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Hazardous Waste

Policy Statement: Clarification of the Dilution Prohibition and Combustion of Inorganic Metal-Bearing Hazardous Wastes for Land Disposal Restrictions

This memorandum sets out a Statement of Policy under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) clarifying the application of the Land Disposal Restrictions (LDR) prohibition on dilution (see Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations in section 268.3) to combustion of certain inorganic metal-bearing hazardous wastes.

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RCRA Policy statement: Clarification of the Land Disposal Restrictions' Dilution Prohibition and Combustion of Inorganic Metal-Bearing Hazardous Wastes (PDF)(6 pp, 155 K, May 23, 1994)