Inspection and Compliance

The SHWD Inspection and Compliance team is responsible for ensuring that local government, business and industrial entities are in compliance with Wyoming Solid and Hazardous Waste Rules and Regulations.

Our team provides guidance and assistance to help you understand state rules and regulations, including training videos and checklists.

Find out more about what we do below:

Inspections

We perform compliance inspections on the following sites: 

  • Open and closed municipal landfills
  • Industrial landfills
  • Construction and demolition landfills
  • Solid waste transfer
  • Treatment and storage facilities
  • Hazardous waste generators
  • Treatment, storage and disposal facilities
  • Used oil generators
  • Asbestos management facilities
  • Petroleum-contaminated soils facilities 
Enforcement Actions

We issue both formal and informal enforcement actions. Informal actions generally involve a letter of violation and warning. Formal actions include issuance of Notices of Violation (NOV), Cease & Desist Orders, and Referral for Penalty to the Wyoming Attorney General’s Office.

 

Formal enforcement actions are used to deter problem violators and are used only after all efforts have been made through conference and conciliation to return the violations to compliance.

Solid and Hazardous Waste Complaints

Our team responds to solid and hazardous waste complaints and we conduct follow-up inspections as needed to ensure compliance.

Use the above link to submit a request to the WDEQ for an extension to the 90/180/270 day hazardous waste storage time limits. 
Biennial Reporting
Biennial Reporting

BIENNIAL REPORTING

The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) required the EPA to develop a program for hazardous waste generators to report the nature, quantities, and disposition of hazardous waste generated at least once every two years. In addition, RCRA requires treatment, storage, and disposal facilities (TSDFs)  to submit a report on the wastes that they received from off-site. This requirement was implemented in 1985 as the Biennial Hazardous Waste Report, also known as the "Biennial Report” (EPA form 8700-13A/B).

The reports are due by March 1st of every even-numbered year for the activities that occurred in the previous odd-cumbered calendar year (e.g. The 2024 Biennial Report was for activities from calendar year 2023). The next Biennial Report is due March 1, 2026 for  calendar year 2025. Late submissions must be submitted to:  https://bit.ly/WDEQ-SHWD-HW-VRP-upload

WHO MUST FILE

Each of the following activities requires the filing of a Biennial Report. Non-Wyoming based facilities will need to contact their appropriate state agency.

  1. Your facility was a RCRA Large Quantity Generator for any one calendar month of the odd-numbered reporting year.
    • Generated in any single month more than 1000kg/2200 pounds of non-acute hazardous waste.
    • Generated in any single month more than 1kg/ 2.2 pounds of acute hazardous waste.
    • Generate or accumulate in any single month more than 100 kg/220 pounds of residue/contaminated soil/waste or debris from the clean-up of a spill into or on land or water of any RCRA listed acute hazardous waste.
  2. You are a Treatment, Storage, or Disposal Facility that received RCRA hazardous waste from off-site generators or your facility managed RCRA hazardous waste on-site during the reporting year.
  3. Your facility is a Recycler of RCRA hazardous waste who:
    • Does not store recyclable materials before recycling them.
    • Before recycling, stores recyclable materials for up to 72 hours after arrival at the facility.
  4. Your facility met the definition of a Reverse Distributor during the reporting year.

HOW TO FILE A BIENNIAL REPORT

It's recommended that you file electronically using the RCRAInfo software. A hard copy of the Biennial Report may also be uploaded to the WDEQ SHWD I&C Program using the above link.  To register for a RCRAInfo account, please view the following link: https://rcrainfo.epa.gov/rcrainfoprod/action/public/industry-register/new-account

You may also access EPAs LeaningZen through your RCRAInfo account for additional online help videos.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

EPA Biennial Hazardous Waste Report Website  

Ohio EPA Biennial Report Training Video 

California EPA DTSC Biennial Report Training Video 

For questions, please contact Charles Plymale at 307-335-6951 or by email charles.plymale@wyo.gov

Guidance
Guidance

This page provides a variety of guidance procedures pertaining to SHWD Inspection and Compliance. 

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Helpful Links
Helpful Links

RCRAInfo Search (for public) (https://enviro.epa.gov/envirofacts/rcrainfo/search)

RCRAInfo Website (for registered users) (https://rcrainfo.epa.gov/rcrainfoprod/action/secured/login)

EPA ECHO website (https://echo.epa.gov/)

EPA Hazardous Waste Generators Website (link: https://www.epa.gov/hwgenerators)

EPA Hazardous Waste e-Manifest System ( https://www.epa.gov/e-manifest)

EPA RCRA Training Modules (https://www.epa.gov/rcra/resource-conservation-and-recovery-act-rcra-training-modules)

EPA RCRA Tools and Resources (https://www.epa.gov/rcra/resource-conservation-and-recovery-act-rcra-tools-and-resources)

Hazardous Waste Test Methods (https://www.epa.gov/hw-sw846)

Regulatory Assistance
Regulatory Assistance

This page contains a variety of downloadable Regulatory Assistance documents, including FAQs and documents outlining why certain regulatory procedures are required.

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Training Videos
Training Videos

This page contains several useful training videos that help explain the SHWD Rules and Regulations. 

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Contact Map
Map

SOLID & HAZARDOUS WASTE DIVISION - INSPECTION & COMPLIANCE PROGRAM (I&C)