(1)
Abbreviations.
CERCLA - Federal Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended
CFR - Code of Federal Regulations
HSRA - Georgia Hazardous Site Response Act, O.C.G.A. §
12-8-90 et seq.
IEUBK - USEPA's Integrated Exposure Uptake Biokinetic Model
for Lead in Children
IRIS - USEPA's Integrated Risk Information System
MCL - Maximum Contaminant Levels - Drinking water standards
established pursuant to the Safe Drinking Water Act, promulgated at 40 CFR Part
141, Subpart G, including the treatment technique action level concentrations
found in 40 CFR
141.80(c).
NCP - The National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution
Contingency Plan, 40 CFR Part 300
O.C.G.A. - Official Code of Georgia, Annotated
PPRTV - USEPA's Provisional Peer Reviewed Toxicity
Values
RAGS, Part A - "Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund:
Volume 1 - Human Health Evaluation Manual (Part A)," USEPA document
EPA/540/1-89/002, as amended.
RAGS, Part B - "Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund:
Volume 1 - Human Health Evaluation Manual (Part B, Development of Risk-based
Preliminary Remediation Goals)," USEPA document EPA/540/R-92/003, as
amended.
RAGS, Part E - "Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund,
Volume I: Human Health Evaluation Manual (Part E, Supplemental Guidance for
Dermal Risk Assessment)," USEPA document EPA/540/R-99/005, as amended.
RAGS, Part F - "Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund,
Volume I: Human Health Evaluation Manual (Part F, Supplemental Guidance for
Inhalation Risk Assessment)," USEPA document EPA/540/R-070/002, as
amended.
SARA - Federal Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act
of 1986, as amended
SW-846 - "Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Waste,
Physical/Chemical Methods," USEPA Publication SW-846
USEPA - United States Environmental Protection
Agency
(2)
Definitions. Unless otherwise defined in this chapter, the
definition of all terms included in the HSRA, O.C.G.A.
12-8-90 et seq., as amended, the
Georgia Hazardous Waste Management Act (HWMA) O.C.G.A. §
12-8-60 et seq., as amended, and
in the Rules for Hazardous Waste Management, Section
391-3-11-.02, shall have the same
meaning in this chapter. When used in this chapter, the following terms shall
have the meaning given below:
(a)
Approved analytical test method means SW-846 test methods that
have been promulgated, recommended, or otherwise approved by USEPA, or methods
approved for use by the Division;
(b)
Conditionally exempt small
quantity generator means a hazardous waste generator who generates 220
pounds or less of hazardous waste in one month;
(c)
Defined release means
any release which is an event which has a known duration of less than 30
consecutive days, which has a known source, and which involves quantities that
are known or can be estimated;
(d)
Detection limit means the practical quantitation limit (PQL),
defined as the lowest concentration, for an approved analytical test method and
for a given sample matrix, at which the quantity of a regulated substance can
be measured with a stated degree of confidence under routine laboratory
operating conditions;
(e)
Final receiving facility means a receiving facility that
receives a hazardous waste and from which that hazardous waste will not be
reshipped for further off-site management;
(f)
Free product means any
non-aqueous phase liquid that contains a regulated substance and that has
accumulated at a groundwater surface, has pooled above a low permeability
boundary in an aquifer, or can move freely in the aquifer;
(g)
Ground water means any
subsurface water that is in a zone of saturation;
(h)
Large quantity generator
means a hazardous waste generator who generates 2.2 pounds or more of acute
hazardous waste or 2200 pounds or more of hazardous waste in one
month;
(i)
Non-residential
property means any real property or portion of a property not
currently being used for human habitation or for other purposes with a similar
potential for human exposure, at which activities have been or are being
conducted that can be categorized in one of the 1987 Standard Industrial
Classification (SIC) major groups 01- 97 inclusive (except the four-digit codes
4941, 8051, 8059, 8062-3, 8069, 8211, 8221-2, 8351, 8661, and 9223).
Non-residential property includes all of the contiguous block(s) and lot(s)
controlled by the same owner or operator that are vacant land, or that are used
in conjunction with such business. For leased properties, non-residential
property includes the leasehold and any external tank, surface impoundment,
septic system, or any other structure, vessel, contrivance, or unit that
provides, or is utilized for the management of regulated substances to or from
the leasehold;
(j)
Off-site
management means the movement of hazardous waste beyond the property
boundary of the facility where it was generated for disposal, incineration,
treatment, storage, burning for energy recovery, recycling and/or reuse at a
receiving facility;
(k)
On-site management means the disposal, incineration,
treatment, storage, burning for energy recovery, recycling and/or reuse of
self-generated hazardous waste by any large quantity generator before it is
shipped for off-site management or discharged from an outfall regulated under
the Georgia Water Quality Control Act;
(l)
Out-of-state generator
means any generator outside the State of Georgia that ships hazardous waste to
a receiving facility located within the State of Georgia;
(m)
Receiving facility means
a facility that receives hazardous waste for disposal, incineration, treatment,
storage, burning for energy recovery, recycling and/or reuse;
(n)
Regulated substance
means any substance defined in the Hazardous Waste Management Act, O.C.G.A.
§
12-8-62, by the terms "hazardous
waste" or "hazardous constituent," or any substance defined in the Hazardous
Site Response Act, O.C.G.A. §
12-8-92, as "hazardous substance"
(all such regulated substances are listed in Appendix I of this
Chapter);
(o)
Release means any intentional or unintentional act or omission
resulting in the spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying,
discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing into the
environment, including without limitation the abandonment or discarding of
barrels, containers, and other closed receptacles, of any hazardous waste,
hazardous constituent, or hazardous substance; provided however, that such term
shall not include any release which results in exposure to persons solely
within a workplace, with respect to a claim which such persons may assert
against the employer of such persons; emissions from the engine exhaust of any
motor vehicle, rolling stock, aircraft, vessel, or pipeline pumping station; or
the normal application of fertilizer;
(p)
Reportable quantity
means the amount of any released regulated substance which causes a site to
meet the criteria for listing on the Hazardous Site Inventory pursuant to the
screening method provided in Appendix II of this Chapter;
(q)
Reshipped for further off-site
management means when a receiving facility has received hazardous
waste and where such hazardous waste has undergone disposal, incineration,
treatment, storage, recycling and/or reuse at that receiving facility and the
receiving facility subsequently signs the manifest accompanying such hazardous
waste to send it to another receiving facility where it will undergo further
disposal, incineration, treatment, storage, burning for energy recovery,
recycling and/or reuse;
(r)
Residential property means any property that does not
exclusively meet the definition of non-residential property. In addition to
recognized residential use, it also includes property used for establishments
classified by those SIC codes that are excepted from the definition herein of
"non-residential". Also, a portion of non-residential property that is used in
part for residential activities, such as a day care center, is defined as
residential;
(s)
Responsible party means any person who has contributed or who
is contributing to a release, as defined at O.C.G.A.
12-8-92(9);
(t)
Self-generated hazardous
waste means hazardous waste generated by a large quantity generator or
a small quantity generator;
(u)
Shipped for off-site management means when a generator signs
the manifest accompanying a hazardous waste shipment bound for a receiving
facility where it will undergo disposal, incineration, treatment, storage,
burning for energy recovery, recycling and/or reuse at that facility;
(v)
Site means that portion
of the owner's contiguous property and any other owner's property affected by a
release exceeding a reportable quantity;
(w)
Small quantity generator
means a hazardous waste generator who generates greater than 220 pounds but
less than 2200 pounds of hazardous waste in one month;
(x)
Soil means any
unconsolidated earth material, together with any unconsolidated plant or animal
matter or foreign material that has become incorporated into it, that either
consists of, remains within, or comes to be deposited on, native soil or
regolith;
(y)
Source
material means any material that includes or contains regulated
substances that act or may likely act as a reservoir for migration of regulated
substances to groundwater, soil, surface water, or air, or acts as a source for
direct exposure;
(z)
Ton of
hazardous waste means a standard short ton (2000 pounds) including any
fraction thereof;
(aa)
Wastewater means any self-generated hazardous waste that
undergoes on-site management in a wastewater treatment facility prior to its
discharge from an outfall that is regulated under the Georgia Water Quality
Control Act.
