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Track Waste Discharges

For some wastes generated at your site, government regulations may permit you to directly discharge the waste into the air or the water. In other cases, you might store the waste and then discharge it into the air or water.

From the Track Waste Discharges task, you work with waste with the Status of Stored or Disposed and a waste disposition that has a disposition type of Discharge. When you add or edit records form this task, the status is always changed to Disposed.

From this task you can manage:

The discharge of a Stored waste
The discharge of a waste for which you have not tracked storage information.

Note: In order to track how you discharge specific instances of waste, you will need to choose from lists of information on the waste practices at your site. If you find that the lists of available data do not contain the values you need, a facility manager or other person at your site needs to develop this information. For information, see Defining Background Data about your Waste Management Practices.

Discharging a Stored Waste

You may store the waste before you discharge it. If you have already entered information for the storage of an instance of waste, you can search for this instance and add the discharge information to the record. If so, you will note that many of the fields have values because you completed these fields as part of defining the storage of the waste instance.

Note: As you work with the Track Waste Discharges task, the system will filter the list of available waste instances to include only waste instances that are to be discharged and whose waste profile is active; that is to say, the waste instance has a disposition whose Disposition Type value is Discharge and its profile has a Status of Active. Thus, if a waste instance is has a Disposition Type of Shipment, this waste will not be available to choose when adding discharge information.

If you have already entered storage information for an instance of waste instance, follow this procedure to add discharge information.

On the Process Navigator, choose the Track Waste Discharges task.
Use the filter at the top of screen to locate a particular instance of stored waste. Note that the filter provides several fields by which you may search for records. The more fields you complete in the filter, the more limited a list the program can present. Complete the filter criteria, and select Show. If you want to access a list of all waste records, do not complete any filter fields and select Show.
In the Waste Discharge Details pane, the system lists all instances of waste meeting your search criteria, and which have a disposition of Discharge.
Choose a waste instance that has the Status of Stored. If needed, you can sort the screen by Status to see Stored waste.
In the Edit Waste Discharge pane, the system lists the details of the instance.
From here, you can view and edit the details of the waste and add discharge information. See the table below for details.
Click Save.
When you save the record, the system saves a record with the Status of Disposed.

Discharging a Waste for which you have not Tracked Storage Information

Some sites may immediately discharge their waste. In this case, you will document the instance of waste with this task and complete all general information about the waste at this point.

On the Process Navigator, choose the Track Waste Discharges task.
Since you have not yet defined this instance of waste, skip the filter at the top of the screen. Select Show to access all waste records.
In the Waste Discharge Details pane, the system lists all instances of waste meeting your search criteria (and which have a disposition of Discharge), regardless of whether or not it already has discharge information. You will not choose an option from this list.
Since you have not yet documented this instance of waste, choose Add New.
From the Edit Waste Discharge pane, you can create an instance of waste and add discharge information. See the table below for details on the discharge fields.
Click Save.
The system saves a record with the Status of Disposed. It also saves a record with the status Generated to serve as an archive of this instance of waste. See How the Application Tracks Waste.

Completing Discharge Information

The Track Waste Discharges task presents the following fields for entering information for the discharge of an instance of waste. If you store the waste before discharging it, you may have already completed some of these fields when documenting this instance of waste with the Track Waste Storage task.

Waste Code	This value uniquely identifies this specific instance of waste. This value is generated by the system and is not editable.
Enter the following required information:
Date Start	The date you began discharging the waste.
Date End	The Date End is the date you stopped discharging the waste. This field is required
Waste Profile	For this specific instance of waste, choose its general properties by selecting a waste profile from the available list of waste profiles. By selecting a waste profile, you make all of the properties of this profile (such as regulations, gravity, CAS number, SDS number, the fact that its ultimate disposition is discharge, and so on) available to this specific instance of waste. The system limits you to choosing only waste profiles whose Status is Active.
Waste Disposition	If you are creating this instance of waste for the first time, you must select a Waste Disposition to show how this waste will ultimately be discharged, such as whether it will be discharged into the water or the air. You will be limited to choosing dispositions whose Disposition Type is Discharge. If you stored the waste and have already defined this instance of waste, this field will already be completed. When entering discharge information, this field is required.
Quantity	Enter the overall quantity of this waste. For example, if this instance of waste is 90 gallons, enter 90.
Units Types	The system will automatically complete this field with the Default Unit Type of the waste profile. However, if you want to change it, you can choose Mass, Gas, or Liquid to indicate the type of waste. If you are editing a waste instance for which you tracked storage information, this field will already be completed with the value you entered in with the Track Waste Storage task.
Units	Depending on the type of unit selected above (mass, liquid, or gas), the system will complete this field with the unit (gallon, liter, pint, cubic meter, etc.) that is set as the default for this unit type. If you wish to change this default value, choose another unit from the list of available values. For example, if your waste profile has Liquid as the Default Unit Type, the system will complete Unit Type with Liquid. The system will then present the units you defined for liquids (such as gallons, liters, or cubic meters) as values for this option and automatically complete this option with the unit whose Default? value is set to Yes. If you are editing a waste instance for which you tracked storage information, this field will already be completed with the value you entered in with the Track Waste Storage task.
Site Code	Select the site from which the waste will be discharged.
Enter the following additional information as needed:
Time Start/Time End	If you track the time for your waste discharge, enter that information here.
Content Comments	You can add additional comments about discharging the waste if necessary.
Generator Code	If you have tracked waste storage and already completed the generator of this instance of waste, the system will display this same generator. If you need to assign a generator to this instance of waste, from the list of generators at your site, choose the party that generated this instance of waste.
Contact Code	If your site has established a set of outside contacts with whom you may need to communicate about your waste, you may associate a contact with this instance of waste by choosing a contact from the list. You my have already completed this field as part of tracking the waste's storage.
Employee Name	If the waste is associated with a specific employee, you can complete this field. Otherwise, leave this field blank.
Property Code	If necessary, you can additionally associate property information with your waste. This is optional, as waste is required to be associated with a site. Site and property roughly correspond with one another, with site emphasizes the physical location, whereas property emphasizes the legal and financial aspects. You may have already completed this field as part of tracking the waste's storage.
Building/Floor/Room	If you have tracked the storage of this instance of waste, you will see that the system automatically completed these fields with the location of the Storage Area/Tank that you specified. If these fields do not have values, you can enter them as part of defining the waste.
Equipment Code	If applicable, use this field to associate the waste with the particular piece of equipment that generated it. For example, your heating equipment might discharge used oil as waste. Enter the equipment item from which this instance of waste was generated by choosing a value from the existing list of equipment items.

Division Code/Department Code	If you wish to associate the waste with a specific division or department, enter it in these fields. This could be the division and department of the associated employee, the division and department associated with the equipment specified above, or the location of the storage area.