Minnesota Administrative Rules

9220.0470 ADDITIONAL STANDARDS FOR WASTE TIRE PROCESSING FACILITIES.

Subpart 1.

Scope.

This part sets out the additional standards that apply to the operation of a permitted waste tire processing facility in addition to the general standards in part 9220.0450. To qualify for regulation as a waste tire processing facility, the standards in part 9220.0450 must be met.

Subp. 2.

Storage limitation.

A waste tire processing facility must not store more than 70,000 passenger car tires or the equivalent weight of other tires or tire-derived products at any time. Waste tires stored must be limited to one pile of waste tires and one pile of tire-derived product meeting the limits in part 9220.0450, subpart 3, item F, of the general facility standards. In addition, at least 75 percent of the waste tires and tire-derived products that are delivered to or are contained on the site of the waste tire processing facility at the beginning of each year must be processed and removed from the facility during the year.

Subp. 3.

Emergency equipment.

Equipment for communications and the control of fires must be provided and maintained at the waste tire processing facility at all times.

Subp. 4.

Emergency preparedness manual.

The operator of the waste tire processing facility shall maintain an emergency preparedness manual at the facility. This manual must be submitted to the commissioner with the permit application. Once approved, the manual becomes part of the permit. This manual must be updated if a change in the operations of the waste tire processing facility occurs, or if the commissioner requests an update. This emergency preparedness manual must, at a minimum, contain:

A.

a list of names and telephone numbers of persons to be contacted in the event of a fire, flood, or other emergency involving the waste tire processing facility;

B.

a list of the emergency response equipment present at the waste tire processing facility or available for use at the facility, the location of the equipment, and how it should be used in the event of a fire or other emergency;

C.

the procedures to be followed by facility personnel from discovery of an emergency until the situation is corrected, including the measures that will be taken to minimize the occurrence, recurrence, or spread of fires, explosions, and releases;

D.

the locations of known water supplies, fire hydrants, dry chemical extinguishers, or other materials that may be used for firefighting purposes; and

E.

additional relevant information.

No emergency preparedness manual shall be approved unless the permittee demonstrates that arrangements to acquire police and fire protection services for the waste tire processing facility have been made.

Subp. 5.

Emergency procedures.

The operator of the waste tire processing facility shall implement the emergency procedures of subpart 4, item C, in the event of a fire or other emergency.

Subp. 6.

Emergency notification and reports.

The operator of the waste tire processing facility shall immediately notify the commissioner in the event of a fire or other emergency with potential off site impacts. Within one week of correcting an emergency situation at the waste tire processing facility, the permittee of the facility shall submit to the commissioner a report on the emergency. This report must set out the type of emergency, the date and time of the emergency, the origins of the emergency, the actions that were taken to respond to the emergency, the results of the actions that were taken, and an analysis of the success or failure of the actions.

Statutory Authority:

MS s 115A.914

History:

12 SR 2513; L 1999 c 73 s 5

Published Electronically:

October 2, 2007