New Mexico
Permitted hazardous waste facilities
The Hazardous Waste Bureau of the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) manages the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) permits of facilities that treat, store or dispose of hazardous waste, and the corrective action at them. Its permits and corrective action reach facilities across the state except on Indian lands. The Bureau also inspects under the New Mexico Hazardous Waste Act, advises generators and permitted facilities, and responds to hazardous waste spills and releases and to abandoned hazardous substances.
In a Phase I ESA
These are the New Mexico records of the facilities that hold a hazardous waste permit and of the cleanups at them. They sit beside the federal records described on the RCRA TSD page and the RCRA CORRACTS page. ASTM E1527-21 lists state hazardous waste facility records among its standard sources. This handbook pairs the Bureau's list of permitted facilities, under its heading Permitted Hazardous Waste Facilities in New Mexico, with that type. Generators are on a separate page, Hazardous waste generators and EPA identification numbers.
Three New Mexico details shape the search.
- Each permitted facility has its own page. The Bureau's Permitted Facilities page sorts the state's permitted hazardous waste facilities into federal facilities (eleven) and commercial or private facilities (twelve), and links a page for each.
- Corrective action is reviewed and sampled. The Bureau's staff review applications for permits, modifications, closure plans and post-closure care, and review the work plans and reports of corrective action, among them interim measures, RCRA facility investigations, corrective measure studies and accelerated corrective actions. The staff also sample soil, groundwater and surface water at these facilities. For a property next to one, those investigation reports are worth reading.
- Authorization. NMED's regulation page says that after a review, EPA renews the authorization of a state that meets federal standards to run the program in place of EPA, and that NMED and EPA found provisions needing correction while NMED prepared to ask for reauthorization. The regulation page says New Mexico was authorized to run its base hazardous waste program on January 25, 1985, received authorization for HSWA corrective action on January 2, 1996, and received its most current authorization on October 16, 2007. NMED's Laws and Regulations page also lists a 1994 approval of the Bureau's authority among its federal delegation agreements.
The same regulation page says the 2025 legislature's House Bill 140 amended the Hazardous Waste Act so that hazardous waste includes aqueous film-forming foam with intentionally added PFAS, and that the Bureau was drafting a rule, to be petitioned before the Environmental Improvement Board, setting new waste codes and standards; it links notices of an Environmental Improvement Board hearing on April 13, 2026. The Bureau's current rules are 20.4.1 NMAC (management), 20.4.2 NMAC (permit and corrective action fees) and 20.4.3 NMAC (annual fees).
Where to look a site up
- The Bureau's Permitted Facilities page lists the facilities and links each one's page.
- The same page links the Permit Management Program Electronic Files, which this handbook did not open.
- Permit notices and hearings are on NMED's Public Notices and Docketed Matters pages, as the Bureau's page points out.
- The Bureau's line is 505-476-6000. Its office is Building 1, 2905 Rodeo Park Dr. E, Santa Fe, NM 87505.
Getting the file
Start with the Permit Management Program Electronic Files the Bureau links. For anything not there, 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: