Why is EPA allowing until September 5, 2006 for compliance?
The September 5, 2006 compliance date should allow waste handlers to use up their stocks of the old forms and allow sufficient time for registrants to apply to EPA Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery’s registry and prepare to print and distribute the revised manifest forms. Likewise, 18 months will provide states sufficient time to update their tracking databases to address the rule’s changes to the manifest form and its data elements and to enable them to revise their authorized hazardous waste programs to adapt the revised manifest requirements. Because we are requiring the revised manifest format to be used and accepted in every US jurisdiction, today’s rule also will preclude states from requiring their regulated waste handlers to obtain manifest forms exclusively from the state agencies.
