best describes your generator status. Determining your Generator Status can be difficult. Please contact your Regional office for any questions about your Generator status. Contact information for the Regional offices can be found in the page 4 of the Notification of Dangerous Waste Activity cover document that accompanied this form.

Large Quantity Generator (LQG) - A generator whose monthly waste generation or accumulation is 2,200 pounds or more of dangerous waste, or 2.2 pounds or more of acutely hazardous waste.
Medium Quantity Generator (MQG) - A generator whose monthly waste generation or accumulation is 220 pounds or more but less than 2,200 pounds of dangerous waste. An MQG's accumulation (at any time) is not more than 2,200 pounds for waste with a QEL of 220 pounds, or 2.2 pounds for waste with QEL of 2.2 pounds.
Small Quantity Generator (SQG) – A generator whose monthly waste generation is less than the Quantity Exclusion Limits (QEL), 220 pounds of dangerous waste or 2.2 pounds for acutely hazardous wastes, and whose accumulation (at any time) does not exceed 2,200 pounds for waste with a QEL of 220 or 2.2 pounds for a waste with a QEL of 2.2 pounds.
No Regulated Waste Generators (XQG) – Dangerous waste is not generated in any amount. This applies to businesses that transport and/or transfer waste but do not generate waste.

Dangerous Waste Generator Status Table
	If the QEL is 2.2 pounds and the waste is EHW:	If the QEL is 2.2 pounds and the waste is acute DW:	If the QEL is 220 pounds and the waste is EHW or DW:
SQGs generate: TBG not allowed	Less than 2.2 pounds	Less than 2.2 pounds	Less than 220 pounds
SQGs accumulate or store: TBG not allowed	2.2 pounds or less	220 pounds or less	2,200 pounds or less, same as MQGs
MQGs generate;	There is no MQG status for 2.2 pound wastes, go straight to LQG status		At least 220 pounds, but less than 2,200 pounds
MQGs accumulate or store:			2,200 pounds or less, same as SQGs
LQGs generate:	2.2 pounds or more	2.2 pounds or more	2,200 pounds or more
LQGs accumulate or store:	More than 2.2 pounds	More than 220 pounds	More than 2,200 pounds

2. Frequency of Generation
Check the box that best describes how often you generate dangerous waste.

Monthly: Generate waste at least once each month.
Batch: Generate waste less frequently than once a month.
One-time only: Waste generation is a one-time only occurrence.

3. Transporter of Hazardous Waste
Transporters physically move waste off-site from one site to another by air, rail, highway, or water. If you transport dangerous waste, check the appropriate box(s) to indicate what you do:

Transport own waste
Transport for commercial purposes

4. Recycler of On-Site Waste
On-site recycling means to use, reuse, or reclaim a material after it has been generated.

Do not check this box if you send your waste off-site to a Treatment, Storage, Disposal, or Recycling (TSDR) facility for recycling.
Check this box if you:

Have waste that is recycled without prior accumulation, i.e. it is "hard-piped" in a closed loop system. You must get a Site ID Number (notify) for this activity, but do not count the amounts toward your generator status and do not report it in your future annual reports.

Accumulated waste on-site before recycling. You must get a Site ID Number (notify) for this activity, count the amounts toward your generator status and report it in your future annual reports.

5. Transfer Facility of Hazardous Waste
A transfer facility is any transportation related facility where shipments of dangerous waste are held, consolidated, or transferred within a period of ten days or less during the normal course of transportation, including:

loading docks
parking areas
storage areas
buildings
piers
other similar areas

6. Permit-by-Rule (PBR)
Please refer to the Dangerous Waste Regulations (WAC 173-303-802) for a list and description of Permit-by-Rule facilities, activities, and conditions.

Check this box if the description applies to your site location.

7. Treatment-by-Generator (TBG)
Check this box if you are a generator who treats your own waste on site, and use accumulation tanks or containers according to standards established by Technical Information Memorandum (TIM) 96- 412 Treatment by Generator (revised May 2011). Go to www.ecy.wa.gov/biblio/96412.html or contact Ecology for a copy. If you are reporting TBG you must report a generator status of MQG or LQG depending on your situation. TBG is not an authorized activity for SQGs.

8. Generator of Mixed Radioactive Waste
Check this box if you generate, accumulate, or manage mixed radioactive waste.

Mixed radioactive waste is a radioactive waste as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.), which is mixed with dangerous waste. This waste is regulated under RCRA as well as the Nuclear Regulatory Act and must be reported on dangerous waste forms.

9. Importer of Hazardous Waste
Check this box if you receive any dangerous waste from a foreign country.

An importer brings dangerous waste into Washington State from a foreign country. This waste is regulated according to the WAC 173-303-290, but it may not be regulated in the country of origin.

10. Treatment, Storage, or Disposal (TSD) Facility
Check this box if you are a TSD. (This does not apply to most generators.)

Check this box if you have an Ecology Dangerous Waste permit to treat, store, and / or dispose of dangerous waste at your site. A Dangerous Waste permit is often referred to as a “Part A” or “Part B” Permit. The permit can be from Ecology’s Hazardous Waste and Toxics Reduction Program, Ecology’s Nuclear Waste Program, Ecology’s Solid Waste and Financial Assistance Program, or the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The waste can be generated at your site, or shipped to your facility from a different site. “Permitted storage of waste” is not the same as generator waste accumulation. Do not check this box if you accumulate or treat your own waste on-site without a Dangerous Waste permit.

11. Recycler of Dangerous Waste Received from Off-Site
Check this box only if you receive Dangerous Wastes from off-site and then recycle it. The recycled waste must be regulated under WAC 173-303-120 of the State Dangerous Waste Regulations.

12. Dangerous Waste Fuel Activity
If you generate, sell, blend, or burn dangerous waste fuel, check the appropriate box or boxes to indicate your waste fuel activities. Used oil fuels are not dangerous waste fuels (See Section 10, Part C).

Generator of dangerous waste fuel: A person who generates dangerous waste fuel or any fuel that contains dangerous waste burned for energy recovery in a boiler or industrial furnace, as long as the boiler or industrial furnace is not regulated as a hazardous waste incinerator.
Generator who markets to a burner: A person who sends their waste fuel directly to a burner.
Other marketers:
- Distributors: A person who distributes but does not process or blend dangerous waste fuel. Distributors may broker fuel by arranging for the final disposition of the fuel.
- Blenders: A person who produces, processes, or blends fuel from dangerous wastes.
Burner:
If you burn dangerous waste fuel on-site, check the appropriate box to indicate the type(s) of combustion devices in which dangerous waste fuel is burned.
1. Utility boiler: A boiler used to produce electricity, steam, or heated or cooled air for sale.
2. Industrial boiler: A boiler located on the site of a facility that is engaged in a mechanical or chemical manufacturing process to transform substances into new products, including the component parts of products.
3. Industrial furnace: Any of the following enclosed devices that are integral components of manufacturing processes and that use controlled flame combustion to recover materials or energy:
- Cement kilns
- Lime kilns
- Aggregate kilns including asphalt kilns
- Phosphate furnaces
- Refining furnaces
- Titanium dioxide chloride process oxidation reactors
- Methane-reforming furnaces
- Other devices as specified by Ecology
Deferrals/Exemptions (in federal register only):

Smelter deferral: You process hazardous waste in a smelting, melting, or refining furnace solely for metals recovery, as described in 40 CFR 266.100 (d), or to recover economically significant amounts of precious metals as described in 40CFR 266.100(g), or process hazardous wastes in a lead recovery furnace to recover lead, as described in 40 CFR 266.100(h).

Small quantity exemption: You burn small quantities of hazardous waste in an on-site boiler or industrial furnace as described in 40 CFR 266.108.

Other exemptions: List the exemption in the space provided.

Section 10, Part B - Universal Waste Activities

1. Large Quantity Handler of Universal Waste (LQHUW)
LQHUW accumulates 11,000 pounds or more total of universal waste (batteries, thermostats, mercury containing equipment and lamps calculated collectively) and/or accumulates more than 2,200 pounds of lamps at any time. If you generate or accumulate universal waste check the appropriate box for the wastes below:

Batteries as described in WAC 173-303-573(2);
Thermostats as described in WAC 173-303-573(3);
Mercury containing equipment as described in WAC 173-303-573(4);
Lamps as described in WAC 173-303-573(5).

This designation as a large quantity handler of universal waste is retained through the end of the calendar year in which 11,000 pounds or more total of universal waste and/or 2,200 pounds of lamps are accumulated.

2. Destination Facility for Universal Waste
Destination facility for universal waste is a facility that treats, disposes of, or recycles a particular category of universal waste except as described in WAC 173-303-573 (9) (a), (b) and (c) and 173-303-573 (20) (a), (b) and (c). Check this box if this applies to you; and you have a RCRA Permit.

Do not check this box if you are a facility where universal waste is only accumulated and/or you are a small quantity handler of universal waste batteries, thermostats, and/or lamps.

For more information about universal wastes refer to the following Ecology publications:

Universal Waste Rule for Batteries and Mercury-Containing Thermostats. # 98-407 at www.ecy.wa.gov/biblio/98407.html.

Ecology Publication # 00-04-020, Focus Sheet: Universal Waste Rule for Dangerous Waste Lamps WAC 173-303-573 at www.ecy.wa.gov/biblio/0004020.html

Dangerous Waste Regulations, WAC 173-303-573 at http://apps.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=173-303-573

Section 10, Part C - Used Oil Activities

Do not check these box(s) unless they apply to your facility. See WAC 173-303-515 for more information.

Used Oil- Any oil that has been refined from crude oil, or any synthetic oil, that has been used and as a result of such use is contaminated by physical or chemical impurities.

Off-Specification- Used oil fuel that exceeds any specification level in the table found in the Dangerous Waste Regulations, WAC 173-303-515.

Off-Specification Used Oil Burner – If you burn off-specification used oil fuel on site mark the box(es) to indicate the type(s) of combustion devise(s) in which you burn off-specification fuel. See Section 10, Part A-12 for descriptions of the following devises.

Utility boiler
Industrial boiler
Industrial furnace

Used Oil Transporter – If you transport used oil and/or own/operate a used oil transfer facility mark the box (es) that indicate your used oil activity.

Used Oil Processor/Re-refiner – If you process and/or re-refine used oil mark the box (es) that indicate your used oil activity.

Used Oil Fuel Marketer – If you market off-specification used oil to a burner or you are the first to claim the used oil meets the used oil specification in WAC 173-303-515 mark the box that indicates your used oil activity.

Section 11: Description of hazardous waste

Section 11, Part A - Waste Codes for Federally Regulated Hazardous Wastes
Identify those codes that best describe your waste. (e.g. D001–Ignitable, D002-Corrosive, D003– Reactive, etc.) For help identifying the dangerous waste codes that apply to your waste contact Ecology’s nearest Regional office or your hazardous waste service provider. You may also reference WAC 173-303-090,-9903,-9904

Federally Regulated Hazardous Waste Codes begin with:

"P" or "U" – Listed Discarded Chemical, for example – P065
"F" or "K" – Listed Sources, for example- F003
"D" – "D001", "D002", and "D003" – Ignitable, Corrosive, Reactive, and Toxic (TCLP) Characteristics, for example – D004

Section 11, Part B - Waste Codes for State Regulated Dangerous Wastes
Identify those codes that best describe your waste. (e.g., WT02 – Toxic, WP02 – Persistent, WSC2 – Solid Corrosive, etc.)

State Regulated Dangerous Waste Codes begin with "W", for example- WT02.

For help identifying the dangerous waste codes that apply to your waste contact Ecology’s nearest Regional office or your hazardous waste service provider. You may also reference WAC 173-303-082,-090, -100, -104, -180, and -9903

Section 12: Comments

Use this section to explain any information you provided on your application. Please reference the section number of the form that your comment applies to.

Section 13: Certification

An authorized representative for your site must sign the “Site ID Form”. After the form is signed, send it to Ecology. Ecology will return all forms that do not have a signature.

An authorized representative is defined by the US EPA in the Code of Federal Regulations, 40 CFR 260.10 as the person responsible for the overall operation of a facility or an operational unit (i.e., part of a facility), e.g., the plant manager, superintendent or person of equivalent responsibility.
Permitted Treatment, Storage, Disposal, or Recycling (TSDR) facilities should refer to WAC 173-303-810(12) for guidance on how to designate an appropriate representative.
A contracted consultant does not qualify as an authorized representative of your facility in this context.

14. Electronic Submittals (for Paper Filers only)

Check this box if you are interested in electronic filing of your Annual Dangerous Waste Report and notification information over the internet. Ecology will mail a Personal Identification Number (PIN) and electronic filing instructions in a letter addressed to the Forms Contact in Section 9 on the form.