Unless specifically altered, terms and abbreviations used in this Chapter shall be interpreted in a manner consistent with Minnesota Statutes Annotated chapters 115A, 116, and 400 and regulations of the Agency, which have been or hereafter may be adopted under those provisions. Terms and abbreviations used herein which are not specifically defined by law shall be construed in accordance with the context and professional usage.
AGENCY: The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.
AIR CONTAMINANT: The presence in the outdoor atmosphere of any dust, fumes, mist, smoke, vapor, gas or other gaseous, fluid or particulate substance differing in composition from or exceeding in concentration the natural components of the atmosphere.
AIR POLLUTION: The presence in the outdoor atmosphere of any air contaminant or combination thereof in such quantity, of such nature and duration, and under such conditions as would be injurious to human health or welfare, to animal or plant life, or to property, or to interfere unreasonably with the enjoyment of life or property.
COMMERCIAL HAULER: Any individual, firm or corporation who is involved in hauling demolition and/or new building construction debris, as defined in this Chapter, from another's property (occupied, leased, or owned) in another's behalf, for the purpose of depositing such debris in a County or other permitted County demolition debris disposal landfill.
COUNTY: Any department or representative of the County who is authorized by this Chapter or otherwise by the County Board to represent the County in the enforcement or administration of this Chapter.
COVER MATERIAL: Granular material, generally soil, which is used to cover compacted solid waste in a sanitary landfill, is generally free of large objects that would hinder compaction, and is free of organic content that would be conducive to vector harborage, feeding or breeding.
DEMOLITION DEBRIS: Solid waste resulting from, but not limited to, the demolition, or construction of, buildings, roads, and other manmade structures including concrete, stone, brick concrete blocks, bituminous concrete or asphalt, shingles, untreated wood, masonry, plaster, metals, glass, trees, rock, earth, plastic building parts and other inert materials as permitted. Demolition debris does not include asbestos wastes, wastes from the operations of households, commercial establishments, institutions, industrial processes, agricultural facilities, and municipalities, such as garbage, dead animals, paper, food and beverage containers, leaves, yard trimmings, ashes, tires, liquids, septic tank pumpings, sludges, vehicles, machinery, appliances, explosives, and hazardous wastes.
DEMOLITION DEBRIS LAND DISPOSAL FACILITY: A site used to dispose of demolition debris.
DEMOLITION DEBRIS RECYCLING: The collection, processing, and/or repairing of demolition or construction materials for reuse in their original form or for use in manufacturing processes.
GARBAGE: Material resulting from the handling, processing, storage, preparation, serving and consumption of food.
INCINERATION: The process by which solid wastes are burned for the purpose of volume and weight reduction in facilities designed for such use.
INTERMEDIATE DISPOSAL FACILITY: A facility for the storage, reduction, recycling, or processing of solid waste prior to final disposal.
LAND POLLUTION: The presence in or on the land of any solid waste in such quantity, of such nature or duration, and under such conditions as would affect injuriously any waters of the State, create air contaminants or cause air pollution.
LICENSEE: A person who has been issued a license by the County Board for solid waste management purposes pursuant to this Chapter.
OPERATION: Any site, facility, or activity relating to solid waste management.
PERSON: Any human being, any municipality or any other governmental or political subdivision or public agency, any public or private corporation, any partnership, firm, association, or other organization, any receiver, trustee, assignee, agent, or other legal representative of any of the foregoing, or any other legal entity.
PRIVATE HAULER: Any property owner, occupant, or lessee who is involved in hauling demolition and/or new building construction debris, as defined in this Chapter, from his/her own property (occupied, leased, or owned) on his/her own behalf, for the purpose of depositing such debris in a County or other County permitted demolition debris disposal landfill.
PUTRESCIBLE MATERIAL: Solid waste which is capable of becoming rotten or which may reach a foul state of decay or decomposition.
REFUSE: Putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes, including, but not limited to, garbage, rubbish, ashes, incinerator ash, incinerator residue, street cleaning, market and industrial solid wastes, and sewage treatment wastes which are in a dry form.
SANITARY LANDFILL: An area of land which is or could be used for the disposal of solid waste without creating pollution of land, water or air, hazards to the public health or safety, or public nuisance, by utilizing the principles of engineering to confine the solid waste to the smallest practical volume, and to cover it with at least six inches (6") of cover material at the conclusion of each day's operation, or at more frequent intervals as may be necessary.
SHORELAND: Land located within the following distances from the ordinary high water elevation of public waters:
A. Land within one thousand feet (1,000') from the normal high water mark of a lake, pond, or flowage; and
B. Land within three hundred feet (300') of a river or stream or the landward side of flood plain delineated by ordinance on such a river or stream, whichever is greater.
SOLID WASTE: Garbage, refuse, and other discarded solid materials, except animal waste used as fertilizer, including solid waste materials resulting from industrial, commercial, agricultural operations, and community activities, but does not include earthen fill, boulders, rock and other materials normally handled in construction operations, solids or dissolved material in domestic sewage or other significant pollutants in water resources, such as silt, dissolved or wastewater effluent, dissolved materials, suspended solids in irrigation return flows, or other common water pollutants.
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT: The storage, collection and removal of solid waste from public and private property, its transportation to intermediate or final disposal facilities and its disposal by approved methods.
TOXIC OR HAZARDOUS WASTES: Substances, whether in liquid, gaseous or solid form, which when collected, stored, transported or disposed of, may be acutely toxic to humans or other animals, or plant life, or be directly damaging to property, including, but not limited to, pesticides, acids, caustics, pathological wastes, radioactive materials, flammable or explosive materials, and similar noxious substances.
TRANSFER STATION: An intermediate solid waste disposal facility, whether fixed or mobile, in which solid waste collected from any source is temporarily deposited to await transportation to the final disposal site or facility.
WATER POLLUTION: The contamination of any waters of the State so as to create a nuisance or render such waters unclean, obnoxious or impure, so as to be actually or potentially harmful or detrimental or injurious to public health, safety or welfare, to domestic, commercial or industrial use, or to animals, birds, fish or other aquatic life.
WATERS OF THE STATE: All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through or border upon the State or any portion thereof. (Ord. 5, 12-12-1972; amd. Ord., 2-14-1989; Ord., 5-9-1995, eff. 5-9-1995)