New Mexico
Hazardous waste generators and EPA identification numbers
The Hazardous Waste Bureau of the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) gives guidance to the state's hazardous waste generators, carries out the inspections the New Mexico Hazardous Waste Act requires, and its generator page tells generators how to report and pay the annual fees they owe the state. Its page sends a generator to EPA's own system for an EPA identification number.
In a Phase I ESA
ASTM E1527-21 lists state hazardous waste facility records among its standard sources, and the federal generator records are described on the RCRA Generators page. This handbook pairs the Bureau's list of permitted facilities with the state type; see Permitted hazardous waste facilities.
Four New Mexico details shape the search.
- The number comes from EPA's system. The Bureau's generator page sends applicants to EPA's myRCRAid to get an EPA identification number, and accepts the paper 8700-12 form, mailed to the Bureau, instead. NMED describes RCRAInfo, the EPA system behind it, as tracking hazardous waste handlers from generation to disposal, with each facility's status, regulated activities and compliance history.
- Large generators report every two years. Large quantity generators and permitted facilities must file a Biennial Report by March 1 of each even-numbered year.
- Generators pay a yearly fee. Generators pay the state an annual fee, payable from July 1 and due August 1, based on the hazardous waste they generated in the calendar year before, under 20.4.3 NMAC. The Bureau now takes these through an online form that reports the fee and produces an invoice. Other business fees, such as for an episodic event, a change to a hazardous secondary material recycling registration or a salvage yard audit, are due by the end of the calendar year in which they arise.
- Shipments travel on a manifest. The page points to EPA's e-Manifest system for sending the uniform hazardous waste manifest electronically.
Because the annual fee rests on each year's generation and is reported to NMED, ask whether the Bureau's file holds a facility's fee reports as well as its federal notification. A release of hazardous waste is on the Spills and unauthorized discharges page.
Where to look a site up
- The pages read link no NMED list of generators. The Bureau's For Hazardous Waste Generators and Handlers page links EPA's myRCRAid sign-in page; the federal generator record is read as the RCRA Generators page describes.
- For fee questions the page gives (505) 690-5211 and env-oit-asu@state.nm.us. The Bureau's main line is 505-476-6000.
Getting the file
NMED takes records requests under the Inspection of Public Records Act through its Public Records Requests page: by its online portal, which needs no account, by mail to P.O. Box 5469, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87502, or by telephone at (505) 827-2855. The Public records requests page here gives what a request must hold and the fees.
Sources
New Mexico Environment Department pages, read October 13, 2026, no modified date shown: