SECTION 312.2. Applicability

(a) This chapter applies to any person who prepares sewage sludge, biosolids, or domestic septage.

(b) This chapter applies to any person who fires sewage sludge or biosolids in an incinerator.

(c) This chapter applies to any person who land applies sewage sludge, biosolids, water treatment residuals, or domestic septage and to the owner/operator of a surface disposal site.

(d) This chapter applies to sewage sludge, biosolids, water treatment residuals, or domestic septage that is land applied or placed on a surface disposal site.

(e) This chapter applies to sewage sludge or biosolids fired in an incinerator.

(f) This chapter applies to land where sewage sludge, biosolids, water treatment residuals, or domestic septage is applied to a surface disposal site and to an incinerator.

(g) This chapter applies to any person who transports sewage sludge, biosolids, water treatment residuals, domestic septage, chemical toilet waste, grit trap waste, or grease trap waste. This chapter does not apply to oily water mixtures in waste management units such as tanks, fractionation tanks, and sumps that meet the design requirements of the American Petroleum Institute for oil/water separators or have been designed for oil-water separation. Recycling of oil-water mixtures from the waste management units designed for oil-water separation must comply with the requirements found in Chapter 324 of this title (relating to Used Oil Standards). Waste in waste management units that do not meet the design criteria in this subsection and that are plumbed directly to a sanitary sewer are covered by this chapter.

(h) This chapter applies to the exit gas from an incinerator stack.

(i) This chapter applies to any person who applies water treatment residuals for disposal in a landfill, surface impoundment, or waste pile, as defined in 40 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) §257.2.

(j) This chapter applies to any person who applies water treatment residuals for disposal in a land application unit, as defined in §312.121 of this title (relating to Purpose, Scope, and Standards).

(k) This chapter applies to water treatment residuals which are disposed of in a landfill, surface impoundment, or waste pile, as defined in 40 CFR §257.2.

(l) This chapter applies to water treatment residuals which are disposed of in a land application unit, as defined in §312.121 of this title.

Source Note: The provisions of this §312.2 adopted to be effective October 13, 1995, 20 TexReg 7840; amended to be effective October 2, 2003, 28 TexReg 8346; amended to be effective April 23, 2020, 45 TexReg 2542