Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 33 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Part V - Hazardous Wastes and Hazardous Materials
Subpart 1 - Department of Environmental Quality-Hazardous Waste
Chapter 22 - Prohibitions on Land Disposal
Subchapter A - Land Disposal Restrictions
Section V-2207 - Dilution Prohibited as a Substitute for Treatment

A. Except as provided in Subsection B of this Section, no generator, transporter, handler, or owner or operator of a treatment, storage, or disposal facility shall in any way dilute a prohibited waste or the residual from treatment of a prohibited waste as a substitute for adequate treatment to achieve compliance with this Chapter, to circumvent the effective date of or otherwise avoid a prohibition listed in Subchapter A of this Chapter, or to circumvent a land disposal prohibition imposed by RCRA Section 3004.

B. Dilution of wastes that are hazardous only because they exhibit a characteristic in treatment systems that include land-based units which treat wastes subsequently discharged to a water of the United States pursuant to a permit issued under Section 402 of the Clean Water Act (CWA) or which treat wastes in a CWA-equivalent treatment system or which treat wastes for purposes of pretreatment requirements under Section 307 of the CWA is not impermissible dilution for purposes of this Section unless a method other than DEACT has been specified in LAC 33:V.2223 as the treatment standard, or unless the waste is a D003 reactive cyanide wastewater or nonwastewater.

C. Combustion of the hazardous waste codes listed in LAC 33:V.2299.Appendix, Table 5 is prohibited, unless the waste, at the point of generation, or after any bona fide treatment, such as cyanide destruction prior to combustion, can be demonstrated to comply with one or more of the following criteria (unless otherwise specifically prohibited from combustion):

D. It is a form of impermissible dilution, and therefore prohibited, to add iron filings or other metallic forms of iron to lead-containing hazardous wastes in order to achieve any land disposal restriction treatment standard for lead. Lead-containing wastes include D008 wastes (wastes exhibiting a characteristic due to the presence of lead), all characteristic wastes containing lead as an underlying hazardous constituent, listed wastes containing lead as a regulated constituent, and hazardous media containing any of the aforementioned lead-containing wastes.