New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 6 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION › Chapter IV - QUALITY SERVICES › Subchapter B - SOLID WASTES › Part 362 - Combustion, Treatment, Transfer, and Collection Facilities › Subpart 362-1 - Combustion Facilities and Treatment Facilities › Section 362-1.5 - Design and operating requirements

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
A facility required to obtain a permit under this Subpart
						must, in addition to the requirements identified in section
						360.19  of this Title, design,
						construct, maintain, and operate the facility in compliance with the
						following:
(a) Combustors that treat
					 municipal solid waste must include power generation equipment, such as steam
					 turbines, or other energy recovery equipment which must be installed and must be
					 operated while the facility is in operation, except during routine maintenance
					 and unexpected downtime events.
(b)
Waste receipt and storage.
(1) The
					 facility must only receive and treat waste in accordance with the facility's
					 approved waste control plan submitted in accordance with section
					 360.16(c)(4)(i)  of
					 this Title. The metal that is extracted subsequent to combustion is not
					 considered to be a part of the facility's approved design capacity.
(2) A minimum of one random inspection of a
					 waste delivery vehicle per operating day for unauthorized waste must be
					 performed. A daily log of these inspections must be maintained.
(3) All waste delivered to the facility must be
					 processed and contained within a completely enclosed structure. All waste stored
					 must be contained within a completely enclosed structure or building that
					 provides a minimum of three days storage capacity. In no case can the waste
					 stored at the facility exceed the capacity of the waste storage bunker or the
					 department-approved storage area of the tipping floor.
(4) External storage of putrescible waste is
					 prohibited. Nonputrescible recyclables or oversized, bulky, or excluded waste can
					 be temporarily stored outside the facility in covered containers for a period not
					 to exceed 10 calendar days.
(5)
					 Except for facilities that process only nonputrescible waste, the waste storage
					 area and tipping area must maintain a negative air pressure, compared to
					 atmospheric conditions, when the facility is in operation.
(6) All rejected, oversized, bulky, excluded,
					 untreatable, or bypass waste that is not recyclable must be disposed of at an
					 authorized facility.
(7) Radioactive
					 waste detection procedures and requirements. A facility that accepts wastes other
					 than source-separated recyclables must meet the following requirements:
(i) A fixed radiation detection unit must be
					 installed and operated at a location appropriate for the monitoring of all
					 incoming waste.
(ii) The
					 concentration of radium-226 in any waste treated at the facility cannot exceed 25
					 pCi/g however waste which triggers the radiation detector can be accepted and
					 evaluated according to the facility's waste control plan in order to determine
					 whether or not the waste may be accepted at the facility.
(iii) The investigation alarm setpoint of the
					 radiation detector must be set at least two times, but no greater than five
					 times, site background radiation levels.
(iv) Background radiation readings at the
					 facility must be measured and recorded at least daily.
(v) Field checks of the radiation detector
					 utilizing a known radiation source must be performed and recorded at least
					 weekly.
(vi) The radiation detector
					 must be calibrated at least annually or more often as recommended by the
					 manufacturer, and documentation describing the calibration must be maintained at
					 the facility.
(vii) Each instance in
					 which the radiation detector is triggered by a waste load must be documented and
					 reported to the department within 24 hours. Recorded information must include the
					 date the waste was received, transporter name, origin of the waste, truck number
					 or other identifying marking, detector reading, disposition of the waste, and
					 date of disposition.
(8)
					 Source-separated recyclables, source-separated household hazardous waste,
					 source-separated electronic wastes, source-separated rechargeable batteries,
					 source-separated mercury-containing products, and other source-separated items
					 that are subject to legislatively enacted product stewardship programs in New
					 York State must not be accepted for treatment, except at facilities that are
					 approved by the department to accept only source-separated recyclables as
					 feedstocks. Facilities must not accept source-separated recyclables as feedstock
					 unless, at the time of permitting, that feedstock has no recycling market as
					 determined by the department. Viability of recycling markets will be evaluated at
					 the time of each permit renewal.
(9)
					 Regulated medical waste or source-separated pharmaceutical waste can only be
					 accepted if it is:
(i) handled separately from
					 other waste when received;
(ii)
					 unloaded directly into the waste receiving pit;
(iii) managed in a manner that ensures
					 controlled substances are placed directly into the combustor and not placed in
					 the waste receiving pit with other waste;
(iv) handled in a manner that ensures the
					 integrity of the containers until combustion;
(v) combusted within a 24 hour-period;
					 and
(vi) identified in the facility's
					 waste control plan.