North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 33.1 - Department of Environmental Quality › Article 33.1-15 - Air Pollution Control › Chapter 33.1-15-05 - Emissions of Particulate Matter Restricted › Section 33.1-15-05-03.1 - Other waste incinerators

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
1.
Salvage
				incinerators.
The department may require construction, operational, and
				recordkeeping standards and procedures for salvage incinerators. No industrial
				waste, radioactive waste, hazardous waste, or infectious waste may be burned in
				a salvage incinerator, unless specifically approved by the
				department.
2.
Air curtain
				destructors.
The department may require construction, operational, and
				recordkeeping standards and procedures for air curtain destructors based upon
				factors such as characteristics and quantities of materials to be destroyed by
				burning and site location.
3.
Industrial waste and special waste incinerators.
The department
				may require construction, operational, emission, monitoring, recordkeeping, and
				reporting standards and procedures for incinerators of industrial waste based
				upon factors such as characteristics and quantities of the industrial waste and
				site location.
4.
Crematoriums.
a. No owner or
				operator of combustion units operated as a human or animal crematorium or in an
				animal farm operation for animal disposal may burn any other type or form of
				materials or solid waste unless specifically approved by the
				department.
b. No owner or operator
				of a crematorium may allow to be discharged into the atmosphere any air
				contaminant, which exhibits an opacity greater than ten percent except that a
				maximum of twenty percent is permissible for not more than one 6-minute period
				per hour.
c. A crematorium
				constructed and operated after August 1, 1995, must be equipped with two or
				more chambers and with auxiliary fuel burners, designed to assure a temperature
				in a secondary chamber of at least one thousand six hundred degrees Fahrenheit
				[871 degrees Celsius] for a minimum of one-second retention time.
d. Monitoring. Each new crematorium must be
				equipped with a continuous temperature monitor, with readout, to monitor the
				temperature of the gases exiting the secondary combustion chamber or zone. Each
				human crematorium installed or reinstalled after September 1, 2002, must be
				equipped with a temperature recorder.
e. Charging. A crematorium must be charged in
				accordance with the manufacturer's procedures or recommendations. Deviations
				from these procedures or recommendations are allowed provided credible evidence
				has been submitted to the department that indicates the deviations will reduce
				air contaminant emissions. Such evidence shall be provided prior to
				implementation of the deviations.
f. Operation. Operators of human crematoriums
				shall be trained in the proper operation of the unit. A copy of the operation
				and maintenance manual for the unit shall be available onsite. A trained
				crematorium operator must be onsite at a human crematorium while the cremation
				process is taking place.
g.
				General. The department may establish additional construction, operational,
				emission, monitoring, recordkeeping, and reporting standards and procedures for
				crematoriums based upon factors such as quantities of material charged,
				emissions, and site location.