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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".08" citation="COMAR 26.13.02.08" title_num="26" subtitle_num="13" chapter_num="02" heading="Criteria for Identifying the Characteristics of Hazardous Waste.">
  <text>The Secretary shall identify and define a characteristic of hazardous waste in Regulations .10—.14 only upon determining that:</text>
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>A solid waste that exhibits the characteristic may:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Cause, or significantly contribute to, an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness; or</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when it is improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed of or otherwise managed; and</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>The characteristic can be:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Measured by an available standardized test method which is reasonably within the capability of generators of solid waste or private sector laboratories that are available to serve generators of solid waste; or</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Reasonably detected by generators of solid waste through their knowledge of their waste.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>