EPA e-Manifest System

EPA has established a national system for tracking hazardous waste shipments electronically. This system, known as "e-Manifest", will modernize the nation's cradle-to-grave hazardous waste tracking process while saving valuable time, resources, and dollars for industry and states.

Benefits of the e-Manifest system include:
  • Creation of a single hub for one-stop reporting of manifest data for use by EPA and states;
  • Transition from paper-intensive process to electronic system is expected to save state and industry users $75-90 million annually;
  • Accurate and more timely information on waste shipments;
  • Rapid notification of discrepancies or other problems related to a particular shipment;
  • Increased effectiveness of compliance monitoring of waste shipments by regulators; and
  • The potential for integrating manifest reporting with Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) biennial reporting process and other federal and state information systems.
EPA UPDATE July 23, 2019

The USEPA is legally required to recalculate e-Manifest fees every two fiscal years, as required by the regulations in 40 CFR §264.1313 and §265.1313. The e-Manifest service fees are used to pay the costs incurred in developing, operating, maintaining and upgrading the e-manifest system, including costs incurred in the processing of paper manifest submissions.  On July 23, 2019, EPA publicly released new e-Manifest user fees, which will be effective from October 1, 2019 to September 30, 2021.  As a result, Waste Management will also increase our manifest surcharge that will cover this regulatory fee along with expenses incurred by WM to comply with this requirement and to achieve an acceptable operating margin.

For more information, please review the FAQ's below.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) - Updated August 28, 2019

The USEPA is legally required to recalculate e-Manifest fees every two fiscal years, as required by the regulations in 40 CFR §264.1313 and §265.1313. The e-Manifest service fees are used to pay the costs incurred in developing, operating, maintaining and upgrading the e-manifest system, including costs incurred in the processing of paper manifest submissions.  On July 23, 2019, EPA publicly released new e-Manifest user fees, which will be effective from October 1, 2019 to September 30, 2021.  As a result, Waste Management will also increase our manifest surcharge that will cover this regulatory fee along with expenses incurred by WM to comply with this requirement and to achieve an acceptable operating margin.

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