Section 33.1-15-05-03.1 - Other waste incinerators1.Salvage incinerators. The department may require construction, operational, and recordkeeping standards and procedures for salvage incinerators. No industrial waste, radioactive waste, hazardous waste, or infectious waste may be burned in a salvage incinerator, unless specifically approved by the department.2.Air curtain destructors. The department may require construction, operational, and recordkeeping standards and procedures for air curtain destructors based upon factors such as characteristics and quantities of materials to be destroyed by burning and site location.3.Industrial waste and special waste incinerators. The department may require construction, operational, emission, monitoring, recordkeeping, and reporting standards and procedures for incinerators of industrial waste based upon factors such as characteristics and quantities of the industrial waste and site location.4.Crematoriums.a. No owner or operator of combustion units operated as a human or animal crematorium or in an animal farm operation for animal disposal may burn any other type or form of materials or solid waste unless specifically approved by the department.b. No owner or operator of a crematorium may allow to be discharged into the atmosphere any air contaminant, which exhibits an opacity greater than ten percent except that a maximum of twenty percent is permissible for not more than one 6-minute period per hour.c. A crematorium constructed and operated after August 1, 1995, must be equipped with two or more chambers and with auxiliary fuel burners, designed to assure a temperature in a secondary chamber of at least one thousand six hundred degrees Fahrenheit [871 degrees Celsius] for a minimum of one-second retention time.d. Monitoring. Each new crematorium must be equipped with a continuous temperature monitor, with readout, to monitor the temperature of the gases exiting the secondary combustion chamber or zone. Each human crematorium installed or reinstalled after September 1, 2002, must be equipped with a temperature recorder.e. Charging. A crematorium must be charged in accordance with the manufacturer's procedures or recommendations. Deviations from these procedures or recommendations are allowed provided credible evidence has been submitted to the department that indicates the deviations will reduce air contaminant emissions. Such evidence shall be provided prior to implementation of the deviations.f. Operation. Operators of human crematoriums shall be trained in the proper operation of the unit. A copy of the operation and maintenance manual for the unit shall be available onsite. A trained crematorium operator must be onsite at a human crematorium while the cremation process is taking place.g. General. The department may establish additional construction, operational, emission, monitoring, recordkeeping, and reporting standards and procedures for crematoriums based upon factors such as quantities of material charged, emissions, and site location.N.D. Admin Code 33.1-15-05-03.1
Adopted by Administrative Rules Supplement 370, October 2018, effective 1/1/2019.General Authority: NDCC 23.1-06-04; S.L. 2017, ch. 199, § 1
Law Implemented: NDCC 23.1-06-08, 23.1-06-09; S.L. 2017, ch. 199, § 21