Section 236.521. Minimum requirements for classes of waste

The following are minimum requirements for classes of waste and are intended to facilitate handling and provide protection of health and safety of personnel at the disposal site. The requirements are as follows:

(1) Waste shall be packaged in conformance with the conditions of the license issued to the site operator to which the waste will be shipped. If the conditions of the site license are more restrictive than this chapter, the site license conditions shall govern.

(2) Waste may not be packaged for disposal in cardboard, wooden or fiberboard boxes.

(3) Liquid waste shall be solidified.

(4) Waste that has been dewatered shall contain as little free-standing liquid as is reasonably achievable, but the liquid may not exceed 1% of the volume.

(5) Waste may not be capable of detonation or of explosive decomposition or reaction at normal pressures and temperatures, or of explosive reaction with water.

(6) Waste may not contain, or be capable of generating, quantities of toxic gases, vapors or fumes harmful to persons transporting, handling or disposing of the waste. This restriction does not apply to radioactive gaseous waste packaged under paragraph (8).

(7) Waste may not be pyrophoric. Pyrophoric materials contained in wastes shall be treated, prepared and packaged to be nonflammable.

(8) The Department will review on a case-by-case basis, requests for disposal of gaseous waste. Gaseous waste disposal is required to receive Department approval prior to disposal. Waste in gaseous form shall be packaged at a gauge pressure that does not exceed 1.5 atmospheres at 20°C. Total activity may not exceed 100 curies—3.7 TBq—per container.

(9) Waste containing hazardous, biological, pathogenic or infectious material shall be treated to reduce to the maximum extent practicable the potential hazard from the nonradiological materials.

Notation

Cross References

This section cited in 25 Pa. Code § 236.502 (relating to classes of waste); 25 Pa. Code § 236.523 (relating to stabilization of liquid waste); and 25 Pa. Code § 271.1 (relating to definitions).