---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 C.F.R. § 268.37"
title: "40"
number: "268.37"
heading: "Waste specific prohibitions—ignitable and corrosive characteristic wastes whose treatment standards were vacated."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/40/268.37"
---

# §268.37. Waste specific prohibitions—ignitable and corrosive characteristic wastes whose treatment standards were vacated.

- (a) Effective August 9, 1993, the wastes specified in [40 CFR 261.21](/cfr/40/261.21.md) as D001 (and is not in the High TOC Ignitable Liquids Subcategory), and specified in [§ 261.22](/cfr/40/261.22.md) as D002, that are managed in systems other than those whose discharge is regulated under the Clean Water Act (CWA), or that inject in Class I deep wells regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), or that are zero dischargers that engage in CWA-equivalent treatment before ultimate land disposal, are prohibited from land disposal. CWA-equivalent treatment means biological treatment for organics, alkaline chlorination or ferrous sulfate precipitation for cyanide, precipitation/sedimentation for metals, reduction of hexavalent chromium, or other treatment technology that can be demonstrated to perform equally or greater than these technologies.
- (b) Effective February 10, 1994, the wastes specified in [40 CFR 261.21](/cfr/40/261.21.md) as D001 (and is not in the High TOC Ignitable Liquids Subcategory), and specified in [§ 261.22](/cfr/40/261.22.md) as D002, that are managed in systems defined in 40 CFR [144.6(e)](/cfr/40/144.6.md?p=e) and [146.6(e)](/cfr/40/146.6.md?p=e) as Class V injection wells, that do not engage in CWA-equivalent treatment before injection, are prohibited from land disposal.

## Notes

### Amendments

[58 FR 29885, May 24, 1993]

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 6905, 6912(a), 6921, and 6924.

### Amendments

[58 FR 29885, May 24, 1993]