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Department of <br />Toxic Substances <br />Control <br />Preventing <br />environmental <br />damage from <br />Hazardous waste, <br />and restoring <br />contaminated <br />sites for all <br />Californians. <br />J <br />State of Californi' <br />California <br />Environmental <br />Protection Agency <br />Fact Sheet, November 2007 <br />EPA Identification Numbers for <br />Generators <br />Regulatory Assistance Officer's Notes: <br />The Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) Regulatory Assistance Office <br />prepared this fact sheet to provide general information about EPA Identification <br />Numbers. Throughout the online version of this fact sheet, numbers in blue <br />662( 62.12) represent citations from the California Code of Regulations or the Cali- <br />fornia Health and Safety Code. Clicking on the blue numbers will take you to sites <br />containing the regulations. If you generate hazardous waste, you should consult <br />with your Certified Unified Program Agency (CUPA). Finally, DTSC strongly en- <br />courages all businesses that generate hazardous waste to consider waste minimiza- <br />tion, source reduction, and pollution prevention. <br />What is an EPA ID Number? <br />This number, issued either by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA <br />ID Number), or by DTSC (California ID Number), identifies each handler of ha- <br />zardous waste on hazardous waste manifests and other paperwork. The ID Number <br />enables regulators to track the waste from its origin to final disposal ("cradle to <br />grave.") With the exceptions discussed later in this guidance, most hazardous waste <br />generators must have an ID Number before a registered hazardous waste transporter <br />will accept the waste for shipment. All hazardous waste transporters and permitted <br />treatment, storage and disposal facilities must have ID numbers. <br />Are State and Federal laws the same? <br />The federal hazardous waste law (the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, or <br />"RCRA") allows states to enact their own hazardous waste laws, which must be at <br />least as stringent as the federal laws. The requirements under California law are <br />more stringent than the federal criteria. Wastes that pass the federal hazardous waste <br />criteria but fail the California criteria are called "non-RCRA" or "California -only" <br />hazardous wastes. Wastes containing corrosive solids, asbestos, nickel or zinc are <br />examples of common California -only hazardous wastes. Other states may not con- <br />sider California -only wastes hazardous. Federal law also exempts generators of <br />small quantities of waste from many federal waste manageme e <br />ENViRONMENTAI <br />i,�C�,tTtJ nom•...._..._.._ <br />