When used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section:
BUSINESS: An employer, self-employed individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, corporation, partnership, association, city, district and the state of Nevada or any department or agency thereof. For the purpose of this chapter, a "business" shall include both for profit and nonprofit business.
CONTROL: To mitigate, pretreat, remove or otherwise lessen the impact of an emission, discharge or release of a hazardous waste into the environment.
COUNTY: Lyon County, Nevada.
DISCHARGE: Includes, but is not limited to, any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying or dumping of a hazardous waste into the environment.
DISCLOSURE FORM: The written request for information prepared by the Lyon County department of safety and emergency management and the Lyon County planning department. The term includes the hazardous waste permit application form required by the county.
EMIT: To discharge or release into the atmosphere or into the environment.
ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT: The efforts undertaken to outline the handling of hazardous waste. An environmental audit is a precursor to and part of the hazardous wastes management plan required hereby.
FACILITY: Any building, structure, installation, equipment, pipe or pipeline, or any of the foregoing that are related by nature of contiguity, ownership or industrial process and used for the handling of hazardous wastes.
HANDLE: To generate, treat, manufacture, produce, store, use, discharge, release, transfer, dispose of, incinerate, recycle or emit in any fashion a hazardous waste.
HANDLER: An entity which generates, treats, manufactures, produces, stores, uses, discharges, releases, transfers, transports, disposes of, incinerates, recycles or emits in any fashion a hazardous waste. An entity which otherwise would be a "handler" who conducts any such activity pursuant to a preemptive state or federal law or regulation is not a "handler" for the purposes of this chapter.
HAZARDOUS WASTE: The following substances, when handled off site and being handled for disposal:
A. The substances as listed in the then current edition of "RCRA Hazardous Waste";
B. Any substance containing five (5) or more parts per million of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs);
C. The substances defined in Nevada Revised Statutes 459.430 and NAC 444.8565;
D. High-level radioactive wastes;
E. Low-level radioactive wastes; and
F. Incinerator ash, unless it be shown that the ash does not contain any substance defined herein as "hazardous waste".
LOAD: The amount of hazardous waste transported by one truck, one towed trailer, one railroad car or any other single vehicle to a hazardous waste area.
MONITOR: To perform a test, sample or otherwise check a discharge or handling activity to ensure compliance with standards set pursuant to any provision of this chapter or any other law, rule or regulation regarding the handling of hazardous wastes.
OFF-SITE: The substance is being handled at a site other than the location where the substance was generated.
OFFICER: Any representative of Lyon County whose official duties include hazardous waste control.
PERMIT: The hazardous waste permit required pursuant to this chapter.
RELEASE: Any spilling into, leaking into, pumping into, pouring into, emitting into, emptying into, discharging into, injecting into, escape into, leaching into, dumping into or onto or in any way disposing into the environment or any abandonment of hazardous wastes.
REMOVE:
A. The cleanup or removal of released hazardous wastes or environmental media contaminated by released hazardous wastes;
B. Such actions as may be necessary to monitor, assess or evaluate the release of the hazardous wastes; or
C. The taking of other such actions as may be necessary to mitigate damage to the public health and the environment.
STORAGE: When the substance has remained in Lyon County for more than thirty (30) days.
UNAUTHORIZED RELEASE: The release, discharge or emission of a hazardous waste in quantities as set in the hazardous waste management plan (HWMP). (Ord. 355, 5-2-1991)