Indiana Administrative Code
Title 329 - SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT DIVISION
Article 3.1 - HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT PERMIT PROGRAM AND RELATED HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT
Rule 6 - Identification and Listing of Hazardous Waste
Section 6-6 - Waste excluded from regulation; Heritage Environmental Services, LLC and Nucor Steel Corporation, Crawfordsville, Indiana
Current through September 18, 2024
Authority: IC 13-14-8; IC 13-22-2
Affected: IC 13-22
Sec. 6.
Electric arc furnace dust (EAFD), hazardous waste code K061, that is generated by Heritage Environmental Services, LLC (Heritage) and Nucor Steel, Division of Nucor, Corporation (Nucor) at Nucor's Crawfordsville, Indiana plant, and treated to be nonhazardous is excluded from regulation under this article so long as management of the waste complies with all of the following conditions:
(1) Delisting levels for the waste excluded by this section are as follows:
Table 1. Maximum Constituent Concentrations in TCLP Extracts
Antimony | 0.206 mg/L |
Arsenic | 0.0936 mg/L |
Barium | 55.7 mg/L |
Beryllium | 0.416 mg/L |
Cadmium | 0.15 mg/L |
Chromium (total) | 1.55 mg/L |
Lead | 5.0 mg/L |
Mercury | 0.149 mg/L |
Nickel | 28.3 mg/L |
Selenium | 0.58 mg/L |
Silver | 3.84 mg/L |
Thallium | 0.088 mg/L |
Vanadium | 21.1 mg/L |
Zinc | 280 mg/L |
(2) Heritage shall demonstrate on a monthly basis that the constituents in the treated EAFD do not exceed the delisting levels in subdivision (1) as follows:
(3) Changes in the manufacturing process or the treatment process must be managed as follows:
(4) Heritage must submit an annual report that summarizes the data obtained through monthly verification testing to IDEM by February 1 of each year. The report must include the results of each month's analysis required by subdivision (2) for the previous calendar year.
(5) Heritage must compile, summarize, and maintain records of operating conditions and analytical data. The records must be maintained for a minimum of five (5) years. The records must be made available for inspection by the department during normal working hours.
(6) All data required by subdivisions (4) and (5) must be accompanied by a signed copy of the certification statement in 40 CFR 260.22(i)(12).
(7) The treated EAFD must be disposed of in accordance with:
(8) Solid waste landfill units permitted under 329 IAC 10 that accept the treated EAFD must comply with the ground water monitoring requirements of 329 IAC 10-21.
(9) The treated EAFD must be covered in accordance with 329 IAC 10-20-13 through 329 IAC 10-20-14.
(10) Only the following materials may be used as alternative daily cover over the treated EAFD:
(11) No waste that is capable of providing oxygen or acting as a source of oxygen may be disposed of in the same cell or unit as the treated EAFD.
(12) If, at any time after disposal of the delisted waste, Heritage possesses or is otherwise made aware of any data relevant to the delisted waste indicating that any constituent identified in subdivision (1) is at a level in a test extract or in the leachate that is higher than the delisting level listed in subdivision (1), then Heritage must report such data in writing to the commissioner within ten (10) days of first possessing or being made aware of that data.
(13) If, at any time after disposal of the treated EAFD, Heritage possesses or is otherwise made aware of any data relevant to the delisted waste indicating that any of the following constituents is at a level in the ground water higher than the levels listed in Table 2:
Table 2. Maximum Allowable Concentrations in Ground Water
Antimony | 0.006 mg/L |
Arsenic | 0.005 mg/L |
Barium | 2.0 mg/L |
Beryllium | 0.004 mg/L |
Cadmium | 0.005 mg/L |
Chromium | 0.1 mg/L |
Lead | 0.015 mg/L |
Mercury | 0.002 mg/L |
Nickel | 0.753 mg/L |
Selenium | 0.05 mg/L |
Silver | 0.187 mg/L |
Thallium | 0.002 mg/L |
Vanadium | 0.263 mg/L |
Zinc | 11.25 mg/L |
Sulfides | 1.0 mg/L |
then Heritage must report such data in writing to the commissioner within ten (10) days after first possessing or being made aware of that data.
(14) No more than sixty thousand (60,000) cubic yards of treated EAFD may be treated or disposed of annually under this exclusion.
*Test methods and guidance referenced in this section are
included in U.S. EPA Publication SW-846, "Test Methods for Evaluating Solid
Waste, Physical/Chemical Methods", 3rd Edition (November 1986), as amended by
Updates I (July 1992), II (September 1994), IIA (August 1993), IIB (January
1995), and III (December 1996), accessed at