Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 11 - Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality
Part 4 - Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management Regulations
Chapter 5 - Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality Waste Tire Transportation Regulations
Rule 11-4-5.1 - Applicability

A. Except as provided in Rule 5.1(B), (C), (D) and (E), these requirements shall apply to waste tire generators, transporters, haulers, and the owners/operators of waste tire collection, processing and disposal sites concerning the transportation of waste tires in Mississippi, including instances where

B. Certification requirements of Rules 5.3(A) and (B), 5.4(A), (B) and (C), and 5.6(A) and (B) shall not apply to:

C. The requirements of Rule 5.5(C) and (D) shall not apply to waste tire haulers when the tires being transported are neither generated in the state nor destined for storage, processing, disposal, or retreading/resale in the state.

D. These requirements shall not apply to the transportation of reusable tires to facilities or businesses which process or sell such tires. However, for the purposes of these requirements all used tires shall be considered to be waste tires until such time that those tires which are reusable tires have been specifically separated from the waste tires.

E. Facilities or businesses which receive reusable and/or waste tires for purposes such as retreading or resale are not considered to be waste tire processing facilities; however, such facilities that store more than 500 waste tires on site, or that store 100 or more waste tires for more than 90 days, may be considered to be waste tire collection sites.

F. For purposes of this regulation, tires which have been cut, chopped, sliced, shredded or otherwise processed into multiple pieces shall be considered to be waste tires.