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TITLE 30ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
PART 1TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
CHAPTER 330MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE
SUBCHAPTER AGENERAL INFORMATION
RULE §330.7Permit Required

  (17) Other requirements. No other requirements under this chapter are applicable to a facility that meets all of the requirements of this subsection.

(f) A permit by rule is granted for a dual chamber incinerator if the owner or operator complies with §106.491 of this title (relating to Dual-Chamber Incinerators).

(g) A permit by rule is granted for an air curtain incinerator if the owner or operator complies with §106.496 of this title (relating to Air Curtain Incinerators). An air curtain incinerator may not be located within 300 feet of an active or closed MSW landfill unit boundary.

(h) A standard air permit is granted for facilities that comply with Subchapter U of this chapter (relating to Standard Air Permits for Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Facilities and Transfer Stations).

(i) A permit by rule is granted for a period of up to five years to a county or municipality with a population of 12,000 people or less to dispose of demolition waste from properties with nuisance or abandoned buildings.

  (1) Requirements. The following conditions must be met.

    (A) Form submittal. The county or municipality submits a form provided by the commission to the executive director for review and approval before construction begins.

    (B) Notice to regional office. The county or municipality notifies the applicable commission regional office of the intent to dispose of waste under this authorization at least 48 hours prior to accepting the first load of waste.

    (C) Facility location. The location where disposal will occur:

      (i) is owned or controlled by the county or municipality, and

      (ii) receives less than or equal to 25 inches average annual precipitation as determined from precipitation data for the nearest official precipitation recording station for at least the most recent 30-year reporting period or by another method approved by the executive director.

    (D) Sources of waste. The properties on which nuisance and abandoned buildings are located have been acquired by the county or municipality by means of bankruptcy, tax delinquency, or condemnation, and the previous owners are not financially capable of paying the costs of the disposal of demolition waste at a permitted solid waste disposal facility, including transportation of the waste to the facility.

    (E) Waste acceptance.

      (i) Prior to demolition, structures are surveyed and abated, if required, for asbestos-containing materials in accordance with 25 TAC Chapter 295, Subchapter C (relating to Texas Asbestos Health Protection).

      (ii) The facility may accept non-regulated asbestos-containing materials (non-RACM) for disposal. The wastes are placed on the active working face and covered at the end of the operating day with at least six inches of soil. Under no circumstances may any of the material containing non-RACM be placed on a surface that is subject to vehicular traffic or disposed of by any other means by which the material could be crumbled into a friable state.

      (iii) The facility may accept regulated asbestos-containing materials (RACM) if the following conditions are met.

        (I) The county or municipality notifies the executive director on a form provided by the commission in accordance with subparagraph (A) of this paragraph.

        (II) All waste trenches are identified as receiving RACM, and deed records required under subparagraph (Q) of this paragraph include an indication that the waste trench(es) received RACM.

        (III) RACM is transported and received at the facility in tightly closed and unruptured containers or bags or wrapped with at least six-mil polyethylene.

        (IV) Bags or containers holding RACM are carefully unloaded and placed in the final disposal location. RACM is then covered immediately with at least six inches of soil. Care is taken during unloading and placement of RACM and during application of the cover so that the bags or containers are not ruptured.

      (iv) Waste is limited to the abandoned or nuisance buildings and materials from the property on which the buildings are located. All waste disposed under this authorization must meet the limitations of §330.5(a)(2) of this title (relating to Classification of Municipal Solid Waste Facilities) and may not include waste prohibited under §330.15(e) of this title.

    (F) Access control. Access to the disposal facility is controlled by means of fences, other artificial barriers, natural barriers, or a combination of these methods, and includes a locking gate.

    (G) Buffers and easements. The county or municipality maintains a minimum distance of 50 feet as a buffer between the permit boundary and waste storage, processing and disposal areas. No disposal occurs within a utility or pipeline easement or within 25 feet of the center of a utility or pipeline easement.

    (H) Below-grade placement. Waste is placed only below grade. The top of final cover is placed at pre-existing grade or up to three feet above pre-existing grade to ensure that natural drainage patterns are not altered and ponding of water over waste is prevented.

    (I) Weekly cover. Waste is covered at least weekly with six inches of earthen material not previously mixed with waste, or by tarps. Use of tarps as cover is limited to a seven-day period after which the county or municipality must replace the tarp with either waste or a six-inch layer of earthen material not previously mixed with waste. Tarps may not be used in place of soil cover requirements relating to non-RACM and RACM in subparagraph (E)(ii) and (iii) of this paragraph. Any trench that has received waste but will be inactive for more than 180 days receives intermediate cover in accordance with subparagraph (J) of this paragraph, or final cover in accordance with subparagraph (P) of this paragraph.

    (J) Intermediate cover. Waste is covered, including any soil weekly cover, with twelve inches of well compacted earthen material not previously mixed with waste.

    (K) Maximum volume. The design waste disposal volume is less than 2.5 million cubic meters in accordance with §106.534(3) of this title (relating to Municipal Solid Waste Landfills and Transfer Stations).

    (L) Facility signs. At all entrances through which waste is received, the facility conspicuously displays a sign with letters at least three inches in height providing a statement that the facility is "NOT FOR PUBLIC USE," an emergency 24-hour contact number that reaches an individual with the authority to obligate the facility at all times that the facility is not in operation, and the local emergency fire department number.

    (M) Stormwater and contaminated water. The county or municipality constructs berms to divert the 25-year/24-hour storm event from entering excavations containing waste. Water that has contacted waste is managed as contaminated water and disposed at an authorized treatment facility.

    (N) Reporting. The county or municipality, while not required to provide quarterly reporting, provides annual reporting in accordance with the annual reporting provisions of §330.675(a) of this title (relating to Reports).

    (O) Reauthorization. Before reaching the permit by rule term limit of five years, the county or municipality may request reauthorization under the permit by rule by submitting a form that is current at the time of reauthorization, provided by the commission in accordance with subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, to the executive director at least 14 days before the end of the permit term.

    (P) Final cover. The following conditions are met.

      (i) Within 60 days after a trench reaches its capacity or waste deposition activities are complete in a trench, the county or municipality installs final cover over waste in the trench. Final cover shall be composed of no less than two feet of soil. The first 18 inches or more of cover shall be of compacted clayey soil, classification sand clay (SC) or low plasticity clay (CL) as defined in the "Unified Soils Classification System" developed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, and placed and compacted in layers of no more than six inches to minimize the potential for water infiltration. A high plasticity clayey (CH) soil may be used; however, this soil may experience excessive cracking and shall therefore be covered by a minimum of 12 inches of topsoil to retain moisture. Other types of soil may be used with prior written approval from the executive director. The final six inches of cover shall be of suitable topsoil that is capable of sustaining native plant growth and shall be seeded or sodded as soon as practicable following the application of the final cover in order to minimize erosion.

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