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25143.4
. (a) The department shall adopt regulations pursuant to
this section, which authorize the reuse of pulping liquors that are
reclaimed in a pulping liquor recovery furnace, and which are
equivalent to the regulations in Section 261.4 (a)(6) of Title 40 of
the Code of Federal Regulations.
Until the department adopts these regulations, the regulations
adopted by the Environmental Protection Agency regarding pulping
liquors that are reclaimed in a pulping liquor recovery furnace and
then reused in the pulping process, as set forth in Section 261.4 (a)
(6) of Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations, shall be deemed
to be the regulations of the department.
(b) To the extent consistent with the federal act, and
notwithstanding any other provision of law, organic materials,
including, but not limited to, crude sulfate turpentine and methanol,
that are derived from wood processed at kraft pulping mills to
produce wood pulp, may be burned as a fuel by the mill which produced
the materials, without obtaining a hazardous waste facilities permit
or other grant of authorization from the department, if all of the
following requirements are met:
(1) The materials exhibit only the characteristics listed in
Section 66261.21 of, and paragraph (6) of subdivision (a) of Section
66261.24 of, Title 22 of the California Code of Regulations.
(2) The materials have heating values comparable to that of
commercially available fuels.
(3) The materials are not contaminated or mixed with hazardous
constituents from other processes.
(4) The combustion of the materials is regulated by an air
pollution control district or air quality management district.