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-12389-02-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 Bayer Material Science LLC, Baytown, Texas facility to reflect changes in ownership and name. </SUM> <EFFDATE> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> This rule is effective March 3, 2025. </EFFDATE> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> E'shala 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 Bayer Material Science LLC, Baytown, TX facility for the (1) Toluene diisocyanate (TDI) residue (K027) generated from the facility distillation units in Table 1, and the exclusion from hazardous waste regulations for the spent carbon generated from the wastewater treatment plant (K027), (K104), (K111) and (K112) in Table 2. The exclusion or “delisting” for the spent carbons was granted to Bayer Material Science LLC on May 16, 2006 (see 71 FR 28275), and for the TDI residue on March 12, 2009 (see 74 FR 10680). The EPA has been notified that the transfer of ownership of the Bayer Material Science, Baytown, TX facility to Covestro LLC occurred on September 1, 2015. Covestro LLC 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 Baytown, 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 March 3, 2025. The Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984 amended section 3010 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) allows 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 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: January 29, 2025.</DATED> <NAME>Helena Healy,</NAME> 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 tables 1 and 2 of Appendix IX to part 261 by removing the entries for “Bayer Material Science LLC” “Baytown, TX” and adding entries for “Covestro LLC” in alphabetical order by facility to read as follows: <HD SOURCE="HED"> Appendix IX to Part 261—Waste Excluded Under §§ 260.20 and 260.22 </HD> <GPOTABLE COLS="3" OPTS="L1,nj,p1,7/8,i1" CDEF="xs56,xs54,r200"> <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="01">Facility</ENT> <ENT>Address</ENT> <ENT>Waste description</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="22"> </ENT> <ENT I="28">*         *         *         *         *         *         *</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Covestro, LLC</ENT> <ENT>Baytown, TX</ENT> <ENT>Toluene Diisocyanate (TDI) Residue (EPA Hazardous Waste No. K027) generated at a maximum rate of 9,780 cubic yards per calendar year after March 12, 2009.</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="22"> </ENT> <ENT O="xl"/> <ENT>For the exclusion to be valid, Covestro must implement a verification testing program that meets the following Paragraphs:</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="22"> </ENT> <ENT O="oi3">All concentrations for those constituents must not exceed the maximum allowable concentrations in mg/l specified in this paragraph.</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="22"> </ENT> <ENT O="xl"/> <ENT O="oi3">TDI Residue Leachable Concentrations (mg/l): Arsenic—0.10, Barium—36.0; Chloromethane—6.06; Chromium—2.27; Cobalt—13.6; Copper—25.9; Cyanide—3.08; Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid—1.08; Diethyl phthalate—1000.0; Endrin—0.02; Lead—0.702; Nickel—13.5; ortho-dichlorobenzene—9.72; Selenium—0.89; Tin—22.5; Vanadium—0.976; Zinc—197.0; 2,4-Toluenediamine—0.0459; Toluene Diisocyanate—0.039.</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="22"> </ENT> <E T="03">Waste Holding and Handling:</E> </ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="22"> </ENT> <ENT O="xl"/> <ENT O="oi3">(A) Covestro must manage the TDI residue in a manner to ensure that the residues are offloaded safely and opportunities for chemical self-reaction and expansion are minimized. The TDI residue must be handled to ensure that contact with water is minimized.</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="22"> </ENT> <ENT O="xl"/> <ENT O="oi3">(B) Waste classification as non-hazardous cannot begin until compliance with the limits set in paragraph (1) for the TDI residue has occurred for two consecutive quarterly sampling events and the reports have been approved by EPA.</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="22"> </ENT> <ENT O="xl"/> <ENT O="oi3">(C) If constituent levels in any sample taken by Covestro exceed any of the delisting levels set in paragraph (1) for the TDI residue, Covestro must do the following:</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="22"> </ENT> <ENT O="xl"/> <ENT O="oi4">(i) Notify EPA in accordance with paragraph (6) and</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="22"> </ENT> <ENT O="xl"/> <ENT O="oi4">(ii) manage and dispose the TDI residue as hazardous waste generated under Subtitle C of RCRA.</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="22"> </ENT> <ENT O="oi3">Upon this exclusion becoming final, Covestro must perform quarterly analytical testing by sampling and analyzing the TDI residue as follows:</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="22"> </ENT> <ENT O="oi5">(i) Collect two representative composite samples of the TDI residue at quarterly intervals after EPA grants the final exclusion. The first composite samples may be taken at any time after EPA grants the final approval. Sampling should be performed in accordance with the sampling plan approved by EPA in support of the exclusion.</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="22"> </ENT> <ENT O="xl"/> <ENT O="oi5">(ii) Analyze the samples for all constituents listed in paragraph (1). Any composite sample taken that exceeds the delisting levels listed in paragraph (1) for the TDI residue must be disposed as hazardous waste in accordance with the applicable hazardous waste requirements.</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="22"> </ENT> <ENT O="xl"/> <ENT O="oi5">(iii) Within thirty (30) days after taking its first quarterly sample, Covestro will report its first quarterly analytical test data to EPA. If levels of constituent's measures in the samples of the TDI residue do not exceed the levels set forth in paragraph (1) of this exclusion for two consecutive quarters, Covestro can manage and dispose the non-hazardous TDI residue according to all applicable solid waste regulations.</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="22"> </ENT> <ENT O="oi5">(i) If Covestro competes the quarterly testing specified in paragraph (3) above and no samples contains a constituent at a level which exceeds the limits set forth in paragraph (1), Covestro can begin annual testing as follows: Covestro must test two representative composite samples of the TDI residue for all constituents listed in paragraph (1) at least once a calendar year.</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="22"> </ENT> <ENT O="xl"/> <ENT O="oi5">(ii) The samples for the annual testing shall be a representative composite sample according to 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, 1010B, 1020C, 1110A, 1310B, 1311, 1312, 1320, 1330A, 9010C, 9012B, 9040C, 9045D, 9060A, 9070A (uses EPA Method 1664, Rev. A), 9071B, and 9095B. Methods must meet Performance Based Measurement System Criteria in which the Data Quality Objectives are to demonstrate that samples of the Covestro spent carbon are representative for all constituents listed in paragraph (1).</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="22"> </ENT> <ENT O="xl"/> <ENT O="oi5">(iii) The samples for the annual testing taken for ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 30k characters. 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