Alabama Administrative Code › Title 335 - ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT › LAND DIVISION - HAZARDOUS WASTE PROGRAM › Chapter 335-14-6 - INTERIM STATUS STANDARDS FOR OWNERS AND OPERATORS OF HAZARDOUS WASTE TREATMENT, STORAGE, AND DISPOSAL FACILITIES › Section 335-14-6-.14 - Landfills

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 9, June 28, 2024
(1)
Applicability
. The requirements of apply to owners and
				operators of facilities that dispose of hazardous waste in landfills, except as
				335-14-6-.01(1)
				provides otherwise. A waste pile used as a disposal facility is a landfill and
				is governed by
				335-14-6-.14.
(2)
Design and operating
				requirements
.
(a) The owner or
				operator of each new landfill unit, each lateral expansion of a landfill unit,
				and each replacement of an existing landfill unit, must install two or more
				liners and a leachate collection and removal system above and between such
				liners, and operate the leachate collection and removal system, in accordance
				with 335-14-5-.14(2)(b).
(b) The owner or operator of each unit
				referred to in
				335-14-6-.14(2)(a)
				must notify the Department at least sixty days prior to receiving waste. The
				owner or operator of each facility submitting notice must file a Part B
				application within six months of the receipt of such notice.
(c) The owner or operator of any replacement
				landfill unit is exempt from
				335-14-6-.14(2)
				(a) if:
1.
				The existing unit was constructed in compliance with the design standards of
				section 3004(o)(1)(A)(i) and (o)(5) of the Resource Conservation and Recovery
				Act and AHWMMA; and
2. There is no
				reason to believe that the liner is not functioning as designed.
(d) [Reserved]
(e) In the case of any unit in which the
				liner and leachate collection system has been installed pursuant to the
				requirements of
				335-14-6-.14(2)(a)
				and in good faith compliance with
				335-14-6-.14(2)(a)
				and with guidance documents governing liners and leachate collection systems
				under 335-14-6-.14(2)
				(a), no liner or leachate collection system
				which is different from that which was so installed pursuant to
				335-14-6-.14(2)(a)
				will be required for such unit by the Department when issuing the first permit
				to such facility, except that the Department will not be precluded from
				requiring installation of a new liner when the Department has reason to believe
				that any liner installed pursuant to the requirements of
				335-14-6-.24(2)(a)
				is leaking.
(f) The owner or
				operator must design, construct, operate, and maintain a run-on control system
				capable of preventing flow onto the active portion of the landfill during peak
				discharge from at least a 25-year storm.
(g) The owner or operator must design,
				construct, operate, and maintain a run-off management system to collect and
				control at least the water volume resulting from a 24-hour, 25-year
				storm.
(h) Collection and holding
				facilities (e.g., tanks or basins) associated with run-on and run-off control
				systems must be emptied or otherwise managed expeditiously after storms to
				maintain design capacity of the system.
(i) The owner or operator of a landfill
				containing hazardous waste which is subject to dispersal by wind must cover or
				otherwise manage the landfill so that wind dispersal of the hazardous waste is
				controlled.