March 17, 2014

TEXAS REGULATORS APPROVE WASTE COMMINGLING RULE

By ExchangeMonitor

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Commissioners voted unanimously yesterday to adopt a rule establishing limits of how much non-compact waste may be incidentally commingled with Texas and Vermont waste and still be disposed of at Waste Control Specialists as compact waste. The limits are separated into tiers based on waste streams by volume, radioactivity, or weight. TCEQ was required to finalize the rule under a Texas law passed in June, and the final language frees Texas and Vermont generators from a flat five percent limit that the Texas Compact Commission proposed in January 2011.

Under the rule, waste incidentally commingled from non-compact sources may not exceed: lesser of either 0.05 µCi per gram or 10 percent of Class A LLRW limit for dry active waste, nuclear utility resin, and nuclear utility filter waste; and 10 percent by volume and radioactivity for Class B and C LLRW which is either nuclear utility resin or nuclear utility filters. For waste streams not identified, the waste from other sources may not exceed 10 percent by volume, weight, radioactivity, or concentrations limits. Also, both the licensee and the processor must certify that sealed sources have not been destroyed or damaged to alter the physical form of the sealed source as part of processing.

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