Florida Administrative Code › 62 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 62 - Departmental › Chapter 62-713 - SOIL TREATMENT FACILITIES › Section 62-713.400 - Stationary Soil Treatment Facility Design Requirements

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) Soil treatment facilities shall be
				designed to manage both contaminated and treated soils and to minimize their
				threat to public health and the environment. The design of soil treatment
				facilities shall be based upon technologies which can reasonably be expected to
				produce a treated soil which, if managed in accordance with this chapter, will
				not pose a significant threat to public health or the environment. A permit
				application for a soil treatment facility shall include the following design
				requirements:
(a) A description of the likely
				sources of the contaminated soils which are proposed to be managed and treated
				by the facility and identification of the contaminants of concern expected to
				be present in the soils from the sources described;
(b) A description of the maximum capacity of
				contaminated soil the facility is designed to process, either in tons per day
				for a continuous flow treatment process (such as thermal treatment) or total
				tons for a batch treatment process (such as bioremediation);
(c) A detailed description of the treatment
				technology and functions of all processing equipment that will be used. The
				description shall explain the flow of contaminated soil through all the
				proposed unit operations, explain the associated equipment operations in
				detail, and shall include:
1. Regular facility
				operations as they are expected to occur,
2. Procedures for start up operations, and
				scheduled and unscheduled shut down operations,
3. Potential safety hazards and control
				methods, including fire detection and control,
4. A description of any expected air
				emissions and wastewater discharges from the facility which may be potential
				pollution sources,
5. The chemical
				composition and usage rate of any chemical additives that will be used in the
				treatment process,
6. A description
				and usage rate of any biological additives that will be used in the treatment
				process,
7. Process flow diagrams
				for the facility operations,
8. For
				continuous flow treatment processes, a description of the equipment design
				criteria and critical operating parameters for the unit operations selected,
				including maximum design flowrates, required heat inputs, minimum required
				residence times, minimum required treatment temperatures, and expected
				equipment performance,
9. For batch
				treatment processes, a description of the design criteria and critical
				operating parameters, including minimum required soil holding times, minimum
				area requirements for treatment, maximum soil pile height, minimum distance
				allowed between contaminated soil windrows, minimum and maximum allowed
				temperatures and air flowrates, and orientation of nutrient addition or
				aeration piping; and,
10. For
				treatment technologies other than thermal treatment of petroleum soil, results
				of studies from pilot projects or actual operating facilities which demonstrate
				the feasibility of the technology proposed for treating the contaminated soils
				expected at the facility, and which support the proposed design criteria and
				operating parameters,
(d) A description of loading, unloading, and
				processing areas; and,
(e) A
				description of the leachate control system which is designed to prevent
				discharge of leachate and mixing of leachate with stormwater. All areas where
				contaminated soil is stored, where any processing takes place which could
				result in the release of leachate, and where treated soil which has not met the
				criteria as cleaned soil is stored must have an impervious surface with a
				leachate collection system and a cover or roof designed to prevent the contact
				of rainfall with the soil. For the purposes of this rule, an impervious surface
				means a poured concrete pad having a minimum thickness of four inches, or an
				asphalt concrete paving with a minimum thickness of one and one-half inches,
				with an additional component to restrict leaching to ground water such as a
				soil cement sub-base, an epoxy seal or a geomembrane.