New Mexico Administrative Code

A. Materials Separation - Percent Reduction /requirement: (1) The owner or operator shall separate materials from municipal waste prior to combustion such that an overall 25 percent or greater reduction by weight on annual basis is achieved. (2) The percent reduction requirement …

A. Assessment of Risk: Each application for a permit to operate a municipal waste incinerator shall contain a formal assessment of risk to the population and the environment which may be affected by the incinerator. The factors which shall be addressed in the assessment shall inc…

Public hearings conducted subsequent to a permit application for construction of a municipal waste combustor shall be held in the geographic area most likely to be impacted by the source.

The owner or operator shall monitor at the facility boundary, where the population is, and one or more miles beyond the facility in all directions, in order to determine the concentrations of materials being emitted from the incinerator at the points of exposure to the population…

TABLE 1. Pollutant Emission Limit (1) Particulate Matter Total 0.01 gr/dscf Fine (less than 2 microns) 0.008 gr/dscf Sulfur Dioxide 80 mg/dscm Hydrogen Chloride 40 mg/dscm Carbon Monoxide Refuse-Derived Fuel 120 mg/dscm All other designs 60 mg/dscm Nitrogen Dioxide 100 ppmv PCDD/…

Environmental Improvement Act, NMSA 1978, section 74-1-8(A)(4), and Air Quality Control Act, NMSA 1978, sections 74-2-1 et seq., including specifically, section 74-2-5(A), (B) and (C)(3).

Permanent.

November 30, 1995. [The latest effective date of any section in this Part is 10/31/02.]

The objective of this Part is to establish requirements for emissions from, and design and operation of, municipal waste combustion units.

In additions to the terms defined in 20.2.2 NMAC (Definitions), as used in this Part: A. "Continuous emission monitor" means the total equipment required to sample and analyze emissions or process parameters. B. "dscm" means dry standard cubic meter with standard conditions being…

This Part amends and supersedes Air Quality Control Regulation ("AQCR") 2000 -- Municipal Waste Combustion filed November 16, 1990. A. All references to AQCR 2000 in any other rule shall be construed as a reference to this Part. B. The amendment and supersession of AQCR 2000 shal…

Documents cited in this Part may be viewed at the New Mexico Environment Department, Air Quality Bureau, Runnels Building, 1190 Saint Francis Drive, Santa Fe, NM 87505 [2048 Galisteo St., Santa Fe, NM 87505].

Environmental Improvement Board.

All geographic areas within the jurisdiction of the Environmental Improvement Board.

A. The requirements of this regulation apply to the owner or operator of any biomedical waste combustion unit located at a facility with a total charging capacity of less than 50 tons per day. The requirements of this regulation do not apply to crematory incinerators. B. In addit…

A. No one shall combust biomedical waste in a single chamber combustion unit. All single chamber combustion units shall be taken out of service and removed from the facility. B. No one shall combust material marked with radiation symbols as required by 20.3.1 NMAC - 20.3.20 NMAC …

A. Emission Limits: The owner or operator shall not cause or allow any emission limit in subsection A of 20.2.63.210 NMAC to be exceeded. B. Compliance: (1) Compliance with the emission limit for carbon monoxide (CO), for units required to have continuous CO monitoring, shall be …

A. Design Requirements: (1) All combustion units shall be equipped with a secondary combustion chamber which provides for turbulent mixing by ensuring that the air being supplied to the combustion zone has sufficient momentum to penetrate the combustion gases. The secondary combu…

A. Emission Monitoring: (1) Continuous emission monitors shall be installed, calibrated, maintained, and operated, and shall continuously record data for the following: (a) For biomedical waste combustion units located at a facility with a total charging rate of 1000 pounds per h…

A. Emission Testing: (1) Within sixty (60) days of first achieving the maximum charging rate, but not more than one hundred eighty (180) days from the date of initial startup, the first annual performance test shall be conducted. (2) Units with charging capacity less than two hun…

A. Quarterly Report: The owner or operator shall submit a report containing the following information to the Department within thirty (30) days from the end of each calendar quarter: (1) The hourly average charging rate to each combustion unit; (2) The thirty (30) minute average …

A. Handling, Storage, and Transportation: (1) All handling and storage of fly ash and bottom ash shall be conducted in a closed system which prevents ash from becoming airborne. (2) Transporters of Biomedical Waste Combustion Ash (BWC ash): (a) Shall not accept or transport BWC a…

A. A trained combustion unit operator shall be present at the facility in which a combustion unit is located whenever waste is being combusted. The facility employed operator will control the operation of the combustion unit during performance testing. B. All combustion unit oper…

A. Biomedical waste combustion units in existence before April 8, 1991 shall achieve compliance with the standards and requirements of this Part by April 8, 1992. Each owner or operator of an existing biomedical waste combustion unit who intends to permanently cease operating the…

A. Emission Limits: Total Charging Capacity(1) Pollutants PM(2) HCl CO NOx SO2 PCDF Metals(3) 200 lb/hr 0.08 gr/dscf 4 lb/hr or 99% 60 mg/dscm 500 ng/dscm 200 lb/hr to 999 lb/hr 0.03 gr/dscf 40 mg/dscm 60 mg/dscm 235 mg/dscm 80 mg/dscm 5 ng/dscm 99% removal or Cd surrogate at 50 …

Environmental Improvement Act, NMSA 1978, section 74-1-8(A)(4), and Air Quality Control Act, NMSA 1978, sections 74-2-1 et seq., including specifically, section 74-2-5(A), (B) and (C)(3).

Permanent.

November 30, 1995. [The latest effective date of any section in this Part is 10/31/02.]

The objective of this Part is to establish requirements for emissions from, and design and operation of, biomedical waste combustion units.

In additions to the terms defined in 20.2.2 NMAC (Definitions), as used in this Part: A. "Anatomical/pathological waste" means human or animal remains consisting of carcasses, tissues, organs or body parts that may or may not be infectious. B. "Biomedical waste" means waste that …

This Part amends and supersedes Air Quality Control Regulation ("AQCR") 2020 -- Biomedical Waste Combustion filed March 8, 1991. A. All references to AQCR 2020 in any other rule shall be construed as a reference to this Part. B. The amendment and supersession of AQCR 2020 shall n…

Documents cited in this Part may be viewed at the New Mexico Environment Department, Air Quality Bureau, Runnels Building, 1190 Saint Francis Drive, Santa Fe, NM 87505 [2048 Galisteo St., Santa Fe, NM 87505].

Environmental Improvement Board.

A. Existing municipal solid waste landfills: An owner or operator of an existing (active or closed) MSWL is subject to all provisions specified in 40 CFR 60 Subpart Cf as promulgated by the United States environmental protection agency on August 29, 2016, except as provided for i…

A. Operating permits: New and existing active MSWLs with design capacities greater than or equal to 2.5 million megagrams and 2.5 million cubic meters are subject to permitting requirements under 20.2.70 NMAC (Operating Permits). Closed MSWLs and new and existing MSWLs with desig…

A. Requirements for existing (active and closed) MSWLs shall be in accordance with 40 CFR 60 Subpart Cf, except as provided in Subsections B and C below. B. All reports required in 40 CFR 60 Subpart Cf shall be submitted to the department according to the schedules outlined in th…

All geographic areas within the jurisdiction of the Environmental Improvement Board.

Environmental Improvement Act, Paragraphs (4) and (7) of Subsection (A) of Section 74-1-8 NMSA 1978 and Air Quality Control Act, Section 74-2-1 et seq. NMSA 1978, including specifically, Subsections (A), (B) and (C) of Section 74-2-5 NMSA 1978.

Permanent.

May 31, 2017, unless a later date is cited at the end of a section.

The objective of this part is to establish requirements for municipal solid waste landfills in order to control emissions of nonmethane organic compounds (NMOC).

In addition to the terms defined in 20.2.2 NMAC (Definitions), and those defined in 40 CFR 60 Subpart A, all definitions found in 40 CFR Part 60 Subpart XXX apply to new municipal solid waste landfills (MSWLs) and all definitions found in 40 CFR Part 60 Subpart Cf apply to existi…

Documents cited in this part may be viewed at the New Mexico environment department, air quality bureau.

Environmental Improvement Board.

A. This part applies to all users of prescribed fire that: (1) exceeds ten acres in area or 1,000 cubic feet of pile volume per day of vegetative material; or (2) exceeds the daily burn area or pile volume thresholds specified in Subsection A of 20.2.60.111 NMAC (open burning). B…

Only vegetative material shall be burned, with the following exceptions. A. Auxiliary fuel or incendiary devices may be used to ignite the burning authorized by this section, provided that: (1) no oil heavier than no. 2 diesel shall be used; and (2) no more than the minimum amoun…