A. The director shall give public notice pursuant to Title 41, Chapter 6 of the decision to formally study a waste for possible designation as a special waste pursuant to the criteria established in subsection B of this section.

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 49-854

  • Best management practices: means a method or combination of methods that is used in the treatment, storage and disposal of a special waste and that achieves the maximum practical cost effective protection of public health or the environment. See Arizona Laws 49-851
  • Director: means the director of environmental quality who is also the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 49-101
  • including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Special waste: means a solid waste as defined in Section 49-701. See Arizona Laws 49-851
  • Storage: means the holding of special waste for a period of not more than one year unless a lesser period of time is designated by the director pursuant to best management practices rules. See Arizona Laws 49-851
  • Treatment: means any method, technique or process used to change the physical, chemical or biological character of solid waste so as to render that waste safer for transport, amenable for processing, amenable for storage or reduced in volume. See Arizona Laws 49-701

B. In determining whether a waste shall be designated as a special waste, the director shall consider the potential adverse effects on public health or the environment from the treatment, storage, transportation or disposal of each waste based upon:

1. The acute and chronic toxicity for those wastes including the human or animal data for the following exposures:

(a) Aquatic.

(b) Dermal.

(c) Inhalation.

(d) Oral.

2. The carcinogenic, mutagenic or teratogenic effects of those wastes on humans or other life forms.

3. The degree to which the wastes or degradation products of those wastes are persistent or bioaccumulative in the environment.

4. Information and studies from other states and the federal government if the committee or director finds them to be derived from standard protocols.

5. Other appropriate scientific data, environmental testing or analytical data.

C. The director shall give public notice pursuant to Title 41, Chapter 6 of the decision to designate or not to designate a waste as a special waste.

D. The director shall by rule, designate a waste as a special waste and adopt best management practices concerning the special waste pursuant to section 49-855 within eighteen months after giving public notice pursuant to subsection C of this section that a waste will be designated as a special waste.

E. The designation of a waste as a special waste and the adoption of best management practices pursuant to section 49-855 shall occur in the same rule making process.