Comunicado sobre movimientos transfronterizos de Residuos Peligrosos

Información relevante para las Autorizaciones para el Movimiento Transfronterizo de Residuos Peligrosos y Otros Residuos Previstos en Tratados Internacionales (Trámite SEMARNAT-07-029).

Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales | 13 de enero de 2017

Se informa a  todos los interesados en tramitar Autorizaciones para el Movimiento Transfronterizo de Residuos Peligrosos y Otros Residuos Previstos en Tratados Internacionales (Trámite SEMARNAT-07-029), que debido a la implementación de un sistema electrónico de intercambio de información sobre notificaciones por la U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA), el proceso de entrega-recepción de Notificaciones de Exportación y la emisión de respuestas a notificaciones podrá retrasarse. Por lo anterior se exhorta a los interesados a prever posibles demoras en la respuesta a sus trámites.

Adicionalmente la US EPA ha comunicado la implementación de nuevas reglas para los movimientos transfronterizos de residuos peligrosos en los Estados Unidos de América, por lo que a partir del 01 de enero de 2017, tanto los importadores como exportadores tendrán que cumplir con las Enmiendas del 2001 de la Decisión del Consejo de la OCDE. https://www.epa.gov/hwgenerators/final-rule-hazardous-waste-export-import-revisions.

Para más información sobre el comunicado de la USEPA:

News Releases from Headquarters ›Land and Emergency Management (OLEM)

EPA Issues Rule Finalizing Changes to Existing Hazardous Waste Export and Import Regulations

WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a rule to improve the nation’s hazardous waste regulations to protect public health and the environment. The updated Hazardous Waste Import and Export Regulations streamline the hazardous waste export and import process, implement mandatory electronic reporting for international shipments and electronically linking export information.

“EPA is dedicated to continuing to improve the tracking of hazardous waste exports and imports to provide a safe and healthy environment for all. This new rule will provide greater protection to communities from mismanagement of hazardous waste when it is shipped across multiple countries to be disposed or recycled,” said Mathy Stanislaus, Assistant Administrator of EPA’s Office of Land and Emergency Management. “The rule provides for improved transparency, data sharing and tracking for international shipments.”

The final rule improves and consolidates previous regulations so that one set of requirements – the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD’s) more stringent controlling transboundary movements of hazardous waste requirements – applies to all U.S. hazardous waste exports and imports. 

More efficient compliance monitoring will be provided by the rule’s requirement to link the consent to export with the electronic export information submitted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). These regulations support a broader U.S. government effort led by CBP to convert from a paper-based border-crossing approval process for a wide range of exports and imports, to an electronic border-crossing approval process. This rule covers the hazardous waste export component of this larger International Trade Data System initiative.

Additionally, the new rule requires mandatory electronic reporting to EPA, which will enable increased sharing of hazardous waste export and import data with state programs, the general public and individual hazardous waste exporters and importers. While some electronic reporting will be required when the rule becomes effective, the full range of electronic reporting will not be mandatory until the respective electronic reporting functions are built and beta tested, at which point a compliance date will be announced in a separate Federal Register announcement.  

Read Assistant Administrator Stanislaus’ blog on today’s actions: https://blog.epa.gov/blog/2016/10/keeping-international-communities-safe

For more information about the final Hazardous Waste Export and Import Regulations, visit: https://www.epa.gov/hwgenerators/proposed-rule-hazardous-waste-export-import-revisions

For more information about the Proposed Rule: Internet Posting for Hazardous Waste Exports and Imports Proposed Rule and Confidentiality Determination to Exclude Confidential Business Information (CBI) Claims for Hazardous Waste Export and Import Documents, visit: https://www.epa.gov/hwgenerators/proposed-rule-internet-posting-and-confidentiality-determinations-hazardous-waste

For more on OECD’s rules, visit: http://www.oecd.org/env/waste/theoecdcontrolsystemforwasterecovery.htm

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