N.H. Code Admin. R. Env-Hw 304.18

Current through Register No. 25, June 20, 2024

Section Env-Hw 304.18 - Result of Evaluation of Complete Application for New Treatment, Storage or Disposal Facilities

For any application for a new treatment, storage, or disposal facility, if the department determines that the permit application does not contain sufficient information to determine whether the proposed facility could be sited or operated, or the proposed activity could be conducted, such that human health, safety, and the environment will be protected, the applicant shall, upon request by the department, submit the following information:

(a) A health assessment that evaluates the hazardous nature of the wastes that will be handled at the facility and their potential impact on public health resulting from the operation of the facility, including the following:

(1) Data on the hazardous wastes regarding:

a. Known or suspected health effects associated with the wastes being handled, including information on acute toxicity, chronic toxicity, carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, teratogenicity and reproductive effects;

b. Environmental persistence in soil, air, and water;

c. Bioaccumulation potential;

d. Emission or discharge rates of the hazardous wastes or by-products from the facility;

e. Potential pathways of human exposure or environmental receptors to the hazardous waste or hazardous constituents and on the potential magnitude and nature of such exposures; and

f. Existing regulatory or suggested exposure limits for the hazardous wastes or their by-products; and

(2) Identification and discussion of the applicant's health and safety procedures and control measures intended to minimize the public health and safety risks associated with the facility's operation and location based on the health assessment;

(b) An ecological analysis of the potential adverse effects to the local biotic habitat due to accidental discharge of hazardous waste that describes the environment of the area of the facility and includes a biologist's report that lists the wildlife species known to live in or migrate through the environmental area and evaluates the potential adverse biological effects of such a discharge upon said species;

(c) An air impact analysis that includes the following:

(1) An identification of all pollutants and their emission rates from all emission points at the facility including mobile, fugitive, and stack emissions;

(2) The seasonal emission variation;

(3) Process and control technology information;

(4) The ambient background concentrations for all pollutants;

(5) Modeled ground-level concentrations for all pollutants using EPA guidelines; and

(6) The impact on soils, vegetation, visibility, climate, meteorology, and terrain;

(d) A transportation impact and safety analysis that assesses the potential public health and environmental risks associated with transporting hazardous waste to the facility, with a focus upon those primary and alternate routes most likely to be used by transporters traveling to the facility from their point of exit off the nearest divided, limited-access highway, and frontage roadways providing immediate, direct access to the facility, that includes the following:

(1) Identification of all routes and frontage roads by federal, state and/or local name within each of the major transportation corridors, and a map or maps that clearly depict each of these routes;

(2) A description of each major transportation corridor and each frontage roadway in each route identified pursuant to (1), above, that includes all relevant information pertaining to the safe transportation of the types of hazardous wastes to be transported to and from the facility, including but not limited to type, width, and condition of the routes in question;

(3) A description of the type, size, and configuration of vehicles expected to be transporting hazardous waste to the facility;

(4) Identification of all road segments existing in each route identified pursuant to (1), above, that are structurally, functionally, or topologically deficient based on the latest American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) standards, New Hampshire department of transportation adjusted sufficiency ratings, and sound engineering judgment;

(5) A discussion of all known or planned highway improvements that could affect each route identified pursuant to (1), above;

(6) A general traffic study for each route identified pursuant to (1), above, including data pertaining to average daily traffic volumes and peak hour traffic volumes, as well as all appropriate capacity analyses, and to the proposed facility's impact upon the generation of new traffic and new traffic patterns;

(7) Identification and engineering analysis of all accidents that have occurred within the previous 5 years along each route identified pursuant to (1), above, with particular emphasis placed upon those accidents that could have posed public health or environmental risks had they involved a vehicle transporting hazardous waste;

(8) Identification of and an emergency response analysis for each location along each route identified pursuant to (1), above, where there is reasonable potential for the occurrence of future accidents and where there is reasonable potential for the occurrence of public health and environmental risks should such accidents involve a vehicle transporting hazardous waste; and

(9) An analysis of improvements that might be incorporated along each route identified pursuant to (1), above, to reduce the risks associated with the transportation of hazardous wastes along said roads, such as the correction of topological or structural deficiencies or the upgrading of traffic control devices and signing.

N.H. Code Admin. R. Env-Hw 304.18

(See Revision Note at chapter heading for Env-Hw 300) #9362, eff 1-28-09

Amended by Volume XXXVII Number 32, Filed August 10, 2017, Proposed by #12345, Effective 8/14/2017, Expires 8/14/2027.