1. (1) Purpose. This section provides general performance standards for designing, constructing, operating, and maintaining dangerous waste facilities.
2. (2) Applicability. This section applies to all dangerous waste facilities permitted under WAC 173-303-800 through 173-303-840. These general performance standards must be used to determine whether more stringent facility standards should be applied than those spelled out in WAC 173-303-280, 173-303-290 through 173-303-400 and 173-303-600 through 173-303-692.

3. (3) Performance standards. Unless authorized by state, local, or federal laws, or unless otherwise authorized in this regulation, the owner/operator must design, construct, operate, or maintain a dangerous waste facility that to the maximum extent practical given the limits of technology prevents:

   1. (a) Degradation of groundwater quality;
   2. (b) Degradation of air quality by open burning or other activities;
   3. (c) Degradation of surface water quality;
   4. (d) Destruction or impairment of flora and fauna outside the active portion of the facility;
   5. (e) Excessive noise;
   6. (f) Conditions that constitute a negative aesthetic impact for the public using rights of ways, or public lands, or for landowners of adjacent properties;
   7. (g) Unstable hillsides or soils as a result of trenches, impoundments, excavations, etc.;
   8. (h) The use of processes that do not treat, detoxify, recycle, reclaim, and recover waste material to the extent economically feasible; and
   9. (i) Endangerment of the health of employees, or the public near the facility.

[Statutory Authority: Chapters 70.105 and 70.105D RCW. WSR 03-07-049 (Order 02-03), § 173-303-283, filed 3/13/03, effective 4/13/03; WSR 95-22-008 (Order 94-30), § 173-303-283, filed 10/19/95, effective 11/19/95. Statutory Authority: Chapter 70.105 RCW. WSR 88-18-083 (Order 88-29), § 173-303-283, filed 9/6/88.]