6 Colo. Code Regs. § 1007-3-260.10
When used in Parts 260 through 273, and Parts 99 and 100 of these regulations, the following terms have the meanings given below:
"Aboveground tank" means a device meeting the definition of "tank" in §260.10 and that is situated in such a way that the entire surface area of the tank is completely above the plane of the adjacent surrounding surface and the entire surface area of the tank (including the tank bottom) is able to be visually inspected.
"Act" or "RCRA" means the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, as amended, 42 U.S.C. section 6901 et seq.
"Active ingredient" means a component or mixture that performs the function of the product, even if it is present in very low concentration in the product.
"Active life" of a facility means the period from the initial receipt of hazardous waste at the facility until the Department receives certification of final closure.
"Active portion" means that portion of a facility where treatment, storage, or disposal operations are being or have been conducted after November 19, 1980 and which is not a closed portion. (See also "closed portion" and "inactive portion".)
"Acute hazardous waste" means hazardous wastes that meet the listing criteria in §261.11 and therefore are either listed in §261.31 of these regulations with the assigned hazard code of (H) or are listed in § 261.33(e) of these regulations.
"Administrator" means the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, or his/her designee.
"Aerosol can" means a non-refillable receptacle containing a gas compressed, liquefied, or dissolved under pressure, the sole purpose of which is to expel a liquid, paste, or powder and fitted with a self-closing release device allowing the contents to be ejected by the gas.
"Airbag waste" means any hazardous waste airbag modules or hazardous waste airbag inflators.
"Airbag waste collection facility" means any facility that receives airbag waste from airbag handlers subject to regulation under §261.4 of these regulations, and accumulates the waste for more than ten days.
"Airbag waste handler" means any person, by site, who generates airbag waste that is subject to regulation under these regulations.
"Ancillary equipment" means any device including, but not limited to, such devices as piping, fittings, flanges, valves, and pumps that is used to distribute, meter, or control the flow of hazardous waste from its point of generation to a storage or treatment tank(s), between hazardous waste storage and treatment tanks to a point of disposal onsite, or to a point of shipment for disposal off-site.
"Aquifer" means a geologic formation, group of formations or part of a formation capable of yielding a significant amount of ground water to wells or springs.
"Authorized representative" means the person responsible for the overall operation of a facility or an operational unit (i.e., part of a facility), e.g., the plant manager, superintendent or person of equivalent responsibility.
"Battery" means a device consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells which is designed to receive, store, and deliver electric energy. An electrochemical cell is a system consisting of an anode, cathode, and an electrolyte, plus such connections (electrical and mechanical) as may be needed to allow the cell to deliver or receive electrical energy. The term battery also includes an intact, unbroken battery from which the electrolyte has been removed.
"Board" means the State Board of Health created by Section 25-1-103.
"Boiler" means an enclosed device using controlled flame combustion and having the following characteristics (Effective January 1, 1986):
"Carbon regeneration unit" means any enclosed thermal treatment device used to regenerate spent activated carbon.
"CDH" means the Colorado Department of Health created by Section 25-1-102.
"CDPHE" means the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment created by Section 25-1-102.
"Central accumulation area(s)" means any on-site hazardous waste accumulation area(s) with hazardous waste accumulating in units subject to either §262.16 (for small quantity generators) or §262.17 of these regulations (for large quantity generators).
"Certification" means a statement of professional opinion based upon knowledge and belief.
"Chemical weapon" means agent or munition that, through its chemical properties, produces lethal or other damaging effects on human beings, except that such term does not include riot control agents, chemical herbicides, smoke and other obscuration materials.
"Closed portion" means that portion of a facility which an owner or operator has closed in accordance with the approved facility closure plan and all applicable closure requirements. (See also "active portion" and "inactive portion".)
"Commercial use or value" means a material has commercial use or value when (1) it is being beneficially used or reused or legitimately recycled or reclaimed; or (2) it is being accumulated, stored, or physically, chemically, or biologically treated prior to beneficial use or reuse or legitimate recycling or reclamation, and not merely for speculation.
"Commission" means the Solid and Hazardous Waste Commission created pursuant to section 25-15-302, C.R.S.
"Committee" means the committee on Hazardous Waste Regulation created in SB 519, Colo. Sess. Laws Ch. 327, and replaced by the Hazardous Waste Commission created pursuant to section 25-15-302, C.R.S.
"Component" means any constituent part of a unit or any group of constituent parts of a unit which are assembled to perform a specific function (e.g., a pump seal, pump, kiln liner, kiln thermocouple.)
"Confined aquifer" means an aquifer bounded above and below by impermeable beds or by beds of distinctly lower permeability than that of the aquifer itself: an aquifer containing confined ground water.
"Contained" means held in a unit (including a land-based unit as defined in this subpart) that meets the following criteria:
"Container" means any portable device in which a material is stored, transported, treated, disposed of, or otherwise handled.
"Containment building" means a hazardous waste management unit that is used to store or treat hazardous waste under the provisions of Subpart DD of Parts 264 or 265 of these regulations.
"Contingency plan" means a document setting out an organized, planned, and coordinated course of action to be followed in case of a fire, explosion, or release of hazardous waste or hazardous waste constituents which could threaten human health or the environment.
"Corrective action management unit (CAMU)" means an area within a facility that is used only for managing remediation wastes for implementing corrective action or cleanup at the facility.
"Corrosion expert" means a person who, by reason of his knowledge of the physical sciences and the principles of engineering and mathematics, acquired by a professional education and related practical experience, is qualified to engage in the practice of corrosion control on buried or submerged metal piping systems and metal tanks. Such a person must be certified as being qualified by the National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) or be a registered professional engineer who has certification or licensing that includes education and experience in corrosion control on buried or submerged metal piping systems and metal tanks.
"Department" means the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment as created by Section 25 1 102.
"Designated facility" means:
"Destination facility" means a facility that treats, disposes of, or recycles a particular category of universal waste, except those management activities described in paragraphs (a) and (c) of § §273.13 and 273.33 of these regulations. A facility at which a particular category of universal waste is only accumulated, is not a destination facility for purposes of managing that category of universal waste.
"Dike" means an embankment or ridge of either natural or man made materials used to prevent the movement of liquids, sludges, solids, or other materials.
"Dioxins and furans (D/F)" means tetra, penta, hexa, hepta, and octa-chlorinated dibenzo dioxins and furans.
"Director" means the Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, or his/her designee, or the Department where appropriate.
"Discharge" or "hazardous waste discharge" means the accidental or intentional spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, or dumping of hazardous waste into or on any land or water.
"Disposal" means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any solid waste or hazardous waste into or on any land or water so that such solid waste or hazardous waste or any constituent thereof may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any waters, including ground waters.
"Disposal facility"* means a facility or part of a facility at which hazardous waste is intentionally placed into or on any land or water, and at which waste will remain after closure. For the purposes of the application of the land disposal restrictions found in Part 268 and for the purposes of the application of the minimum technology requirements of 40 CFR § 268.5(h)(2), or of the minimum technology requirements of Subparts K, L, M, or N, or the groundwater protection requirements of Subpart F or the closure and post-closure requirements of Subpart G of Part 264 or 265 of these regulations, the term "disposal facility" does not include a corrective action management unit into which remediation wastes are placed.
* Please note that for State siting purposes applicable to Part II, Title 25, Article 15 C.R.S., "Disposal site" means all contiguous land and, including publicly owned land, used for hazardous waste disposal under common ownership.
"Domestic waste water" means untreated sanitary wastes that pass through a sewer system.
"Drip pad" is an engineered structure consisting of a curbed, free-draining base, constructed of non-earthen materials and designed to convey preservative kick-back or drippage from treated wood, precipitation, and surface water run-on to an associated collection system at wood preserving plants.
"Electronic component" means components, subassemblies or other parts derived from the disassembly of electronic devices. While many waste electronic devices do not fail the toxicity test for heavy metals if left intact, individual components generated by disassembly may fail the toxicity test.
"Electronic device" means electronic equipment that contains one or more electronic circuit boards or other complex circuitry, including but not limited to computer monitors, televisions, central processing units (CPUs), laptops, printers, terminals, mainframes and stereo equipment.
"Electronic manifest (or e-Manifest)" means the electronic format of the hazardous waste manifest that is obtained from EPA's national e-Manifest system and transmitted electronically to the system, and that is the legal equivalent of EPA Forms 8700-22 (Manifest) and 8700-22A (Continuation Sheet).
"Electronic Manifest System (or e-Manifest System)" means EPA's national information technology system through which the electronic manifest may be obtained, completed, transmitted, and distributed to users of the electronic manifest and to regulatory agencies.
"Elementary Neutralization unit" means a device which:
"Environmental covenant" means an instrument containing environmental use restrictions created pursuant to § 25-15-321, C.R.S.
"Environmental use restriction" means a prohibition of one or more uses of or activities on specified real property, including drilling for or pumping groundwater; a requirement to perform certain acts, including requirements for maintenance, operation, or monitoring necessary to preserve such prohibition of uses or activities; or both, where such prohibitions or requirements are relied upon in the remedial decision for an environmental remediation project for the purpose of protecting human health or the environment.
"EPA hazardous waste number" means the number assigned by EPA to each hazardous waste listed in Part 261, Subpart D, of these regulations and to each characteristic identified in Part 261, Subpart C, of these regulations.
"EPA identification number" means the number assigned by EPA to each generator, transporter, and treatment, storage, or disposal facility.
"Equivalent method" means any testing or analytical method approved by the Administrator under § 260.20 and § 260.21.
"Existing hazardous waste management (HWM) facility"** or "existing facility" means a facility which was in operation or for which construction commenced on or before November 19, 1980. A facility has commenced construction if:
** Please note that for State siting purposes applicable to Part II, Title 25, Article 15 C.R.S., "Existing hazardous waste disposal site" means a hazardous waste disposal site which is in active operation prior to July 1, 1981.
"Existing portion" means that land surface area of an existing waste management unit, included in the original Part A permit application, on which wastes have been placed prior to the issuance of a permit.
"Existing tank system" or "existing component" means a tank system or component that is used for the storage or treatment of hazardous waste and that is in operation, or for which installation has commenced on or prior to July 14, 1986. Installation will be considered to have commenced if the owner or operator has obtained all Federal, State, and local approvals or permits necessary to begin physical construction of the site or installation of the tank system and if either
"Explosives or munitions emergency response specialist" means an individual trained in chemical or conventional munitions or explosives handling, transportation, render-safe procedures, or destruction techniques. Explosives or munitions emergency response specialists include Department of Defense (DOD) emergency explosive ordnance disposal (EOD), DOD technical escort unit (TEU), and DOD-certified civilian or contractor personnel; and other Federal, State, or local government, or civilian personnel similarly trained in explosives or munitions emergency responses.
"Facility" means:
"Facility mailing list" means the mailing list for a facility maintained by the Department in accordance with § 100.506 (c)(l)(iv).
"Federal Act" means the federal "Solid Waste Disposal Act", as amended by the federal "Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976", and as from time to time amended (42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.).
"Federal agency" means any department, agency, or other instrumentality of the Federal Government, any independent agency or establishment of the Federal Government including any Government corporation, and the Government Printing Office.
"Federal, State and local approvals or permits necessary to begin physical construction" means permits and approvals required under Federal, State or local hazardous waste control statutes, regulations or ordinances.
"Final closure" means the closure of all hazardous waste management units at the facility in accordance with all applicable closure requirements so that hazardous waste management activities under Parts 264 and 265 of these regulations are no longer conducted at the facility unless subject to the provisions in § 262.34.
"Food-chain crops" means tobacco, crops grown for human consumption, and crops grown for feed for animals whose products are consumed by humans.
"Freeboard" means the vertical distance between the top of a tank or surface impoundment dike, and the surface of the waste contained therein.
"Free liquids" means liquids which readily separate from the solid portion of a waste under ambient temperature and pressure.
"Functionally equivalent component" means a component which performs the same function or measurement and which meets or exceeds the performance specifications of another component.
"Generator" means any person, by site, whose act or process produces hazardous waste identified or listed in Part 261 of these regulations or whose act first causes a hazardous waste to become subject to regulation.
"Governmental unit" means the State of Colorado, every county, city and county, municipality, school district, special district and authority located in this state, every public body corporate created or established under the constitution or any law of this state, and every board, commission, department, institution, or agency of any of the foregoing or of the United States.
"Ground water" means water below the land surface in a zone of saturation.
"Hazardous Constituent" means any constituent identified in Appendix VIII of 6 CCR 1007-3, Part 261.
"Hazardous secondary material" means a secondary material (e.g., spent material, by-product, or sludge) that, when discarded, would be identified as hazardous waste under Part 261 of these regulations.
"Hazardous waste" means a hazardous waste as defined in Part 261 of these regulations.
"Hazardous waste constituent" means a constituent that caused the Department to list the hazardous waste in Part 261, Subpart D, of these regulations, or a constituent listed in Table 1 of § 261.24 of these regulations.
"Hazardous waste generation" means the act or process of producing hazardous waste.
"Hazardous waste management" means the systematic control of the collection, source separation, storage, transportation, treatment, recovery, and disposal of hazardous waste.
"Hazardous waste management unit" is a contiguous area of land on or in which hazardous waste is placed, or the largest area in which there is significant likelihood of mixing hazardous waste constituents in the same area. Examples of hazardous waste management units include a surface impoundment, a waste pile, a land treatment area, a landfill cell, an incinerator, a tank and its associated piping and underlying containment system and a container storage area. A container alone does not constitute a unit; the unit includes containers and the land or pad upon which they are placed.
"Inactive portion" means that portion of a facility which is not operated after November 19, 1980. (See also "active portion" and "closed portion".)
"Incinerator" means any enclosed device that:
"Incompatible wastes" means a waste unsuitable for commingling with another waste or material if the commingling might result in:
"Individual generation site" means the contiguous site at or on which one or more hazardous wastes are generated. An individual generation site, such as a large manufacturing plant, may have one or more sources of hazardous waste but is considered a single or individual generation site if the site or property is contiguous.
"Industrial furnace" means any of the following enclosed devices that are integral components of manufacturing processes and that use thermal treatment to accomplish recovery of materials or energy:
"Infrared incinerator" means any enclosed device that uses electric powered resistance heaters as a source of radiant heat followed by an afterburner using controlled flame combustion and which is not listed as an industrial furnace.
"Inert material" means non-water-soluble and nondecomposable inert solids together with such minor amounts and types of other materials as will not significantly affect the inert nature of such solids according to rules and regulations of the Commission. The term includes but is not limited to earth, sand, gravel, rock, concrete which has been in a hardened state for at least sixty days, masonry, asphalt paving fragments, and other non-water-soluble and nondecomposable inert solids including those the Commission may by regulation identify.
"Inground tank" means a device meeting the definition of "tank" in §260.10 whereby a portion of the tank wall is situated to any degree within the ground, thereby preventing visual inspection of that external surface area of the tank that is in the ground.
"In operation" refers to a facility which is treating, storing, or disposing of hazardous waste.
"Injection well" means a well into which fluids are injected. (See also "underground injection".)
"Inner liner" means a continuous layer of material placed inside a tank or container which protects the construction materials of the tank or container from the contained waste or reagents used to treat the waste.
"Installation inspector" means a person, who, by reason of his/her knowledge of the physical sciences and the principles of engineering, acquired by a professional education and related practical experience, is qualified to supervise the installation of tank systems.
"International shipment" means the transportation of hazardous waste into or out of the jurisdiction of the United States.
"Lamp", also referred to as "universal waste lamp" is defined as the bulb or tube portion of an electric lighting device. A lamp is specifically designed to produce radiant energy, most often in the ultraviolet, visible, and infra-red regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Examples of common universal waste electric lamps include, but are not limited to, fluorescent, high intensity discharge, neon, mercury vapor, high pressure sodium, and metal halide lamps.
"Landfill" means a disposal facility or part of a facility where hazardous waste is placed in or on land and which is not a pile, a land treatment facility, a surface impoundment, an underground injection well, a salt dome formation, a salt bed formation, an underground mine, a cave, or, for the purposes of the application of the land disposal restrictions found in Part 268 and for the purposes of the application of the minimum technology requirements of 40 CFR § 268.5(h)(2), or of the minimum technology requirements of Subparts K, L, M, or N, or the groundwater protection requirements of Subpart F or the closure and post-closure requirements of Subpart G of Part 264 or 265 of these regulations, a corrective action management unit.
"Landfill cell" means a discrete volume of a hazardous waste landfill which uses a liner to provide isolation of wastes from adjacent cells or wastes. Examples of landfill cells are trenches and pits.
"Land treatment facility" means a facility or part of a facility at which hazardous waste is applied onto or incorporated into the soil surface; such facilities are disposal facilities if the waste will remain after closure.
"Large Quantity Generator (LQG)" is a generator who generates any of the following amounts in a calendar month:
"Leachate" means any liquid, including any suspended components in the liquid, that has percolated through or drained from hazardous waste.
"Leak-detection system" means a system capable of detecting the failure of either the primary or secondary containment structure or the presence of a release of hazardous waste or accumulated liquid in the secondary containment structure. Such a system must employ operational controls (e.g., daily visual inspections for releases into the secondary containment system of aboveground tanks) or consist of an interstitial monitoring device designed to detect continuously and automatically the failure of the primary or secondary containment structure or the presence of a release of hazardous waste into the secondary containment structure.
"Liner" means a continuous layer of natural or man-made materials, beneath or on the sides of a surface impoundment, landfill, or landfill cell, which restricts the downward or lateral escape of hazardous waste, hazardous waste constituents, or leachate.
"Management" or "hazardous waste management" means the systematic control of the collection, source separation, storage, transportation, processing, treatment, recovery, and disposal of hazardous waste.
"Manifest" means the shipping document EPA Form 8700-22 (including, if necessary, EPA Form 8700-22A), or the electronic manifest, originated and signed in accordance with the applicable requirements of Parts 262 through 265 of these regulations.
"Manifest tracking number" means: The alphanumeric identification number (i.e., a unique three letter suffix preceded by nine numerical digits), which is pre-printed in Item 4 of the Manifest by a registered source.
"Mercury-containing device" means any electrical or medical product or component (excluding batteries and lamps) which contains elemental mercury that is necessary for its operation where the mercury acts as a conductor of temperature, pressure or electricity. The mercury must be housed within an outer metal, glass or plastic casing. Mercury-containing devices include but are not limited to: barometers, blood pressure cuffs, electrical switches and relays, gauges and flow regulators, manometers, pyrometers, thermostats, thermometers, thermocouples, and mercury-filled vacuum pumps.
"Military munitions" means all ammunition products and components produced or used by or for the U.S. Department of Defense or the U.S. Armed Services for national defense and security, including military munitions under the control of the Department of Defense, the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and National Guard personnel. The term military munitions includes: confined gaseous, liquid, and solid propellants, explosives, pyrotechnics, chemical and riot control agents, smokes, and incendiaries used by DOD components, including bulk explosives and chemical warfare agents, chemical munitions, rockets, guided and ballistic missiles, bombs, warheads, mortar rounds, artillery ammunition, small arms ammunition, grenades, mines, torpedoes, depth charges, cluster munitions and dispensers, demolition charges, and devices and components thereof. Military munitions do not include wholly inert items, improvised explosive devices, and nuclear weapons, nuclear devices, and nuclear components thereof. However, the term does include non nuclear components of nuclear devices, managed under DOE's nuclear weapons program after all required sanitization operations under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, have been completed.
"Miscellaneous unit" means a hazardous waste management unit where hazardous waste is treated, stored, or disposed of and that is not a container, tank, surface impoundment, pile, land treatment unit, landfill, incinerator, boiler, industrial furnace, underground injection well with appropriate technical standards under 40 CFR Part 146 , containment building, corrective action management unit, unit eligible for a research, development, and demonstration permit under § 100.25, or staging pile.
"Mining overburden returned to the mine site" means any material overlying an economic mineral deposit which is removed to gain access to that deposit and is then used for reclamation of a surface mine.
"Movement" means that hazardous waste transported to a facility in an individual vehicle.
"New hazardous waste management facility"or "new facility" * means a facility which began operation, or for which construction commenced after November 19,1980. (See also "Existing hazardous waste management facility".)
* Please note that for State siting purposes, the active operation date for an existing hazardous waste disposal site is July 1, 1981, pursuant to Part II, Title 25, Article 15 C.R.S.
"New tank system" or "new tank component" means a tank system or component that will be used for the storage or treatment of hazardous waste and for which installation has commenced after the effective date of these regulations; except, however, for purposes of §264.193 and §265.193 , a new tank system is one for which construction commences after July 14, 1986. (See also "existing tank system".)
"Non-acute hazardous waste" means all hazardous wastes that are not acute hazardous waste, as defined in this section.
"Notice of environmental use restriction" means an instrument containing environmental use restrictions created pursuant to section 25-15-321.5, C.R.S.
"Onground tank" means a device meeting the definition of "tank" in §260.10 and that is situated in such a way that the bottom of the tank is on the same level as the adjacent surrounding surface so that the external tank bottom cannot be visually inspected.
"On-site" means the same or geographically contiguous property which may be divided by public or private right-of-way, provided the entrance and exit between the properties is at a cross-roads intersection, and access is by crossing as opposed to going along, the right-of-way. Non-contiguous properties owned by the same person but connected by a right-of-way which he/she controls and to which the public does not have access, is also considered on-site property.
"Open burning" means the combustion of any material without the following characteristics:
"Operation", when used in connection with hazardous waste management, means the use of procedures, equipment, personnel, and other resources to provide hazardous waste management.
"Operator" means the person operating a hazardous waste management facility or site either by contract or permit.
"Owner" means the person who owns a facility or part of a facility.
"Partial closure" means the closure of a hazardous waste management unit in accordance with the applicable closure requirements of Parts 264 and 265 of these regulations at a facility that contains other active hazardous waste management units. For example, partial closure may include the closure of a tank (including its associated piping and underlying containment system), landfill cell, surface impoundment, waste pile, or other hazardous waste management unit, while other units of the same facility continue to operate.
"Person" means any individual, public or private corporation, partnership, association, firm, trust or estate; the state or any executive department, institution, or agency thereof; any municipal corporation, county, city and county, or other political subdivision of the state; or any other legal entity whatsoever which is recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties.
"Personnel" or "facility personnel" means all persons who work at, or oversee the operations of, a hazardous waste facility, and whose actions or failure to act may result in noncompliance with the requirements of Parts 264 or 265 of these regulations.
"Pesticide" means any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest, or intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant, other than any article that:
"Pile" means any non-containerized accumulation of solid, nonflowing hazardous waste that is used for treatment or storage and that is not a containment building.
"Plasma arc incinerator" means any enclosed device using a high intensity electrical discharge or arc as a source of heat followed by an afterburner using controlled flame combustion and which is not listed as an industrial furnace.
"Point source" means any discernible, confined, and discrete conveyance, including, but not limited to any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal feeding operation, or vessel or other floating craft, from which pollutants are or may be discharged. This term does not include return flows from irrigated agriculture.
"Publicly-owned land" means any land owned by the federal government or any agency thereof or land owned by the state or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
"Publicly owned treatment works" or "POTW" means any device or system used in the treatment (including recycling and reclamation) of municipal sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature which is owned by a "State or "Municipality" (as defined by Section 502 (4) of the (CWA). This definition includes sewers, pipes, or other conveyances only if they convey wastewater to a POTW providing treatment.
"Qualified Ground-Water Scientist" means a scientist or engineer who has received a baccalaureate or post-graduate degree in the natural sciences or engineering, and has sufficient training and experience in ground-water hydrology and related fields as may be demonstrated by state registration, professional certifications, or completion of accredited university courses that enable that individual to make sound professional judgements regarding ground-water monitoring and contaminant fate and transport.
"Recognized trader" means a person domiciled in the United States, by site of business, who acts to arrange and facilitate transboundary movements of wastes destined for recovery or disposal operations, either by purchasing from and subsequently selling to United States and foreign facilities, or by acting under arrangements with a United States waste facility to arrange for the export or import of the wastes.
"Regional Administrator" means the Regional Administrator for the EPA Region in which the facility is located, or his/her designee.
"Remedial Action Plan (RAP)" means a special form of RCRA permit that a facility owner or operator may obtain under §100.27 of these regulations, to authorize the treatment, storage or disposal of hazardous remediation waste (as defined in §260.10 of these regulations) at a remediation waste management site.
"Remediation waste" means all solid and hazardous wastes, and all media (including groundwater, surface water, soils, and sediments) and debris that are managed for implementing cleanup.
"Remediation waste management site" means a facility where an owner or operator is or will be treating, storing or disposing of hazardous remediation wastes. A remediation waste management site is not a facility that is subject to corrective action under §264.101 of these regulations, but is subject to corrective action requirements if the site is located in such a facility.
"Replacement unit" means a landfill, surface impoundment, or waste pile unit (1) from which all or substantially all of the waste is removed, and (2) that is subsequently reused to treat, store, or dispose of hazardous waste. "Replacement unit" does not apply to a unit from which waste is removed during closure, if the subsequent reuse solely involves the disposal of waste from that unit and other closing units or corrective action areas at the facility, in accordance with an approved closure plan or EPA or State approved corrective action.
"Representative sample" means a sample of a universe or whole (e.g., waste pile, lagoon, ground water) which can be expected to exhibit the average properties of the universe or whole.
"Resource recovery", when used in connection with hazardous waste, means the operation of preparing and treating any such material or portion thereof for recycling or reuse or the recovery of material or energy.
"Run off" means any rainwater, leachate, or other liquid that drains over land from any part of a facility.
"Run on" means any rainwater, leachate, or other liquid that drains over land onto any part of a facility.
"Saturated zone" or "zone of saturation" means that part of the earth's crust in which all voids are filled with water.
"Self-Certification Checklist" means a checklist of regulatory requirements under 6 CCR 1007-3 that are applicable to specific types of hazardous waste generators (e.g., dry cleaners, autobody shops, hospitals, etc.).
"Sludge" means any solid, semi solid, or liquid waste generated from a municipal, commercial, or industrial wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility exclusive of the treated effluent from a wastewater treatment plant.
"Sludge dryer" means any enclosed thermal treatment device that is used to dehydrate sludge and that has a maximum total thermal input, excluding the heating value of the sludge itself, of 2,500 Btu/lb of sludge treated on a wet-weight basis.
"Small Quantity Generator (SQG)" is a generator who generates the following amounts in a calendar month:
"Solid Waste" means a solid waste as defined in § 261.2 of these regulations.
"Sorbent" means a material that is used to soak up free liquids by either adsorption or absorption, or both. "Sorb" means to either adsorb or absorb, or both.
"Staging pile" means an accumulation of solid, non-flowing remediation waste (as defined in this section) that is not a containment building and that is used only during remedial operations for temporary storage at a facility. Staging piles must be designated by the Director according to the requirements of § 264.554 of these regulations.
"State" means any of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
"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 hazardous waste. The term does not apply to any hazardous waste generation if such waste is retained on the site by the Generator in quantities or for time periods exempted by rules and regulations promulgated by the Commission.
"Sump" means any pit or reservoir that meets the definition of tank and those troughs/trenches connected to it that serves to collect hazardous waste for transport to hazardous waste storage, treatment, or disposal facilities; except that as used in the landfill, surface impoundment, and waste pile rules, "sump" means any lined pit or reservoir that serves to collect liquids drained from a leachate collection and removal system or leak detection system for subsequent removal from the system.
"Surface impoundment" or "impoundment" means a facility or part of a facility which is a natural topographic depression, man-made excavation, or diked area formed primarily of earthen materials (although it may be lined with man-made materials), which is designed to hold an accumulation of liquid wastes or wastes containing free liquids, and which is not an injection well. Examples of surface impoundments are holding, storage, settling, and aeration pits, ponds, and lagoons.
"Tank" means a stationary device, designed to contain an accumulation of hazardous waste which is constructed primarily of non-earthen materials (e.g., wood, concrete, steel, plastic) which provide structural support.
"Tank system" means a hazardous waste storage or treatment tank and its associated ancillary equipment and containment system.
"TEQ" means toxicity equivalence, the international method of relating the toxicity of various dioxin/furan congeners to the toxicity of 2,3,7, 8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxins.
"Thermal treatment" means the treatment of hazardous waste in a device which uses elevated temperatures as the primary means to change the chemical, physical, or biological character or composition of the hazardous waste. Examples of thermal treatment processes are incineration, molten salt, pyrolysis, calcination, wet air oxidation, and microwave discharge. (See also "incinerator" and "open burning".)
"Totally enclosed treatment facility" means a facility for the treatment of hazardous waste which is directly connected to an industrial production process and which is constructed and operated in a manner which prevents the release of any hazardous waste or any constituent thereof into the environment during treatment. An example is a pipe in which waste acid is neutralized.
"Transfer facility" means any transportation related facility including loading docks, parking areas, storage areas and other similar areas where shipments of hazardous waste are held during the normal course of transportation.
"Transport vehicle" means a motor vehicle or rail car used for the transportation of cargo by any mode. Each cargo-carrying body (trailer railroad freight car, etc.) is a separate transport vehicle.
"Transportation", when used in connection with hazardous waste, means the off-site movement of hazardous waste to any intermediate point or any point of storage, treatment, or disposal.
"Transporter" means a person engaged in the offsite transportation of hazardous waste by air, rail, highway, or water.
"Treatability Study" means a study in which a hazardous waste is subjected to a treatment process to determine:
Also included in this definition for the purpose of the §261.4 exemptions are liner compatibility, corrosion, and other material compatibility studies and toxicological and health effects studies. A "treatability study" is not a means to commercially treat or dispose of hazardous waste.
"Treatment" when used in connection with an operation involved in hazardous waste management, means any method, technique, or process, including neutralization or incineration, designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological character or composition of a hazardous waste, so as to neutralize such waste or to render such waste less hazardous, safer for transport, amenable for recovery or reuse, amenable for storage, or reduced in volume.
"Treatment, storage, or disposal site or facility" means a location at which hazardous waste is subjected to treatment, storage, or disposal and may include a facility where hazardous waste is generated.
"Treatment zone" means a soil area of the unsaturated zone of a land treatment unit within which hazardous constituents are degraded, transformed, or immobilized.
"Underground injection" means the subsurface emplacement of fluids through a bored, drilled or driven well; or through a dug well, where the depth of the dug well is greater than the largest surface dimension. (See also "injection well".)
"Underground tank" means a device meeting the definition of "tank" in §260.10 whose entire surface area is totally below the surface of and covered by the ground.
"Unfit-for-use tank system" means a tank system that has been determined through an integrity assessment or other inspection to be no longer capable of storing or treating hazardous waste without posing a threat of release of hazardous waste to the environment.
"Universal Waste" means any of the following hazardous wastes that are managed under the universal waste requirements of Part 273 of these regulations:
"Universal Waste Handler":
"Universal Waste Transporter" means a person engaged in the off-site transportation of universal waste by air, rail, highway, or water.
"Unsaturated zone" or "zone of aeration" means the zone between the land surface and the water table.
"United States" means the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
"Uppermost aquifer" means the geologic formation nearest the natural ground surface that is an aquifer, as well as lower aquifers that are hydraulically interconnected with this aquifer within the facility's property boundary.
"Used oil" means any oil that has been refined from crude oil, or any synthetic oil, that has been used and as a result of such use is contaminated by physical or chemical impurities.
"User of the electronic manifest system" means a hazardous waste generator, a hazardous waste transporter, an owner or operator of a hazardous waste treatment, storage, recycling, or disposal facility, or any other person that:
"Very Small Quantity Generator (VSQG)" is a generator who generates less than or equal to the following amounts in a calendar month:
"Wastewater treatment unit" means a device which:
"Well" means any shaft or pit dug or bored into the earth, generally of a cylindrical form, and often walled with bricks or tubing to prevent the earth from caving in.
"Well injection": (See "underground injection".)
"Zone of engineering control" means an area under the control of the owner/operator that, upon detection of a hazardous waste release, can be readily cleaned up prior to the release of hazardous waste or hazardous constituents to ground water or surface water.
6 CCR 1007-3-260.10