020-3 Wyo. Code R. §§ 3-2 - Applicability

(a) This Chapter applies to all public water supplies, sewerage systems, treatment works, disposal facilities, biosolids management facilities, treated wastewater systems and other facilities capable of causing or contributing to pollution, including:

(i) Land application or surface disposal of biosolids or domestic septage;

(ii) Reuse of treated wastewater; and

(iii) Biosolids facilities where:

(A) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not regulate the land application or disposal of biosolids or domestic septage by issuance of an Authorization To Land Apply or Surface Dispose Sludge Under the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System;

(B) Commercial waste treatment, storage and disposal facilities are used;

(C) Non-commercial waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities are involved;

(D) Biosolids are prepared outside of the state and brought into the state for land application or surface disposal; or

(E) Treated wastewater is prepared outside of the state and brought into the state for land application.

(b) This Chapter does not apply to:

(i) Uranium mill tailing facilities that are regulated by the Land Quality Division, Uranium Recovery Program;

(ii) Noncommercial pits and ponds described by W.S. § 30-5-104(d)(vi)(A) that are regulated by the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission;

(iii) Class II injection wells that are regulated by the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission;

(iv) Sanitary landfills, pits at sanitary landfills, sludge disposal sites, and coal combustion residual surface impoundments permitted by the Solid and Hazardous Waste Division;

(v) Sediment control structures where the outfall enters into another sediment control structure that is permitted under this Chapter;

(vi) Treatment works, sediment impoundments, disposal systems, biosolids facilities, land application, or treated wastewater reuse systems regulated by the Land Quality Division;

(vii) Class V facilities requiring permits under Water Quality Rules Chapter 27;

(viii) Class VI facilities requiring permits under Water Quality Rules Chapter 24;

(ix) Supporting facilities for Class I injection wells permitted under Water Quality Rules Chapter 27;

(x) Confined swine feeding operations permitted under Water Quality Rules Chapter 20;

(xi) Facilities permitted by a municipality, water and sewer district, or county delegated authority under W.S. § 35-11-304;

(xii) Biosolids facilities permitted by EPA, if the recipient of the EPA permit submits a copy of the EPA permit to the Water Quality Division.

(xiii) A person who applies biosolids, domestic septage, or treated wastewater where the biosolids, domestic septage, or treated wastewater are prepared by another person authorized by a permit issued under this Chapter and the applier has a written agreement with the preparer;

(xiv) Initial emergency response activities to stop and contain a release, as defined in Water Quality Rules Chapter 4, that enters or threatens to enter Waters of the State or presents an immediate threat to human health, safety, or the environment.

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020-3 Wyo. Code R. §§ 3-2

Amended, Eff. 6/29/2018. Amended, Eff. 8/19/2022.