La. Admin. Code tit. 33 § V-2207

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

Section V-2207 - Dilution Prohibited as a Substitute for Treatment

A. Except as provided in Subsection B of this Section, no generator, transporter, handler, or owner or operator of a treatment, storage, or disposal facility shall in any way dilute a prohibited waste or the residual from treatment of a prohibited waste as a substitute for adequate treatment to achieve compliance with this Chapter, to circumvent the effective date of or otherwise avoid a prohibition listed in Subchapter A of this Chapter, or to circumvent a land disposal prohibition imposed by RCRA Section 3004.

B. Dilution of wastes that are hazardous only because they exhibit a characteristic in treatment systems that include land-based units which treat wastes subsequently discharged to a water of the United States pursuant to a permit issued under Section 402 of the Clean Water Act (CWA) or which treat wastes in a CWA-equivalent treatment system or which treat wastes for purposes of pretreatment requirements under Section 307 of the CWA is not impermissible dilution for purposes of this Section unless a method other than DEACT has been specified in LAC 33:V.2223 as the treatment standard, or unless the waste is a D003 reactive cyanide wastewater or nonwastewater.

C. Combustion of the hazardous waste codes listed in LAC 33:V.2299.Appendix, Table 5 is prohibited, unless the waste, at the point of generation, or after any bona fide treatment, such as cyanide destruction prior to combustion, can be demonstrated to comply with one or more of the following criteria (unless otherwise specifically prohibited from combustion):

1. the waste contains hazardous organic constituents or cyanide at levels exceeding the constituent-specific treatment standard found in LAC 33:V.2299.Appendix, Table 7;

2. the waste consists of organic, debris-like materials (e.g., wood, paper, plastic, or cloth) contaminated with an inorganic metal-bearing hazardous waste;

3. the waste, at point of generation, has reasonable heating value, such as greater than or equal to 5,000 BTU per pound;

4. the waste is cogenerated with wastes for which combustion is a required method of treatment;

5. the waste is subject to federal and/or state requirements necessitating reduction of organics (including biological agents); or

6. the waste contains greater than 1 percent Total Organic Carbon (TOC).

D. It is a form of impermissible dilution, and therefore prohibited, to add iron filings or other metallic forms of iron to lead-containing hazardous wastes in order to achieve any land disposal restriction treatment standard for lead. Lead-containing wastes include D008 wastes (wastes exhibiting a characteristic due to the presence of lead), all characteristic wastes containing lead as an underlying hazardous constituent, listed wastes containing lead as a regulated constituent, and hazardous media containing any of the aforementioned lead-containing wastes.

La. Admin. Code tit. 33, § V-2207

Promulgated by the Department of Environmental Quality, Office of Solid and Hazardous Waste, Hazardous Waste Division, LR 15:378 (May 1989), amended LR 16:1057 (December 1990), LR 21:266 (March 1995), LR 22:22 (January 1996), amended by the Office of Waste Services, Hazardous Waste Division, LR 24:667 (April 1998), LR 25:443 (March 1999), Amended by the Office of the Secretary, Legal Division, LR 431142 (6/1/2017).

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