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Arkansas

Hazardous Waste Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facilities

Agency Arkansas Division of Environmental Quality

The Division of Environmental Quality (DEQ) publishes a page on Hazardous Waste Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facilities that sorts Arkansas's treatment, storage and disposal facilities by the kind of waste management activity they carry out. DEQ says a permit is needed by anyone who treats or disposes of hazardous waste, or stores it for more than 90 days. Regulation 23 of the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission, the Arkansas Hazardous Waste Management Code, sets the operating standards for these permits and the steps to obtain one. DEQ says its hazardous waste Technical Branch typically works on permits, on corrective action where facilities are still operating and remedial action where they have closed or been abandoned, and on risk assessment.

In a Phase I ESA

ASTM E1527-21 lists state hazardous waste facility records among its standard sources. This handbook does not pair a single Arkansas list with that type; this is one of the Arkansas records that bear on it. The federal counterparts are described on the RCRA TSD page and, for corrective action, the RCRA CORRACTS page.

Three Arkansas details bear on a permitted facility.

  • One facility can appear in several rows. The TSDF page counts facilities under each activity: container storage, tank storage and treatment, tank storage only, incinerators, boilers and industrial furnaces, a cement kiln, open burning and open detonation, Subpart X miscellaneous treatment, landfills, other treatment, post-closure care, and surface impoundment disposal. Several rows count commercial and non-commercial facilities apart. On October 13, 2026 the post-closure care row named eight facilities. The page does not explain its categories.
  • Draft permits are made public. DEQ gives a draft permit a public notice period of at least 45 days, announces it in print and broadcast media, and places copies in state repositories. For a commercial facility it holds a public hearing in the community within 30 to 40 days of the notice; for a non-commercial one it decides case by case whether to hold one.
  • A permit runs ten years. DEQ says a final permit takes effect when it is served and lasts 10 years. A permit decision may be appealed to the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission within 30 days of service.

Where to look a site up

  • DEQ's Hazardous Waste Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facilities page, which also links a PDF it labels TSD Facilities in Arkansas with Map.
  • The Hazardous Waste Generators Facility Summary page links two PDFs it labels Commercial Treatment/ Storage/ Disposal Facilities in Arkansas, which it describes as taking waste from off-site facilities, and Treatment/ Storage/ Disposal Facilities in Arkansas. This handbook opened none of the PDFs.
  • DEQ's Hazardous Waste page links a page it labels View permits, which this handbook did not open.
  • The DEQ Facility and Permit Summary (PDS), which DEQ's Databases page offers for finding a specific facility or permit.
  • DEQ's permitting page gives the Hazardous Waste Division at 501-682-0833. Its technical page lists a Corrective Action Remediation line, 501-682-0972.

Getting the file

DEQ takes Freedom of Information Act requests by email at EE.FOIA@arkansas.gov, and its Records Management Section arranges visits to review files. See Records Management and FOIA requests.

Sources

Arkansas Division of Environmental Quality pages, read October 13, 2026:

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