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Environmental Technology Program

ENVT 150 Course Outline

Hazardous Waste Management Applications

Units: Prerequisite: None.
Recommended: ENVT 100

Catalog Description: This course provides an overview of hazardous waste regulations with emphasis on generator compliance, site investigation and remediation, permitting, enforcement and liability. The lecture portion of the course explains the hazardous waste regulatory framework, introduces the student to the wide variety and types of environmental resources available and developed research skills in the hazardous waste area. The laboratory portion of the course complements the lectures be providing hands-on application of the regulations at the technician level. Proper methods of preparing hazardous waste manifest, labeling of storage containers, sampling and analysis, preparing a Phase I Environmental Audit and selecting environmental consultants are among the many skills developed in the laboratory.

Unit I: Regulatory Overview

  1. Hazardous Material versus Hazardous Waste
    1. Hazardous Waste Characteristics
    2. Hazardous Waste Classification
  2. Regulatory Agencies and Jurisdiction
    1. Federal
    2. State
    3. Regional
    4. Local
  3. Key Statutes
  4. Key Regulations
  5. Lab Exercises
    1. Determining if a Waste is Hazardous
    2. EPA ID

Unit II: Generators Requirements # One

  1. Cradle to the Grave Liability
  2. Storage Requirements
  3. The Manifest
  4. Lab Exercises- Preparing a Manifest

Unit III: Generators Requirement #Two

  1. A Hazardous Waste Minimization
  2. Fees
  3. Biennial Reporting
  4. Extremely Hazardous Waste Permits
  5. Enforcement
  6. Lab Exercises
    1. Preparation of Biennial Report
    2. Preparation of extremely Hazardous Waste Permit

Unit IV: Generators Requirement # Three

  1. Clean Water Act
  2. Porter Cologne
  3. Waste Discharge Requirements
  4. Lab Exercises
    1. Applying for an NPDES Permit
    2. Waste Discharge Requirement

Unit V: Generators Requirement #Four

  1. Clean Air Act
  2. The Bubble System
  3. Local AQMD Regulations
  4. Lab Exercises
    1. Applying for Air Permits
    2. Reporting Air Quality under AB 2588

Unit VI: Transportation, Treatment, and Disposal

  1. Transport requirements
  2. Recycling
  3. Land Ban
  4. Lab Exercises- Student Reports

Unit VII: Superfund

  1. CERCLA/SARA
  2. California Superfund
  3. Liability
    1. Governmental
    2. Non-Governmental
  4. Release Reporting
  5. Lab Exercises
    1. Release Reporting

Unit VIII: Site Mitigation

  1. The "Decision Tree"
  2. Preliminary Assessments
  3. Consent Orders
  4. Fees
  5. Site Characterization
  6. Lab Exercises
    1. Sampling Equipment
    2. Sampling Techniques

Unit IX: Sampling and Analysis

  1. QA/QC
  2. Sampling Plans
  3. Analytical Methods
  4. Chain of Events
  5. Lab Exercises- Analytical Techniques

Unit X: RI/FS Process

  1. Remedial Investigations
  2. Feasibility Study
  3. Risk Assessment
  4. Cleanup Standards
  5. Community Relations
  6. Lab Exercises
    1. Preparing a Risk Assessment

Unit XI: Special Topics

  1. Permitting
  2. Infectious Waste
  3. Household Hazardous Waste
  4. Real Estate Transactions
  5. Radiation Waste
  6. Lab Exercises
    1. Selection of Remedial Action
    2. Mock Public Hearing
    3. Preparing an Environmental Audit

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