Subchapter G — Interim Licenses
NR 670.070 Qualifying for an interim license.
NR 670.071 Operation during an interim license period.
NR 670.072 Modifications to an interim license.
NR 670.073 Termination of an interim license.
Subchapter H — Remediation Variances
NR 670.079 Remediation Variances.
Subchapter I — Integration with Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) Standards
NR 670.235 Options for incinerators, cement kilns, lightweight aggregate kilns, solid fuel boilers, liquid fuel boilers, and hydrochloric acid production furnaces to minimize emissions from startup, shutdown and malfunction events.
Subchapter J — Standardized Licenses for Storage and Treatment Units
NR 670.250 What is a standardized license?
NR 670.255 Who is eligible for a standardized license?
NR 670.260 What requirements of ch.
NR 670 do and do not apply to a standardized license?
NR 670.270 How do I apply for a standardized license?
NR 670.275 What information shall I submit to the department to support my standardized license application?
NR 670.280 What are the certification requirements?
NR 670.290 What general types of information shall I keep at my facility?
NR 670.300 What container information shall I keep at my facility?
NR 670.305 What tank information shall I keep at my facility?
NR 670.310 What equipment information shall I keep at my facility?
NR 670.315 What air emissions control information shall I keep at my facility?
NR 670.320 How do I modify my standardized license?
Subchapter L — General Decisionmaking Procedures
NR 670.401 Purpose and scope.
NR 670.403 License application procedures.
NR 670.404 Consolidation of EPA permit and department license processing.
NR 670.405 Modification, revocation and reissuance, or revocation or denial of licenses.
NR 670.406 Preliminary determination of license applications.
NR 670.409 Administrative record.
NR 670.410 Public notice and public comment period.
NR 670.411 Public comments and requests for public hearings.
NR 670.412 Public hearings.
NR 670.415 Issuance of the operating license.
NR 670.417 Response to comments.
NR 670.427 Annual renewal of the operating license.
Subchapter M — Specific Decisionmaking Procedures
NR 670.431 Pre-application public meeting and notice.
NR 670.432 Public notice requirements at the application stage.
NR 670.433 Information repository.
NR 670.504 Issuing draft standardized licenses.
NR 670.505 Issuing final standardized licenses.
NR 670.506 Eligibility for standardized licenses.
NR 670.507 Public notice requirements for standardized licenses.
NR 670.508 Public comments and requests for hearings on draft standardized licenses.
NR 670.509 Response to comments on standardized licenses.
NR 670.510 Public appeals of final standardized licenses.
Ch. NR 670 Note
Note: This chapter is similar to federal regulations contained in
40 CFR part 270, revised as of July 1, 2003.
NR 670.001
NR 670.001 Purpose and scope of subchs. A to I. NR 670.001(1)(a)(a) These license rules establish provisions for the hazardous waste facility licensing program under ch. 291.25, Stats.
NR 670.001(1)(b)
(b) The rules in this chapter cover basic department licensing requirements, such as license application requirements, standard license conditions, and monitoring and reporting requirements. These rules are part of a regulatory scheme implementing chs.
289 and
291, Stats., set forth in different parts of the Wisconsin Administrative Code. The following chart indicates where the rules implementing ch.
291, Stats., appear in the Wisconsin Administrative Code.
NR 670.001(1)(c)
(c) The hazardous waste license program has separate additional regulations that contain technical requirements. These separate regulations are used by the department to determine what requirements shall be placed in licenses if they are issued. These separate regulations are located under chs.
NR 664,
666,
667, and
668. -
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NR 670.001(2)
(2)
Overview of the hazardous waste license program. Not later than 90 days after the promulgation or revision of rules in ch.
NR 661, identifying and listing hazardous wastes, generators, and transporters of hazardous waste, and owners or operators of hazardous waste treatment, storage, or disposal facilities may be required to file a notification of that activity under s.
NR 660.07. Treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous waste by any person who has not applied for and received a hazardous waste license is prohibited. A license application consists of two parts, part A (see s.
NR 670.013) and a feasibility and plan of operation report (see s.
NR 670.014 and applicable sections in ss.
NR 670.015 to
670.029). Treatment and storage facilities (TSDs) that are otherwise subject to licensing under ch.
291, Stats., and meet the criteria in pars.
(a) or
(b) may be eligible for a standardized license under subch.
J of ch. NR 667. For existing HWM facilities, the requirements to submit a license application is satisfied by submitting only part A until the date the department sets for submitting the feasibility and plan of operation report. Part A consists of Forms 1 and 3 of the EPA Consolidated Permit Application Forms. Timely submission of both notification under s.
NR 660.07 and part A qualifies owners and operators of existing HWM facilities (who are required to have a license) for an interim license under s.
291.25, Stats. Facility owners and operators with an interim license are treated as having been issued an operating license until the department makes a final determination on the operating license application. Facility owners and operators with interim licenses shall comply with interim license standards set forth at chs.
NR 665 and
666. Facility owners and operators with interim licenses are not relieved from complying with other state requirements. For existing HWM facilities, the department shall set a date, giving at least 6 months notice, for submission of the feasibility and plan of operation report. There is no form for the feasibility and plan of operation report; rather, the report shall be submitted in narrative form and contain the information set forth in ss.
NR 670.014 to
670.029. Owners or operators of new HWM facilities shall submit the license application at least 180 days before physical construction is expected to commence.
NR 670.001(2)(a)
(a) The facility generates hazardous waste and then stores or non-thermally treats the hazardous waste on-site in tanks, containers, or containment buildings.
NR 670.001(2)(b)
(b) The facility receives hazardous waste generated off-site by a generator under the same ownership as the receiving facility, and then stores or non-thermally treats the hazardous waste in tanks, containers, or containment buildings.
NR 670.001(3)
(3)
Scope of the license requirement. Section
291.25 (2), Stats., requires a license for the operation of a treatment, storage or disposal facility where any hazardous waste identified or listed in ch.
NR 661 is managed. The terms “treatment," “storage," “
disposal" and “hazardous waste" are defined in s.
NR 660.10. Owners and operators of hazardous waste management units shall have licenses during the active life (including the closure period) of the unit. Owners and operators of surface impoundments, landfills and waste pile units that received waste after July 26, 1982, or that certified closure (according to s.
NR 665.0115) after January 26, 1983, shall have long-term care licenses, unless they demonstrate closure by removal or decontamination as provided under pars.
(e) and
(f), or obtain an enforceable document in lieu of a long-term care license, as provided under par.
(g). If a long- term care license is required, the license shall address applicable ch.
NR 664 groundwater monitoring, unsaturated zone monitoring, corrective action and long-term care requirements of this chapter. The denial of a license for the active life of a hazardous waste management facility or unit does not affect the requirement to obtain a long-term care license under this section.
NR 670.001(3)(b)
(b)
Specific exclusions. The following persons are among those who are not required to obtain a hazardous waste license:
NR 670.001(3)(b)3.
3. Persons who own or operate facilities solely for the treatment, storage or disposal of hazardous waste excluded from regulation under this chapter by s.
NR 661.0004 or
662.014, very small quantity generator exemption.
NR 670.001(3)(b)5.
5. Owners and operators of elementary neutralization units or wastewater treatment units as defined in s.
NR 660.10.
NR 670.001(3)(b)6.
6. Licensed transporters storing manifested shipments of hazardous waste in containers meeting the requirements of s.
NR 662.030 at a transfer facility for a period of 10 days or less.
NR 670.001(3)(b)7.
7. Persons adding absorbent material to waste in a container (as defined in s.
NR 660.10) and persons adding waste to absorbent material in a container, if these actions occur at the time waste is first placed in the container; and ss.
NR 664.0017 (2),
664.0171 and
664.0172 are complied with.
NR 670.001(3)(b)8.
8. Universal waste handlers and universal waste transporters (as defined in s.
NR 660.10) managing the wastes listed in subd.
8. a. to
d. These handlers are regulated under ch.
NR 673.
NR 670.001(3)(b)9.
9. Owners or operators of POTWs which accept hazardous waste for treatment, if the owners or operators comply with all of the following:
NR 670.001(3)(b)9.e.
e. Meet all federal, state and local pretreatment requirements which would be applicable to the waste if it were being discharged into the POTW through a sewer, pipe or similar conveyance.
NR 670.001(3)(b)10.
10. Owners or operators of household and very small quantity generator hazardous waste collection facilities, provided the applicable requirements of
subch. HH of ch.
NR 666 are met.
NR 670.001(3)(b)24.
24. Reverse distributors accumulating potentially creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals and evaluated hazardous waste pharmaceuticals, as defined in s.
NR 666.500. Reverse distributors are subject to regulation under subch.
P of ch. NR 666 for the accumulation of potentially creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals and evaluated hazardous waste pharmaceuticals.
NR 670.001(3)(c)1.1. A person is not required to obtain a hazardous waste
license for treatment or containment activities taken during immediate response to any of the following situations:
NR 670.001(3)(c)1.c.
c. A discharge of a material which, when discharged, becomes a hazardous waste.
NR 670.001(3)(c)1.d.
d. An immediate threat to human health, public safety, property or the environment from the known or suspected presence of military munitions, other explosive material, or an explosive device, as determined by an explosive or munitions emergency response specialist as defined in s.
NR 660.10.
NR 670.001(3)(c)2.
2. Any person who continues or initiates hazardous waste treatment or containment activities after the immediate response is over is subject to this chapter for those activities.
