Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials (ASTSWMO)

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.

Leaking underground storage tanks - astswmo actively represents the unique concerns of State lust programs responsible for oversight, investigation, and remediation, and closure of releases of regulated substances from usts. The lust task force recognizes the important role of State lust programs in protecting human health and the environment through reducing exposure risk to contamination from ust releases. Astswmo is a liaison between State and Territorial lust programs and the u.s. epa, and acts as a resource for distributing technical information and ideas among State lust regulatory Officials. The members also provide comments on federal policies and rulemaking and work directly with both federal Officials at u.s. epa's office of underground storage tanks (oust) and Officials of the State and Territorial ust programs.

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.