Illinois Administrative Code

Section 709.301 Application for Liquid Hazardous Waste The Agency shall promulgate standardized application forms for liquid hazardous waste authorizations. Applications for liquid hazardous waste authorizations must be made on such forms after they become available. Until such t…

Section 709.302 Signatures Applications shall be signed by the original generator or treater of the waste. Otherwise, the original generator or treater of the waste may authorize a permitted disposer or transporter to act on its behalf. (Source: Amended at 10 Ill. Reg. 4875, effe…

Section 709.401 Standard for Issuance for Liquid Hazardous Waste a) Liquids: The Agency shall issue a wastestream authorization for the land disposal of a liquid hazardous waste only after the generator has reasonably demonstrated that the wastestream meets the standard of 35 Ill…

Section 709.501 Duration A wastestream authorization shall be valid for a period of not less than one nor more than three years. (Source: Amended at 10 Ill. Reg. 4875, effective March 7, 1986)

Section 709.510 General Conditions In granting a wastestream authorization the Agency may impose such conditions as may be necessary to accomplish the purposes of the Act and which are consistent with Board Regulations, including requirements for the periodic testing of the waste…

Section 709.520 Authorized Methods of Disposal a) The Agency shall include conditions prohibiting methods of treatment or disposal which would result in violation of the Act or Board rules. b) The Agency shall include conditions authorizing disposal in accordance with the Act and…

Section 709.601 Modification a) A wastestream authorization may be modified pursuant to the application described in Section 709.301. b) After giving 60 days notice to the original generator and any treater, the Agency shall modify any wastestream authorization to make it consist…

Section 709.602 Revocation Wastestream authorizations may be revoked by the Board pursuant to an enforcement action under Title VIII of the Act. (Source: Amended at 10 Ill. Reg. 4875, effective March 7, 1986)

Section 709.603 Appeal Denial of a wastestream authorization, or issuance with conditions, may be appealed by the applicant to the Board pursuant to Title X of the Act and 35 Ill. Adm. Code 105. (Source: Amended at 10 Ill. Reg. 4875, effective March 7, 1986)

Section 4.0 (Procedures for Estimating the Toxicity Equivalence of Chlorinated Dibenzo-p-Dioxin and Dibenzofuran Congeners), referenced in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 726.200 and 726.204.

Section 5.0 (Hazardous Waste Combustion Air Quality Screening Procedure), referenced in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 726.204 and 726.206.

Section 7.0 (Statistical Methodology for Bevill Residue Determinations), referenced in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 726.212. BOARD NOTE: Also available from NTIS (see above for contact information) as "Methods Manual for Compliance with BIF Regulations: Burning Hazardous Waste in Boilers an…

Section 720.101 Purpose, Scope, and Applicability a) This Part provides definitions of terms, general standards, and overview information applicable to 35 Ill. Adm. Code 720 through 728, 733, 738, and 739. b) In this Part: 1) Section 720.102 provides the rules that the Board and …

Section 720.102 Availability of Information; Confidentiality of Information a) Availability and confidentiality of information is governed by Illinois law, including Sections 7 and 7.1 of the Act and 35 Ill. Adm. Code 130. b) Except as provided under subsections (c) and (d), any …

Section 720.103 Use of Number and Gender As used in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 720 through 728, 730, 733, 738, and 739: a) Words in any of the masculine, feminine, or neuter genders also includes the other two; b) Words in the singular include the plural; and c) Words in the plural includ…

Section 720.104 Manifest Copy Submission Requirements for Certain Interstate Waste Shipments If the state in which waste is generated or the state in which waste will be transported to a designated facility requires that the waste be regulated as a hazardous waste or otherwise be…

Section 720.105 Applicability of Electronic Manifest System and User Fee Requirements to Facilities Receiving State-Only Regulated Waste Shipments a) For this Section, "state-only regulated waste" means one of the following: 1) A waste that is not hazardous waste but for which a …

Section 720.109 Electronic Reporting a) Scope and Applicability 1) The USEPA, the Board, or the Agency may allow for submitting any document as an electronic document in lieu of a paper document. This Section does not require submitting electronic documents in lieu of paper docum…

Section 720.110 Definitions When used in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 720 through 728, 733, 738, and 739 only, the following terms have the meanings given below: "Aboveground tank" means a device meeting the definition of tank that is situated so that the entire surface area of the tank is …

Section 720.111 References The following documents are incorporated by reference for the purposes of this Part and 35 Ill. Adm. Code 702 through 705, 721 through 728, 730, 733, 738, and 739: a) Non-Regulatory Government Publications and Publications of Recognized Organizations an…

Section 720.120 Rulemaking a) Any person may petition the Board to adopt as State regulations rules that are identical in substance with newly adopted federal amendments or regulations. The petition must take the form of a proposal for rulemaking under 35 Ill. Adm. Code 102. The …

Section 720.121 Alternative Equivalent Testing Methods a) The Agency has no authority to alter the universe of regulated wastes. Modification of testing methods that are stated in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 721 requires rulemaking under Section 720.120. However, deviation from these metho…

Section 720.122 Waste Delisting a) Any person seeking to exclude a waste from a particular generating facility from the lists in Subpart D of 35 Ill. Adm. Code 721 may file a petition, as specified in subsection (n). The Board will grant the petition if the following occur: 1) Th…

Section 720.123 Petitions for Regulation as Universal Waste a) Any person seeking to add a hazardous waste or a category of hazardous waste to the universal waste regulations of 35 Ill. Adm. Code 733 may petition for a regulatory amendment under this Section, Section 720.120, and…

Section 720.130 Procedures for Solid Waste Determinations and Non-Waste Determinations In accordance with the standards and criteria in Sections 720.131 and 720.134 and the procedures in Section 720.133, the Board will determine on a case-by-case basis that the following recycled…

Section 720.131 Solid Waste Determinations a) The Board will determine that those materials that are accumulated speculatively without enough being recycled are not solid wastes if the applicant demonstrates that enough material will be recycled or transferred for recycling in th…

Section 720.132 Boiler Determinations In accordance with the standards and criteria in Section 720.110 (definition of "boiler"), and the procedures in 720.133, the Board will determine on a case-by-case basis that certain enclosed devices using controlled flame combustion are boi…

Section 720.133 Procedures for Determinations The Board will use the procedures of Subpart D of 35 Ill. Adm. Code 104 for determining whether a material is a solid waste, for determining that a hazardous secondary material is managed at a verified facility, for determining whethe…

Section 720.134 Non-Waste Determinations a) A person generating, managing, or reclaiming hazardous secondary material may petition the Board under this Section, Section 720.133 and Section 28.2 of the Act for an adjusted standard that is a formal determination that a hazardous se…

Section 720.140 Additional Regulation of Certain Hazardous Waste Recycling Activities on a Case-by-Case Basis a) The Agency may decide on a case-by-case basis that persons accumulating or storing the recyclable materials described in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 721.106(a)(2)(C) should be r…

Section 720.141 Procedures for Case-by-Case Regulation of Hazardous Waste Recycling Activities The Agency must use the following procedures when determining whether to regulate hazardous waste recycling activities described in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 721.106(a)(2)(C) under the provisio…

Section 720.142 Notification Requirement for Hazardous Secondary Materials a) A facility that manages hazardous secondary materials that are excluded from regulation under 35 Ill. Adm. Code 721.104(a)(23), (a)(24), or (a)(27) must send a notification to the Agency, Bureau of Land…

Section 720.143 Legitimate Recycling of Hazardous Secondary Materials a) Recycling of hazardous secondary materials for the exclusions or exemptions from the hazardous waste regulations must be legitimate. Hazardous secondary material that is not the subject of legitimate recycli…

Section 720.APPENDIX A Overview of Federal RCRA Subtitle C (Hazardous Waste) Regulations (Repealed) (Source: Repealed at 35 Ill. Reg. 17672, effective October 14, 2011)

Section 721.101 Purpose and Scope a) This Part identifies those solid wastes that are subject to regulation as hazardous wastes under 35 Ill. Adm. Code 702, 703, and 722 through 728, and that are subject to the notification requirements of Section 3010 of RCRA (42 USC 6930). In t…

Section 721.102 Definition of Solid Waste a) Solid Waste 1) A solid waste is any discarded material that is not excluded pursuant to Section 721.104(a) or that is not excluded pursuant to 35 Ill. Adm. Code 720.130 and 720.131 or 35 Ill. Adm. Code 720.130 and 720.134. 2) Discarded…

Section 721.103 Definition of Hazardous Waste a) A solid waste, as defined in Section 721.102, is a hazardous waste if the following is true of the waste: 1) It is not excluded from regulation as a hazardous waste pursuant to Section 721.104(b); and 2) It meets any of the followi…

Section 721.104 Exclusions a) Materials That Are Not Solid Wastes. The following materials are not solid wastes for this Part: 1) Sewage. A) Domestic sewage (untreated sanitary wastes that pass through a sewer system); and B) Any mixture of domestic sewage and other waste that pa…

Section 721.105 Special Requirements for Hazardous Waste Generated by Small Quantity Generators (Repealed) (Source: Repealed at 42 Ill. Reg. 21673, effective November 19, 2018)

Section 721.106 Requirements for Recyclable Materials a) Recyclable Materials 1) Hazardous wastes that are recycled are subject to the requirements for generators, transporters, and storage facilities of subsections (b) and (c), except for the materials listed in subsections (a)(…

Section 721.107 Residues of Hazardous Waste in Empty Containers a) Applicability of rules. 1) Any hazardous waste remaining in either an empty container or an inner liner removed from an empty container, as defined in subsection (b), is not subject to regulation under 35 Ill. Adm…

Section 721.108 PCB Wastes Regulated under TSCA Polychlorinatedbiphenyl-(PCB-)containing dielectric fluid and electric equipment containing such fluid are exempt from regulation under 35 Ill. Adm. Code 702, 703, and 721 through 728, and from the notification requirements of Secti…

Section 721.109 Requirements for Universal Waste The wastes listed in this Section are exempt from regulation under 35 Ill. Adm. Code 702, 703, 722 through 726, and 728, except as specified in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 733, and are therefore not fully regulated as hazardous waste. The fo…

Section 721.110 Criteria for Identifying the Characteristics of Hazardous Waste a) USEPA stated in corresponding federal 40 CFR 261.10 that it identifies and defines a characteristic of hazardous waste in Subpart C only upon determining the following: 1) That a solid waste that e…

Section 721.111 Criteria for Listing Hazardous Waste a) USEPA stated in corresponding federal 40 CFR 261.11 that it lists a solid waste as a hazardous waste only upon determining that the solid waste meets one of the following criteria: 1) The solid waste exhibits any of the char…

Section 721.120 General a) A solid waste, as defined in Section 721.102, that is not excluded from regulation as a hazardous waste under Section 721.104(b), is a hazardous waste if it exhibits any of the characteristics identified in this Subpart C. BOARD NOTE: 35 Ill. Adm. Code …

Section 721.121 Characteristic of Ignitability a) A solid waste exhibits the characteristic of ignitability if a representative sample of the waste has any of the following properties: 1) It is a liquid, other than a solution containing less than 24 percent alcohol by volume, and…