[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 25]
[Revised as of July 1, 2006]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR264.95]

[Page 264-265]
 
                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 264_STANDARDS FOR OWNERS AND OPERATORS OF HAZARDOUS WASTE TREATMENT, 
STORAGE, AND DISPOSAL FACILITIES--Table of Contents
 
          Subpart F_Releases From Solid Waste Management Units
 
Sec.  264.95  Point of compliance.

    (a) The Regional Administrator will specify in the facility permit 
the point of compliance at which the ground-water protection standard of 
Sec.  264.92 applies and at which monitoring must be conducted. The 
point of compliance is a vertical surface located at the hydraulically 
downgradient limit of the waste management area that extends

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down into the uppermost aquifer underlying the regulated units.
    (b) The waste management area is the limit projected in the 
horizontal plane of the area on which waste will be placed during the 
active life of a regulated unit.
    (1) The waste management area includes horizontal space taken up by 
any liner, dike, or other barrier designed to contain waste in a 
regulated unit.
    (2) If the facility contains more than one regulated unit, the waste 
management area is described by an imaginary line circumscribing the 
several regulated units.