Land Protection & Revitalization guidance
All guidance documents are required to be placed on Virginia's townhall website. Waste guidance documents can be found at the following link :
Guidance Documents - as available through the Town Hall web site
Guidance documents specific to each regulation can also be found under the links to the regulation on the townhall website. All waste regulations can be found at the following link :
Waste Regulation - as available through the Town Hall web site
Solid Waste
Final Guidance
The following items are the most commonly requested guidance documents. For a complete list, see the link above to the Town Hall web site.
Amendment 7 and Phase I Monitoring
Submission Instruction 1
Draft Guidance for Review
The following items are under development and subject to change.
Hazardous Waste
Final Guidance - Closure - Wood Treatment Facilities
The following items are the most commonly requested guidance documents. For a complete list, see the link above to the Town Hall web site.
Draft Closure & PCC Guidance for Review
The following items are under development and subject to change.
1. Closure & PCC Plans
Emergency Permits Guidance
Waste Procedure No. 5, Hazardous Waste Emergency Permits, dated April 14, 2011 – This guidance updates the procedures for issuing Hazardous Waste Emergency Permits and updates the personnel currently authorized to issue emergency permits. (Information requirements associated with issuance of an Emergency Permit are included as attachments.)
Emergency Permits – Virginia Hazardous Waste Management Regulations and the RCRA Regulations – Guidance Summary, dated May 13, 2010 – The purpose of this guidance is to provide a general summary guidance document regarding the regulatory requirements associated with Emergency Permits under the VHWMR under 9 VAC-20-60. This guidance, in particular, addresses the above regulations or “exclusions” regarding the immediate response to suspected presence of military munitions, other explosive material, or an explosive device, which pose an immediate threat to human health, public safety, property, or the environment.
DEQ Correspondence regarding EOD Emergency Response Operations and Emergency Permits, dated March 4, 2011 - This correspondence provides regulatory guidance and clarification of emergency response operations associated with Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) emergency actions or any emergency operations conducted in the Commonwealth of Virginia by the military’s EOD specialists, etc. (Similar letters have been sent to other Military bases with EOD staff.)
Emergency Permit Application – Boilerplate Document, dated February 13, 2010 – This Permit Application Boilerplate Document is to be completed and submitted by the facility to enable the DEQ to issue the written Emergency Permit. (Note that the 17 items in the Attachment of Waste Procedure No. 5, Hazardous Waste Emergency Permits, dated April 14, 2011, should be provided within the Permit Application Boilerplate Document format. Use the list of 17 items in the above Attachment to cross check the permit application for completeness before submittal to the DEQ.
Draft Permit Efficiency Guidance
Tax Waste
Final Guidance
The following items are the most commonly requested guidance documents. For a complete list, see the link above to the Town Hall web site.
Voluntary Remediation
Final Guidance
Voluntary Remediation Program Guidance for determining Eligibility of Sites for the Voluntary Remediation Program
Risk Assessment Guidance for the Voluntary Remediation Program. To obtain Risk Assessment Guidance for other waste programs, please contact Waste Division staff.
Petroleum Program
Final Guidance
Guidelines for Underground Storage Tank Delivery Prohibition and the Compliance Process in the UST Program.