1. (a) A facility operating plan shall provide sufficient detail to allow the certified operator and other trained facility personnel to operate the facility in compliance with RSA 149-M, the permit, and the solid waste rules without further explanation or guidance.
2. (b) The operating plan shall be prepared as a loose leaf document to facilitate amendment as specified in Env-Sw 315.
3. (c) Each page of the operating plan shall bear the page number, the date of preparation or last revision, as applicable, and the facility name, location by street address and municipality, and permit number, if a permit is issued for the facility at the time that the operating plan or a modification thereto is prepared.

4. (d) The content and organizational format of the operating plan shall be as follows:

   1. (1) Section 1, titled “facility identification,” shall identify:

      1. a. The facility name, telephone number, mailing address, location by street address and municipality, and permit number;
      2. b. The type of the facility;
      3. c. The capacity of the facility;
      4. d. The facility service type;
      5. e. The facility service area; and
      6. f. The name, address, and telephone number of the permittee, property owner, and facility operator;

   2. (2) Section 2, titled “authorized and prohibited waste,” shall provide a list of:

      1. a. The specific waste types the facility is authorized to receive; and
      2. b. The specific waste types the facility is not authorized to receive;

   3. (3) Section 3, titled “routine operations plan,” shall provide a detailed description of how the daily operations of the facility will be conducted to ensure that the facility will be operated in accordance with the solid waste rules, including a description of:

      1. a. Hours of operations;
      2. b. Facility access control and on-site traffic patterns;
      3. c. Waste acceptance and rejection procedures, including unloading, sorting, and inspection procedures;
      4. d. The procedure by which the quantity and source(s) of all wastes received by the facility will be determined and recorded;
      5. e. The procedure by which the quantity and destination of all outgoing waste and certified waste-derived products will be determined and recorded;
      6. f. The storage time and capacity limits for all wastes received by the facility and the procedures by which the limits will be monitored to ensure compliance therewith;
      7. g. All collection, storage, transfer, processing, treatment, and disposal methods and procedures employed by the facility for managing waste following receipt, described in narrative form and identified in a process flow diagram; and
      8. h. For facilities that process or treat waste, the methods or procedures for managing bypass waste and the quality assurance/quality control procedures relating to the management of processed or treated waste;

   4. (4) Section 4, titled “residual waste management plan,” shall provide a detailed narrative description and a process flow diagram of how all residual waste, if any, will be generated and managed by the facility, including the information specified in a. through d. below, or if the facility will not generate any residual waste, a statement including:

      1. a. The type and estimated quantity of all residual wastes to be generated by the facility;
      2. b. How such wastes will be managed at the facility prior to removal;
      3. c. Information to demonstrate how the provisions of Env-Sw 1105.10 shall be met; and
      4. d. Quality assurance/quality control provisions, to assure that the wastes to be transferred will be acceptable to the receiving facility;

   5. (5) Section 5, titled “facility maintenance, inspection, and monitoring plan,” shall identify all routine maintenance, inspection, and monitoring requirements necessary to assure the integrity of facility operations, including a description of the measures to be undertaken to monitor and inhibit the following:

      1. a. Spontaneous combustion;
      2. b. Other fire hazards;
      3. c. Vector production;
      4. d. Generation of methane, hazardous, or explosive gases;
      5. e. Odors;
      6. f. Dust;

      7. g. Windblown litter;

         h Leachate; and

      8. i. Spills;

   6. (6) Section 6, titled “contingency plan,” shall:

      1. a. Identify all reasonably foreseeable emergencies, such as power outage, fire, explosion, operator injury, and the like, based on the type of facility and wastes being handled;
      2. b. Describe the appropriate response of facility personnel for each emergency identified in a. above; and
      3. c. Include identification of and telephone numbers for all local and state officials to be notified in the event of an emergency;
   7. (7) Section 7, titled “employee training program,” shall provide a description of employee training program(s); and
   8. (8) Section 8, titled “recordkeeping and reporting,” shall provide a description of record keeping procedures as necessary to comply with Env-Sw 1005.09, Env-Sw 1105.06, and Env-Sw 1105.07; and

   9. (9) Section 9, titled “facility site plan,” shall provide a site plan(s) detailing the facility layout, including:

      1. a. All areas where waste is collected, stored, transferred, processed, treated, and disposed of as described in section 3 of the operating plan;
      2. b. All areas where residual waste, if any, is generated and managed, as described in section 4 of the operating plan;
      3. c. Hot load pad; and
      4. d. Traffic pattern(s).

Source. #6619-B, eff 10-29-97; (See Revision Note at chapter heading for Env-Sw 1100); ss by #8459, eff 10-28-05 (formerly Env-Wm 2805.11); ss by #10598, eff 7-1-14; ss by #14108, eff 11-13-24, EXPIRES: 11-13-34