California Code of Regulations
Title 22 - Social Security
Division 4.5 - Environmental Health Standards for the Management of Hazardous Waste
Chapter 14 - Standards for Owners and Operators of Hazardous Waste Transfer, Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facilities
Appendix I - Recordkeeping Instructions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 12, March 22, 2024

The recordkeeping provisions of section 66264.73 specify that an owner or operator shall keep a written operating record at the facility. This appendix provides additional instructions for keeping portions of the operating record. See section 66264.73(b) for additional recordkeeping requirements.

The following information shall be recorded, as it becomes available, and maintained in the operating record until closure of the facility in the following manner: records of each hazardous waste received, transferred, treated, stored, or disposed of at the facility which include the following:

(1) a description by its common name and any applicable EPA Hazardous Waste Number or California Hazardous Waste Number from chapter 11 of this division which apply to the waste. The waste description also shall include the waste's physical form, i.e., liquid, sludge, solid, or contained gas. If the waste is not listed in chapter 11, article 4 or Appendix XII of this division, the description also shall include the process that produced it (for example, solid filter cake from production of ---, EPA Hazardous Waste Number W051).

Each hazardous waste listed in chapter 11, article 4, of this division, and each hazardous waste characteristic defined in chapter 11, article 3, of this division, has a four-digit EPA Hazardous Waste Number and/or a three-digit California Hazardous Waste Number assigned to it. This number shall be used for recordkeeping and reporting purposes. Where a hazardous waste contains more than one listed hazardous waste, or where more than one hazardous waste characteristic applies to the waste, the waste description shall include all applicable EPA and California Hazardous Waste Numbers;

(2) the estimated or manifest-reported weight, or volume and density, where applicable, in one of the units of measure specified in Table 1:

Table 1

1 Single digit symbols are used here for data processing purposes.

(3) the method(s) (by handling code(s) as specified in Table 2) and date(s) of treatment, storage, or disposal.

Table 2

Handling Codes for Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Methods

Enter the handling code(s) listed below that most closely represents the technique(s) used at the facility to treat, store, or dispose of each quantity of hazardous waste received.

(a) Storage.

(b) Treatment.

(1) Thermal Treatment.

(2) Chemical Treatment.

(3) Physical Treatment.

(A) Separation of components.

(B) Removal of Specific Components.

(4) Biological Treatment

(5) Boiler and Industrial Furnaces

(6) Other Treatment

(c) Disposal.

(d) Miscellaneous (Article 16)

1. New section filed 5-24-91; operative 7-1-91 (Register 91, No. 22).
2. Amendment of tables 1 and 2 and NOTE filed 7-1-96; operative 7-31-96 (Register 96, No. 27).
3. Editorial correction restoring inadvertently omitted text (Register 97, No. 24).
4. Change without regulatory effect amending table 2 filed 6-12-97 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 97, No. 24).

Note: Authority cited: Sections 25150, 25159, 25159.5, 58004 and 58012, Health and Safety Code. Reference: Sections 25159 and 25159.5, Health and Safety Code; 40 CFR Part 264 , Appendix I.