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Title
10
:
Conservation and Development
Chapter
159
:
WASTE MANAGEMENT
Subchapter
001
:
GENERAL PROVISIONS
§
6604b. Testing of solid wastes prior to beneficial use on land or distribution
and marketing
(a) The
secretary of natural resources, in consultation with the secretary of
agriculture, food and markets and with the commissioner of health, shall adopt rules
to establish a testing program for all sewage sludge, or similar liquid wastes,
prior to their beneficial use on land, or prior to distribution and marketing
of those wastes in liquid or solid form. The testing program shall establish a
process for the determination of minimum testing frequencies and specific
parameters for which analysis must be completed, and shall detail procedures by
which samples are collected, stored and tested.
(b) In
establishing the process for the determination of test parameters and
frequency, the rules shall take into account the size and complexity of the
facility, the nature of the service area or collection system, including
industrial contributions, the frequency of sewage sludge use on the land and
any existing data which is pertinent to the facility.
(c) Rules
regarding the application of waste to fields shall take into consideration the
characteristics of the specific waste involved and shall calculate the heavy
metal or micronutrient soil holding capacity based on a pH of 5.5 for the soil
type at the application site, as appropriate.
(d) A person
subject to this section shall make all analytical results derived from the
testing program provided for in this section available to the public upon
request. (Added 1991, No. 157, § 1, eff. May 5, 1992; amended 2003, No. 42, §
2, eff. May 27, 2003.)