25 Pa. Code § 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.
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