(a) Rules contained in this subchapter establish standards
applicable to persons, including municipalities, state and federal
agencies, collecting, generating and/or transporting biosolids/sewage
sludge, water treatment residuals, domestic septage, chemical toilet
waste, grit trap waste, or grease trap waste. This chapter also establishes
standards applicable to persons and facilities who receive waste from
transporters regulated under this subchapter. Methods of transportation
shall include measures utilizing roadway, rail, and water.
(b) Transporters of waste subject to control under
this subchapter shall only transport the waste types specified in
subsection (a) of this section. Each transporter shall take reasonable
precautions to ensure that waste handled in accordance with rules
contained in this subchapter is not hazardous waste, as defined in
Chapter 335 of this title (relating to Industrial Solid Waste and
Municipal Hazardous Waste).
(c) The processing of wastes is not authorized under
this subchapter, except for domestic septage under §312.144(e)
of this title (relating to Transporters--Vehicle and Equipment).
(d) These rules are not applicable to persons transporting
biosolids that do not exceed the metal concentration limits in §312.43(b)(3)
(Table 3) of this title (relating to Metal Limits), meets the requirements
in §312.82(a) of this title (relating to Pathogen Reduction),
meets one of the requirements in §312.83(b)(1) - (8) of this
title (relating to Vector Attraction Reduction), and has been approved
for marketing and distribution as authorized in Subchapter B of this
chapter (relating to Land Application and Storage of Biosolids and
Domestic Septage).
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