New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Chapter 26G - HAZARDOUS WASTE › Subchapter 7 - STANDARDS APPLICABLE TO TRANSPORTERS OF HAZARDOUS WASTE › Section 7:26G-7.4 - Requirements for hazardous waste transfer facilities

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) A hazardous waste transfer facility shall be operated by a licensed hazardous waste transporter, who owns or leases the property upon which the transfer facility is located. If the property is leased, the lease shall be a written agreement between the property owner and the licensed hazardous waste transporter which discloses the hazardous nature of the operation.
(b) Except during emergencies in transportation, hazardous waste storage, consolidation, or commingling may be conducted only at a hazardous waste transfer facility as described in (a) above or an authorized hazardous waste facility, which is designated on the manifest. Storage, consolidation, or commingling of hazardous waste in transit shall not occur except as authorized under this section, and within the time limits established in this section.
(c) The owner or operator of the hazardous waste transfer facility shall notify the Department in writing prior to conducting activities at the transfer facility. The owner or operator of hazardous waste transfer facility shall submit, as part of the initial transporter license application, the hazardous waste transporter license renewal at 7:26G-7.2(a)5, or written notification to update transporter license information at 7:26G-7.2(a)7, the address of the hazardous waste transfer facility and an indication whether the property where the transfer facility is located is owned or leased by the transporter. If the hazardous waste transfer facility is to be operated pursuant to a lease in accordance with (a) above, a copy of the lease shall be submitted as part of the hazardous waste transporter license application, license renewal, or written notification to update license information.
(d) The owner or operator of the hazardous waste transfer facility shall maintain at the transfer facility a written operating log (or logs, as necessary) documenting the movement of hazardous waste into and out of the hazardous waste facility and any hazardous waste transfers occurring at the facility and documenting compliance with the conditions set forth at (g) and (h) below. Written or otherwise transcribed operating log(s) shall be kept available at the facility site for at least three years. At a minimum, the log(s) shall include the following information:
1. The date each hazardous waste arrives at the transfer facility;
2. The decal number of the waste bearing portion of the vehicle;
3. A description (including the USDOT shipping description) and the quantity of each hazardous waste received on a vehicle when it arrives at the transfer facility;
4. The state manifest document number or manifest document number or associated with each hazardous waste load;
5. Location of each hazardous waste within the facility;
6. A notation of any consolidation or commingling performed;
7. The date each hazardous waste departs from the transfer facility;
8. A description (including the USDOT description) and quantity of hazardous waste on the vehicle when it departs from the transfer facility; and
9. Cross references to specific manifest document numbers involved in the consolidation or commingling of hazardous waste loads.