As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings as set forth herein:
(a) "Permanent disposal" or "permanently dispose" means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking or placement of any hazardous waste into, on, above or below any land or water, which waste is to remain or which has remained at a disposal site within the City for a continuous period of five years and which is not intended to be removed from such site.
(b) "Hazardous waste" means 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 stored. Provided, however, that hazardous wastes shall include only those whose disposal would require a State or federal hazardous waste permit.
(c) "Person" means any individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, public or private or governmental corporation, partnership, association, State or federal agency.
(d) "Storage" means the otherwise local containment of hazardous wastes which wastes are not intended to be permanently disposed of at any site within the City.
(e) "Temporary hazardous waste storage facility" means a facility operating for profit which is primarily designed for the temporary storage of hazardous waste generated off the premises and transported to such facility for storage and eventual transportation to a site off premises for permanent disposal.
(f) "Waste" means any garbage, refuse, sludge and other discarded material including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial mining and agricultural operations, but does not include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage.
(Ord. 0-539. Passed 6-14-88.)