Utah Admin. Code R315-273-9 - Standards for Universal Waste Management - Definitions

(a) "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.

(b) "Ampule" means an air-tight vial made of glass, plastic, metal, or any combination of these materials.

(c) "Antifreeze" means ethylene glycol or propylene glycol including aggregated batches of ethylene glycol or propylene glycol used as a heat transfer medium in an internal combustion engine; heating, ventilating, and air conditioning units; and electronics cooling applications; or used for winterizing equipment.

(d) "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 such 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.

(e) "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 R315-273-13(c) and Subsections R315-273-33(a) and R315-273-33(c). 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.

(f) "Drum-top lamp crusher" means a device attached to a drum or container that mechanically reduces the size of lamps and includes a bag filter followed in series by a HEPA filter and an activated carbon filter. Drum-top crushers are the only devices that can be approved for the use of crushing lamps.

(g) "FIFRA" means the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, 7 U.S.C. 136-136y.

(h) "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.

(i) "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.

(j) "Large Quantity Handler of Universal Waste" means a universal waste handler, as defined in Section R315-273-9 who accumulates 5,000 kilograms or more total of universal waste; batteries, pesticides, mercury-containing equipment, lamps, aerosol cans, or any other universal waste regulated in Rule R315-273, calculated collectively; at any time. This designation as a large quantity handler of universal waste is retained through the end of the calendar year in which the 5,000 kilogram limit is met or exceeded.

(k) "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.

(l) "On-site" means the same or geographically contiguous property which may be divided by public or private right-of-way, if 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 he controls and to which the public does not have access, are also considered on-site property.

(m) "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:

(1) is a new animal drug under Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) Section 201(w);

(2) 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

(3) is an animal feed under FFDCA Section 201(x) that bears or contains any substances described by Subsections R315-273-9(m)(1) or R315-273-9(m)(2) .

(n) "Small Quantity Handler of Universal Waste" means a universal waste handler, as defined in this Section R315-273-9 who does not accumulate 5,000 kilograms or more of universal waste, batteries, pesticides, mercury-containing equipment, lamps, aerosol cans, or any other universal waste regulated in Rule R315-273, calculated collectively, at any time.

(o) "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 Subsections R315-273-13(c)(2) or R315-273-33(c)(2).

(p) "Universal Waste" means any of the following hazardous wastes that are subject to the universal waste requirements of Rule R315-273:

(1) batteries as described in Section R315-273-2;

(2) pesticides as described in Section R315-273-3;

(3) mercury-containing equipment as described in Section R315-273-4;

(4) lamps as described in Section R315-273-5;

(5) aerosol cans as described in Section R315-273-6; and

(6) antifreeze as described in Section R315-273-7.

(q) "Universal Waste Handler:"

(1) means:

(i) a generator, as defined in Section R315-273-9, of universal waste; or

(ii) 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.

(2) Does not mean:

(i) a person who treats, except under Subsections R315-273-13(a) or R315-273-13(c), or R315-273-33(a) or R315-273-33(c), disposes of, or recycles, except under Subsections R315-273-13(f) or R315-273-33(f), universal waste; or

(ii) a person engaged in the off-site transportation of universal waste by air, rail, highway, or water, including a universal waste transfer facility.

(r) "Universal Waste Transfer Facility" means any transportation-related facility including loading docks, parking areas, storage areas and other similar areas where shipments of universal waste are held during the normal course of transportation for ten days or less.

(s) "Universal Waste Transporter" means a person engaged in the off-site transportation of universal waste by air, rail, highway, or water.

Notes

Utah Admin. Code R315-273-9

Adopted by Utah State Bulletin Number 2016-9, effective 4/15/2016 Amended by Utah State Bulletin Number 2019-3, effective 1/14/2019 Amended by Utah State Bulletin Number 2021-24, effective 12/9/2021