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Waste Programs Division

Revised On: Jun. 10th, 2025 - 02:31 pm

ADEQ maintains a list of completed rulemakings on our website for two years following their effective dates. Following is a list of completed rulemakings related to the Waste Programs Division:

Summary:

ADEQ is working on rules that will allow ADEQ to establish and operate a Coal Combustion Residuals (CCR) permitting program for Arizona. HB2411 from the 2022 session authorizes these rules and was signed by the Governor on April 25, 2022. An exemption to the rulemaking moratorium was granted to ADEQ on May 2, 2022. 

Documents:

  • Notice of Docket Opening 18 A.A.C. 13 (2022) | View >
  • Notice of Docket Opening 18 A.A.C. 1 (2023) | View >
  • Notice of Docket Opening 18 A.A.C. 13 (2023) | View >
  • Notice of Docket Opening 18 A.A.C. 1 (2024) | View >
  • Notice of Docket Opening 18 A.A.C. 13 (2024) | View >
  • Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (published on July 12, 2024) | View >
  • Notice of Comment Period & Public Hearing
    • Comment Period: July 12, 2024, through Aug. 14, 2024
    • Virtual Public Hearing
      • Date: Aug. 13, 2024
      • Time: 11 a.m.
      • Location: Online via GoToWebinar
  • Notice of Final Rulemaking | View >

Effective Date: June 1, 2025

Additional Information:

  • Governor’s Regulatory Review Council (GRRC) Study Session and Council Meeting Agendas, Meeting Documents, including PDF copies of materials provided to GRRC for rulemakings, and Minutes will be available on GRRC's website | Visit Website >
  • Guiding Principles and Features (Sept. 30, 2022, Revision) | View >
    • June 24, 2022 Revision | View >
  • Stakeholder Meeting — July 27, 2023, 1 p.m. | View Presentation >
  • Stakeholder Meeting — Sept. 19, 2023, 1 p.m. | View Presentation >
  • Stakeholder Meeting — Jan. 9, 2024, 1 p.m. | View Presentation>
  • Draft Rules — Sept. 8, 2023 | View >
  • Draft Rules — Dec. 18, 2023 | View >

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Summary:

ADEQ has finalized an expedited rulemaking to correct typographical errors, correct outdated citations, clarify language, and fix clerical issues in 18 Arizona Administrative Code (A.A.C.) Chapter 7.

Documents:

  • Notice of Docket Opening | View >
  • Notice of Proposed Expedited Rulemaking | View >
  • Notice of Comment Period
    • Extended Comment Period: Oct. 4, 2024 – Dec. 18, 2024
  • Notice of Final Rulemaking | View >

Effective Date: May 8, 2025

Additional Information:

  • Governor’s Regulatory Review Council (GRRC) Study Session and Council Meeting Agendas, Meeting Documents, including PDF copies of materials provided to GRRC for rulemakings, and Minutes will be available on GRRC's website | Visit Website >

Summary:

ADEQ has finalized an expedited rulemaking to amend 18 A.A.C. 18 (Emergency Planning and Hazardous Materials) to clarify rule requirements without changing their effect, update incorporations by reference, and amend outdated rules. This chapter implements the Arizona State Emergency Response Commission (AZSERC) functions and programs (Article 1) and prescribes curriculum standards for the Hazardous Materials Training Program (Article 2). In addition to improving the rules, ADEQ will be fulfilling its 2023 five-year rule review promises to the Governor’s Regulatory Review Council by updating these rules.

Documents:

  • Notice of Docket Opening | View >
  • Notice of Proposed Expedited Rulemaking | View >
  • Notice of Comment Period
    • Extended Comment Period: Oct. 4, 2024 – Dec. 18, 2024
  • Notice of Final Rulemaking | View >

Effective Date: May 8, 2025

Additional Information:

  • Governor’s Regulatory Review Council (GRRC) Study Session and Council Meeting Agendas, Meeting Documents, including PDF copies of materials provided to GRRC for rulemakings, and Minutes will be available on GRRC's website | Visit Website >

Summary:

ADEQ has finalized rules to amend Arizona Administrative Code R18-13-308 to streamline the frequency of collection for refuse and other objectionable waste and the frequency variance process.

Documents:

  • Notice of Docket Opening (published Nov. 10, 2023) | View >
  • Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (published May 17, 2024) l View>
  • Notice of Comment Period & Public Hearing | View >
    • Comment Period: May 17, 2024 – June 21, 2024
    • Virtual Public Hearing
      • Date: June 20, 2024
      • Time: 1 p.m.
      • Location: Online via GoToWebinar
  • Notice of Final Rulemaking (filed with the Secretary of State: Dec. 6, 2024) | View >

Effective Date: Feb. 4, 2025

Additional Information:

  • Governor’s Regulatory Review Council (GRRC) Study Session and Council Meeting Agendas, Meeting Documents, including PDF copies of materials provided to GRRC for rulemakings, and Minutes will be available on GRRC's website | Visit Website >
  • Stakeholder Meeting — April 4, 2024 | View Presentation >
  • Email questions | Email >

Summary:

ADEQ has finalized rules to update the current solid waste fees. ADEQ has also established solid waste fees for aspects of the program that the department has been overseeing that were not set when ADEQ changed to a fee-based model in 2012. The rules can be found in Arizona Administrative Code, Title 18, Chapter 13, Solid Waste Management. New and updated fees were authorized by House Bill 2367 which became effective on April 9, 2024. 

Documents:

  • Notice of Docket Opening (published May 17, 2024) | View >
  • Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (published on Aug. 16, 2024) | View >
  • Notice of Comment Period & Public Hearing
    • Comment Period: Aug. 16, 2024 – Sept. 20, 2024
    • Virtual Public Hearing
      • Date: Sept. 19, 2024
      • Time: 2:30 p.m.
      • Location: Online via GoToWebinar
  • Notice of Final Rulemaking (submitted on Oct 22, 2024, to the Governor’s Regulatory Review Council for approval) | View >
  • Revised Notice of Final Rulemaking (submitted on Nov 15, 2024, to the Governor’s Regulatory Review Council for approval) | View >
  • Notice of Final Rulemaking | View >

Effective Date: Dec. 24, 2024

Additional Information:

Summary: 

ADEQ identified the need for technical corrections to the Title 18, Chapter 16 WQARF rules of the Arizona Administrative Code during the prior five-year review of 18 A.A.C. 16. ADEQ decided that an expedited rulemaking was appropriate pursuant A.R.S. § 41-1027(A) because it will not increase the cost of regulatory compliance, increase a fee or reduce procedural rights of persons regulated and will merely correct typographical errors, makes address and name changes, and clarify language without changing its effect, as well as amend outdated and redundant rules pursuant to subsections (3) and (6), respectively. The changes made in this rulemaking included correcting citations, updating references, and clarifying the rule text’s language. The aforementioned explanation summarizes the amendments and their specific justification under A.R.S. § 41-1027(A).

Documents:

  • Notice of Docket Opening | View >
  • Notice of Proposed Expedited Rulemaking | View >
  • Notice of Final Expedited Rulemaking | View >

Effective Date: Oct. 17, 2023

Summary

This rule increased certain hazardous waste fees as authorized by A.R.S. §§ 49-922(B)(5) and 49-931(A). ADEQ had last increased hazardous waste fees in 2012 (18 A.A.R. 1202). This rule increased two hazardous waste fees beginning April 1, 2023, to address the future direct and indirect costs of ADEQ’s relevant hazardous waste duties, including employee salaries and benefits, professional and outside services, equipment, in-state travel, and other necessary operational expenses directly related to issuing hazardous waste permits and enforcing the requirements of the regulatory program. The rule helped us maintain authorization from the United States Environmental Protection Agency to enforce federal hazardous waste laws in Arizona.

Documents

  • Notice of Docket Opening | View >
  • Notice of Proposed Rulemaking | View >
  • Notice of Final Rulemaking | View >

Effective Date: March 8, 2023

Summary

This rulemaking addressed the following topics within 18 AAC 13, Article 14: outdated definitions, transporter requirements, bioremediation businesses, COVID-19 remediation, and other topics suggested by stakeholders.

Documents

  • Notice of Final Rulemaking | View >

Effective Date: Jan. 4, 2022

Summary

Pursuant to Laws 2015, Chapter 208, Sec. 34, ADEQ has recodified two Articles from the Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs into rules in Title 18.

Documents

  • Notice of Final Rulemaking | View >

Effective Date: Sept. 1, 2021

Additional Information

Published in the Arizona Administrative Register on the Arizona Secretary of State's website on Sept. 24, 2021 | View >

Summary

This expedited rulemaking corrected outdated citations and implemented other courses of action in 18 A.A.C. 13 proposed in a five-year review report approved by the Governor’s Regulatory Review Council on March 3, 2020.

Documents

  • Notice of Final Rulemaking | View >

Effective Date: Jan. 5, 2021

Additional Information

Governor’s Regulatory Review Council (GRRC) Study Session and Council Meeting Agendas, Meeting Documents, including PDF copies of materials provided to GRRC for rulemakings, and Minutes | Visit GRRC Page >