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LDR Rules and Regulations 1998
Date: Sept. 24, 1998Citation: 63 FR 51254
Subject: LDR, Treatment Standards for Spent Aluminum Potliners (K088)(PDF) (14 pp, 131K, About PDF), Final Rule
Abstract: This rule promulgates revised treatment standards for spent aluminum potliners (K088). This action is being taken in response to a Court decision on April 3, 1998, on the Phase III K088 treatment standards. The Court vacated all the Phase III K088 treatment standards. This rule promulgates interim replacement standards.
Date: Sept. 4, 1998
Citation: 63 FR 47410
Subject: LDR,
Phase III--Emergency Revision of Treatment Standards for
Listed Hazardous Wastes from Carbamate Production (PDF) (9 pp, 71 K),
Final Rule
Abstract: This rule revises sets final alternative carbamate treatment
standards for seven hazardous specific carbamate wastes for which there
are no analytical standards. These carbamate wastes may be treated to
meet the concentration limits set as the treatment standards or may be
treated by the technology used as the basis for the concentration limits.
The rule also deletes the treatment standard for one additional constituent
for which available analytical methods have not been shown to achieve
reliable measurements. These eight constituents are being removed from
the Universal Treatment Standard list. The rule clarifies that the numerical
treatment limits apply to the remaining 32 carbamate wastes.
Date: Aug. 31, 1998
Citation: 63 FR 46332
Subject: LDR,
Hazardous Waste Recycling, Zinc Micronutrient Fertilizer (PDF) (14 pp, 371K, About PDF),
Final Rule
Abstract: This rule amends the Phase IV rule (63 FR 28556) for
zinc micronutrient fertilizers produced from toxicity characteristic wastes.
Rather than being subject to the treatment standards promulgated in the
Phase IV rule, the fertilizers affected by this amendment remain subject
to the treatment standards for toxic metals in place prior to Phase IV.
Date: Aug. 6, 1998
Citation: 63 FR 42110
Subject: Identification and Listing of
New Petroleum Refining Wastes, Final Rule - Part
One (PDF) (8 pp, 147K, About PDF); Part
Two (PDF) (14 pp, 371K, About PDF)
Abstract: This final rule adds four wastes generated from petroleum
refining to the list of hazardous wastes. The rule also deems 10 other
petroleum refining wastes non-hazardous. LDR treatment standards apply
to the four newly listed wastes.
Date: Aug. 4, 1998
Citation: 63 FR 41536
Subject: LDR
Phase III--Spent Potliners from Primary Aluminum Reduction
(K088)(PDF) (3 pp, 153K, About PDF), Notice Of Data Availability
Abstract: This notice presents data on the treatment of arsenic
in K088.
Date: June 9, 1998
Citation: 63 FR 31463
Subject: Hazardous
Waste Land Disposal Restrictions: Notice of Public Meeting
Abstract: The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Office of Solid Waste, OSW (renamed Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery, ORCR, on January 18, 2009) will hold a public roundtable discussion on the Agency's
efforts to evaluate important aspects of and potentially improve the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Land Disposal Restrictions (LDR)
Program. The purpose of the roundtable is to enable individuals who have
substantial experience in implementing the LDR Program to offer their
own evaluations and suggestions on possible improvements to the program.
EPA's overall goal in the LDR reinvention project is to examine the best
way to ensure the program is environmentally protective, less expensive,
more efficient and flexible, clearer to the public, and more enforceable.
The public is welcome to observe the discussions among participants and
will be afforded some opportunities to express their views. However, this
meeting is not intended to be a full public hearing.
Date: June 8, 1998
Citation: 63 FR 31266
Subject: Phase
IV (PDF) (3 pp, 154K, About PDF), Correction
Abstract: This technical correction amends wording in the appendix
of the final rule of Phase IV, released on May 26, 1998.
Date: May 26, 1998
Citation: 63 FR 28556
Subject: LDR,
Phase IV–Treatment Standards for Metal Wastes and
Mineral Processing Wastes; Mineral Processing Secondary
Materials and Bevill Exclusion Issues; Treatment Standards
for Hazardous Soils, and Exclusion of Recycled Wood Preserving
Wastewaters; Final Rule
(See also Soil
Treatment Standards)
Abstract: This final rule promulgates
LDR treatment standards and effective dates for metal
bearing-wastes, including those generated by mineral processing
operations. The rule revises 12 metal Universal Treatment
Standard constituents. The rule also defines which secondary
materials from mineral processing are considered to be
wastes and potentially subject to the LDRs. In addition,
the rule sets alternative standards for contaminated soil.
The rule also excludes shredded circuit boards used in
recycling operations as well as specific wood preserving
wastewaters from the definition of solid wastes.
Date: February 10, 1998
Citation: na
Subject: Information
Collection Request for the Land Disposal Restrictions
Surface Impoundment Study (See also ICR
Background Information)
Abstract: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) is conducting a study of facilities which manage
industrial waste in surface impoundments. Part of the
study is mandated by Congress under the 1996 Land Disposal
Program Flexibility Act. Congress asked EPA to characterize
risks posed by managing wastewaters in surface impoundments
that are regulated under the Clean Water Act, and to determine
whether existing regulations adequately address risks
that may be present. The scope of the study covers industrial
wastewaters. The study does not, however, cover wastewaters
that are classified as hazardous wastes under the federal
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). EPA will
characterize the population of nonhazardous waste surface
impoundments in the United States and estimate the potential
human health and ecological risks from chemical releases
from nonhazardous surface impoundments. EPA will use mathematical
models to represent the transport of chemicals from entry
into surface impoundments to their uptake by a human or
ecological receptor. While the models are simplified representations
of the complex biological, chemical and physical processes
occurring in the impoundments and the environment, the
models require considerable data.