[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 26]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR268.38]

[Page 156-157]
 
                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
                           AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 268_LAND DISPOSAL RESTRICTIONS--Table of Contents
 
                 Subpart C_Prohibitions on Land Disposal
 
Sec. 268.38  Waste specific prohibitions--newly identified organic 

toxicity characteristic wastes and newly listed coke by-product and 
chlorotoluene production 
          wastes.

    (a) Effective December 19, 1994, the wastes specified in 40 CFR 
261.32 as EPA Hazardous Waste numbers K141, K142, K143, K144, K145, 
K147, K148, K149, K150, and K151 are prohibited from land disposal. In 
addition, debris contaminated with EPA Hazardous Waste numbers F037, 
F038, K107-K112, K117, K118, K123-K126, K131, K132, K136, U328, U353, 
U359, and soil and debris contaminated with D012-D043, K141-K145, and 
K147-K151 are prohibited from land disposal. The following wastes that 
are specified in 40 CFR 261.24, Table 1 as EPA Hazardous Waste numbers: 
D012, D013, D014, D015, D016, D017, D018, D019, D020, D021, D022, D023, 
D024, D025, D026, D027, D028, D029, D030, D031, D032, D033, D034, D035, 
D036, D037, D038, D039, D040, D041, D042, D043 that are not radioactive, 
or that are managed in systems other than those whose discharge is 
regulated under the Clean Water Act (CWA), or that are zero dischargers 
that do not engage in CWA-equivalent treatment before ultimate land 
disposal, or that are injected in Class I deep wells regulated under the 
Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), are prohibited from land disposal. CWA-
equivalent treatment means biological treatment for organics, alkaline 
chlorination or ferrous sulfate precipitation for cyanide, 
precipitation/ sedimentation for metals, reduction of hexavalent 
chromium, or other treatment technology that can be demonstrated to 
perform equally or better than these technologies.
    (b) On September 19, 1996, radioactive wastes that are mixed with 
D018-D043 that are managed in systems other than those whose discharge 
is regulated under the Clean Water Act (CWA), or that inject in Class I 
deep wells regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), or that 
are zero dischargers that engage in CWA-equivalent treatment before 
ultimate land disposal, are prohibited from land disposal. CWA-
equivalent treatment means biological treatment for organics, alkaline 
chlorination or ferrous sulfate precipitation for cyanide, 
precipitation/ sedimentation for metals, reduction of hexavalent 
chromium, or other treatment technology that can be demonstrated to 
perform equally or greater than these technologies. Radioactive wastes 
mixed with K141-K145, and K147-K151 are also prohibited from land 
disposal. In addition, soil and debris contaminated with these 
radioactive mixed wastes are prohibited from land disposal.
    (c) Between December 19, 1994 and September 19, 1996, the wastes 
included in paragraphs (b) of this section may be

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disposed in a landfill or surface impoundment, only if such unit is in 
compliance with the requirements specified in Sec. 268.5(h)(2) of this 
Part.
    (d) The requirements of paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of this section 
do not apply if:
    (1) The wastes meet the applicable treatment standards specified in 
Subpart D of this part;
    (2) Persons have been granted an exemption from a prohibition 
pursuant to a petition under Sec. 268.6, with respect to those wastes 
and units covered by the petition;
    (3) The wastes meet the applicable alternate treatment standards 
established pursuant to a petition granted under Sec. 268.44;
    (4) Persons have been granted an extension to the effective date of 
a prohibition pursuant to Sec. 268.5, with respect to these wastes 
covered by the extension.
    (e) To determine whether a hazardous waste identified in this 
section exceeds the applicable treatment standards specified in Sec. 
268.40, the initial generator must test a sample of the waste extract or 
the entire waste, depending on whether the treatment standards are 
expressed as concentrations in the waste extract or the waste, or the 
generator may use knowledge of the waste. If the waste contains 
constituents in excess of the applicable Subpart D levels, the waste is 
prohibited from land disposal, and all requirements of part 268 are 
applicable, except as otherwise specified.

[59 FR 48045, Sept. 19, 1995]