Massachusetts TSDF Responsibilities: What you need to know

Hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facility (TSDF) rules: 310 Code of Massachusetts Regulations (CMR) 30.540 to 30.910

TSDF license rules: 310 CMR 30.800

TSDF fees: 310 CMR 4.03 to 4.05, and 310 CMR 4.10 Appendix (3)

Financial responsibility: 310 CMR 30.900 to 30.910

Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Bureau of Waste Prevention Business Compliance Division

See ADDRESSES & CONTACTS for addresses and telephone numbers.

See national section for basic information and federal regulations.

• Rules. Massachusetts's rules for hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities (TSDFs) include the federal rules and some more stringent requirements. The state's rules cover: container standards, contingency plan, corrective action notification, closure and post-closure, manifests, neutralization of wastes, state listed wastes, disposal restrictions, groundwater standards, facility design, construction, and operation standard, TSDF permits and fees, financial responsibility, and pollution prevention.

• Administration and enforcement. DEP's Bureau of Waste Prevention administers and enforces the TSDF requirements in Massachusetts.

CONTAINER STANDARDS

Massachusetts has additional requirements for owners and operators of hazardous waste containers, including labeling, and the need to meet either indoor or outdoor containment area standards and the state's more stringent empty container rules. Refer to the state section CONTAINERS for more information.

CONTINGENCY PLAN NOTIFICATION

Owners and operators of TSDFs must follow Massachusetts's additional contingency plan requirements in ...