TCEQ Municipal Solid Waste Update

							TCEQ Municipal Solid
Waste Update
Richard C. Carmichael, Ph.D., P.E.
Manager, Municipal Solid Waste Permits Section
512-239-2334
Chapter 330 Revisions

   Updated the entire Chapter 330 Rules

   Rules had not been completely revised
    for >10 years
Applicability, §330.1

   New Chapter 330 effective March 27, 2006

    – Several staged implementation times
Up-Dates


   Site Operating Plans (SOPs) for
    – Landfills
    – Type V Facilities
    – AE Landfills
SOP Up-Dates

   Type I (municipal) landfills – completed

   Type IV (C&D) landfills ~90% complete

   Type V (transfer/processing) facilities
    ~80% complete
SOP Up-Dates

   Regional offices given a list of Type IV
    and Type V facilities that have not
    responded.

   Arid Exempt Landfills are next.
    Timeline undetermined at this point.
Changes

   Drainage During All Phases

   Analytical Data Reporting

   20 + 20 - come & gone

   URLs
Subchapter G
Drainage During All Phases
   Top Dome Surfaces and External
    Embankment

   Drainage Guidance Document Available on
    MSW website:
    – http://www.tceq.state.tx.us/permitting/waste_permits/ms
      w_permits/msw_ris_guid.html

   Submittal Schedule
    Modifications received in March 2007.
    Most Commercial Landfills in-house
Subchapter J
Groundwater Monitoring Wells
   Submit by March 27, 2008

   Presumptive Spacing of 600 feet

   Most Submittals in-house

   MSW Permits proposing guidelines

   Received Stakeholder comments
Subchapter J
Analytical Data Reporting
   Active/Inactive/Closed landfills
    – Submit a permit modification to revise
      any inconsistent permit provisions by
      3/27/08.

    – Reestablishing background groundwater
      constituent concentrations.
          Original target date was 3/27/08.
General Data Reporting
Requirements
   Operator uses NELAC accredited Laboratory.
    – After June 30, 2008 all Environmental Data
      submitted to TCEQ must be from NELAC
      Accredited Laboratory

   NELAC requires laboratory to report information
    way client wants.
Standard Report for
Groundwater Data
   Facilities may
    – submit a laboratory case narrative and a
      laboratory checklist

    or

    – a copy of the laboratory QA/QC and analytical
      data.
HB 2541 – Rep. Leibowitz
SB 1280 – Van de Putte
   TCEQ can use state MSW superfund to
    remediate or respond to fire or other
    emergencies involving solid waste,
    recycling, or composting.
HB 2541 – Bexar County
   Requires:
    – recyclers to recycle or transfer half of the material
      received every six months.
    – additional levels of facility authorization based on the
      volume of recyclable materials received.
    – fire lanes and buffer zones.

   Limits facility – width, length, & height of material

   Puts limits on Recycling and other MSW facilities
    located over the Edwards Aquifer.
CHAPTER 305/330
REVISIONS
   Adoption scheduled for May 2008

   Revisions allow submittal of a limited application for
    certain substantive changes to an MSW permit.

   Applications limited to the requested change and
    related materials.

   Rulemaking also requires posting of signs for new
    permits and major amendments and increase the
    distance requirement for providing mailed notice to
    ¼ mile.
Contaminant Standards for
Alternative Daily Cover
   Proposal Agenda:                 June 4, 2008

   Close of Comments:               July 21, 2008

   Adoption Date:                   Nov 2008



   Will consider revisiting the total petroleum hydrocarbon limit for
    contaminated soils and solid waste regulated by the Railroad
    Commission of Texas to establish a health-based limit on these
    wastes when used at an alternative daily cover in a Type I MSW
    landfill.
Questions?