RCRA in the Rec Room

Here are some recreational challenges to your knowledge of the RCRA regulations.  As you go through, the program will automatically tell you whether you are wrong or right, and keep score for you.  

You may need a copy of the 40 CFR Parts 261 and 262, unless you think you are an ace at the regulations. It will likely require 10 minutes of undisturbed time to complete this exercise. 

If you get one or more incorrect, write down the problem number so that you can quickly access the answer at the end of this freebie.

Good luck and challenge your friends and colleagues to take the same teaser test and see who does better. After all: IT'S FREE!!!!!!!

1. The exposition center plans a symposium on environmental regulations for dry cleaners and printers, which are traditionally CESQGs. As key note speaker, you are asked to provide an overview of RCRA generator responsibilities. You:

a.  Ask what a CESQG is
b.  Tell them to generate less than 100 kg/month of hazardous waste and they will be subject to no regulations
c.  Tell them to check out the regulations in 40 CFR Part 262
d.  All of the above
e.  None of the above and you ask someone else to be the key note speaker and provide an overview

2. Your solvent degreaser results in a still bottom sludge which you clean out daily. You remove 1 to 5 gallons daily to a 55-gallon drum which is considered a satellite site container. The drum is empty on February 1, but is completely full by March 15. You move the drum to your hazardous waste accumulation area on March 18. Based on this information, the following is the correct measurement of hazardous waste generation:

a.  You have generated 55 gallons of hazardous waste on March 1
b.  You have generated 55 gallons of hazardous waste on March 15
c.  You have generated 55 gallons of hazardous waste in the month of February
d.  You have generated 55 gallons of hazardous waste in the month of March
e.  You have generated approximately 36 gallons of hazardous wastes during February and approximately 19 gallons of hazardous waste during March based on this container's average fill rate, but you should really keep an actual daily total

3. Your solvent degreaser results in a still bottom sludge which you clean out daily. You remove 1 to 5 gallons daily to a 55-gallon drum which is considered a satellite site container. The drum is empty on February 1, but is completely full by March 15. You move the drum to your hazardous waste accumulation area on March 18. Based on this information, the following is the correct hazardous waste accumulation start date:

a.  The 55-gallon container has an accumulation start date of March 18
b.  The 55-gallon container has an accumulation start date of March 15.
c.  The 55-gallon container has an accumulation start date of February 1.
d.  None of the above.

4. Your hazardous waste is collected by a transporter, put in storage at a storage facility, picked up by another different transporter, and then delivered to a disposal facility. How many copies of the manifest form will be needed?

a.  3
b.  4
c.  5
d.  6
e.  7

5. You consider your facility an SQG and currently generate 2000 lbs/month of hazardous wastes. Your planning a short boom in production next month due to a one time order which may result in production increases of 20%. What do you do?

a.  You are already in noncompliance because you are an LQG (>1000 lbs/month of hazardous waste generated) so contact the EPA/State now and beg for leniency while you come up to snuff with the LQG regulations
b.  Implement a plan of waste minimization and waste management so that a 20% increase in production results in less than a 10% increase in hazardous waste generation
c.  Ask EPA/State for an extension to the waste generation amounts
d.  Nothing because you are an SQG and even if you do become an LQG for one month, you go back to SQG status afterwards
e.  Begin planning for LQG compliance requirements IF the state won't grant you an extension
f.  Begin planning for LQG compliance requirements IF the waste minimization and waste management plan will not reduce the expected increase in hazardous waste generation