For the purpose of this subchapter, 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. part 261.
ADVISORY BOARD. Refers to the Harnett County Advisory Board as set forth in § 91.04 of this subchapter.
BEST AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGY. Any combination of commercially available technologies which together serve to maximize recycling for reuse of the hazardous or low-level radioactive waste, while rendering the unrecycled components either to their least harmful form or to forms most amenable to eventual recovery.
COMMISSIONERS. The Board of County Commissioners for Harnett County.
DISPOSAL. The discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any hazardous or low-level radioactive waste into or on any land in such way that such waste, or any constituent thereof, may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any waters, including groundwaters.
FACILITY. All land, structures, personnel, and equipment used for the treatment, storage of more than 90 days, or more than 30 days in the case of acute hazardous waste, and/or disposal of hazardous or low-level radioactive waste whether on-site or off-site.
GENERATOR. Any person whose act or process produces low-level radioactive waste as defined above, or hazardous waste identified or listed in 40 C.F.R. part 261.
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: cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating illness; or pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, or disposed of or otherwise managed, and as defined in 40 C.F.R. part 261.
LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE. Radioactive waste not classified as any of the following: high-level radioactive waste; spent nuclear fuel as defined by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission; transuranic waste; or byproduct material as defined in 42 U.S.C. § 2014.
MANAGEMENT PRACTICES. Methods of systematic collection, source separation, storage, transfer, transportation, processing, treatment, recovery, and disposal of hazardous or low-level radioactive wastes.
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 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 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 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.
(Ord. passed 6-4-1984)