Waste Record Keeping
Guidelines and rules for keeping records about industrial and hazardous waste.
Guidelines to follow:
- You must keep records for at least three (3) years from the due date of the report.
- You can keep records in any format, including electronic, as long as the records are easy to retrieve and copy.
- TCEQ's Executive Director may extend the retention period of records for enforcement actions.
- TCEQ recommends keeping a backup copy of all records, although doing so is not specifically required.
Find the recordkeeping requirements of Title 30 Texas Administrative Code Chapter 335 in the following sections:
- Generators: 30 TAC 335.9
- Manifesting: 30 TAC 335.10
- Waste shipments from unregistered/inactive generators who have an episodic waste event: 30 TAC 335.13(b) & (c)
- Transporters: 30 TAC 335.11
- Receivers: 30 TAC 335.15