Location

51 N Street, NE, 3rd Floor
Washington, DC 20002
(202) 535-2270

Mission

The mission of the Hazardous Waste Program is to enforce the provisions of the District of Columbia Hazardous Waste Management Act of 1977. This law is based on the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), which was enacted by Congress in 1976. The District of Columbia received authorization to implement its own hazardous waste management program, in lieu of the federal program, in 1985. 

Program Description

Hazardous Waste Division’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 the generated wastes are managed in an environmentally sound manner.  The Hazardous Waste program regulates commercial businesses as well as federal, State, and local government facilities that generate, transport, treat, store, or dispose of hazardous waste. Each of these entities is regulated to ensure proper management of hazardous waste from the moment it is generated until its ultimate disposal or destruction.

View the following information within the Hazardous Waste Division:

• Department of Defense (DOD)
• The Organizational Chart*


• The Major Regulatory Reform effort*


• Fact Sheets*
• Form(s)

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