Land Disposal Restrictions: Summary of …

1 ECDIC-2002-013. Offices of Solid Waste EPA530-R-01-007. and Emergency Response & Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Land Disposal restrictions : Summary of requirements Revised August 2001. NOTICE. Development of this document was funded, wholly or in part, by the United States Environmental Protection Agency under Contract No. 68-W4-0005 and 68-W-98-025. It has been subjected to the Agency's review process and approved for publication as an EPA. document. The policies and procedures in this document are intended solely to assist in the implementation of and compliance with promulgated regulations.

2 They are not intended and cannot be relied upon to create any rights, substantive or procedural, enforceable by any party in litigation with the United States. The Agency reserves the right to act at variance with these policies and procedures and to change them at any time with or without public notice. DISCLAIMER. This document presents a brief Summary of the Land Disposal restrictions regulations. It is not meant to be a complete or detailed description of all applicable LDR regulations. For more information concerning specific requirements , consult the Federal Registers cited and the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 40, Parts 124 and 260 through 271.

3 ACKNOWLEDGMENT. This document was developed by the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Solid Waste (OSW) and Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA) with support from EPA. contractor Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). LDR Summary OF requirements . TABLE OF CONTENTS. Page Section Number I. INTRODUCTION .. 1-1. What Is the Purpose of this Document? .. 1-1. How Did the LDR Program Originate? .. 1-2. Why Is the LDR Program Important? .. 1-3. Where Can I Go for Further Compliance Assistance? .. 1-4. II. WHO IS SUBJECT TO LDR REGULATIONS? .. 2-1. What Is the Purpose of this Chapter?

4 2-1. Do You Generate, Treat, Store or Dispose of Hazardous Waste? (Step 1) .. 2-1. What Are the Mixture and Derived-From Rules? .. 2-3. Do My Wastes Qualify for Any Exemptions? (Step 2) .. 2-5. Are My Hazardous Wastes Destined for Land Disposal ? (Step 3) .. 2-6. What Is the Difference Between Restricted and Prohibited Wastes? .. 2-6. III. THE Disposal PROHIBITION AND TREATMENT STANDARDS .. 3-1. What Is the Purpose of this Chapter? .. 3-1. Which Treatment Standard Table Applies to the Hazardous Waste at My Facility? .. 3-1. What Are the Treatment Standards? .. 3-2. What Are the Numerical Standards?

5 3-4. What Are the Required Technology Standards? .. 3-4. Are There Special requirements for Characteristic Wastes? .. 3-7. What Are the Standards for Underlying Hazardous Constituents? .. 3-7. What Are the Treatment Standards for Characteristic Wastes? .. 3-10. What Are the Standards for Wastes that are Both Listed and Characteristic? .. 3-14. What Are the Standards for Management in Clean Water Act (CWA), Clean WaterAct-equivalent, and Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) Injection Well Systems? .. 3-14. IV. ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT STANDARDS .. 4-1. What Is the Purpose of this Chapter? .. 4-1. Why Did EPA Develop Alternative Treatment Standards?

6 4-1. What Are the Hazardous Debris Alternative Treatment Standards (40 CFR )? .. 4-1. What Is Hazardous Debris? .. 4-1. What Wastes Are Covered by the Alternative Hazardous Debris Treatment Standards? .. 4-2. i LDR Summary OF requirements . What Are the Alternative Treatment Standards for Hazardous Debris? .. 4-3. What Are the Alternative Soil Treatment Standards (40 CFR )? .. 4-9. Background .. 4-9. What Are the Alternative Soil Treatment Standards? .. 4-9. Why Did EPA Develop Alternative Soil Treatment Standards? .. 4-10. Why Are Contaminated Soils Regulated As Hazardous Waste? .. 4-10.

7 When Do Hazardous Soil Alternative Treatment Standards Apply to Hazardous Contaminated Soils? .. 4-11. When Are Alternative Soil Treatment Standards Available in Authorized and Unauthorized States? .. 4-12. When Do Treatment Standards Apply to Soils Contaminated by a Listed Waste? .. 4-13. What LDR Treatment Standards Apply to Soils Contaminated by Listed Waste? .. 4-14. When May Soils Contaminated by a Listed Waste Be Disposed in a Nonhazardous Waste (Subtitle D) Landfill? .. 4-15. How Do Treatment Standards Apply to Soils That Exhibit a Hazardous Waste Characteristic When Generated? .. 4-15.

8 What LDR Treatment Standards Apply to Soils That Exhibit a Hazardous Waste Characteristic When Generated? .. 4-16. When May Soils That Exhibit Only a Hazardous Waste Characteristic When Generated be Disposed in a Nonhazardous Waste (Subtitle D). Landfill? .. 4-17. How is Compliance with the Alternative Soil Treatment Standards Measured? .. 4-17. How Are Nonanalyzable Constituents Treated Using the Soil Treatment Standards? .. 4-18. How Are Treatment Residuals Resulting from Application of the Alternative Soil Treatment Standards Managed? .. 4-19. Can I Obtain a Site-specific Variance from the LDR.

9 Treatment Standards? .. 4-19. Does the Variance Take into Account Natural Background Levels? .. 4-20. What Is the Alternative Treatment Standard for Lab Pack Wastes (40 CFR (c))? .. 4-22. V. OTHER PROHIBITIONS .. 5-1. What Is the Purpose of this Chapter? .. 5-1. What Is the Dilution Prohibition (40 CFR )? .. 5-1. When Is the Dilution of Characteristic Waste Permissible? .. 5-2. When Is the Combustion of Metal-Bearing Waste Permissible? .. 5-4. What Is the Storage Prohibition (40 CFR )? .. 5-5. What Are the Conditions for Storing PCB Wastes? .. 5-5. ii LDR Summary OF requirements . VI. RECORDKEEPING requirements .

10 6-1. What Is the Purpose of this Chapter? .. 6-1. What Are the General Notification and Recordkeeping requirements ? .. 6-1. What Are the Generator's Responsibilities? .. 6-1. What Are the Special Recordkeeping requirements for Characteristic Wastes (40 CFR )? .. 6-5. What Are the Notification and Certification requirements for Lab Packs? .. 6-7. What Are the Notification and Certification requirements for HTMR Wastes? .. 6-7. What Are the Notification requirements for Hazardous Debris? .. 6-8. What Are the Notification and Certification requirements for Contaminated Soils? .. 6-9. What Are the Recordkeeping requirements for Treatment and Disposal Facilities?