30 Tex. Admin. Code § 335.503 - Waste Classification and Waste Coding Required
(a) All industrial solid and municipal
hazardous waste generated, stored, processed, transported, or disposed of in
the state shall be classified according to the provisions of this subchapter.
(1) All solid waste shall be classified at
the point of generation of the waste. A generator may not dilute a waste to
avoid a Class 1 classification; however, combining nonhazardous waste streams
for subsequent legitimate processing, storage, or disposal does not constitute
dilution and is acceptable. Wastes shall be classified prior to, and following
any type of processing or mixing of the waste. Hazardous waste and industrial
solid waste are subject to the waste management requirements of this
chapter.
(2) All industrial solid
and municipal hazardous waste shall be classified as either:
(A) hazardous;
(B) Class 1;
(C) Class 2; or
(D) Class 3.
(3) A person who generates a solid waste
shall first determine if that waste is hazardous pursuant to §
335.504
of this title (relating to Hazardous Waste Determination).
(4) After making the hazardous waste
determination as required in paragraph (3) of this subsection, if the waste is
determined to be nonhazardous, the generator shall then classify the waste as
Class 1, Class 2, or Class 3, pursuant to §§
335.505-
335.507
of this title (relating to Class 1 Waste Determination, Class 2 Waste
Determination, and Class 3 Waste Determination) using one or more of the
following methods:
(B) use process
knowledge as provided in §
335.511
of this title (relating to Use of Process Knowledge);
(C) classify the waste as directed under
§
335.508
of this title (relating to Classification of Specific Industrial Wastes);
or
(D) choose to classify a
nonhazardous waste as Class 1 without any analysis to support that
classification. However, documentation (analytical data and/or process
knowledge) is necessary to classify a waste as Class 2 or Class 3, pursuant to
§
335.513 of
this title (relating to Documentation Required).
(b) All industrial solid waste and municipal
hazardous waste generated, stored, processed, transported or disposed of in the
state shall be coded with an eight-digit waste code number that consists of a
four-character sequence number followed by a three-digit form code provided in
§
335.521(c)
of this title (relating to Appendix 3) followed by one-character, H, 1, 2, or
3, depicting the waste classification identified in subsection (a)(2) of this
section. Procedures for assigning sequence numbers are outlined as follows.
(1) The four-character sequence number
consists of alpha and/or numeric characters.
(2) Registered generators must assign a
unique numeric sequence number between 0001 to 9999 to each individual waste.
Sequence numbers need not be assigned in sequential order.
(3) The executive director will provide
unregistered generators a sequence number for each regulated waste it
generates, which may be a combination of alpha and numeric
characters.
(4) Generators of
wastes resulting from a spill may obtain a sequence number for the spill
related wastes from the agency's Emergency Response Section.
(5) Out-of-state generators must use the
sequence number "OUTS" as the first four characters of the waste
code.
(6) A generator that meets
the conditions of an applicable exemption from manifesting requirements that
manifests their hazardous and/or Class 1 nonhazardous waste must use the
sequence number "VSQG" as the first four characters of the waste
code.
(7) A facility which receives
and consolidates like waste from a person who meets the conditions for
exemption for a very small quantity generator and generated less than 100
kilograms of non-acute hazardous waste, 1 kilogram of acute hazardous waste,
and 100 kilograms of Class 1 industrial waste in the calendar month during
which the waste was generated must use the sequence number "VSQG" as the first
four characters of the waste code for any manifesting and/or reporting
associated with that waste.
(8) A
facility which receives a waste from off-site and consolidates that waste with
other like waste received from off-site, other than its own (thus not changing
the form code of the waste stream or its composition, hazardous waste
classification, or Texas waste class), or stores a waste without treating,
processing (as defined in §
335.1 of
this title (relating to Definitions), and without changing the form or
composition of that waste may use the sequence number "TSDF" as the first four
characters of the waste code. The sequence number TSDF may not be used to
identify wastes which are treated or altered or combined with unlike wastes.
The sequence number TSDF is only to be used by facilities that store and/or
accumulate a quantity of wastes from more than one site for subsequent shipment
to a treatment or disposal facility.
(9) A healthcare facility shipping
non-creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals to a designated facility must
use the sequence number "PHRM" as the first four characters of the waste
code.
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