Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Natural Resources › NR 400-499 - Environmental Protection - Air Pollution Control › Chapter NR 440 - Standards of performance for new stationary sources › Subchapter II - Standards of Performance › Section NR 440.218 - Hospital/medical/infectious waste incinerators for which construction is commenced after June 20, 1996

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) APPLICABILITY.
(a) Except as provided in pars. (b) to (h),
			  the affected facility to which this section applies is each individual
			  hospital/medical/infectious waste incinerator (HMIWI) for which construction is
			  commenced after June 20, 1996 or for which modification is commenced after
			  March 16, 1998.
(b) A combustor is
			  not subject to this section during periods when only pathological waste,
			  low-level radioactive waste or chemotherapeutic waste is burned alone or in any
			  combination, provided the owner or operator of the combustor does all of the
			  following:
1. Notifies the department of an
			  exemption claim.
2. Keeps records
			  on a calendar quarter basis of the periods of time when only pathological
			  waste, low-level radioactive waste or chemotherapeutic waste is burned alone or
			  in any combination.
(c)
			  Any co-fired combustor is not subject to this section if the owner or operator
			  of the co-fired combustor does all of the following:
1. Notifies the department of an exemption
			  claim.
2. Provides an estimate of
			  the relative amounts of hospital waste, medical/infectious waste and other
			  fuels and wastes to be combusted.
3. Keeps records on a calendar quarter basis
			  of the weight of hospital waste and medical/infectious waste combusted and the
			  weight of all other fuels and wastes combusted at the co-fired
			  combustor.
(d) Any
			  combustor required to have a permit under section 3005 of the Solid Waste
			  Disposal Act (
			  42
			  USC 6925 ), or a license under s.
			  291.25,
			  Stats., is not subject to this section.
(e) Any combustor which meets the
			  applicability requirements under 40 CFR part 60, subpart Cb, or s.
			  NR
			  440.215 or
			  440.216 is not subject to this
			  section.
(f) Any pyrolysis unit is
			  not subject to this section.
(g)
			  Cement kilns firing hospital waste or medical/infectious waste are not subject
			  to this section.
(h) Physical or
			  operational changes made to an existing HMIWI solely for the purpose of
			  complying with emission guidelines under 40 CFR part 60, subpart Ce, are not
			  considered a modification and do not result in an existing HMIWI becoming
			  subject to this section.
(j)
			  Affected facilities subject to this section are not subject to the requirements
			  of 40 CFR part 64.
(L) Beginning
			  September 15, 2000, affected facilities subject to this section shall operate
			  pursuant to a permit issued under ch. NR 407.
Note: The federal rule,
				40 CFR
				60.50c(l), requires that an
				affected facility operate pursuant to an operating permit issued no later than
				the later of September 15, 2000 or the effective date of an EPA approved
				operating permit program under Title V of the Act (
				42
				USC 7661 to
				7661 f ) and 40 CFR
				part 70. The department received final interim approval of its operating permit
				program on April 5, 1995 and full approval on November 30, 2001. Any permit
				issued to an affected facility prior to June 1, 2008, will contain references
				to the appropriate federal rule provisions of 40 CFR part 60 subpart Ec.