# Land Disposal Restrictions: Site-Specific Treatment Variance to Chemical Waste Management, Inc.
> **Rule** · Direct final rule. · Published 2002-05-28 · Effective 2002-07-12 · 67 FR 36813
## Document
- **Document number:** 02-13114
- **Category:** hazardous-waste
- **Federal Register citation:** 67 FR 36813
- **CFR reference:** 40 CFR 268
- **Publication date:** 2002-05-28
- **Effective date:** 2002-07-12
- **EPA docket:** FRL-7217-4
## Abstract

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) is today taking direct final action by granting a site-specific treatment variance from the Land Disposal Restrictions (LDR) treatment standards for two selenium-bearing hazardous wastes. EPA first granted a variance for these two waste streams three years ago. We are now taking action to extend the variance because: the chemical properties of these two wastes continue to differ significantly from the waste used to establish the current LDR standard for selenium (5.7 mg/L, as measured by the TCLP); and Chemical Waste Management, Inc. (CWM) has adequately demonstrated that the two wastes cannot be treated with current technologies to meet this treatment standard. CWM will stabilize these two specific wastes at their Kettleman City, California facility to meet the following alternative treatment standards: 51 mg/L, as measured by the TCLP, for the Owens-Brockway waste and 25 mg/L, as measured by the TCLP, for the St. Gobain (formerly Ball Foster) waste. After treatment to these alternative selenium standards, CWM may dispose of the treated wastes in a RCRA Subtitle C landfill provided they meet the applicable LDR treatment standards for the other hazardous constituents in the wastes. We are granting this variance for three years.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2002/05/28/02-13114/land-disposal-restrictions-site-specific-treatment-variance-to-chemical-waste-management-inc)
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