You are hauling hazardous waste under a Uniform Hazardous Waste Manifest. What does the regulation require of you and of that document?

Explanation

A carrier accepting hazardous waste dates and signs a copy of the manifest at the time of acceptance, carries it during transportation in the same manner the subchapter requires for shipping papers, and retains its copy for three years running from the date the initial carrier accepted the waste. Paragraphs (c) and (d) call for handwritten signatures, on the original from the generator offering the waste and the initial carrier accepting it, and on a copy from each later carrier and from the designated facility, but the section does not leave handwriting as the only route: electronic signatures in conformance with the EPA electronic manifest rule are acceptable in lieu of the handwritten signatures those two paragraphs require, provided one printed copy of the electronic manifest bearing the electronic signature is provided to the initial transporter, and a copy of the electronic manifest satisfies the three-year retention requirement. What the section does not make optional is the retention, and each retained copy has to bear every required signature and date up to and including the ones entered by the next person who received the waste. No person may offer, transport, transfer or deliver the waste at all unless the manifest has been prepared, signed, carried and given over as the rule requires. The three wrong options each drop one of those elements, keeping no copy once the receiving facility has signed (the electronic signature is permitted, the empty file is not), ending the carrying and retention duty at a transfer point, or demoting the manifest below shipping paper status because another agency designed the form.

Source: 49 CFR 172.205(e) and (j)