Resource Conservation & Recovery Act

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-024083",
  "term": "Resource Conservation & Recovery Act",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definitions": [
    "To provide technical and financial assistance for the development of management plans and facilities for the recovery of energy and other resources from discarded materials and for the safe disposal of discarded materials, and to regulate the management of hazardous waste.",
    "1. RCRA is a federal law enacted in 1976 that established a regulatory system to track hazardous substances from their generation to their disposal. The law requires the use of safe and secure procedures in treating, transporting, storing, and disposing of hazardous substances. RCRA is designed to prevent the creation of new, uncontrolled hazardous waste sites.\n\n2. The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, and all amendments of that Act. Congress developed and enacted RCRA in 1976 in response to public concern regarding the threat posed to human health and the environment by increased waste generation. RCRA describes, in very broad terms, the kind of waste management program that Congress wanted to establish. In addition, RCRA instructs EPA to develop and promulgate regulations to implement such a program, and gives the EPA Administrator the authority necessary to carry out the intent of the Act, including the authority to conduct inspections.\n\n3. A Federal law that authorizes EPA to set standards for companies producing, handling, transporting, storing, and disposing of hazardous waste.\n\n4. The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) protects human health and the environment from the potential hazards of waste disposal, conserves energy and natural resources, reduces the amount of waste generated, and ensures that wastes are managed in an environmentally sound manner.\n\n5. The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act passed by the US Congress in 1976 to regulate solid and hazardous waste disposal.\n\n6. This was enacted by Congress in 1976 to address the huge volumes of municipal and industrial solid waste generated nationwide. This Act provides broad guidelines for the establishment of a national waste management program. The Act also provides the Administrator of the EPA (or his or her designee) with the necessary authority to develop these broad standards into specific requirements for the regulated community. For more detail, see RCRA Orientation Manual Section I: Introduction to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act or the general RCRA Orientation Manual Web site.\n\n7. RCRA is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, which was enacted by Congress in 1976 and in the subsequent Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984. RCRA's primary goals are to protect human health and the environment from the potential hazards of waste disposal, to conserve energy and natural resources, to reduce the amount of waste generated, and to ensure that wastes are managed in an environmentally sound manner. For a more in-depth overview of RCRA and its programs, see the RCRA Orientation Manual.\n\n8. See http://www.epa.gov/lawsregs/laws/rcra.html. The primary goals of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) are to protect human health and the environment from the potential hazards of waste disposal, to conserve energy and natural resources, to reduce the amount of waste generated, and to ensure that wastes are managed in an environmentally sound manner.\n\n9. The public law that creates the framework for the proper management of hazardous and non-hazardous solid waste."
  ],
  "abbreviation": "RCRA",
  "subject": "Land, waste and cleanup",
  "references": [
    "P.L. 94-580",
    "Waste and Cleanup Risk Assessment Glossary",
    "RCRA State Authorization Terms & Topics",
    "Superfund for Students and Teachers Glossary",
    "RCRA Glossary of Terms",
    "Environmental Geophysics Glossary",
    "Universal Waste: Glossary of Regulatory Terms",
    "Corrective Action 101 Key Terms",
    "Superfund Acronyms",
    "DWMAPS Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/resource-conservation-and-recovery-act/"
}