UPDATED:
04/02/96
BEST
MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
FOR
PAINT AND BODY SHOPS
Best
management practices can be thought of as using "good housekeeping"
practices. Listed below are several procedures to
operate your facility
and minimize
the risk of contamination to the environment.
1. Solvents and other industrial fluids shall
not be discharged into
sanitary
sewers, septic tanks, storm drains, soakage pits, surface
waters
or onto the ground surface. These
fluids must be collected
and
disposed of properly. Any industrial
waste discharged into
sanitary
sewers must meet sanitary sewer standards.
2. All
solvent and paint containers must be empty and completely dry
before
disposal. Cans must be punctured before
disposal to the
local
sanitary landfill.
3. Paint
thinners, solvents, spent solvents and solvent mixtures are
hazardous
wastes, and must be properly disposed of by a permitted
hazardous waste transporter; or
the solvents can be recycled by a
permitted
recycler, or distilled and recycled using a solvent
recovery
unit at your facility.
a. If
the waste solvent is recycled by the facility generating
the
waste, the stillbottoms from the reclaiming operation
must
be collected and handled as hazardous waste, unless
proven
otherwise.
b.
If the waste solvent is recycled
by a permitted solvent
recycler,
receipts must be obtained from the recycler and
copies
kept at your facility.
4. In
all cases when a hazardous waste is produced, a permitted
hazardous
waste transporter must be used to transport the waste to
a
federally approved hazardous waste disposal or treatment
facility. Hazardous waste manifests must be kept at
your
facility,
available for review. The facility
generating the
hazardous
waste is required to obtain an Environmental Protection
Agency
identification number unless classified as a conditionally
exempt
generator by contacting:
Notification
Coordinator
Bureau
of Waste Planning and Regulation
Florida
Dept. of Environmental Protection
Twin
Towers Office Building, Room 471
2600
Blair Stone Road
Tallahassee,
Florida 32399-240
(904)
488-4805
a.
The containers must be compatible
with the hazardous waste
stored
in them and must meet DOT standards.
Each container
is
to be marked with the date that the storage began and marked
with
the words "Hazardous Waste".
5.
Rags used during cleaning
processes which become contaminated with
hazardous
materials such as solvents, paints, etc. are considered
hazardous
wastes and may be handled by an approved rag service or
an
approved hazardous waste transporter.
Used rags must not be
disposed
of in the trash/dumpster unless a hazardous waste profile
indicates
otherwise and approval is granted by this department.
6. Receipts
of all waste and/or wastewater disposal must be
maintained
on site, available for inspection.
Hazardous waste
manifests
must be kept for any hazardous waste disposal.
Receipts/manifests
must be kept for a period of three (3) years.
7. Special
attention should be paid to storm drain locations. Storm
drains are designed
to help alleviate rainwater. These
drains are
not
connected to the sanitary sewer system, but rather discharge
to
the ground and groundwater. Therefore,
no discharges are to go
to these storm drains, other than
rainwater. Areas should be kept
free
of oil and grease and other contaminants into these drains.
8. For
storing large amounts of chemicals and/or fuels:
a. All
chemical and fuel storage areas must be contained within
an
impervious bermed or walled area capable of containing
110%
of the volume of the largest single storage tank within
the
secondary containment area.
b.
Chemical storage areas must be on
an impervious surface with
secondary
containment or a bermed and covered area away from
drainage
structures (e.g. floor drains or storm drains).
9. Absorbent
material shall be kept on site to cleanup any accidental
spill. Used absorbent pads must not be disposed of
in the
trash/dumpster
unless a hazardous waste profile indicates
otherwise
and approval is granted by this department.
10. In
large storage areas, there must be aisle space between storage
products. This will enable inspection of the container
for leaks
and/or
corrosion. Incompatible chemicals or
materials should be
stored
separately.
11. Spent
spray booth filters may be disposed of with the regular
trash,
only if tests prove they are non-hazardous.
12. Excess
solvents generated from gun cleaning should not be sprayed
into
the spray booth filters. This fluid
must be collected and
treated
as waste solvent.
13. Car
wash water from a hand washing process must be discharged to
sanitary
sewers, if available. If sewers are not
available a
separate
recycle system must be installed for wash water.
Wastewater must be sampled
and approval is granted from this
Department
prior to disposal.
14. All
painting and priming must be done inside a spray booth, which
requires
an air permit from DERM's Air Section (phone #372-6925).
Absolutely
no spray painting is allowed in the open.
Pollution
Prevention Suggestions
The reduction or elimination, at the
source, of discharges or
emissions to the environment.
1. Waste
fluids should be segregated and kept separately. This
prevents
mixing incompatible substances and prevents contamination
of
a non-hazardous waste by a hazardous waste.
This also allows
them
each to be recycled or disposed of appropriately and reduce
disposal costs.
2. Recycling
of waste fluids is a preferred option.
This can either
be
done on-site or shipped to an approved recycler off-site.
Units
for filtering, adding the necessary additives and restoring
coolant are available. (Installation of such units must be
approved
by DERM and the Fire Dept.)
3. For
small to medium facilities, it may be more economical to have
a
parts washer contractor replenish the parts cleaner and remove
the
spent solution, than to install a solvent recycling still.
4. Large
facilities, on-site solvent recycling stills are usually
very
economical with payback periods of only 2-3 years.
5. Stop
leaks quickly. Drip pans can be placed
to catch leaks. Spot
mopping
with a bucket (and proper disposal of the water) can be
performed. Floor cleaning machines are available that
will spray
a
cleaning solution, scrub with brushed, and vacuum up the
solution
(to be disposed of properly). Absorbent
pads are
available
that allow the oil to be "squeezed out" into a waste oil
drum. The pads can be reused several times.
6. Scrap
parts can be sold to metal recyclers.
Questions
will be answered by the Industrial Facilities Section staff
at
(305)372-6600. Any questions concerning
pollution prevention please
call
the Pollution Prevention Program at (305)372-6784.
All
paint and body shops are required to obtain an Annual Pollution Control
Operating Permit.