North Carolina § 130A-309 - 05. Regulated wastes; certain exclusions.

§ 130A-309. 05. Regulated wastes; certain exclusions.

Notwithstanding other provisions of this Article, the following waste shall be regulated pursuant to this Part: Medical waste; and Ash generated by a solid waste management facility from the burning of solid waste. Ash generated by a solid waste management facility from the burning of solid waste shall be disposed of in a properly designed solid waste disposal area that complies with standards developed by the Department for the disposal of the ash. The Department shall work with solid waste management facilities that burn solid waste to identify and develop methods for recycling and reusing incinerator ash or treated ash. Recovered material is not subject to regulation as solid waste under this Article. In order for a material that would otherwise be regulated as solid waste to qualify as a recovered material, the Department may require any person who owns or has control over the material to demonstrate that the material meets the requirements of this subsection. In order to protect public health and the environment, the Commission may adopt rules to implement this subsection. Materials that are accumulated speculatively, as that term is defined under 40 Code of Federal Regulations § 261 (July 1, 2014 Edition), shall not qualify as a recovered material, and shall be subject to regulation as solid waste. In order to qualify as a recovered material, the material shall be managed as a valuable commodity in a manner consistent with the desired use or end use, and all of the following conditions shall be met: Seventy-five percent (75%), by weight or volume, of the recovered material stored at a facility at the beginning of a calendar year commencing January 1, shall be removed from the facility through sale, use, or reuse by December 31 of the same year. The recovered material or the products or by-products of operations that process recovered material shall not be discharged, deposited, injected, dumped, spilled, leaked, or placed into or upon any land or water so that the products or by-products or any constituent thereof may enter other lands or be emitted into the air or discharged into any waters including groundwaters, or otherwise enter the environment or pose a threat to public health and safety. Facilities that process recovered material shall be operated in a manner to ensure compliance with this subdivision. The recovered material shall not be a hazardous waste or have been recovered from a hazardous waste. The recovered material shall not contain significant concentrations of foreign constituents that render it unserviceable or inadequate for sale, or its intended use or reuse. History (1989, c. 784, s. 2; 1995 (Reg. Sess., 1996), c. 594, s. 9; 2015-1, s. 2(b).) Effect of Amendments. - Session Laws 2015-1, s. 2(b), effective March 16, 2015, in the introductory language of subsection (c), inserted the present next-to-last sentence, and added "the material shall be managed as a valuable commodity in a manner consistent with the desired use or end use, and all of the following conditions shall be met" at the end of the last sentence; rewrote subdivision (c)(1); in subdivision (c)(2), deleted "and" at the end of the present next-to-last sentence, and added the present last sentence; and added subdivision (c)(4).