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Economic Assessment

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Office of Solid Waste Changed to Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery on January 18, 2009.

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The economic analysis in support of the USEPA's 1999 HWIR Federal Register notice, consists of the following five components, all of which are available to the public through this webpage:

  1. Economic Background Document (PDF) (70 pp, 604K) (29 October 1999) - This 88-page report presents:

    • an overview of the regulatory background to HWIR;
    • estimation of the potential industrial waste disposal and truck manifest cost savings attributable to HWIR's proposed "decharacterized waste" exemption; and
    • an analytical framework consisting of a waste management cost-savings estimation model (i.e. "HWIR Economic Model"), for prospective assessment of HWIR's "exemption level" and LDR "minimize threat" frameworks.

  2. Industry Case Studies (PDF) (74 pp, 256K) report (January 1999). This 117-page report presents the findings of six case study site visits and interviews conducted 1997-1998, with US industrial companies potentially affected as beneficiaries of HWIR. Most of the findings pertain to implementation cost or other financial issues, from company business and management perspectives.

  3. HWIR Economic Model (October 1999). Because the 1999 HWIR Federal Register Notice does not propose any particular hazardous waste regulation "exemption levels", this Model is still under development, and will not be completed, run, and made available to the public, until exemption levels become available in the future in a separate Federal Register notice. The purpose and design of this model are described in the "Economic Background Document" (see item 1 above). The model is designed as a USEPA Internet server-based application. At this time, the two following items for this Model are available:

    • A description (PDF) (8 pp, 26K) of the electronic datafiles contained within the model.
    • A zipped file (right-click to download) (656K) which contains four databases within the HWIR Economic Model, which contain data on: (a) the sources and physical properties of survey samples of US industrial process hazardous wastestreams, (b) chemical constituents in wastestreams, and national average unit costs for industrial process hazardous waste (c) treatment and (c) disposal.

  4. National Hazardous Waste Constituent Survey Database (1999). The USEPA Office of Solid Waste designed this survey in 1996 to collect information about the identity and concentration of chemical constituents in US industrial process hazardous waste. The information collected in this survey is organized into a new database, which consists of 11 different electronic files, which provide the following information:

    • February 1999 introduction (PDF) (4 pp, 13K) to the NHWCS database
    • May 1998 (PDF) (24 pp, 72K) USEPA Office of Solid Waste briefing package about the design and findings of the NHWCS.
    • March 1998 (PDF) (52 pp, 119K) documentation memorandum for the datafiles for the NHWCS.
    • October 1998 (PDF) (63 pp, 726K) summary report of the data contained in the NHWCS database, as well as an overview of findings from the survey.
    • A zipped file (right-click to download) (487K) which contains two Lotus-123 spreadsheet files that summarize key datafields in the NHWCS, as well as provide a frequency count of the co-occurrence of constituentsin the survey wastestreams
    • A zipped file (right-click to download) (548K) which contains five separate database files of the actual data collected in the NHWC survey.

  5. 29 October 1999 List of Economic Analysis (PDF) (2 pp, 9K) documentation submitted to the RCRA Docket in support of the 1999 HWIR Federal Register Notice. All ten documentation items on this list are available on this website above.

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