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 264 - HAZARDOUS WASTE - STANDARDS FOR OWNERS AND OPERATORS OF HAZARDOUS WASTE TREATMENT, STORAGE AND DISPOSAL FACILITIES
Subpart B - General Facility Standards
Section 6 CCR 1007-3-264.18 - Installation Standards
Universal Citation: 1000 CO Code Regs 6 CCR 1007-3-264.18
Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 17, September 10, 2024
(a) Seismic considerations.
(1) Portions of new
facilities where treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous waste will be
conducted must not be located within 1000 feet of a fault which has had
displacement in Holocene time.
(2)
As used in paragraph (a)(1) of this section:
(i) "Fault" means a fracture along which
rocks on one side have been displaced with respect to those on the other
side.
(ii) "Displacement" means the
relative movement of any two sides of a fault measured in any
direction.
(iii) "Holocene" means
the most recent epoch of the Quaternary period, extending from the end of the
Pleistocene to the present.
(b) Floodplains.
(1) A treatment or storage facility and an
existing disposal facility located in a 100-year floodplain must be designed,
constructed, operated, maintained, and closed when applicable, to prevent
washout of any hazardous waste by a 100-year flood;
(2) New facilities for disposal shall not be
located within the 100-year floodplain.
(3) As used in paragraphs (b)(1) and (2) of
this Section:
(i) "100-year floodplain" means
any land area which is subject to a one percent or greater chance of flooding
in any given year from any source.
(ii) "Washout" means the movement of
hazardous waste from the active portion of the facility as a result of
flooding.
(iii) "100-year flood"
means a flood that has a one percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any
given year.
(c) Salt dome formations, salt bed formations, underground mines and caves. The placement of any noncontainerized or bulk liquid hazardous waste in any salt dome formation, salt bed formation, underground mine or cave is prohibited.
(d) Hazardous waste disposal facilities shall not place wastes directly under or into surface water or groundwater that has a potential or existing beneficial use or that is in direct communication with an aquifer, unless said disposal is accomplished pursuant to a UIC permit.
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