Hazardous Waste Fee Worksheet (FW) Form

The Fee Worksheet (FW) Form is required for all sites that are required to submit a Hazardous Waste Annual Report and that generated any hazardous waste during the reporting year. The Hazardous Waste Annual Report system determines if your site needs to complete the FW Form, based on your answers on the reporting requirements screen. Non-generators are not required to complete the FW Form. A very small quantity hazardous waste generator is only required to complete the FW Form if it performed any treatment, storage or disposal activity at its site for which a hazardous waste facility license was required, or if it was a publicly owned (wastewater) treatment works (POTW) that accepted hazardous waste (via truck, rail or dedicated pipe) for treatment.

Purpose

The purpose of the FW Form is to estimate the annual hazardous waste generator fee.

Fees

The Hazardous Waste Annual Report system estimates the annual hazardous waste generator fee, based on the amount of hazardous waste generated minus the amounts of any fee-exempted wastes.

Do not pay the fee until after you receive an environmental fee statement in June. That statement will include the hazardous waste generator fee and other DNR environmental fees you may owe.

Note: Even though certain hazardous wastes are exempt from the generator fee, they must still be reported on the FW Form as hazardous waste generated and fee-exempted. An example of a fee-exempted waste is household hazardous wastes collected by a municipality under its household hazardous waste collection program.

FW Form Instructions

Section A: Amounts of Hazardous Waste Generated and Fee Exempted

Section A requests information about the quantities of hazardous waste generated and managed by specific methods during the report year.

• Question 1: Total amount of hazardous waste generated at your site during the reporting year.

  Enter the total amount in pounds.

• Question 2a: Was any of the generated hazardous waste recovered for recycling or reuse (including hazardous wastes burned for the purpose of energy recovery)? Check Yes or No.

  If yes, enter the total amount in pounds.

  Note: Recovered for recycling or reuse includes beneficially using or reusing hazardous waste, processing hazardous waste to recover a usable product and burning hazardous waste for energy recovery. The recovery for recycling or reuse may be done at your site or at another site. Hazardous waste recycling facilities are regulated under s. NR 661.06(3), Wis. Adm. Code. A hazardous waste recycling facility, which stores hazardous waste received from off-site for more than 24 hours (or stores hazardous waste generated on-site for more than the allowed generator accumulation period) before it enters the recycling process, must have a hazardous waste facility license.

• Question 2b: Was any of the generated hazardous waste a leachate that was transported to a wastewater treatment plant or discharged directly to a sewer pipe? Check Yes or No.

  If yes, enter the total amount in pounds.

  Note: Leachate is liquid, including any dissolved or suspended material in the liquid, that has percolated through, contacted or drained from hazardous waste or gases generated by hazardous waste. Leachate is commonly generated at landfills with leachate collection systems.

• Question 2c: Was any of the generated hazardous waste removed from the site to repair environmental pollution? Check Yes or No.

  If yes, enter the total amount in pounds.

  Note: Hazardous waste removed from a site to repair environmental pollution typically involves the removal of contaminated soil or groundwater that is regulated as hazardous waste.

• Question 2d: Was any of the generated hazardous waste collected by a municipality under its household hazardous waste collection program or by a county under its agricultural chemical waste collection program? Check Yes or No.

  If yes, enter the total amount in pounds.

  Note: DO NOT report the same waste under multiple exemptions in questions 2a, 2b, 2c and 2d. Net Waste should not be a negative number.

• The following hazardous wastes should not be reported on the FW Form:
• wastes that were not generated at your site (i.e., wastes that your site received from another site); and
• wastes that you managed at your site in only elementary neutralization units, totally enclosed treatment facilities or wastewater treatment units, as defined in s. NR 660.10, Wis. Adm. Code.

Section B: Waste Minimization Activities

Completion of Questions 3 and 4 is required for large quantity generators ONLY

Question 3: During the report year, did you implement any new activities that resulted in minimization of the waste reported in Question 1? Use the pull-down menu to choose Yes or No.

Waste Minimization: means the reduction, to the extent feasible, of hazardous waste that is generated or subsequently treated, stored or disposed. Waste minimization includes any source reduction or recycling activity undertaken by a generator that results in:

1. the reduction of total volume or quantity of hazardous waste;
2. the reduction of toxicity of hazardous waste; or
3. both, as long as the reduction is consistent with the goal of minimizing present and future threats to human health and the environment.

If you answered Yes, continue to Question 4.

If you answered No, click on the appropriate option from the following list:

• I have a program in place to reduce the volume and toxicity of waste generated to the degree I have determined to be economically practicable.
• I have a program in place to perform an annual evaluation to determine if other waste minimization opportunities are economically practicable.
• I have no waste minimization program in place.

Question 4: What activities were implemented during the report year to achieve the waste minimization results for the waste reported in Question 1?

The following are examples of activities that should NOT be reported here as waste minimization:

• sending waste off-site for management (other than recycling);
• incineration or other thermal treatment;
• treatment to reduce volume (after the waste exits the process in which it was generated);
• treatment to reduce toxicity (after the waste exits the process in which it was generated);
• bankruptcy;
• installation of filter press to reduce water content and volume;
• installation of equipment to comply with Clean Water Act;
• delisting of a hazardous waste; and
• energy recovery (e.g., burning in boilers).

Comment Section on Forms

Use the Comment section at the bottom of the forms to clarify or continue any entry.

Contact Information

For questions and comments about the hazardous waste FW Form, please contact:

DNR Waste Materials@Wisconsin.gov