Section 240.940   Crude Oil Bottom Sediments

Crude oil bottom sediments removed from tanks, concrete storage structures and pits on a lease or unit may be:

a)         transported by a permitted liquid oilfield waste hauler to an Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) licensed special waste landfill, to an IEPA licensed off-site treatment facility, to a Class II injection well for disposal or to a crude oil bottom sediment recycling facility;

b)         injected in a well in accordance with Section 240.850(e)(1)(B);

c)         bioremediated on-site through land spreading in accordance with Section 240.891(a)(2); or

d)         used for road oiling on the lease or unit where the sediments were generated in accordance with Section 240.945.

(Source:  Amended at 25 Ill. Reg. 9045, effective July 9, 2001)