Purpose, Scope, and Applicability

(1) 310 CMR 30.301 through 30.399, cited collectively as 310 CMR 30.300, prescr standards for generators of hazardous waste. ibe (2) Anyperson who imports hazardous waste into Massachusetts from outside the United States shall comply with the standards applicable to generators prescribed in 310 CMR 30.300. (3) A person who generates a hazardous waste, as identified or otherwise described in 310 CMR 30.100, is subject to the compliance requirements and penalties prescribed in M.G.L. c. 21C, § 10 if that person does not comply with 310 CMR 30.000. Such noncompliance may also subject a person who generates a hazardous waste to the federal penalties prescribed in § 3008 of RCRA. (4) An owner or operator of a facility who initiates a shipment of hazardous waste from a facility shall comply with the generator requirements prescribed in 310 CMR 30.300. (5) Any laboratory, as defined in 310 CMR 30.010, that generates unwanted material (as defined in 310 CMR 30.010), some of which will be hazardous wastes, and that complies with all of the requirements of 310 CMR 30.354, is not subject to the following generator provisions with respect to unwanted material: (a) 310 CMR 30.302 - Hazardous Waste Determination; and (b) 310 CMR 30.340(6) or 310 CMR 30.351(4), or 310 CMR 30.353(6)(i), as applicable - Satellite Accumulation for Large Quantity Generators, Small Quantity Generators or Very Small Quantity Generators.