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Hazardous Waste Management Branch

2 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive SE, Suite 1154 East Tower
Atlanta, GA 30334
Phone: 404.656.7802  Fax: 404.651.9425
Mark Smith, Branch Chief

 

CORRECTIVE ACTION PROGRAM
Phone: 404.656.7802  Fax: 404.651.9425
Jim Brown, Program Manager
  • Brownfields Development Unit
    Madeleine Kellam, Unit Manager
  • Hazardous Waste Support Unit
    Verona Barnes, Unit Manager
  • Land Disposal Unit
    Jim McNamara, Unit Manager
  • Remedial Sites Unit
    John Fonk, Unit Manager
  • Risk Assessment Unit
    Shannon Lund, Unit Manager

Post-closure permitting, compliance monitoring, and enforcement at closed hazardous waste land disposal facilities.

Review cleanups for privately-owned/operated federal National Priorities List sites.

Perform risk assessments for both human health and ecological impacts for the Hazardous Waste Management Branch.

Review delisting petitions.

Handle all hazardous waste freedom of information requests.

Conduct rulemaking for the Hazardous Waste Management Branch.

Assign EPA identification numbers for hazardous waste facilities.

HAZARDOUS SITES RESPONSE PROGRAM
Phone: 404.657.8600  Fax: 404.657.0807
Alexandra Cleary, Program Manager
  • Response Administration Unit
    Donney Hannah, Unit Manager
  • Response Development Unit
    Regina Campbell, Unit Manager
  • Response Management Unit
    Bo Valli, Unit Manager
  • Superfund Management Unit
    David Reuland, Unit Manager
  • Response Notification Unit
    David Brownlee, Unit Manager

 

Administer state Superfund program.

Publish Hazardous Sites Inventory (HSI) each year.

Collect hazardous and solid waste management fees.

Oversee HSI sites being investigated and cleaned up by private parties.

Take enforcement actions requiring private parties to do site investigations and cleanups.

Require notification for releases of hazardous substances.

Clean up HSI sites using Hazardous Waste Trust Fund when responsible parties are unwilling or unable.

Pursue cost recovery against responsible parties when Hazardous Waste Trust Fund has been used.

Fund state and local government costs associated with investigating and cleaning up solid waste handling facilities.

GENERATOR COMPLIANCE PROGRAM
Phone: 404.657.8831  Fax: 404.463.6676
Renee Hudson Goodley, Program Manager
  • Generator Compliance Unit
    Jack Dempsey, Unit Manager
  • Hazardous Waste Compliance Unit
    Freddie Dunn, Jr., Unit Manager
  • Government Facilities Unit
    Bruce Khaleghi, Unit Manager

Compliance monitoring and enforcement for hazardous waste handlers in the state that are not required to have a permit to treat or store hazardous waste at their facilities, excluding hazardous waste handlers owned or operated by a federal, state, or local government.

Jurisdiction includes large and small quantity hazardous waste generators, conditionally exempt small quantity generators, hazardous waste transporters, universal waste facilities, marketers of hazardous waste fuel, and used oil facilities.   This includes facilities that are privately owned/operated and those owned/operated by federal, state or local governments.

Conduct compliance monitoring and enforcement activities of hazardous waste generators and transporters, used oil transporters, marketers, and processors.

Provide technical assistance for the commercial reclamation of batteries, antifreeze, used oil and fluorescent light bulbs.

FACILITIES COMPLIANCE PROGRAM
Phone: 404.656.2833  Fax: 404.651.9425

Jan Simmons, Program Manager

  • Combustion & Treatment Unit
    David Yardumian, Unit Manager
  • Commercial Facilities Unit
    Jim Sliwinski, Unit Manager
  • Department of Defense Facilities Unit
    Amy Potter, Unit Manager

Permitting, compliance monitoring, and enforcement of hazardous waste facilities which treat or store hazardous wastes.

Jurisdiction includes all commercial hazardous waste facilities which treat, store or dispose hazardous waste, all hazardous waste burners (incinerators and industrial furnaces), and all facilities owned/operated by the Department of Defense.

Ground water and soil investigation and remediation for hazardous substance releases regulated under the Georgia Hazardous Waste Management Act.

Review cleanups for Federal National Priorities List sites.

Conduct preliminary assessment and site evaluation for the Federal Superfund program.

 

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Georgia Environmental Protection Division
Georgia Department of Natural Resources
2 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Suite 1152 East Tower
Atlanta, GA 30334
Telephone: 404.657.5947 or 888.373.5947 (toll-free throughout Georgia)
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