| | FEDERAL ENVIRONMENTAL INSPECTIONS HANDBOOK |
| | 0,57 | | MB |
| | 242 | | stron |
| | 1425 | | ID | UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY |
| | 2004 | | rok |
| | 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 |