The following words, phrases or terms as used in chapters
62-701 through 62-722, F.A.C., unless the context indicates otherwise, shall
have the following meaning:
(1)
"Active life" means the operating life of a facility as estimated in the permit
application, but does not include the long-term care period.
(2) "Agricultural wastes" means the solid
wastes resulting from normal farming operations, the raising and slaughtering
of animals, and the processing of animal products, orchard, and field crops,
which are stored, transported, or disposed of as an unwanted waste
material.
(3) "Airport" means any
area of land or water, or any manmade object or facility located thereon, which
is used, or intended for use, for the landing and takeoff of aircraft, and any
appurtenant areas that are used, or intended for use, for airport buildings or
other airport facilities or rights-of-way, together with all airport buildings
and facilities located thereon.
(4)
"Air quality standards" means, unless otherwise specified, those standards set
forth in chapter 62-204, F.A.C.
(5)
"ASTM" means ASTM International.
(6) "Aquifer" means a geologic formation,
group of formations, or part of a formation capable of yielding a significant
amount of ground water to wells, springs, or surface water.
(7) "Ash residue" means all the solid residue
and any entrained liquids resulting from the combustion of solid waste in a
solid waste combustor, including bottom ash, fly ash and combined bottom and
fly ash, but excluding recovered metals, glass, and other recovered materials
separated from the ash residue.
(a) "Bottom
ash" means the solid material remaining after combustion of solid waste, which
is discharged from the grates or stoker of a solid waste combustor.
(b) "Fly ash" means the residue from the
combustion of solid waste, which is entrained in the gas stream of a solid
waste combustor. Fly ash includes particulates, cinders, soot, and solid waste
from air pollution control equipment.
(8) "Biomedical waste" has the meaning given
it in chapter 64E-16, F.A.C.
(9)
"Biological waste" means solid waste that causes or has the capability of
causing disease or infection and includes biomedical waste, animals that died
from disease, and other wastes capable of transmitting pathogens to humans or
animals. The term does not include human remains that are disposed of by
persons licensed under chapter 470, F.S.
(10) "Bird hazard" means an increase in the
likelihood of bird/aircraft collisions that may cause damage to the aircraft or
injury to its occupants.
(11) "CCA
treated wood" means lumber, timber, or plywood treated with chromated copper
arsenate. This term does not include utility poles unless they have been
ground, chipped, or shredded.
(12)
"Cell" means a volume of solid waste received since the last previous
application of initial cover. The compacted waste and subsequent initial cover
constitute a cell that usually contains wastes deposited in one day.
(13) "Class I waste" means solid waste that
is not hazardous waste, and that is not prohibited from disposal in a lined
landfill under rule
62-701.300, F.A.C.
(14) "Class III waste" means yard trash,
construction and demolition debris, processed tires, asbestos, carpet,
cardboard, paper, glass, plastic, furniture other than appliances, or other
materials approved by the Department, that are not expected to produce leachate
that poses a threat to public health or the environment.
(15) "Clean debris" means any solid waste
that is virtually inert, is not a pollution threat to ground water or surface
waters, is not a fire hazard, and is likely to retain its physical and chemical
structure under expected conditions of disposal or use. The term includes
brick, glass, ceramics, and uncontaminated concrete including embedded pipe or
steel.
(16) "Clean wood" means
wood, including lumber, tree and shrub trunks, branches, and limbs, which is
free of paint, glue, filler, penthachlorophenol, creosote, tar, asphalt,
chromated copper arsenate, other wood preservatives or treatments.
(17) "Closing" means the time at which a
solid waste management facility ceases to accept wastes, and includes those
actions taken by the owner or operator of the facility to prepare the facility
for any necessary monitoring and maintenance after closing.
(18) "Closure" means the cessation of
operation of a solid waste management facility and the act of securing such a
facility so that it will pose no significant threat to human health or the
environment. This includes closing and long term care.
(19) "Cm/sec" means centimeters per
second.
(20) "Co-disposal" means
the disposal of two or more different types of waste in the same solid waste
disposal unit.
(21) "Combustion"
means the treatment of solid waste in a device that uses heat as the primary
means to change the chemical, physical, or biological character or composition
of the waste. Combustion processes include incineration, gasification, and
pyrolysis.
(22) "Commercial solid
waste" means all types of solid waste generated by stores, offices,
restaurants, warehouses, and other nonmanufacturing activities, excluding
household waste and industrial solid waste.
(23) "Composite liner" means a liner
comprised of a geomembrane, that is underlain and in direct contact with a soil
component.
(24) "Construction and
demolition debris" means discarded materials generally considered to be not
water soluble and non-hazardous in nature, including but not limited to steel,
glass, brick, concrete, asphalt material, pipe, gypsum wallboard, and lumber,
from the construction or destruction of a structure as part of a construction
or demolition project or from the renovation of a structure, including such
debris from construction of structures at a site remote from the construction
or demolition project site. The term includes rocks, soils, tree remains,
trees, and other vegetative matter that normally results from land clearing or
land development operations for a construction project; clean cardboard, paper,
plastic, wood, and metal scraps from a construction project; except as provided
in section 403.707(9)(j),
F.S., yard trash and unpainted, non-treated wood scraps from sources other than
construction or demolition projects; scrap from manufacturing facilities that
is the type of material generally used in construction projects and that would
meet the definition of construction and demolition debris if it were generated
as part of a construction or demolition project, including debris from the
construction of manufactured homes and scrap shingles, wallboard, siding
concrete, and similar materials from industrial or commercial facilities and de
minimis amounts of other non-hazardous wastes that are generated at
construction or demolition projects, provided such amounts are consistent with
best management practices of the construction and demolition industries. Mixing
of construction and demolition debris with other types of solid waste will
cause it to be classified as other than construction and demolition
debris.
(25) "Contaminated soil"
has the meaning given it in subsection
62-713.200(3),
F.A.C.
(26) "Degradable waste"
means waste that decomposes through chemical breakdown or microbiological
activity. It includes materials such as food and vegetative wastes, but does
not include materials like concrete, ash residue from the combustion of solid
wastes and metals.
(27)
"Department" means the State of Florida Department of Environmental
Protection.
(28) "Design period"
means the operating life of the solid waste management facility plus any
long-term care period after closing.
(29) "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 ground waters, or otherwise enter the environment.
(30) "Engineer of record" means a
professional engineer registered in the State of Florida in accordance with
provisions of Chapter 471, F.S., who is appointed by the owner or operator of
the solid waste management facility.
(31) "Facility" means all contiguous land and
structures, other appurtenances, and improvements on the land used for solid
waste management.
(32) "Fill" means
man-made deposits of earth or waste materials used to fill excavations, to
increase the vertical or horizontal extent of land or solid waste disposal
units, or to build embankments.
(33) "Final cover" means the materials used
to cover the top and sides of a landfill when fill operations cease.
(34) "Garbage" means all kitchen and table
food waste, and animal or vegetative waste that is attendant with or results
from the storage, preparation, cooking, or handling of food
materials.
(35) "Gas condensate"
means the liquid generated as a result of gas recovery processes at a solid
waste management facility.
(36)
"Gas recovery facility" means a system of wells, trenches, pipes, and other
related ancillary structures such as manholes, compressors, and monitoring
installations that collect and transport the gas produced in a waste disposal
unit to one or more gas processing points or flares. The flow of gas through
such a system may be produced by naturally occurring gas pressure gradients or
may be aided by an induced draft generated by mechanical means.
(37) "Generation" means the act or process of
producing solid waste.
(38)
"Geocomposite" means a product composed of two or more materials, at least one
of which is a geosynthetic.
(39)
"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.
(40) "Geogrid" means a
geosynthetic formed by a regular network of integrally connected elements with
apertures greater than 6.35 mm (1/4 inch) to allow interlocking with
surrounding soil, rock, earth and other surrounding materials to function
primarily as reinforcement.
(41)
"Geonet" means a geosynthetic consisting of integrally connected parallel sets
of ribs overlying similar sets at various angles for planar drainage of liquids
or gases.
(42) "Geosynthetic" means
a planar product manufactured from polymeric material used with soil, rock,
earth, or other geotechnical engineering-related material as an integral part
of a man-made project, structure or system.
(43) "Geosynthetic clay liner" (GCL) means a
low-permeability manufactured material consisting of a layer of low
permeability clay placed between two geotextiles.
(44) "Geotextile" means a permeable textile
used as a part of a system designed to act as a filter to prevent the flow of
fine particles into drainage systems, to provide planar flow for drainage, to
serve as a cushion to protect geomembranes, or to provide structural
support.
(45) "GRI" means
Geosynthetic Research Institute.
(46) "Ground water" means water beneath the
surface of the ground within a zone of saturation, whether or not it is flowing
through known and definite channels.
(47) "Hazardous waste" means a solid waste
regulated by the Department as a hazardous waste pursuant to chapter 62-730,
F.A.C.
(48) "HDPE" means high
density polyethylene.
(49)
"Household waste" means any solid waste, including garbage, trash, and sanitary
waste in septic tanks, derived from households, including single and multiple
residences, hotels and motels, bunkhouses, ranger stations, crew quarters,
campgrounds, picnic grounds, and day-use recreation areas.
(50) "Indoor" means within a structure that
has been constructed with a roof over an impervious surface and has outside
walls on a minimum of all but one of the sides of the facility. The roof and
outside walls must be constructed with materials having structural strength
like wood, block, fiberglass, plastic or metal rather than materials like
canvas or tarpaulin, and may include windows and doors. An impervious surface
means a surface like a poured concrete pad or asphaltic concrete.
(51) "Industrial byproducts" means those
materials that have a demonstrated recycling potential, can be feasibly
recycled, and have been diverted or removed from the solid waste stream for
sale, use, or reuse. The term does not include any materials that are defined
as recovered materials; a mixed waste stream that is processed to remove
recyclable materials; or materials the recycling or use of which is
specifically addressed in Department rules, such as construction and demolition
debris, ash residue, waste tires, used oil, and compost. Industrial byproducts
are regulated as solid waste unless otherwise exempted under paragraph
62-701.220(2)(d),
F.A.C.
(52) "Industrial solid
waste" means solid waste generated by manufacturing or industrial processes
that is not a hazardous waste. Such waste may include, but is not limited to,
waste resulting from the following manufacturing processes: electric power
generation; fertilizer/agricultural chemicals; food and related products or
byproducts; inorganic chemicals; iron and steel manufacturing; leather and
leather products; nonferrous metals manufacturing or foundries; organic
chemicals; plastics and resins manufacturing; pulp and paper industry; rubber
and miscellaneous plastic products; stone, glass, clay, and concrete products;
textile manufacturing; transportation equipment; and water treatment. This term
does not include mining waste or oil and gas waste.
(53) "Initial cover" means a 6-inch layer of
compacted earth, used to cover an area of solid waste before placement of
additional waste, intermediate cover, or final cover. The term also includes
other material or thickness, approved by the Department, that minimizes vector
breeding, animal attraction, and fire potential, prevents blowing litter,
controls odors, and improves landfill appearance.
(54) "Integral to" means, as regards the
examination and certification of resource recovery equipment, that the
machinery or equipment provides a significant function in the resource recovery
or recycling process, such that the resource recovery or recycling process
could not proceed without that piece of machinery or equipment.
(55) "Intermediate cover" means a layer of
compacted earth at least one foot in depth applied to a solid waste disposal
unit. The term also includes other material or thickness, approved by the
Department, that minimizes disease vectors, odors, and fire, and is consistent
with the leachate control design of the landfill.
(56) "Land clearing debris" means rocks,
soils, tree remains, trees, and other vegetative matter that normally results
from land clearing or land development operations for a construction project.
Land clearing debris does not include vegetative matter from lawn maintenance,
commercial or residential landscape maintenance, right-of-way or easement
maintenance, farming operations, nursery operations, or any other sources not
related directly to a construction project.
(57) "Landfill" means a solid waste disposal
facility, which is an area of land or an excavation where wastes are or have
been placed for disposal, for which a permit, other than a general permit, is
required by section
403.707, F.S. This term shall
not include:
(a) A land spreading
site;
(b) A surface
impoundment;
(c) An injection well
defined under and subject to the provisions of chapter 62-528, F.A.C.,
or
(d) A construction and
demolition debris disposal site regulated by rule
62-701.730,
F.A.C.
(58) "Lateral
expansion" means any horizontal increase in the dimensions of the waste
boundary of an existing solid waste disposal unit.
(59) "Leachate" means liquid that has passed
through or emerged from solid waste and may contain soluble, suspended or
miscible materials.
(60) "Lead-acid
battery" means those lead-acid batteries designed for use in motor vehicles,
vessels, and aircraft, and includes such batteries when sold as a component
part of a motor vehicle, vessel, or aircraft, but not when sold to recycle
components.
(61) "Lift" means a
completed horizontal series of cells.
(62) "Lined landfill" means a landfill
constructed with a liner made of synthetic materials, low-permeability soils,
or a combination of these materials, that has been permitted by the Department,
and that met the Department's landfill design criteria specified in this
chapter or previous versions of this chapter at the time of
permitting.
(63) "Liner" means a
continuous layer of low-permeability natural or synthetic materials, under the
bottom and sides of a landfill, solid waste disposal unit, or leachate surface
impoundment, which controls the downward or lateral escape of waste
constituents, or leachate.
(64)
"Liner system" means a system of leachate collection and liner layers comprised
of natural or synthetic materials installed between the subgrade and the waste
for the purpose of containing the waste and collecting and removing
leachate.
(65) "Liquid waste" means
any waste material that is determined to contain free liquids as defined by
Method 9095 (Paint Filter Liquids Test), as described in "Test Methods for
Evaluating Solid Wastes, Physical/Chemical Methods" (EPA Pub. No.
SW-846).
(66) "LLDPE" means linear
low density polyethylene.
(67)
"Local government" means any municipality, county, district, or authority, or
any agency thereof, or a combination of two or more of the foregoing when
acting jointly in connection with a project, which has jurisdiction over the
collection, recycling, disposal or treatment of solid waste.
(68) "Lower explosive limit" means the lowest
percent by volume of a mixture of explosive gases that will propagate a flame
in air at a temperature of 25 degrees Celsius and atmospheric
pressure.
(69) "Manure" means a
solid waste composed of excreta of animals, and residual materials that have
been used for bedding, sanitary or feeding purposes for such animals.
(70) "Materials recovery" means any process
by which one or more of the various components in solid waste is separated and
concentrated for reuse.
(71)
"Materials recovery facility" means a solid waste management facility that
provides for the extraction from solid waste of recyclable materials, materials
suitable for use as a fuel or soil amendment, or any combination of such
materials.
(72) "Method detection
limit" means the smallest concentration of an analyte of interest that can be
measured and reported with 99 percent confidence that the concentration is
greater than zero. The method detection limit shall be determined pursuant to
procedures outlined in chapter 62-160, F.A.C., which is hereby incorporated by
reference.
(73) "Monitoring wells"
means strategically located wells from which water samples are drawn for water
quality analysis.
(74) "Monofill"
means a waste pile, landfill or solid waste disposal unit into which only one
type of solid waste is placed.
(75)
"Motor vehicle" means an automobile, motorcycle, truck, trailer, semitrailer,
truck tractor and semitrailer combination, or any other vehicle operated in
this state, used to transport persons or property, and propelled by power other
than muscular power, but the term does not include traction engines, road
rollers, such vehicles as run only upon a track, bicycles, moped, or farm
tractors and trailers.
(76) "Normal
farming operations" means the customary and generally accepted activities,
practices, and procedures that farmers adopt, use, or engage in during the
production and preparation for market of poultry, livestock, and associated
farm products; and in the production, harvesting, or packaging of agricultural
crops which include agronomic, horticultural, and silvicultural crops. Included
are the management, collection, storage, composting, transportation, and
utilization of organic agricultural waste, manure, and materials solely derived
from agricultural crops. A facility regulated as an Animal Feeding Operation
pursuant to chapter 62-670, F.A.C., that manages its manure on-site will be
considered to be engaging in normal farming operations.
(77) "Objectionable odors" has the meaning
given that term in rule
62-210.200, F.A.C.
(78) "Oily wastes" has the meaning given that
term in rule
62-710.201, F.A.C.
(79) "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.
(80) "Onsite" means on the
same or geographically contiguous property, which may be divided by a public or
private right-of-way. It does not include two or more parcels of land more than
a mile apart that are connected only by a public or private
right-of-way.
(81) "Open burning"
means the burning of any material under such conditions that the products of
combustion are emitted directly into the atmosphere.
(82) "Operator" means any person, including
the owner, who is principally engaged in, and is in charge of, the actual
operation, supervision, and maintenance of a solid waste management
facility.
(83) "Person" means any
and all persons, natural or artificial, including any individual, firm, or
association; any municipal or private corporation organized or existing under
the laws of Florida or any other state; any county of this state; and any
governmental agency of this state or the Federal Government.
(84) "PGI" means PVC Geomembrane
Institute.
(85) "Population" means
the most recent population census determination under section
186.901, F.S.
(86) "Potable water well" means any
excavation that is drilled or bored, or converted from non-potable water use,
when the intended use of such excavation is for the location and acquisition of
ground water that supplies water for human consumption.
(87) "Processed tire" means a tire that has
been treated mechanically, chemically, or thermally so that the resulting
material is a marketable product or is suitable for proper disposal.
(88) "Processing" means any technique
designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological character or
composition of any solid waste so as to render it safe for transport, amenable
to recovery, storage or recycling; safe for disposal; or reduced in volume or
concentration.
(89) "Professional
engineer" means an engineer licensed in the State of Florida in accordance with
chapter 471, F.S.
(90)
"Professional geologist" means a geologist licensed in the State of Florida in
accordance with chapter 492, F.S.
(91) "Putrescible waste" means solid waste
that contains organic matter capable of being decomposed by microorganisms and
of such a character and proportion as to be capable of attracting or providing
food for birds. The term does not include uncontaminated yard trash or clean
wood.
(92) "PVC" means polyvinyl
chloride.
(93) "Quantity of tires"
means either weight, volume, or actual number of tires. For purposes of chapter
62-711, F.A.C., assume that, for passenger tires, there are 100 tires per ton
and 10 tires per cubic yard and that, for truck tires, there are 20 tires per
ton.
(94) "Reasonable assurance"
means the existence of a substantial likelihood, although not an absolute
guarantee, that the proposed activity will be successfully implemented and the
proposed activity and applicant will comply with applicable agency rules, laws,
orders and permit conditions. It does not mean proof that a facility will not
fail.
(95) "Recovered materials"
means metal, paper, glass, plastic, textile, or rubber materials that have
known recycling potential, can be feasibly recycled, and have been diverted and
source separated or have been removed from the solid waste stream for sale,
use, or reuse as raw materials, whether or not the materials require subsequent
processing or separation from each other, but does not include materials
destined for any use that constitutes disposal. Recovered materials as
described above are not solid waste.
(96) "Recovered materials processing
facility" means a facility engaged solely in the storage, processing, resale,
or reuse of recovered materials. Such a facility is not a solid waste
management facility if it meets the conditions of paragraph
62-701.220(2)(c),
F.A.C.
(97) "Recovered screen
material" means the fines fraction, consisting of soil and other small
materials, derived from the processing or recycling of construction and
demolition debris which passes through a final screen size no greater than 3/4
of an inch.
(98) "Recyclable
material" means those materials which are capable of being recycled and which
would otherwise be processed or disposed of as solid waste.
(99) "Recycling" means any process by which
solid waste, or materials which would otherwise become solid waste, are
collected, separated, or processed and reused or returned to use in the form of
raw materials or products.
(100)
"Recycling equipment" means machinery or equipment exclusively and integrally
used in the actual process by which solid waste or materials which would
otherwise become solid waste are separated or processed and reused or returned
to use in the form of raw materials or products.
(101) "Resource recovery" means the process
of recovering materials or energy from solid waste, excluding those materials
or solid waste under control of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
(102) "Resource recovery equipment" means
equipment or machinery exclusively and integrally used in the actual process of
recovering material or energy resources from solid waste. This definition
specifically includes recycling equipment.
(103) "Sanitary nuisance" means a condition
created by any person, or the keeping, maintaining, propagation, existence, or
permitting of anything by a person by which the health or lives of individuals
may be threatened or impaired, or by which disease may be caused or
transmitted.
(104) "Shredding"
means a process of reducing the particle size of solid waste through the use of
grinding, shredding, milling, or rasping machines.
(105) "Site" means the area of land or water
within the property boundaries of a solid waste management facility where one
or more solid waste processing, resource recovery, recycling, storage, or
disposal areas are located.
(106)
"Sludge" means a solid waste pollution control residual which is generated by
any industrial or domestic wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment
plant, air pollution control facility, septic tank, grease trap, portable
toilet or related operation, or any other such waste having similar
characteristics. Sludge may be a solid, liquid, or semisolid waste but does not
include the treated effluent from a wastewater treatment plant.
(107) "Solid waste" means: sludge that is not
regulated under the federal Clean Water Act or Clean Air Act, as well as sludge
from a waste treatment works, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution
control facility; or garbage, rubbish, refuse, special waste, or other
discarded material, including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous
material resulting from domestic, industrial, commercial, mining, agricultural,
or governmental operations. Materials not regulated as solid waste pursuant to
this chapter are: recovered materials; nuclear source or byproduct materials
regulated under chapter 404, F.S., or under the Federal Atomic Energy Act of
1954 as amended; suspended or dissolved materials in domestic sewage effluent
or irrigation return flows, or other regulated point source discharges;
regulated air emissions; and fluids or wastes associated with natural gas or
crude oil exploration or production.
(108) "Solid waste combustor" means an
enclosed device that uses controlled combustion, the primary purpose of which
is to thermally break down solid, liquid, or gaseous combustible solid wastes
to an ash residue that contains little or no combustible material. A solid
waste combustor specifically includes any facility that uses incineration,
gasification, or pyrolysis to break down solid waste.
(109) "Solid waste disposal facility" means
any solid waste management facility which is the final resting place for solid
waste, including landfills and incineration facilities that produce ash from
the process of incinerating municipal solid waste.
(110) "Solid waste disposal unit" means a
discrete area of land used for the disposal of solid waste.
(111) "Solid waste management" means the
process by which solid waste is collected, transported, stored, separated,
processed, or disposed of in any other way, according to an orderly,
purposeful, and planned program which includes closure.
(112) "Solid waste management facility" means
any solid waste disposal area, transfer station, materials recovery facility,
or other facility, the purpose of which is resource recovery or the disposal,
recycling, processing, or storage of solid waste. The term does not include
recovered materials processing facilities which meet the requirements of
paragraph
62-701.220(2)(c),
F.A.C., except the portion of such facilities, if any, that is used for the
management of solid waste.
(113)
"Special wastes" means solid wastes that can require special handling and
management, including but not limited to, white goods, waste tires, used oil,
lead-acid batteries, construction and demolition debris, ash residue, yard
trash, biological wastes, and mercury-containing devices and lamps.
(114) "Stabilized" means that biological and
chemical decomposition of the wastes has ceased or diminished to a level so
that such decomposition no longer poses a pollution, health, or safety
hazard.
(115) "Subgrade" means
soils native to or imported to a site, or other materials authorized by a
Department permit or this chapter, which may be graded and compacted before a
landfill liner system is constructed over them.
(116) "Tire" means a continuous solid or
pneumatic rubber covering encircling the wheel of a motor vehicle.
(117) "Tire disposal" means to deposit, dump,
spill or place any waste tire or residuals into or upon any structure, land or
water. Tire disposal also includes the burning of any waste tire or residuals
in a waste-to-energy facility, incinerator, or other facility used solely for
the disposal of solid waste.
(118)
"Tire recycling" means any process by which waste tires or residuals are reused
or returned to use in the form of products or raw materials.
(119) "Ton" means a short ton, 2000 pounds
(0.9078 metric tons).
(120)
"Transfer station" means a facility the primary purpose of which is to store or
hold solid waste for transport to a processing or disposal facility. Operations
at such facilities may include separation of incidental amounts of recyclable
materials or unauthorized waste.
(121) "Unauthorized waste" means any type of
waste that is not allowed to be accepted or managed at a solid waste management
facility in accordance with rule or statutory requirements or permit
conditions.
(122) "Used oil" has
the meaning given that term in rule
62-710.201, F.A.C.
(123) "Used tire" means a whole waste tire
which has a minimum tread depth of 3/32 inch or greater and is suitable for use
on a motor vehicle.
(124)
"Uppermost aquifer" means the geologic formation nearest the natural ground
surface that is an aquifer, as well as lower aquifers that are hydraulically
interconnected with this aquifer within a facility's property
boundary.
(125) "Vector" means a
carrier organism that is capable of transmitting a pathogen from one organism
to another.
(126) "Waste tire"
means a tire that has been removed from a motor vehicle and has not been
retreaded or regrooved. The term includes used tires and processed tires, but
does not include solid rubber tires and tires that are inseparable from the
rim.
(127) "Waste tire collection
center" means a site where waste tires are collected from the public before
being offered for recycling or disposal and where fewer than 1, 500 tires are
kept on-site on any given day.
(128) "Waste tire collector" means a person
who transports more than 25 waste tires over public highways at any one
time.
(129) "Waste tire processing
facility" means a site where equipment is used to treat waste tires
mechanically, chemically, or thermally so that the resulting material is a
marketable product or is suitable for proper disposal. The term includes mobile
waste tire processing equipment.
(130) "Waste tire residuals" means any
liquids, sludges, metals, fabric or byproducts resulting from the processing or
storage of tires. Residuals do not include processed tires held for recycling
or disposal, provided the conditions of rule
62-711.530, F.A.C., are
met.
(131) "Waste tire site" means
a site at which 1, 500 or more waste tires are accumulated. For purposes of
this term a site means a piece of property owned, rented, or otherwise
controlled by a person, including all contiguous or adjacent properties owned,
rented, or otherwise controlled by that person.
(132) "Water quality standards and criteria"
means, unless otherwise specified, those standards and criteria set forth in
chapters 62-302 and 62-520, F.A.C.
(133) "White goods" means inoperative and
discarded refrigerators, ranges, washers, water heaters, freezers, and other
similar domestic and commercial large appliances.
(134) "Working face" means that portion of a
solid waste disposal unit where waste is deposited, spread, and compacted
before placement of initial cover.
(135) "Yard trash" means vegetative matter
resulting from landscaping maintenance or land clearing operations and includes
materials such as tree and shrub trimmings, grass clippings, palm fronds, trees
and tree stumps, and associated rocks and soils.
(136) "Zone of discharge" has the meaning
given it in rule
62-520.200, F.A.C.
All other definitions found in chapter 403, F.S., and
chapters 62-702 through 62-722, F.A.C., to the extent that they are consistent
with the definitions of this chapter, are applicable to the terms used in this
chapter.