| (39) Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QAQC) plan--A
written plan to describe standard operating procedures used to sample,
prepare, store, and test final product, and report test results. The
plan outlines quality assurance criteria, as well as quality control
procedures, needed to meet the operational specifications of this
chapter.
(40) Quality Assurance Program Plan (QAPP)--A QAQC
plan prepared by the agency that may be substituted for the QAQC plan.
(41) Paper--A material made from plant fibers (such
as, but not limited to wood pulp, rice hulls, and kenaf). The sludge
byproduct resulting from the production of paper may be approved as
a feedstock pursuant to §332.33(b) of this title (relating to
Required Forms, Applications, Reports, and Request To Use the Sludge
Byproduct of Paper Production).
(42) Permit--A written document issued by the commission
that, by its conditions, may authorize the owner or operator to construct,
install, modify, or operate a facility or operation in accordance
with specific limitations.
(43) Person--Any individual, partnership, corporation,
association, governmental subdivision, or public or private organization
of any character.
(44) PFRP--The process to further reduce pathogens
as described in 40 Code of Federal Regulations Part 503, Appendix
B.
(45) Positively-sorted organic material--Positively-sorted
organic material includes materials such as, but not limited to, yard
trimmings, clean wood materials, manure, vegetative material, paper,
and meat and fish feedstocks that are sorted or pulled out as targeted
compostable organic materials from mixed municipal solid waste prior
to the initiation of processing.
(46) Processing--Actions that are taken to land apply
feedstocks or convert feedstock materials into finished compost, mulch,
or a useable final product. Processing does not include the stockpiling
of materials.
(47) PSRP--The process to significantly reduce pathogens
as described in 40 Code of Federal Regulations Part 503, Appendix
B.
(48) Recyclable material--For purposes of this chapter,
a recyclable material is a material that has been recovered or diverted
from the solid waste stream for purposes of reuse, recycling, or reclamation,
a substantial portion of which is consistently used in the manufacture
of products that may otherwise be produced from raw or virgin materials.
Recyclable material is not solid waste unless the material is deemed
to be hazardous solid waste by the administrator of the United States
Environmental Protection Agency, whereupon it shall be regulated accordingly
unless it is otherwise exempted in whole or in part from regulation
under the federal Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended by the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act. If, however, recyclable materials may
become solid waste at such time, if any, as it is abandoned or disposed
of rather than recycled, whereupon it will be solid waste with respect
only to the party actually abandoning or disposing of the material.
(49) Recycling--A process by which materials that have
served their intended use or are scrapped, discarded, used, surplus,
or obsolete are collected, separated, or processed and returned to
use in the form of raw materials in the production of new products.
Recycling includes the composting process if the compost material
is put to beneficial reuse as defined in this section.
(50) Residence--A single-family or multi-family dwelling.
(51) Run-off--Any rainwater, leachate, or other liquid
that drains over land from any part of a facility.
(52) Run-on--Any rainwater, leachate, or other liquid
that drains over land onto any part of a facility.
(53) Semi-mature compost (SMC)--Organic matter that
has been through the thermophilic stage and achieved the appropriate
level of pathogen reduction (see definitions of "PFRP" and "PSRP"
in this section). It has undergone partial decomposition but it is
not yet stabilized into mature compost. Semi-mature compost shall
not be packaged, as uncontrolled microbial transformations will occur.
(54) Solid waste--Garbage; rubbish; refuse; sludge
from a wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or
air pollution control facility; and other discarded material, including
solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting
from industrial, municipal, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations
from community and institutional activities.
(55) Source-separated--Set apart from waste after use
or consumption by the user or consumer.
(56) Source-separated organic material--Organic materials
from residential, commercial, industrial, and other community activities,
that at the point of generation have been separated, collected, and
transported separately from non-organic materials, or transported
in the same vehicle as non-organic materials but in separate compartments.
Source-separated organic material may include materials such as, but
not limited to, yard trimmings, clean wood materials, manure, vegetative
material, and paper. Yard trimmings and clean wood material collected
with whitegoods, as in brush and bulky item collections, will be considered
source-separated organic materials for the purposes of these rules.
(57) Stockpile--A collection of materials that is either
awaiting processing or removal.
(58) Unauthorized material--Material that is not authorized
to be processed in a particular type of composting, mulching, or land
application facility.
(59) Vector--An agent, such as an insect, snake, rodent,
bird, or animal capable of mechanically or biologically transferring
a pathogen from one organism to another.
(60) Vegetative material--Fruit, vegetable, or grain
material whether raw, processed, liquid, solid, or cooked. Vegetative
material does not include oils and/or greases that are derived from
these same materials.
(61) Voucher--Provides the same information as required
on a label to persons receiving compost distributed in bulk.
(62) Wet weight--The weight of the material as used,
not a weight that has been adjusted by subtracting the weight of water
within the feedstock.
(63) Wetlands--Those areas defined as wetlands in the
Texas Water Code, Chapter 26.
(64) White goods--Discarded large household appliances
such as refrigerators, stoves, washing machines, or dishwashers.
(65) Yard trimmings--Leaves, grass clippings, yard
and garden debris, and brush, including clean woody vegetative material
not greater than six inches in diameter, that results from landscaping
maintenance and land-clearing operations. Yard trimmings does not
include stumps, roots, or shrubs with intact root balls.
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