ABSTRACT
Congress gives Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the authority to list wastes generically under Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. If EPA has reason to believe that a laboratory waste is hazardous and meets a generic listing, the waste is automatically regulated. If the laboratory waste generated can either cause injury or death, or pollute land, air, or water, then such waste must be considered hazardous. Hazardous wastes are regulated by federal and state public health and environmental safety laws. The program is designed to control the management of hazardous waste from its generation to its ultimate disposal, “from cradle to grave.” In March 1986, the federal rules for hazardous waste management were modified to bring organizations that generate small amounts of hazardous waste into the regulatory system. A uniform hazardous waste manifest is a multicopy shipping document which a generator must fill out and use to accompany its hazardous waste shipments.
