Kentucky Administrative Regulations › Title 401 - ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT CABINET - DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Chapter 59 - New Source Standards › Section 401 KAR 59:023 - New medical waste incinerators

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 1, July 1, 2024
RELATES TO:
				KRS
				224.20-100,
				224.20-110,
				224.20-120,
				40 C.F.R.
				60.13 (1990), 40 C.F.R. 60, Appendix A,
				Methods 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 6A, 6C, 7, 7E, 9, 10 and 19 (1990), 40 C.F.R. 60,
				Appendix B, Performance Specifications 1, 2, 3, and 4 (1990)
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY:
				KRS
				224.10-100 requires the Environmental and
				Public Protection Cabinet to prescribe administrative regulations for the
				prevention, abatement, and control of air pollution. This administrative
				regulation provides for standards of performance for new medical waste
				incinerators.
Section 1. Definitions.
			 As used in this administrative regulation, all terms not defined in this
			 section shall have the meaning given them in
			 401 KAR
			 50:010.
(1)
			 "Affected facility" means a device for which construction, modification, or
			 reconstruction commenced on or after November 15, 1990, that combusts material
			 which, if included in the waste stream, would be medical waste.
(2) "Acid gases" means sulfur dioxide and
			 hydrogen chloride gases emitted from units.
(3) "Biologicals" means a biological product
			 used in the prevention or treatment of disease.
(4) "Bubbling fluidized bed incinerator"
			 means a fluidized bed incinerator in which the majority of the bed material
			 remains in the primary combustion zone.
(5) "Burnout" means the percent of matter
			 completely burned in the primary chamber of an affected facility.
(6) "Chief facility operator" means the
			 person in direct charge and control of the operation of an affected facility
			 and who is responsible for daily on-site supervision, technical direction,
			 management, and overall performance of the facility.
(7) "Circulating fluidized bed incinerator"
			 means a fluidized bed incinerator in which the majority of the bed material is
			 carried out of the primary combustion zone and is transported back to the
			 primary zone through a recirculation loop.
(8) "Refuse-derived fuel cofired incinerator"
			 or "RDF cofired incinerator" means an incinerator that is designed to fire
			 refuse-derived fuel simultaneously with other fuels.
(9) "Commercial solid waste" means all types
			 of solid waste generated by stores, offices, restaurants, warehouses, and other
			 nonmanufacturing activities, excluding household and industrial wastes.
			 Commercial solid waste includes waste from medical facilities, schools, and
			 other institutions that is not medical waste.
(10) "Contained landfill" has the meaning
			 given it in 401 KAR 30:010.
(11)
			 "Continuous emission monitoring system" or "CEMS" means a monitoring system for
			 continuously measuring and recording the emissions of a pollutant from an
			 affected facility.
(12) "Daily
			 average" means the average of all hourly emission rates when the affected
			 facility is operating and combusting medical waste, measured over a twenty-four
			 (24) hour period between 12 midnight and the following midnight.
(13) "Dioxin or furan" means total tetra-
			 through octa-chlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and tetra-through octa-chlorinated
			 dibenzofurans.
(14) "Ferrous
			 metals" means metals and alloys containing iron. Ferrous metals include, but
			 are not limited to, pieces of scrap metal and household appliances made of
			 iron-containing metals, including stoves, refrigerators, air conditioners, and
			 other appliances. Ferrous metals shall not include whole automobiles or other
			 vehicles or vehicle bodies.
(15)
			 "Field-erected" means assembled from components at a final site of
			 operation.
(16) "Four (4) hour
			 block average" means the average of all hourly emission rates when the affected
			 facility is operating and combusting medical waste measured over four (4) hour
			 periods of from 12 midnight to 4 a.m., 4 a.m. to 8 a.m., 8 a.m. to 12 noon, 12
			 noon to 4 p.m., 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., 8 p.m. to 12 midnight.
(17) "Hazardous waste" has the meaning given
			 it in
			 KRS
			 224.01-010.
(18) "Household battery" means a dry cell
			 battery.
(19) "Household solid
			 waste" means solid waste, including garbage and trash generated by single and
			 multiple family residences, hotels, motels, bunkhouses, ranger stations, crew
			 quarters, and recreational areas such as picnic areas, parks, and
			 campgrounds.
(20) "Industrial
			 waste" means a liquid, gaseous, or solid waste substance resulting from a
			 process of industry, manufacture, trade, or business, or from the development,
			 processing, or recovery of a natural resource.
(21) "Mass burn refractory incinerator" means
			 an incinerator that combusts waste in a refractory wall furnace.
(22) "Mass burn rotary waterwall incinerator"
			 means an incinerator that combusts waste in a cylindrical rotary waterwall
			 furnace.
(23) "Mass burn waterwall
			 incinerator" means an incinerator that combusts waste in a conventional
			 waterfall furnace.
(24) "Maximum
			 unit load" means the maximum one (1) hour load achieved when compliance with
			 all applicable administrative regulations is demonstrated or during a
			 subsequent test demonstrating compliance at a higher unit load.
(25) "Medical waste" means:
(a) Cultures and stocks of infectious agents,
			 including specimen cultures collected from medical and pathological
			 laboratories, cultures and stocks of infectious agents from research and
			 industrial laboratories, wastes from the production of biologicals, discarded
			 live and attenuated vaccines, and culture dishes and devices used to transfer,
			 inoculate, and mix cultures;
(b)
			 Waste human blood and blood products such as serum, plasma, and other blood
			 components;
(c) Pathological
			 wastes, such as tissues, organs, body parts, and body fluids that are removed
			 during surgery and autopsy;
(d) All
			 discarded sharps, including but not limited to hypodermic needles, syringes,
			 Pasteur pipettes, broken glass, scalpel blades, scalpels, glass vials, etc.,
			 used in patient care, autopsy, embalming, or which have come into contact with
			 infectious agents during use in medical, research, or industrial
			 laboratories;
(e) Carcasses and
			 body parts of animals that were exposed to pathogens in research, in the
			 production of biologicals, or in the in vivo testing of pharmaceuticals;
			 and
(f) Other wastes as may be
			 designated by a permit issued by the Division for Air Quality.
(26) "Metals" means condensible
			 metals emitted from units. For the purpose of this administrative regulation,
			 particulate matter shall serve as a surrogate for the measurement and control
			 of metals.
(27) "Modular excess air
			 incinerator" means an incinerator that combusts waste and that is not
			 field-erected and has multiple combustion chambers, all of which are designed
			 to operate at conditions with combustion air amounts in excess of theoretical
			 air requirements.
(28) "Modular
			 starved air incinerator" means an incinerator that combusts waste and that is
			 not field-erected and has multiple combustion chambers in which the primary
			 combustion chamber is designed to operate at substoichiometric
			 conditions.
(29) "Municipal solid
			 waste" or "MSW" means household solid waste and commercial solid waste. Medical
			 waste shall not be considered to be MSW.
(30) "Municipal solid waste incinerator" or
			 "MSWI" means a solid waste incinerator that combusts MSW exclusively.
(31) "Multiple-chamber incinerator" means an
			 incinerator consisting of at least two (2) refractory lined combustion chambers
			 (primary and secondary) in series, physically separated by refractory walls,
			 and interconnected by gas passage ports or ducts.
(32) "Normal" means a volumetric measurement
			 at thirty-two (32) degrees Fahrenheit and one (1) atmosphere.
(33) "Organics" means organic compounds
			 emitted from units and includes dioxins or furans. For the purpose of this
			 administrative regulation, dioxin or furan shall serve as a surrogate for the
			 measurement and control of organics.
(34) "Plant" means one (1) or more units at
			 the same location for which construction, modification, or reconstruction is
			 commenced on or after November 15, 1990.
(35) "Plant capacity" means the aggregate
			 unit capacity of all units at a plant for which construction, modification, or
			 reconstruction is commenced on or after November 15, 1990.
(36) "Particulate matter" means total
			 particulate matter emitted from affected facilities.
(37) "Particulate matter carry-over" means
			 particulate matter which is passed from the primary chamber of an incinerator
			 into the flue gas stream.
(38)
			 "Processed MSW or refuse-derived fuel" or "processed MSW or RDF" means MSW or
			 refuse-derived fuel that has been processed to separate materials for recovery
			 prior to combustion in a solid waste incinerator. MSW or refuse-derived fuel is
			 considered to be processed MSW or RDF if an overall forty (40) percent or
			 greater reduction by weight (annual average) of MSW is achieved through the
			 separation of recoverable materials. A maximum of fifteen (15) percent
			 reduction (by weight) of the overall MSW shall be attributed to separation of
			 yard waste. The forty (40) percent or greater overall reduction requirement may
			 be achieved by on-site mechanical separation, on-site manual separation,
			 off-site mechanical separation, off-site manual separation, or a curbside
			 source reduction or materials separation (recycling) program, or a combination
			 thereof.
(39) "Recoverable
			 materials" means paper, paperboard, ferrous metals, nonferrous metals, glass,
			 plastics, household batteries, and yard waste.
(40) "Refuse-derived fuel" or "RDF" means a
			 type of MSW produced by processing MSW through shredding and size
			 classification. This includes all classes of RDF including low density fluff
			 RDF through densified RDF fuel pellets.
(41) "RDF spreader stoker" means a steam
			 generating unit that combusts RDF in a semisus-pension firing mode using
			 air-fed distributors.
(42) "Same
			 location" means the same or contiguous property that is under common ownership
			 or control, including properties that are separated only by a street, road,
			 highway, or other public right-of-way. Common ownership or control includes
			 properties that are owned, leased, or operated by the same entity, parent
			 entity, subsidiary, subdivision, or a combination thereof, including a
			 municipality or other governmental unit, or a quasi-governmental authority
			 (e.g., a public utility district or waste management district).
(43) "Shift supervisor" means the person in
			 direct charge and control of the operation of an affected facility and who is
			 responsible for on-site supervision, technical direction, management, and
			 overall performance of the affected facility during an assigned
			 shift.
(44) "Solid waste" has the
			 meaning given it in
			 KRS
			 224.01-010.
(45) "Standard" means a volumetric
			 measurement at sixty-eight (68) degrees Fahrenheit and one (1)
			 atmosphere.
(46) "Uncontrolled
			 hydrogen chloride emission rate" means the hydrogen chloride emission rate that
			 would occur from combustion of medical waste or other wastes combined with
			 medical waste in the absence of hydrogen chloride emissions control.
(47) "Uncontrolled sulfur dioxide emission
			 rate" means the sulfur dioxide emission rate that would occur from combustion
			 of medical waste or other wastes combined with medical waste in the absence of
			 sulfur dioxide emissions control.
(48) "Unit" means an affected facility
			 including, but not limited to, field-erected incinerators (with or without heat
			 recovery), modular incinerators (starved air or excess air), boilers (i.e.,
			 steam generating units), and furnaces (whether suspension-fired, grate-fired,
			 mass-fired, or fluidized bed-fired).
(49) "Unit capacity" means the maximum design
			 charging rate of the waste for an individual unit.
(50) "Unit load" means the volume of steam
			 produced, expressed in kilograms per hour (pounds per hour) of steam.
(51) "Unprocessed MSW or RDF" means MSW or
			 RDF that has not been processed to separate materials for recovery prior to
			 combustion or for which less than a forty (40) percent reduction by weight
			 (annual average) of MSW is achieved as specified under processed MSW or
			 RDF.
(52) "Vehicle batteries" means
			 a wet lead-acid battery.
(53)
			 "Waste" has the meaning given it in
			 KRS
			 224.01-010.
(54) "Waste management district" has the
			 meaning given it in
			 KRS
			 224.01-010.
(55) "Yard waste" means vegetative matter
			 removed as a result of outdoor maintenance practices from residential and
			 commercial yards, municipal parks, gardens, golf courses, and other similar
			 areas, and includes, but is not limited to, grass trimmings, tree branches,
			 straw, and leaves.