| (38) Discard--To abandon a material and not use, re-use,
reclaim, or recycle it. A material is abandoned by being disposed
of; burned or incinerated (except where the material is being burned
as a fuel for the purpose of recovering usable energy); or physically,
chemically, or biologically treated (other than burned or incinerated)
in lieu of or prior to being disposed.
(39) Discharge--Includes deposit, conduct, drain, emit,
throw, run, allow to seep, or otherwise release, or to allow, permit,
or suffer any of these acts or omissions.
(40) Discharge of dredged material--Any addition of
dredged material into the waters of the United States. The term includes,
without limitation, the addition of dredged material to a specified
disposal site located in waters of the United States and the runoff
or overflow from a contained land or water disposal area.
(41) Discharge of fill material--The addition of fill
material into waters of the United States. The term generally includes
placement of fill necessary to the construction of any structure in
waters of the United States: the building of any structure or improvement
requiring rock, sand, dirt, or other inert material for its construction;
the building of dams, dikes, levees, and riprap.
(42) Discharge of pollutant--Any addition of any pollutant
to navigable waters from any point source or any addition of any pollutant
to the waters of the contiguous zone or the ocean from any point source.
(43) Displacement--The measured or estimated distance
between two formerly adjacent points situated on opposite walls of
a fault (synonymous with net slip).
(44) Disposal--The discharge, deposit, injection, dumping,
spilling, leaking, or placing of any solid waste or hazardous waste
(whether containerized or uncontainerized) into or on any land or
water so that such solid waste or hazardous waste or any constituent
thereof may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged
into any waters, including groundwater.
(45) Dredged material--Material that is excavated or
dredged from waters of the United States.
(46) Drinking-water intake--The point at which water
is withdrawn from any water well, spring, or surface water body for
use as drinking water for humans, including standby public water supplies.
(47) Elements of nature--Rainfall, snow, sleet, hail,
wind, sunlight, or other natural phenomenon.
(48) Endangered or threatened species--Any species
listed as such under the Federal Endangered Species Act, §4,
16 United States Code, §1536, as amended or under the Texas Endangered
Species Act.
(49) Essentially insoluble--Any material that, if representatively
sampled and placed in static or dynamic contact with deionized water
at ambient temperature for seven days, will not leach any quantity
of any constituent of the material into the water in excess of the
maximum contaminant levels in 40 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
Part 141, Subparts B and G, and 40 CFR Part 143 for total dissolved
solids.
(50) Existing municipal solid waste landfill unit--Any
municipal solid waste landfill unit that received solid waste as of
October 9, 1993.
(51) Experimental project--Any new proposed method
of managing municipal solid waste, including resource and energy recovery
projects, that appears to have sufficient merit to warrant commission
approval.
(52) Facility--All contiguous land and structures,
other appurtenances, and improvements on the land used for the storage,
processing, or disposal of solid waste.
(53) Fault--A fracture or a zone of fractures in any
material along which strata, rocks, or soils on one side have been
displaced with respect to those on the other side.
(54) Fill material--Any material used for the primary
purpose of filling an excavation.
(55) Floodplain--The lowland and relatively flat areas
adjoining inland and coastal waters, including flood-prone areas of
offshore islands, that are inundated by the 100-year flood.
(56) Garbage--Solid waste consisting of putrescible
animal and vegetable waste materials resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking, and consumption of food, including waste materials
from markets, storage facilities, handling, and sale of produce and
other food products.
(57) Gas condensate--The liquid generated as a result
of any gas recovery process at a municipal solid waste facility.
(58) Gasification--A process through which recoverable
feedstocks are heated and converted into a fuel-gas mixture in an
oxygen-deficient atmosphere and the mixture is converted into a valuable
raw, intermediate, or final product, including a plastic, monomer,
chemical, wax, lubricant, or chemical feedstock or crude oil, diesel,
gasoline, diesel and gasoline blendstock, home heating oil, ethanol,
or another fuel. The term does not include incineration.
(59) Gasification facility--A facility that receives,
separates, stores, and converts post-use polymers and recoverable
feedstocks using gasification. The commission may not consider a gasification
facility to be a hazardous waste management facility, a solid waste
management facility, or an incinerator.
(60) Generator--Any person, by site or location, that
produces solid waste to be shipped to any other person, or whose act
or process produces a solid waste or first causes it to become regulated.
(61) Grease trap waste--Material collected in and from
a grease interceptor in the sanitary sewer service line of a commercial,
institutional, or industrial food service or processing establishment,
including the solids resulting from dewatering processes.
(62) Grit trap waste--Grit trap waste includes waste
from interceptors placed in the drains prior to entering the sewer
system at maintenance and repair shops, automobile service stations,
car washes, laundries, and other similar establishments.
(63) Groundwater--Water below the land surface in a
zone of saturation.
(64) Hazardous waste--Any solid waste identified or
listed as a hazardous waste 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 of 1976,
42 United States Code, §§6901 et
seq. , as amended.
(65) Holocene--The most recent epoch of the Quaternary
Period, extending from the end of the Pleistocene Epoch to the present.
(66) Household waste--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); does not include brush.
(67) Incinerator--Any enclosed device that:
(A) uses controlled flame combustion and neither meets
the criteria for classification as a boiler, sludge dryer, or carbon
regeneration unit, nor is listed as an industrial furnace, as defined
in §335.1 of this title (relating to Definitions); or
(B) meets the definition of infrared incinerator or
plasma arc incinerator.
(68) Industrial solid waste--Solid waste resulting
from or incidental to any process of industry or manufacturing, or
mining or agricultural operations.
(69) Inert material--A natural or man-made nonputrescible,
nonhazardous material that is essentially insoluble, usually including,
but not limited to, soil, dirt, clay, sand, gravel, brick, glass,
concrete with reinforcing steel, and rock.
(70) Infrared incinerator--Any enclosed device that
uses electric-powered resistance heaters as a source of radiant heat
followed by an afterburner using controlled flame combustion and is
not listed as an industrial furnace as defined in §335.1 of this
title (relating to Definitions).
(71) Injection well--A well into which fluids are injected.
(72) In situ--In natural or original position.
(73) Karst terrain--An area where karst topography,
with its characteristic surface and/or subterranean features, is developed
principally as the result of dissolution of limestone, dolomite, or
other soluble rock. Characteristic physiographic features present
in karst terrains include, but are not limited to, sinkholes, sinking
streams, caves, large springs, and blind valleys.
(74) Lateral expansion--A horizontal expansion of the
waste boundaries of an existing municipal solid waste landfill unit.
(75) Land application of solid waste--The disposal
or use of solid waste (including, but not limited to, sludge or septic
tank pumpings or mixture of shredded waste and sludge) in which the
solid waste is applied within three feet of the surface of the land.
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