Section 312IAC16-5-27. Disposal

   (a) Oil or fluid contaminated with oil must be managed using one (1) of the following methods:

(1) Oil or fluid contaminated with oil may be applied to lease roads for the purpose of dust suppression in a manner designed to ensure that the materials do not leave the roadbed. Oil or fluid contaminated with oil must be:

(A) stored in a leak-free tank; and

(B) applied to lease roads within seventy-two (72) hours of removal from the secondary containment unless a longer period of time is authorized by the division.

(2) Oil or fluid contaminated with oil may be:

(A) placed in a leak-free tank; and

(B) returned to crude oil production in accordance with this article.

(3) Oil or fluid contaminated with oil may be disposed of in a solid waste land disposal facility if such disposal is approved by the Indiana department of environmental management.

  (b) Saltwater or fluid contaminated with saltwater must be:

(1) injected into a Class II well authorized under 312 IAC 16-3; or

(2) discharged under a NPDES permit issued by the Indiana department of environmental management.

  (c) Soil contaminated with oil or saltwater may be disposed of as alternate daily cover in a municipal solid waste landfill permitted under 329 IAC 10 in accordance with:

(1) 329 IAC 10-20-14.1; and

(2) the permit issued to the landfill under 329 IAC 10.

  (d) After three hundred sixty-five (365) days of remediation, or another time period approved by the division, all soil contaminated with oil that has a remaining concentration of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons greater than the values listed in Table 3 in section 25(h) of this rule must be:

(1) excavated;

(2) removed from the facility;

(3) disposed of in accordance with 329 IAC 10-8.1-13 in a municipal solid waste landfill permitted by the Indiana department of environmental management under 329 IAC 10; and

(4) replaced with comparable uncontaminated soil.

  (e) All soil contaminated with oil that is not permitted to be remediated under section 25 of this rule must be:

(1) excavated;

(2) removed from the facility;

(3) disposed of in accordance with 329 IAC 10-8.1-13 in a municipal solid waste landfill permitted by the Indiana department of environmental management under 329 IAC 10; and

(4) replaced with comparable uncontaminated soil.

(Natural Resources Commission; 312 IAC 16-5-27; filed Sep 11, 2000, 3:31 p.m.: 24 IR 283; errata filed Dec 6, 2000, 10:12 a.m.: 24 IR 1032; readopted filed Nov 17, 2004, 11:00 a.m.: 28 IR 1315; readopted filed Mar 25, 2010, 2:57 p.m.: 20100421-IR-312100033RFA; readopted filed Sep 30, 2015, 12:13 p.m.: 20151028-IR-312150224RFA)