Regulations last checked for updates: Jun 17, 2024

Title 40 - Protection of Environment last revised: Jun 13, 2024
§ 265.404 - Closure.

At closure, all hazardous waste and hazardous waste residues must be removed from treatment processes or equipment, discharge control equipment, and discharge confinement structures.

[Comment: At closure, as throughout the operating period, unless the owner or operator can demonstrate, in accordance with § 261.3 (c) or (d) of this chapter, that any solid waste removed from his treatment process or equipment is not a hazardous waste, the owner or operator becomes a generator of hazardous waste and must manage it in accordance with all applicable requirements of parts 262, 263, and 265 of this chapter.]
source: 45 FR 33232, May 19, 1980, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 40 CFR 265.404