How does the Hazardous Waste Combustion NESHAP relate to the RCRA combustion program and its requirements?
The Hazardous Waste Combustion NESHAP achieves two primary goals. First, it establishes emission standards for hazardous waste burning incinerators, cement kilns and lightweight aggregate kilns based on performance of control technology. Second, it meets our commitment under the RCRA Hazardous Waste Combustion Strategy, first announced in 1993, to upgrade the emission standards for hazardous waste burning facilities through the use of best available technologies and the most current science. The NESHAP also provides an opportunity for EPA to integrate the CAA and RCRA monitoring, compliance testing, recordkeeping and permitting requirements for combustor emissions so as to minimize regulatory duplication to the extent possible. Thus, once a facility has demonstrated compliance with the HWC NESHAP by conducting a comprehensive performance test and submitting a Notification of Compliance documenting compliance, the RCRA emission requirements of 40 CFR Part 264, 265 and 266 no longer appl
