Section 722.118  USEPA Identification Numbers and Re-Notification for a Small Quantity Generator or Large Quantity Generator

a)         An SQG or LQG must not treat, store, dispose of, transport, or offer for transportation hazardous waste without having received a USEPA identification number.

b)         An SQG or LQG that has not received a USEPA identification number must obtain one by applying to the Agency using Notification of RCRA Subtitle C Activities (Site Identification Form) (USEPA Form 8700-12).  Upon receiving the request USEPA will assign a USEPA identification number to the generator.

c)         An SQG or LQG must not offer its hazardous waste to a transporter or treatment, storage, or disposal facility that has not received a USEPA identification number.

d)         Re-Notification

1)         An SQG must renotify the Agency starting in 2021 and every four years thereafter using USEPA Form 8700-12.  The SQG must submit this re-notification by September 1^st of each year in which re-notification is required.

2)         An LQG must renotify the Agency by March 1 of each even-numbered year thereafter using USEPA Form 8700-12.  An LQG may submit this renotification as part of its annual report required by Section 722.141.

e)         A recognized trader must not arrange for import or export of hazardous waste without having received a USEPA identification number from USEPA.

BOARD NOTE:  USEPA Form 8700-12 is available from the Agency, Bureau of Land (217-782-6762).  It is also available on-line for download in PDF file format:  www.epa.gov/hwgenerators/instructions-and-form-hazardous-waste-generators-transporters-and-treatment-storage-and.

(Source:  Amended at 43 Ill. Reg. 5955, effective May 2, 2019)