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Committee approves DEQ hazardous‑waste rule docket adopting federal updates
Summary
DEQ Waste Management Division Administrator Michael McCurdy presented incorporation by reference of federal hazardous‑waste regulations through July 1, 2024; the committee approved docket 58‑01052401 on a voice vote.
Michael McCurdy, Waste Management and Remediation Division Administrator at the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality, presented docket 58‑01052401, seeking adoption by reference of federal hazardous‑waste regulations through July 1, 2024. McCurdy said the rule regulates hazardous‑waste generation, transportation, treatment, storage and disposal and that adoption maintains program primacy allowing DEQ to implement the federal program rather than EPA.
McCurdy identified key incorporations including updates to EPA Method 23 (an analytical method for emissions from stationary sources), technical corrections to the hazardous waste generator improvement rule, the hazardous waste pharmaceutical rule, and a definition refinement for solid waste. He noted the rulemaking notice appeared in the Administrative Bulletin and no written comments were received; the Board of Environmental Quality adopted the rule on Nov. 14, 2024. After McCurdy’s presentation the committee approved the docket by voice vote.
McCurdy said compliance with federal hazardous‑waste regulations exists regardless of state incorporation but that incorporation creates a single set of rules for regulated facilities in Idaho. No fiscal impacts were presented during the committee summary.
