§ 20690. CIWMB--Alternative Daily Cover. [T14: § 17682, § 17258.21(b)]
27 CA ADC § 20690Barclays Official California Code of Regulations
Barclays California Code of Regulations
Title 27. Environmental Protection
Division 2. Solid Waste (Refs & Annos)
Subdivision 1. Consolidated Regulations for Treatment, Storage, Processing or Disposal of Solid Waste
Chapter 3. Criteria for All Waste Management Units, Facilities, and Disposal Sites
Subchapter 4. Criteria for Landfills and Disposal Sites (Refs & Annos)
Article 2. Alternative Daily Cover Material and Beneficial Reuse
27 CCR § 20690
§ 20690. CIWMB--Alternative Daily Cover. [T14: § 17682, § 17258.21(b)]
(1) Alternative materials of alternative thickness for daily cover (other than at least six inches of earthen material) for municipal solid waste landfill units may be approved by the EA with concurrence by the Department, if the owner or operator demonstrates that the alternative material and thickness control vectors, fires, odors, blowing litter, and scavenging without presenting a threat to human health and the environment.
(2) Alternative daily cover alone, or in combination with compacted earthen material, shall be placed over the entire working face at the end of each operating day or at more frequent intervals to control vectors, fires, odors, blowing litter, and scavenging without presenting a threat to human health and the environment. For the purposes of this section, the operating day shall be defined as the hours of operation specified in the solid waste facility permit, and may extend for more than 24 hours if operations are continuous. Waste-derived alternative daily cover shall be processed prior to spreading and compacting on the working face and applied and compacted to ensure that all exposed waste is completely covered by ADC and that there are no open voids within the cover material or in contact with the underlying wastes. Waste materials used as ADC that already meet the grain-size specifications of these regulations, or an alternative grain size approved by the EA and Department pursuant to this section, need not be processed if the EA determines that the material as received at the landfill is adequate to perform the functions of daily cover and meets the appropriate specifications.
(3) Should the application of alternative daily cover become impracticable or contribute to conditions hazardous to public health and safety and the environment, the owner or operator shall terminate such use and revert to the use of compacted earthen cover material in accordance with section 20680. For the purposes of this section, impracticable conditions are those which make placement of alternative daily cover difficult due to adverse climatic or other conditions such that the performance requirements of (a)(2) cannot be met.
(4) The owner or operator shall place compacted earthen material over the entire working face at the end of any operating day preceding a period of time greater than 24 hours when the facility is closed, unless procedures as required by the EA are in place to ensure that the requirements of (a)(2) and (a)(3) are met. A stockpile of earthen cover material and required equipment shall be available to ensure a corrective response to violation of (a)(2) and (a)(3). Whenever an EA determines that an application of ADC is not meeting the requirements of this standard, the EA may direct the operator to immediately cover the ADC with soil. The continuing use of ADC that has been determined by the EA as not meeting the requirements of this section may become the basis for the EA to take enforcement action to seek compliance with the requirements of this section.
(5) The owner or operator shall maintain a record of waste derived alternative daily cover in accordance with Title 14, California Code of Regulations, Division 7, Chapter 9, Article 9.25, Section 18815.1 et seq. The records shall be available for inspection by authorized representatives of the EA, the local health agency, and the Department during normal business hours and retained in the operating record near the site or in an alternative location approved by the EA.
(7) Waste derived materials used as alternative daily cover shall be restricted to quantities no more than necessary to meet the performance requirements of (a)(2), or as specified in subdivision (b) of this section. Should the Department determine after consulting with the EA that an owner or operator violated this standard, the owner or operator shall revise the applicable reports to reflect the overuse as disposal, and pay the required California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (CDTFA) disposal tipping fees for the amount of overuse. EAs shall not be responsible for making such determinations.
(8) Compost, co-compost, and chemically fixed sewage sludge and water treatment sludge only, that meet the performance standards for cover material, shall be limited to up to 25 percent of landfill cover materials or landfill cover extenders as required under Public Resources Code (PRC) section 42245. For the purposes of this section, “chemically fixed sewage sludge” means solid and semisolid residue generated during the treatment of domestic sewage. The 25 percent limit shall apply on a quarterly basis to the total daily and intermediate cover or cover extender use. For the purposes of this section, landfill cover extenders shall mean compost, co-compost, or chemically fixed sewage sludge blended or mixed with soil.
(10) The EA shall apply this section to disposal facilities other than municipal solid waste landfill units as necessary to control vectors, fires, odors, blowing litter, scavenging, and nuisances without presenting a threat to human health and the environment. This requirement shall also apply to municipal solid waste landfills which qualify for a delay in the general compliance date or additional flexibility as specified in 40 CFR Part 258.
(11) The owner or operator shall implement a program described in the Report of Disposal Site Information as required by section 21600(b)(6) to minimize contamination of alternative daily cover with wastes not included within the individual alternative daily cover material types specified in subdivision (b) of this section and wastes that would conflict with the performance requirements of (a)(2).
All types of ADC must be approved by the EA in writing prior to use at solid waste landfills as consistent with Title 27, California Code of Regulations, section 21570 through section 21686. Proposed uses of alternative daily cover materials not specified shall be subject to site-specific demonstration projects approved by the EA with concurrence by the Department to establish suitability as daily cover. Unless otherwise specified in this section, alternative daily cover use by blending listed materials other than using side-by-side on the working face, or layering on top of one another listed materials, shall require site-specific demonstration projects approved by the EA with concurrence by the Department as required by subsection (a)(1). Site-specific demonstration projects are not required for the following materials used as specified and in accordance with subdivision (a) of this section:
(A) For the purposes of this section, processed green material means any plant material that is either separated at the point of generation, or separated at a centralized facility that employs methods to minimize contamination. Green material includes, but is not limited to, yard trimmings, untreated wood wastes, paper products, and natural fiber products. Green material does not include treated wood waste, mixed demolition or mixed construction debris, manure, or plant waste from the food processing industry, alone or blended with soil. Processed green material may include varying proportions of wood waste from urban and other sources and shall be ground, shredded, screened, source separated for grain size, or otherwise processed.
(B) Green material used for alternative daily cover shall be processed prior to being applied to the working face unless the green material to be used as alternative daily cover already meets the grain size specifications. Prior to spreading and compacting on the working face, processed green material shall comply with a grain size specification by volume of 95 percent less than 6 inches. Alternative processing and grain size specification requirements may be approved by the EA if the EA determines that the alternative meets the performance requirements of (a)(2) and (a)(3) of this section and the Department concurs.
(A) Public contact with sludge or sludge-derived materials, either alone or blended with soil, ash, processed green material, or stabilization agents such as lime, lime kiln dust, or cement kiln dust, shall be prohibited. This prohibition shall apply to staging, processing, tipping, and cover placement areas.
(B) Sludge or sludge-derived materials, either alone or blended with soil, processed green material, ash, or stabilization agents such as lime, lime kiln dust, or cement kiln dust, shall form a compacted material which can be placed without forming open voids or causing material to be tracked off the working face area.
(A) Ash and Cement Kiln Dust, either alone or blended with earthen material or stabilization agents, shall form a compacted material which can be placed without forming open voids or causing material to be tracked off the working face area. For the purposes of this section, ash means the nonhazardous residue from the combustion of material or the hazardous residue that may be managed as a nonhazardous waste in accordance with Title 22 California Code of Regulations sections 66260.200(f) or 66260.210.
(A) Contaminated sediment, dewatered dredge spoils, foundry sands, or processed energy resource exploration and production wastes shall be restricted to a minimum compacted thickness of 6 inches and average compacted thickness of less than 12 inches. Such materials shall form a compacted material that can be placed without forming open voids or causing material to be tracked off the working face area.
(A) Processed construction and demolition wastes and materials shall be ground, pulverized, shredded, screened, source separated, or otherwise processed, alone or mixed with soil in a manner to provide a compacted material free of open voids when applied to meet the performance requirements as alternative daily cover.
(B) Processed construction and demolition wastes and materials used as alternative daily cover shall be restricted to the following materials: rock, concrete, brick, sand, soil, ceramics, cured asphalt, lumber and wood, wood products, roofing material, plastic pipe, plant material when commingled from construction work, and fines derived from processing the above materials.
(C) Construction and demolition wastes shall be processed prior to being applied to the working face. Prior to spreading and compacting on the working face, these materials shall comply with a grain size specification by volume of 95 percent less than 12 inches and 50 percent less than 6 inches as determined by the EA. The Department shall provide technical assistance in making this determination if requested by the EA. Alternative processing and grain size specification requirements may be approved by the EA if the EA determines that the alternative meets the performance requirements of (a)(2) and (a)(3) of this section and the Department concurs.
Credits
Note: Authority cited: Sections 40502, 41781.3, 43020, 43021, 43030 and 43103, Public Resources Code. Reference: Sections 40508, 42245, 43020 and 43021, Public Resources Code; and 40 Code of Federal Regulations part 258.21.
History
1. New section filed 11-5-97; operative 11-5-97 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4(d) (Register 97, No. 45).
2. New subsections (b)(2)-(b)(2)(B), (b)(5)-(b)(7)(A) and (b)(9)-(b)(10)(B) filed 2-3-98; operative 2-3-98 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4(d) (Register 98, No. 6).
3. Amendment of section and Note filed 5-24-2004; operative 7-23-2004 (Register 2004, No. 22).
4. Amendment of subsections (a)(1)-(2), (a)(5), (a)(7), (b), (b)(3)(B) and (B)(9)(C) and amendment of Note filed 3-5-2019; operative 3-5-2019 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4(b)(3) (Register 2019, No. 10).
This database is current through 4/12/24 Register 2024, No. 15.
Cal. Admin. Code tit. 27, § 20690, 27 CA ADC § 20690
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