Group,
There was an article published in the Journal of Chemical Health and Safety
July/August 2012 entitled " Traditional RCRA and Subpart K: UNC_CH forays into waste Management Weeds.
Contact me if you want a copy. The list serve does not allow attachments.
Mary Beth Koza, MBA
Director - Environment, Health & Safety
Responsible Official CDC Select Agent Program
Department of Environment, Health and Safety
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Office 919-843-5913
Cell 919-883-7027
MBKOZA**At_Symbol_Here**ehs.unc.edu
www.ehs.unc.edu
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Chapter 11 of the 2011 edition of
Prudent Practices in the Laboratory (National Academies Press) has a thorough discussion of regulations and standards that apply to laboratories. Another good reference is the 2008 edition of the
Environmental Compliance Guide for Colleges and Universities, published by APPA and CSHEMA. Also, the ACS Task Force on Laboratory Chemical and Waste Management published
Laboratory Waste Management: A Guidebook. The second edition is published by Oxford Press.
Pete
Peter A. Reinhardt
Director, Office of Environmental Health & Safety
Yale University
135 College St., Suite 100
New Haven, CT 06510-2411
(203) 737-2123
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All, I recently had a conversation with a colleague from EPA concerning hazardous waste compliance for universities, and in our conversation I offered to post an email from him
on this list-serve to tap into its collective knowledge (see his email below).
"I am in the process of developing a hazardous waste compliance assistance program for colleges and universities (truly any post-secondary learning institution).. Congress asked us [EPA] to regulate the management
of hazardous waste through the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). We've routinely done inspections and regrettably find that universities tend to have numerous challenges with waste identification and management. I'm hoping your professional
experience in both investigations and education (both as an educator and for the American Chemical Society) can help me find a more effective path than what we have pursued in the past."
One thing that struck me during the conversation was an article that I saw printed in JCHAS I think in 2010 that listed the numerous federal/state regulations a university was subject to. I remember being surprised
by the number of requirements, and thought it would be insightful for this person as well. Despite searching my paper copies of JXHAS and JCHAS' search engine, I'm coming up empty. Any chance someone remembers an article like that?
I'll forward any posts on the topic.
Thanks,
Mary Beth
