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TITLE 30ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
PART 1TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
CHAPTER 281APPLICATIONS PROCESSING
SUBCHAPTER AAPPLICATIONS PROCESSING
RULE §281.31Definitions

The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

  (1) Commercial hazardous waste management facility--Any hazardous waste management facility that accepts hazardous waste or PCBs for a charge, except a captured facility or a facility that accepts waste only from other facilities owned or effectively controlled by the same person, where "captured facility" means a manufacturing or production facility that generates an industrial solid waste or hazardous waste that is routinely stored, processed, or disposed of on a shared basis in an integrated waste management unit owned, operated by, and located within a contiguous manufacturing complex.

  (2) Current management practice(s)--The most commonly used technologies for processing or land disposing of targeted waste stream(s) generated in the State of Texas, as evidenced by the most recent computerized annual or monthly waste management reports submitted by waste handlers to the commission.

  (3) Needed technology--A technology included in Table 2 of the Executive Summary of the most recent publication of the Needs Assessment. Technologies on Table 2 of the Executive Summary of the Needs Assessment are demonstrated processing or disposal technologies which are needed on a statewide basis.

  (4) Needs assessment--Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission document entitled "Needs Assessment for Hazardous Waste Commercial Management Capacity in Texas," dated February 28, 1992, and its amendments or updates, a copy of which is available for inspection at the library of the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, located at 12118 North Interstate Highway 35, Building A, Austin, Texas.

  (5) New capacity--Unpermitted volume, quantity, or rate of throughput for the management of hazardous waste at a hazardous waste management facility provided by any of the following: proposed units or systems; interim status units or systems; or modifications to permit operating conditions, such that additional quantities or types of waste would be managed.

  (6) Table 2--Table 2 of the Executive Summary of the most recent publication of the commission document entitled "Needs Assessment for Hazardous Waste Commercial Management Capacity in Texas" dated February 28, 1992, and its amendments or updates, a copy of which is available for inspection at the library of the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, located at 12118 North Interstate Highway 35, Building A, Austin, Texas.

  (7) Targeted waste stream(s)--A hazardous waste stream(s) generated in the State of Texas which will be managed by a specific technology at a specific facility. The applicant shall define targeted waste streams, by EPA hazardous waste numbers and the form of the waste, or by other identifiers approved in writing by the executive director.


Source Note: The provisions of this §281.31 adopted to be effective November 7, 1994, 19 TexReg 8542.

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