Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 9, September 27, 2024
(a) No
person shall place industrial sludge on an active industrial sludge unit unless
the requirements in this part are met.
(1)
The following activities or conditions constitute land disposal (unless the
Department has issued a permit or granted approval for the specific activity):
(i) Storage of industrial sludge in sludge
storage units, excluding sludge treatment, for more than two (2) years
constitutes land disposal.
(ii) The
design storage capacity of industrial sludge storage units will not be
permitted to exceed two (2) years at the treatment plant design conditions,
or
(iii) Accumulation of industrial
sludge in a treatment works to greater than fifty (50) percent of the capacity
of the unit or to an average depth of greater than design depth constitutes
land disposal of sludge under this regulation, or
(iv) Accumulation of industrial sludge that
adversely impacts the overall treatment works operation and maintenance or
results in an excessive sludge inventory, may result in a facility being
identified as a land disposal site.
(2) For any facility, except a landfill or a
sludge only monofill, meeting the definition of a land disposal site on the
date of this regulation, either sufficient amount of sludge must be removed
from the facility in order to change the facility's classification, or a report
detailing final closure must be submitted to the Bureau of Water, Department of
Health and Environmental Control or an application for permitting under Solid
Waste Regulations must be submitted to the Bureau of Land and Waste Management,
Department of Health and Environmental Control. Either the sludge removal must
be accomplished within one year after the date of this regulation or the
closeout report or permit application must be submitted to the Department
within one (1) year after the date of this regulation. If closure is the
selected option, the plan must provide a schedule showing how the closure will
be accomplished. The land disposal site must be either closed under Regulation
Regulation 61-82 or permitted by Solid Waste Management Regulations by June 28,
2001. Facilities will be in compliance with this section if a timely and
complete application for closure or permit is made and through no fault of the
applicant a closure approval or permit has not been issued.
(3) [Reserved]
(d) The owner of a land disposal site in
existence on or before the effective date of this regulation and then closed
shall provide written notification to the subsequent owner of the site that
industrial sludge was placed on the land.
(e) Land disposal of sludge in a landfill,
including sludge only monofills, shall comply with State Solid Waste
regulations and requirements in permits.
(h) New land disposal sites must be permitted
under the provisions of Solid and Hazardous Waste Regulations prior to
operation.
