Section NR 214.02 - Applicability(1) WASTES REGULATED. This chapter applies to those discharges of industrial wastes to land treatment systems not regulated under ch. NR 518. This includes but is not limited to liquid wastes, by-product solids and sludges generated by: fruit and vegetable processing, dairy products processing, meat, fish and poultry products processing, mink raising operations, aquaculture, commercial laundromat and motor vehicle cleaning operations and any other industrial, commercial or agricultural operation which results in a point source discharge that has no detrimental effects on the soils, vegetation or groundwater of a land treatment system. Industrial by-product solids and sludges shall also have beneficial properties as a soil conditioner or fertilizer. Lime sludges containing radium may be regulated under this chapter.(2) RESPONSIBILITY. The generator of these wastes shall be responsible for their handling and land application, except when an independent land application contractor has been issued a WPDES permit for the land treatment of these wastes. When the contractor is issued the WPDES permit, the independent contractor shall be responsible for the handling and application of these wastes to the land. A person may not land apply industrial waste or discharge industrial waste to a land treatment system unless the land application or discharge is authorized by a WPDES permit.(3) WASTES EXCLUDED. The provisions of this chapter are not applicable to the following wastes: (a) Alcohol fuel production wastes from systems defined as "private alcohol fuel production systems" under ss. 289.44(1) and 283.62(1), Stats., which are operated in accordance with ss. 289.44(2) and 283.62(2), Stats.(b) Animal waste regulated under ch. NR 243, and liquid manure applied in accordance with sound agricultural practices.(c) Domestic waste handled and disposed of in accordance with ch. NR 113.(d) Domestic sewage from systems defined as "private sewerage systems" in s. 145.01(12), Stats.(e) Effluent from publicly owned wastewater treatment works regulated under ch. NR 206.(f) Mining wastes backfilled or otherwise disposed of in a prospecting excavation or a mine in accordance with a permit issued under ch. NR 131 or 132, or under subch. III of ch. 295, Stats., except runoff, leachate, decantate, or other wastewater collected for disposal on land outside of the permitted prospecting or mining site.(g) Noncontact cooling water free of chemical additives.(h) Liquid wastes from sweet corn silage stacks which are utilized for direct livestock feeding, have less than 150 tons present on a site at any one time, and are located such that surface water and groundwater pollution does not occur.(i) Sludge from publicly or privately owned wastewater treatment works regulated under ch. NR 204.(j) Sludges which are disposed of in a landfill, a land disposal site or an incinerator licensed and operated in accordance with chs. NR 500 and 518.(k) Uncontaminated lime sludges which are generated by pulp or paper mills or water supply treatment facilities and are exempted from regulation under s. NR 518.04(3). (L) Wet and semi-liquid wastes disposed of in a site regulated under ch. NR 500 or 518, except runoff, leachate, decantate or other wastewaters collected for disposal on land outside of the regulated disposal site.(m) Wastes from sites and facilities used solely for research purposes under the direction of a Wisconsin registered professional engineer or a scientist employed by a university located within this state provided the following requirements are met: 1. The net site area, excluding site borders and buffer strips, does not exceed 4 acres;2. The available nitrogen, chloride and heavy metal additions averaged over the total plot area may not exceed the rates specified by the department in ch. NR 204 for municipal sewage sludges or those identified in the literature as being toxic to specific plants or plant groups;3. The site is developed, operated, monitored and maintained in a safe, nuisance free manner; and4. Copies of the research proposal are submitted to the department in advance of initiation of the research and any reports and publications on the research are provided to the department.Wis. Admin. Code Department of Natural Resources NR 214.02
Cr. Register, June, 1990, No. 414, eff. 7-1-90; CR 09-123: am. (2) Register July 2010 No. 655, eff. 8-1-10.Amended by, CR 13-057: am. (3) (f) Register July 2015 No. 715, eff.8/1/2015.