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TITLE 31NATURAL RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION
PART 1GENERAL LAND OFFICE
CHAPTER 19OIL SPILL PREVENTION AND RESPONSE
SUBCHAPTER CSPILL RESPONSE
RULE §19.36Disposal

(a) Waste from unauthorized discharges must be disposed of only at sites that have all necessary permits to accept the type of waste discharged.

(b) All responsible persons and discharge cleanup organizations engaged in spill response operations shall minimize the generation of waste by utilizing techniques such as reusing sorbent pads, recycling recovered oil, recovering boom, and best available technologies.

(c) The responsible person must remove all waste generated from an unauthorized discharge of oil from the temporary staging area within 14 days of the completion of all response operations.

(d) When waste is generated in connection with spill response activities, the state on-scene coordinator may require the responsible person to provide copies of manifests, run tickets, invoices, or other written documentation that shows the name and address of the waste disposal facility and the date the waste was transported to it. This request will be made in writing and include a deadline for submittal of the disposal information to the state on-scene coordinator.


Source Note: The provisions of this §19.36 adopted to be effective February 21, 1992, 17 TexReg 1109; amended to be effective March 6, 1995, 20 TexReg 1261; amended to be effective December 3, 2000, 25 TexReg 11660

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