California Administrative Code

(a) Incompatible wastes, or incompatible waste and materials, shall not be placed in the same tank system, unless section 66265.17(b) is complied with. (b) Hazardous waste shall not be placed in a tank system that has not been decontaminated and that previously held an incompatib…

The regulations in this article apply to owners and operators of facilities that use surface impoundments to treat, store, or dispose of hazardous waste, except as section 66265.1 provides otherwise.

(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…

The regulations in this article apply to owners and operators of hazardous waste land treatment facilities, except as section 66265.1 provides otherwise.

(a) An owner or operator of a hazardous waste land treatment facility on which food chain crops are being grown, or have been grown and will be grown in the future, shall notify the Department within 60 days after July 1, 1991. (b)(1) Food chain crops shall not be grown on the tr…

(a) The owner or operator shall have in writing, and shall implement, a vadose zone monitoring plan which is designed to: (1) detect the vertical migration of hazardous waste and hazardous waste constituents under the active portion of the land treatment facility, and (2) provide…

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) In addition to the waste analyses required by section 66265.13, the owner or operator shall sufficiently analyze any waste which that owner or operator has not previously burned in that owner or operator's incinerator to enable him that owner or operator to establish steady s…

(a) At closure, the owner or operator shall remove all hazardous waste and hazardous waste residues (including but not limited to ash, scrubber waters, and scrubber sludges) from the incinerator site. (b) At closure, as throughout the operating period, unless the owner or operato…

(a) Owners or operators of incinerators subject to this article 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 performance sta…

(a) The owner or operator shall attempt to make the following arrangements, as appropriate, for the type of waste handled at the facility and the potential need for the services of these organizations: (1) arrangements to familiarize police, fire departments, emergency response t…

(a) The owner or operator shall conduct, as a minimum, the following monitoring and inspections when thermally treating hazardous waste. (1) Existing instruments which relate to temperature and emission control (if an emission control device is present) shall be monitored at leas…

At closure, the owner or operator shall remove all hazardous waste and hazardous waste residues (including, but not limited to, ash) from the thermal treatment process or equipment. At closure, as throughout the operating period, unless the owner or operator can demonstrate, in a…

(a) An owner or operator subject to this article shall conduct a monitoring and response program for each regulated unit at the facility as follows: (1) the owner or operator shall institute a detection monitoring program under section 66265.98 except as required under subsection…

(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) At closure, the owner or operator shall remove or decontaminate all waste residues, contaminated containment system components (pad, liners, etc.), contaminated subsoils, and structures and equipment contaminated with waste and leakage, and manage them as hazardous waste. (b)…

The regulations in this article apply to owners and operators of all hazardous waste facilities, except as section 66265.1 provides otherwise.

(a) Each owner or operator shall have a contingency plan for the facility. The contingency plan shall be designed to minimize hazards to human health or the environment from fires, explosions, or any unplanned sudden or non-sudden release of hazardous waste or hazardous waste con…

For each regulated unit, the owner or operator shall specify in the water quality sampling and analysis plan the constituents of concern to which the water quality protection standard of section 66265.92 applies. Constituents of concern are the waste constituents, reaction produc…

(a) For each regulated unit, the owner or operator shall specify in the water quality sampling and analysis plan the point of compliance at which the water quality protection standard of section 66265.92 applies and at which monitoring shall be conducted. The point of compliance …

(a) Applicability. The regulations in this section apply to owners and operators of boilers and industrial furnaces subject to sections 66266.102 or 66266.103 if hazardous waste is directly transferred from a transport vehicle to a boiler or industrial furnace without the use of …

A residue derived from the burning or processing of hazardous waste in a boiler or industrial furnace is not excluded from the definition of hazardous waste under Health and Safety Code Section 25143.1(b) unless the device and the owner or operator meet the following requirements…

This article applies to recyclable materials that, in the course of being recycled, are placed on the land, either without mixing with other materials or after mixing with other materials. These recyclable materials are considered to be: “used in a manner constituting disposal” p…

(a) The following hazardous wastes are prohibited from land disposal effective on the specified date: (1) effective January 1, 1984, liquid hazardous wastes containing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) at concentrations greater than or equal to 50 ppm; (2) effective June 1, 1983, …

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) No generator, transporter, handler, or owner or operator of a treatment, storage, or disposal facility shall in any way dilute a restricted waste or the residual from treatment of a restricted waste as a substitute for adequate treatment to achieve compliance with article 4 o…

(a) Effective August 11, 1997, the following wastes are prohibited from land disposal: the wastes specified in CCR, Title 22, chapter 11 as EPA Hazardous Waste numbers F032, F034, and F035. (b) Effective May 12, 1999, the following wastes are prohibited from land disposal: soil a…

(a) Effective November 8, 1988, the dioxin-containing wastes specified in section 66261.31 of chapter 11 as EPA Hazardous Waste Nos. F020, F021, F022, F023, F026, F027 and F028, are prohibited from land disposal unless the following condition applies: the F020-F023 and F026-F028 …

(a) Effective December 26, 2000, the following wastes are prohibited from land disposal: any volumes of soil exhibiting the toxicity characteristic solely because of the presence of metals (D004-D011) and containing PCBs. (b) The requirements of paragraph (a) of this section do n…

(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 fee rates established by the Board of Environmental Safety pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 25205.6.1 of the Health and Safety Code shall not exceed the following limits: (1) Organizations with 100 or more employees, but fewer than 250 employees. This fee shall not …

Except as otherwise provided in section 66264.1, owners and operators of facilities that dispose of hazardous waste in landfills shall provide the following additional information: (a) a list of the hazardous wastes placed or to be placed in each landfill or landfill cell; (b) De…

(a) Victims of disasters shall be exempt from the hazardous waste disposal fee imposed pursuant to Health and Safety Code section 25174.1 and the generator fee imposed pursuant to Health and Safety Code section 25205.5, if all of the following apply: (1) The hazardous waste is ge…