TSDFs standards

Permitting To ensure that only facilities meeting the TSDF standards are treating, storing, and disposing of hazardous waste and to provide each TSDF with a record of the specific requirements applicable to each part of its operation, RCRA requires owners and operators of these facilities to obtain a permit. 

Store used oil in tanks and containers. Storage of used oil in lagoons, pits, or surface impoundments is prohibited, unless these units are subject to hazardous waste TSDF standards. 

The standards include full operation and management requirements for permitted facilities (new) and less stringent provisions for interim status facilities (existing). The TSDF standards require facilities to comply with... 

LQGs accumulating waste in containers, containment buildings, drips pads, and tanks are subject to the interim status TSDF standards for these units. SQGs accumulating waste in containers and tanks are subject to the interim status standards for these units. 

The TSDF standards also establish requirements to ensure that hazardous waste management units are closed in a manner that protects human health and the environment. The closure provisions require the facility to stop accepting waste remove all waste from management units and decontaminate all soils, structures, and equipment. Some units (i.e., land treatment units, landfills, and surface impoundments) serve as places for the final disposal of hazardous waste. These land disposal units must comply with additional postclosure requirements to ensure proper long-term unit maintenance. 

Because closure and postclosure activities can be very expensive, the TSDF standards require owners and operators to demonstrate financial assurance. These provisions also require all TSDFs to set aside funds in order to compensate third parties for bodily injury and property damage that might result from hazardous waste management operations. 

RCRA s TSDF standards also include provisions to protect groundwater and air resources from hazardous waste contamination. RCRA requires owners and operators of land-based units (i.e., land treatment units, landfills, surface impoundments, and waste piles) to monitor the groundwater below their TSDF for possible contamination, and clean up any discovered contamination. 

Because hazardous waste combustion units are a type of TSDF, they are subject to the general TSDF standards in addition to combustion unit performance standards and operating requirements. Combustion units are also subject to specific waste analysis, inspection and monitoring, and residue management requirements. 

Permitted BIFs are subject to all of the general TSDF standards including general operating standards, preparedness and prevention, contingency plan, use of the manifest system, closure and financial assurance, and corrective action. 

Universal waste destination facilities are facilities that treat, dispose of, or recycle a particular category of universal waste. These facilities are subject to the same requirements as fully regulated hazardous waste TSDFs. Full regulation includes permit requirements, general facility standards, and unit-specific standards. The universal waste program includes only two additional specific universal waste requirements for destination facilities. These requirements are procedures for rejecting shipments of universal waste and the documentation of the receipt of universal waste. 

TSDFs owners and operators can treat, store, or dispose of waste in a variety of units. Each unit has its own specific standards governing unit design, construction, operation, and maintenance. Owners and operators can manage their waste in any of the following units1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ... 

In addition, these units are also subject to the general TSDF facility standards under RCRA. Flazardous waste incinerators and hazardous waste burning cement kilns and LWAKs are also subject to the CAA MACT emission standards. A complete overview of the MACT standards and additional information about hazardous waste combustion can be found in Ref. 13. 

Hazardous waste generators and TSDFs may need to comply with OSHA training and planning standards, in addition to RCRA requirements. 

TSDFs). U.S. EPA promulgated both general facility standards that apply to all TSDFs and requirements for specific types of units (e.g., incinerators, landfills, and surface impoundments) in 40 CFR Parts 264 and 265. The regulations under Parts 264 and 265, Subpart O, apply to owners and operators of facilities that incinerate hazardous waste.4... 

As mentioned above, interim status BIFs must be operated much in the same way as those facilities with permits. As with permitted BIFs, owners/operators of interim status BIFs must comply with all applicable TSDF regulations in Part 265. In addition, because interim status facilities have not yet conducted trial burns to ensure compliance with the standards, U.S. EPA has placed some restrictions on their use and what types of hazardous waste these facilities may burn. These restrictions are discussed below. 

Interim Status Standards for Hazardous Waste TSDF - Recordkeeping Yes 40 CFR 265, App, I EPA 1980d... 

Standards for Owners and Operators of Hazardous Wate TSDF ... 

API. Comments on Proposed Emission Standards for Hazardous Waste TSDF s, submitted to United States Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, in response to 56FR 33490, by American Petroleum Institute, Washington, DC, 1991. 

BGCAPP or PMACWA personnel. Plans for the disposal of secondary wastes generated at BGCAPP call for the waste to be (1) shipped offsite to an approved TSDF or (2) treated onsite and then shipped offsite. Whether onsite treatment of secondary waste is needed depends on whether the waste is agent-contaminated on noncontaminated on whether it meets airborne exposure limit guidance standards for offsite slupment, which will be set in the permit and on what may be required by the approved WAP. 

Solids are suitable for standard TSDF treatments or landfilling. 

In all states, the EDS neutralents could be considered characteristic hazardous wastes under RCRA. With some exceptions, a hazardous waste may only be treated, stored, or disposed of in a RCRA-permitted TSDF. In addition, any treatment technology must meet RCRA requirements, such as the Land Disposal Restrictions (LDRs) (40 CFR 268). In accordance with the LDRs, wastes must meet certain treatment standards prior to land disposal. These restrictions provide for additional protection of human health and the environment, but they add considerably to the cost and time required to treat and dispose of the waste stream. Other standards must also be met, such as those associated with treatment facihty operation and closure. 

Set technical standards for the design and safe operation of TSDFs and... 

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