| (52) Existing municipal solid waste landfill unit--Any
municipal solid waste landfill unit that received solid waste as of
October 9, 1993.
(53) 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.
(54) Facility--All contiguous land and structures,
other appurtenances, and improvements on the land used for the storage,
processing, or disposal of solid waste.
(55) 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.
(56) Fill material--Any material used for the primary
purpose of filling an excavation.
(57) 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.
(58) 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.
(59) Gas condensate--The liquid generated as a result
of any gas recovery process at a municipal solid waste facility.
(60) 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 valuable
raw materials, valuable intermediate products, or valuable final products,
which include plastic monomers, chemicals, waxes, lubricants, or chemical
feedstocks; and do not include crude oil, diesel, gasoline, diesel
blend stock, gasoline blend stock, home heating oil, ethanol, or another
fuel. The term does not include incineration.
(61) 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.
(62) 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.
(63) 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.
(64) Groundwater--Water below the land surface in a
zone of saturation.
(65) 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.
(66) Holocene--The most recent epoch of the Quaternary
Period, extending from the end of the Pleistocene Epoch to the present.
(67) 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.
(68) 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.
(69) Industrial solid waste--Solid waste resulting
from or incidental to any process of industry or manufacturing, or
mining or agricultural operations.
(70) 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.
(71) 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).
(72) Injection well--A well into which fluids are injected.
(73) In situ--In natural or original position.
(74) 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.
(75) Lateral expansion--A horizontal expansion of the
waste boundaries of an existing municipal solid waste landfill unit.
(76) 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.
(77) 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.
(78) 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.
(79) Landfill cell--A discrete area of a landfill.
(80) 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.
(81) Leachate--A liquid that has passed through or
emerged from solid waste and contains soluble, suspended, or miscible
materials removed from such waste.
(82) 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.
(83) 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).
(84) 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).
(85) Litter--Rubbish and putrescible waste.
(86) 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.
(87) 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.
(88) 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
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