Current through Supplement No. 395, January, 2025
1.
Salvage
incinerators. The department may require construction, operational, and
recordkeeping standards and procedures for salvage incinerators. No industrial
waste, radioactive waste, hazardous waste, or infectious waste may be burned in
a salvage incinerator, unless specifically approved by the
department.
2.
Air curtain
destructors. The department may require construction, operational, and
recordkeeping standards and procedures for air curtain destructors based upon
factors such as characteristics and quantities of materials to be destroyed by
burning and site location.
3.
Industrial waste and special waste incinerators. The department
may require construction, operational, emission, monitoring, recordkeeping, and
reporting standards and procedures for incinerators of industrial waste based
upon factors such as characteristics and quantities of the industrial waste and
site location.
4.
Crematoriums.
a. No owner or
operator of combustion units operated as a human or animal crematorium or in an
animal farm operation for animal disposal may burn any other type or form of
materials or solid waste unless specifically approved by the
department.
b. No owner or operator
of a crematorium may allow to be discharged into the atmosphere any air
contaminant, which exhibits an opacity greater than ten percent except that a
maximum of twenty percent is permissible for not more than one 6-minute period
per hour.
c. A crematorium
constructed and operated after August 1, 1995, must be equipped with two or
more chambers and with auxiliary fuel burners, designed to assure a temperature
in a secondary chamber of at least one thousand six hundred degrees Fahrenheit
[871 degrees Celsius] for a minimum of one-second retention time.
d. Monitoring. Each new crematorium must be
equipped with a continuous temperature monitor, with readout, to monitor the
temperature of the gases exiting the secondary combustion chamber or zone. Each
human crematorium installed or reinstalled after September 1, 2002, must be
equipped with a temperature recorder.
e. Charging. A crematorium must be charged in
accordance with the manufacturer's procedures or recommendations. Deviations
from these procedures or recommendations are allowed provided credible evidence
has been submitted to the department that indicates the deviations will reduce
air contaminant emissions. Such evidence shall be provided prior to
implementation of the deviations.
f. Operation. Operators of human crematoriums
shall be trained in the proper operation of the unit. A copy of the operation
and maintenance manual for the unit shall be available onsite. A trained
crematorium operator must be onsite at a human crematorium while the cremation
process is taking place.
g.
General. The department may establish additional construction, operational,
emission, monitoring, recordkeeping, and reporting standards and procedures for
crematoriums based upon factors such as quantities of material charged,
emissions, and site location.
General Authority: NDCC 23.1-06-04; S.L. 2017,
ch. 199, § 1
Law Implemented: NDCC 23.1-06-08, 23.1-06-09;
S.L. 2017, ch. 199, § 21
