[Safety Exam] DENR Coding Flashcards

Question

C301 Description

Answer 1

Caustic soda with pH > = 12.5

Answer 2

Potash with pH > = 12.5

Answer 3

Alkaline Cleaners with pH > = 12.5

Answer 4

Ammonium hydroxide with pH > = 12.5

Answer 5

Lime slurries with pH > = 12.5

Answer 6

Alkali wastes other than C301 to C306 pH > =12.5

Answer 7

Wastes with inorganic chemicals

Answer 8

Includes all wastes with a total Se concentration > 1.0 mg/L based on analysis of an extract

Answer 9

Includes all wastes with a total As concentration > 5 mg/L based on analysis of an extract

Answer 10

Includes all wastes with a total Ba concentration > 100 mg/L based on analysis of an extract

Answer 11

Includes all wastes with a total Cd concentration > 5 mg/L based on analysis of an extract

Answer 12

Includes all wastes with a total Cr concentration > 5 mg/L based on analysis of an extract

Answer 13

Includes all wastes with a total Pb concentration > 5 mg/L based on analysis of an extract

Answer 14

Includes all wastes with a total Hg concentration > 0.2 mg/L based on analysis of an extract. These also includes organomercury compounds. Refer to CCO.

Answer 15

Wastes containing the following chemicals: * ANTIMONY and its compounds * BERYLLIUM and its compounds * metal carbonyls * COPPER compounds * ZINC compounds * TELLERIUM and its compounds * THALLIUM and its compounds * inorganic fluorine compounds excluding calcium

Answer 16

Reactive Chemical Wastes

Answer 17

Includes all wastes that are known to contain oxidizing agents in concentration that cause the waste to exhibit any of the following properties: * It is normally unstable and readily undergoes violent change without detonating * It reacts violently with water * It forms potentially explosive mixtures with water * When mixed with water, it generates toxic gases, vapor or fumes in a quantity sufficient to present a danger to humanhealth It is a cyanide (CN) or sulfide (S) bearing wastes, which when exposed to pH conditions between 2 and 12.5 can generate toxic gases, vapors and fumes in a quantity that poses adanger to human health

Answer 18

Includes all wastes that are known to contain reducing agents in concentration that cause the waste to exhibit any of the following properties: * It is normally unstable and readily undergoes violent change without detonating * It reacts violently with water * It forms potentially explosive mixtures with water * When mixed with water, it generates toxic gases, vapor or fumes in a quantity sufficient to present a danger to humanhealth It is a cyanide (CN) or sulfide (S) bearing wastes, which when exposed to pH conditions between 2 and 12.5 can generate toxic gases, vapors and fumes in a quantity that poses adanger to human health

Answer 19

Includes all wastes that are: * capable of detonation or explosive reaction when subject to a strong initiating source or when heated under confinement * capable of detonation or explosive decomposition at a temperature of 20 Celsius and Pressure of 1 atm.

Answer 20

Includes all other wastes that exhibit any of the properties described for D501, D502, and D503***

Answer 21

Inks Dyes Pigments Paint Latex Adhesives Organic Sludge

Answer 22

Includes all aqueous based wastes that also meet one or more of the sub-categories

Answer 23

Includes all solvent based wastes that also meet one or more of the sub-categories

Answer 24

Includes all wastewater treatment sludge from the production of inorganic pigments

Answer 25

Includes all: * solvent washings and sludge * caustic washings and sludge * wastewater and sludge... from cleaning of tubs and equipment used in the formulation of: * ink from pigments * driers * soaps * stabilizers containing Chromium and Lead

Answer 26

Includes all aqueous-based wastes that also meet one or more of the subcategories.

Answer 27

Waste organic solvent

Answer 28

Includes the ff. spent halogenated solvents: * Tetrachloroethylene * tricholorethylene * methylene chloride * 1,1,1, Trichloroethane * carbon tetrachloride * chlorobenzene * 1,2,2 Trichloroethane * chlorinated flouro- carbons if they contain a total of 10% or more (by volume) of one or more of the above before use it also includes all still bottoms from recovery of these solvents and solvent mixtures.

Answer 29

Includes the ffnon-halogenated solvents: * Xylene * acetone * ethyl acetate * ethyl benzene * ethyl ether * methyl isobutyl ketone * nbutyl alcohol * cyclo-hexanol * methanol * cresole * cresylic acid * nitro-benzene * toluene * Carbon disulfide * iso-butanol * pyridine * benzene * 2-ethoxy ethanol * 2 nitropropane * other nonhalogenated organic solvents if they contain a total of 10% or more (by volume) of one or more of these solvents before use it also includes all still bottoms from recovery of these solvents and solvent mixtures

Answer 30

Putrescible/Organic Wastes

Answer 31

1. Includes all wastes from animal feed lots containing an average of 100 or more animals 2. All wastes from commercial slaughter houses that slaughter an average of 500 or more animals per year 3. All waste from poultry farms with an average of 5,000 fowls or more 4. All wastefrom facilities that process an average of 2500 fowls or more.

Answer 32

Includes all establishments that generate an average of 50 kg of grease trap wastes per day

Answer 33

Includes all wastes from establishments that generate, transport or treat more than 200L of waste oil per day except vegetable oil and waste tallow

Answer 34

Containers

Answer 35

1. Waste containers that used to hold the toxic chemical substances listed in: * Classes A, D, E, and L * sub-categories M504 and M505 * chemicals listed in the Priority Chemical List. Containers that used to contain Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) are categorized as L406 and excluded from this sub-category.

Answer 36

Immobilized Wastes

Answer 37

Wastes whose hazardous substances are physically immobilized by consolidation to reduce the surface area of the wastes in order to meet the waste acceptance criteria

Answer 38

Wastes whose hazardous substances are chemically immobilized through chemical bonds to an immobile matrix or chemical conversion to meet the waste acceptance criteria

Answer 39

Wastes whose hazardous substances are physically immobilized by enveloping the waste in a non-porous,impermeable material in order tostore hazardous wastes until such time that a proper disposal facility is available.

Answer 40

Organic Chemicals

Answer 41

Non-liquid waste containing the following: * Tri-butylin * 1,2-diphenylhydrazine * benzene

Answer 42

* Waste chlorofluoro carbons (CFCs) and halons. * Recovered coolant containing chlorofluoro carbons (CFCs) or halons

Answer 43

Wastes contaminated with PCB and waste products containing PCB. Refer to CCO.

Answer 44

Miscellaneous Wastes

Answer 45

Include: * pathological wastes (tissues, organs, fetuses, bloods and body fluids) * infectious wastes * sharps

Answer 46

Wastes containing friable asbestos. Waste blue and brown asbestos fibers. Refer to CCO.

Answer 47

Expired pharmaceuticals and drugs stocked at producers and retailers’ facilities.

Answer 48

Waste pesticides other than M505. Includes all wastewater sludge from production of pesticides other than those listed in M505.

Answer 49

Waste pesticides listed in the Stockholm Convention (POPs Convention) such as: * aldrin * chlordane * dieldrin * endrin, heptachlor * hexachlorobenzene * mirex * toxaphene * DDT