La. Admin. Code tit. 33 § V-1519

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

Section V-1519 - General Waste Analysis

A. Hazardous Waste Chemical and Physical Analysis

1. Before an owner or operator treats, stores, or disposes of any hazardous waste, or non-hazardous wastes if applicable under LAC 33:V.3513.D, he or she must obtain a detailed chemical and physical analysis of a representative sample of the waste. At a minimum, this analysis must contain all the information which must be known to treat, store, or dispose of the waste in accordance with all requirements of LAC 33:V.Chapters 15 and 22.

2. The analysis may include data developed under LAC 33:V.Chapter 49 and existing published or documented data on the hazardous waste or on hazardous waste generated from similar processes.

COMMENT: For example, the facility's records of analyses performed on the waste before the effective date of these regulations, or studies conducted on hazardous waste generated from processes similar to that which generated the waste to be managed at the facility, may be included in the data base required to comply with Paragraph A.1 of this Section. The owner or operator of an off-site facility may arrange for the generator of the hazardous waste to supply part of the information required by Paragraph A.1 of this Section, except as otherwise specified in LAC 33:V.2247.A and A.1. If the generator does not supply the information and the owner or operator chooses to accept a hazardous waste, the owner or operator is responsible for obtaining the information required to comply with this Section.

3. The analysis must be repeated as necessary to ensure that it is accurate and up to date. At a minimum, the analysis must be repeated:

a. when the owner or operator is notified, or has reason to believe, that the process or operation generating the hazardous waste or nonhazardous waste if applicable under LAC 33:V.3513.D, has changed; and

b. for off-site facilities, when the results of the inspection required in LAC 33:V.1519.A.4 indicate that the hazardous waste received at the facility does not match the waste designated in the accompanying manifest or shipping paper.

4. The owner or operator of an off-site facility must inspect and, if necessary, analyze each hazardous waste movement received at the facility to determine whether it matches the identity of the waste specified on the accompanying manifest or shipping paper.

B. The owner or operator must develop and follow a written waste analysis plan that describes the procedures that he or she will carry out to comply with LAC 33:V.1519.A. He or she must keep this plan at the facility. At a minimum, the plan must specify:

1. the parameters for which each hazardous waste, or non-hazardous waste if applicable under LAC 33:V.3513.D, will be analyzed and the rationale for the selection of these parameters (i.e., how analysis for these parameters will provide sufficient information on the waste's properties to comply with LAC 33:V.1519.A);

2. the test methods as specified in Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Waste, Physical/Chemical Methods, EPA Publication SW-846 as incorporated by reference at LAC 33:V.110, or an equivalent method approved by the administrative authority, which will be used to test for these parameters; and

3. the sampling method which will be used to obtain a representative sample of the waste to be analyzed. A representative sample may be obtained using a method approved by the administrative authority;

COMMENT: See LAC 33:V.105.I for related discussion.

4. the plan must further specify the frequency with which the initial analysis of the waste will be reviewed or repeated to ensure that the analysis is accurate and up to date;

5. the Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC) procedures used to ensure the waste sampling and analysis are satisfactory;

6. the plan must further specify for off-site facilities the waste analyses that hazardous waste generators have agreed to supply; and

7. where applicable, the methods which will be used to meet the additional waste analysis requirements for specific waste management methods as specified in LAC 33:V.1517, 1711.D, 1741.D, 1753, 2515, 3107, and 2245;

8. for surface impoundments exempted from land disposal prohibitions under LAC 33:V.2237, the procedures and schedules for:

a. the sampling of impoundment contents;

b. the analysis of test data; and

c. the annual removal of residues which are not delisted under LAC 33:V.105.M or which exhibit a characteristic of hazardous waste and either:

i. do not meet applicable treatment standards of LAC 33:V.Chapter 22.Subchapters A and B; or

ii. where no treatment standards have been established:

(a). such residues are prohibited from land disposal under LAC 33:V.2213; or

(b). such residues are prohibited from land disposal under LAC 33:V.2215; and

9. for owners and operators seeking an exemption to the air emission standards of LAC 33:V.Chapter 17. Subchapter C in accordance with LAC 33:V.1751:

a. if direct measurement is used for the waste determination, the procedures and schedules for waste sampling and analysis, and the results of the analysis of test data to verify the exemption; or

b. if knowledge of the waste is used for the waste determination, any information prepared by the facility owner or operator or by the generator of the hazardous waste, if the waste is received from off-site, that is used as the basis for knowledge of the waste.

C. For off-site facilities, the required waste analysis plan must also specify the procedures which will be used to inspect and, if necessary, analyze each movement of hazardous waste received at the facility to ensure that it matches the identity of the waste designated on the accompanying manifest or shipping paper. At a minimum, the plan must describe:

1. the procedures which will be used to determine the identity of each movement of waste managed at the facility; and

2. the sampling method which will be used to obtain a representative sample of the waste to be identified, if the identification method includes sampling; (LAC 33:V.517.C requires that the waste analysis plan be submitted with Part II of the permit application.)

3. the procedures that the owner or operator of an off-site landfill receiving containerized hazardous waste will use to determine whether a hazardous waste generator or treater has added a biodegradable sorbent to the waste in the container.

D. Certification. All waste analysis plans must be certified by a Louisiana licensed professional engineer (PE).

La. Admin. Code tit. 33, § V-1519

Promulgated by the Department of Environmental Quality, Office of Solid and Hazardous Waste, Hazardous Waste Division, LR 10:200 (March 1984), amended LR 15:378 (May 1989), LR 16:220 (March 1990), LR 17:478 (May 1991), LR 17:658 (July 1991), LR 18:1256 (November 1992), LR 20:1000 (September 1994), LR 20:1109 (October 1994), LR 21:266 (March 1995), LR 21:1334 (December 1995), LR 22:818 (September 1996), amended by the Office of Waste Services, Hazardous Waste Division, LR 24:1695 (September 1998).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 30:2180 et seq.