Section NR 673.04 - Applicability - mercury-containing equipment(1) MERCURY-CONTAINING EQUIPMENT COVERED UNDER THIS CHAPTER. The requirements of this chapter apply to persons managing mercury-containing equipment, as described in s. NR 673.09, except those listed in sub. (2).(2) MERCURY-CONTAINING EQUIPMENT NOT COVERED UNDER THIS CHAPTER. The requirements of this chapter do not apply to persons managing any of the following mercury-containing equipment: (a) Mercury-containing equipment that is not yet a waste under ch. NR 661. Subsection (3) describes when mercury-containing equipment become a waste.(b) Mercury-containing equipment that is not hazardous waste. Mercury-containing equipment is a hazardous waste if it exhibits one or more of the characteristics identified in subch. C of ch. NR 661 or is listed in subch. D of ch. NR 661.(c) Equipment and devices from which the mercury-containing components have been removed.(3) GENERATION OF WASTE MERCURY-CONTAINING EQUIPMENT.(a) Used mercury-containing equipment becomes a waste on the date it is discarded (for example, sent for reclamation).(b) Unused mercury-containing equipment becomes a waste on the date the handler decides to discard it.Wis. Admin. Code Department of Natural Resources NR 673.04
CR 05-032: cr. Register July 2006 No. 607, eff. 8-1-06.Amended by, CR 16-007: am. (title), (1), (2) (intro.), (a), (b), cr. (2) (c), am. (3) Register July 2017 No. 739, eff.8/1/2017