S.C. Code Regs. § § 61-62.5.3.1.I

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 9, September 27, 2024

Section 61-62.5.3.1.I - Applicability and General Requirements

(a) This Standard applies to any device, regardless of type or construction, which combusts hospital/medical/infectious waste.

(b) This Standard is not applicable to crematory incinerators.

(c) Beginning September 15, 2000, existing facilities subject to this regulation and not listed as an exempt source for 40 CFR 60 subpart Ec,Standards of Performance for Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators for Which Construction is Commenced After June 20, 1996 (September 15, 1997, 60 FR 48348), shall operate pursuant to a Title V permit issued by the Department.

(d) An owner or operator shall not combust hospital/medical/infectious waste except in a multiple-chamber incinerator with a solid hearth, or in a device found to be equally effective for the purpose of air contaminant control as an approved multiple-chamber incinerator as determined by the Department.

(e) Physical or operational changes to an existing HMIWI unit, for which construction was commenced on or before June 20, 1996, that are made solely for the purpose of complying with this regulation are not considered a modification and do not result in an existing HMIWI unit becoming subject to the provisions of 40 CFR 60 subpart Ec, Standards of Performance for Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators for Which Construction is Commenced After June 20, 1996 (September 15, 1997, 60 FR 48348).

(f) All HMIWI are subject to this regulation. Those HMIWI for which construction or reconstruction commenced after June 20, 1996, are also subject to the provisions of 40 CFR part 60 subpart Ec, Standards of Performance for Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators for Which Construction is Commenced After June 20, 1996 (September 15, 1997, 60 FR 48348).

(g) This Standard is not applicable to combustors which burn hospital waste and do not burn any medical/infectious waste and are subject to all provisions of 40 CFR 60 subpart Eb, Standards of Performance for Municipal Waste Combustors for Which Construction is Commenced After September 20, 1994, or for Which Modification or Reconstruction is Commenced After June 19, 1996; subpart Cb, Emission Guidelines and Compliance Times for Large Municipal Waste Combustors that are Constructed on or Before September 20, 1994; or subpart Ea, Standards of Performance for Municipal Waste Combustors for Which Construction is Commenced After December 20, 1989 and on or Before September 20, 1994.

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