Hazardous Waste Management System; Identification and Listing of Hazardous Waste

<RULE> ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY <CFR>40 CFR Part 261</CFR> <DEPDOC>[EPA-R06-RCRA-2024; FRL-11997-01-R6]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Hazardous Waste Management System; Identification and Listing of Hazardous Waste</SUBJECT> <HD SOURCE="HED">AGENCY:</HD> Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). <HD SOURCE="HED">ACTION:</HD> Final rule; amendment. <SUM> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUMMARY:</HD> The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is amending an exclusion for Shell Oil Company, Deer Park, Texas facility to reflect changes in ownership and name. </SUM> <EFFDATE> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> This rule is effective June 7, 2024. </EFFDATE> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Eshala Dixon, RCRA Permits & Solid Waste Section (LCR-RP), Land, Chemicals and Redevelopment Division, EPA Region 6, 1201 Elm Street, Suite 500, Dallas, TX 75270, phone number: 214-665-6592; email address: <E T="03">dixon.eshala@epa.gov.</E> </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> In this document EPA is amending appendix IX to part 261 to reflect a change in the ownership and name of a particular facility. This action documents the transfer of ownership and name change by updating appendix IX to incorporate the change in owner's name for the Shell Oil Company, Deer Park, TX facility for the exclusion from hazardous waste regulations for the Multi-source (F039) landfill leachate. The exclusion or “delisting” was granted to Shell Oil Company on August 23, 2005 (see 70 FR 49187). The EPA has been notified that the transfer of ownership of the Shell Oil Company, Deer Park, TX facility to Deer Park Refining Limited Partnership (DPRLP) occurred on March 20, 2022. DPLRP has certified that it plans to comply with all the terms and conditions set forth in the delisting and will not change the characteristics of the wastes subject to the exclusion at the Deer Park, TX facility. This action documents the change by updating appendix IX to incorporate a change in name. The changes to appendix IX to part 261 are effective June 7, 2024. The Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984 amended section 3010 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) to allow rules to become effective in less than six months when the regulated community does not need the six-month period to come into compliance. As described above, the facility has certified that it is prepared to comply with the requirements of the exclusion. Therefore, a six-month delay in the effective date is not necessary in this case. This provides the basis for making this amendment effective immediately upon publication under the Administrative Procedures Act pursuant to 5 United States Code (U.S.C.) 553(d). The EPA has determined that having a proposed rulemaking and public comment on this change is unnecessary, as it involves only a change in company ownership, with all of the same delisting requirements remaining in effect. <LSTSUB> <HD SOURCE="HED">List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 261</HD> Environmental protection, Hazardous waste, Recycling, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements. </LSTSUB> <SIG> <DATED>Dated: May 29, 2024.</DATED> <NAME>Melissa Smith,</NAME> Acting Director, Land, Chemicals and Redevelopment Division, Region 6. </SIG> For the reasons set out in the preamble, 40 CFR part 261 is amended as follows: <HD SOURCE="HED">PART 261—IDENTIFICATION AND LISTING OF HAZARDOUS WASTE</HD> <REGTEXT TITLE="40" PART="261"> 1. The authority citation for part 261 continues to read as follows: <HD SOURCE="HED">Authority: </HD> 42 U.S.C. 6905, 6912(a), 6921, 6922, 6924(y) and 6938. </REGTEXT> <REGTEXT TITLE="40" PART="261"> 2. Amend table 1 of Appendix IX to part 261 by removing the second entry for “Shell Oil Company” “Deer Park, TX” and adding an entry for “Deer Park Refining Limited Partnership (DPRLP)” in alphabetical order by facility to read as follows: <HD SOURCE="HD1">Appendix IX to Part 261—Waste Excluded Under §§ 260.20 and 260.22</HD> <EXTRACT> <GPOTABLE COLS="3" OPTS="L1,nj,p1,8/9,i1" CDEF="s50,r30,r150"> <TTITLE>Table 1—Wastes Excluded From Non-Specific Sources</TTITLE> <CHED H="1"> </CHED> <CHED H="1"> </CHED> <CHED H="1"> </CHED> <ROW> <ENT I="22"> </ENT> </ROW> <ROW RUL="s"> <ENT I="28">*         *         *         *         *         *         *</ENT> </ROW> <ROW RUL="s"> <ENT I="25">Facility</ENT> <ENT>Address</ENT> <ENT>Waste description</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="22"> </ENT> <ENT I="28">*         *         *         *         *         *         *</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Deer Park Refining Limited Partnership (DPRLP)</ENT> <ENT>Deer Park, TX</ENT> <ENT>Multi-source landfill leachate (EPA Hazardous Waste No. F039) generated at a maximum annual rate of 3.36 million gallons (16,619 cu. yards) per calendar year after August 23, 2005 and disposed in accordance with the TPDES permit.</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="22"> </ENT> <ENT O="xl"/> <ENT>The delisting levels set do not relieve DPRLP of its duty to comply with the limits set in its TPDES permit. For the exclusion to be valid, DPRLP must implement a verification testing program that meets the following paragraphs:</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="22"> </ENT> <ENT O="xl"/> <ENT>(1) Delisting Levels: All total concentrations for those constituents must not exceed the following levels (mg/l). The petitioner must analyze the aqueous waste on a total basis to measure constituents in the multi-source landfill leachate.</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="22"> </ENT> <ENT O="xl"/> <ENT>Multi-source landfill leachate (i) Inorganic Constituents Antimony-0.0204; Arsenic-0.385; Barium-2.92; Copper-418.00; Chromium-5.0; Cobalt-2.25; Nickel-1.13; Selenium-0.0863; Thallium-0.005; Vanadium-0.838</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="22"> </ENT> <ENT O="xl"/> <ENT>(ii) Organic Constituents Acetone-1.46; Acetophenone-1.58; Benzene-0.0222; p-Cresol-0.0788; Bis(2-ethylhexyl)phthlate-15800.00; Dichloroethane, 1,2-0.0803; Ethylbenzene-4.51; Fluorene-1.87; Napthalene-1.05; Phenol-9.46; Phenanthrene-1.36; Pyridine-0.0146; 2,3,7,8-TCDD equivalents as TEQ-0.0000926; Toluene-4.43; Trichloropropane-0.000574; Xylenes (total)-97.60</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="22"> </ENT> <ENT O="xl"/> <ENT>(2) Waste Management:</ENT> <ENT>(A) DPRLP must manage as hazardous all multi-source landfill leachate generated, until it has completed initial verification testing described in paragraph (3)(A) and (B), as appropriate, and valid analyses show that paragraph (1) is satisfied.</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="22"> </ENT> <ENT O="xl"/> <ENT>(B) Levels of constituents measured in the samples of the multi-source landfill leachate that do not exceed the levels set forth in paragraph (1) are non-hazardous. DPRLP can manage and dispose of the non-hazardous multi-source landfill leachate according to all applicable solid waste regulations.</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="22"> </ENT> <ENT O="xl"/> <ENT>(C) If constituent levels in a sample exceed any of the delisting levels set in paragraph (1), DPRLP can collect one additional sample and perform expedited analyses to verify if the constituent exceeds the delisting level. If this sample confirms the exceedance, DPRLP must, from that point forward, treat the waste as hazardous until it is demonstrated that the waste again meets the levels in paragraph (1).</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="22"> </ENT> <ENT O="xl"/> <ENT>(D) If the facility has not treated the waste, DPRLP must manage and dispose of the waste generated under Subtitle C of RCRA from the time that it becomes aware of any exceedance</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="22"> </ENT> <ENT O="xl"/> <ENT>(E) Upon completion of the Verification Testing described in paragraph 3(A) and (B) as appropriate and the transmittal of the results to EPA, and if the testing results meet the requirements of paragraph (1), DPRLP may proceed to manage its multi-source landfill leachate as non-hazardous waste. If Subsequent Verification Testing indicates an exceedance of the delisting levels in paragraph (1), DPRLP must manage the multi-source landfill leachate as a hazardous waste until two consecutive quarterly testing samples show levels below the delisting levels in Table I.</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="22"> </ENT> <ENT O="xl"/> <ENT>(3) Verification Testing Requirements: DPRLP must perform sample collection and analyses, including quality control procedures, using appropriate methods. As applicable to the method-defined parameters of concern, analyses requiring the use of SW-846 methods incorporated by reference in 40 CFR 260.11 must be used without substitution. As applicable, the SW-846 methods might include Methods 0010, 0011, 0020, 0023A, 0030, 0031, 0040, 0050, 0051, 0060, 0061, 1010A, 1020B, 1110A, 1310B, 1311, 1312, 1320, 1330A, 9010C, 9012B, 9040C, 9045D, 9060A, 9070A (uses EPA Method 1664, Rev. A), 9071B, and 9095B. Methods used must meet Performance Based Measurement System Criteria in which the Data Quality Objectives demonstrate that representative samples of the DPRLP multi-source landfill leachate are collected and meet the delisting levels in paragraph (1).</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="22"> </ENT> <ENT O="xl"/> <ENT>(A) Initial Verification Testing: After EPA grants the final exclusion, DPRLP must do the following:</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="22"> </ENT> <ENT O="xl"/> <ENT>(i) Within 60 days of this exclusions becoming final, collect four samples, before disposal, of the multi-source landfill leachate.</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="22"> </ENT> <ENT O="xl"/> <ENT>(ii) The samples are to be analyzed and compared against the delisting levels in paragraph (1).</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="22"> </ENT> <ENT O="xl"/> <ENT>(iii) Within sixty (60) days after this exclusion becomes final, DPRLP will report initial verification analytical test data for the multi-source landfill leachate, including analytical ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 19k characters. 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