86    DEVELOPMENT AND PILOT DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM
OF A WASTE MINIMIZATION PLAN AT ARGONNE
NATIONAL LABORATORY
Robert W. Peters, Environmental Systems Engineer
Charles A. Wentz, Environmental Systems Engineer
Energy Systems Division
James R. Thuot, Manager
Waste Management Technical Support
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 South Cass Avenue
Argonne, Illinois 60439
INTRODUCTION
In response to both U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Illinois EPA regulations, as
well as Department of Energy (DOE) directives, Argonne National Laboratory was charged with the
task of developing a site-wide waste minimization plan and a pollution prevention awareness program. In response to these regulations and a DOE "Tiger Team" assessment of Argonne National
Laboratory's activities, ANL has drafted its own Waste Minimization Plan aimed at reducing the
quantity and toxicity of the wastes generated by the Laboratory.
In drafting the Plan, ANL was responding to the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 that declared it
to be the, "national policy of the United States that pollution should be prevented whenever feasible;
pollution that cannot be prevented should be recycled in an environmentally safe manner, whenever
feasible; pollution that cannot be prevented or recycled should be treated in an environmentally safe
manner whenever feasible; and disposal or other release should be employed as a last resort and
should be conducted in an environmentally safe manner." This Act defined source reduction to mean
any practice that (1) reduces the amount of any hazardous substances, pollutant, or contaminant
entering any waste stream or otherwise released into the environment (including fugitive emissions)
prior to recycling, treatment, or disposal, and (2) reduces the hazards to public health and the
environment associated with the release of such substances, pollutants, and contaminants. The term
includes equipment or technology modifications; process or procedure modifications, reformulation,
Table I.    Federal and State Requirements Applicable Related to Waste Minimization at ANL*
U.S. EPA:
— Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments (HSWA), Sections 3002 and 3005, codified in
40 CFR 262, 264, and 265
— Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
— Toxic Release Inventory, Section 313 under the Super-fund Amendments and
Reauthorization Act (SARA)
— Pollution Prevention Act of 1990
— Process waste assessments
Illinois EPA:
— Illinois Solid Waste Management Act (SWMA)
— Illinois Toxic Pollution Prevention Act (TPPA)
DOE Orders:
— 5400.1    "General Environmental Protection Program"
— 5820.2A "Radioactive Waste Management"
— 5400.3    "Hazardous and Radioactive Mixed Waste Program"
a Adapted from Reference 1.
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