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
R315-262-216:
(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 non-profit research institute" means a written document that establishes a
relationship between institutions for the purposes of research or education, or
both, 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, for example, at the end of a semester or academic year, or as a result
of a renovation, relocation, or change in laboratory supervisor or 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 or unwanted material,
or both, in a laboratory and may include, but is not limited to, faculty,
staff, post-doctoral fellows, interns, researchers, technicians, supervisors or
managers, and principal investigators. A person does not need to be paid or
otherwise compensated for their 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 finished the applicable training requirements of Section
R315-262-17 for large quantity
generators, or is knowledgeable about normal operations and emergencies in
accordance with Subsection
R315-262-16(b)(9)(iii)
for small quantity generators and for very small quantity generators that opt
into Sections R315-262-200 through
R315-262-216. 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 meaning and is subject to the requirements
of "unwanted material" under Sections
R315-262-200 through
R315-262-216.
(12) "Working container" means a small
container, that is, two gallons or less, that is in use at a laboratory bench,
hood, or other workstation, to collect unwanted material from a laboratory
experiment or procedure.
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