Electronic Hazardous Waste Manifest to Go Live on June 30

On January 3, EPA published a final rule in the Federal Register that spells out how user fees for electronic and paper hazardous waste manifests will be submitted. After the e-Manifest system's implementation date, facilities that receive hazardous waste (such as permitted treatment, storage, and disposal facilities) will be required to pay a prescribed fee for each electronic and paper manifest and submit the fee to the national e-Manifest system so that EPA can recover the costs of developing and operating the system. The only exception to this requirement is for rejected shipments, when TSDFs return shipments to generators. In these cases, the rejecting TSDF is responsible for the payment of the fee for the return manifest

This final rule also announced that EPA expects the new e-Manifest system to be operational on June 8, of this year. EPA will begin accepting manifest submissions and collecting the corresponding manifest submission fees on this date. Although the fee structure has not been finalized, EPA has initially estimated the following fees, with the highest rates applying to mailed paper manifests:

Mailed paper $20.00 (per manifest)

Image upload $13.00

Data file upload $7.00

Electronic $4.00

The final rule also made changes not related to fees including modifications to the existing regulations to: allow changes to the transporters designated on a manifest while the shipment is en route; describe how data corrections may be made to existing manifest records in the system; and amend the previous e-Manifest regulation (the One Year Rule) to allow the use, in certain instances, of a mixed paper and electronic manifest to track a hazardous waste shipment.

The rule will become effective on June 30, 2018. Learn more about the new manifest at Environmental Resource Center’s live webcast.

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