Texas Administrative Code › Title 30 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Part 1 - TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 113 - STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE FOR HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS AND FOR DESIGNATED FACILITIES AND POLLUTANTS › Subchapter D - DESIGNATED FACILITIES AND POLLUTANTS › Division 2 - HOSPITAL/MEDICAL/INFECTIOUS WASTE INCINERATORS › Section 113.2070 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
Unless specifically defined in the TCAA or in the rules
						of the commission, the terms used in this division have the meanings commonly
						ascribed to them in the field of air pollution control. In addition to the
						terms which are defined in the TCAA, §
											3.2 of
						this title (relating to Definitions), §
											101.1 of
						this title (relating to Definitions), and §
											113.1 of
						this title (relating to Definitions), the following words and terms, when used
						in this division, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly
						indicates otherwise.
(1) Biologicals -
					 Preparations made from living organisms and their products, including vaccines,
					 cultures, etc., intended for use in diagnosing, immunizing, or treating humans
					 or animals or in research pertaining thereto.
(2) Blood products - Any product derived from
					 human blood including, but not limited to, blood plasma, platelets, red or
					 white blood corpuscles, and other derived licensed products, such as
					 interferon, etc.
(3) Body fluids -
					 Liquid emanating or derived from humans and limited to blood, dialysate,
					 amniotic, cerebrospinal, synovial, pleural, peritoneal and pericardial fluids;
					 and semen and vaginal secretions.
(4) Bypass stack - A device used for
					 discharging combustion gases to avoid severe damage to the air pollution
					 control device or other equipment.
(5) Chemotherapeutic waste - Waste material
					 resulting from the production or use of antineoplastic agents used for the
					 purpose of stopping or reversing the growth of malignant cells.
(6) Co-fired combustor/incinerator - A unit
					 combusting hospital waste and/or medical/infectious waste with other fuels or
					 wastes (e.g., coal, municipal solid waste) and subject to an enforceable
					 requirement limiting the unit to combusting a fuel feed stream, 10% or less of
					 the weight of which is comprised, in aggregate, of hospital waste and
					 medical/infectious waste as measured on a calendar quarter basis. For the
					 purposes of this definition, pathological waste, chemotherapeutic waste, and
					 low-level radioactive waste are considered "other" wastes when calculating the
					 percentage of hospital waste and medical/infectious waste combusted.
(7) Commercial medical waste incinerator - A
					 facility that accepts for incineration medical waste generated outside the
					 property boundaries of the facility.
(8) Dioxins/furans - The combined emissions
					 of tetra- through octa-chlorinated dibenzi-para-dioxins and dibenzofurans, as
					 measured by EPA Reference Method 23.
(9) Dry scrubber - An add-on air pollution
					 control system that injects dry alkaline sorbent (dry injection) or sprays an
					 alkaline sorbent (spray dryer) to react with and neutralize acid gases in the
					 incinerator exhaust stream forming a dry powder material.
(10) Fabric filter (or baghouse) - An add-on
					 air pollution control system that removes particulate matter and non-vaporous
					 metals emissions by passing flue gas through filter bags.
(11) Facilities manager - The individual in
					 charge of purchasing, maintaining, and operating the
					 hospital/medical/infectious waste incinerator (HMIWI) or the owner/operator's
					 representative responsible for the management of the HMIWI. Alternative titles
					 may include director of facilities or vice president of support
					 services.
(12) Good combustion
					 practices - The minimum residence time and temperature in the secondary chamber
					 as determined by the design of the incinerator, as well as the quantity and
					 composition of the wastes incinerated, such that the incinerator can meet the
					 emissions limits specified in §
											113.2072 of this
					 title (relating to Emission Limits).
(13) High-air phase - The stage of the batch
					 operating cycle when the primary chamber reaches and maintains maximum
					 operating temperatures.
(14)
					 Hospital - Any facility which has an organized medical staff, maintains at
					 least six inpatient beds, and where the primary function of the institution is
					 to provide diagnostic and therapeutic patient services and continuous nursing
					 care primarily to human inpatients who are not related and who stay on average
					 in excess of 24 hours per admission. This definition does not include
					 facilities maintained for the sole purpose of providing nursing or convalescent
					 care to human patients who generally are not acutely ill, but who require
					 continuing medical supervision.
(15) Hospital/medical/infectious waste
					 incinerator (HMIWI) or HMIWI unit - Any device that combusts any amount of
					 hospital waste and/or medical/infectious waste.
(A) Batch HMIWI - An HMIWI unit that is
					 designed such that neither waste charging nor ash removal can occur during
					 combustion.
(B) Continuous HMIWI -
					 An HMIWI unit that is designed to allow waste charging and ash removal during
					 combustion.
(C) Intermittent HMIWI
					 - An HMIWI unit that is designed to allow waste charging, but not ash removal,
					 during combustion.
(D) Large HMIWI
					 - An HMIWI unit which has a maximum design waste combustor capacity that is
					 greater than 500 pounds per hour (lb/hr), or a continuous or intermittent HMIWI
					 unit which has a maximum charge rate that is greater than 500 lb/hr, or a batch
					 HMIWI unit which has a maximum charge rate that is greater than 4,000 pounds
					 per day.
(E) Medium HMIWI - An
					 HMIWI unit which has a maximum design waste combustor capacity that is greater
					 than 200 lb/hr but less than or equal to 500 lb/hr, or a continuous or
					 intermittent HMIWI unit which has a maximum charge rate that is greater than
					 200 lb/hr but less than or equal to 500 lb/hr, or a batch HMIWI unit which has
					 a maximum charge rate that is greater than 1,600 pounds per day but less than
					 or equal to 4,000 pounds per day.
(F) Small HMIWI - An HMIWI unit which has a
					 maximum design waste combustor capacity that is less than or equal to 200
					 lb/hr, or a continuous or intermittent HMIWI unit which has a maximum charge
					 rate that is less than or equal to 200 lb/hr, or a batch HMIWI unit which has a
					 maximum charge rate that is less than or equal to 1,600 pounds per
					 day.
(G) Small-remote HMIWI - A
					 small HMIWI unit which is located more than 50 miles from the boundary of the
					 nearest Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (as defined in Office of
					 Management and Budget Bulletin Number 93-17 entitled "Revised Statistical
					 Definitions for Metropolitan Areas" dated June 30, 1993), and burns less than
					 2,000 pounds of waste per week.