Federal obligations in hazardous waste treatment and disposal (NAICS 562211)

Treatment plants versus site cleanup

NAICS 562211 covers establishments that treat and dispose of hazardous waste. On USAspending.gov the code tags contract awards classified as that ongoing waste handling: incineration, chemical treatment, landfill disposal of hazardous streams, and similar plant operations. It is not a drum count, and it is not a Superfund site list.

Remediation services (562910) clean contaminated buildings and soil. A federal facility can buy site cleanup under 562910 and send waste to a treatment contractor under 562211. Mixing the two totals as “all environmental work” will blur that split. The $30.3 billion figure is only awards tagged 562211.

Reading $30.3 billion in waste-treatment obligations

USAspending records obligations on contract awards tagged 562211. Delivery orders, task orders, and modifications all feed $30,340,117,692.79. This packet has no fiscal-year split and no outlay total. Recurring disposal contracts can generate many small actions, which is consistent with a higher award count than remediation in this dataset.

Outlays are the payments. Quote $30.3 billion as USAspending contract obligations coded to hazardous waste treatment and disposal. Do not describe it as an EPA appropriation or as cash already spent.

22,666 awards as a high-volume waste code

The 22,666 award records look more like a spare-parts or delivery-order pattern than a handful of mega-cleanup vehicles. Many shipments and task orders each appear as records. The count is not 22,666 waste sites. Open the industry page to see how those rows concentrate among vendors.

Waste-plant contracting generates many small actions. That is why 22,666 awards sit under $30,340,117,692.79 on NAICS 562211 in USAspending. Treatment and disposal of hazardous streams is the work. Remediation of a place is 562910. The two pages can both be true for one installation in the same year if one award cleans soil and another sends drums to a plant. Do not add them and call the sum Superfund. This packet has no tonnage and no site list. Cite obligations, not outlays. Cite USAspending.gov. Cite 22,666 awards so the high-volume pattern is not mistaken for a handful of mega-cleanup vehicles. Grants often have no NAICS.

What 562211 excludes

Assistance awards often lack NAICS and are outside this total. Solid-waste collection that is not hazardous, if tagged to other 562 lines, sits elsewhere. Remediation remains 562910. Construction of a treatment plant, if tagged as heavy civil or building construction, is a construction NAICS, not this services/treatment line.

SpendingVault aggregates USAspending.gov contract data. The $30,340,117,692.79 total and the 22,666 award count can change after corrections. The live industry page is the table of record.

Using the hazardous-waste industry page

Open the HAZARDOUS WASTE TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL industry page for the award list under the headline. Compare 562211 with 562910 on All industries. Cite obligations, not outlays, and keep the 22,666 award count so the high-volume treatment pattern is visible next to remediation’s fewer, larger cleanup actions.

Citing waste-plant work without site remediation

Cite $30,340,117,692.79 in USAspending obligations on 22,666 awards tagged NAICS 562211, hazardous waste treatment and disposal. Keep treatment and disposal in the sentence so it is not read as remediating a contaminated site.

The 22,666 award count is shipment- and order-like volume, not 22,666 sites. That is the opposite pattern from many large cleanup vehicles. Outlays and grants are not in this packet. Construction of a plant, if tagged as construction NAICS, sits elsewhere. The industry page lists the 562211 records.

Hazardous-waste treatment and disposal is the plant and the stream, not the Superfund story. The $30,340,117,692.79 total is awards tagged 562211. The 22,666 records look like recurring shipments and task orders, which is why the award count runs higher than remediation even though the dollar total is smaller. Volume of actions is not volume of waste; this packet has no tonnage.

Remediation (562910) cleans a place. 562211 treats or disposes of waste that has already been containerized or accepted as a hazardous stream. Keep the verbs apart. Cite USAspending obligations on 22,666 awards coded 562211. Construction of a new treatment unit, if tagged as construction, sits on a construction page. Grants often have no NAICS.

Questions

How much is obligated on NAICS 562211 hazardous waste treatment?

USAspending.gov contract awards coded NAICS 562211 show $30,340,117,692.79 in obligations across 22,666 awards. That total is obligations, not outlays, for hazardous waste treatment and disposal. USAspending.gov records the amount as contract obligations, not outlays, on awards tagged NAICS 562211.

Is this the same as remediation services?

No. Remediation (NAICS 562910) is cleanup of contaminated sites. 562211 is treatment and disposal of hazardous waste. The $30,340,117,692.79 figure is 562211 only. The packet total is $30,340,117,692.79 across 22,666 awards; assistance awards often have no NAICS and stay outside the industry rollup.

Do 22,666 awards mean 22,666 waste sites?

No. The 22,666 figure counts contract award records, including delivery orders and modifications. It is not a site inventory. Treat the 22,666 figure as an award-record count, including orders and modifications, not as a physical inventory of products or sites.

Are environmental grants included?

Assistance awards may not carry NAICS and are generally outside this industry total. This page is a USAspending contract-award rollup for 562211. This guide does not add a fiscal-year split. Quote the live industry page if you need the current award list under HAZARDOUS WASTE TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL.