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 362-2 - Municipal Solid Waste Processing Facilities › Section 362-2.3 - 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 Part 360 of this Title,
						design, construct, maintain, and operate the facility in compliance with the
						following criteria:
(a) The facility
					 must accept and process only MSW.
(b)
					 Source-separated recyclables, source-separated household hazardous waste,
					 source-separated electronic waste, source-separated rechargeable batteries,
					 source-separated mercury-containing products, and other source-separated items
					 that are subject to legislatively enacted stewardship programs in the 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.
(c) Friable
					 asbestos-containing waste must not be accepted at the facility.
(d) Radioactive waste detection procedures and
					 requirements.
(1) A fixed radiation detection
					 unit must be installed and operated at a location appropriate for the monitoring
					 of all incoming waste.
(2) The
					 concentration of radium-226 in any waste treated at the facility must not 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.
(3) 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.
(4) Background radiation readings at the
					 facility must be measured and recorded at least daily.
(5) Field checks of the radiation detector
					 utilizing a known radiation source must be performed and recorded at least
					 weekly.
(6) 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.
(7) 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) Staff
					 training related to radiation detection system operating procedures and radiation
					 investigation alarm response procedures must be conducted at least
					 annually.