S 1144 Joint Resolution, By Senate Medical Affairs
 A JOINT RESOLUTION TO APPROVE REGULATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
 ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL, RELATING TO HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT, DESIGNATED AS
 REGULATION DOCUMENT NUMBER 2640, PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE 1,
 CHAPTER 23, TITLE 1 OF THE 1976 CODE.

   03/20/02  Senate Introduced, read first time, placed on calendar
                     without reference SJ-8
   03/21/02  Senate Read second time SJ-13
   03/26/02  Senate Read third time and sent to House SJ-17
   04/02/02  House  Introduced and read first time HJ-22
   04/02/02  House  Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Natural
                     Resources and Environmental Affairs HJ-22

March 20, 2002

    S. 1144

S. Printed 3/20/02--S.

Read the first time March 20, 2002.

TO APPROVE REGULATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL, RELATING TO HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT, DESIGNATED AS REGULATION DOCUMENT NUMBER 2640, PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE 1, CHAPTER 23, TITLE 1 OF THE 1976 CODE.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION    1.    The regulations of the Department of Health and Environmental Control, relating to Hazardous Waste Management, designated as Regulation Document Number 2640, and submitted to the General Assembly pursuant to the provisions of Article 1, Chapter 23, Title 1 of the 1976 Code, are approved.

SECTION    2.    This joint resolution takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

The Department of Health and Environmental Control will amend R.61-79, Hazardous Waste Management Regulations, to add listings for certain organotin manufacturing residues. The Department will add South Carolina-designated hazardous wastes from specific sources to current regulations by including waste residues from the manufacture of organotin compounds, which contain tri- (organo) substituted organotin compounds, to include tributyltin and its analogs. These South Carolina-designated hazardous wastes will be included in the 261.32 hazardous waste list, and the new South Carolina-designated hazardous waste constituents will also be incorporated into 261 Appendix VII, 261 Appendix VIII, and 264 Appendix IX. See Discussion below and Statement of Need and Reasonableness herein.

The Notice of Drafting was published December 22, 2000. One comment was received, which stated that one of the companies releasing these proposed South Carolina-designated hazardous wastes has modified its process to recycle future wastes. The Notice of Proposed Regulations published on July 27, 2001, received one favorable comment and no critical comments. Only DHEC staff attended the Staff Informational Forum on August 27, 2001. See also Discussion of Proposed Revisions and Statement of Reasonableness.

Discussion of Revisions:

Section Citation    Explanation of Changes: to enable the State to regulate certain organotin wastes75

261.32 Table    Amend Table heading to include "SC" in addition to EPA and to change "#" to "No." Add section at end of table for Organotin wastes, define, indicate toxicity (T)

261.32 Appendix VII    Amend Table heading to include SC in addition to EPA Add K900

261 Appendix VIII    Add nine organotin listings to Hazardous Constituents, including common name, chemical abstracts name, chemical abstracts number.

264 Appendix IX    Add Tributyltin as Common Name, 688-73-3 as CAS RN,    Tributylstannane as Chemical abstracts service index name, NOAA 1993 10 as Suggested methods, and 0.5 as PQL ((g/L) . Add footnote 10 for nonessential matrices.