Utah Admin. Code R315-262-200 - Alternative Requirements for Hazardous Waste Determination and Accumulation of Unwanted Material for Laboratories Owned by Eligible Academic Entities - Definitions for Sections R315-262-200 through R315-262-216
(a) The following definitions apply to
Sections R315-262-200 through 216:
(1)
"College/University " means a private or public, post-secondary,
degree-granting, academic institution, that is accredited by an accrediting
agency listed annually by the U.S. Department of Education.
(2) "Eligible academic entity " means a
college or university, or a non-profit research institute that is owned by or
has a formal written affiliation agreement with a college or university, or a
teaching hospital that is owned by or has a formal written affiliation
agreement with a college or university.
(3) "Formal written affiliation agreement for
a nonprofit research institute" means a written document that establishes a
relationship between institutions for the purposes of research and/or education
and is signed by authorized representatives, as defined by Section
R315-260-10, from
each institution. A relationship on a project-by-project or grant-by-grant
basis is not considered a formal written affiliation agreement. A formal
written affiliation agreement for a teaching hospital means a master
affiliation agreement and program letter of agreement, as defined by the
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, with an accredited
medical program or medical school.
(4) Laboratory means an area owned by an
eligible academic entity where relatively small quantities of chemicals and
other substances are used on a non-production basis for teaching or research,
or diagnostic purposes at a teaching hospital , and are stored and used in
containers that are easily manipulated by one person . Photo laboratories, art
studios, and field laboratories are considered laboratories. Areas such as
chemical stockrooms and preparatory laboratories that provide a support
function to teaching or research laboratories, or diagnostic laboratories at
teaching hospitals, are also considered laboratories.
(5) "Laboratory clean-out " means an
evaluation of the inventory of chemicals and other materials in a laboratory
that are no longer needed or that have expired and the subsequent removal of
those chemicals or other unwanted materials from the laboratory . A clean-out
may occur for several reasons. It may be on a routine basis, e.g., at the end
of a semester or academic year , or as a result of a renovation, relocation, or
change in laboratory supervisor/occupant. A regularly scheduled removal of
unwanted material as required by Section
R315-262-208
does not qualify as a laboratory clean-out .
(6) "Laboratory worker " means a person who
handles chemicals and/or unwanted material in a laboratory and may include, but
is not limited to, faculty, staff, post-doctoral fellows, interns, researchers,
technicians, supervisors/managers, and principal investigators. A person does
not need to be paid or otherwise compensated for his/her work in the laboratory
to be considered a laboratory worker . Undergraduate and graduate students in a
supervised classroom setting are not laboratory workers.
(7) "Non-profit research institute " means an
organization that conducts research as its primary function and files as a
non-profit organization under the tax code of
26 U.S.C.
501(c) (3).
(8) "Reactive acutely hazardous unwanted
material " means an unwanted material that is one of the acutely hazardous
commercial chemical products listed in Subsection
R315-261-33(e)
for reactivity.
(9) "Teaching
hospital " means a hospital that trains students to become physicians, nurses or
other health or laboratory personnel.
(10) "Trained professional " means a person
who has completed the applicable RCRA training requirements of
40 CFR
265.16, which is incorporated by reference in
Section
R315-265-1, for
large quantity generators, or is knowledgeable about normal operations and
emergencies in accordance with Subsection R315-262-17 for small quantity
generators and very small quantity generators. A trained professional may be an
employee of the eligible academic entity or may be a contractor or vendor who
meets the requisite training requirements.
(11) "Unwanted material " means any chemical,
mixtures of chemicals, products of experiments or other material from a
laboratory that is no longer needed, wanted or usable in the laboratory and
that is destined for hazardous waste determination by a trained professional .
Unwanted materials include reactive acutely hazardous unwanted materials and
materials that may eventually be determined not to be solid waste pursuant to
Section
R315-261-2,
or a hazardous waste pursuant to Section
R315-261-3.
If an eligible academic entity elects to use another equally effective term in
lieu of "unwanted material ," as allowed by Subsection
R315-262-206(a)
(1)(i), the equally effective term has the same meaning and is subject to the
same requirements as "unwanted material " under Section R315-262-200 through
216.
(12) "Working container " means
a small container, i.e., two gallons or less, that is in use at a laboratory
bench, hood, or other work station, to collect unwanted material from a
laboratory experiment or procedure.
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