Notice of Intent To Grant an Exemption for the Injection of Certain Hazardous Wastes to Environmental Disposal Systems, Inc. for Two Injection Wells Located at 28470 Citrin Drive, Romulus, MI

Résumé

The United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5, Chicago office, proposes (through this notice) to grant an exemption from the ban on disposal of hazardous wastes through injection wells to Environmental Disposal Systems Inc. (EDS) of Birmingham, Michigan. If the exemption is granted, EDS may inject all Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) regulated hazardous wastes through waste disposal wells 1-12 and 2-12. The regulations promulgated under the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments to RCRA, prohibit the injection of restricted hazardous waste into an injection well. Persons seeking an exemption from the prohibition must submit a petition demonstrating that, to a reasonable degree of certainty, there will be no migration of hazardous constituents from the injection zone for as long as the waste remains hazardous. On January 21, 2000, EDS submitted a petition to the EPA, Region 5, Chicago office, seeking an exemption from the ban based on a showing that any fluids injected will not migrate vertically out of the injection zone or laterally to a point of discharge or interface with an underground source of drinking water (USDW) within 10,000 years. The EPA has con