Code of Maine Rules
06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL
Chapter 852 - LAND DISPOSAL RESTRICTIONS
Section 096-852-8 - Procedures for Case-by-Case Extensions of the Effective Date
Universal Citation: 06 ME Code Rules ยง 096-852-8
Current through 2024-38, September 18, 2024
A. In accordance with 40 C.F.R. §268.5, any person who generates, treats, stores, or disposes of a hazardous waste may submit an application to the EPA Administrator for an extension of the effective date of any applicable restriction established in this Chapter.
B. Whenever the EPA Administrator establishes an extension to an effective date under this Chapter, during the period for which such an extension is in effect:
(1) The storage restrictions of Section
12 of this Chapter do not
apply:
(2) Such hazardous waste may
be disposed in a landfill or surface impoundment only if such unit is in
compliance with the technical requirements of the following provisions
regardless of whether such unit is new, existing, or a replacement or lateral
expansion:
(a) The landfill is in compliance
with 06-096 C.M.R. ch. 854, §8(B), the ground water monitoring
requirements of 06-096 C.M.R. ch. 854 or 855 (whichever is applicable), and if
disposing of containerized liquid hazardous wastes containing PCBs at
concentrations greater than or equal to 50 ppm but less than 500 ppm, is also
in compliance with the requirements of
40 C.F.R.
761.75 and 06-096 C.M.R. ch. 854 or 855
(whichever is applicable);
(b) The
surface impoundment is in compliance with 06-096 C.M.R. ch. 854, §
9(B) or 06-096 C.M.R.
ch. 855, §
9(E)(5), whichever is
applicable, and the ground water monitoring requirements of 06-096 C.M.R. ch.
854 or 855, whichever is applicable, except as provided in Section
7(B) of this
Chapter.
C. Pending a decision on the application, the applicant is required to comply with all restrictions on land disposal under this Chapter once the effective date for the waste has been reached.
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