Incinerator Ash Amendments of 1989

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Incinerator Ash Amendments of 1989 - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate regulations, within six months of this Act's enactment, for the safe management of municipal incinerator ash. Requires that landfills into which such ashes are disposed provide for groundwater monitoring and: (1) have two or more liners and a leachate collection system above and between such liners; or (2) are monofills having a single liner and are designed to assure that there will be no future migration of any constituent into ground or surface water. Provides that alternatively-designed landfills shall meet such requirements if demonstrated that such landfills prevent migration of hazardous constituents as effectively as those required under this Act. Allows such regulations to permit bottom ash or combined bottom ash and flue which has been treated to be placed in sanitary landfills meeting current criteria. Directs the Administrator, in developing regulations for the management of municipal incinerator ash, to issue criteria and testing procedures for identifying the characteristics of such ash which may pose a hazard to hu…