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MANAGEMENT MEMO <br />11V#X"D1;1 <br />hj,11,1011311; VINFrOTF-4 <br />TITLE: <br />Hazardous Waste Loadchecking at Municipal Landfills and Transfer <br />Stations <br />Toxic Substances Control Program Permitting and Surveillance and <br />Enforcement. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />Disposal of hazardous waste in municipal (i.e. solid, <br />non -hazardous) waste landfills is a significant environmental <br />and regulatory concern. Although municipal landfills (i.e. class <br />III landfills) and transfer stations are not permitted to receive <br />hazardous wastes (California Code of Regulations Title 14, <br />Chapter 7, Sections 17742 and 17562), occasionally some hazardous <br />wastes are found. This constitutes illegal disposal on the part <br />of the original generator. Uditionally,_`, household hazardous <br />wastes, exempt from regulation 'at -the household per California <br />lode- of Regulations Title 22,"Section' `664701" enter municipal" <br />landfills and transfer stations. Title'22 Section 66078 defines <br />"generator" as any person whose act first causes a hazardous <br />waste to become subject to regulation. The first point at which <br />hazardous waste entering a municipal landfill or transfer station <br />becomes subject to regulation is when it becomes identifiable as <br />a separate wastestream. <br />FIXI "_ to) <br />The definition of "generator", will, be I iappled to a municipal <br />landfill or transfer station which discovers and._=,°then's eparates, <br />hazardous waste from incoming municipal waste,gl, either commercial <br />or household, ' prior to acceptance' for landfilling or <br />'transferring. The landfill/transfer station becomes the <br />hazardous waste generator as the first point that regulation can <br />effectively be applied <br />,.�a contaminated. load is rejected bye. <br />the landfill/transfer s:tXT,,,�. the -original "source -'of 'the'"load-of, <br />, <br />w&ste retains the responsibility of being the generator. <br />These clarifications do not change existing regulations under <br />California Code of Regulations Title 14, Chapter 7 or Title 22, <br />Chapter 30. <br />DHS 8417 (2/88) <br />