| (76) Land treatment unit--A solid waste management
unit at which solid waste is applied onto or incorporated into the
soil surface and that is not a corrective action management unit;
such units are disposal units if the waste will remain after closure.
(77) Landfill--A solid waste management unit where
solid waste is placed in or on land and which is not a pile, a land
treatment unit, a surface impoundment, an injection well, a salt dome
formation, a salt bed formation, an underground mine, a cave, or a
corrective action management unit.
(78) Landfill cell--A discrete area of a landfill.
(79) Landfill mining--The physical procedures associated
with the excavation of buried municipal solid waste and processing
of the material to recover material for beneficial use.
(80) Leachate--A liquid that has passed through or
emerged from solid waste and contains soluble, suspended, or miscible
materials removed from such waste.
(81) Lead acid battery--A secondary or storage battery
that uses lead as the electrode and dilute sulfuric acid as the electrolyte
and is used to generate electrical current.
(82) License--
(A) A document issued by an approved county authorizing
and governing the operation and maintenance of a municipal solid waste
facility used to process, treat, store, or dispose of municipal solid
waste, other than hazardous waste, in an area not in the territorial
limits or extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality.
(B) An occupational license as defined in Chapter 30
of this title (relating to Occupational Licenses and Registrations).
(83) Liquid waste--Any waste material that is determined
to contain "free liquids" as defined by United States Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) Method 9095 (Paint Filter Test), as described
in "Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Wastes, Physical/Chemical Methods"
(EPA Publication Number SW-846).
(84) Litter--Rubbish and putrescible waste.
(85) Low volume transfer station--A transfer station
used for the storage of collected household waste limited to a total
storage capacity of 40 cubic yards located in an unincorporated area
that is not within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a city.
(86) Lower explosive limit--The lowest percent by volume
of a mixture of explosive gases in air that will propagate a flame
at 25 degrees Celsius and atmospheric pressure.
(87) Medical waste--Treated and untreated special waste
from health care-related facilities that is comprised of animal waste,
bulk blood, bulk human blood, bulk human body fluids, microbiological
waste, pathological waste, and sharps as those terms are defined in
25 TAC §1.132 (relating to Definitions) from the sources specified
in 25 TAC §1.134 (relating to Application), as well as regulated
medical waste as defined in 49 Code of Federal Regulations §173.134(a)(5),
except that the term does not include medical waste produced on a
farm or ranch as defined in 34 TAC §3.296(f) (relating to Agriculture,
Animal Life, Feed, Seed, Plants, and Fertilizer), nor does the term
include artificial, nonhuman materials removed from a patient and
requested by the patient, including, but not limited to, orthopedic
devices and breast implants. Health care-related facilities do not
include:
(A) single or multi-family dwellings; and
(B) hotels, motels, or other establishments that provide
lodging and related services for the public.
(88) Monofill--A landfill or landfill cell into which
only one type of waste is placed.
(89) Municipal hazardous waste--Any municipal solid
waste or mixture of municipal solid wastes that has been identified
or listed as a hazardous waste by the administrator, United States
Environmental Protection Agency.
(90) Municipal solid waste--Solid waste resulting from
or incidental to municipal, community, commercial, institutional,
and recreational activities, including garbage, rubbish, ashes, street
cleanings, dead animals, abandoned automobiles, and all other solid
waste other than industrial solid waste.
(91) Municipal solid waste facility--All contiguous
land, structures, other appurtenances, and improvements on the land
used for processing, storing, or disposing of solid waste. A facility
may be publicly or privately owned and may consist of several processing,
storage, or disposal operational units, e.g., one or more landfills,
surface impoundments, or combinations of them.
(92) Municipal solid waste landfill unit--A discrete
area of land or an excavation that receives household waste and that
is not a land application unit, surface impoundment, injection well,
or waste pile, as those terms are defined under 40 Code of Federal
Regulations §257.2. A municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill unit
also may receive other types of Resource Conservation and Recovery
Act Subtitle D wastes, such as commercial solid waste, nonhazardous
sludge, conditionally exempt small-quantity generator waste, and industrial
solid waste. Such a landfill may be publicly or privately owned. An
MSW landfill unit may be a new MSW landfill unit, an existing MSW
landfill unit, a vertical expansion, or a lateral expansion.
(93) New facility--A municipal solid waste facility
that has not begun construction.
(94) Nonpoint source--Any origin from which pollutants
emanate in an unconfined and unchanneled manner, including, but not
limited to, surface runoff and leachate seeps.
(95) Non-regulated asbestos-containing material--Non-regulated
asbestos-containing material as defined in 40 Code of Federal Regulations
Part 61. This is asbestos material in a form such that potential health
risks resulting from exposure to it are minimal.
(96) Notification--The act of filing information with
the commission for specific solid waste management activities that
do not require a permit or a registration, as determined by this chapter.
(97) Nuisance--Municipal solid waste that is stored,
processed, or disposed of in a manner that causes the pollution of
the surrounding land, the contamination of groundwater or surface
water, the breeding of insects or rodents, or the creation of odors
adverse to human health, safety, or welfare. A nuisance is further
set forth in Texas Health and Safety Code, Chapters 341 and 382; Texas
Water Code, Chapter 26; and any other applicable regulation or statute.
(98) Open burning--The combustion of solid waste without:
(A) control of combustion air to maintain adequate
temperature for efficient combustion;
(B) containment of the combustion reaction in an enclosed
device to provide sufficient residence time and mixing for complete
combustion; and
(C) control of the emission of the combustion products.
(99) Operate--To conduct, work, run, manage, or control.
(100) Operating hours--The hours when the facility
is open to receive waste, operate heavy equipment, and transport materials
on- or off-site.
(101) Operating record--All plans, submittals, and
correspondence for a municipal solid waste facility required under
this chapter; required to be maintained at the facility or at a nearby
site acceptable to the executive director.
(102) Operation--A municipal solid waste (MSW) site
or facility is considered to be in operation from the date that solid
waste is first received or deposited at the MSW site or facility until
the date that the site or facility is properly closed in accordance
with this chapter.
(103) Operator--The person(s) responsible for operating
the facility or part of a facility.
(104) Owner--The person that owns a facility or part
of a facility.
(105) Permitted landfill--Any type of municipal solid
waste landfill that received a permit from the State of Texas to operate
and has not completed post-closure operations.
(106) Physical construction--The first placement of
permanent construction on a site, such as the pouring of slab or footings,
the installation of piles, the construction of columns, the laying
of underground pipework, or any work beyond the stage of excavation.
Physical construction does not include land preparation, such as clearing,
grading, excavating, and filling; nor does it include the installation
of roads and/or walkways. Physical construction includes issuance
of a building or other construction permit, provided that permanent
construction commences within 180 days of the date that the building
permit was issued.
(107) Plasma arc incinerator--Any enclosed device using
a high intensity electrical discharge or arc as a source of heat followed
by an afterburner using controlled flame combustion and not listed
as an industrial furnace as defined by §335.1 of this title (relating
to Definitions).
Cont'd... |
