[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 8]
[Revised as of July 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR61.340]

[Page 190-191]
 
                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 61_NATIONAL EMISSION STANDARDS FOR HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS
--Table of Contents
 
   Subpart FF_National Emission Standard for Benzene Waste Operations
 
Sec. 61.340  Applicability.

    Source: 55 FR 8346, Mar. 7, 1990, unless otherwise noted.


    (a) The provisions of this subpart apply to owners and operators of 
chemical manufacturing plants, coke by-product recovery plants, and 
petroleum refineries.
    (b) The provisions of this subpart apply to owners and operators of 
hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities that treat, 
store, or dispose of hazardous waste generated by any facility listed in 
paragraph (a) of this section. The waste streams at hazardous waste 
treatment, storage, and disposal facilities subject to the provisions of 
this subpart are the benzene-containing hazardous waste from any 
facility listed in paragraph (a) of

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this section. A hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal 
facility is a facility that must obtain a hazardous waste management 
permit under subtitle C of the Solid Waste Disposal Act.
    (c) At each facility identified in paragraph (a) or (b) of this 
section, the following waste is exempt from the requirements of this 
subpart:
    (1) Waste in the form of gases or vapors that is emitted from 
process fluids:
    (2) Waste that is contained in a segregated stormwater sewer system.
    (d) At each facility identified in paragraph (a) or (b) of this 
section, any gaseous stream from a waste management unit, treatment 
process, or wastewater treatment system routed to a fuel gas system, as 
defined in Sec. 61.341, is exempt from this subpart. No testing, 
monitoring, recordkeeping, or reporting is required under this subpart 
for any gaseous stream from a waste management unit, treatment process, 
or wastewater treatment unit routed to a fuel gas system.

[55 FR 8346, Mar. 7, 1990, as amended at 55 FR 37231, Sept. 10, 1990; 58 
FR 3095, Jan. 7, 1993; 67 FR 68531, Nov. 12, 2002]