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| Title: | REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS FOR ON-SITE TREATMENT OF OXYGEN BREATHING APPARATUS (OBA) CANISTERS |
| RCRA Online Number: | 11835 |
| Date: | 05/09/1994 |
| To: | Mauro |
| From: | Bussard |
| Organization of Recipient: | U.S. Navy |
| Description: | Oxygen breathing apparatus (OBA) used by firefighters could qualify as exempt scrap metal when recycled. There is no need to determine if recycled scrap metal is a hazardous waste (HW). Emptying a steel OBA canister could be an exempt scrap steel recycling process if the canisters are to be recycled (SEE ALSO: 261.4(a)(13) exclusion for processed scrap metal). Emptying canisters to render them nonhazardous prior to disposal may be regulated treatment. HW canisters may be accumulated on-site without a permit under 262.34. Tanks meeting the wastewater treatment unit definition are exempt from permitting requirements. |
| Regulatory Citation(s) : | 260.10, 261.6(a)(3), 261.6(c), 261.7, 262.11, 262.34, 264.1(g)(6), 265.1(c)(10), 270.1(c)(2)  |
| Statutory Citation(s): | NA Read US Code 42, Chapter 82 |
| Topic(s): | Containers; Disposal; Generators; Hazardous Waste; Hazardous Waste Recycling; Identification of Hazardous Waste; Permits and Permitting; Large Quantity Generators (LQG); Nonhazardous Waste; Petitions; Storage; Tanks; Treatment; TSDFs |