North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 33.1 - Department of Environmental Quality › Article 33.1-24 - Hazardous Waste Management › Chapter 33.1-24-05 - 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 33.1-24-05-185 - 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
				  33.1-24-05-183, 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
				  33.1-24-05-08.
4. Incompatible wastes, as defined in section
				  33.1-24-01-04, 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
				  33.1-24-02-13, 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
				  33.1-24-05-250 through
				  33.1-24-05-299. Persons who
				  incinerate lab packs according to the requirements in subdivision a of
				  subsection 3 of section
				  33.1-24-05-282 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 23.1-04-03; S.L.
						2017, ch. 199, § 1
Law Implemented:
NDCC 23.1-04-03,
						23.1-04-05; S.L. 2017, ch. 199, §
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