Code of Colorado Regulations
1000 - Department of Public Health and Environment
1007 - Hazardous Materials and Waste Management Division
6 CCR 1007-3 - HAZARDOUS WASTE
Part 261 - HAZARDOUS WASTE - IDENTIFICATION AND LISTING OF HAZARDOUS WASTE
Subpart B - Criteria for Identifying the Characteristics of Hazardous Waste and for Listing Hazardous Waste
Section 6 CCR 1007-3-261.10 - Criteria for identifying the characteristics of hazardous waste

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 17, September 10, 2024

(a) The Department shall identify and define a characteristic of hazardous waste in Subpart C only upon determining that:

(1) A solid waste that exhibits the characteristic may:
(i) Cause, or significantly contribute to, an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness; or

(ii) Pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when it is improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed of or otherwise managed; and

(2) The characteristic can be:
(i) Measured by an available standardized test method which is reasonably within the capability of generators of solid waste or private sector laboratories that are available to serve generators of solid waste; or

(ii) Reasonably detected by generators of solid waste through their knowledge of their waste.

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