FEDERAL ENVIRONMENTAL INSPECTIONS HANDBOOK

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I: INTRODUCTION . 1

PART II: USER’S GUIDE TO THE HANDBOOK 4

PART III: INSPECTION REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND

RECOVERY ACT(RCRA)

Introduction . 6

Unit-specific Requirements

Municipal solid waste landfills . 9

Hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities . 10

Surface impoundment, waste pile, or landfill [construction quality assurance (CQA)] 16

Containers that store hazardous waste 18

Tank systems . 22

Surface impoundments 48

Waste piles . 57

Land treatment units . 60

Landfills . 62

Incinerators . 65

Miscellaneous units 66

Process vents . 68

Pumps in light liquid service . 73

Compressors . 74

Valves in gas/vapor service.or in light liquid service 76

Pumps and valves in heavy liquid service, pressure relief devices in light or heavy liquid service,

and other connectors 79

Closed-vent systems and control devices . 82

Thermal treatment units . 85

Chemical, physical and biological treatment units other than tanks, surface impoundments and land

treatment units, except as §265.1 provides otherwise 86

Boilers and industrial furnaces that burn hazardous waste 87

New hazardous waste landfills . 90

Hazardous waste management facilities 91

Existing UST systems 92

Steel UST systems with corrosion protection 96

UST systems . 98

Petroleum UST systems . 100

Petroleum or hazardous substance UST systems 102

Regulatory Activities

State compliance inspection 103

State UST inspection programs . 105

PART IV: INSPECTION REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL

RESPONSE COMPENSATION, AND LIABILITY ACT (CERCLA)

Introduction . 107

Regulatory Activities

Hazardous waste site inspection 110

Preliminary assessment inspection 112

Compliance inspections . 113

Removal site evaluations 115

Remedial site evaluations . 116

Fire department inspections 119

Inspection of Recordkeeping

Toxic chemical release reporting 120

PART V. INSPECTION REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE CLEAN AIR ACT (CAA)

Introduction . 121

Unit-specific Requirements

Air pollution sources . 124

Storage vessels for petroleum liquids 126

Volatile organic liquid storage vessels including petroleum liquid storage vessels . 127

Volatile organic liquid (VOL) storage vessels . 132

Bulk gasoline terminals . 136

Regulatory Activities

State inspection authority . 137

Inspection of Recordkeeping

Continuous emission monitoring system (CEMS) data . 138

Reports from sewage treatment plants 140

Records from bulk gasoline terminals 141

Solvent cleaning machines. 142

PART VI: INSPECTION REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE ATOMIC ENERGY ACT (AEA)

Introduction . 143

Unit-specific Requirements

Geologic repositories used for the disposal of high-level radioactive wastes 145

Geologic repository operations area . 147

Storage of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste . 148

PART VII: INSPECTION REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE CLEAN WATER ACT (CWA)

Introduction . 155

Unit-specific Requirements

Onshore facilities 158

Onshore bulk storage tanks 159

NPDES-permitted facilities 161

Ancillary manufacturing operations . 163

Regulatory Activities

Facility inspection prior cooperation . 164

NPDES-permitted facilities 165

State compliance inspections . 166

PART VIII: INSPECTION REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT (SDWA)

Introduction . 167

Unit-specific Requirements

Public water system 171

Public water works . 173

Underground injection wells . 175

Class I hazardous waste injection wells . 177

Class II enhanced recovery wells 178

PART IX: INSPECTION REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT

(TSCA)

Introduction . 179

Unit-specific Requirements

Retrofilled PCB transformers 182

Vehicles used for the transport of containerized asbestos waste 184

Containers filled with asbestos waste 185

Regulatory Activities

Enforcement inspections at asbestos abatement projects . 186

Inspection of Recordkeeping

Records of allegations 188

Logs of the disposition of PCBs and PCB items 189

Dibenzo-paradioxins/dibenzofurans tests . 191

PART X: INSPECTION REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE FEDERAL INSECTICIDE FUNGICIDE AND

RODENTICIDE ACT (FIFRA)

Introduction . 192

Unit-specific Requirements

Pesticide storage containers 193

PART XI: APPENDICES

Appendix A: Federally Sponsored Hotline Numbers 194

Appendix B: Glossary 196

RCRA . 196

CERCLA . 205

CAA 213

AEA . 215

CWA 218

SDWA . 220

TSCA . 222

FIFRA . 225