DOT Hazmat Registration and Fees are due by June 30th:
Anyone who ships, offers or transports certain types of DOT Hazardous Materials (including Hazardous Waste) needs to register with USDOT PSHMA and pay the corresponding fee by June 30 to cover the time period of June 30, 2025 to July 1, 2026. Click here to view to the program/requirements. Registration is available online or via US Mail. Note the following: You must register if you are a person who offers for transportation or transports in commerce a shipment containing any of the following categories of hazardous materials (including hazardous wastes):
- A highway route-controlled quantity of a Class 7 (radioactive) material, as defined in 49 CFR 173.403. A “highway route-controlled quantity” may be shipped by highway, rail, air, or water.
- More than 25 kilograms (55 pounds) of a Division 1.1, 1.2, or 1.3 (explosive) material (49 CFR 173.50) in a motor vehicle, rail car, or freight container.
- More than one liter (1.06 quarts) per package of a material extremely toxic by inhalation (that is, a “material poisonous by inhalation” that meets the criteria for “hazard zone A” as specified in 49 CFR 173.116(a) for gases or 173.133(a) for liquids).
- A hazardous material (including hazardous wastes) in a bulk packaging having a capacity equal to or greater than 13,248 liters (3,500 gallons) for liquids or gases or more than 13.24 cubic meters (468 cubic feet) for solids. Please note that a person who offers or transports a hazardous material in a bulk packaging with a capacity greater than 3,500 gallons or 468 cubic feet must register, even if placards are not required (for example, a Class 9 material).
- A shipment in other than a bulk packaging of 2,268 kilograms (5,000 pounds) gross weight or more of one class of hazardous materials (including hazardous wastes) for which placarding of a vehicle, rail car, or freight container is required for that class.
- A quantity of hazardous material that requires placarding. The placarding requirements are set forth in 49 CFR 172 Subpart F. Note that thetransportation of any quantity of a hazardous material, other than Division 6.2 and Class 9 materials, in a bulk packaging requires placarding and therefore registration. This includes residues that remain in an un-purged tank truck or rail tank car. Persons who return such packagings are required to register as offerors of a placarded shipment of hazardous materials.
Small Quantity Generators of Hazardous Waste Re-Notification is due September 1 2025:
- SQGs are now required to re-notify EPA or their state environmental agency as to their generator status every four years by completing and submitting the Notification of Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Subtitle C Activities (Site Identification Form) in full, also known as EPA Form 8700-12, or state equivalent – and the next deadline is September 1, 2025. Click here to view more.
USEPA e-Manifest:
- The e-Manifest regulations are effective in all states. However, states will need to adopt and become authorized for e-Manifest regulations to enforce specific portions of the regulations, including requiring data corrections for manifests. On May 30, 2025, EPA published a new resource showing the adoption and authorization status by states and territories.
- By now, all LQG and SQG should be successfully registered in the e-Manifest program. All generators should be in the habit of securing their fully executed manifest copies in the e-Manifest portal. The next deadline to keep in mind is December 1, 2025 when all waste handlers (e.g., Hazardous Waste Generators, Transporters, Hazardous Waste Permitted Treatment, and Receiving Facilities) must fully transition to the new 4-copy manifest forms no later than December 1, 2025. After this date, EPA will not accept the 5-copy obsolete forms. Also all export shipments of Hazardous Waste will be subject to the e-Manifest rules on this date and all Exception, Discrepancy and Unmanifested Waste Reports will need to be submitted through e-Manifest.
