Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2183.1 – Commercial hazardous waste recycling and incineration facilities; standards and criteria for operation; permits and licenses
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2183.1
- Facility: means a pollution source or any public or private property or facility where an activity is conducted which is required to be regulated under this Subtitle and which does or has the potential to do any of the following:
(a) Emit air contaminants into the atmosphere. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2004
- Hazardous waste: means any waste, or combination of wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, physical, or chemical characteristics may cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness, or pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed of, or otherwise managed. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2173
- Secretary: means the secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2004
- Treatment: means any method, technique, or process, including neutralization, designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological character or composition of any hazardous waste so as to neutralize such waste or render it nonhazardous, safer for transport, amenable for recovery or storage, or reduced in volume. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2173
- Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
- Waste: means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, or agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges which are point sources subject to permits under Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2173
A. Each commercial hazardous waste incineration facility that accepts hazardous waste or hazardous waste products for a fee, and each commercial recycling or resource recovery facility which recycles hazardous waste to produce aggregates and that accepts hazardous wastes or hazardous waste products for a fee, shall be strictly subject to the Louisiana Hazardous Waste Control Law and any rule or regulation adopted thereunder and any permit, license, or schedule of compliance required thereunder.
B. The secretary shall establish, by rule, within one hundred and eighty days from September 9, 1988, requirements and operating standards for all commercial hazardous waste incineration facilities that accept hazardous waste or hazardous waste products for a fee, and for all commercial recycling and resource recovery facilities which recycle hazardous waste to produce aggregates and that accept hazardous waste or hazardous waste products for a fee. The rules shall be established for each category of facility under the Louisiana Hazardous Waste Control Law. The standards and requirements shall include, but shall not be limited to:
(1) Permit procedures for such facilities.
(2) Air emission standards based on the best demonstrated available technology, minimum destruction and removal efficiency for hazardous constituents no less restrictive than national performance standards, trial burn requirements, stack emission monitoring requirements, and automatic feed cutoff systems and procedures.
(3) Analysis of all hazardous waste and hazardous waste products prior to incineration, recycling, or use, including the definition, classification, or identification of those products or residuals produced by such commercial facilities which are waste or hazardous waste.
(4) Inspection requirements for all equipment at such commercial facilities.
(5) Discharge restrictions and standards on wastewaters produced as a result of treatment or processing of hazardous waste or hazardous waste products by such commercial facilities.
(6) Auditing procedures and requirements for the sale of any recycled products or residuals produced by such commercial facilities.
Acts 1988, No. 730, §1.