For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
(a) "Clean fill" shall mean compactable earth material, natural sand, shale, and natural stone material. “Clean fill” does not include construction and demolition debris, hazardous wastes, solid wastes, infectious wastes, stumps, trees, limbs, brush, wood or wood products, fibrous material, or other organic materials.
(b) "Clean hard fill" shall mean construction and demolition debris which consists only of reinforced or non-reinforced concrete, asphalt concrete, brick, block, tile, and/or stone which can be reutilized as construction material, and which not regulated pursuant to a license under Ohio R.C. Chapter 3714. Brick in clean hard fill includes but is not limited to refractory brick and mortar. “Clean hard fill” does not include materials contaminated with hazardous wastes, solid wastes, or infectious wastes pursuant to Ohio R.C. Chapter 3734.
(c) "Construction and demolition debris" shall mean those materials resulting from the alteration, construction, destruction, rehabilitation, or repair of any man-made physical structure, including, without limitation, houses, buildings, industrial or commercial facilities, or roadways. "Construction and demolition debris" does not include materials identified or listed as solid wastes, infectious wastes, or hazardous wastes pursuant to Ohio R.C. Chapter 3734 and rules adopted under it; or materials from mining operations, nontoxic fly ash, spent nontoxic foundry sand, and slag; or reinforced or non-reinforced concrete, asphalt, building or paving brick, or building or paving stone that is stored for a period of less than two years for recycling into a usable construction material.
(d) "Hazardous waste" shall mean the same as defined in Section 3745-51-24 of the Ohio Administrative Code.
(e) "Infectious waste" shall mean the same as defined in Section 3745-28-01 of the Ohio Administrative Code.
(f) "Landfill" shall mean any site, location, tract of land, installation, facility, or building used for incineration, composting, other methods of disposal of, or the collection, storage, processing, or transferring of solid wastes, construction and demolition debris, clean hard fill, or clean fill, as may be so designated, or any other property or facility designated as a landfill by State or Federal regulation.
(g) "Solid waste" shall mean such unwanted residual solid or semisolid material, including but not limited to garbage, scrap tires, combustible and noncombustible material, street dirt and debris, as results from industrial, commercial, agricultural, and community operations, excluding earth or material from construction, mining, or demolition operations, or other waste materials of the type that normally would be included in demolition debris, nontoxic fly ash and bottom ash, including at least ash that results from combustion of coal, biomass fuels, and ash that results from the combustion of coal in combination with scrap tires where scrap tires comprise not more than 50% of heat input in any month, spent nontoxic foundry sand, and slag and other substances that are not harmful or inimical to public health, and includes but is not limited to garbage, scrap tires, combustible and noncombustible material, street dirt, and debris. “Solid waste” does not include any material that is an infectious waste or a hazardous waste.
(Ord. 2014-55. Passed 4-9-14.)