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tion,closure,and post-closure maintenance will be in compliance with fleet standards for the highest level of containment applicable to any any existing waste discharge requirements and any revisions thereof.The waste management unit involved. regional board shall amend the existing waste discharge requirements to (f)The discharger shall be required to maintain legible records of the name the new discharger. volume and type of each waste discharged at each waste management (2)The regional board shall be notified immediately of any slope fail- unit and the manner and location of discharge.Such records shall be on ure occurring in a waste management unit.Any failure which threatens forms approved by the State Board and shall be maintained at the waste the integrity of containment features or the waste management unit(s) management facility until the beginning of the post-closure maintenance shall be promptly corrected after approval of the method and schedule by period.These records shall be available for review by representatives of the regional board. the State Board and regional boards at any time during normal business (3)The regional board shall be notified within seven days if fluid is de- hours.At the beginning of the post-closure maintenance period,copies tected in a previously dry leachate collection and removal system or un- of these records shall be sent to the regional board. saturated zone monitoring system,or if a progressive increase is detected NoTE:Authority cited:Section 1058,Water Code.Reference:Sections 13172 and in the volume of fluid in a leachate collection and removal system. 13263,Water Code. (4)The discharger shall comply with the notification requirements in §2592. Public Participation. Article 5 of this subchapter. (a)To ensure adequate public participation in regional board proceed- (5)The owner or operator of a waste management unit shall notify the ings relating toland disposal of wastes,the following persons and entities regional board of units to be closed at least 180 days prior to beginning shall receive individual notice of any public hearing or board meeting in- any partial or final closure activities,provided that the regional board volving classification of waste management units or the issuance of may specify a shorter interval for particular units in the waste discharge waste discharge requirements for classified units: requirements for such units.The notice shall include a statement that all (1)the discharger and responsible public agencies. closure activities will conform to the most recently approved closure plan (2)news media serving the county as well as communities within five and that the plan provides for site closure in compliance with all applica- miles of the waste management unit. ble federal and state regulations. (3)citizens groups representing local residents. (6)The owner or operator of a waste management unit shall notify the (4)environmental organizations in affected counties. regional board within 30 days after the completion of any partial or final (5)interested industrial organizations. closure activities.The discharger shall certify under penalty of perjury (b)Notice of hearings or meetings related to Class I waste manage- that all closure activities were performed in accordance with the most re- ment units or discharges of hazardous waste shall be given not less than cently approved closure plan and in accordance with all applicable regu- 45 days before the meeting at which such actions will be taken,and copies lations.The discharger shall certify that closed waste management units of the agenda package shall be available not less than 30 days before the shall be maintained in accordance with an approved post-closure mainte- meeting,provided that enforcement actions involving releases of hazard- nance plan unless post-closure maintenance has been waived pursuant ous wastes may be taken at meetings which comply with the 10-day no- to subsection(a)(3)of this section. tice requirements of the California State Body Open Meetings Act and (d)Any report submitted under this section or any amendment or revi- that emergency actions(as described in Subsection 647.2(d)of this Chap- sion thereto which might affect containment features or monitoring sys- ter)shall be exempt from public participation and notice requirements. tems shall be approved by a registered civil engineer or a certified engi- NOTE: Authority cited:Section 1058,Water Code.Reference:Sections 13172, neering geologist. 13260 and 13302,Water Code. NOTE:Authority cited:Section 1058,Water Code.Reference:Sections 13172 13260 and 13267,Water Code. §2593. Mandatory Closure(Cease and Desist Orders). (a)If the regional board finds that early closure of a waste management §2591. Waste Discharge Requirements. unit is necessary to prevent violation of waste discharge requirements,it (a)The regional board shall adopt waste discharge requirements that shall adopt a Cease and Desist Order pursuant to Section 13302 of the implement the applicable provisions of this subchapter. Water Code which requires closure according to an approved closure and (b)The regional board shall revise waste discharge requirements as Post-closure maintenance plan. necessary to implement the provisions of this subchapter. (b)Thedischargershallsubmittotheregional board a report including (c) Waste management unit classifications and waste discharge re- the closure and post-closure maintenance plan described in Section 2597 quirements for existing units shall be fully reviewed in accordance with of this article,if such a plan was not submitted with the report of waste schedules established by regional boards.In no instance shall such re- discharge;and a revised schedule for immediate termination of opera- view be beyond five years of the effective date of this section.The waste tions and closure. discharge requirements shall be revised to incorporate reclassification NoTE:Authoritycited:Section 1058,WaterCode.Reference:Sections 13301 and and retrofitting requirements as provided in Subsections 2510(e) and 13303,Water Code. 2540(b)of this subchapter,as well as the revised monitoring program de- §2594. Waste Characteristics. veloped under Subsection 2590(b)(1)of this article.The regional board (a)Dischargers shall provide the following information in the report shall specify in waste discharge requirements the schedule for retrofitting of waste discharge about the characteristics of wastes to be discharged of existing facilities.All retrofitting shall be complete within five years at the waste management units. from the issuance of the revised waste discharge requirements. (1)A list of the types,quantities,and concentrations of wastes pro- (d)Waste discharge requirements for new waste management units or posed to be discharged at each unit.Wastes and known waste constituents for expansion of existing units shall not be effective until the regional shall be specifically identified according to the most descriptive nomen- board is notified that all local agencies with jurisdiction to regulate land clature.A listing forhazardous waste constituents shall include reference use,solid waste disposal,air pollution,and to protect public health have numbers for listings established by DHS at Section 66680 of Title 22 of approved use of the site for discharges of waste to land. this code. (e)Appropriate classifications and waste discharge requirements for (2)A description of proposed treatment,storage,and disposal meth- all waste management units in a single facility may be included in a single ods. set of waste discharge requirements applicable to the facility as a whole (3)An analysis of projected waste decomposition processes for each and to each within the facility.Requirements relating to precipitation and waste management unit indicating intermediate and final decomposition drainage control systems for two or more adjacent waste management products and the period during which decomposition will continue fol- units may be consolidated provided that consolidated requirements re- )owing discharge. Page 112 « -