Kentucky Administrative Regulations › Title 401 - ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT CABINET - DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Chapter 61 - Existing Source Standards › Section 401 KAR 61:013 - Existing 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
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 existing 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 before February 7, 1991, that combusts material which,
			 if included in the waste stream, would be medical waste.
(2) "Afterburner" means an auxiliary burner
			 for destroying unburned or partially burned combustion gases after they have
			 passed from the combustion chamber.
(3) "Biologicals" means a biological product
			 used in the prevention or treatment of disease.
(4) "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.
(5) "Hazardous waste" has the meaning given
			 it in
			 KRS
			 224.01-010.
(6) "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.
(7) "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.
(8)
			 "Mass burn rotary waterwall incinerator" means an incinerator that combusts
			 waste in a cylindrical rotary waterwall furnace.
(9) "Mass burn waterwall incinerator" means
			 an incinerator that combusts waste in a conventional waterwall
			 furnace.
(10) "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, scalpels, scalpel blades, 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.
(11) "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.
(12) "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.
(13) "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.
(14) "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.
(15) "Municipal solid waste"
			 or "MSW" means household solid waste and commercial solid waste.
(16) "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.
(17) "Particulate matter" means total
			 particulate matter emitted from affected facilities.
(18) "Plant" means one (1) or more units at
			 the same location for which construction, modification, or reconstruction is
			 commenced before February 7, 1991.
(19) "Plant capacity" means the aggregate
			 unit capacity of all units at a plant for which construction, modification, or
			 reconstruction is commenced before February 7, 1991.
(20) "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).
(21)
			 "Uncontrolled hydrogen chloride emission rate" means the hydrogen chloride
			 emission rate that would occur from the combustion of medical waste, or other
			 wastes combined with medical waste.
(22) "Uncontrolled sulfur dioxide emission
			 rate" means the sulfur dioxide emission rate that would occur from the
			 combustion of medical waste or other wastes combined with medical
			 waste.
(23) "Unit" means a device
			 that combusts medical waste 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).
(24) "Unit capacity" means the maximum
			 designed charging rate of the waste for an individual unit.
(25) "Waste" has the meaning given it in
			 KRS
			 224.01-010.
(26) "Waste management district" has the
			 meaning given it in
			 KRS
			 224.01-010.