(47) Run-off--Any rainwater or other liquid that drains
over land from any part of a facility.
(48) Run-on--Any rainwater or other liquid that drains
over land onto any part of a facility.
(49) Site--Same as facility.
(50) Site operating plan--A document that provides
general instruction for facility management and operating personnel
throughout the operating life of the facility in a manner consistent
with the engineer's design and the commission's regulations to protect
human health and the environment and prevent nuisances.
(51) 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, semi-solid, or contained gaseous material resulting
from industrial, municipal, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations
and from community and institutional activities. The term does not
include:
(A) solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage,
or solid or dissolved material in irrigation return flows, or industrial
discharges subject to regulation by permit issued under Texas Water
Code, Chapter 26;
(B) soil, dirt, rock, sand, and other natural or man-made
inert solid materials used to fill land if the object of the fill
is to make the land suitable for the construction of surface improvements;
or
(C) waste materials that result from activities associated
with the exploration, development, or production of oil or gas or
geothermal resources and other substance or material regulated by
the Railroad Commission of Texas under Texas Natural Resources Code, §91.101,
unless the waste, substance, or material results from activities associated
with gasoline plants, natural gas liquids processing plants, pressure
maintenance plants, or repressurizing plants and is hazardous waste
as defined by the administrator of the United States Environmental
Protection Agency under the federal Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended
by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, as amended (42 United
States Code, §§6901 et seq.).
(52) Source-separated recyclable material--Recyclable
material from those health care-related facilities as listed in 25
TAC §1.134 (relating to Application), that at the point of generation
has been separated, collected, and transported separately from medical
waste, or transported in the same vehicle as medical waste, but in
separate containers or compartments.
(53) Storage--The keeping, holding, accumulating, or
aggregating of medical waste at the end of which the medical waste
is processed, disposed, or stored elsewhere.
(A) Pre-collection--that storage by the generator,
normally on the generator's premises, prior to initial collection;
(B) Post-collection transporter--that storage by a
transporter while the medical waste is in transit. Any vehicle inactivity
such as not continuing a collection route for a period less than 72
hours is considered a temporary storage period. Exceeding 72 hours
of temporary storage will require the operator to obtain a medical
waste registration per Subchapter F of this chapter (relating to Operations
Requiring a Registration);
(C) Post-collection processor--that storage by a processor
at a processing facility while the waste is awaiting processing or
transfer to another storage, disposal, or recovery facility.
(54) Surface water--Surface water as included in water
in the state.
(55) Tank--A stationary device, designed to contain
an accumulation of waste, which is constructed primarily of non-earthen
materials (e.g., wood, concrete, steel, and plastic) that provide
structural support.
(56) Transfer station--A facility used for transferring
medical waste from collection vehicles to long-haul vehicles (one
transportation unit to another transportation unit). It is not a storage
facility such as one where individual residents can dispose of their
wastes in bulk storage containers that are serviced by collection
vehicles.
(57) Transportation unit--A truck, trailer, open-top
box, enclosed container, rail car, piggy-back trailer, ship, barge,
or other transportation vehicle used to contain medical waste being
transported from one geographical area to another.
(58) Transporter--A person that collects, conveys,
or transports medical waste; does not include a person transporting
his or her household waste.
(59) Trash--Same as "Rubbish."
(60) Treatment--Same as "Processing."
(61) Uncompacted waste--Any waste that is not a liquid
or a sludge, has not been mechanically compacted by a collection vehicle,
has not been driven over by heavy equipment prior to collection, or
has not been compacted prior to collection by any type of mechanical
device other than small, in-house compactor devices owned and/or operated
by the generator of the waste.
(62) Unloading areas--Areas designated for unloading,
including all storage areas, and other processing areas.
(63) 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.
(64) Water in the state--Groundwater, percolating or
otherwise, lakes, bays, ponds, impounding reservoirs, springs, rivers,
streams, creeks, estuaries, marshes, inlets, canals, the Gulf of Mexico
inside the territorial limits of the state, and all other bodies of
surface water, natural or artificial, inland or coastal, fresh or
salt, navigable or non-navigable, and including the beds and banks
of all watercourses and bodies of surface water, that are wholly or
partially inside or bordering the state or inside the jurisdiction
of the state.
(65) Waters of the United States--All waters that are
currently used, were used in the past, or may be susceptible to use
in interstate or foreign commerce, including all waters that are subject
to the ebb and flow of the tide, with their tributaries and adjacent
wetlands, interstate waters and their tributaries, including interstate
wetlands; all other waters such as intrastate lakes, rivers, streams
(including intermittent streams), mudflats, sandflats, and wetlands,
the use, degradation, or destruction of which would affect or could
affect interstate or foreign commerce including any such waters that
are or could be used by interstate or foreign travelers for recreational
or other purposes; from which fish or shellfish are or could be taken
and sold in interstate or foreign commerce; that are used or could
be used for industrial purposes by industries in interstate commerce;
and all impoundments of waters otherwise considered as navigable waters;
including tributaries of and wetlands adjacent to waters identified
in this paragraph.
(66) Wetlands--As defined in Chapter 307 of this title
(relating to Texas Surface Water Quality Standards).
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