July 17, 2025

EPA’s All-Hazards Waste Management Planning Tool

EPA’s All-Hazards Waste Management Planning Tool assists emergency managers and the regulated community in creating and updating comprehensive pre-incident plans for managing wastes generated from human-made and natural disasters. Requiring an account to log in, the tool guides users through the process of developing a pre-incident plan and preparing for its implementation after an incident. On the agency’s dedicated website, a user’s guide is available, along with additional resources to support waste management planning, including:

• EPA’s incident waste decision support tool,
• FEMA’s public assistance debris monitoring guide, and
• U.S.Army Corps of Engineers’ disaster impact models.

State and local regulators will likely be interested in the waste management plans and guidance provided by their colleagues, including:

• Louisiana’s DEQ Comprehensive Plan for Disaster Clean-up and Debris Management, and
• Montgomery County, Maryland’s Debris Management Plan.

EPA’s disaster debris website also hosts a plethora of additional resources to assist regulators and the regulated community in taking actionable and practical steps to mitigate the amount of debris generated by natural disasters. Because, after all, proper planning prevents poor waste management.

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