Section 250-RICR-40-20-3.4 - DefinitionsA. "Agricultural by-product" means discarded organic materials produced from the raising of plants and animals as part of agronomic, horticultural or silvicultural operations, including but not limited to animal manure, bedding materials, plant stalks, leaves, other vegetative matter and discarded by-products from the on-farm processing of fruits and vegetables.B. "Agricultural composting" means the composting of agricultural by-products and other organic materials on an agricultural unit resulting in compost products for agricultural and horticultural uses.C. "Agricultural composting facility" means that part of an agricultural unit upon which agricultural composting takes place. Permitting for agricultural composting facilities is done through the Division of Agriculture in DEM/Bureau of Natural Resources.D. "Agricultural unit" means farmland as designated under R.I. Gen. Laws § 44-27-2 upon which agricultural operations as defined in R.I. Gen. Laws § 2-23-4 are undertaken by a farmer.E. "Commonly accepted best management practice" means the ability to produce the desired quality of compost in the shortest possible time with a minimum of odors, environmental impacts and other process-related problems, as stated in the On-Farm Composting Handbook (NRAES-54, June 1992, ISBN: 0-935817-19-0) distributed by the Natural Resource, Agriculture, and Engineering Service (NRAES), formerly known as the Northeast Regional Agricultural Engineering Service.F. "Compost" means a soil amending material resulting from the aerobic thermophilic, microbial processing of organic materials.G. "Disposal" means the abandonment, discard or final disposition of waste.H. "Farmer" means an individual, partnership or corporation who operates a farm, as defined by R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 2-1 and meets the requirements of R.I. Gen. Laws § 2-1-22(j).I. "Mixed solid waste" means heterogeneous and commingled solid waste, which may include readily biodegradable organic wastes, as well as other organic wastes which are not readily biodegradable and may also contain inorganic, non-compostable wastes.J. "Organic material" means materials that contain carbon-to-carbon bonds and are biodegradable, such as paper, wood, food waste, leaves and yard waste.K. "Physical contaminants" means any non-biodegradable material such as plastic, metal, glass, stones or masonry debris.L. "Putrescible waste" means solid waste, including but not limited to, fish waste and other food wastes, which contains organic matter capable of being decomposed by microorganisms and that has a tendency to form foul-smelling by-products during decomposition, and may provide food for vectors or birds.M. "Solid waste" means garbage, refuse and other discarded solid materials generated by residential, institutional, commercial, industrial and agricultural sources but does not include solids or dissolved material in domestic sewage sludge, nor does it include hazardous waste as defined in the Rhode Island Hazardous Waste Management Act, R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 23-19.1, nor does it include used asphalt, concrete, Portland concrete cement or tree stumps.250 R.I. Code R. 250-RICR-40-20-3.4