Rule 3745-51-10 | Criteria for identifying the characteristics of hazardous waste.
The director shall identify and define a characteristic of hazardous waste in rules 3745-51-20 to 3745-51-24 of the Administrative Code only upon determining that:
(A) A waste that exhibits the characteristic may:
(1) Cause, or significantly contribute to, an increase in mortality or an increase in serious, irreversible, or incapacitating reversible illness; or
(2) Pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when the waste is improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed or otherwise managed; and
(B) The characteristic can be:
(1) Measured by an available standardized test method which is reasonably within the capability of generators of waste or private sector laboratories that are available to serve generators of waste; or
(2) Reasonably detected by generators of waste through knowledge of the wastes.
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