Required notices

1. The owner or operator of a facility that is arranging or has arranged to receive hazardous waste subject to sections 33.1-24-03-50 through 33.1-24-03-55 from a foreign source shall submit the following required notices: a. As per subsection 2 of section 33.1-24-03-55, for imports where the competent authority of the country of export does not require the foreign exporter to submit to it a notification proposing export and obtain consent from the environmental protection agency and the competent authorities for the countries of transit, such owner or operator of the facility, if acting as the importer, shall provide notification of the proposed transboundary movement in English to the environmental protection agency using the allowable methods listed in subdivision a of subsection 2 of section 33.1-24-03-55 at least sixty days before the first shipment is expected to depart the country of export. The notification may cover up to one year of shipments of wastes having similar physical and chemical characteristics, the same United Nations classification, the same Resource Conservation and Recovery Act waste codes and organization for economic cooperation and development waste codes, and being sent from the same foreign exporter. b. As per paragraph 15 of subdivision b of subsection 4 of section 33.1-24-03-55, a copy of the movement document bearing all required signatures within three working days of receipt of the shipment to the foreign exporter; to the competent authorities of the countries of export and transit shipment as an export and transit that control the shipment as an export and transit shipment of hazardous waste respectively; and on or after the electronic import export reporting compliance date, to the environmental protection agency electronically using the environmental protection agency's waste import export tracking system, or its successor system. The original of the signed movement document must be maintained at the facility for at least three years. The owner or operator of a facility may satisfy this recordkeeping requirement by retaining electronically submitted documents in the facility's account on the environmental protection agency's waste import export tracking system or its successor system, provided that copies are readily available for viewing and production if requested by any environmental protection agency or authorized state inspector. No owner or operator of a facility may be held liable for the inability to produce the documents for inspection under this section if the owner or operator of a facility can demonstrate that the inability to produce the document is due exclusively to technical difficulty with the environmental protection agency's waste import export tracking system, or it successor system for which the owner or operator of a facility bears no responsibility. c. As per subdivision d of subsection 6 of section 33.1-24-03-55, if the facility has physical control of the waste and it must be sent to an alternate facility or returned to the country of export, such owner or operator of the facility shall inform the environmental protection agency, using the allowable methods listed in subdivision a of subsection 2 of section 33.1-24-03-55 of the need to return or arrange alternate management of the shipment. d. As per subsection 7 of section 33.1-24-03-55, such owner or operator shall; (1) Send copies of the signed and dated confirmation of recovery or disposal, as soon as possible, but no later than thirty days after completing recovery or disposal on the waste in the shipment and no later than one calendar year following receipt of the waste, to the foreign exporter, to the competent authority of the country of export that controls the shipment as an export of hazardous waste, and for shipments recycled or disposed of on or after the electronic import export reporting compliance date, to the environmental protection agency electronically using the environmental protection agency's waste import export tracking system, or its successor system. (2) If the facility performed any of recovery operations R12, R13, or RC16, or disposal operations D13 through D15, or DC17, promptly send copies of the confirmation of recovery or disposal that it receives from the final recovery or disposal facility within one year of shipment delivery to the final recovery or disposal facility that performed one of recovery operations R1 through R11, or RC16, or one of disposal operations D1 through D12, or DC15 to DC16, to the competent authority for the country of export that controls the shipment as an export of hazardous waste, and on or after the electronic import export reporting compliance date, to the environmental protection agency electronically using the environmental protection agency's waste import export tracking system, or its successor system. The recovery and disposal operations in this paragraph are defined in section 33.1-24-03-51. 2. Before transferring ownership or operation of a facility during its operating life, or of a disposal facility during the postclosure care period, the owner or operator shall notify the new owner or operator in writing of the requirements in this chapter and chapter 33.1-24-06. 3. The owner or operator of a facility that receives hazardous waste from an offsite source (except where the owner or operator is also the generator) shall inform the generator in writing that the owner or operator has the appropriate permit for, and will accept, the waste the generator is shipping. The owner or operator shall keep a copy of this written notice as part of the operating record.