johnson, susan, idnr, making hazardous/non-hazardous waste determinations, mecc, 2016, overland park

Susan Johnson, CHMM

Environmental Specialist Sr.

Land Quality Bureau – Solid Waste

(515) 725-8317 susan.johnson@dnr.iowa.gov

Background

SWA program overview

Waste determinations

Examples

Solving the waste determination puzzle: Assistance!

Agenda

Background for Iowa

• Not RCRA Authorized State

• Iowa and Alaska

• EPA region 7 administers

• Iowa has 42 landfills (subtitle D)

IAC Chapter 101

Special Waste Authorizations (SWA’s) 567 IAC 109

Provides safe, proper, disposal management: – Threat to human health

– Threat to environment

– Difficult to manage

– Analytical review

Why the Concern?

Landfill fire Worker safety: Can toxic wastes sneak in?

Transfer Station Fire

Paint booth waste

Building demolition

Fire debris

Traces of explosives

Lead contaminated

soil - Chelated

Sandblast waste

Sodium and Potassium nitrate 37 Ruger 38 cal. Automatics 22 long barrels 45 cal. automatics

Natural Disasters - Tornado

Spontaneous combustion

Firing range

Bakken -

fracking

waste

EVERYONE who generates a solid waste must make a hazardous waste determination in order to know how their waste might be regulated, unless it is explicitly excluded from RCRA regulation, as indicated in the determination process at 40 CFR 262.11.

Before a waste can be accepted at a landfill site, the landfill operator must be satisfied that the waste meets permit conditions.

RCRA

Using one waste determination for several “sister” or “parent” companies

Unit of measure

totals

TCLP

40 CFR 261.24

RCRA Metal Regulatory TCLP mg/L

Must be below 20x level mg/Kg

Arsenic 5.0 100

Barium 100.0 2000

Cadmium 1.0 20

Chromium 5.0 100

Lead 5.0 100

Mercury 0.2 4

Selenium 1.0 20

Silver 5.0 100

Rule of 20 (Must be 100% solid)

100

2000

20

100

100

4

20x

SDSs are not required to list any carcinogenic

components under .1% and non-carcinogenic

components under 1%.

Do the math:

.1% = 1,000 ppm

1% = 10,000 ppm

Just because it is not RCRA hazardous, does not mean it is not an

OSHA hazardous substance. Protect yourself, employees and

neighbors!

567 IAC 109.5(2)c 567 IAC 113.8(1)“b”

Wastes with PCB concentrations

equal to or greater than 50 ppm

shall not be authorized for disposal

at a landfill.

TSCA – PCBs

Scope of Review 567-100 - Definitions, Scope of Title 567-102 - Permits 567-103 - Sanitary Landfills: Coal Combustion Residue 567-104 - Sanitary Disposal Projects w/Processing 567-105 - Organic Materials Composting Facilities 567-106 - Citizen Convenience Centers and Transfer Stations 567-108 - Beneficial Use Determinations 567-109 - Special Waste Authorizations 567-110 - Hydrogeologic Investigation and Monitoring 567-112 - Sanitary Landfills: Biosolids Monofills 567-113 - Sanitary Landfills: Municipal Solid Waste 567-114 - Sanitary Landfills: Construction and Demolition Wastes 567-115 - Sanitary Landfills: Industrial Monofills 567-116 - Registration of Waste Tire Haulers 567-117 - Waste Tire Management 567-118 - Discarded Appliance Demanufacturing 567-120 - Landfarming of Petroleum Contaminated Soil 567-121 - Land Application of Wastes 567-122 - Cathode Ray Tube Device Recycling 567-218 - Waste Tire Stockpile Abatement Program

Stay Connected

• E-mail list: to subscribe send a blank (no subject) e-mail to join-dnrswrr@lists.ia.gov

• Contact us at SWRR@dnr.iowa.gov

• All documents, meeting notes and more information is at www.iowadnr.gov/SWRR

Resources to Assist Iowa Waste Generators • Iowa Waste Exchange - IWE

• Iowa Waste Reduction Center - IWRC

• Pollution Prevention Program – DNR

• Special Waste Program - DNR

• Iowa DNR field offices

• EPA Region 7

• Regional Collection Centers for Household Hazardous Waste

• Solid Waste Alternative Program (SWAP) – DNR

• DNR Education Trailer -

iowadnr.gov

Susan Johnson, CHMM

Environmental Specialist Sr.

Land Quality Bureau

Iowa Department of Natural Resources

Susan.Johnson@dnr.iowa.gov

515/725-8317