| (a) The commission shall not issue a permit for any of the
following:
(1) a new hazardous waste management facility or an areal expansion
of an existing facility if the facility or expansion does not meet the requirements
of §335.204 of this title (relating to Unsuitable Site Characteristics);
(2) a new hazardous waste landfill or the areal expansion of
an existing hazardous waste landfill if there is a practical, economic, and
feasible alternative to such a landfill that is reasonably available to manage
the types and classes of hazardous waste which might be disposed of at the
landfill;
(3) a new commercial hazardous waste management facility as
defined in §335.202 of this title (relating to Definitions) including
such facilities that burn or propose to burn waste-derived fuel, as defined
in this section, or the subsequent areal expansion of such a facility or unit
of that facility if the boundary of the unit is to be located within 1/2 of
a mile (2,640 feet) of an established residence, church, school, day care
center, surface water body used for a public drinking water supply, or dedicated
public park;
(4) a new commercial hazardous waste management facility that
is proposed to be located at a distance greater than 1/2 mile (2,640 feet)
from an established residence, church, school, day care center, surface water
body used for a public drinking water supply, or dedicated public park unless
the applicant demonstrates to the satisfaction of the commission that the
facility will be operated so as to safeguard public health and welfare and
protect physical property and the environment, at any distance beyond the
facility's property boundaries; or
(5) a Class I injection well, a proposed hazardous waste management
facility other than a Class I injection well, or a capacity expansion of an
existing hazardous waste management facility if a fault exists within 2-1/2
miles from the proposed or existing wellbore of the Class I injection well
or the area within the cone of influence whichever is greater, or if a fault
exists within 3,000 feet of the proposed hazardous waste management facility
other than a Class I injection well or of the capacity expansion of an existing
hazardous waste management facility unless the applicant demonstrates to the
satisfaction of the commission unless previously demonstrated to the commission
or to the EPA that:
(A) in the case of Class I injection wells, that the fault
is not sufficiently transmissive or vertically extensive to allow migration
of hazardous constituents out of the injection zone; or
(B) in the case of a proposed hazardous waste management facility
other than a Class I injection well or for a capacity expansion of an existing
hazardous waste management facility, that:
(i) the fault has not had displacement within Holocene time,
or if faults have had displacement within Holocene time, that no such faults
pass within 200 feet of the portion of the surface facility where treatment,
storage, or disposal of hazardous waste will be conducted; and
(ii) the fault will not result in structural instability of
the surface facility or provide for groundwater movement to the extent that
there is endangerment to human health or the environment.
(b) For a subsequent areal expansion of a new commercial hazardous
waste management facility that is required to comply with subsection (a)(3)
of this section, distances shall be measured from an established residence,
church, school, day care center, surface water body used for a public drinking
water supply, or dedicated public park only if such structure, water supply,
or park was in place at the time the distance was certified for the original
permit.
(c) The measurement of distances required in subsection (a)(1),
(3), and (4), and subsection (b) of this section shall be taken toward an
established residence, church, school, day care center, surface water body
used for a public drinking water supply, or dedicated public park that is
in use when the notice of intent to file a permit application is filed with
the commission or, if no notice of intent is filed, when the permit application
is filed with the commission. The restrictions imposed by subsection (a)(1),
(3), and (4), and subsection (b) of this section do not apply to an established
residence, church, school, day care center, surface water body used for a
public drinking supply, or dedicated public park located within the boundaries
of a commercial hazardous waste management facility, or property owned by
the permit applicant.
(d) The measurement of distances required in subsection (a)(1),
(3), and (4), and subsection (b) of this section shall be taken from a perimeter
around the proposed hazardous waste management unit. The perimeter shall be
not more than 75 feet from the edge of the proposed hazardous waste management
unit.
(e) Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to require
the commission to issue a permit notwithstanding a finding that the proposed
facility would satisfy the requirements of §335.203 of this title (relating
to Site Selection to Protect Groundwater or Surface Water) and notwithstanding
the absence of site characteristics which would disqualify the site from permitting
pursuant to §335.204 of this title.
(f) The term "Waste-derived fuel" when used in this section,
shall mean any material resulting from the blending or inclusion of hazardous
waste that is to be burned for energy recovery. Such fuel does not include
material derived from nonhazardous waste such as nonhazardous waste garbage,
rubbish, refuse, tires, sludge from a wastewater treatment plant, water supply
treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, or other nonhazardous
waste solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from
industrial, municipal, commercial, mining, or agricultural operations or from
community or institutional activities.
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