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Assistance, Compliance, and Enforcement Section
Jim Rudeen, Env Scientist/PSE, Section Chief
Compliance & Enforcement Unit
Special Wastes
Illegal Dumps
Household Hazardous Waste
Data Management Unit
The Compliance, Assistance & Enforcement Section administers grant programs related to solid waste planning, solid waste plan implementation, household hazardous waste collection and disposal, agricultural pesticide collection and disposal, and small business waste collection and disposal. This section is also implements the Illegal Dump Program as directed by House Bill 2860 which went into effect July 1, 2000. This bill allowed the Kansas Department of Health & Environment to work with city and county governments to clean up illegal dumps through Kansas.
This section administers the hazardous waste management program. The first effort to regulate hazardous waste on a national level occurred in 1976 with the passage of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) by Congress. The primary goal of RCRA was to encourage the conservation of natural resources through resource recovery. RCRA also provided the statutory basis for the federal hazardous waste regulations. A key section of RCRA provided for states to operate the hazardous waste management program in lieu of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The regulations which have evolved into the current Kansas regulatory program were first issued in May of 1980. |