291.05(5)(a)

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(a) The department shall promulgate rules regarding hazardous waste transportation that establish standards for the following:

291.05(5)(a)5.

5. Equipment operator qualifications.

291.05(6)(c)

(c) Sampling and analysis.

291.05(6)(d)

(d) Installation, calibration, use and maintenance of monitoring equipment.

291.05(6)(e)

(e) The design, construction, operation, closing and long-term care of hazardous waste facilities.

291.05(7)

(7)

291.05(6)(b)

(b) The making of reports, including the manifest to be used during the transport of hazardous waste.

291.05(2)

(2)

291.05(2)(a)

(a) The department shall promulgate by rule a list of hazardous wastes.

291.05(3)

(3)

291.05(3)(b)1.

1. The amounts of wastes and the concentrations of the harmful or potentially harmful components of the wastes;

291.05(5)

(5)

291.05(5)(a)1.

1. Record keeping concerning hazardous waste transported, and its source and delivery points.

291.05(5)(a)2.

2. Labeling procedures.

291.05(5)(a)3.

3. Use of a manifest system

291.05(1)

(1) The department shall promulgate by rule criteria identical to those promulgated by the U.S. environmental protection agency under s. 6921 (a) of the resource conservation and recovery act for identifying the characteristics of hazardous waste. The rules shall require that any person generating or transporting, or owning or operating a facility for treatment, storage or disposal of, any hazardous waste or any substance which meets the criteria shall notify the department of that fact within 90 days after the promulgation of the rule.

291.05(5)(a)4.

4. Containers used to transport waste.

291.05(6)

(6) The department shall adopt rules which prescribe requirements for:

291.05(6)(a)

(a) The establishment and maintenance of records.

291.05(2)(b)

(b) Except as provided under para. (c), the list of hazardous wastes shall be identical to the list promulgated by the U.S. environmental protection agency under s. 6921 (b) of the resource conservation and recovery act.

291.05(2)(c)

(c) The department may include or retain on the list of hazardous wastes any additional solid waste not included on the list promulgated by the U.S. environmental protection agency if the department determines that the additional solid waste has characteristics which identify it as a hazardous waste based on the criteria promulgated under sub. (1) and if the department determines that the inclusion or retention is necessary to protect public health, safety or welfare. The department shall issue specific findings and conclusions on which its determinations are based and shall include or retain the additional solid waste on the list of hazardous wastes by rule.

291.05(3)(a)

(a) The department shall promulgate rules under subs. (1) and (2) which establish not less than 2 nor more than 4 classes of hazardous waste and shall assign wastes to a particular class. The classes shall be based upon the relative degrees of hazard posed by the waste. Standards established under this chapter for hazardous waste facilities or for equipment which transports hazardous waste shall recognize and differentiate between the classes of waste which the facility or equipment is intended to transport, treat, store or dispose.

291.05(3)(b)

(b) In determining the relative degrees of hazard of classes of wastes under para. (a), the department shall consider the following:

291.05(3)(b)2.

2. The likelihood of exposure to humans or the environment of the harmful or potentially harmful components of the wastes based upon the mobility and stability of harmful components, and the biological or chemical conversion of the components to other harmful chemicals; and

291.05(3)(b)3.

3. The harm to humans or the environment resulting from the exposure identified under subd. 2. from the harmful components.

291.05(4)

(4) The department shall promulgate by rule a list of hazardous constituents which shall include, but need not be limited to, the hazardous constituents specified in 40 CFR 261, appendix VIII. The department may not list a hazardous constituent which is not specified in 40 CFR 261, appendix VIII unless it determines that the listing of the constituent is necessary to protect public health, safety or welfare. The department shall issue specific findings and conclusions on which such a determination to list a hazardous constituent is based.

291.05(5)(b)

(b) In developing requirements for licenses to transport hazardous waste under para. (a), the department shall maintain consistency with rules promulgated by the department of transportation.

291.05(6)(f)

(f) Corrective action under § 291.37.

291.05(7)(a)

(a) The department shall promulgate by rule a graduated schedule of reasonable license, plan approval and review fees to be charged for hazardous waste activities under §§ 291.23, 291.25, 291.29, 291.31 and 291.87.

291.05(7)(b)

(b) Hazardous waste activities under §§ 291.23, 291.25, 291.29, 291.31 and 291.87 consist of reviewing feasibility reports, plans of operation, closure plans and license applications, issuing determinations of feasibility, plan of operation approvals, operating licenses, interim licenses and variances, inspecting construction projects, approving closure plans and taking other actions in administering this §§ 291.23, 291.25, 291.29, 291.31 and 291.87.

291.05(7)(c)

(c) The department shall establish hazardous waste review fees at a level anticipated to recover the hazardous waste program staff review costs of conducting hazardous waste review activities.