---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 C.F.R. § 227.11"
title: "40"
number: "227.11"
heading: "Containerized wastes."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/40/227.11"
---

# §227.11. Containerized wastes.

- (a) Wastes containerized solely for transport to the dumping site and expected to rupture or leak on impact or shortly thereafter must meet the appropriate requirements of §§ [227.6](/cfr/40/227.6.md), [227.7](/cfr/40/227.7.md), [227.8](/cfr/40/227.8.md), [227.9](/cfr/40/227.9.md), and [227.10](/cfr/40/227.10.md).
- (b) Other containerized wastes will be approved for dumping only under the following conditions:
  - (1) The materials to be disposed of decay, decompose or radiodecay to environmentally innocuous materials within the life expectancy of the containers and/or their inert matrix; and
  - (2) Materials to be dumped are present in such quantities and are of such nature that only short-term localized adverse effects will occur should the containers rupture at any time; and
  - (3) Containers are dumped at depths and locations where they will cause no threat to navigation, fishing, shorelines, or beaches.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1412 and 1418.

### Source

Source: 42 FR 2476, Jan. 11, 1977, unless otherwise noted.