Section 726.APPENDIX K   Lead-Bearing Materials that May be Processed in Exempt Lead Smelters

a)         Exempt lead-bearing materials when generated or originally produced by lead-associated industries.

            BOARD NOTE:  Lead-associated industries are lead smelters, lead-acid battery manufacturing and lead chemical manufacturing (e.g., manufacturing of lead oxide or other lead compounds).

            Acid dump/fill solids

            Sump mud

            Materials from laboratory analyses

            Acid filters

            Baghouse bags

            Clothing (e.g., coveralls, aprons, shoes, hats, gloves)

            Sweepings

            Air filter bags and cartridges

            Respiratory cartridge filters

            Shop abrasive

            Stacking boards

            Waste shipping containers (e.g., cartons, bags, drums, cardboard)

            Paper hand towels

            Wiping rags and sponges

            Contaminated pallets

            Water treatment sludges, filter cakes, residues, and solids

            Emission control dusts, sludges, filter cakes, residues, and solids from lead-associated industries (e.g., K069 and D008 wastes)

            Spent grinds, posts and separators

            Spend batteries

            Lead oxide and lead oxide residues

            Lead plates and groups

            Spent battery cases, covers, and vents

            Pasting belts

            Water filter media

            Cheesecloth from pasting rollers

            Pasting additive bags

            Asphalt paving materials

b)         Exempt lead-bearing materials when generated or originally produced by any industry.

            Charging jumpers and clips

            Platen abrasive

            Fluff from lead wire and cable casings

            Lead-based pigments and compounding pigment dust

(Source:  Amended at 37 Ill. Reg. 3249, effective March 4, 2013)