La. Admin. Code tit. 33 § V-2223

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

Section V-2223 - Applicability of Treatment Standards

A. A prohibited waste identified in the LAC 33:V.2299.Appendix, Table 2 may be land disposed only if it meets the requirements found in Table 2. For each waste, the table identifies one of the three types of treatment standard requirements:

1. all hazardous constituents in the waste or in the treatment residue must be at or below the values found in the table for that waste (total waste standards);

2. the hazardous constituents in the extract of the waste or in the extract of the treatment residue must be at or below the values found in the table (waste extract standards); or

3. the waste must be treated using the technology specified in the table (technology standard), which are described in detail in LAC 33:V.2299.Appendix, Table 3, Technology Codes and Description of Technology-Based Standards.

B. For wastewaters, compliance with concentration level standards is based on maximums for any one day, except for D004-D011 wastes for which the previously promulgated treatment standards based on grab samples remain in effect. For all nonwastewaters, compliance with concentration level standards is based on grab sampling. For wastes covered by the waste extract standards, the Test Method 1311, the Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure as described in Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Waste, Physical/Chemical Methods, EPA Publication SW-846, as incorporated by reference in LAC 33:V.110, must be used to measure compliance. An exception is made for D004 and D008, for which either of two test methods may be used: Method 1311 or Method 1310B, the Extraction Procedure Toxicity Test. For wastes covered by a technology standard, the wastes may be land disposed after being treated using that specified technology or an equivalent treatment technology approved by the administrative authority under the procedures set forth in LAC 33:V.2227.

C. When wastes with differing treatment standards for a constituent of concern are combined for purposes of treatment, the treatment residue must meet the lowest treatment standard for the constituent of concern.

D. Notwithstanding the prohibitions specified in Subsection A of this Section, treatment and disposal facilities may demonstrate (and certify in accordance with LAC 33:V.2247.C) compliance with the treatment standards for organic constituents specified by footnote in LAC 33:V.2299.Appendix, Table 2, Treatment Standards for Hazardous Wastes, provided the following conditions are satisfied:

1. the treatment standards for the organic constituents were established based on incineration in units operated in accordance with the technical requirements of LAC 33:V.Chapter 31 or based on combustion in fuel substitution units operating in accordance with applicable technical requirements;

2. the treatment or disposal facility has used the methods referenced in Paragraph D.1 of this Section to treat the organic constituents; and

3. the treatment or disposal facility may demonstrate compliance with organic constituents if good-faith analytical efforts achieve detection limits for the regulated organic constituents that do not exceed the treatment standards specified in this Section by an order of magnitude.

E. For characteristic wastes (D001-D043) that are subject to treatment standards in LAC 33:V.2299.Appendix, Table 2, Treatment Standards for Hazardous Wastes, and are not managed in a wastewater treatment system that is regulated under the Clean Water Act (CWA), that is CWA-equivalent, or that is injected into a Class I nonhazardous deep injection well, all underlying hazardous constituents (as defined in LAC 33:V.2203) must meet Universal Treatment Standards, found in LAC 33:V.2299.Appendix, Table 7, prior to land disposal as defined in LAC 33:V.2203.

F. The treatment standards for F001-F005 nonwastewater constituents carbon disulfide, cyclohexanone, and/or methanol apply to wastes that contain only one, two, or three of these constituents. Compliance is measured for these constituents in the waste extract from Test Method 1311, the Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure found in Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Waste, Physical/Chemical Methods, EPA Publication SW-846, as incorporated by reference in LAC 33:V.110. If the waste contains any of these three constituents along with any of the other 25 constituents found in F001-F005, then compliance with treatment standards for carbon disulfide, cyclohexanone, and/or methanol are not required.

G. Between August 26, 1997, and April 20, 1999, the treatment standards for the wastes specified in LAC 33:V.4901.C as EPA Hazardous Waste Numbers K156-K161 and in LAC 33:V.4901.E-F as EPA Hazardous Waste Numbers P127, P128, P185, P188-P192, P194, P196-P199, P201-P205, U271, U278-U280, U364-U367, U372, U373, U375-U379, U381-U387, U389-U396, U404, and U409-U411 and soil contaminated with these wastes were satisfied by either meeting the constituent concentrations presented in LAC 33:V.2299.Appendix, Table 2, or by treating the waste by the following technologies: combustion, as defined by the technology code CMBST at LAC 33:V.2299.Appendix, Table 3, for nonwastewaters; and biodegradation as defined by the technology code BIODG, carbon adsorption as defined by the technology code CARBN, chemical oxidation as defined by the technology code CHOXD, or combustion as defined as technology code CMBST at LAC 33:V.2299.Appendix, Table 3, for wastewaters.

H. Prohibited D004-D011 mixed radioactive wastes and mixed radioactive listed wastes containing metal constituents that were previously treated by stabilization to the treatment standards in effect at that time and then put into storage, do not have to be retreated to meet treatment standards in this Section prior to land disposal.

I. Effective September 4, 1998, the treatment standards for the wastes specified in LAC 33:V.4901.D as EPA Hazardous Waste Numbers P185, P191, P192, P197, U364, U394, and U395 may be satisfied by either meeting the constituent concentrations presented in LAC 33:V.2299.Appendix, Table 2, Treatment Standards for Hazardous Wastes, or by treating the waste by the following technologies: combustion, as defined by the technology code CMBST in LAC 33:V.2299.Appendix, Table 3, for nonwastewaters; and biodegradation as defined by the technology code BIODG, carbon adsorption as defined by the technology code CARBN, chemical oxidation as defined by the technology code CHOXD, or combustion as defined as technology code CMBST in LAC 33:V.2299.Appendix, Table 3, for wastewaters.

La. Admin. Code tit. 33, § V-2223

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 17:658 (July 1991), LR 21:266 (March 1995), LR 22:22 (January 1996), LR 22:819 (September 1996), amended by the Office of Waste Services, Hazardous Waste Division, LR 24:668 (April 1998), LR 24:1726 (September 1998), LR 25:444 (March 1999), amended by the Office of Environmental Assessment, Environmental Planning Division, LR 26:280 (February 2000), LR 30:1682 (August 2004), amended by the Office of the Secretary, Legal Affairs Division, LR 34:1014 (June 2008).

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