ASSOCIATION OF STATE AND TERRITORIAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS INC
1101 17th street NW No 707, Washington, DC 20036 www.astswmo.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Association of State & Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials' (ASTSWMO) mission is to enhance and promote effective state and territorial programs for waste and materials management, to encourage environmentally sustainable practices and to affect relevant national waste and materials management policies. Through its subcommittees and extensive contacts with environmental managers in 50 states, DC and 5 territories (hereinafter "states"), ASTSWMO facilitates state review and comments on proposed regulations, policy and guidance. ASTSWMO sponsored meetings, such as the annual membership meetings and topical meetings of interest to state program personnel, as well as Subcommittee projects, help to facilitate information exchange among staff from different states and from the EPA.

To enhance and promote effective state/territorial waste/materials management programs.

Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery - To promote the enhancement of the State-Federal partnership in the management of hazardous and solid waste.ASTSWMO acts as a facilitator for these co-implementing State programs by enabling their participation in the ongoing research of State-Federal planning for addressing the various aspects of RCRA C and D sites, and facilitates access to State regulatory partner peers, such as EPA. The Association also conducts additional training and informational exchange activities that allow enhanced interaction among States and their Federal colleagues, and improve the capacity and efficiency of State program offices.

Office of Underground Storage Tanks - To enhance and develop the state and territorial programs providing both regulatory management of underground storage tanks and the remediation of leaking underground storage tanks, to include providing specialized training and technical information to states, and working with federal partners in the development of implementing guidance and director for this delegated program.

Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation - Conduct research into hazardous substance detection and remediation for state and territorial CERCLA program activities. ASTSWMO actively conducts research with respect to the detection, assessment, and evaluation of the effects on and risks to human health of hazardous substances in the environment as related to States and Territories, and provides the results of this research to State and Territorial agencies, and other federal and local agencies, including the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as appropriate.

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