NR 666.210(5)
(5) “Hazardous waste” means any material which is defined to be hazardous waste in accordance with s.
NR 661.0003.
NR 666.210(6)
(6) “Land disposal restriction treatment standards" or “LDR treatment standards" means treatment standards under ch.
NR 668, which a hazardous waste must meet before it can be disposed of in a hazardous waste land disposal unit.
NR 666.210(7)
(7) “License" means a license issued by the nuclear regulatory commission, or NRC agreement state, to users that manage radionuclides regulated by NRC, or NRC agreement states, under authority of
42 USC 2011 to
2297.
NR 666.210(8)
(8) “Low-level mixed waste" or “LLMW" is a waste that contains both low-level radioactive waste and hazardous waste.
NR 666.210(9)
(9) “Low-level radioactive waste" or “LLRW" is a radioactive waste which contains source, special nuclear or byproduct material, and which is not classified as high-level radioactive waste, transuranic waste, spent nuclear fuel or byproduct material as defined in
42 USC 2014(e)(2). (See also NRC definition of "waste" at
10 CFR 61.2)
NR 666.210(10)
(10) “Mixed waste" means a waste that contains both hazardous waste and source, special nuclear or byproduct material subject to
42 USC 2011 to
2297.
NR 666.210(11)
(11) “Naturally occurring or accelerator-produced radioactive material" or “NARM" means radioactive materials that are either of the following:
NR 666.210(11)(b)
(b) Produced by an accelerator. NARM is regulated by the states under state law, or by the U.S. department of energy (DOE) (as authorized by
42 USC 2011 to
2297) under DOE orders.
NR 666.210(12)
(12) “NRC" means the U.S. nuclear regulatory commission.
NR 666.210(14)
(14) “You" means a generator, treater or other handler of low-level mixed waste or eligible NARM.
NR 666.210 Note
Note: The U.S. code (USC) cite is also known as the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended.
NR 666.210 History
History: CR 05-032: cr.
Register July 2006 No. 607, eff. 8-1-06;
CR 19-082: am. (4), (5)
Register August 2020 No. 776, eff. 9-1-20.
Storage and Treatment Conditional Exemption
and Eligibility
NR 666.220
NR 666.220 What does a storage and treatment conditional exemption do? The storage and treatment conditional exemption exempts your low-level mixed waste from the regulatory definition of hazardous waste in s.
NR 661.0003 if your waste meets the eligibility criteria in s.
NR 666.225 and you meet the conditions in s.
NR 666.230.
NR 666.225
NR 666.225 What wastes are eligible for the storage and treatment conditional exemption? Low-level mixed waste (LLMW), defined in s.
NR 666.210, is eligible for this conditional exemption if it is generated and managed by you under a single NRC or NRC agreement state license. (Mixed waste generated at a facility with a different license number and shipped to your facility for storage or treatment requires a hazardous waste operating license and is ineligible for this exemption. In addition, NARM waste is ineligible for this exemption.)
NR 666.225 History
History: CR 05-032: cr.
Register July 2006 No. 607, eff. 8-1-06.
NR 666.230
NR 666.230 What conditions must you meet for your LLMW to qualify for and maintain a storage and treatment exemption? NR 666.230(1)(1)
For your LLMW to qualify for the exemption you shall notify us in writing by certified delivery that you are claiming a conditional exemption for the LLMW stored on your facility. The dated notification shall include your name, address, EPA hazardous waste identification number, NRC or NRC agreement state license number, the hazardous waste codes and storage units for which you are seeking an exemption and a statement that you meet the conditions of this subchapter. Your notification shall be signed by your authorized representative who certifies that the information in the notification is true, accurate and complete. You shall notify us of your claim either within 90 days of August 1, 2006, or within 90 days of when a storage unit is first used to store conditionally exempt LLMW.
NR 666.230(2)
(2) To qualify for and maintain an exemption for your LLMW you shall do all of the following:
NR 666.230(2)(a)
(a) Store your LLMW waste in tanks or containers in compliance with the requirements of your NRC or NRC agreement state license that apply to the proper storage of low-level radioactive waste (not including those license requirements that relate solely to recordkeeping).
NR 666.230(2)(c)
(c) Certify that facility personnel who manage stored conditionally exempt LLMW are trained in a manner that ensures that the conditionally exempt waste is safely managed and includes training in chemical waste management and hazardous materials incidents response that meets the personnel training standards found in s.
NR 665.0016 (1) (c).
NR 666.230(2)(d)
(d) Conduct an inventory of your stored conditionally exempt LLMW at least annually and inspect it at least quarterly for compliance with this subchapter.
NR 666.230(2)(e)
(e) Maintain an accurate emergency plan and provide it to all local authorities who may have to respond to a fire, explosion or release of hazardous waste or hazardous constituents. Your plan shall describe emergency response arrangements with local authorities; describe evacuation plans; list the names, addresses and telephone numbers of all facility personnel qualified to work with local authorities as emergency coordinators and list emergency equipment.
NR 666.230 History
History: CR 05-032: cr.
Register July 2006 No. 607, eff. 8-1-06.
Treatment
NR 666.235
NR 666.235 What waste treatment does the storage and treatment conditional exemption allow? You may treat your low-level mixed waste at your facility within a tank or container in accordance with the terms of your NRC or NRC agreement state license. Treatment that cannot be done in a tank or container without a hazardous waste operating license (such as incineration) is not allowed under this exemption.
NR 666.235 History
History: CR 05-032: cr.
Register July 2006 No. 607, eff. 8-1-06.
Loss of Conditional Exemption
NR 666.240
NR 666.240 How could you lose the conditional exemption for your LLMW and what action must you take? NR 666.240(1)(1)
Your LLMW will automatically lose the storage and treatment conditional exemption if you fail to meet any of the conditions specified in s.
NR 666.230. When your LLMW loses the exemption, you shall immediately manage that waste which failed the condition as hazardous waste under chs.
NR 660 to
670, and the storage unit storing the LLMW immediately becomes subject to hazardous waste container or tank storage requirements under subch.
I of ch.
NR 664 or subch.
J of ch. NR 664.
NR 666.240(1)(a)
(a) If you fail to meet any of the conditions specified in s.
NR 666.230 you shall report to us and the NRC, or the oversight agency in the NRC agreement state, in writing by certified delivery within 30 days of learning of the failure. Your report shall be signed by your authorized representative certifying that the information provided is true, accurate and complete. This report shall include all of the following:
NR 666.240(1)(a)2.
2. A description of the LLMW (including the waste name, hazardous waste codes and quantity) and storage location at the facility.
NR 666.240(1)(b)
(b) If the failure to meet any of the conditions may endanger human health or the environment, you shall also immediately notify us orally within 24 hours and follow up with a written notification within 5 days. Failures that may endanger human health or the environment include, but are not limited to, discharge of a CERCLA reportable quantity or other leaking or exploding tanks or containers, or detection of radionuclides above background or hazardous constituents in the leachate collection system of a storage area. If the failure may endanger human health or the environment, you shall follow the provisions of your emergency plan.
NR 666.240(2)
(2) We may terminate your conditional exemption for your LLMW, or require you to meet additional conditions to claim a conditional exemption, for serious or repeated noncompliance with any requirements of this subchapter.
NR 666.240 History
History: CR 05-032: cr.
Register July 2006 No. 607, eff. 8-1-06; correction in (1) made under s.
13.92 (4) (b) 7., Stats.,
Register March 2013 No. 687.
NR 666.245
NR 666.245 If you lose the storage and treatment conditional exemption for your LLMW, can the exemption be reclaimed? NR 666.245(1)(1)
You may reclaim the storage and treatment exemption for your LLMW if you do all of the following:
NR 666.245(1)(b)
(b) Send us a notice by certified delivery that you are reclaiming the exemption for your LLMW. Your notice shall be signed by your authorized representative certifying that the information contained in your notice is true, complete and accurate. In your notice you shall do all of the following:
NR 666.245(1)(b)2.
2. Certify that you have corrected each failure that caused you to lose the exemption for your LLMW and that you again meet all the conditions as of the date you specify.
NR 666.245(1)(b)3.
3. Describe plans that you have implemented, listing specific steps you have taken, to ensure the conditions will be met in the future.
NR 666.245(1)(b)4.
4. Include any other information you want us to consider when we review your notice reclaiming the exemption.
NR 666.245(2)
(2) We may terminate a reclaimed conditional exemption if we find that your claim is inappropriate based on factors including, but not limited to, your failure to correct the problem, to provide a satisfactory explanation of the circumstances of the failure or to implement a plan with steps to prevent another failure to meet the conditions of s.
NR 666.230. In reviewing a reclaimed conditional exemption under this section, we may add conditions to the exemption to ensure that waste management during storage and treatment of the LLMW will protect human health and the environment.
NR 666.245 History
History: CR 05-032: cr.
Register July 2006 No. 607, eff. 8-1-06.
Storage and Treatment Recordkeeping
NR 666.250
NR 666.250 What storage and treatment records must you keep at your facility and for how long? NR 666.250(1)(1)
In addition to those records required by your NRC or NRC agreement state license, you shall keep all of the following records:
NR 666.250(1)(a)
(a) Your initial notification records, return receipts, reports to us of failures to meet the exemption conditions and all records supporting any reclaim of an exemption.
NR 666.250(1)(b)
(b) Records of your LLMW annual inventories, and quarterly inspections.
NR 666.250(1)(c)
(c) Your certification that facility personnel who manage stored mixed waste are trained in safe management of LLMW including training in chemical waste management and hazardous materials incidents response.
NR 666.250(2)
(2) You shall maintain records concerning notification, personnel trained and your emergency plan for as long as you claim this exemption and for 3 years thereafter, or according to NRC regulations under
10 CFR part 20 (or equivalent NRC agreement state rules), whichever is longer. You shall maintain records concerning your annual inventory and quarterly inspections for 3 years after the waste is sent for disposal, or according to NRC regulations under
10 CFR part 20 (or equivalent NRC agreement state rules), whichever is longer.
NR 666.250 History
History: CR 05-032: cr.
Register July 2006 No. 607, eff. 8-1-06.
Reentry Into Hazardous Waste Regulation
NR 666.255
NR 666.255 When is your LLMW no longer eligible for the storage and treatment conditional exemption? NR 666.255(1)(1)
When your LLMW has met the requirements of your NRC or NRC agreement state license for decay-in-storage and can be disposed of as non-radioactive waste, then the conditional exemption for storage no longer applies. On that date your waste is subject to hazardous waste regulation under the relevant sections of chs.
NR 660 to
670, and the time period for accumulation of a hazardous waste as specified in s.
NR 662.016 or
662.017 begins.
NR 666.255(2)
(2) When your conditionally exempt LLMW, which has been generated and stored under a single NRC or NRC agreement state license number, is removed from storage, it is no longer eligible for the storage and treatment exemption. However, your waste may be eligible for the transportation and disposal conditional exemption at s.
NR 666.305.
NR 666.255 History
History: CR 05-032: cr.
Register July 2006 No. 607, eff. 8-1-06;
CR 19-082: am. (1)
Register August 2020 No. 776, eff. 9-1-20.
Storage Unit Closure
NR 666.260
NR 666.260 Do closure requirements apply to units that stored LLMW prior to the effective date of this subchapter? Interim licensed and operating licensed hazardous waste storage units that have been used to store only LLMW prior to August 1, 2006 and, after that date, store only LLMW which becomes exempt under this subchapter, are not subject to the closure requirements of chs.
NR 664 and
665. Storage units (or portions of units) that have been used to store both LLMW and non-mixed hazardous waste prior to August 1, 2006 or are used to store both after that date remain subject to closure requirements with respect to the non-mixed hazardous waste.
NR 666.260 History
History: CR 05-032: cr.
Register July 2006 No. 607, eff. 8-1-06.
Transportation and D
isposal Conditional Exemption
NR 666.305
NR 666.305 What does the transportation and disposal conditional exemption do? This conditional exemption exempts your waste from the regulatory definition of hazardous waste in s.
NR 661.0003 if your waste meets the eligibility criteria under s.
NR 666.310, and you meet the conditions in s.
NR 666.315.
Eligibility
NR 666.310
NR 666.310 What wastes are eligible for the transportation and disposal conditional exemption? Eligible waste shall be either of the following:
NR 666.310(1)
(1) A low-level mixed waste (LLMW), as defined in s.
NR 666.210, that meets the waste acceptance criteria of a LLRW disposal facility.
NR 666.310 History
History: CR 05-032: cr.
Register July 2006 No. 607, eff. 8-1-06.
Conditions
NR 666.315
NR 666.315 What are the conditions you must meet for your waste to qualify for and maintain the transportation and disposal conditional exemption? You shall meet all of the following conditions for your eligible waste to qualify for and maintain the exemption:
NR 666.315(1)
(1) The eligible waste shall meet or be treated to meet LDR treatment standards as described in s.
NR 666.320.
NR 666.315(2)
(2) If you are not already subject to NRC, or NRC agreement state equivalent manifest and transportation rules for the shipment of your waste, you shall manifest and transport your waste according to NRC regulations as described in s.
NR 666.325.
NR 666.315(3)
(3) The exempted waste shall be in containers when it is disposed of in the LLRW disposal facility as described in s.
NR 666.340.
NR 666.315(4)
(4) The exempted waste shall be disposed of at a designated LLRW disposal facility as described in s.
NR 666.335.
NR 666.315 History
History: CR 05-032: cr.
Register July 2006 No. 607, eff. 8-1-06.
NR 666.320
NR 666.320 What treatment standards must your eligible waste meet? Your LLMW or eligible NARM waste shall meet the land disposal restriction (LDR) treatment standards specified in subch.
D of ch. NR 668.
NR 666.320 History
History: CR 05-032: cr.
Register July 2006 No. 607, eff. 8-1-06.
NR 666.325
NR 666.325 Are you subject to the manifest and transportation condition in s. NR 666.315 (2)? If you are not already subject to NRC, or NRC agreement state equivalent manifest and transportation rules for the shipment of your waste, you shall meet the manifest requirements under
10 CFR 20.2006 (or NRC agreement state equivalent rules), and the transportation requirements under
10 CFR 1.5 (or NRC agreement state equivalent rules) to ship the exempted waste.
NR 666.325 History
History: CR 05-032: cr.
Register July 2006 No. 607, eff. 8-1-06.
NR 666.330
NR 666.330 When does the transportation and disposal exemption take effect? The exemption becomes effective once all the following have occurred:
NR 666.330(1)
(1) Your eligible waste meets the applicable LDR treatment standards.
