Title 68, Health, Safety and Environmental Protection

Each distributor shall register for each place of business with the commissioner of revenue upon forms prescribed and furnished by such commissioner.

(a) The fee imposed by this part shall be payable for quarterly periods as follows:(1) January 1 through March 31;(2) April 1 through June 30;(3) July 1 through September 30; and(4) October 1 through December 31. (1) January 1 through March 31; (2) April 1 through June 30; (3) Ju…

This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Tennessee Solid Waste Disposal Act.”

For the purposes of compensating the distributor in accounting for and remitting the fee, a distributor shall be allowed a deduction of the fee due, reported and paid to the department of revenue in the amount of two percent (2%) of the amount due on the report, but such deductio…

(a) (1) All used oil collection centers must meet management standards established by the department and must be attended during hours of operation of such centers. Used oil collection centers shall establish a maximum amount of used oil that such centers will accept from any per…

(a) The commissioner of environment and conservation shall administer and enforce this part. (b) The commissioner may:(1) Issue orders for correction to enforce this part and rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to this part in the manner specified in § 68-211-112 and such …

(a) The department shall develop management standards for used oil collection centers that require, as a minimum, that such centers:(1) Accept uncontaminated used oil from the general public in quantities up to five gallons (5 gal.), per person, per day;(2) Participate in the sta…

(a) The department shall develop certification procedures for transporters accepting used oil from public, private and commercial collection facilities. Such certification shall include:(1) A requirement that the transporter demonstrates familiarity with state regulations and pro…

(a) The department shall develop management standards for used oil recycling and collection. Such standards shall comply with all rules and regulations of the federal environmental protection agency but shall not exceed such rules and regulations. (b) The underground storage tank…

(a) Other than as provided for in a state or federal discharge permit, no person shall:(1) Discharge used oil into sewers, drainage systems, septic tanks, surface waters, groundwaters, water courses or marine waters;(2) Collect, store, recycle, use or dispose of used oil in any m…

(a) (1) A retailer of automotive oil that is not a used oil collection center shall post and maintain on the retailer's premises, at or near the point of the automotive oil display or sale, a durable and legible sign (minimum size of eight and one-half by eleven inches (8½″ x 11″…

(1) Upon detection of a release of used oil or any other automotive fluid to the environment at an automotive fluid collection center and notification to the department, the following cleanup steps must be performed:(1) Stop the release;(2) Contain the released used oil or other …

(a) Used oil filters shall be:(1) Punctured and hot-drained for a minimum of twelve (12) hours;(2) Punctured and cold-drained for a minimum of twenty-four (24) hours;(3) Drained and crushed; or(4) Prepared for disposal as otherwise provided by rules and regulations promulgated by…

(a) In order to protect the public health, safety and welfare, prevent the spread of disease and creation of nuisances, conserve our natural resources, enhance the beauty and quality of our environment and provide a coordinated statewide solid waste disposal program, it is declar…

(1) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Baled waste” means all waste that has been mechanically compacted to achieve high density per unit volume and strapped to retain its form as a bale. Not included is compaction which has occurred only in collecti…

(1) It is unlawful to:(1) Place or deposit any solid waste into the waters of the state except in a manner approved by the department or the Tennessee board of water quality, oil and gas;(2) Burn solid wastes except in a manner and under conditions prescribed by the department an…

(a) The department shall exercise general supervision over the construction of solid waste processing facilities and disposal facilities or sites throughout the state. Such general supervision shall apply to all features of construction of solid waste processing facilities and di…

(a) (1) No solid waste processing facility or disposal facility or site in any political subdivision of the state shall be operated or maintained by any person unless such person has registered with the commissioner in the name of such person for the specified facility or site. A…

(a) The department shall exercise general supervision over the operation and maintenance of solid waste processing facilities and disposal facilities or sites. Such general supervision shall apply to all the features of operation and maintenance which do or may affect the public …

The commissioner and board are authorized to delegate the duties and responsibilities granted to them by this part to local health officers to the extent deemed necessary by the commissioner and board to implement this part.

The department is authorized to review and approve grants and loans from the federal government and other sources to counties, cities, towns, municipalities, or any combination thereof, to assist them in designing, acquiring, constructing, altering, or operating solid waste proce…

This part does not apply to any private, natural person disposing waste generated in such natural person's own household upon land owned by such natural person; provided, that such disposal does not create a public nuisance or a hazard to the public health; however, further provi…

(1) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Beneficial end use” has the same meaning as in § 68-211-867;(2) “Board” means the underground storage tanks and solid waste disposal control board;(3) “Commissioner” means the commissioner of environment and con…

(a) (1) A person shall not commercially transport waste tires in this state unless the person has registered with the department as a waste tire hauler in accordance with this section and displays an active decal or placard obtained from the department on a vehicle used to transp…

(a) A person who commercially generates, transports, processes, stores, or disposes of waste tires shall use a manifest for the waste tires that contains the following information:(1) Names and addresses of transporters;(2) Names and addresses of facilities at which waste tires a…

(a) The commissioner may inspect facilities at which waste tires are generated, transported, processed, stored, or disposed and obtain related records. (b) If the commissioner finds that a provision of this part is not being carried out, and that effective measures are not being …

The board shall promulgate rules to implement this part. The rules must be promulgated in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5.

(a) (1) (A) There is created an underground storage tanks and solid waste disposal control board that shall be composed of fourteen (14) members appointed by the governor as follows:(i) One (1) person engaged in a field directly related to agriculture, who may be appointed from l…

When the commissioner finds, upon investigation, that any provisions of this part are not being carried out, and that effective measures are not being taken to comply with this part, the commissioner may issue an order for correction to the responsible person, and this order shal…

(a) (1) Any person whose plans for the construction of, or change in, any solid waste processing facility or disposal facility are disapproved by the commissioner may secure a review of the commissioner's disapproval by filing with the commissioner a written petition setting fort…

Any person willfully violating any of this part, or failing, neglecting or refusing to comply with any order of the commissioner or board lawfully issued, or who accepts solid waste for disposal in a landfill which does not have a permit pursuant to this part, except as provided …

In addition to the penalties herein provided, the commissioner may cause the enforcement of any orders, rules or regulations issued by such commissioner or orders issued by the board to carry out this part by instituting legal proceedings to enjoin the violation of this part, and…

(a) To ensure the proper operation and closure of solid waste disposal and processing facilities, except as allowed in subsection (c), there shall be posted with the commissioner a performance bond. All funds from the forfeiture of bonds or other instruments required pursuant to …

(a) (1) Any person who violates or fails to comply with any provision of this part or any rule, regulation, or standard adopted pursuant to this part shall be subject to a civil penalty of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000) per d…

(a) No permit to construct or operate a landfill for the disposal of solid or hazardous waste shall be granted if the location of such landfill would violate § 11-13-111. (b) Section 11-13-111 and this section do not apply to the expansion of any landfill for the disposal of soli…

(a) Baled waste may only be disposed of in a landfill that has received a permit pursuant to § 68-212-108, unless:(1) The waste was baled at a location subject to inspection by the commissioner in accordance with a permit issued pursuant to regulations adopted by the board, speci…

(a) Persons who transport, treat, store and/or dispose of baled waste, except for those who bale waste at the site of disposal, shall utilize a manifest for such waste that contains all the following information:(1) Names and addresses of the transporter;(2) Name and address of t…

To ensure that landfills and processing facilities receive only lawfully acceptable waste, the operator of each facility shall inspect waste received at the facility in accordance with a plan approved by the commissioner. Such plan shall provide for a level of inspection that is …

Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, a municipality may exercise the power of eminent domain to establish a landfill for solid waste disposal outside its corporate boundaries only if the governing body of the area in which the landfill is to be located approves such act…

The department of environment and conservation shall not issue a permit by rule for sewage sludge composting for a site that is greater than one (1) acre in size.

(a) The department may issue permits authorizing the use of treated ash aggregate as a building material in construction or site preparation applications in commercial and industrial settings. (b) “Treated ash aggregate” as used in this section means bottom ash or fly ash resulti…

(a) The department may recover against a person the department's direct and indirect costs, including administrative costs, incurred through the regulation of coal combustion residuals disposal units as provided by rules adopted by the board pursuant to this part. (b) Board rules…

(a) There is created the advisory task force on solid waste to examine and review issues related to solid waste. The task force shall focus its examination and review on innovative processes for the disposition of solid waste and shall review all aspects of the disposition of sol…

This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Mercury Product Disposal Control Act.”

(1) The general assembly finds and declares that:(1) Mercury is a persistent and toxic pollutant that bioaccumulates in the environment;(2) According to recent studies, mercury deposition is a significant problem in the southeast; and(3) The removal of mercury-containing products…

(1) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Biological product” means a virus, therapeutic serum, toxin, antitoxin, vaccine, blood, blood component or derivative, allergenic product or an analogous product, or arsphenamine or any other trivalent organic a…