This agreement is for development and implementation of an authorized hazardous waste management program in the state of ohio to control the generation, transportation, treatment, storage, and…

Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 awarded Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (the State of Ohio Office of Budget and Management, Division of Fiscal Administration) $7.176 million on October 1, 2025, under the Hazardous Waste Management State Program Support formula grant (CFDA 66.801) to develop and implement Ohio's authorized hazardous waste management program through September 30, 2026.

The award funds Ohio EPA's hazardous waste regulatory program, which conducts permitting, corrective action assessments, inspections, enforcement actions, computerized tracking, data quality management, and pollution prevention outreach. Ohio EPA regulates 44 permitted treatment, storage, or disposal facilities; manages hazardous waste from approximately 815 large quantity generators, 2,016 small quantity generators, approximately 12,410 very small quantity generators, and 486 used oil handlers. The program assesses and requires cleanup of 261 RCRA-driven sites that managed hazardous waste and inspects RCRA facilities no longer in the operating universe to ensure compliance. Deliverables include achievement of RCRA corrective action goals, completion of hazardous waste facility permitting and closure actions in accordance with GPRA goals and state regulatory and statutory requirements, inspection and enforcement activities, and RCRA information and rule and program development management.

Place of performance is Ohio. No subawards are included in this assistance agreement. The intended beneficiary is the State of Ohio.

This agreement is for development and implementation of an authorized hazardous waste management program in the state of ohio to control the generation, transportation, treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous waste; to minimize hazardous waste production; and to protect health and the environment from inactive hazardous waste facilities. Activities include permitting, corrective action, inspections, enforcement, computerized tracking, ensuring data quality, and pollution prevention outreach. This will help to preserve and restore the land for the people of the state of ohio by reducing waste generation and by managing hazardous wastes properly.activities:the activities required by this grant is accomplished by ohio EPA's hazardous waste program. Ohio EPA's hazardous waste program regulates 44 permitted treatment, storage, or disposal facilities: the management and treatment of hazardous waste from approximately 815 large quantity generators, 2,016 small quantity generators, approximately 12,410 very small quantity generators, and 486 used oil handlers. Additionally, ohio's hazardous waste program assesses and requires cleanup of 261 resource conservation and recovery act (RCRA) driven sites that managed hazardous waste. Ohio's hazardous waste program has responsibility for inspecting RCRA facilities that are no longer in the operating universe to ensure they are meeting compliance requirements.subrecipient:no subawards are included in this assistance agreement.outcomes:anticipated deliverables and expected outcomes are accomplished by ohio EPA's hazardous waste program to: achieve RCRA corrective action goals; complete hazardous waste facility permitting and closure actions in accordance with gpra goals and state regulatory/statutory requirements; conduct inspection; enforcement; manage RCRA info and rule/program development. The intended beneficiaries are the state of ohio.