For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ACUTE HAZARDOUS WASTE. The same as defined in 40 C.F.R. § 261.
BEST AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGY. Waste management and treatment technology equal in performance to the best treatment technology available in the marketplace which serves to render the waste to its least harmful form and most reduced volume.
DISPOSAL. The discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any hazardous and/or low-level radioactive waste into or on any land so that such waste or any constituent thereof may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharge into any waters, including groundwaters.
FACILITY. All land, structures, personnel, and equipment used for the treatment, storage for more than 90 days, or more than one month in the case of acute hazardous waste, and/or disposal of hazardous and/or low-level radioactive waste, whether on-site or off-site.
GENERATOR. Any person, by site, whose act or process produces low-level radioactive waste as defined below, or hazardous waste identified or listed in 40 C.F.R. § 261.
HAZARDOUS AND/OR LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE BOARD. County Waste Management Board as described in § 51.04.
HAZARDOUS WASTE. Solid or liquid waste, or a combination of solid and liquid wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may:
(1) Cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating illness; or
(2) Pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, or disposed of, or otherwise managed.
LONG-TERM STORAGE. For more than 50 years.
LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE. Radioactive waste not classified as high-level radioactive waste, spent nuclear fuel as defined by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, transuranic waste, or byproduct material as defined in § 11E(2) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, being 42 U.S.C. § 2014(e).
MANAGEMENT PRACTICES. Methods of systematic collection, source separation, storage, transportation, processing, treatment, recovery, and disposal of hazardous and/or low-level radioactive wastes.
NON-HAZARDOUS WASTE. Solid waste as defined in the county chapter governing the collection, transportation, and disposal of solid waste other than HAZARDOUS WASTE as defined herein.
OFF-SITE. Not on-site within the environs of the county as the latter is defined in 40 C.F.R. Part 260.
ON-SITE. The same as defined in 40 C.F.R. Part 260.
PERSON. Any individual, corporation, partnership, firm/association, trust, estate, public or private institution, group, agency, or other entity, governmental or non-governmental, or any successor, subsidiary, or division thereof.
STORAGE. Containment for a period of over 90 days (or over one month in the case of acute hazardous waste) in such a manner as not to constitute disposal.
TRANSFER. Handling significant amounts (greater than 1,000 kilograms per month) of hazardous waste and/or low-level radioactive wastes that are not generated on-site or stored over 90 days.
TREATMENT. Any method, technique, or process, including neutralization, designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological character or composition of any hazardous and/or low-level radioactive waste so as to neutralize such waste or so as to render such waste non-hazardous, safer for transport, amenable for recovery, amenable for storage, or reduced in volume. Such term includes any activity or processing designed to change the physical form or chemical composition of hazardous waste or low-level radioactive waste so as to render it non-hazardous.
(1996 Code, § 51.01) (Ord. passed 10-5-1987)