Texas Administrative Code
Title 30 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Part 1 - TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Chapter 335 - INDUSTRIAL SOLID WASTE AND MUNICIPAL HAZARDOUS WASTE
Subchapter G - LOCATION STANDARDS FOR HAZARDOUS WASTE STORAGE, PROCESSING, OR DISPOSAL
Section 335.205 - Prohibition of Permit Issuance

Universal Citation: 30 TX Admin Code § 335.205

Current through Reg. 50, No. 13; March 28, 2025

(a) The commission shall not issue a permit for any of the following:

(1) a new hazardous waste management facility or an areal expansion of an existing facility if the facility or expansion does not meet the requirements of § 335.204 of this title (relating to Unsuitable Site Characteristics);

(2) a new hazardous waste landfill or the areal expansion of an existing hazardous waste landfill if there is a practical, economic, and feasible alternative to such a landfill that is reasonably available to manage the types and classes of hazardous waste which might be disposed of at the landfill;

(3) a new commercial hazardous waste management facility as defined in § 335.202 of this title (relating to Definitions) including such facilities that burn or propose to burn waste-derived fuel, as defined in this section, or the subsequent areal expansion of such a facility or unit of that facility if the boundary of the unit is to be located within 1/2 of a mile (2,640 feet) of an established residence, church, school, day care center, surface water body used for a public drinking water supply, or dedicated public park;

(4) a new commercial hazardous waste management facility that is proposed to be located at a distance greater than 1/2 mile (2,640 feet) from an established residence, church, school, day care center, surface water body used for a public drinking water supply, or dedicated public park unless the applicant demonstrates to the satisfaction of the commission that the facility will be operated so as to safeguard public health and welfare and protect physical property and the environment, at any distance beyond the facility's property boundaries; or

(5) a Class I injection well, a proposed hazardous waste management facility other than a Class I injection well, or a capacity expansion of an existing hazardous waste management facility if a fault exists within 2-1/2 miles from the proposed or existing wellbore of the Class I injection well or the area within the cone of influence whichever is greater, or if a fault exists within 3,000 feet of the proposed hazardous waste management facility other than a Class I injection well or of the capacity expansion of an existing hazardous waste management facility unless the applicant demonstrates to the satisfaction of the commission unless previously demonstrated to the commission or to the EPA that:
(A) in the case of Class I injection wells, that the fault is not sufficiently transmissive or vertically extensive to allow migration of hazardous constituents out of the injection zone; or

(B) in the case of a proposed hazardous waste management facility other than a Class I injection well or for a capacity expansion of an existing hazardous waste management facility, that:
(i) the fault has not had displacement within Holocene time, or if faults have had displacement within Holocene time, that no such faults pass within 200 feet of the portion of the surface facility where treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous waste will be conducted; and

(ii) the fault will not result in structural instability of the surface facility or provide for groundwater movement to the extent that there is endangerment to human health or the environment.

(b) For a subsequent areal expansion of a new commercial hazardous waste management facility that is required to comply with subsection (a)(3) of this section, distances shall be measured from an established residence, church, school, day care center, surface water body used for a public drinking water supply, or dedicated public park only if such structure, water supply, or park was in place at the time the distance was certified for the original permit.

(c) The measurement of distances required in subsection (a)(1), (3), and (4), and subsection (b) of this section shall be taken toward an established residence, church, school, day care center, surface water body used for a public drinking water supply, or dedicated public park that is in use when the notice of intent to file a permit application is filed with the commission or, if no notice of intent is filed, when the permit application is filed with the commission. The restrictions imposed by subsection (a)(1), (3), and (4), and subsection (b) of this section do not apply to an established residence, church, school, day care center, surface water body used for a public drinking supply, or dedicated public park located within the boundaries of a commercial hazardous waste management facility, or property owned by the permit applicant.

(d) The measurement of distances required in subsection (a)(1), (3), and (4), and subsection (b) of this section shall be taken from a perimeter around the proposed hazardous waste management unit. The perimeter shall be not more than 75 feet from the edge of the proposed hazardous waste management unit.

(e) Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to require the commission to issue a permit notwithstanding a finding that the proposed facility would satisfy the requirements of § 335.203 of this title (relating to Site Selection to Protect Groundwater or Surface Water) and notwithstanding the absence of site characteristics which would disqualify the site from permitting pursuant to § 335.204 of this title.

(f) The term "Waste-derived fuel" when used in this section, shall mean any material resulting from the blending or inclusion of hazardous waste that is to be burned for energy recovery. Such fuel does not include material derived from nonhazardous waste such as nonhazardous waste garbage, rubbish, refuse, tires, sludge from a wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, or other nonhazardous waste solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, municipal, commercial, mining, or agricultural operations or from community or institutional activities.

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