Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 38, September 20, 2024
For the purposes of determining feasibility of compliance
with the performance standards of 35 Ill. Adm. Code
724.443 and
of determining adequate operating conditions under 35 Ill. Adm. Code
724.445,
the Agency must establish conditions in the permit to a new hazardous waste
incinerator to be effective during the trial burn.
a) Applicants must propose a trial burn plan,
prepared under subsection (b) with Part B of the permit application;
b) The trial burn plan must include the
following information:
1) An analysis of each
waste or mixture of wastes to be burned that includes the following:
A) Heat value of the waste in the form and
composition in which it will be burned;
B) Viscosity (if applicable), or description
of physical form of the waste;
C)
An identification of any hazardous organic constituents listed in Appendix H to
35 Ill. Adm. Code 721, that are present in the waste to be burned, except that
the applicant need not analyze for constituents listed in Appendix H to 35 Ill.
Adm. Code 721 that would reasonably not be expected to be found in the waste.
The constituents excluded from analysis must be identified, and the basis for
their exclusion stated. The waste analysis must rely on appropriate analytical
methods; and
D) An approximate
quantification of the hazardous constituents identified in the waste, within
the precision produced by the appropriate analytical methods;
BOARD NOTE: The federal regulations do not themselves define
the phrase "appropriate analytical methods", but USEPA did include a definition
in its preamble discussion accompanying the rule. The Board directs attention
to the following segment (at 70 Fed. Reg. 34538, 34541 (June 14, 2005)) for the
purposes of subsections (b)(1)(C) and (b)(1)(D):
[T]wo primary considerations in selecting an appropriate
method, which together serve as our general definition of an appropriate method
[are the following]...:
1.Appropriate
methods are reliable and accepted as such in the scientific
community.
2.Appropriate methods
generate effective data.
USEPA went on to further elaborate these two concepts and to
specify other documents that might provide guidance.
2) A detailed
engineering description of the incinerator for which the permit is sought
including the following:
A) Manufacturer's
name and model number of incinerator (if available);
B) Type of incinerator;
C) Linear dimensions of the incinerator unit
including the cross sectional area of combustion chamber;
D) Description of the auxiliary fuel system
(type/feed);
E) Capacity of prime
mover;
F) Description of automatic
waste feed cut-off systems;
G)
Stack gas monitoring and pollution control equipment;
H) Nozzle and burner design;
I) Construction materials;
J) Location and description of temperature-,
pressure-, and flow-indicating and control devices;
3) A detailed description of sampling and
monitoring procedures, including sampling and monitoring locations in the
system, the equipment to be used, sampling and monitoring frequency, and
planned analytical procedures for sample analysis;
4) A detailed test schedule for each waste
for which the trial burn is planned including dates, duration, quantity of
waste to be burned, and other factors relevant to the Agency's decision under
subsection (e);
5) A detailed test
protocol, including, for each waste identified, the ranges of temperature,
waste feed rate, combustion gas velocity, use of auxiliary fuel, and any other
relevant parameters that will be varied to affect the destruction and removal
efficiency of the incinerator;
6) A
description of, and planned operating conditions for, any emission control
equipment that will be used;
7)
Procedures for rapidly stopping waste feed, shutting down the incinerator, and
controlling emissions in the event of an equipment malfunction;
8) Such other information as the Agency
reasonably finds necessary to determine whether to approve the trial burn plan
in light of the purposes of this subsection (b) and the criteria in subsection
(e). Such information must be requested by the Agency pursuant to 35 Ill. Adm.
Code
705.123;
c) The Agency, in reviewing the
trial burn plan, must evaluate the sufficiency of the information provided and
must require the applicant, pursuant to 35 Ill. Adm. Code 705.123, to
supplement this information, if necessary, to achieve the purposes of this
Section;
d) Based on the waste
analysis data in the trial burn plan, the Agency must specify as trial
Principal Organic Hazardous Constituents (POHCs), those constituents for which
destruction and removal efficiencies must be calculated during the trial burn.
These trial POHCs must be specified by the Agency based on its estimate of the
difficulty of incineration of the constituents identified in the waste
analysis, their concentration or mass in the waste feed, and, for wastes listed
in Subpart D of 35 Ill. Adm. Code 721, the hazardous waste organic constituent
of constituents identified in Appendix G or H to 35 Ill. Adm. Code 721 as the
basis for listing;
e) The Agency
must approve a trial burn plan if it finds the following:
1) That the trial burn is likely to determine
whether the incinerator performance standard required by 35 Ill. Adm. Code
724.443 can
be met;
2) That the trial burn
itself will not present an imminent hazard to human health or the
environment;
3) That the trial burn
will help the Agency to determine operating requirements to be specified under
35 Ill. Adm. Code 724.445; and
4)
That the information sought in subsections (e)(1) and (e)(3) cannot reasonably
be developed through other means;
f) The Agency must send a notice to all
persons on the facility mailing list, as set forth in 35 Ill. Adm. Code
705.161(a),
and to the appropriate units of State and local government, as set forth in 35
Ill. Adm. Code
705.163(a)(5),
announcing the scheduled commencement and completion dates for the trial burn.
The applicant may not commence the trial burn until after the Agency has issued
such notice.
1) This notice must be mailed
within a reasonable time period before the scheduled trial burn. An additional
notice is not required if the trial burn is delayed due to circumstances beyond
the control of the facility or the Agency.
2) This notice must contain the following:
A) The name and telephone number of the
applicant's contact person;
B) The
name and telephone number of the Agency regional office appropriate for the
facility;
C) The location where the
approved trial burn plan and any supporting documents can be reviewed and
copied; and
D) An expected time
period for commencement and completion of the trial burn;
g) During each approved trial burn
(or as soon after the burn as is practicable), the applicant must make the
following determinations:
1) A quantitative
analysis of the trial POHCs, in the waste feed to the incinerator;
2) A quantitative analysis of the exhaust gas
for the concentration and mass emissions of the trial POHCs, molecular oxygen,
and hydrogen chloride (HCl);
3) A
quantitative analysis of the scrubber water (if any), ash residues, and other
residues, for the purpose of estimating the fate of the trial POHCs;
4) A computation of destruction and removal
efficiency (DRE), in accordance with the DRE formula specified in 35 Ill. Adm.
Code
724.443(a);
5) If the HCl (hydrogen chloride) emission
rate exceeds
1.8
kilograms (4 pounds) of HCl per hour, a computation of HCl removal efficiency,
in accordance with 35 Ill. Adm. Code
724.443(b);
6) A computation of particulate emissions, in
accordance with 35 Ill. Adm. Code
724.443(c);
7) An identification of sources of fugitive
emissions and their means of control;
8) A measurement of average, maximum and
minimum temperatures, and combustion gas velocity;
9) A continuous measurement of carbon
monoxide (CO) in the exhaust gas;
10) Such other information as the Agency
specifies as necessary to ensure that the trial burn will determine compliance
with the performance standards in 35 Ill. Adm. Code
724.443 and
to establish the operating conditions required by 35 Ill. Adm. Code
724.445 as
necessary to meet that performance standard;
h) The applicant must submit to the Agency a
certification that the trial burn has been carried out in accordance with the
approved trial burn plan, and must submit the results of all the determinations
required in subsection (g). This submission must be made within 90 days after
completion of the trial burn, or later, if approved by the Agency;
i) All data collected during any trial burn
must be submitted to the Agency following the completion of the trial
burn;
j) All submissions required
by this Section must be certified on behalf of the applicant by the signature
of a person authorized to sign a permit application or a report under 35 Ill.
Adm. Code
702.126;
k) Based on the results of the trial burn,
the Agency must set the operating requirements in the final permit according to
35 Ill. Adm. Code 724.445. The permit modification must proceed as a minor
modification according to Section
703.280.
BOARD NOTE: Derived from
40 CFR
270.62(b)
(2017).
