The words and terms defined in this Appendix B have the meaning given under the Environmental Protection Act, 415 ILCS, Tit. I, being 415 ILCS 5/1, and apply to Illinois Groundwater Protection Act, 415 ILCS 55/1, and the Illinois Water Well Construction Code, 415 ILCS 30/3.
COMMUNITY WATER SUPPLY. A public water supply which serves or is intended to serve at least 15 service connections used by residents or regularly serves at least 25 residents.
CONTAMINANT. Any solid, liquid or gaseous matter, any odor or any form of energy from whatever source.
DISPOSAL. The discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking or placing of any waste or hazardous waste into or on any land or water or into any well so that such waste or hazardous waste or any constituent thereof may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any waters, including groundwaters.
GENERATOR. When used in connection with hazardous waste, means any person whose act or process produces hazardous waste.
GROUNDWATER. Underground water which occurs within the saturated zone and geologic materials where the fluid pressure in the pore space is equal to or greater than atmospheric pressure.
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE.
(1) Means:
(a) Any substance designated pursuant to § 311(b)2(A) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (P.L. 92-500), being 33 U.S.C. § 1321(b)(2)(A), as amended;
(b) Any element, compound, mixture, solution or substance designated pursuant to § 102 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (P.L. 96-510), being 42 U.S.C. § 9601(14), as amended;
(c) Any hazardous waste;
(d) Any toxic pollutant listed under § 307(a) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (P.L. 92-500), being 33 U.S.C. § 1317(a), as amended;
(e) Any hazardous air pollutant listed under § 112 of the Clean Air Act (P.L. 95-95), being 42 U.S.C. § 7410(a)(6), as amended; and
(f) Any imminently hazardous chemical substance or mixture with respect to which the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has taken action pursuant to § 7 of the Toxic Substance Control Act (P.L. 94-469), being 12 U.S.C. §§ 2601 et seq., as amended.
(2) The term does not include petroleum, including crude oil or any fraction thereof which is not otherwise specifically listed or designated as a hazardous substance under divisions (1)(a) through (1)(f) of this definition, and the term does not include natural gas, natural gas liquids, liquefied gas and such synthetic gas.
HAZARDOUS WASTE. A waste, or combination of 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 reversible 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 which has been identified, by characteristics or listing, as hazardous pursuant to § 3001 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (P.L. 94-580), being 42 U.S.C. § 6921, or pursuant to PCS regulations.
LANDSCAPE WASTE. All accumulations of grass or shrubbery cuttings, leaves, tree limbs and other materials accumulated as the result of care of lawns, shrubbery, vines and trees.
MUNICIPAL WASTE. Garbage, general household and commercial waste landscape waste and construction or demolition debris.
MUNICIPALITY. Any city, village or incorporated town.
NON-COMMUNITY WATER SUPPLY. A public water supply that is not a community water supply.
POTABLE. Generally fit for human consumption in accordance with accepted water supply principles and practices.
POTENTIAL PRIMARY SOURCE.
(1) Any unit at a facility or site not currently subject to a removal or remedial action which:
(a) Is utilized for the treatment, storage or disposal of any hazardous or special waste not generated at the site;
(b) Is utilized for the disposal of municipal waste not generated at the site, other than landscape waste and construction and demolition debris;
(c) Is utilized for the landfilling, land treating, surface impounding or piling of any hazardous, or special waste that is generated on the site or at other sites owned, controlled or operated by the same person; or
(d) Stores or accumulates at any time more than 75,000 pounds above ground, or more than 7,500 pounds below ground, of any hazardous substances.
(2) A NEW POTENTIAL PRIMARY SOURCE is:
(a) A potential primary source which is not in existence or for which construction has not commenced at its location as of January 1, 1988;
(b) A potential primary source which expands laterally beyond the currently permitted boundary or, if the primary is not permitted, the boundary in existence as of January 1, 1988; or
(c) A potential primary source which is part of a facility that undergoes major reconstruction. Such reconstruction shall be deemed to have taken place where the fixed capital cost of the new components constructed within a two-year period exceed 50% of the fixed capital cost of a comparable entirely new facility.
(3) Construction shall be deemed commenced when all necessary federal, state and local approvals have been obtained, and work at the site has been initiated and proceeds in a reasonably continuous manner to completion.
POTENTIAL ROUTE.
(1) Abandoned and improperly plugged wells of all kinds, drainage wells, all injection wells, including closed loop heat pump wells and any excavation for the discovery, development or production of stone, sand or gravel.
(2) A NEW POTENTIAL ROUTE is:
(a) A potential route which is not in existence or for which construction has not commenced at its location as of January 1, 1968; or
(b) A potential route which expands laterally beyond the currently permitted boundary or, if the potential route is not permitted, the boundary in existence as of January 1, 1988.
(3) Construction shall be deemed commenced when all necessary federal, state and local approvals have been obtained, and work at the site has been initiated and proceeds in a reasonably continuous manner to completion.
POTENTIAL SECONDARY SOURCE.
(1) Any unit at a facility or site not currently subject to a removal or remedial action, other than a potential primary source, which:
(a) Is utilized for the landfilling, land treating or surface impounding of waste that is generated on the site or at other sites owned, controlled or operated by the same person, other than livestock and landscape waste, and construction and demolition debris;
(b) Stores or accumulates at any time more than 25,000 but more than 75,000 pounds above ground, or more than 2,500 but not more than 7,500 pounds below ground, of any hazardous substances;
(c) Stores or accumulates at any time more than 25,000 gallons above ground, or more than 500 gallons below ground, of petroleum, including crude oil or any faction thereof which is not otherwise specifically listed or designated as a hazardous substance;
(d) Stores or accumulates pesticides, fertilizers or road oils for purposes of commercial application or for distribution to retail sales outlets;
(e) Stores or accumulates at any time more than 50,000 pounds of any de-icing agent; or
(f) Is utilized for handling livestock waste or for treating domestic wastewaters other than private sewage disposal systems as defined in the Private Sewage Disposal Licensing Act, 225 ILCS 225.
(2) A NEW POTENTIAL SECONDARY SOURCE is:
(a) A potential secondary source which is not in existence or for which construction has not commenced at its location as of July 1, 1988;
(b) A potential secondary source which expands laterally beyond the currently permitted boundary or, if the secondary source is not permitted, the boundary in existence as of July 1, 1988, other than an expansion for handling of livestock waste or for treating domestic wastewaters; or
(c) A potential secondary source which is part of a facility that undergoes major reconstruction. Such reconstruction shall be deemed to have taken place where the fixed capital cost of the new components constructed within a two-year period exceed 50% of the fixed capital cost of a comparable entirely new facility.
(3) Construction shall be deemed commenced when all necessary federal, state and local approvals have been obtained, and work at the site has been initiated and proceeds in a reasonably continuous manner to completion.
PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY. All mains, pipes and structures through which water is obtained and distributed to the public, including wells and well structures, intakes and cribs, pumping stations, treatment plants, reservoirs, storage tanks and appurtenances, collectively or severally, actually used or intended for use for the purpose of furnishing water for drinking or general domestic use and which serve at least 15 service connections or which regularly serve at least 25 persons at least 60 days per year. A PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY is either a community water supply or a non-community water supply.
REGULATED RECHARGE AREA. A compact geographic area as determined by the PCB, the geology of which renders a potable resource groundwater particularly susceptible to contamination.
RESOURCE GROUNDWATER. Groundwater that is presently being or in the future capable of being put to beneficial use by reason of being of suitable quality.
SETBACK ZONE. A geographic area, designated pursuant to the Act, containing a potable water supply well or a potential source or potential route, having a continuous boundary, and within which certain prohibitions or regulations are applicable in order to protect groundwaters.
SPECIAL WASTE. Any industrial process waste, pollution control waste or hazardous waste, except as may be determined pursuant to § 22.9 of this Act.
STORAGE. When used in connection with hazardous waste, means the containment of hazardous waste, either on a temporary basis or for a period of years, in such a manner as not to constitute disposal of such hazardous waste.
TREATMENT. When used in connection with hazardous waste means any method, technique or process, including neutralization, designed to change the physical, chemical or biological character or composition of any hazardous 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 so as to render it non-hazardous.
WELL. A bored, drilled or driven shaft, or dug hole, the depth of which is greater than the largest surface dimension.
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