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Hazardous Materials and Waste Management Division
Hazardous Waste Program
About this Program
Joe Schieffelin, Solid and Hazardous Waste Program Manager
The Hazardous Waste Program is a sub-unit of the Solid and Hazardous Waste
Program. The Solid and Hazardous Waste Program ensures compliance with
State regulations for the proper handling of solid and hazardous wastes.
The
Hazardous Waste Corrective Action Unit oversees corrective action
(hazardous waste cleanup) activities at
facilities where the
unauthorized treatment, storage or disposal of hazardous wastes have resulted in a
release to the environment. Unit staff review workplans for
compliance and technical adequacy before the cleanup work can begin, then monitor the activities
to assure the proper characterization, management, and treatment or disposal of wastes.
Clean-ups at these sites may be performed under the
approval of the unit either through voluntary mechanisms, such as
Corrective Action Plans (CAPs) or through enforcement mechanisms, such
as Compliance Orders.
Walter Avramenko,
Corrective Action Unit Leader
The
Hazardous Waste Compliance Assurance Unit conducts compliance
inspections at facilities that generate
hazardous waste or are permitted hazardous waste treatment, storage and/or disposal
facilities. During each inspection, compliance with the Colorado
Hazardous Waste Regulations is evaluated through a site tour where
waste generation and management activities are observed, followed by a
review of
pertinent documents. Enforcement actions are
taken when appropriate. This unit also routinely investigates
complaints alleging mismanagement of hazardous waste and provides
extensive compliance assistance through trainings conducted around
Colorado and through the Generator Assistance Program (GAP).
Kathryn Stewart, Compliance
Assurance Unit Leader
Generator
Assistance Program (GAP)
The Hazardous Waste Permitting Unit oversees the United
States Army's program to destroy the assembled chemical weapons
stored at Pueblo Chemical Depot.
The unit also reviews hazardous waste permits at non-federal
facilities. To ensure that hazardous wastes are managed appropriately, hazardous
waste permits are issued for the treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous waste. A
generator of hazardous waste is not required to have a hazardous waste permit unless the
wastes are also treated, stored, or disposed of by the generator. Permit applications are
reviewed for regulatory compliance and completeness before a permit is issued. The permit
applicant may also be required to properly characterize, manage and dispose of wastes that
may have been released into the environment at the facility. This is done through the
corrective action portion of the permit.
Doug Knappe,
Permitting Unit Leader
The Compliance Coordination and Assistance Unit
provides technical and regulatory assistance in unusual or
time-critical projects that are not otherwise overseen by other Division
programs. Compliance assistance aids the regulated community, local governments, and the
public in understanding the importance of the requirements and the advantages to all by
promoting lower operating costs, lower contamination clean-up costs, lower penalties, and
increased community acceptance. It also fosters communication between industry and
regulators and provides a means for establishing common-sense approaches to regulation.
This is accomplished by providing technical workshops, developing fact sheets and other
educational materials, and providing technical assistance to the regulated community and
the general public through oral and written communications.
Ed Smith,
Compliance Coordination and Assistance Unit Leader
The
Financial Assurance and Data Management Unit reviews all solid
and hazardous waste financial assurance mechanisms required for
certain waste management facilities in Colorado. In
addition, this unit manages solid waste, hazardous waste, and
radioactive materials data bases for the Division and the data
interface with the US Environmental Protection Agency, and
provides administrative support for the Solid and Hazardous
Waste Program.
Mira Neumiller, Financial Assurance and
Data Management Unit Leader
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