Minnesota Administrative Rules
Agency 167 - Pollution Control Agency
Chapter 7041 - SEWAGE SLUDGE MANAGEMENT
Part 7041.0300 - APPLICABILITY AND EXCLUSIONS
Universal Citation: MN Rules 7041.0300
Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 13, September 23, 2024
Subpart 1. Applicability.
Except as provided in subpart 2, item I, the requirements of this chapter apply to any person who prepares sewage sludge that is applied to the land, to any person who applies sewage sludge to the land, to sewage sludge applied to the land (including sewage sludge remaining in a treatment works that is a wastewater treatment pond when the pond is emptied or ceases to be used to receive wastewater), and the land on which sewage sludge is applied.
Subp. 2. Exclusions.
This chapter does not establish requirements for:
A. processes used to treat domestic sewage or
for processes used to treat sewage sludge such as thickening, stabilization,
and dewatering prior to final application to the land, except as provided in
parts
7041.1300 and
7041.1400. Treatment processes do
not include storage;
B. the use or
disposal of sludge generated at an industrial facility during the treatment of
industrial wastewater, including sewage sludge generated during the treatment
of industrial wastewater combined with domestic sewage;
C. the use or disposal of sewage sludge
determined to be hazardous according to Code of Federal Regulation, title 40,
part 261;
D. the use or disposal of
sewage sludge with a concentration of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) equal to
or greater than 50 milligrams per kilogram of total solids (dry weight
basis);
E. the use or disposal of
ash generated during the firing of sewage sludge in a sewage sludge
incinerator;
F. the use or disposal
of grit, for example, sand, gravel, cinders, or other materials with a high
specific gravity, or screenings, for example, relatively large materials such
as rags, generated during preliminary treatment of domestic sewage in a
treatment works;
G. the use or
disposal of sludge generated during the treatment of either surface water or
groundwater used for drinking water;
H. a material derived from exceptional
quality sewage sludge; and
I. the
land application or storage of domestic, commercial, industrial septage, a
mixture of domestic septage and commercial septage, or a mixture of domestic
septage and industrial septage unless the domestic septage or mixture is
generated or stored at a treatment works, in which case it is subject to the
requirements of this chapter.
Statutory Authority: MS s 116.07
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