Laws Governing

Hazardous Waste
and Disposal
LAWS GOVERNING HAZARDOUS WASTE AND DISPOSAL
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
(RCRA)

Superfund Act

Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear
Waste Control Act
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)

It requires the producers of
hazardous waste to keep records of
how their wastes are handled from
the time they are made to the time
they are disposed.

Hazardous waste treatment and
disposal facilities to be built and
operated according to the designed
standards.


Superfund Act
Discourages the Companies that
produce Hazardous wastes to
dump their waste illegally.

Environmental Protection Agency
- has the right to sue the owners
of hazardous-waste sites to pay
for the clean up. Also to give
funds for the clean up of the
abandoned hazardous-waste
site.




Toxic substances and hazardous and nuclear waste control act


It provides for the regulation of
all chemical substances that
may pose threat to public health
and the environment.

The companies producing
hazardous waste should have:
Hazardous wastes generators
Hazardous wastes treaters
Hazardous wastes transporter




Violators Consequences
Fines
Imprisonment
Dismissal from office
Confiscation of chemical
substances
If the ever the owner is a
foreigner, Deportation and Barred
from entry into the country.