Washington Code 70A.300.220 – Department’s powers as designated agency under federal act
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(1) The department is designated as the state agency for implementing the federal resource conservation and recovery act (42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq.).
Terms Used In Washington Code 70A.300.220
- Dangerous wastes: means any discarded, useless, unwanted, or abandoned substances, including but not limited to certain pesticides, or any residues or containers of such substances which are disposed of in such quantity or concentration as to pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health, wildlife, or the environment because such wastes or constituents or combinations of such wastes:
Washington Code 70A.300.010Department: means the department of ecology. See Washington Code 70A.300.010
(2) The power granted to the department by this section is the authority to:
(a) Establish a permit system for owners or operators of facilities which treat, store, or dispose of dangerous wastes: PROVIDED, That spent containers of pesticides or herbicides which have been used in normal farm operations and which are not extremely hazardous wastes, shall not be subject to the permit system;
(b) Establish standards for the safe transport, treatment, storage, and disposal of dangerous wastes as may be necessary to protect human health and the environment;
(c) Establish, to implement this section:
(i) A manifest system to track dangerous wastes;
(ii) Reporting, monitoring, recordkeeping, labeling, sampling requirements; and
(iii) Owner, operator, and transporter responsibility;
(d) Enter at reasonable times establishments regulated under this section for the purposes of inspection, monitoring, and sampling; and
(e) Adopt rules necessary to implement this section.
[ 1980 c 144 § 1. Formerly RCW 70.105.130.]