(a) This Chapter is
promulgated pursuant to the Wyoming Environmental Quality Act, Wyoming Statutes
(W.S.) §
35-11-101
through §
35-11-2005,
specifically § 306 and § 307.
(b) This Chapter governs all commercial oil
field waste disposal facilities that are required to demonstrate financial
assurance under W.S. §
35-11-306(c) and all
commercial waste treatment, storage and disposal facilities used for the
management of more than ten (10) tons of dried wastewater treatment sludges or
the equivalent per operating day that are required to demonstrate financial
assurance under W.S. §
35-11-307(a). This chapter
does not apply to publicly owned facilities or facilities that receive
non-domestic sludges.
(c) The
following definitions supplement those contained in W. S. §
35-11-103
of the Wyoming Environmental Quality Act:
(i)
"Closure" means the process of securing and stabilizing a regulated facility
pursuant to the requirements of this Chapter and a closure plan approved by the
Department.
(ii) "Corrective
action" means all actions necessary to remedy, abate, and eliminate the public
health threat, environmental threat, and damages from a release to the
environment of pollutants from a regulated facility or from any violation of a
permit, standard, rule, or other requirement established under the Wyoming
Environmental Quality Act
(iii)
"Monitoring" means all procedures and techniques used to systematically
collect, analyze and inspect data on operational parameters of the facility or
on the quality of the air, groundwater, surface water, and soil.
(iv) "Operator" means a person who owns or
operates a regulated facility or a person who holds a permit to construct,
install, modify, or operate a regulated facility.
(v) "Regulated facility" means a commercial
sludge facility or a commercial oil field waste disposal facility as specified
in Section l(b) of this chapter.
(vi) "Release" includes, but is not limited
to, any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emptying, emitting, discharging,
dumping, addition, escaping, leaching, or unauthorized disposal of any
pollutant that enters, or threatens to enter, the air, land or waters of the
State.
