DELAY ON HAZARDOUS WASTE TEST REFORMS CREATES RULE BACKLOG

EPA is postponing work on revisions to the primary test method used to determine whether a waste should be considered hazardous, creating a backlog of other rules that can only go forward once the test revisions are complete. Sources say the reason for the delay is that agency waste officials are scrambling to complete a raft of waste-listing rules required under a consent agreement with Environmental Defense (ED), EPA sources say. EPA in 1998 announced that it would revise the...