Section 324.12113 - Treatment, storage, or disposal of liquid industrial waste; requirements. - Michigan Statutes

NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT (EXCERPT)
Act 451 of 1994

324.12113 Treatment, storage, or disposal of liquid industrial waste; requirements.

Sec. 12113.

(1) Storage of liquid industrial waste, whether at the location of generation, under the control of the transporter, or at the designated facility, shall be protected from weather, fire, physical damage, and vandals. All vehicles, containers, and tanks used to hold liquid industrial waste shall be closed or covered, except when necessary to add or remove waste, to prevent the escape of liquid industrial waste. The exterior of all vehicles, containers, and tanks used to hold liquid industrial waste shall be kept free of liquid industrial waste and its residue.

(2) Except as otherwise authorized pursuant to this section or other applicable statutes or rules or orders of the department, liquid industrial waste shall be managed to prevent liquid industrial waste from being discharged into the soil, surface water or groundwater, or a drain or sewer, or discharged in violation of part 55.

(3) A person shall treat, store, and dispose of liquid industrial waste in accordance with all applicable statutes and rules and orders of the department.

(4) This part does not prevent a publicly owned treatment works from accepting liquid industrial waste from the premises of a person, and does not prevent a person from engaging, employing, or contracting with a publicly owned treatment works. However, a publicly owned treatment works that receives waste by means of transportation is a designated facility and shall comply with the requirements of section 12112.

(5) A person shall not treat, store, or dispose of liquid industrial waste in a surface impoundment, unless the surface impoundment has a discharge or storage permit authorized under part 31, or, in the case of leachate, is authorized in a permit issued under part 115.

(6) Activities regulated under part 615 or the rules, orders, or instructions under that part or regulated under part C of title XIV of the public health service act, 42 USC 300h to 300h-8, or the regulations promulgated under that act, are exempt from the requirements of this section.

History: 1994, Act 451, Eff. Mar. 30, 1995 ;-- Am. 2008, Act 8, Imd. Eff. Feb. 20, 2008
Popular Name: Act 451
Popular Name: NREPA