Exposure Scenarios for Classifying Exempt Waste

1 Exposure Scenarios for Classifying Exempt Waste. Based on the definition of exempt waste as any waste that would be generally acceptable for disposal in a municipal/industrial landfill for non-hazardous waste, scenarios for inadvertent intrusion appropriate to this type of facility should be used in determining whether a waste would be classified as exempt. 

The assumptions about exposure scenarios described above would apply to any allowable means of disposal of exempt waste on or near the ground surface. An assumption that exempt waste would be sent to a disposal facility for nonhazardous waste permitted under Subtitle D of RCRA (1976) is not required. 

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