Hazardous Waste Management System; Identification and Listing of Hazardous Waste; Recycled Used Oil Management Standards

On January 19, 1996, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit vacated the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) October 30, 1995, administrative stay of part of the regulatory provision, known as the ``used oil mixture rule', set forth in 40 CFR 279.10(b)(2). The provisions of the used oil mixture rule at issue relate to mixtures of used oil destined for recycling and characteristic hazardous waste (including waste listed as hazardous because it exhibits a hazardous waste characteristic). This action clarifies the regulatory status of mixtures of used oil and the hazardous wastes destined for recycling described above in light of the Court's vacatur of the administrative stay and eliminates the explanatory note to 40 CFR 279.10(b)(2) that was included in the notice of the administrative stay. In addition it notifies the public as to the provisions of a recent EPA proposal that may affect such mixtures.