[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 28]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR503.22]

[Page 834]
 
                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 503_STANDARDS FOR THE USE OR DISPOSAL OF SEWAGE SLUDGE
--Table of Contents
 
                       Subpart C_Surface Disposal
 
Sec. 503.22  General requirements.

    (a) No person shall place sewage sludge on an active sewage sludge 
unit unless the requirements in this subpart are met.
    (b) An active sewage sludge unit located within 60 meters of a fault 
that has displacement in Holocene time; located in an unstable area; or 
located in a wetland, except as provided in a permit issued pursuant to 
either section 402 or 404 of the CWA, shall close by March 22, 1994, 
unless, in the case of an active sewage sludge unit located within 60 
meters of a fault that has displacement in Holocene time, otherwise 
specified by the permitting authority.
    (c) The owner/operator of an active sewage sludge unit shall submit 
a written closure and post closure plan to the permitting authority 180 
days prior to the date that the active sewage sludge unit closes. The 
plan shall describe how the sewage sludge unit will be closed and, at a 
minimum, shall include:
    (1) A discussion of how the leachate collection system will be 
operated and maintained for three years after the sewage sludge unit 
closes if the sewage sludge unit has a liner and leachate collection 
system.
    (2) A description of the system used to monitor for methane gas in 
the air in any structures within the surface disposal site and in the 
air at the property line of the surface disposal site, as required in 
Sec. 503.24(j)(2).
    (3) A discussion of how public access to the surface disposal site 
will be restricted for three years after the last sewage sludge unit in 
the surface disposal site closes.
    (d) The owner of a surface disposal site shall provide written 
notification to the subsequent owner of the site that sewage sludge was 
placed on the land.

[58 FR 9387, Feb. 19, 1993, as amended at 64 FR 42570, Aug. 4, 1999]