Hazardous Waste

Land Disposal Restrictions for Hazardous Waste: A Snapshot of the Program

This document provides a summary of the hazardous waste program's land disposal restrictions (LDR) requirements and answers the questions:

  • What is land disposal?
  • What is the LDR program
  • What the program's major components?
  • When do restrictions apply?
  • Who is impacted by the LDR program? and
  • What is hazardous waste?
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Hazardous Waste