Wisconsin Administrative Code
Department of Natural Resources
NR 600-699 - Environmental Protection - Hazardous Waste Management
Chapter NR 662 - Hazardous Waste Generator Standards
Subchapter B - Manifest Requirements Applicable to Small and Large Quantity Generators
Section NR 662.024 - Use of the electronic manifest

Universal Citation: WI Admin Code § NR 662.024

Current through August 26, 2024

(1) LEGAL EQUIVALENCE TO PAPER MANIFESTS. Electronic manifests that are obtained, completed, and transmitted in accordance with s. NR 662.020(1) (c), and used in accordance with this section in lieu of EPA Forms 8700-22 and 8700-22A are the legal equivalent of paper manifest forms bearing handwritten signatures, and satisfy for all purposes any requirement in these regulations to obtain, complete, sign, provide, use, or retain a manifest.

(a) Any requirement in these regulations to sign a manifest or manifest certification by hand, or to obtain a handwritten signature, is satisfied by signing with or obtaining a valid and enforceable electronic signature within the meaning specified in 40 CFR 262.25 and s. NR 662.025.

(b) Any requirement in these regulations to give, provide, send, forward, or return to another person a copy of the manifest is satisfied when an electronic manifest is transmitted to the other person by submission to the system.

(c) Any requirement in these regulations for a generator to keep or retain a copy of each manifest is satisfied by retention of a signed electronic manifest in the generator's account on the national e-manifest system, provided that the copies are readily available for viewing and production if requested by the department.

(d) A generator is not in violation of s. NR 662.040(1) for the inability to produce an electronic manifest for inspection under this section if the generator can demonstrate that the inability to produce the electronic manifest is due exclusively to a technical difficulty with the electronic manifest system for which the generator bears no responsibility.

(2) PARTICIPATION IN THE ELECTRONIC MANIFEST SYSTEM. A generator may participate in the electronic manifest system either by accessing the electronic manifest system from its own electronic equipment, or by accessing the electronic manifest system from portable equipment brought to the generator's site by the transporter who accepts the hazardous waste shipment from the generator for off-site transportation.

(3) RESTRICTION ON USE OF ELECTRONIC MANIFESTS. A generator may use an electronic manifest for the tracking of waste shipments involving any RCRA hazardous waste only if it is known at the time the manifest is originated that all waste handlers named on the manifest participate in the use of the electronic manifest, except that:

(a) A generator may sign by hand and retain a paper copy of the manifest signed by hand by the initial transporter, in lieu of executing the generator copy electronically, thereby enabling the transporter and subsequent waste handlers to execute the remainder of the manifest copies electronically.

(4) REQUIREMENT FOR ONE PRINTED COPY. To the extent the hazardous materials regulation on shipping papers for carriage by public highway requires shippers of hazardous materials to supply a paper document for compliance with 49 CFR 177.817, a generator originating an electronic manifest shall also provide the initial transporter with one printed copy of the electronic manifest.

(5) Special procedures when electronic manifest is unavailable. If a generator has prepared an electronic manifest for a hazardous waste shipment, but the electronic manifest system becomes unavailable for any reason prior to the time that the initial transporter has signed electronically to acknowledge the receipt of the hazardous waste from the generator, then the generator must obtain and complete a paper manifest and if necessary, a continuation sheet, EPA Forms 8700-22 and 8700-22A, in accordance with the manifest instructions, and use these paper forms from this point forward in accordance with the requirements specified in s. NR 662.023.

(6) SPECIAL PROCEDURES FOR ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE METHODS UNDERGOING TESTS . If a generator has prepared an electronic manifest for a hazardous waste shipment, and signs this manifest electronically using an electronic signature method that is undergoing pilot or demonstration tests aimed at demonstrating the practicality or legal dependability of the signature method, then the generator shall also sign with an ink signature the generator/offeror certification on the printed copy of the manifest provided under sub. (4).

(8) POST-RECEIPT MANIFEST DATA CORRECTIONS. After a facility has certified to the receipt of hazardous wastes by signing Item 20 of the manifest, any post-receipt data corrections may be submitted at any time by any interested person named on the manifest. A generator may participate electronically in the post-receipt data corrections process by following the process described in s. NR 664.0071(9), which applies to corrections made to either paper or electronic manifest records.

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