Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 9, September 27, 2024
(a)
Maintenance and operation of facility. Facilities generating or accumulating
hazardous secondary material must be maintained and operated to minimize the
possibility of a fire, explosion, or any unplanned sudden or non-sudden release
of hazardous secondary materials or hazardous secondary material constituents
to air, soil, or surface water which could threaten human health or the
environment.
(b) Required
equipment. All facilities generating or accumulating hazardous secondary
material must be equipped with the following, unless none of the hazards posed
by hazardous secondary material handled at the facility could require a
particular kind of equipment specified below:
(1) An internal communications or alarm
system capable of providing immediate emergency instruction (voice or signal)
to facility personnel;
(2) A
device, such as a telephone (immediately available at the scene of operations)
or a hand-held two-way radio, capable of summoning emergency assistance from
local police departments, fire departments, or state or local emergency
response teams;
(3) Portable fire
extinguishers, fire control equipment (including special extinguishing
equipment, such as that using foam, inert gas, or dry chemicals), spill control
equipment, and decontamination equipment; and
(4) Water at adequate volume and pressure to
supply water hose streams, or foam producing equipment, or automatic
sprinklers, or water spray systems.
(c) Testing and maintenance of
equipment. All facility communications or alarm systems, fire
protection equipment, spill control equipment, and decontamination equipment,
where required, must be tested and maintained as necessary to assure its proper
operation in time of emergency.
(d)
Access to communications or alarm system.
(1)
Whenever hazardous secondary material is being poured, mixed, spread, or
otherwise handled, all personnel involved in the operation must have immediate
access to an internal alarm or emergency communication device, either directly
or through visual or voice contact with another employee, unless such a device
is not required under paragraph (b) of this section.
(2) If there is ever just one (1) employee on
the premises while the facility is operating, a device, such as a telephone
(immediately available at the scene of operation) or a hand-held two-way radio,
capable of summoning external emergency assistance, must be immediately
accessible unless such a device is not required under paragraph (b) of this
section.
(e) Required
aisle space. The hazardous secondary material generator or intermediate or
reclamation facility must maintain aisle space to allow the unobstructed
movement of personnel, fire protection equipment, spill control equipment, and
decontamination equipment to any area of facility operation in an emergency,
unless aisle space is not needed for any of these purposes.
(f) Arrangements with local authorities.
(1) The hazardous secondary material
generator or an intermediate or reclamation facility must attempt to make the
following arrangements, as appropriate for the type of waste handled at the
facility and the potential need for the services of these organizations:
(i) Arrangements to familiarize police, fire
departments, and emergency response teams with the layout of the facility,
properties of hazardous secondary material handled at the facility and
associated hazards, places where facility personnel would normally be working,
entrances to roads inside the facility, and possible evacuation
routes;
(ii) Where more than one
(1) police and fire department might respond to an emergency, agreements
designating primary emergency authority to a specific police and a specific
fire department, and agreements with any others to provide support to the
primary emergency authority;
(iii)
Agreements with state emergency response teams, emergency response contractors,
and equipment suppliers; and
(iv)
Arrangements to familiarize local hospitals with the properties of hazardous
waste handled at the facility and the types of injuries or illnesses which
could result from fires, explosions, or releases at the facility.
(2) Where state or local
authorities decline to enter into such arrangements, the hazardous secondary
material generator or an intermediate or reclamation facility must document the
refusal in the operating record.
