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Annual and Biennial Hazardous Waste Reporting

Overview

Indiana’s regulations for hazardous waste reporting are more stringent than U.S. EPA’s requirements. See below for more information about your specific situation.

Type of Report Who must Report? When it is Due? Who uses the data?
Annual Report
  • All TSDFs
  • All Generators that reach either Small Quantity or Large Quantity Generator status in any calendar month (even for only one month) during a calendar year that ends in an EVEN number.
 On or before March 1 of the FOLLOWING YEAR to allow generators to collect and review data for the entire even-numbered year*. Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM).
Biennial Report
  • All TSDFs
  • All Generators that reach either Small Quantity Generator or Large Quantity Generator status in any calendar month (even for only one month) during a calendar year that ends in an ODD number.
 On or before March 1 of the FOLLOWING YEAR to allow generators to collect and review data for the entire odd-numbered year*. U.S. EPA and the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM).

* Extensions until March 30 may be granted. Send your request, via email, to IDEM at this email address: myRCRAid@idem.IN.gov and specify the reason for the request. Extension requests on or after March 1 will not be considered.

  • Large Quantity Generators that are undergoing closure but have not yet received final approval from IDEM must continue to report.
  • Small Quantity Generators that are being closed must also continue to report until all hazardous waste is removed from the site. No approval from IDEM is necessary.
  • Even if the business is no longer active at the time that the report is due, the entire report is still required if the facility acted as an SQG or LQG in any one month during the report year.
  • If you received a reporting reminder, our records indicate that you are a Small or Large Quantity generator. In this case, you MUST complete a notification in myRCRAid to update your generator status appropriately to document that you were not an LQG or SQG during the report year and do not owe a report. Instructions on how to do this can be found here: Submitting a New Notification (PDF)
  • If your facility was not an LQG, SQG, or TSDF in any calendar month of the year no report is required.

How Do I Complete the Report?

The Indiana Department of Environmental Management only accepts electronic (online) submissions.

IDEM no longer uses the Hazardous Waste Handler Identification Form (State Form 55770). Indiana does not accept paper notifications or reports. All site information updates must be made via RCRAInfo.

If you do not have an account with RCRAInfo, instructions on how to create an account can be found in this guidance document: Register as an Industry User. The documents linked below will guide you through the process. Once your report is complete, you may be faced with “validation errors”. These are not ‘fatal’ errors, and the report can be submitted if you provide an explanation about why the error is popping up. If you do not understand the error, type “IDK” (I don’t know) and when we process the report we will contact you.

Online Training Resources

Check out the “Industry Biennial Report” module in Learning Zen or use printed directions

Detailed instructions regarding regulated waste notifications can be found online. While images and PDF versions of the forms are included in these instructions, Indiana only accepts electronic submissions via RCRAInfo.

Regulatory Citations

Contacts

Still need help?

Miranda Johnson-Phillips, Regulatory Reporting, mphillip@idem.in.gov

Dorothy Peterschmidt, Regulatory Reporting, dpetersc@idem.in.gov

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