This Section sets forth the information that must be
evaluated by the Agency in authorizing a Class I hazardous waste injection
well. For a new Class I hazardous waste injection well, the owner or operator
must submit all the information listed below as part of the permit application.
For an existing or converted Class I hazardous waste injection well, the owner
or operator must submit all information listed below as part of the permit
application except for those items of information that are current, accurate,
and available in the existing permit file. For either an existing or a new
Class I hazardous waste injection well, certain maps, cross-sections,
tabulations of wells within the area of review, and other data may be included
in the application by reference, provided they are current, readily available
to the Agency (for example, in the permitting Agency's file), and sufficiently
identifiable to be retrieved.
a)
Before issuing a permit for an existing Class I hazardous waste injection well
to operate, or the construction or conversion of a new Class I hazardous waste
injection well, the Agency must review the following to assure that the
requirements of this Part and 35 Ill. Adm. Code
702 and
704 are met:
1) Information required in 35 Ill. Adm. Code
704.161;
2) A map showing the injection well for which
a permit is sought and the applicable area of review. Within the area of
review, the map must show the number or name and location of all producing
wells, injection wells, abandoned wells, dry holes, surface bodies of water,
springs, mines (surface and subsurface), quarries, water wells, and other
pertinent surface features, including residences and roads. The map must also
show faults, if known or suspected;
3) A tabulation of all wells within the area
of review that penetrate the proposed injection zone or confining zone. Such
data must include a description of each well's type, construction, date
drilled, location, depth, record of plugging or completion, and any additional
information the Agency may require;
4) The protocol followed to identify, locate
and ascertain the condition of abandoned wells within the area of review that
penetrate the injection or the confining zones;
5) Maps and cross-sections indicating the
general vertical and lateral limits of all underground sources of drinking
water within the area of review, their position relative to the injection
formation, and the direction of water movement, where known, in each
underground source of drinking water that may be affected by the proposed
injection;
6) Maps and
cross-sections detailing the geologic structure of the local area;
7) Maps and cross-sections illustrating the
regional geologic setting;
8)
Proposed operating data, as follows:
A) The
average and maximum daily rate and volume of the fluid to be injected;
and
B) The average and maximum
injection pressure;
9)
The proposed formation testing program to obtain an analysis of the chemical,
physical, and radiological characteristics of and other information on the
injection formation and the confining zone;
10) The proposed stimulation
program;
11) The proposed injection
procedure;
12) Schematic or other
appropriate drawings of the surface and subsurface construction details of the
well;
13) The contingency plan to
cope with all shut-ins or well failures so as to prevent migration of fluids
into any USDW;
14) The plans
(including maps) for meeting monitoring requirements of Section
730.168;
15) For wells within the area of review that
penetrate the injection zone or the confining zone but are not properly
completed or plugged, the corrective action to be taken pursuant to Section
730.164;
16) The construction procedures including a
cementing and casing program, well materials specification and their life
expectancy; logging procedures; deviation checks; and a drilling, testing, and
coring program; and
17) A
demonstration, pursuant to Subpart G of 35 Ill. Adm. Code
704, that the
applicant has the resources necessary to close, plug, or abandon the well and
for post-closure care.
b) Before the Agency grants approval for the
operation of a Class I hazardous waste injection well, the owner or operator
must submit, and the Agency must review, the following information, which must
be included in the completion report:
1) All
available logging and testing program data on the well;
2) A demonstration of mechanical integrity
pursuant to Section 730.168;
3) The
anticipated maximum pressure and flow rate at which the permittee will
operate;
4) The results of the
injection zone and confining zone testing program as required in Section
730.170(a)(9);
5) The actual
injection procedure;
6) The
compatibility of injected waste with fluids in the injection zone and minerals
in both the injection zone and the confining zone and with the materials used
to construct the well;
7) The
calculated area of review based on data obtained during logging and testing of
the well and the formation and, where necessary, revisions to the information
submitted pursuant to Section 730.170(a)(2) and (a)(3); and
8) The status of corrective action on wells
identified in Section 730.170(a)(15).
c) Prior to granting approval for the
plugging and abandonment (i.e., closure) of a Class I hazardous waste injection
well, the Agency must review the information required in Sections
730.171(a)(4)
and
730.172(a).
d) Any permit issued for a Class I hazardous
waste injection well for disposal on the premises where the waste is generated
must contain a certification by the owner or operator that the following facts
are true:
1) The generator of the hazardous
waste has a program to reduce the volume or quantity and toxicity of such waste
to the degree determined by the generator to be economically practicable;
and
2) Injection of the waste is
that practicable method of disposal currently available to the generator that
minimizes the present and future threat to human health and the
environment.
