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TITLE 30ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
PART 1TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
CHAPTER 312SLUDGE USE, DISPOSAL, AND TRANSPORTATION
SUBCHAPTER CSURFACE DISPOSAL
RULE §312.65Operational Standards--Pathogen and Vector Attraction
(a) Pathogen reduction for biosolids and/or sewage sludge (other than domestic septage). The pathogen reduction requirements in §312.82(a) or (b)(1)(A) and (2) of this title (relating to Pathogen Reduction) shall be met when sewage sludge and/or biosolids are placed on an active disposal unit, unless the vector attraction reduction requirements in §312.83(b)(11) of this title (relating to Vector Attraction Reduction) are met.

(b) Pathogen reduction for domestic septage. The pathogen reduction requirement in §312.82(c)(2) of this title shall be met when domestic septage is placed on an active disposal unit.

(c) Vector attraction reduction for biosolids and/or sewage sludge (other than domestic septage). One of the alternatives for vector attraction reduction in §312.83(b)(1) - (11) of this title shall be met when sewage sludge and/or biosolids are placed on an active disposal unit.

(d) Vector attraction reduction for domestic septage. The vector attraction reduction requirement in §312.83(b)(12) of this title shall be met when domestic septage is placed on an active disposal unit.

Source Note: The provisions of this §312.65 adopted to be effective October 13, 1995, 20 TexReg 7840; amended to be effective October 2, 2014, 39 TexReg 7756; amended to be effective April 23, 2020, 45 TexReg 2542

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