Fla. Admin. Code Ann. R. 62-673.200 - Definitions
The following words, phrases or terms as used in this chapter, unless the context indicates otherwise, shall have the following meaning:
(1) "Aquifer" means a
geologic formation, group of formations, or part of a formation capable of
yielding a significant amount of groundwater to wells, springs or surface
water.
(2) "Closing" means the time
at which a phosphogypsum stack system ceases to accept wastes, and includes
those actions taken by the owner or operator of the facility to prepare the
system for any necessary monitoring and maintenance after closing.
(3) "Closure" means the cessation of
operation of a phosphogypsum stack system and the act of securing such a system
so that it will pose no significant threat to human health or the environment.
This includes closing, long-term monitoring, maintenance and financial
assurance.
(4) "Department" means
the State of Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
(5) "Disposal" means the discharge, deposit,
injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any solid waste into or
upon any land or water so that such solid waste or any constituent thereof may
enter other lands or be emitted into the air or discharged into any waters,
including groundwaters, or otherwise enter the environment.
(6) "Facility" means all contiguous land and
structures, other appurtenances and improvements on the phosphate fertilizer
manufacturing complex.
(7) "Final
cover" means the materials used to cover the top and sides of a phosphogypsum
stack upon closure.
(8)
"Geomembrane" means a low-permeability synthetic membrane used as an integral
part of a system designed to limit the movement of liquid or gas in the
system.
(9) "Lateral expansion"
means the expansion, horizontally, of phosphogypsum or process wastewater
storage capacity beyond the permitted capacity and design dimensions of the
phosphogypsum stack, or cooling ponds, surge ponds, and perimeter drainage
conveyances at an existing facility. Any phosphogypsum stack, cooling pond,
surge pond, or perimeter drainage conveyance which is constructed within 2, 000
feet of an existing phosphogypsum stack system, measured from the edge of the
expansion nearest to the edge of the footprint of the existing phosphogypsum
stack system, is considered a lateral expansion.
(10) "Leachate" means liquid that has passed
through or emerged from phosphogypsum.
(11) "Liner" means a continuous layer of low
permeability natural or synthetic materials which controls the downward and
lateral escape of waste constituents or leachate from a phosphogypsum stack
system.
(12) "100-year floodplain"
means the lowland and relatively flat areas adjoining inland and coastal
waters, including flood-prone areas of offshore islands, that are inundated by
the 100-year flood.
(13)
"Phosphogypsum" means calcium sulfate and byproducts produced by the reaction
of sulfuric acid with phosphate rock to produce phosphoric acid. Phosphogypsum
is a solid waste within the definition of Section
403.703(13),
F.S.
(14) "Phosphogypsum stack"
means any defined geographic area associated with a phosphoric acid production
facility in which phosphogypsum is disposed of or stored, other than within a
fully enclosed building, container or tank.
(15) "Phosphogypsum stack system" means the
phosphogypsum stack (or pile, or landfill), together with all pumps, piping,
ditches, drainage conveyances, water control structures, collection pools,
cooling ponds, surge ponds, auxiliary holding ponds, regional holding ponds and
any other collection or conveyance system associated with the transport of
phosphogypsum from the plant to the phosphogypsum stack, its management at the
stack, and the process wastewater return to the phosphoric acid production or
other process. This definition specifically includes toe drain systems and
ditches and other leachate collection systems, but does not include conveyances
within the confines of the fertilizer production plant or emergency diversion
impoundments used in emergency circumstances caused by rainfall events of high
volume or duration for the temporary storage of process wastewater to avoid
discharges to surface waters of the state.
(16) "Process wastewater" means any water
which, during manufacturing or processing, comes into direct contact with or
results from the production or use of any raw material, intermediate product,
finished product, by-product, or waste product, along with any leachate or
runoff from the phosphogypsum stack system. This term does not include
contaminated nonprocess wastewater as that term is defined in
40 C.F.R.
418.11(c).
(17) "Related parties" means affiliates of
the enterprise; entities for which investments are accounted by the equity
method by the enterprise; trusts for the benefit of employees, such as pension
and profit-sharing trusts that are managed by or under the trusteeship of
management; principal owners of the enterprise; its management; members of the
immediate families of principal owners of the enterprise and its management;
and other parties with which the enterprise may deal if one party controls or
can significantly influence the management or operating policies of the other
to an extent that one of the transacting parties might be prevented from fully
pursuing its own separate interests. Another party also is a related party if
it can significantly influence the management or operating policies of the
transacting parties or if it has an ownership interest in one of the
transacting parties and can significantly influence the other to an extent that
one or more of the transacting parties might be prevented from fully pursuing
its own separate interests.
(18)
"Shallow water supply well" means any potable water well which pumps water from
an unconfined water table aquifer.
(19) "Stack system configuration as of the
end of its useful life" means the maximum physical dimensions of the
phosphogypsum stack system as provided by the applicant in a general plan and
schedule for closure or a closure plan submitted to the Department pursuant to
Rule 62-673.600 or
62-673.610,
F.A.C.
Notes
Rulemaking Authority 403.061, 403.4154, 403.704 FS. Law Implemented 403.4154, 403.703, 403.707 FS.
New 3-25-93, Formerly 17-673.200, Amended 7-2-05, 7-19-06.
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