Alabama Administrative Code › Title 335 - ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT › LAND DIVISION - SOLID WASTE PROGRAM › Chapter 335-13-4 - PERMIT REQUIREMENTS › Section 335-13-4-.21 - General Operational Standards For Disposal

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 9, June 28, 2024
Any person or agency operating or planning to operate a
				  landfill unit shall operate and maintain the facility consistent with this
				  Division. General requirements for operating and maintaining an acceptable
				  landfill unit shall be:
(1)
General Operation
.
(a) The operation and use of the landfill
				unit shall be as stipulated in the permit.
(b) Waste accepted at the facility shall be
				strictly controlled so as to allow only waste stipulated on the permit or
				otherwise as may be approved by the department. The permittee of any facility
				permitted under these rules must have in the operating record a plan describing
				procedures the permittee will implement for detecting and preventing the
				disposal of free liquids, regulated hazardous wastes, regulated medical wastes,
				and regulated PCB wastes at the facility. This plan must include at a minimum:
1. Random inspections of incoming loads to
				ensure that incoming loads do not contain free liquids, regulated hazardous
				wastes, regulated medical wastes, or regulated PCB wastes.
2. Inspection of suspicious loads.
3. Records of all inspections to include the
				origin of waste suspected to be regulated hazardous, regulated medical, or
				regulated PCB waste if known; transporters, to include transfer stations and
				all handlers of the waste en route to the disposal site; and any certifications
				from generators provided to the permittee or facility personnel. These records
				must be maintained on file in the operating record of the facility.
4. Training of facility personnel to
				recognize free liquids, regulated hazardous wastes, regulated medical wastes,
				and regulated PCB wastes.
5.
				Procedures for notifying the proper authorities if free liquids, regulated
				hazardous wastes, regulated medical wastes, or regulated PCB wastes are
				discovered at the facility.
6.
				Methods to identify all industrial users of the facility, producers of special
				wastes, and transporters of these wastes.
(c) Prior to disposal of industrial waste
				and/or medical waste, the permittee shall obtain from each generator a written
				certification that the material to be disposed does not contain free liquids,
				regulated hazardous wastes, regulated medical wastes, or regulated PCB wastes.
1. This certification may be based on
				laboratory analysis of the waste on a case-by-case basis, or documentation
				supporting the generator's knowledge of the wastestreams(s), or as may be
				required by the Department.
2.
				Copies of the certification shall be submitted to the Department for disposal
				approval and for any specific requirements prior to disposal. After submittal
				of the required certification, the Department shall have five (5) working days
				to respond. If no response is given, the permittee may dispose of the material
				as proposed.
3. In the case of
				one-time emergency disposal requests, the permittee shall submit the required
				certification no later than five (5) days after the disposal of
				waste.
4. Certification shall be
				renewed or revised biennially (every two years) or at such time that
				operational changes at the point of generation could render the waste
				hazardous, whichever is more frequent and submitted to the Department for
				approval.
5. Copies of these
				certifications and approvals shall be maintained on file in the operating
				record of the facility and shall be made available for the Department upon
				request.
6. The above requirements
				notwithstanding and, as may otherwise be required, pursuant to Division 13
				rules, generators will not be required to submit certification to the
				Department provided that:
(i) The waste will
				be disposed of at a non-commercial industrial waste landfill which has been
				permitted by the Department, and is owned either exclusively or mutually by the
				generator(s) of the waste, and which disposes of waste generated only by the
				owner(s);
(ii) The wastestream(s)
				to be disposed of are specifically described in the Solid Waste Landfill Permit
				issued by the Department or in the final application as referenced by the
				permit for the site designated to receive the waste;
(iii) The required certification, as
				described above, is maintained on-site by the owner(s) of the landfill;
				and
(iv) The required
				certification, as described above, is made available for inspection by the
				Department upon request.
(d) The landfill unit shall be operated in
				such a manner that there will be no water pollution or unauthorized discharge.
1. Any discharge resulting from a landfill
				unit or practice may require:
(i) A National
				Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit under the Alabama Water
				Pollution Control Act as issued by the Department.
(ii) A dredge or fill permit from the Army
				Corps of Engineers as required under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, as
				amended; or
(iii) That a non-point
				source of surface waters does not violate an area wide or statewide water
				quality management plan that has been approved under the Alabama Water
				Pollution Control Act.
2. The groundwater shall not be contaminated
				as specified by this Division.
(e) The historic and certified disposal areas
				shall be identified with a sufficient number of permanent markers which are at
				least visible from one marker to the next.
(f) Measuring or weighing devices shall be
				required for all municipal solid waste landfill units accepting solid waste.
				All solid waste shall be properly measured or weighed prior to disposal unless
				otherwise approved by the Department.
(g) Deep rooted vegetation (with roots that
				may grow below the six inch erosion layer) shall be prohibited as vegetative
				cover.
(h) With the exception of
				very small quantity generator waste disposed of in municipal solid waste
				landfills, regulated hazardous waste, as defined by Division 14 of the ADEM
				Administrative Code, is prohibited from disposal in a non-hazardous landfill
				unit.