California Administrative Code

(a) Coverage for sudden accidental occurrences. An owner or operator of a hazardous waste transfer, treatment, storage, or disposal facility or a group of such facilities, shall demonstrate to the Department financial responsibility for bodily injury and property damage to third …

(a) An owner or operator shall notify the Department by certified mail of the commencement of a voluntary or involuntary proceeding under Title 11 (Bankruptcy), U.S. Code, naming the owner or operator as debtor, within 10 days after commencement of the proceeding. A guarantor of …

(a) The owner or operator shall inspect the facility for malfunctions and deterioration, operator errors, and discharges which may be causing or may lead to: (1) release of hazardous waste constituents to the environment; or (2) a threat to human health. The owner or operator sha…

(a) Notwithstanding subsection (g), an owner or operator of a hazardous waste transfer, treatment, storage, or disposal facility shall ensure that facility personnel successfully complete a training program through classroom, computer-based, or electronic instruction or on-the-jo…

(a) The owner or operator of each new surface impoundment unit on which construction commences after January 29, 1992, each lateral expansion of a surface impoundment unit on which construction commences after July 29, 1992, and each replacement of an existing surface impoundment…

(a) In addition to the waste analyses required by section 66265.13, whenever a surface impoundment is to be used to: (1) chemically treat a hazardous waste which is substantially different from waste previously treated in that impoundment; or (2) chemically treat hazardous waste …

(a) The owner or operator of waste pile units subject to section 66265.254 shall submit a proposed action leakage rate to the Department when submitting the notice required under section 66265.254. The Department will establish an action leakage rate, either as proposed by the ow…

(a) The owner or operator of waste pile units subject to section 66265.254 shall submit a response action plan to the Department when submitting the proposed action leakage rate under section 66265.255. The response action plan shall set forth the actions to be taken if the actio…

(a) The owner or operator of each new landfill unit on which construction commences after January 29, 1992, each lateral expansion of a landfill unit on which construction commences after July 29, 1992, and each replacement of an existing landfill unit that is to commence reuse a…

(a) An owner or operator required to have a leak detection system under section 66265.301(a) shall record the amount of liquids removed from each leak detection system sump at least once each week during the active life and closure period. (b) After the final cover is installed, …

The owner or operator of a landfill shall maintain the following items in the operating record required in section 66265.73: (a) on a map, the exact location and dimensions, including depth, of each cell with respect to permanently surveyed benchmarks with horizontal and vertical…

(a)(1) Effective January 1, 1995 or the effective date of the applicable treatment standard found in chapter 18 of division 4.5 of Titles 22 and 26 of California Code of Regulations, whichever is later, all nonliquid hazardous waste, bulk or containerized, shall contain less than…

All facilities shall be equipped with the following, unless it can be demonstrated to the Department that none of the hazards posed by waste handled at the facility could require a particular kind of equipment specified below: (a) an internal communications or alarm system capabl…

(a) Whenever hazardous waste is being poured, mixed, spread, or otherwise handled, all personnel involved in the operation shall have immediate access to an internal alarm or emergency communication device, either directly or through visual or voice contact with another employee,…

(a) The regulations in this article apply to owners or operators of facilities that incinerate hazardous waste, except as section 66264.1 provides otherwise. The following facility owners or operators are considered to incinerate hazardous waste: (1) owners or operators of hazard…

(a) Sections 66265.710 through 66265.714 of this chapter apply to owners or operators of interim status facilities that treat, store, recycle or dispose of hazardous waste in a surface impoundment, waste pile, land treatment unit or landfill (hereinafter referred to as a regulate…

(a) Owners or operators of thermal treatment devices subject to this subpart may burn EPA Hazardous Wastes F020, F021, F022, F023, F026, or F027 if they receive a certification from the USEPA Assistant Administrator for Solid Waste and Emergency Response that they can meet the pe…

In addition to bringing an enforcement action pursuant to chapter 6.5 of division 20 commencing with section 25100 of the Health and Safety Code, the Department may take or secure actions pursuant to Health and Safety Code section 25358.3.

The regulations in this article apply to owners and operators of facilities which treat hazardous wastes by chemical, physical, or biological methods in other than tanks, surface impoundments, and land treatment facilities, except as section 66265.1 provides otherwise. Chemical, …

(a) Chemical, physical, or biological treatment of hazardous waste shall comply with section 66265.17(b). (b) Hazardous wastes or treatment reagents shall not be placed in the treatment process or equipment if they could cause the treatment process or equipment to rupture, leak, …

(a) The requirements of this article apply to owners and operators of facilities that use new or existing drip pads to convey treated wood drippage, precipitation, and/or surface water run-off to an associated collection system. Existing drip pads are those constructed before Dec…

(a) For each existing drip pad as defined in section 66265.440 of this article, the owner or operator shall evaluate the drip pad and determine that it meets all of the requirement of this article, except the requirements for liners and leak detection systems of section 66265.443…

(a) The owner or operator shall comply with the requirements of this section for any water quality monitoring program developed to satisfy sections 66265.98 or 66265.99. (b) Groundwater Monitoring System. (1) Except as provided under subsection (e)(3) of this section, the owner o…

A copy of the contingency plan and all revisions to the plan shall be: (a) maintained at the facility; and (b) submitted to all local police departments, fire departments, hospitals, and State and local emergency response teams that may be called upon to provide emergency service…

(a) Whenever there is an imminent or actual emergency situation, the emergency coordinator (or the emergency coordinator's designee when the emergency coordinator is on call) shall immediately: (1) activate internal facility alarms or communication systems, where applicable, to n…

(a)(1) If a facility receives hazardous waste accompanied by a manifest, the owner or operator, or the facility's agent, shall sign and date each copy of the manifest as indicated in paragraph (a)(2) of this section to certify that the hazardous waste covered by the manifest was …

(a) All records, including plans, required under this chapter shall be furnished upon request, and made available at all reasonable times for inspection, by any officer, employee, or representative of USEPA who is duly designated by the Administrator, the Department, the State Wa…

(a) If a facility accepts for transfer, treatment, storage, or disposal any hazardous waste from an off-site source without an accompanying manifest, or without an accompanying shipping paper as described in section 66263.20(e)(2) of this division, and if the waste is not exclude…

(a) The owner or operator of a hazardous waste facility, except a facility operating under a Permit by Rule, Conditional Authorization, or Conditional Exemption, shall comply with reporting requirements set forth in this section, in the event that a hazardous waste of concern, as…

(a) Purpose, scope, applicability. (1) General. (A) The purpose of this section is to establish minimum state standards for owners and operators of “existing” boilers and industrial furnaces that burn hazardous waste where such standards define the acceptable management of hazard…

(a) General. The owner or operator shall comply with the hydrogen chloride (HCl) and chlorine (Cl2) controls provided by subsection (b), (c), or (e) of this section. (b) Screening limits-(1) Tier I feed rate screening limits. Feed rate screening limits are specified for total chl…

Except as otherwise provided in section 66264.1, owners and operators of facilities that store or treat hazardous waste in waste piles shall provide the following additional information: (a) a list of hazardous wastes placed or to be placed in each waste pile; (b) detailed plans …

(a) A person who operates a facility which meets either of the criteria in subsection (a)(1) or (a)(2) of this section shall comply with the requirements in subsection (b) of this section. (1) At the facility, a recyclable material is to be used in its existing state in agricultu…

(a) A person who handles waste elemental mercury which is a non-RCRA hazardous waste shall comply with the following provisions with respect to that mercury. (1) A person who stores in a container ten pounds or less of waste elemental mercury at the site of generation shall be ex…

(a) Used oil filters are to be managed as hazardous waste unless the conditions of one of the following paragraphs are met: (1) The filters are characterized as being nonhazardous using procedures identified in this division and applicable waste characterization procedures found …

(a) A person who manages spent lead-acid storage batteries or their components shall comply with all of the requirements of this division pertaining to the management of a hazardous waste, unless the person is specifically exempted in the provisions of this article.

(a) Except as provided in subsection (a)(1) of this section, a person who manages spent lead-acid storage batteries which are equivalent in type and equivalent to, or smaller in size than, spent lead-acid storage batteries removed from motor vehicles as defined in Vehicle Code se…

(a) This chapter identifies hazardous wastes that are restricted from land disposal and defines those limited circumstances under which an otherwise prohibited waste may continue to be land disposed. (b) Except as specifically provided otherwise in this chapter or chapter 11 of t…

(a) The following non-RCRA hazardous wastes are subject to prohibition under this section. (1) Non-RCRA metal-containing aqueous wastes identified in section 66268.29(a) are prohibited from land disposal. (2) Auto shredder waste identified in section 66268.29(b) is prohibited fro…

If the Department determines that adequate incineration or other authorized treatment capacity does not exist within the state, a person disposing of hazardous waste subject to sections 66268.120 and 66268.121 of this chapter is exempt from the treatment requirements of these sec…

In the case of any hazardous waste identified or listed under section 3001 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (42 U.S.C. section 6921) after November 8, 1984, the U.S. EPA Administrator shall make a land disposal prohibition determination within 6 months after the date…

Definitions of terms applicable in this chapter are provided under section 66260.10.

For the requirements previously found in this section and for treatment standards in Table CCWE--Constituent Concentrations in Waste Extracts, refer to section 66268.40 of this chapter.

(a) Effective August 24, 1998, the following wastes are prohibited from land disposal: the wastes specified in CCR, Title 22, division 4.5, chapter 11 as EPA Hazardous Waste numbers D004-D011 that are newly identified (i.e., wastes, soil, or debris identified as hazardous by the …

(a) Effective February 8, 1999, the wastes specified in chapter 11 as EPA Hazardous Wastes Numbers K169, K170, K171, and K172, soils and debris contaminated with these wastes, radioactive wastes mixed with these hazardous wastes, and soils and debris contaminated with these radio…

Except as section 66264.340 of this division provides otherwise, owners and operators of facilities that incinerate hazardous waste shall fulfill the requirements of subsection (a), (b), or (c) of this section: (a) when seeking an exemption under section 66264.340(b) or (c) of th…

(a) Based on a petition filed by a generator or treater of RCRA hazardous waste, the USEPA Administrator may approve a variance from an applicable treatment standard if: (1) It is not physically possible to treat the waste to the level specified in the treatment standard, or by t…

(a) Except as provided in this section, the storage of hazardous wastes restricted from land disposal under article 3 of this chapter or RCRA section 3004 (42 U.S.C. section 6924) is prohibited, unless the following conditions are met. (1) A generator stores such wastes in tanks,…

(a) The initial penalty assessed shall double for each violation as set forth in section 66296.32(c)(1) per Identification Number per reporting system based on the handler's tonnage tier in the most recent reporting period for which the handler is delinquent upon meeting all of t…

The final penalty for each violation consists of the initial penalty, as defined in section 66269.32 and section 66269.33, with any adjustments made pursuant to the adjustment factors set forth in Sections 66269.34. The final penalty for each violation shall not exceed the statut…