Treatment, storage, and disposal facilities TSDFs

Under the RCRA exemption, wastes intrinsically associated with the exploration and development of oil and gas do not have to follow Subtitle C regulations for disposal. Under Subtitle C, hazardous wastes must follow strict guidelines for storage, treatment, and transportation and disposal. The cost of handling materials under the Subtitle C scenario is overwhelming. Under the exemption, the operator is allowed to dispose of wellsite waste in a prudent manner and is not obliged to use licensed hazardous waste transporters and licensed Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facilities (TSDF). 

FIGURE 23.1 Number of incidents at combustion facilities and TSDFs. (Adapted from U.S. EPA, Report on Emergency Incidents at Hazardous Waste Combustion Facilities and Other Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facilities (TSDFs), EPA530-R-99-014, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, June 1999.)... 

It is suggested that the recycling plants may be set up at existing Treatment Storage and Disposal Facility (TSDF) sites for hazardous wastes. There are currently 25 such sites in India spread across 11 states. The state-wise distribution is shown in Fig. 2. 

There are two options for disposing of energetics. PMCD prefers the simpler option of sending them to existing offsite treatment, storage, and disposal facilities (TSDFs) that routinely dispose of similar energetics. Before energetics removed from chemical munitions can be shipped off site,... 

Hydrolysate (if shipped to a treatment, storage, and disposal facility (TSDF)). 

The committee found that the ACWA program and its contractors appear to be treated by regulatory authorities just like any commercial facility that treats, stores, and disposes of listed hazardous w astes, with one exception It is expected that the Army will treat the hazardous waste onsite. Many commercial hazardous wastes are routinely shipped to permitted treatment, storage, and disposal facilities (TSDFs). At present, this is not possible for many of the major volume waste streams that will be generated at BGCAPP and PCAPP despite the fact that many of these waste streams have been safely shipped to permitted TSDFs from the other combustion and neutralization facilities. 

Each state has a program for granting permits for the construction and operation of treatment, storage, and disposal facilities (TSDFs). Pennits establish appropriate site-specific conditions for all aspects of the hazardous waste management and destruction processes used. Secondary waste from the two chemical agent disposal facilities covered... 

After being unpacked, the munitions are conveyed to the linear projectile/mortar disassembly (LPMD) machine, where nose plugs, fuzes, boosters, and bursters are removed. The empty burster well is sampled to determine if a leak has occurred if not, the bursters and fuzes will be removed and shipped off-site to a commercial treatment, storage, and disposal facility (TSDF). If a leak has occurred in the burster well, or if the LPMD machine is unable to process the projectile (in which case it is considered to be a reject), the munition is overpacked for treatment by the EDT. 

Some treatment options, such as the use of stockpile incinerators, would destroy the non-stockpile item directly. Others, especially those involving chemical neutralization, generate liquid secondary waste streams that require further treatment before disposal. This secondary waste treatment could take place in a commercial treatment, storage, and disposal facility (TSDF) or could employ one or more of the individual alternative technologies, such as chemical oxidation, either at the site where chemical neutralization takes place or at an off-site location. If secondary waste is defined as hazardous waste, such treatment would need to be conducted at a commercial TSDF permitted or approved by the appropriate regulatory authority under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). 

The Army has at its disposition four principle types of facilities for treating non-stockpile chemical materiel nonstockpile facilities, designed to destroy large quantities of dissimilar CWM stockpile facilities, constructed to destroy large quantities of similar CWM research and development facilities and commercial treatment, storage, and disposal facilities (TSDFs). 

Treatment, storage and disposal facilities (TSDFs) Capable of high-temperature incineration of secondary waste streams produced by the RRS, EDS, and other systems... 

The fourth type of facility—commercial treatment, storage, and disposal facilities (TSDFs)—differs from stockpile and non-stockpile facilities in that commercial TSDFs cannot be used to treat CWM. However, they can accept the secondary waste generated by mobile systems and some individual treatment technologies, assuming that the secondary waste no longer contains agent, except perhaps at de minimis levels. A permit modification for treatment of these wastes may be required, however. 

The three primary goals of RCRA are to (1) protect human health and the environment, (2) reduce waste and conserve energy and natural resources, and (3) reduce or eliminate the generation of hazardous waste as swiftly as possible. The three main players under RCRA regulation are (1) hazardous waste generators, (2) transporters, and (3) treatment, storage, and disposal facilities (TSDFs). The following discussion briefly examines each party s roles under RCRA. 

The Army s baseline plan for destruction of the drummed EDS hquid waste is to incinerate it in a commercial treatment, storage, and disposal facility (TSDF). However, concerns raised by some public interest groups have prompted greater interest in evaluating alternative, nonincineration technologies for liquid waste destruction. 

U. S. E. P. Agency, Hazardous Waste Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facilities (TSDF), EPA-450/3-87-026, USEPA, OAQPS, Air Emission Models, 1989. 

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