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The Hazardous Waste Source Reduction and Management Review Act of 1989

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The Hazardous Waste Source Reduction and Management Review Act of 1989 applies to large quantity generators that produce more than 12,000 kilograms (13.2 tons) of hazardous waste, or 12 kilograms (26 pounds) of extremely hazardous waste, in 1990 and every four years thereafter. The law requires the generator companies of such hazardous waste to:
• Conduct a source reduction evaluation of their facilities and prepare the following:

 Source Reduction Evaluation Review and Plan (Plan)

 Hazardous Waste Management Performance Report (Report)

 Summary Progress Report (SPR)

• Implement feasible methods for reducing the quantity and/or the hazardous characteristics of routinely generated hazardous waste.

The main purpose of requiring generators to review and implement source reduction practices is to reduce the quantity of hazardous waste generated in California and thereby to promote public health and safety and to improve environmental quality.
Such a source reduction can also help large quantity generators to become more efficient in their use of resources.
The Plan must also include a list of potential source reduction measures for major waste streams, and describe the efforts taken to evaluate these measures. Major waste streams are defined as those waste streams that exceed five percent of the total weight of routinely generated hazardous wastes. Such major waste streams can fall under one of three categories:

• Category A: hazardous wastes that are processed through an on-site wastewater treatment unit prior to discharge to a publicly owned treatment works (POTW) or to receiving water under a National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit.

• Category B: all other hazardous wastes that is not processed in a wastewater treatment unit.

• Category C: all wastes that are classified as extremely hazardous wastes.

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