On and after July 1, 2021, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), will no longer accept paper uniform hazardous waste manifests by mail. All hazardous waste manifests must be submitted to the EPA electronically using the e-Manifest system. Paper…
The activation of the e-Manifest System by USEPA on June 30, 2018 caught some hazardous waste handlers by surprise. Since the system’s launch USEPA has worked diligently to fix its few small bugs, provide regulatory relief where it must, and…
If you’re confused about the use of the USEPA’s new e-Manifest System (launched on June 30, 2018), you’re not alone. Despite a valiant effort to inform the regulated community of the new system and to work out the kinks, many…
Yes. EPA recently decided to grant extra time for receiving facilities to submit paper manifests during the initial months after system launch (scheduled for June 30, 2018). Under EPA’s regulations, receiving facilities must submit paper manifests to EPA within 30…
The “hybrid” or mixed paper / electronic manifest is a specific manifest approach that EPA adopted to assist generators who are not able to fully participate in electronic manifesting at the time of system launch (June 30, 2018). The hybrid…
USEPA will impose a per manifest fee for each manifest submitted to the e-Manifest System based on the type (paper or electronic) and mode of submission (mail, data upload, image file upload). The final fee schedule for the system launch…
If you’re like me you probably thought the launch day for the e-Manifest System would never come. Well, it looks like both of us were wrong! After missing several of its self-imposed deadlines (see: History of the e-Manifest System) the…
In a separate article I document the requirements of the e-Manifest System for a hazardous waste generator. Here I simply wanted to create a timeline for the important dates in the history of the e-Manifests implementation. Contact me with any…