[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 40, Volume 26]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 40CFR268.37]



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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT

 

         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)

 

PART 268_LAND DISPOSAL RESTRICTIONS--Table of Contents

 

                 Subpart C_Prohibitions on Land Disposal

 

Sec.  268.37  Waste specific prohibitions--ignitable and corrosive 

characteristic wastes whose treatment standards were vacated.



    (a) Effective August 9, 1993, the wastes specified in 40 CFR 261.21 

as D001 (and is not in the High TOC Ignitable Liquids Subcategory), and 

specified in Sec.  261.22 as D002, 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.

    (b) Effective February 10, 1994, the wastes specified in 40 CFR 

261.21 as D001 (and is not in the High TOC Ignitable Liquids 

Subcategory), and specified in Sec.  261.22 as D002, that are managed in 

systems defined in 40 CFR 144.6(e) and 146.6(e) as Class V injection 

wells, that do not engage in CWA-equivalent treatment before injection, 

are prohibited from land disposal.



[58 FR 29885, May 24, 1993]