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Hazardous Waste

A User-Friendly Reference Document for Hazardous Waste Characteristics

This document describes EPA’s hazardous waste characteristics regulations under the authority of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Subtitle C.

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A User- Friendly Reference Document for Hazardous Waste Characteristics (PDF)(30 pp, 388 K, October 2009)