Utah Admin. Code R315-260-10 - Definitions
(a) Terms used in Rules R315-15, R315-260
through R315-266, R315-268, R315-270, R315-273, and Rule R315-101 are defined
in Sections
19-1-103 and
19-6-102.
(b) Terms used in Rule R315-15 are also
defined in Sections
19-6-703 and
19-6-706.
(c) Additional terms used in Rules R315-260
through R315-266, R315-268, R315-270, R315-273, and Rule R315-101 are defined
as follows:
(1) "Above ground tank" means a
device meeting the definition of "tank" in Section
R315-260-10 and that is situated
in a way that the entire surface area of the tank is completely above the plane
of the adjacent surrounding surface and the entire surface area of the tank,
including the tank bottom, can be visually inspected.
(2) "Acute hazardous waste" means hazardous
wastes that meet the listing criteria in Subsection
R315-261-11(a)(2)
and therefore are either listed in Section
R315-261-31 with the assigned
hazard code of (H) or are listed in Subsection
R315-261-33(e).
(3) "Active life" of a facility means the
period from the initial receipt of hazardous waste at the facility until the
Director receives certification of final closure.
(4) "Active portion" means that portion of a
facility where treatment, storage, or disposal operations are being or have
been conducted after November 19, 1980 and which is not a closed portion. See
also "closed portion" and "inactive portion."
(5) "Aerosol can" means a non-refillable
receptacle containing a gas compressed, liquefied or dissolved under pressure,
the sole purpose of which is to expel a liquid, paste, or powder and fitted
with a self-closing release device allowing the contents to be ejected by the
gas.
(6) "AES filing compliance
date" means the date that EPA announces in the Federal Register, on or after
which exporters of hazardous waste and exporters of cathode ray tubes for
recycling are required to file EPA information in the Automated Export System
or its successor system, under the International Trade Data System (ITDS)
platform.
(7) "Airbag waste" means
any hazardous waste airbag modules or hazardous waste airbag
inflators.
(8) "Airbag waste
collection facility" means any facility that receives airbag waste from airbag
handlers subject to regulation under Subsection
R315-261-4(j),
and accumulates the waste for more than ten days.
(9) "Airbag waste handler" means any person,
by site, who generates airbag waste that is subject to regulation under Rules
R315-260 through R315-266, R315-268, R315-270, and R315-273.
(10) "Approved hazardous waste management
facility" or "approved facility" means a hazardous waste treatment, storage, or
disposal facility which has received an EPA permit in accordance with federal
requirements, has been approved under Section
19-6-108 and Rule R315-270, or has
been permitted or approved under any other EPA authorized hazardous waste state
program.
(11) "Ancillary equipment"
means any device including devices such as piping, fittings, flanges, valves,
and pumps, that is used to distribute, meter, or control the flow of hazardous
waste from its point of generation to storage or treatment tanks, between
hazardous waste storage and treatment tanks to a point of disposal on-site, or
to a point of shipment for disposal off-site.
(12) "Aquifer" means a geologic formation,
group of formations, or part of a formation capable of yielding a significant
amount of ground water to wells or springs.
(13) "Authorized representative" means the
person responsible for the overall operation of a facility or an operational
unit that is part of a facility, for example, the plant manager, superintendent
or person of equivalent responsibility.
(14) "Battery" means a device consisting of
one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells which is designed to
receive, store, and deliver electric energy. An electrochemical cell is a
system consisting of an anode, cathode, and an electrolyte, plus any
connections, electrical and mechanical, as may be needed to allow the cell to
deliver or receive electrical energy. The term battery also includes an intact,
unbroken battery from which the electrolyte has been removed.
(15) "Boiler" means an enclosed device using
controlled flame combustion and having the following characteristics:
(i)
(A) The
unit shall have physical provisions for recovering and exporting thermal energy
in the form of steam, heated fluids, or heated gases; and
(B) The unit's combustion chamber and primary
energy recovery sections shall be of integral design. To be of integral design,
the combustion chamber and the primary energy recovery sections, such as
waterwalls and superheaters, shall be physically formed into one manufactured
or assembled unit. A unit in which the combustion chamber and the primary
energy recovery sections are joined only by ducts or connections carrying flue
gas is not integrally designed; however, secondary energy recovery equipment,
such as economizers or air preheaters, need not be physically formed into the
same unit as the combustion chamber and the primary energy recovery section.
The following units are not precluded from being boilers solely because they
are not of integral design: process heaters, units that transfer energy
directly to a process stream, and fluidized bed combustion units; and
(C) While in operation, the unit shall
maintain a thermal energy recovery efficiency of at least 60 %, calculated in
terms of the recovered energy compared with the thermal value of the fuel;
and
(D) The unit shall export and
utilize at least 75 % of the recovered energy, calculated on an annual basis.
In this calculation, no credit shall be given for recovered heat used
internally in the unit. Examples of internal use are the preheating of fuel or
combustion air, and the driving of induced or forced draft fans or feedwater
pumps; or
(ii) The unit
is one which the Board has determined, on a case-by-case basis, to be a boiler,
after considering the standards in Section
R315-260-32.
(16) "Carbon dioxide stream" means carbon
dioxide that has been captured from an emission source, for example a power
plant, plus incidental associated substances derived from the source materials
and the capture process, and any substances added to the stream to enable or
improve the injection process.
(17)
"Carbon regeneration unit" means any enclosed thermal treatment device used to
regenerate spent activated carbon.
(18) "Cathode ray tube" or "CRT" means a
vacuum tube, composed primarily of glass, which is the visual or video display
component of an electronic device. A used, intact CRT means a CRT whose vacuum
has not been released. A used, broken CRT means glass removed from its housing
or casing whose vacuum has been released.
(19) "Central accumulation area" means any
on-site hazardous waste accumulation area with hazardous waste accumulating in
units subject to either Section
R315-262-16, for small quantity
generators, or Section
R315-262-17, for large quantity
generators. A central accumulation area at an eligible academic entity that
chooses to operate under Sections
R315-262-200 through
R315-262-216 is also subject to
Section R315-262-211 if accumulating
unwanted material or hazardous waste, or both.
(20) "Certification" means a statement of
professional opinion based upon knowledge and belief.
(21) "Closed portion" means that portion of a
facility which an owner or operator has closed in accordance with the approved
facility closure plan and any applicable closure requirements. See also "active
portion" and "inactive portion".
(22) "Component" means either the tank or
ancillary equipment of a tank system.
(23) "Confined aquifer" means an aquifer
bounded above and below by impermeable beds or by beds of distinctly lower
permeability than that of the aquifer itself; an aquifer containing confined
ground water.
(24) "Contained"
means held in a unit, including a land-based unit as defined in Section
R315-260-10, that meets the
following criteria:
(i) the unit is in good
condition, with no leaks or other continuing or intermittent unpermitted
releases of the hazardous secondary materials to the environment, and is
designed, as appropriate for the hazardous secondary materials, to prevent
releases of hazardous secondary materials to the environment. Unpermitted
releases are releases that are not covered by a permit, such as a permit to
discharge to water or air, and may include; releases through surface transport
by precipitation run-off, releases to soil and ground water, wind-blown dust,
fugitive air emissions, and catastrophic unit failures;
(ii) the unit is properly labeled or
otherwise has a system, such as a log, to immediately identify the hazardous
secondary materials in the unit;
(iii) the unit holds hazardous secondary
materials that are compatible with other hazardous secondary materials placed
in the unit and is compatible with the materials used to construct the unit and
addresses any potential risks of fires or explosions; and
(iv) hazardous secondary materials in units
that meet the applicable requirements of Rule R315-264 or R315-265 are
presumptively contained.
(25) "Container" means any portable device in
which a material is stored, transported, treated, disposed of, or otherwise
handled.
(26) "Containment
building" means a hazardous waste management unit that is used to store or
treat hazardous waste under Sections
R315-264-1100 through
R315-264-1102 or Sections
R315-265-1100 through
R315-265-1102.
(27) "Contingency plan" means a document
setting out an organized, planned, and coordinated course of action to be
followed in case of a fire, explosion, or release of hazardous waste or
hazardous waste constituents which could threaten human health or the
environment.
(28) "Corrosion
expert" means a person who, by reason of their knowledge of the physical
sciences and the principles of engineering and mathematics, acquired by a
professional education and related practical experience, is qualified to engage
in the practice of corrosion control on buried or submerged metal piping
systems and metal tanks. Such a person shall be certified as being qualified by
the National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) or be a registered
professional engineer who has certification or licensing that includes
education and experience in corrosion control on buried or submerged metal
piping systems and metal tanks.
(29) "CRT collector" means a person who
receives used, intact CRTs for recycling, repair, resale, or
donation.
(30) "CRT exporter" means
any person in the United States who initiates a transaction to send used CRTs
outside the United States or its territories for recycling or reuse, or any
intermediary in the United States arranging for export.
(31) "CRT glass manufacturer" means an
operation or part of an operation that uses a furnace to manufacture CRT
glass.
(32) "CRT processing" means
conducting each of the following activities:
(i) receiving broken or intact CRTs;
and
(ii) intentionally breaking
intact CRTs or further breaking or separating broken CRTs; and
(iii) sorting or otherwise managing glass
removed from CRT monitors.
(32) "Designated facility" means:
(i) A hazardous waste treatment, storage, or
disposal facility which:
(A) has received a
permit, or interim status, in accordance with the requirements of Rules
R315-270 and R315-124;
(B) has
received a permit, or interim status, from a state authorized in accordance
with 40 CFR
271; or
(D) that has been designated on the manifest
by the generator pursuant to Section
R315-262-20.
(ii) "Designated facility" also
means a generator site designated on the manifest to receive its waste as a
return shipment from a facility that has rejected the waste in accordance with
Subsection R315-264-72(f)
or R315-265-72(f).
(iii) If a waste is destined to a facility in
an authorized state which has not yet obtained authorization to regulate that
particular waste as hazardous, then the designated facility shall be a facility
allowed by the receiving state to accept the waste.
(34) "Destination facility" means a facility
that treats, disposes of, or recycles a particular category of universal waste,
except those management activities described in Subsections
R315-273-13(a) and
(c) and Section
R315-273-33. A facility at which
a particular category of universal waste is only accumulated, is not a
destination facility for purposes of managing that category of universal
waste.
(35) "Dike" means an
embankment or ridge of either natural or man-made materials used to prevent the
movement of liquids, sludges, solids, or other materials.
(36) "Dioxins and furans (D/F)" means tetra,
penta, hexa, hepta, and octa-chlorinated dibenzo dioxins and furans.
(37) "Discharge" or "hazardous waste
discharge" means the accidental or intentional spilling, leaking, pumping,
pouring, emitting, emptying, or dumping of hazardous waste into or on any land
or water.
(38) "Disposal facility"
means a facility or part of a facility at which hazardous waste is
intentionally placed into or on any land or water, and at which waste will
remain after closure. The term disposal facility does not include a corrective
action management unit into which remediation wastes are placed.
(39) "Division" means the Division of Waste
Management and Radiation Control.
(40) "Drip pad" is an engineered structure
consisting of a curbed, free-draining base, constructed of non-earthen
materials and designed to convey preservative kick-back or drippage from
treated wood, precipitation, and surface water run-on to an associated
collection system at wood preserving plants.
(41) "Electronic import-export reporting
compliance date" means the date that EPA announces in the Federal Register, on
or after which exporters, importers, and receiving facilities are required to
submit certain export and import related documents to EPA using EPA's Waste
Import Export Tracking System, or its successor system.
(42) "Elementary neutralization unit" means a
device which:
(i) is used for neutralizing
wastes that are hazardous only because they exhibit the corrosivity
characteristic defined in Section
R315-261-22, or they are listed
in Sections R315-261-30 through
R315-261-35 only for this
reason; and
(ii) meets the
definition of tank, tank system, container, transport vehicle, or vessel in
Section R315-260-10.
(43) "Electronic manifest, or e-Manifest"
means the electronic format of the hazardous waste manifest that is obtained
from EPA's national e-Manifest system and transmitted electronically to the
system, and that is the legal equivalent of EPA Forms 8700-22, Manifest, and
8700-22A, Continuation Sheet.
(44)
"Electronic Manifest System, or e-Manifest System" means EPA's national
information technology system through which the electronic manifest may be
obtained, completed, transmitted, and distributed to users of the electronic
manifest and to regulatory agencies.
(45) "EPA hazardous waste number" means the
number assigned by EPA to each hazardous waste listed in Sections
R315-261-30 through
R315-261-35 and to each
characteristic identified in Sections
R315-261-20 through
R315-261-24.
(46) "EPA identification number" means the
number assigned by EPA to each generator, transporter, and treatment, storage,
or disposal facility.
(47) " EPA
region" means the states and territories found in any one of the following ten
regions:
(i) Region I-Maine, Vermont, New
Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
(ii) Region II-New York, New Jersey,
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
(iii) Region III-Pennsylvania, Delaware,
Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.
(iv) Region IV-Kentucky, Tennessee, North
Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida.
(v) Region V-Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois,
Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.
(vi)
Region VI-New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas.
(vii) Region VII-Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri,
and Iowa.
(viii) Region
VIII-Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and
Colorado.
(ix) Region
IX-California, Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, Commonwealth of
the Northern Mariana Islands.
(x)
Region X-Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Alaska.
(48) "Equivalent method" means any testing or
analytical method approved by the Director under Sections
R315-260-20 and
R315-260-21.
(49) "Existing hazardous waste management
(HWM) facility" or "existing facility" means a facility which was in operation
or for which construction commenced on or before November 19, 1980. A facility
has commenced construction if:
(i) the owner
or operator has obtained the federal, state and local approvals or permits
necessary to begin physical construction; and either
(ii)
(A) a
continuous on-site, physical construction program has begun; or
(B) the owner or operator has entered into
contractual obligations-which cannot be cancelled or modified without
substantial loss-for physical construction of the facility to be completed
within a reasonable time.
(50) "Existing portion" means that land
surface area of an existing waste management unit, included in the original
Part A permit application, on which wastes have been placed before the issuance
of a permit.
(51) "Existing tank
system" or "existing component" means a tank system or component that is used
for the storage or treatment of hazardous waste and that is in operation, or
for which installation has commenced on or before July 14, 1986, or December
16, 1988 for purposes of implementing the non-H S W A requirements of the tank
regulations as promulgated by EPA on July 14, 1986, 51 FR 25470, as they have
been incorporated into the corresponding rules of Title R315. A non-HSWA
existing tank system or non-HSWA tank component is one which does not implement
any of the requirements of the federal Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of
1984 (HSWA) as identified in Table 1 of
40 CFR
271.1. Installation shall be considered to
have commenced if the owner or operator has obtained any federal, state, and
local approvals or permits necessary to begin physical construction of the site
or installation of the tank system and if either:
(i) a continuous on-site physical
construction or installation program has begun; or
(ii) the owner or operator has entered into
contractual obligations, which cannot be cancelled or modified without
substantial loss, for physical construction of the site or installation of the
tank system to be completed within a reasonable time.
(52) "Explosives or munitions emergency"
means a situation involving the suspected or detected presence of unexploded
ordnance (UXO), damaged or deteriorated explosives or munitions, an improvised
explosive device (IED), other potentially explosive material or device, or
other potentially harmful military chemical munitions or device, that creates
an actual or potential imminent threat to human health, including safety, or
the environment, including property, as determined by an explosives or
munitions emergency response specialist. These situations may require immediate
and expeditious action by an explosives or munitions emergency response
specialist to control, mitigate, or eliminate the threat.
(53) "Explosives or munitions emergency
response" means any immediate response activities by an explosives and
munitions emergency response specialist to control, mitigate, or eliminate the
actual or potential threat encountered during an explosives or munitions
emergency. An explosives or munitions emergency response may include in-place
render-safe procedures; treatment or destruction of the explosives or munitions
or transporting those items to another location to be made safe, or both;
treated, or destroyed. Any reasonable delay in the completion of an explosives
or munitions emergency response caused by a necessary, unforeseen, or
uncontrollable circumstance will not terminate the explosives or munitions
emergency. Explosives and munitions emergency responses can occur on either
public or private lands and are not limited to responses at RCRA
facilities.
(54) "Explosives or
munitions emergency response specialist" means an individual trained in
chemical or conventional munitions or explosives handling, transportation,
render-safe procedures, or destruction techniques. Explosives or munitions
emergency response specialists include Department of Defense (DOD) emergency
explosive ordnance disposal (EOD), technical escort unit (TEU), and
DOD-certified civilian or contractor personnel; and other federal, state, or
local government, or civilian personnel similarly trained in explosives or
munitions emergency responses.
(55)
"Facility" means:
(i) Any contiguous land, and
structures, other appurtenances, and improvements on the land, used for
treating, storing, or disposing of hazardous waste, or for managing hazardous
secondary materials before reclamation. A facility may consist of several
treatment, storage, or disposal operational units, for example, one or more
landfills, surface impoundments, or combinations of them.
(ii) For implementing corrective action under
Section R315-264-101, any contiguous
property under the control of the owner or operator seeking a permit under
Section 19-6-108. This definition also
applies to facilities implementing corrective action under Section
R315-263-31 and Rule
R315-101.
(iii) Notwithstanding
Subsection R315-260-10(c)(55)(ii),
a remediation waste management site is not a facility that is subject to
Section R315-264-101, but is subject to
corrective action requirements if the site is located within such a
facility.
(56) "Federal
agency" means any department, agency, or other instrumentality of the federal
government, any independent agency or establishment of the federal government
including any government corporation, and the Government Printing
Office.
(57) "Federal, State and
local approvals or permits necessary to begin physical construction" means
permits and approvals required under federal, state or local hazardous waste
control statutes, rules, regulations or ordinances.
(58) "Final closure" means the closure of
each hazardous waste management unit at the facility in accordance with any
applicable closure requirements so that hazardous waste management activities
under Rules R315-264 and R315-265 are no longer conducted at the facility
unless subject to the provisions in Section
R315-262-34.
(59) "Food-chain crops" means tobacco, crops
grown for human consumption, and crops grown for feed for animals whose
products are consumed by humans.
(60) "Free liquids" means liquids which
readily separate from the solid portion of a waste under ambient temperature
and pressure.
(61) "Freeboard"
means the vertical distance between the top of a tank or surface impoundment
dike, and the surface of the waste contained therein.
(62) "Generator" means any person, by site,
whose act or process produces hazardous waste identified or listed in Rule
R315-261 or whose act first causes a hazardous waste to become subject to
regulation.
(63) "Ground water"
means water below the land surface in a zone of saturation.
(64) "Hazard class" means:
(i) the DOT hazard class identified in
49 CFR
172; and
(ii) if the DOT hazard class is "OTHER
REGULATED MATERIAL," ORM, the EPA hazardous waste characteristic exhibited by
the waste and identified in Sections
R315-261-20 through
R315-261-24.
(65) "Hazardous secondary material" means a
secondary material, for example, spent material, by-product, or sludge, which
if discarded, would be identified as hazardous waste under Rule
R315-261.
(66) "Hazardous secondary
material generator" means any person whose act or process produces hazardous
secondary materials at the generating facility. For purposes of Subsection
R315-260-10(c)(66),
"generating facility" means any contiguous property owned, leased, or otherwise
controlled by the hazardous secondary material generator. For the purposes of
Subsections R315-261-2(a)(2)(ii)
and R315-261-4(a)(23),
a facility that collects hazardous secondary materials from other persons is
not the hazardous secondary material generator.
(67) "Hazardous waste constituent" means a
constituent that caused the Board to list the hazardous waste in Sections
R315-261-30 through
R315-261-35, or a constituent
listed in table 1 of Section
R315-261-24.
(68) "Hazardous waste management unit" is a
contiguous area of land on or in which hazardous waste is placed, or the
largest area in which there is significant likelihood of mixing hazardous waste
constituents in the area. Examples of hazardous waste management units include
a surface impoundment, a waste pile, a land treatment area, a landfill cell, an
incinerator, a tank and its associated piping and underlying containment system
and a container storage area. A container alone does not constitute a unit; the
unit includes containers and the land or pad upon which they are
placed.
(69) "In operation" refers
to a facility which is treating, storing, or disposing of hazardous
waste.
(70) "Inactive portion"
means that portion of a facility which is not operated after November 19, 1980.
See also "active portion" and "closed portion".
(71) "Incinerator" means any enclosed device
that:
(i) uses controlled flame combustion
and neither meets the criteria for classification as a boiler, sludge dryer, or
carbon regeneration unit, nor is listed as an industrial furnace; or
(ii) meets the definition of infrared
incinerator or plasma arc incinerator.
(72) "Incompatible waste" means a hazardous
waste which is unsuitable for:
(i) placement
in a particular device or facility because it may cause corrosion or decay of
containment materials, for example, container inner liners or tank
walls;
(ii) commingling with
another waste or material under uncontrolled conditions because the commingling
might produce heat or pressure, fire or explosion, violent reaction, toxic
dusts, mists, fumes, or gases, or flammable fumes or gases; or
(iii) see Appendix V to Rule R315-264 in
Section R315-264-1105 and Appendix V to
40 CFR
265, which is incorporated by reference into
Section R315-265-1, for
examples.
(73)
"Individual generation site" means the contiguous site at or on which one or
more hazardous wastes are generated. An individual generation site, such as a
large manufacturing plant, may have one or more sources of hazardous waste but
is considered a single or individual generation site if the site or property is
contiguous.
(74) "Industrial
furnace" means any of the following enclosed devices that are integral
components of manufacturing processes and that use thermal treatment to
accomplish recovery of materials or energy:
(i) cement kilns;
(ii) lime kilns;
(iii) aggregate kilns;
(iv) phosphate kilns;
(v) coke ovens;
(vi) blast furnaces;
(vii) smelting, melting and refining
furnaces, including pyrometallurgical devices such as cupolas, reverberator
furnaces, sintering machine, roasters, and foundry furnaces;
(viii) titanium dioxide chloride process
oxidation reactors;
(ix) methane
reforming furnaces;
(x) pulping
liquor recovery furnaces;
(xi)
combustion devices used in the recovery of sulfur values from spent sulfuric
acid;
(xii) halogen acid furnaces
(HAFs) for the production of acid from halogenated hazardous waste generated by
chemical production facilities where the furnace is located on the site of a
chemical production facility, the acid product has a halogen acid content of at
least 3%, the acid product is used in a manufacturing process, and, except for
hazardous waste burned as fuel, hazardous waste fed to the furnace has a
minimum halogen content of 20% as-generated; and
(xiii) other devices as the Board may, after
notice and comment, add to this list on the basis of one or more of the
following factors:
(A) the design and use of
the device primarily to accomplish recovery of material products;
(B) the use of the device to burn or reduce
raw materials to make a material product;
(C) the use of the device to burn or reduce
secondary materials as effective substitutes for raw materials, in processes
using raw materials as principal feedstocks;
(D) the use of the device to burn or reduce
secondary materials as ingredients in an industrial process to make a material
product;
(E) the use of the device
in common industrial practice to produce a material product; and
(F) other factors, as appropriate.
(75) "Infrared
incinerator" means any enclosed device that uses electric powered resistance
heaters as a source of radiant heat followed by an afterburner using controlled
flame combustion and which is not listed as an industrial furnace.
(76) "Inground tank" means a device meeting
the definition of "tank" in Section
R315-260-10 whereby a portion of
the tank wall is situated to any degree within the ground, thereby preventing
visual inspection of that external surface area of the tank that is in the
ground.
(77) "Injection well" means
a well into which fluids are injected. See also "underground
injection".
(78) "Inner liner"
means a continuous layer of material placed inside a tank or container which
protects the construction materials of the tank or container from the contained
waste or reagents used to treat the waste.
(79) "Installation inspector" means a person
who, by reason of their knowledge of the physical sciences and the principles
of engineering, acquired by a professional education and related practical
experience, is qualified to supervise the installation of tank
systems.
(80) "Intermediate
facility" means any facility that stores hazardous secondary materials for more
than 10 days, other than a hazardous secondary material generator or reclaimer
of hazardous secondary material.
(81) "International shipment" means the
transportation of hazardous waste into or out of the jurisdiction of the United
States.
(82) "Lamp," also referred
to as "universal waste lamp", is defined as the bulb or tube portion of an
electric lighting device. A lamp is specifically designed to produce radiant
energy, most often in the ultraviolet, visible, and infrared regions of the
electromagnetic spectrum. Examples of common universal waste electric lamps
include; fluorescent, high intensity discharge, neon, mercury vapor, high
pressure sodium, and metal halide lamps.
(83) "Land-based unit" means an area where
hazardous secondary materials are placed in or on the land before recycling.
This definition does not include land-based production units.
(84) "Landfill" means a disposal facility or
part of a facility where hazardous waste is placed in or on land and which is
not a pile, a land treatment facility, a surface impoundment, an underground
injection well, a salt dome formation, a salt bed formation, an underground
mine, a cave, or a corrective action management unit.
(85) "Landfill cell" means a discrete volume
of a hazardous waste landfill which uses a liner to provide isolation of wastes
from adjacent cells or wastes. Examples of landfill cells are trenches and
pits.
(86) "Land treatment
facility" means a facility or part of a facility at which hazardous waste is
applied onto or incorporated into the soil surface; these facilities are
disposal facilities if the waste will remain after closure.
(87) "Large quantity generator" is a
generator who generates any of the following amounts in a calendar month:
(i) greater than or equal to 1,000 kilograms,
2,200 lbs, of non-acute hazardous waste;
(ii) greater than one kilogram, 2.2 lbs, of
acute hazardous waste listed in Section
R315-261-31 or Subsection
R315-261-33(e);
or
(iii) greater than 100
kilograms, 220 lbs, of any residue or contaminated soil, water, or other debris
resulting from the cleanup of a spill, into or on any land or water, of any
acute hazardous waste listed in Section
R315-261-31 or Subsection
R315-261-33(e).
(88) "Leachate" means any liquid, including
any suspended components in the liquid, that has percolated through or drained
from hazardous waste.
(89) "Leak
detection system" means a system capable of detecting the failure of either the
primary or secondary containment structure or the presence of a release of
hazardous waste or accumulated liquid in the secondary containment structure.
Such a system shall use operational controls, for example daily visual
inspections for releases into the secondary containment system of aboveground
tanks, or consist of an interstitial monitoring device designed to detect
continuously and automatically the failure of the primary or secondary
containment structure or the presence of a release of hazardous waste into the
secondary containment structure.
(90) "Liner" means a continuous layer of
natural or man-made materials, beneath or on the sides of a surface
impoundment, landfill, or landfill cell, which restricts the downward or
lateral escape of hazardous waste, hazardous waste constituents, or
leachate.
(91) "Management" or
"hazardous waste management" means the systematic control of the collection,
source separation, storage, transportation, processing, treatment, recovery,
and disposal of hazardous waste.
(92) "Manifest" is defined in Subsection
19-6-102(14) and
is further defined as the shipping document EPA Form 8700-22, including, if
necessary, EPA Form 8700-22A, or the electronic manifest, originated and signed
in accordance with the applicable requirements of Rules R315-262 through
R315-265.
(93) "Manifest tracking
number" means the alphanumeric identification number that is a unique three
letter suffix preceded by nine numerical digits, which is pre-printed in Item 4
of the Manifest by a registered source.
(94) "Mercury-containing equipment" means a
device or part of a device, including thermostats, but excluding batteries and
lamps, that contains elemental mercury integral to its function.
(95) "Military munitions" means the
ammunition products and components produced or used by or for the U.S.
Department of Defense or the U.S. Armed Services for national defense and
security, including military munitions under the control of the Department of
Defense, the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and
National Guard personnel. The term military munitions includes: confined
gaseous, liquid, and solid propellants, explosives, pyrotechnics, chemical and
riot control agents, smokes, and incendiaries used by DOD components, including
bulk explosives and chemical warfare agents, chemical munitions, rockets,
guided and ballistic missiles, bombs, warheads, mortar rounds, artillery
ammunition, small arms ammunition, grenades, mines, torpedoes, depth charges,
cluster munitions and dispensers, demolition charges, and devices and
components. Military munitions do not include wholly inert items, improvised
explosive devices, and nuclear weapons, nuclear devices, and nuclear
components. However, the term does include non-nuclear components of nuclear
devices, managed under DOE's nuclear weapons program after any required
sanitization operations under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, have
been completed.
(96) "Mining
overburden returned to the mine site" means any material overlying an economic
mineral deposit which is removed to gain access to that deposit and is then
used for reclamation of a surface mine.
(97) "Miscellaneous unit" means a hazardous
waste management unit where hazardous waste is treated, stored, or disposed of
and that is not a container, tank, surface impoundment, pile, land treatment
unit, landfill, incinerator, boiler, industrial furnace, underground injection
well with appropriate technical standards under
40 CFR
146, containment building, corrective action
management unit, unit eligible for a research, development, and demonstration
permit under Section R315-270-65, or staging
pile.
(98) "Monitoring" means any
procedures used to systematically inspect and collect data on operational
parameters of the facility or on the quality of the air, ground water, surface
water, or soils.
(99) "Movement"
means that hazardous waste transported to a facility in an individual
vehicle.
(100) "New hazardous waste
management facility" or "new facility" means a facility which began operation,
or for which construction commenced after November 19, 1980. See also "Existing
hazardous waste management facility".
(101) "New tank system" or "new tank
component" means a tank system or component that will be used for the storage
or treatment of hazardous waste and for which installation has commenced after
July 14, 1986; except, however, for purposes of Subsections
R315-264-193(g)(2)
and R315-265-193(g)(2),
a new tank system is one for which construction commences after July 14, 1986,
or December 16, 1988 for purposes of implementing the non-HSWA requirements of
the tank regulations as promulgated by EPA on July 14, 1986, 51 FR 25470, as
they have been incorporated into the corresponding rules of Title R315; except,
however, for purposes of Subsection
R315-265-193(g)(2)
and Subsection R315-264-193(g)(2),
a new tank system is one which construction commences after July 14, 1986. A
non-HSWA new tank system or non-H S WA new tank component is one which does not
implement any of the requirements of the federal Hazardous and Solid Waste
Amendments of 1984 (HSWA) as identified in Table 1 of
40 CFR
271.1. See also "existing tank
system."
(102) "No free liquids, as
used in Subsections R315-261-4(a)(26)
and R315-261-4(b)(18)",
means that solvent-contaminated wipes may not contain free liquids as
determined by Method 9095B, Paint Filter Liquids Test, included in "Test
Methods for Evaluating Solid Waste, Physical/Chemical Methods," EPA Publication
SW-846, and that there is no free liquid in the container holding the wipes. No
free liquids may also be determined using another standard or test method as
defined by the Director.
(103)
"Non-acute hazardous waste" means any hazardous wastes that are not acute
hazardous waste, as defined in Section
R315-260-10.
(104) "On ground tank" means a device meeting
the definition of "tank" in Section
R315-260-10 and that is situated
in such a way that the bottom of the tank is on the same level as the adjacent
surrounding surface so that the external tank bottom cannot be visually
inspected.
(105) "On-site" means
the same or geographically contiguous property which may be divided by public
or private right-of-way, provided the entrance and exit between the properties
is at a cross-roads intersection, and access is by crossing as opposed to going
along, the right-of-way. Non-contiguous properties owned by a person but
connected by a right-of-way which the person controls and to which the public
does not have access, is also considered on-site property.
(106) "Open burning" means the combustion of
any material without the following characteristics:
(i) control of combustion air to maintain
adequate temperature for efficient combustion;
(ii) containment of the combustion-reaction
in an enclosed device to provide sufficient residence time and mixing for
complete combustion; and
(iii)
control of emission of the gaseous combustion products. See also "incineration"
and "thermal treatment".
(107) "Operator" means the person responsible
for the overall operation of a facility.
(108) "Owner" means the person who owns a
facility or part of a facility.
(109) "Partial closure" means the closure of
a hazardous waste management unit in accordance with the applicable closure
requirements of Rules R315-264 and R315-265 at a facility that contains other
active hazardous waste management units. For example, partial closure may
include the closure of a tank, including its associated piping and underlying
containment systems, landfill cell, surface impoundment, waste pile, or other
hazardous waste management unit, while other units of the facility continue to
operate.
(110) "Polychlorinated
biphenyl, PCB" and "PCBs" means any chemical substance that is limited to the
biphenyl molecule that has been chlorinated to varying degrees or any
combination of substances which contains the substance. PCB and PCBs as
contained in PCB items are defined in Section
R315-260-10. For any purposes
under Rules R315-260 through R315-266, R315-268, R315-270, R315-273, R315-15,
and R315-101, inadvertently generated non-Aroclor PCBs are defined as the total
PCBs calculated following division of the quantity of monochlorinated biphenyls
by 50 and dichlorinated biphenyls by 5.
(111) "PCB Item" means any PCB Article, PCB
Article Container, PCB Container, PCB Equipment, or anything that deliberately
or unintentionally contains or has as a part of it any PCB or PCBs.
(112) "Permit" means the plan approval as
required by Subsection
19-6-108(3)(a),
or equivalent control document issued by the Director to implement the
requirements of the Utah Solid and Hazardous Waste Act;
(113) "Permittee" is defined in Subsection
19-6-102(18) and
includes any person who has received an approval of a hazardous waste operation
plan under Section
19-6-108 and Rule R315-262 or a
federal RCRA permit for a treatment, storage, or disposal facility.
(114) "Person" means an individual, trust,
firm, joint stock company, Federal Agency, corporation, including a government
corporation, partnership, association, state, municipality, commission,
political subdivision of a state, or any interstate body.
(115) "Personnel" or "facility personnel"
means any person who works at, or oversees the operations of, a hazardous waste
facility, and whose actions or failure to act may result in noncompliance with
the requirements of Rule R315-264 or R315-265.
(116) "Pesticide" means any substance or
mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or
mitigating any pest, or intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant, or
desiccant, other than any article that:
(i) is
a new animal drug under FFDCA Section 201(w);
(ii) is an animal drug that has been
determined by regulation of the Secretary of Health and Human Services not to
be a new animal drug; or
(iii) is
an animal feed under FFDCA Section 201(x) that bears or contains any substances
described by Subsection
R315-260-10(c)
(116)(i) or (ii).
(117)
"Pile" means any non-containerized accumulation of solid, non-flowing hazardous
waste that is used for treatment or storage and that is not a containment
building.
(118) "Plasma arc
incinerator" means any enclosed device using a high intensity electrical
discharge or arc as a source of heat followed by an afterburner using
controlled flame combustion and which is not listed as an industrial
furnace.
(119) "POHC's" means
principle organic hazardous constituents.
(120) "Point source" means any discernible,
confined, and discrete conveyance, including any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel,
conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal
feeding operation, or vessel or other floating craft, from which pollutants are
or may be discharged. This term does not include return flows from irrigated
agriculture.
(121) "Precipitation
run-off" means water generated from naturally occurring storm events. If the
precipitation run-off has been in contact with a waste defined in Sections
R315-261-20 through
R315-261-24, it qualifies as
"precipitation run-off" if the water does not exhibit any of the
characteristics identified in Sections
R315-261-20 through
R315-261-24. If the
precipitation run-off has been in contact with a waste listed in Sections
R315-261-30 through
R315-261-35, then it qualifies
as "precipitation run-off" when the water has been excluded under Section
R315-260-2 2. Water containing
any leachate does not qualify as "precipitation run-off".
(122) "Publicly owned treatment works" or
"POTW" means any device or system used in the treatment, including recycling
and reclamation, of municipal sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature
which is owned by the state or a political subdivision within the state. This
definition includes sewers, pipes, or other conveyances only if they convey
wastewater to a POTW providing treatment.
(123) "Qualified Ground Water Scientist"
means a scientist or engineer who has received a baccalaureate or postgraduate
degree in the natural sciences or engineering, and has sufficient training and
experience in ground water hydrology and related fields as may be demonstrated
by state registration, professional certifications, or completion of accredited
university courses that enable that individual to make sound professional
judgments regarding ground water monitoring and contaminant fate and
transport.
(124) "RCRA" means the
Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended by the Resource Conservation and Recovery
Act of 1976, as amended, 42
U.S.C. Section 6901 et seq.
(125) "Recognized trader" means a person
domiciled in the United States, by site of business, who acts to arrange and
facilitate transboundary movements of wastes destined for recovery or disposal
operations, either by purchasing from and subsequently selling to United States
and foreign facilities, or by acting under arrangements with a United States
waste facility to arrange for the export or import of the wastes.
(126) "Remanufacturing" means processing a
higher-value hazardous secondary material to manufacture a product that serves
a similar functional purpose as the original commercial-grade material. For
this definition, a hazardous secondary material is considered higher-value if
it was generated from the use of a commercial-grade material in a manufacturing
process and can be remanufactured into a similar commercial-grade
material.
(127) "Remediation waste"
means any solid and hazardous wastes, and any media, including ground water,
surface water, soils, and sediments, and debris, that are managed for
implementing cleanup.
(128)
"Remediation waste management site" means a facility where an owner or operator
is or will be treating, storing or disposing of hazardous remediation wastes. A
remediation waste management site is not a facility that is subject to
corrective action under Section
R315-264-101, but is subject to
corrective action requirements if the site is located in such a
facility.
(129)
(i) "Replacement unit" means a landfill,
surface impoundment, or waste pile unit:
(A)
from which the waste or a substantial amount of the waste is removed;
and
(B) that is subsequently reused
to treat, store, or dispose of hazardous waste.
(ii) "Replacement unit" does not apply to a
unit from which waste is removed during closure, if the subsequent reuse solely
involves the disposal of waste from that unit and other closing units or
corrective action areas at the facility, in accordance with a closure plan
approved by the Director or a corrective action approved by the
Director.
(130)
"Representative sample" means a sample of a universe or whole, for example,
waste pile, lagoon, ground water, which can be expected to exhibit the average
properties of the universe or whole.
(131) "Run-off" means any rainwater,
leachate, or other liquid that drains over land from any part of a
facility.
(132) "Run-on" means any
rainwater, leachate, or other liquid that drains over land onto any part of a
facility.
(133) "Saturated zone" or
"zone of saturation" means that part of the earth's crust in which each void is
filled with water.
(134) "Sludge"
means any solid, semi-solid, or liquid waste generated from a municipal,
commercial, or industrial wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment
plant, or air pollution control facility exclusive of the treated effluent from
a wastewater treatment plant.
(135)
"Sludge dryer" means any enclosed thermal treatment device that is used to
dehydrate sludge and that has a maximum total thermal input, excluding the
heating value of the sludge itself, of 2,500 Btu per lb of sludge treated on a
wet-weight basis.
(136) "Small
Quantity Generator" is a generator who generates the following amounts in a
calendar month:
(i) greater than 100
kilograms, 220 lbs, but less than 1,000 kilograms, 2,200 lbs, of non-acute
hazardous waste; and
(ii) less than
or equal to one kilogram, 2.2 lbs, of acute hazardous waste listed in Section
R315-261-31 or Subsection
R315-261-33(e);
and
(iii) less than or equal to 100
kilograms, 220 lbs, of any residue or contaminated soil, water, or other debris
resulting from the cleanup of a spill, into or on any land or water, of any
acute hazardous waste listed in Section
R315-261-31 or Subsection
R315-261-33(e).
(137) "Solid Waste Management Unit" means any
discernible unit at which solid wastes have been placed at any time,
irrespective of whether the unit was intended for the management of solid or
hazardous waste. These units include any area at a facility at which solid
wastes have been routinely and systematically released.
(138) "Solvent-contaminated wipe" means:
(i) A wipe which, after use or after cleaning
up a spill, meets one or more of the following criteria:
(A) Contains one or more of the F001 through
F005 solvents listed in Section
R315-261-31 or the corresponding
P- or U-listed solvents found in Section
R315-261-33.
(B) Exhibits a hazardous characteristic found
in Sections R315-261-20 through
R315-261-24 when that
characteristic results from a solvent listed in Rule R315-261.
(C) Exhibits only the hazardous waste
characteristic of ignitability found in Section
R315-261-21 due to the presence
of one or more solvents that are not listed in Rule R315-261.
(ii) Solvent-contaminated wipes
that contain listed hazardous waste other than solvents, or exhibit the
characteristic of toxicity, corrosivity, or reactivity due to contaminants
other than solvents, are not eligible for the exclusions at Subsections
R315-261-4(a)(26)
and R315-261-4(b)(18).
(139) "Sorbent" means a material that is used
to soak up free liquids by either adsorption or absorption, or both.
(140) "Sorb" means to either adsorb or
absorb, or both.
(141) A "spent
material" is any material that has been used and as a result of contamination
can no longer serve the purpose for which it was produced without
processing.
(142) "Spill" means the
accidental discharging, spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting,
emptying, releasing, or dumping of hazardous wastes or materials which, when
spilled, become hazardous wastes, into or on any land or water.
(143) "Staging pile" means an accumulation of
solid, non-flowing remediation waste, as defined in Section
R315-260-10, that is not a
containment building and that is used only during remedial operations for
temporary storage at a facility. Staging piles shall be designated by the
Director according to the requirements of Section
R315-264-554.
(144) "State" means the state of
Utah.
(145) "Storage" is defined in
Subsection
19-6-102(20) and
includes the holding of hazardous waste for a temporary period, at the end of
which the hazardous waste is treated, disposed of, or stored
elsewhere.
(146) "Sump" means any
pit or reservoir that meets the definition of tank and those troughs or
trenches connected to it that serve to collect hazardous waste for transport to
hazardous waste storage, treatment, or disposal facilities; except that as used
in the landfill, surface impoundment, and waste pile rules, "sump" means any
lined pit or reservoir that serves to collect liquids drained from a leachate
collection and removal system or leak detection system for subsequent removal
from the system.
(147) "Surface
impoundment" or "impoundment" means a facility or part of a facility which is a
natural topographic depression, man-made excavation, or diked area formed
primarily of earthen materials, although it may be lined with man-made
materials, which is designed to hold an accumulation of liquid wastes or wastes
containing free liquids, and which is not an injection well. Examples of
surface impoundments are holding, storage, settling, and aeration pits, ponds,
and lagoons.
(148) "Tank" means a
stationary device, designed to contain an accumulation of hazardous waste which
is constructed primarily of non-earthen materials, for example, wood, concrete,
steel, plastic, which provide structural support.
(149) "Tank system" means a hazardous waste
storage or treatment tank and its associated ancillary equipment and
containment system.
(150) "TEQ"
means toxicity equivalence, the international method of relating the toxicity
of various dioxin or furan congeners to the toxicity of
2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin.
(151) "Thermal treatment" means the treatment
of hazardous waste in a device which uses elevated temperatures as the primary
means to change the chemical, physical, or biological character or composition
of the hazardous waste. Examples of thermal treatment processes are
incineration, molten salt, pyrolysis, calcination, wet air oxidation, and
microwave discharge. See also "incinerator" and "open burning".
(152) "Thermostat" means a temperature
control device that contains metallic mercury in an ampule attached to a
bimetal sensing element, and mercury-containing ampules that have been removed
from these temperature control devices in compliance with the requirements of
Subsection R315-273-13(c)(2)
or R315-273-33(c)(2).
(153) "Totally enclosed treatment facility"
means a facility for the treatment of hazardous waste which is directly
connected to an industrial production process and which is constructed and
operated in a manner which prevents the release of any hazardous waste or any
constituent thereof into the environment during treatment. An example is a pipe
in which waste acid is neutralized.
(154) "Transfer facility" means any
transportation-related facility, including loading docks, parking areas,
storage areas and other similar areas where shipments of hazardous waste or
hazardous secondary materials are held during the normal course of
transportation.
(155) "Transport
vehicle" means a motor vehicle or rail car used for the transportation of cargo
by any mode. Each cargo-carrying body, for example, trailer or railroad freight
car, is a separate transport vehicle.
(156) Transportation" is defined in
Subsection
19-6-102(23) and
includes the movement of hazardous waste by air, rail, highway, or
water.
(157) "Transporter" means a
person engaged in the off-site transportation of hazardous waste by air, rail,
highway, or water.
(158)
(i) "Treatability study" means a study in
which a hazardous waste is subjected to a treatment process to determine:
(A) whether the waste is amenable to the
treatment process;
(B) what
pretreatment, if any, is required;
(C) the optimal process conditions needed to
achieve the desired treatment;
(D)
the efficiency of a treatment process for a specific waste or wastes;
or
(E) the characteristics and
volumes of residuals from a particular treatment process.
(ii) Also included in this definition for the
Subsections R315-261-4(e)
and R315-261-4(f)
exemptions are liner compatibility, corrosion, and other material compatibility
studies and toxicological and health effects studies.
(iii) A "treatability study" is not a means
to commercially treat or dispose of hazardous waste.
(159) "Treatment" is defined in Subsection
19-6-102(22) and
includes any method, technique, or process, including neutralization, designed
to change the physical, chemical, or biological character or composition of any
hazardous waste so as to neutralize the waste, or so as to recover energy or
material resources from the waste, or so as to make the waste non-hazardous, or
less hazardous; safer to transport, store, or dispose of; or amenable for
recovery, amenable for storage, or reduced in volume.
(160) "Treatment zone" means a soil area of
the unsaturated zone of a land treatment unit within which hazardous
constituents are degraded, transformed, or immobilized.
(161) "Underground injection" means the
subsurface emplacement of fluids through a bored, drilled or driven well; or
through a dug well, where the depth of the dug well is greater than the largest
surface dimension. See also "injection well".
(162) "Underground tank" means a device
meeting the definition of "tank" in Section
R315-260-10 whose entire surface
area is totally below the surface of and covered by the ground.
(163) "Unfit-for use tank system" means a
tank system that has been determined through an integrity assessment or other
inspection to be no longer capable of storing or treating hazardous waste
without posing a threat of release of hazardous waste to the
environment.
(164) "United States"
means the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,
the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands.
(165)
"Universal waste" means any of the following hazardous wastes that are managed
under the universal waste requirements of Rule R315-273:
(i) batteries as described in Section
R315-273-2;
(ii) pesticides as described in Section
R315-273-3;
(iii) mercury-containing equipment as
described in Section R315-273-4;
(iv) lamps as described in Section
R315-273-5;
(v) aerosol cans as described in Section
R315-273-6; and
(vi) antifreeze as described in Section
R315-273-7.
(166)
(i)
"Universal waste handler" means:
(A) a
generator of universal waste; or
(B) the owner or operator of a facility,
including any contiguous property, that receives universal waste from other
universal waste handlers, accumulates universal waste, and sends universal
waste to another universal waste handler, to a destination facility, or to a
foreign destination.
(ii)
"Universal waste handler" does not mean:
(A)
a person who treats, except under Subsection
R315-273-13(a) or
(c), or
R315-273-33(a) or
(c), disposes of, or recycles, except under
Subsection R315-273-13(f)
or R315-273-33(f),
universal waste; or
(B) a person
engaged in the off-site transportation of universal waste by air, rail,
highway, or water, including a universal waste transfer
facility.
(167)
"Universal waste transporter" means a person engaged in the off-site
transportation of universal waste by air, rail, highway, or water.
(168) "Unsaturated zone" or "zone of
aeration" means the zone between the land surface and the water
table.
(169) "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 the facility's property boundary.
(170) Used oil is defined in Subsection
19-6-703(19).
Used oil includes engine oil, transmission fluid, compressor oils, metalworking
oils, hydraulic oil, brake fluid, oils used as buoyants, lubricating greases,
electrical insulating, and dialectic oils.
(171) "User of the electronic manifest
system" means a hazardous waste generator, a hazardous waste transporter, an
owner or operator of a hazardous waste treatment, storage, recycling, or
disposal facility, or any other person that:
(i) Is required to use a manifest to comply
with:
(A) any federal or state requirement to
track the shipment, transportation, and receipt of hazardous waste or other
waste material that is shipped from the site of generation to an off-site
designated facility for treatment, storage, recycling, or disposal;
or
(B) any federal or state
requirement to track the shipment, transportation, and receipt of rejected
wastes or regulated container residues that are shipped from a designated
facility to an alternative facility, or returned to the generator;
and
(ii) elects to use
the system to obtain, complete and transmit an electronic manifest format
supplied by the EPA electronic manifest system, or
(iii) elects to use the paper manifest form
and submits to the system for data processing purposes a paper copy of the
manifest, or data from such a paper copy, in accordance with Subsection
R315-264-71(a)(2)(v)
or R315-265-71(a)(2)(v).
These paper copies are submitted for data exchange purposes only and are not
the official copies of record for legal purposes.
(172) "Very small quantity generator" is a
generator who generates less than or equal to the following amounts in a
calendar month:
(i) one hundred kilograms,
220 lbs, of non-acute hazardous waste;
(ii) one kilogram, 2.2 lbs, of acute
hazardous waste listed in Section
R315-261-31 or Subsection
R315-261-33(e);
and
(iii) one hundred kilograms,
220 lbs, of any residue or contaminated soil, water, or other debris resulting
from the cleanup of a spill, into or on any land or water, of any acute
hazardous waste listed in Section
R315-261-31 or Subsection
R315-261-33(e).
(173) "Vessel" includes any description of
watercraft, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on the
water.
(174) "Waste management
area" means the limit projected in the horizontal plane of the area on which
waste will be placed during the active life of a regulated unit. The waste
management area includes horizontal space taken up by any liner, dike, or other
barrier designed to contain waste in a regulated unit. If the facility contains
more than one regulated unit, the waste management area is described by an
imaginary line circumscribing the several regulated units.
(175) "Wastewater treatment unit" means a
device which:
(i) is part of a wastewater
treatment facility that is subject to regulation under either Section 402 or
Subsection 307(b) of the Clean Water Act;
(ii) receives and treats or stores an
influent wastewater that is a hazardous waste as defined in Section
R315-261-3, or that generates
and accumulates a wastewater treatment sludge that is a hazardous waste as
defined in Section R315-261-3, or treats or stores
a wastewater treatment sludge which is a hazardous waste as defined in Section
R315-261-3; and
(iii) meets the definition of tank or tank
system in Section R315-260-10.
(176) "Water, bulk shipment" means the bulk
transportation of hazardous waste which is loaded or carried on board a vessel
without containers or labels.
(177)
"Well" means any shaft or pit dug or bored into the earth, generally of a
cylindrical form, and often walled with bricks or tubing to prevent the earth
from caving in.
(178) "Well
injection": See "underground injection"
(179) "Wipe" means a woven or non-woven shop
towel, rag, pad, or swab made of wood pulp, fabric, cotton, polyester blends,
or other material.
(180) "Zone of
engineering control" means an area under the control of the owner or operator
which, upon detection of a hazardous waste release, can be readily cleaned up
before the release of hazardous waste or hazardous constituents to ground water
or surface water.
Notes
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