Louisiana Administrative Code

A. General. The permit may, when appropriate, specify a schedule of compliance leading to compliance with the CWA and regulations. 1. Time for Compliance. Any schedules of compliance under this Section shall require compliance as soon as possible, but not later than the applicabl…

A. All permits shall specify: 1. requirements concerning the proper use, maintenance, and installation, when appropriate, of monitoring equipment or methods (including biological monitoring methods when appropriate); 2. required monitoring including type, intervals, and frequency…

A. When part of a discharger's process wastewater is not being discharged into waters of the state or contiguous zone because it is disposed into a well, into a POTW, or by land application thereby reducing the flow or level of pollutants being discharged into waters of the state…

A. The regulations in this Chapter apply to owners and operators of facilities that treat or dispose of hazardous waste in land treatment units, except as LAC 33:V.1501 provides otherwise.

A. The owner or operator must design, construct, operate and maintain the unit to maximize the degradation, transformation, and immobilization of hazardous constituents in the treatment zone. The owner or operator must design, construct, operate, and maintain the unit in accordan…

A. An owner or operator subject to this Chapter must establish a land treatment program that is designed to ensure that hazardous constituents placed in or on the treatment zone are degraded, transformed, or immobilized within the treatment zone. The treatment program must includ…

A. For each waste that will be applied to the treatment zone, the owner or operator must demonstrate, prior to application of the waste, that hazardous constituents in the waste can be completely degraded, transformed, or immobilized in the treatment zone. B. In making this demon…

A. No produce or food-chain crops may be allowed to grow on a landfarm. Additionally, grasses and other cover plants may not be used for grazing or hay production for domestic livestock.

An owner or operator subject to this Chapter must establish an unsaturated zone monitoring program to discharge the following responsibilities. A. The owner or operator must monitor the soil and soil-pore liquid to determine whether hazardous constituents migrate out of the treat…

A. The owner or operator must include hazardous waste application dates, application rates, quantities and locations of each hazardous waste placed in the facility in the operating record required under LAC 33:V.1529.

A. The owner or operator must not apply ignitable or reactive waste to the treatment zone unless the waste and the treatment zone meet all applicable requirements of LAC 33:V.Chapter 22, and: 1. the waste is immediately incorporated into the soil so that: a. the resulting waste, …

A. The owner or operator must not place incompatible wastes, or incompatible wastes and materials in or on the same treatment zone, unless LAC 33:V.1517 or LAC 33:V.4321 for interim status facilities is complied with.

A. During the closure period, the owner or operator must: 1. continue all operations (including pH control) necessary to maximize degradation, transformation, or immobilization of hazardous constituents within the treatment zone as required under LAC 33:V.2703.A, except to the ex…

A. Hazardous Wastes F020, F021, F022, F023, F026, and F027 must not be placed in a land treatment unit unless the owner or operator operates the facility in accordance with a management plan for these wastes that is approved by the administrative authority pursuant to the standar…

A. The responsible party is liable for the site restoration of an unusable oilfield site. B. If the responsible party fails to complete restoration of an oilfield site and the assistant secretary, after notice and hearing, has declared the site to be unusable, the secretary is au…

A. If a party has transferred an oilfield site after May 1, 1993, for which a site-specific trust account was established and the transferror has remained in compliance with this Part he shall not be liable for any site restoration for the non-orphaned or orphaned oilfield site. …

A. In the event of liquidation, or at the time determination has been made by state officials to liquidate the program, a liquidation plan will be prepared in accordance with FPMR 101-44.201.c.14. B. The liquidation plan shall include: 1. reasons for liquidation; 2. schedule and …

A. Regulations for the purpose of mercury risk reduction in the state of Louisiana are hereby established by the department pursuant to R.S. 30:2571-2588.

A. The purpose of this Chapter is to supplement procedures and requirements set forth in the Louisiana Mercury Risk Reduction Act, R.S. 30:2571 et seq., for manufacturers of mercury-added products offered for sale, users of mercury-added products in drinking water and wastewater …

A. The following terms used in this Chapter shall have the meanings listed below, unless the context otherwise requires, or unless specifically redefined in a particular Section. Amalgam―any of various alloys of mercury and other metals, as with tin or silver. Amalgam Sludge―the …

A. Effective January 1, 2007, no mercury-added product shall be offered for final sale or use or distributed for promotional purposes in Louisiana without prior notification in writing by the manufacturer of the product to the Office of the Secretary in accordance with the requir…

A. The final sale or use or distribution of certain mercury-added products have been restricted in R.S. 30:2575(A)-(D). B. Manufacturers that produce and sell such materials shall notify retailers about these restrictions in writing. The notification shall contain the following i…

A. The manufacturer of a mercury-added product subject to the phase-out provisions of R.S. 30:2576 may petition the administrative authority for an exemption. B. Applications for exemption from mercury-added product phase-out must contain the following information: 1. documentati…

A. The responsibility for product and package labels required by this Section and R.S. 30:2577 shall be on the manufacturer and not on the wholesaler or retailer unless the wholesaler or retailer agrees with the manufacturer to accept responsibility in conjunction with implementa…

A. A manufacturer may apply to the department for an alternative to the requirements of R.S. 30:2577 and LAC 33:I.2713 where strict compliance with the requirements is not feasible, or the proposed alternative would be at least as effective in providing pre-sale notification of m…

A. A manufacturer of any mercury-added product containing more than 10 milligrams of mercury that is offered for final sale or use or distributed for promotional purposes in the state must implement a collection system plan that has been approved by the department. For a product …

A. On and after January 1, 2007, mercury shall not be discharged to water, wastewater treatment, and wastewater disposal systems except when it is done in compliance with applicable local, state, and federal requirements. B. No person, including, but not limited to, Louisiana-lic…

A. Any health care facility using a formulated mercury-added product, a fabricated mercury-added product, or a mercury-added product must maintain a current and appropriate Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS), as defined in 42 U.S.C. 11049, for any elemental mercury used. B. Any he…

A. The administrator shall formulate a written statement of institution goals and purposes. B. The administrator shall develop a written manual describing institution policies and procedures. C. Inmates shall not be subject to discrimination on basis of race, religion, sex, natio…

A. A fiscal system shall be established to record all income and expenditures in accordance with commonly accepted professional accounting practice. B. An annual budget shall be prepared which projects the operating needs of the institution.

A. A record system shall be established to provide continuous, accurate, and current information on the location and legal status of all inmates. B. A record system shall be established to account for inmate money and personal property with disbursement only upon authorization of…

A. Employees shall be given a written manual describing all personnel policies and procedures, including grievance and appeal mechanisms. B. Employees and job applicants shall have the protection of equal employment opportunities. C. Duties and qualifications for each employee po…

A. The administrator shall develop a program of community resources to assist inmates during incarceration and facilitate their reentry after release. B. Civilian volunteers shall not work in the institution until they have completed orientation appropriate to their assignments.

C. The requirements on pressure restrictions in this Section do not apply in the following instance: [49 CFR 192.619(c)] 1. An operator may operate a segment of pipeline found to be in satisfactory condition, considering its operating and maintenance history, at the highest actua…

A. This Chapter prescribes minimum requirements for the operation of pipeline facilities. [49 CFR 192.601]

A. No person may operate a segment of pipeline unless it is operated in accordance with this Subpart. [49 CFR 192.603(a)] B. Each operator shall keep records necessary to administer the procedures established under

A. General. Each operator shall prepare and follow for each pipeline, a manual of written procedures for conducting operations and maintenance activities and for emergency response. For transmission lines, the manual must also include procedures for handling abnormal operations. …

A. Whenever an increase in population density indicates a change in class location for a segment of an existing steel pipeline operating at a hoop stress that is more than 40 percent of SMYS, or indicates that the hoop stress corresponding to the established maximum allowable ope…

A. If a class location change on a transmission pipeline occurs after October 5, 2022 and results in pipe replacement, of 2 or more miles, in the aggregate, within any 5 contiguous miles within a 24-month period, to meet the maximum allowable operating pressure (MAOP) requirement…

2. For any Type C gas gathering pipeline under §509 existing on or before May 16, 2022, that was not previously subject to this part and the operator cannot determine the actual operating pressure of the pipeline for the 5 years preceding May 16, 2023, the operator may establish …

A. Each operator shall prepare and follow a procedure to identify its pipelines in the Gulf of America and its inlets in waters less than 15 feet (4.6 meters) deep as measured from mean low water that are at risk of being an exposed underwater pipeline or a hazard to navigation. …

A. Each operator shall have a procedure for continuing surveillance of its facilities to determine and take appropriate action concerning changes in class location, failures, leakage history, corrosion, substantial changes in cathodic protection requirements, and other unusual op…

A. Except as provided in Subsection D and E of this Section, each operator of a buried pipeline shall carry out, in accordance with this Section a written program to prevent damage to that pipeline by excavation activities. For the purpose of this Section, the term excavation act…

A. Each operator shall establish written procedures to minimize the hazard resulting from a gas pipeline emergency. At a minimum, the procedures must provide for the following: [49 CFR 192.615(a)] 1. receiving, identifying, and classifying notices of events which require immediat…

A. Except for an operator of a master meter or petroleum gas system covered under Subsection J of this Section, each pipeline operator must develop and implement a written continuing public education program that follows the guidance provided in the American Petroleum Institute's…

A. Post-failure and incident procedures. Each operator must establish and follow procedures for investigating and analyzing failures and incidents as defined in §303, including sending the failed pipe, component, or equipment for laboratory testing or examination, where appropria…

A. No person may operate a segment of steel or plastic pipeline at a pressure that exceeds a maximum allowable operating pressure determined under Subsection C, D, or E of this Section, or the lowest of the following: [49 CFR 192.619(a)] 1. the design pressure of the weakest elem…

A. How does an operator calculate the alternative maximum allowable operating pressure? An operator calculates the alternative maximum allowable operating pressure by using different factors in the same formulas used for calculating maximum allowable operating pressure under §271…

A. No person may operate a segment of a high pressure distribution system at a pressure that exceeds the lowest of the following pressures, as applicable: [49 CFR 192.621(a)] 1. the design pressure of the weakest element in the segment, determined in accordance with Chapter 9 and…

A. No person may operate a low-pressure distribution system at a pressure high enough to make unsafe the operation of any connected and properly adjusted low-pressure gas burning equipment. [49 CFR 192.623(a)] B. No person may operate a low-pressure distribution system at a press…