§724.132. Required Equipment

All facilities must be equipped with the following, unless the owner or operator demonstrates to the Agency that none of the hazards posed by waste handled at the facility could require a particular kind of equipment specified below:

 

a)         An internal communications or alarm system capable of providing immediate emergency instruction (voice or signal) to facility personnel;

 

b)         A device, such as a telephone (immediately available at the scene of operations) or a hand-held two-way radio, capable of summoning emergency assistance from local police departments, fire departments, or State or local emergency response teams;

 

c)         Portable fire extinguishers, fire control equipment (including special extinguishing equipment, such as that using foam, inert gas, or dry chemicals), spill control equipment and decontamination equipment; and

 

d)         Water at adequate volume and pressure to supply water hose streams, or foam producing equipment, or automatic sprinklers or water spray systems.

 

BOARD NOTE:  35 Ill. Adm. Code 703 requires that an owner or operator who wishes to make the demonstration referred to above must do so with Part B of the permit application.

 

(Source:  Amended at 42 Ill. Reg. 22614, effective November 19, 2018)