North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 33 - State Department of Health › Article 33-24 - Hazardous Waste Management › Chapter 33-24-05 - Standards for Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facilities and for the Management of Specific Hazardous Wastes and Specific Types of Hazardous Waste Management Facilities › LANDFILL REQUIREMENTS › Section 33-24-05-185 - Disposal of small containers of hazardous waste in overpacked drums (lab packs)

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
Small containers of hazardous waste in overpacked drums
					 (lab packs) may be placed in a landfill if the following requirements are
					 met:
1. Hazardous waste must be
				  packaged in nonleaking inside containers. The inside containers must be of a
				  design and constructed of a material that will not react dangerously with, be
				  decomposed by, or be ignited by the contained waste. Inside containers must be
				  tightly and securely sealed. The inside containers must be of the size and type
				  specified in the department of transportation hazardous materials regulations
				  [49 CFR, parts 173, 178, and 179], if those regulations specify particular
				  inside container for the waste.
2.
				  The inside containers must be overpacked in an open head department of
				  transportation specification metal shipping container [49 CFR, parts 178 and
				  179] of no more than four hundred sixteen-liter [110-gallon] capacity and
				  surrounded by, at a minimum, a sufficient quantity of sorbent material,
				  determined to be nonbiodegradable in accordance with subsection 4 of section
				  33-24-05-183, to completely sorb
				  all of the liquid contents of the inside containers. The metal outer container
				  must be full after it has been packed with inside containers and sorbent
				  material.
3. The sorbent material
				  used must not be capable of reacting dangerously with, being decomposed by, or
				  being ignited by the contents of the inside containers, in accordance with
				  subsection 2 of section
				  33-24-05-08.
4. Incompatible wastes, as defined in section
				  33-24-01-04, may not be placed in
				  this same outside container.
5.
				  Reactive wastes, other than cyanide-bearing or sulfide-bearing waste, as
				  defined in subdivision e of subsection 1 of section
				  33-24-02-13, must be treated or
				  rendered nonreactive prior to packaging in accordance with subsections 1
				  through 4. Cyanide-bearing and sulfide-bearing reactive waste may be packed in
				  accordance with subsections 1 through 4 without first being treated or rendered
				  nonreactive.
6. Such disposal is in
				  compliance with the requirements of sections
				  33-24-05-250 through 33-24-05-299.
				  Persons who incinerate lab packs according to the requirements in subdivision a
				  of subsection 3 of section
				  33-24-05-282 may use fiber drums
				  in place of metal outer containers. Such fiber drums must meet the department
				  of transportation specifications in
				  49 CFR
				  173.12 and be overpacked according to the
				  requirements in subsection 2.
General Authority:
NDCC
						23-20.3-03
Law Implemented:
NDCC
						23-20.3-03,
						23-20.3-04