Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2186 – Identification of hazardous wastes; exemptions
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2186
- Department: means the Department of Environmental Quality. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2004
- Disposal: means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any hazardous waste into or on any land or water so that such waste, or any constituent thereof, may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any waters, including ground waters. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2173
- Hazardous waste: means any waste, or combination of wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, physical, or chemical characteristics may cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness, or pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed of, or otherwise managed. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2173
- Person: means any individual, municipality, public or private corporation, partnership, firm, the United States Government, and any agent or subdivision thereof or any other juridical person, which shall include, but not be limited to, trusts, joint stock companies, associations, the state of Louisiana, political subdivisions of the state of Louisiana, commissions, and interstate bodies. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2004
- Secretary: means the secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2004
- Waste: means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, or agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges which are point sources subject to permits under La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2173
A.(1) The secretary shall develop, consistent with federal regulations, objective criteria for identifying characteristics of hazardous wastes and for listing the hazardous wastes which shall be subject to the provisions of this Chapter.
(2) The secretary shall promulgate rules and regulations for the review and determination of environmental media, such as soil, sediments, or surface or ground water, as hazardous waste. Such rules and regulations shall provide for the department to collect a fee not to exceed three thousand dollars per such review and determination.
B. Radioactive products and byproducts regulated by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission or any successor thereto shall be exempted from the provisions of this Chapter and the regulations applicable thereto. Individual homeowners and farmers who generate only small quantities of hazardous wastes and any person the department determines generates only small quantities of hazardous waste on an infrequent basis shall be exempt.
C. Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to prohibit the office of public safety services, with the approval of the secretary in accordance with regulations adopted pursuant to this Chapter, in cases of emergency, from disposing of hazardous wastes which may be explosive in nature where said disposal is necessary to relieve an imminent threat to public safety.
Acts 1979, No. 449, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1980; Acts 1983, No. 97, §1, eff. Feb. 1, 1984; Acts 1985, No. 336, §1, eff. July 9, 1985; Acts 2006, No. 778, §1.