What Hazardous Waste Management Does
Waste Management Group's mission (WM) is to
Ensure that SLAC
manages hazardous waste in compliance with applicable regulations
and DOE orders through:
- Minimizing liabilities associated with the
transport and disposal of hazardous waste to permitted off-site
treatment, storage, disposal and recycling facilities.
- Provides mission critical services by managing hazardous
wastes generated by routine operations
- Conducting research activities to
meet the storage limitations imposed by hazardous waste control laws
and regulations.
- Helping SLAC personnel in determining if a waste is hazardous,
in training personnel on the proper management of hazardous waste,
by assuring proper packaging, labeling, collection and tracking of
hazardous waste; by implementing applicable parts of the DOT and EPA
regulations as they apply to site activities; by providing the
management and oversight of the Emergency Response subcontract for
hazardous chemical incidents.
WM also supports:
- Management of regulated wastes generated from construction
activities associated with new facility projects and existing
projects implemented through the Conventional and Experimental
Facilities Department
- The radioactive waste program under Radiation Physics by
assessing the hazardous aspects of mixed wastes
- Stormwater protection, sanitary sewer discharge, and toxic
chemical management programs under the EP-Hazardous Waste Management
Group and the Chemical and General Safety Department
- Management of hazardous and regulated wastes generated from
site remediation activities under the Environmental Restoration
Group
- The hazardous waste treatment program to assist SLAC
operations that require permits for operating processes that
treat hazardous waste
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