Okla. Stat. tit. 27A, § 27A-2-7-105

Quality.

The Department of Environmental Quality shall have the power and

duty to:

1. Issue permits for the construction and operation and for the

post-closure, maintenance and monitoring of hazardous waste

facilities;

2. Provide the owner or operator of a hazardous waste facility

a list of all materials which the Department deems acceptable for

treatment, recycling, storage, and disposal at the facility;

3. Make periodic inspections of hazardous waste facilities and

recycling, transporting, and generating facilities to determine the

extent of compliance with the Oklahoma Hazardous Waste Management

Act and rules promulgated thereunder, and orders, permits and

licenses issued pursuant thereto;

4. Develop, maintain, and monitor public records of the source

and amount of hazardous waste generated in Oklahoma and the methods

used to dispose of, recycle, or treat said waste or material;

5. Require and prescribe manifest forms to all persons

generating and transporting hazardous waste off-site for storage,

recycling, treatment, or disposal;

6. Require periodic reports or manifest certifications

regarding such programs and efforts to reduce the volume or quantity

and toxicity of such hazardous waste as may be required by or

pursuant to authority of the Oklahoma Hazardous Waste Management

Act;

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7. Require reports from all operators of hazardous waste

facilities who receive hazardous waste for treatment or storage or

disposal, listing the amount, transporter, and generator of all

hazardous waste received. Such reports are to be made on at least a

monthly or quarterly basis, as designated by the Department;

8. Approve or disapprove methods of disposal of hazardous

waste, and may prohibit certain specific disposal practices

including, but not limited to, any type of land disposal of any form

of such waste. Land disposal includes, but is not limited to,

landfills, surface impoundments, waste piles, deep injection wells,

land treatment facilities, salt dome and bed formations and

underground mines or caves;

9. Inform persons generating hazardous waste of available,

alternative methods of disposal of such waste;

10. Develop a system to provide information on recyclable

wastes to potential users of such materials. Such information shall

not include any information which the Department deems confidential

or private in nature;

11. Cooperate and share information with the U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency;

12. Prepare an emergency response plan for spills of hazardous

waste and for spills of hazardous materials;

13. Make information obtained by the Department regarding

hazardous waste facilities and sites available to the public in

substantially the same manner, and to the same degree, as would be

the case if the hazardous waste program in this state were being

carried out by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency;

14. Develop rules with respect to any existing surface

impoundment or landfill or class of surface impoundments or

landfills from which the Department determines hazardous waste may

migrate into groundwater, impose such requirements, including but

not limited to double liners and leachate detection and collection

systems, as may be necessary to protect human health and the

environment;

15. Prohibit or restrict the use of any specific disposal

methods or practices for specific hazardous waste material,

substances or classes, as may be necessary to protect human health

and the environment;

16. Identify areas within the state which are unsuitable for

specific hazardous waste disposal methods, and deny permits for such

disposal methods in such areas;

17. Issue a one-year research development and demonstration

permit for any treatment facility which proposes an innovative and

experimental hazardous waste treatment technology or process not yet
t human health

and the environment;

16. Identify areas within the state which are unsuitable for

specific hazardous waste disposal methods, and deny permits for such

disposal methods in such areas;

17. Issue a one-year research development and demonstration

permit for any treatment facility which proposes an innovative and

experimental hazardous waste treatment technology or process not yet

regulated. Permits may be renewed no more than three times. No

renewal may exceed one (1) year;

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18. Waive or modify general permit application and issuance

requirements for research and development permits, except for

financial responsibility and public participation requirements;

19. Terminate experimental activity if necessary to protect

human health and the environment;

20. Require oil recycling facilities using hazardous waste to

have a hazardous waste facility permit;

21. Issue permits containing any conditions necessary to

protect human health and the environment;

22. Issue permits for the storage of hazardous waste in

underground tanks;

23. Require groundwater monitoring for any landfill, surface

impoundment, land treatment site or pile;

24. Determine and enforce penalties for violations of the

Oklahoma Hazardous Waste Management Act and rules promulgated

thereunder;

25. Evaluate the benefit of rules governing labeling practices

for any containers used for the disposal, storage, or transportation

of hazardous waste which accurately identify such waste, and govern

the use of appropriate containers for such waste not otherwise

regulated by the federal government;

26. Monitor research and development regarding methods of the

handling, storage, use, processing, and disposal of hazardous waste;

27. Cooperate with existing technical reference centers on

hazardous waste disposal, recycling practices, and related

information for public and private use;

28. Monitor research in the technical and managerial aspects of

management and use of hazardous waste and recycling and recovery of

resources from hazardous wastes;

29. Determine existing rates of production of hazardous waste;

30. Promote recycling and recovery of resources from hazardous

wastes;

31. Encourage the reduction or exchange, or both, of hazardous

waste; and

32. Cooperate with an existing information clearinghouse, to

develop records of recyclable waste. Every generator of hazardous

waste shall supply the Department with information for the

clearinghouse. Each generator shall not be required to supply any

more information than is required by the manifests. The Department

shall make this information available to persons who desire to

recycle the wastes. The information shall be made available in such

a way that the trade secrets of the producer are protected.