OAR 340-012-0068: Hazardous Waste Management and Disposal Classification of Violations

(1) Class I: (a) Failing to make or document a complete and accurate hazardous waste determination of a residue as required; (b) Failing to meet Land Disposal Restriction (LDR) requirements when disposing of hazardous waste; (c) Operating a hazardous waste treatment, storage or disposal facility (TSD) without first obtaining a permit or without having interim status; (d) Treating, storing or accumulating hazardous waste in a hazardous waste management unit, as defined in 40 C.F.R. 260.10, that does not meet the unit design or unit integrity assessment criteria for the hazardous waste management unit; (e) Accepting, transporting or offering for transport hazardous waste without a uniform hazardous waste manifest; (f) Transporting, or offering for transport, hazardous waste or hazardous waste to a facility not authorized or permitted to manage hazardous waste or hazardous waste pharmaceuticals; (f) Transporting, or offering for transport, hazardous waste or hazardous waste pharmaceuticals to a facility not authorized or permitted to manage hazardous waste or hazardous waste pharmaceuticals; (g) Failing to comply with management requirements for ignitable, reactive, or incompatible hazardous waste; (h) Illegally treating or disposing of a hazardous waste; (i) Failing to submit Land Disposal Restriction notifications; (j) Failing to have and maintain a closure plan or post closure plan for a TSD facility, reverse distributor accumulating potentially creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals or evaluated hazardous waste pharmaceuticals or for each regulated hazardous waste management unit, as defined in 40 C.F.R. 260.10, by the owner or operator of facility or unit; (k) Failing to carry out closure or post closure plan requirements, by an owner or operator of a TSD facility, such that the certification for completing closure or post closure work is not submitted, or is incomplete, inaccurate, or non-compliant with the approved plans; (l) Failing to establish or maintain financial assurance or hazard liability requirements in 40 C.F.R. 264.147 or 40 C.F.R. 265.147, by an owner or operator of a TSD facility; (m) Failing to follow emergency procedures in a Contingency Plan or other emergency response requirements during an incident in which a hazardous waste or hazardous waste constituent is released to the environment or the incident presents a risk of harm to employees, emergency responders or the public; (n) Failing to comply with the export requirements in 40 C.F.R. 262.52 for hazardous wastes, 40 C.F.R. 266.508(b) for non-creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals or evaluated hazardous waste pharmaceuticals, or 40 C.F.R. 266.509(d) for potentially creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals; (o) Failing to properly install a groundwater monitoring system in compliance with permit requirements, by an owner or operator of a TSD facility; (p) Failing to properly control volatile organic hazardous waste emissions, by a large-quantity hazardous waste generator or TSD facility, when such failure could result in harm to employees, the public or the environment; (q) Failing to inspect, operate, monitor, keep records or maintain in compliance with a permit: hazardous waste landfill units, incineration equipment, Subpart X treatment equipment, hazardous waste treatment units, pollution abatement equipment for hazardous waste treatment or disposal, or hazardous waste monitoring equipment; (r) Failing to immediately clean up spills or releases or threatened spills or releases of hazardous waste, or hazardous waste pharmaceuticals, by any person having ownership or control over hazardous waste; (s) Failing to submit an exception report for generators shipping hazardous waste, for healthcare facilities shipping non-creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals, or for reverse distributors shipping evaluated hazardous waste pharmaceuticals; (t) Reuse in vehicles of defective airbag modules or defective airbag inflators subject to a recall; (u) Failing to accurately determine generator status; (v) Failing to notify or withdraw for healthcare facilities or reverse distributors; (w) Failing to comply with the prohibition against sewering hazardous waste pharmaceuticals; (x) Transporting, or offering for transport, hazardous waste other than potentially creditable hazardous waste to a facility other than a reverse distributor; (y) Failing to submit an unauthorized waste report; (z) Accepting hazardous waste pharmaceuticals at a facility not authorized or permitted to manage the specific type of hazardous waste pharmaceuticals received; or (aa) Failing to provide confirmation to the healthcare facility or reverse distributor that shipment of potentially creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals has arrived at its destination and is under the control of the reverse distributor. (2) Class II: (a) Failing to place an accumulation start date on a container used for accumulation or storage of hazardous waste; (b) Failing to label tanks or containers used for accumulation or storage of hazardous waste with “hazardous waste,” hazards of the contents, waste codes, or “hazardous waste pharmaceutical”; (c) Failing to post required emergency response information next to the telephone, by a small quantity generator; (d) Accumulating hazardous waste, non-creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals, potentially creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals, or evaluated hazardous waste pharmaceuticals more than thirty (30) days beyond the specified accumulation time frame; (e) Failing to submit a manifest discrepancy report; (f) Shipping hazardous waste on manifests that do not comply with DEQ rules; (g) Failing to prevent the unknown or unauthorized entry of a person or livestock into the waste management area of a TSD facility or into a portion of a reverse distributor’s facility where potentially creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals and evaluated hazardous waste pharmaceuticals are kept; (h) Failing to conduct required inspections at hazardous waste generator or reverse distributor accumulation sites or at hazardous waste permitted storage areas; (i) Failing to prepare a contingency plan; (j) Failing to comply with the requirements of a groundwater monitoring program, unless otherwise classified; (k) Failing to maintain adequate aisle space to allow the unobstructed movement of personnel, fire protection equipment, spill control equipment, and decontamination; (l) Generating, treating, storing or disposing of hazardous waste, non-creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals, or evaluated hazardous waste pharmaceuticals, without complying with the Personnel Training requirements; (m) Failing to keep containers of hazardous waste, non-creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals, or evaluated hazardous waste pharmaceuticals closed, except when adding or removing wastes; (n) Failing to comply with the requirements for management of containers, including satellite accumulation, other than the requirements for ignitable, reactive or incompatible waste, by a hazardous waste generator, storage facility, health care facility, or reverse distributor; (o) Failing to comply with the preparedness, prevention, contingency plan or emergency procedure requirements, unless otherwise classified; (p) Failing to manage universal waste and waste pesticide residue in compliance with the universal waste management requirements or waste pesticide requirements; (q) Failing to obtain a hazardous waste EPA identification number when required; (r) Failing to comply with 40 C.F.R. 264 or 265 Subparts J, W or DD standards, other than unit design or unit integrity assessment; (s) Failing to comply with 40 C.F.R. 264 or 265 Subparts AA, BB or CC standards for hazardous waste generator and TSD facilities, unless otherwise classified; (t) Failing to timely submit an annual report by a hazardous waste generator, TSD facility, reverse distributor, or hazardous waste recycling facility; (u) Failing to comply with recalled airbag recordkeeping, management, or disposal requirements, unless otherwise classified; (v) Failing to timely notify DEQ of LQG closure; (w) Failing to comply with episodic generation conditions, not otherwise classified; or (x) Failing to notify, keep records, or other requirements for consolidation of VSQG waste at LQG owned by the same person, by the LQG. (3) Class III: (a) Accumulating hazardous waste, non-creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals, potentially creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals, or evaluated hazardous waste pharmaceuticals, up to thirty (30) days beyond the specified accumulation time frame; (b) Failing to maintain on site, a copy of the one-time notification regarding hazardous waste that meets treatment standards by a hazardous waste generator; or (c) Failing to submit a contingency plan to all police, fire, hospital and local emergency responders.