S.C. Code Regs. § § 61-107.14.B

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 10, October 25, 2024

Section 61-107.14.B - Definitions

1. "Department" means the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control.

2. "Municipal solid waste" means any solid waste (including garbage, trash, and sanitary waste in septic tanks) derived from households (including single and multiple residences, hotels and motels, bunkhouses, ranger stations, crew quarters, campgrounds, picnic grounds, and day-use recreation areas), generated by commercial establishments (stores, offices, restaurants, warehouses, and other nonmanufacturing activities, excluding industrial facilities) and nonhazardous sludge.

3. "Municipal solid waste incinerator ash landfill" means any landfill or landfill unit, publicly or privately owned, that receives the solid residue from incinerators that burn municipal solid waste.

4. "Municipal solid waste landfill" means any sanitary landfill or landfill unit, publicly or privately owned, that receives household waste. The landfill may also receive other types of solid waste, such as commercial waste, nonhazardous sludge, and industrial solid waste.

5. "Operator" for the purposes of this regulation, means any person, including the owner, who is principally engaged in, or is in charge of, the actual operation, supervision, and maintenance of a municipal solid waste landfill or a municipal solid waste incinerator ash landfill and includes the person in charge of a shift or period during any part of the day. Operators will be classified by the following two (2) categories:

a. "Manager" means the person(s) with responsibility for the overall management of the facility; and,

b. "Supervisor" means the person(s) with supervisory responsibility for a specific facility site or shift.

6. "Sanitary landfill" means a land disposal site employing an engineered method of disposing of solid waste on land in a manner that minimizes environmental hazards and meets the design and operation requirements of State regulations.

7. "Workers" for the purposes of this regulation, means the persons performing the daily maintenance activities at the landfill.

S.C. Code Regs. § 61-107.14.B