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Date: June 11, 2003
To: All Local Enforcement Agencies
This all LEA E-mail was sent on
behalf of the LEA Support Services Branch of the California Integrated Waste
Management Board (CIWMB) and Brian Larimore of the Waste Prevention and Market
Development Division.
Staff of the CIWMB will conduct
a workshop on the draft conversion technology
regulations. The workshop is open to all interested parties
and is free of charge. It is scheduled
for August 1 in Sacramento. The
workshop will commence at 10:00 a.m. and provide participants with the
opportunity to review, discuss, and comment on the draft conversion technology
regulations.
CIWMB
staff will revise the regulations based on workshop participant comments. Formal notice of the rulemaking is scheduled
for Fall 2003.
The following summarizes the
main concepts of the draft regulations:
- Apply to conversion technology facilities [i.e., facilities
using catalytic cracking, distillation, gasification, hydrolysis, and
pyrolysis];
- Do not apply to activities using biomass conversion,
composting, anaerobic digestion, or incineration;
- Establish permit tiers that are the same for conversion
technology operations and facilities as for transfer/processing operations and
facilities;
- Require conversion technology facilities to comply with the
same state minimum standards as transfer/processing facilities [See
transfer/processing regulations attachment];
- Exempt from regulation facilities that meet the “3-part
test” regarding source separation, residuals, and putrescibles [The “3-part
test” is found in the transfer/processing regulations attachment under section
17402.5(d)];
- Exempt from regulation conversion technology operations and
facilities that might be considered as “manufacturers” if they meet the 3-part
test;
- Exclude very small conversion technology activities
conducted in a closed environment;
- Do not require a permit for very small conversion
technology research operations (must meet Enforcement Agency Notification
requirements instead);
- Require a conversion technology research operation (i.e.,
receives less than 15 tpd) to meet the Enforcement Agency Notification
requirements; and
- Create a full solid waste facility permit entitled
“Conversion Technology Facility Permit.”
The August 1 workshop in
Sacramento will be held in the Sierra Hearing Room on the 2nd Floor
of the Cal/EPA building, 1001 I Street.
Workshop reservations should
be made by phone or e-mail to:
Brian
Larimore
Waste
Prevention and Market Development Division
California
Integrated Waste Management Board
1001
I St., P.O. Box 4025
Sacramento,
CA 95812
Phone:
(916) 341-6579 Fax: (916) 319-7540
Thank you,
Melissa Hoover-Hartwick
LEA Support Services
(916) 341-6813
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