What are the anticipated burden reductions for the regulated community?
The final rule is designed to provide regulatory relief to upwards of 139,000 entities in at least 45 industrial sub-sectors, who are involved in transporting RCRA hazardous wastes every year for off-site management. About 12 million tons of hazardous waste (non-wastewaters and wastewaters) per year are manifested for shipment (i.e. transport by truck, rail or barge), involving 2.4 to 5.1 million RCRA manifests, requiring about 4.4 to 9.2 million waste handler labor hours, costing about $187 to $733 million annually. In addition, 34 state governments reportedly spend 199,000 to 416,000 labor hours costing $6.3 to $37 million annually to administer the current RCRA hazardous waste manifest program, which when added to waste handler burden, totals 4.6 to 9.7 million hours ($193 to $770 million) per year in baseline national paperwork burden. Relative to this paperwork burden baseline, EPA estimates that today’s final rule revisions to the RCRA manifest form are expected to produce a nati
