Chapter NR 660

NR 660.10(127) (127) “Treatment” has the meaning given in s. 291.01 (21), Stats. Treatment also includes recovering energy or material resources from the waste.

NR 660.10(128) (128) “Treatment zone” means a soil area of the unsaturated zone of a land treatment unit within which hazardous constituents are degraded, transformed or immobilized.

NR 660.10(129) (129) “Underground injection” or “well injection” means the placement of a fluid or any substance underground through a well.

NR 660.10 Note Note: See also “injection well.”

NR 660.10(130) (130) “Underground tank” means a device meeting the definition of “tank” in this section whose entire surface area is totally below the surface of and covered by the ground.

NR 660.10(131) (131) “Unfit for use tank system” means a tank system that has been determined through an integrity assessment or other inspection to be no longer capable of storing or treating hazardous waste without posing a threat of release of hazardous waste to the environment.

NR 660.10(132) (132) “United States” means the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

NR 660.10(133) (133) “Universal waste” means any of the following hazardous wastes that are managed under the universal waste requirements of ch. NR 673:

NR 660.10(133)(a) (a) Batteries as described in s. NR 673.02.

NR 660.10(133)(b) (b) Pesticides as described in s. NR 673.03.

NR 660.10(133)(c) (c) Thermostats and mercury-containing equipment as described in s. NR 673.04.

NR 660.10(133)(d) (d) Lamps as described in s. NR 673.05.

NR 660.10(134) (134) “Universal waste handler”:

NR 660.10(134)(a) (a) Means any of the following:

NR 660.10(134)(a)1. 1. A generator (as defined in this section) of universal waste.

NR 660.10(134)(a)2. 2. The owner or operator of a facility, including all contiguous property, that receives universal waste from other universal waste handlers, accumulates universal waste and sends universal waste to another universal waste handler, to a destination facility or to a foreign destination.

NR 660.10(134)(b) (b) Does not mean any of the following:

NR 660.10(134)(b)1. 1. A person who treats (except under the provisions of s. NR 673.13 (1) or (3) or 673.33 (1) or (3)), disposes of or recycles universal waste.

NR 660.10(134)(b)2. 2. A person engaged in the off-site transportation of universal waste by air, rail, highway or water, including a universal waste transfer facility.

NR 660.10(135) (135) “Universal waste transporter” means a person engaged in the off-site transportation of universal waste by air, rail, highway or water.

NR 660.10(136) (136) “Unsaturated zone” or “zone of aeration” means the zone between the land surface and the water table.

NR 660.10(137) (137) “Uppermost aquifer” means the geologic formation nearest the natural ground surface that is an aquifer, as well as lower aquifers that are hydraulically interconnected with this aquifer within the facility’s property boundary.

NR 660.10(138) (138) “Used oil” means any oil that has been refined from crude oil, or any synthetic oil, that has been used and as a result of the use is contaminated by physical or chemical impurities.

NR 660.10(138m) (138m) “User of the electronic manifest system” means a hazardous waste generator, a hazardous waste transporter, an owner or operator of a hazardous waste treatment, storage, recycling, or disposal facility, or any other person that does any of the following:

NR 660.10(138m)(a) (a) Required to use a manifest to comply with one of the following: 

NR 660.10(138m)(a)1. 1. Any federal or state requirement to track the shipment, transportation, and receipt of hazardous waste or other waste material that is shipped from the site of generation to an off-site designated facility for treatment, storage, recycling, or disposal.

NR 660.10(138m)(a)2. 2. Any federal or state requirement to track the shipment, transportation, and receipt of rejected wastes or regulated container residues that are shipped from a designated facility to an alternative facility or returned to the generator.

NR 660.10(138m)(b) (b) Elects to use the system to obtain, complete and transmit an electronic manifest format supplied by the EPA electronic manifest system.

NR 660.10(138m)(c) (c) Elects to use the paper manifest form and submits to the system for data processing purposes a paper copy of the manifest, or data from the paper copy, in accordance with s. NR 664.0071 (1) (b) 5. or 665.0071 (1) (b) 5. These paper copies are submitted for data exchange purposes only and are not the official copies of record for legal purposes.

NR 660.10(139) (139) “Very small quantity generator” means a generator that generates less than or equal to any of the following amounts in a calendar month: 

NR 660.10(139)(a) (a) 100 kilograms of non-acute hazardous waste.

NR 660.10(139)(b) (b) 1 kilogram of acute hazardous waste listed in s. NR 661.0031 or 661.0033 (5).

NR 660.10(139)(c) (c) 100 kilograms of any residue or contaminated soil, water, or other debris resulting from the cleanup of a spill, into or on any land or water, of any acute hazardous waste listed in s. NR 661.0031 or 661.0033 (5).

NR 660.10(140) (140) “Vessel” includes every description of watercraft, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on the water.

NR 660.10(141) (141) “Wastewater treatment unit” means a device which is all of the following:

NR 660.10(141)(a) (a) Part of a wastewater treatment facility that is subject to regulation under either 33 USC 1317(b) or 1342.

NR 660.10(141)(b) (b) Receives and treats or stores an influent wastewater that is a hazardous waste as defined in s. NR 661.0003, or that generates and accumulates a wastewater treatment sludge that is a hazardous waste as defined in s. NR 661.0003, or treats or stores a wastewater treatment sludge that is a hazardous waste as defined in s. NR 661.0003.

NR 660.10(141)(c) (c) Meets the definition of tank or tank system in this section.

NR 660.10(142) (142) “Water (bulk shipment)” means the bulk transportation of hazardous waste which is loaded or carried on board a vessel without containers or labels.

NR 660.10(143) (143) “Well” means any of the following: a bored, drilled or driven shaft, a dug hole whose depth is greater than its largest surface dimension, an improved sinkhole or a subsurface fluid distribution system.

NR 660.10(144) (144) “Well injection”: (See “underground injection”.)

NR 660.10(145) (145) “Wetlands” has the meaning given in s. 23.32 (1), Stats.

NR 660.10(145m) (145m) “Wipe” means a woven or non-woven shop towel, rag, pad, or swab made of wood pulp, fabric, cotton, polyester blends, or other material.

NR 660.10(146) (146) “Zone of engineering control” means an area under the control of the owner or operator that, upon detection of a hazardous waste release, can be readily cleaned up prior to the release of hazardous waste or hazardous constituents to ground water or surface water.

NR 660.10 Note Note: See chs. 289 and 291, Stats., for additional definitions.

NR 660.10 History History: CR 05-032: cr. Register July 2006 No. 607, eff. 8-1-06; CR 06-102: am. (21), (76) and (77) Register March 2007 No. 615, eff. 4-1-07; EmR1007: emerg. cr. (70m), am. (107), eff. 3-17-10; CR 10-036: cr. (70m), am. (107) Register October 2010 No. 658, eff. 11-1-10; corrections in (15), (141) made under s. 13.92 (4) (b) 7., Stats., Register March 2013 No. 687; CR 16-007: cr. (9m), (19d), (19g), (19j), am. (43) (b), (70m) (a) to (c), cr. (77m), (83m), am. (107) (a), (b), cr. (108m), am. (133) (c), renum. (139) to (139) (intro.) and (a), cr. (139) (b), (c), (145m) Register July 2017 No. 739, eff. 8-1-17; correction in (9m), (43) (b), (83m), (108m) (b) made under s. 35.17, Stats., and correction in numbering of (108m) made under s. 13.92 (4) (b) 1., Stats., Register July 2017 No. 739; CR 19-082: cr. (3m), (3p), (3t), (3w), (3y), (9t), (13m), (19e), (20m), r. and recr. (21), cr. (28m), (28p), (28s), am (29) (a), (31), (34), (43) (a), (b), (46), cr. (50m), (51m), (51t), am. (52), (53), cr. (65m), (67m), r. and recr. (70m), am. (76), (82), (83m), cr. (83t), (97m), (97t), (100m), r. and recr. (107), am. (108), (108m) (a) 1., 3., (b), (122), (126) (b), cr. (138m), r. and recr. (139), am. (141) (b) Register August 2020 No. 776, eff. 9-1-20; correction in (13m) (c), (d), (28), (38), (51m), (60) (g), (82), (83m), (108m) (b), (126) (b) made under s. 35.17, Stats., Register August 2020 No. 776; correction in (50m) made under s. 13.92 (4) (b) 7., Stats., Register April 2021 No. 784.

NR 660.11 NR 660.11 Incorporation by reference.

NR 660.11(1) (1) This section is adopted under ss. 227.21 (2) (b) and 291.05, Stats., to incorporate by reference testing, monitoring, and other technical standards, established by the federal government and technical societies and organizations, to which reference is made in chs. NR 660 to 670. Some materials that are incorporated by reference in other references are hereby incorporated by reference and made a part of this subsection.

NR 660.11 Note Note: Copies of these materials are available for inspection in the offices of the Department of Natural Resources, Madison, Wisconsin, the Legislative Reference Bureau, or may be obtained for personal use at the addresses noted.

NR 660.11(2) (2) The following materials are available for purchase from the American Society for Testing and Materials, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, P.O. Box C700, West Conshohocken, PA 19428–2959:

NR 660.11(2)(a) (a) ASTM D–93–79 or D–93–80, Standard Test Methods for Flash Point by Pensky-Martens Closed Cup Tester, incorporated by reference for s. NR 661.0021.

NR 660.11(2)(b) (b) ASTM D–1946–82, Standard Method for Analysis of Reformed Gas by Gas Chromatography, incorporated by reference for ss. NR 664.1033 and 665.1033.

NR 660.11(2)(c) (c) ASTM D 2267–88, Standard Test Method for Aromatics in Light Naphthas and Aviation Gasolines by Gas Chromatography, incorporated by reference for s. NR 664.1063.

NR 660.11 Note Note: Withdrawn standard, 1992.

NR 660.11(2)(d) (d) ASTM D 2382–83, Standard Test Method for Heat of Combustion of Hydrocarbon Fuels by Bomb Calorimeter (High-Precision Method), incorporated by reference for ss. NR 664.1033 and 665.1033.

NR 660.11(2)(e) (e) ASTM D 2879–92, Standard Test Method for Vapor Pressure—Temperature Relationship and Initial Decomposition Temperature of Liquids by Isoteniscope, incorporated by reference for s. NR 665.1084.

NR 660.11(2)(f) (f) ASTM D–3278–78, Standard Test Methods for Flash Point for Liquids by Setaflash Closed Tester, incorporated by reference for s. NR 661.0021 (1).

NR 660.11(2)(g) (g) ASTM E 168–88, Standard Practices for General Techniques of Infrared Quantitative Analysis, incorporated by reference for s. NR 664.1063.

NR 660.11(2)(h) (h) ASTM E 169–87, Standard Practices for General Techniques of Ultraviolet-Visible Quantitative Analysis, incorporated by reference for s. NR 664.1063.

NR 660.11(2)(i) (i) ASTM E 260–85, Standard Practice for Packed Column Gas Chromatography, incorporated by reference for s. NR 664.1063.

NR 660.11(2)(j) (j) ASTM E 926–88, Standard Test Methods for Preparing Refuse-Derived Fuel (RDF) Samples for Analyses of Metals, Test Method C—Bomb, Acid Digestion Method.

NR 660.11(2)(k) (k) ASTM D140-70, Standard Practice for Sampling Bituminous Materials, incorporated by reference for ch. NR 661 Appendix I.

NR 660.11(2)(L) (L) ASTM D346-75, Standard Practice for Collection and Preparation of Coke Samples for Laboratory Analysis, incorporated by reference for ch. NR 661 Appendix I.

NR 660.11(2)(m) (m) ASTM D420-69, Guide to Site Characterization for Engineering, Design, and Construction Purposes, incorporated by reference for ch. NR 661 Appendix I.

NR 660.11(2)(n) (n) ASTM D1452-65, Standard Practice for Soil Investigation and Sampling by Auger Borings, incorporated by reference for ch. NR 661 Appendix I.

NR 660.11(2)(o) (o) ASTM D2234-76, Standard Practice for Collection of a Gross Sample of Coal, incorporated by reference for ch. NR 661 Appendix I.

NR 660.11(2)(p) (p) ASTM D2879-86, Standard Test Method for Vapor Pressure—Temperature Relationship and Initial Decomposition Temperature of Liquids by Isoteniscope, incorporated by reference for ch. NR 664 and subch. BB of ch. NR 665.

NR 660.11(2)(q) (q) ASTM G21-70 (1984a), Standard Practice for Determining Resistance of Synthetic Polymer Materials to Fungi, incorporated by reference for ch. NR 664 and subch. N of ch. NR 665.

NR 660.11(2)(r) (r) ASTM G22-76 (1984b), Standard Practice for Determining Resistance of Plastics to Bacteria, incorporated by reference for ch. NR 664 and subch. N of ch. NR 665.

NR 660.11(3) (3) The following materials are available for purchase from the National Technical Information Service, 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA 22161; or for purchase from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402, (202) 512–1800:

NR 660.11(3)(a) (a) APTI Course 415: Control of Gaseous Emissions, EPA Publication EPA–450/2–81– 005, December 1981, incorporated by reference for ss. NR 664.1035, 665.1035, 670.024, and 670.025.

NR 660.11(3)(b) (b) The following methods as published in the test methods compendium known as “Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Waste, Physical/Chemical Methods,” EPA Publication SW–846, Third Edition:

NR 660.11 Note Note: A suffix of “A” in the method number indicates revision one (the method has been revised once). A suffix of “B” in the method number indicates revision two (the method has been revised twice). A suffix of “C” in the method number indicates revision three (the method has been revised three times). A suffix of “D” in the method number indicates revision four (the method has been revised four times).

NR 660.11(3)(b)1. 1. Method 1311, September 1992, and Update I, incorporated by reference for ss. NR 661.0024, 668.07, and 668.40.

NR 660.11(3)(b)2. 2. Method 0011, December 1996, and Update III, incorporated by reference for ch. NR 666 Appendix IX.

NR 660.11(3)(b)3. 3. Method 0023A, December 1996, and Update III, incorporated by reference for s. NR 666.104 and ch. NR 666 Appendix IX.

NR 660.11(3)(b)4. 4. Method 0050, December 1996, and Update III, incorporated by reference for s. NR 666.107 and ch. NR 666 Appendix IX.

NR 660.11(3)(b)5. 5. Method 0051, December 1996 and Update III, incorporated by reference for s. NR 666.107 and ch. NR 666 Appendix IX.

NR 660.11(3)(b)6. 6. Method 0060, December 1996, and Update III, incorporated by reference for s. NR 666.106 and ch. NR 666 Appendix IX.

NR 660.11(3)(b)7. 7. Method 0061, December 1996 and Update III incorporated by reference for s. NR 666.106 and ch. NR 666 Appendix IX.

NR 660.11(3)(b)8. 8. Method 1110A, November 2004 and Update IIIB, incorporated by reference for s. NR 661.0022.

NR 660.11(3)(b)9. 9. Method 9010C, dated November 2004 and Update IIIB, incorporated by reference for ss. NR 668.40, 668.44, and 668.48.

NR 660.11(3)(b)10. 10. Method 9012B, November 2004 and Update IIIB, incorporated by reference for ss. NR 668.40, 668.44, and 668.48.

NR 660.11(3)(b)11. 11. Method 9040C, November 2004 and Update IIIB, incorporated by reference for s. NR 661.0022.

NR 660.11(3)(b)12. 12. Method 9060A, November 2004 and Update IIIB, incorporated by reference for ss. NR 664.1034, 664.1063, 665.1034, and 665.1063.

NR 660.11(3)(b)13. 13. Method 9095B, November 2004 and Update IIIB, incorporated by reference for ss. NR 664.0190, 664.0314, 665.0190, 665.0314, 665.1081, 667.0190 (1), and 668.32.

NR 660.11(4) (4) The following materials are available for purchase from the National Fire Protection Association, 1 Batterymarch Park, P.O. Box 9101, Quincy, MA 02269–9101:

NR 660.11(4)(a) (a) Flammable and Combustible Liquids Code (NFPA 30), (1977 or 1981), incorporated by reference for ss. NR 662.016 (2), 664.0198, and 665.0198, subch. H of ch. NR 666, and s. NR 667.0202 (2).

NR 660.11(5) (5) The following materials are available for purchase from the American Petroleum Institute, 1220 L Street, Northwest, Washington, DC 20005: