EPA Aims to Propose E-Manifest User Fee in Spring

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to propose by spring 2016 a user fee regulation for its national electronic manifest system to track hazardous waste shipments, an agency official said Dec. 8.

The proposed rule, which will set out the methodology the agency is proposing to set fees, is under final agency review and will next go the White House Office of Management and Budget for consideration, said Ryan Gross, an environmental scientist at EPA.

All parties involved in the transportation of hazardous waste must use a complicated set of paper forms to track the waste’s chain of custody to ensure ...