“Active
Area”
means that portion of a Facility where Solid Waste Recycling, reuse,
Treatment, Storage, or Disposal operations are being, are proposed to be, or
have been conducted. Setbacks shall not be considered part of the Active Area
of a Facility.
“Agricultural Composting” means
Composting of agricultural waste as an integral component of a system designed
to improve soil health and recycle Agricultural Wastes. Agricultural
Composting is conducted on lands used for farming.
“Agricultural Wastes” means
wastes on farms resulting from the raising or growing of plants and animals
including, but not limited to, crop residue, manure and animal bedding, and
carcasses of dead animals weighing each or collectively in excess of fifteen
pounds.
“Agronomic Rates” means the
application rate (dry weight basis) that will provide the amount of nitrogen
or other critical nutrient required for optimum growth of vegetation, and that
will not result in the violation of applicable standards or requirements for
the protection of ground or Surface Water as established under chapter 90.48
RCW, Water pollution control and related rules including chapter 173-200 WAC,
Water quality standards for Ground Waters of the state of Washington, and
chapter 173-201A WAC, Water quality standards for Surface Waters of the state
of Washington.
“Air Quality Standard” means a
standard set for maximum allowable contamination in ambient air as set forth
in chapter 173-400 WAC, General regulations for air pollution sources.
“Asbestos Containing Waste”
shall include any waste that contains more than one percent asbestos by weight
and that can be crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder when dry, by hand
pressure.
“Below Ground Tank”
means a device meeting the definition of "Tank" in this chapter
where a portion of the Tank wall is situated to any degree within the ground,
thereby preventing visual inspection of that external surface of the Tank that
is in the ground.
“Beneficial Use” means the use
of Solid Waste as an ingredient in a manufacturing process, or as an effective
substitute for natural or Commercial products, in a manner that does not pose
a threat to human health or the environment. Avoidance of Processing or
Disposal cost alone does not constitute Beneficial Use.
“Biosolids” means municipal
Sewage Sludge that is a primarily organic, semisolid product resulting from
the wastewater Treatment process, that can be beneficially recycled and meets
all applicable requirements under chapter 173-308 WAC, Biosolids management.
Biosolids includes a material derived from Biosolids and septic Tank sludge,
also known as septage, that can be beneficially recycled and meets all
applicable requirements under chapter 173-308 WAC, Biosolids management.
“Board of Health” shall mean
the Board of Health of Island County pursuant to the provisions of Section
70.06.020, Revised Code of Washington
“Buffer”
means a permanently vegetated strip adjacent to an application area, the
purpose of which is to filter Runoff or overspray from the application area
and protect an adjacent area.
“Bulky Waste” shall include any
large items of refuse, such as appliances, furniture, and other oversize
wastes which would typically not fit into reusable or Disposable Containers.
“Cab
Cards”
means a license carried in a Vehicle that authorizes that Vehicle to legally
pick up Waste Tires and haul to a Permitted, licensed Facility or an exempt
Facility for deposit.
“Captive Insurance Companies”
means companies that are wholly owned subsidiaries controlled by the parent
company and established to insure the parent company or its other
subsidiaries.
“Channel Migration Zone” means
the lateral extent of likely movement of a stream or river channel along a
stream reach.
“City” means any incorporated
City or town within Island County.
“Clean Soils and Clean Dredged Material” means soils and dredged material that do not contain contaminants at
concentrations which could negatively impact the existing quality of air,
waters of the state, soils, or sediments; or pose a threat to the health of
humans or other living organisms.
“Closure” means those actions
taken by the owner or operator of a Solid Waste Handling Facility to cease
Disposal operations or other Solid Waste Handling activities, to ensure that
all such facilities are closed in conformance with applicable regulations at
the time of such Closures and to prepare the site for the post-Closure period.
“Closure Plan” means a written
plan developed by an owner or operator of a Facility detailing how a Facility
is to close at the end of its active life.
“Commercial” shall include
activities of, in, or, relating to commerce and/or activities related to a
business, profession, or other endeavor having financial gain as an object.
“Compliance Schedule”
shall include a written schedule of required measures in a Permit including an
enforceable sequence leading to compliance with these regulations.
“Composted Material”
means organic Solid Waste that has undergone biological degradation and
transformation under controlled conditions designed to promote aerobic
decomposition at a Solid Waste Facility in compliance with the requirements of
this chapter. Natural decay of organic Solid Waste under uncontrolled
conditions does not result in Composted Material.
“Composting” means the
biological degradation and transformation of organic Solid Waste under
controlled conditions designed to promote aerobic decomposition. Natural decay
of organic Solid Waste under uncontrolled conditions is not Composting.
“Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity
Generator (CESQG)” means a dangerous Waste Generator whose Dangerous
Wastes are not subject to regulation under chapter 70.105 RCW, Hazardous waste
management, solely because the waste is generated or accumulated in quantities
below the threshold for regulation and meets the conditions prescribed in WAC
173-303-070 (8)(b).
“Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity
Generator (CESQG) Waste” means dangerous waste generated by a
Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generator.
“Container” means a portable
device used for the collection, Storage, and/or transportation of Solid Waste
including, but not limited to, Reusable Containers, Disposable Containers, and
Detachable Containers.
“Contaminant” means any
chemical, physical, biological, or radiological substance that does not occur
naturally in the environment or that occurs at concentrations greater than
Natural Background levels.
“Contaminate” means the release
of Solid Waste, Leachate, or gases emitted by Solid Waste, such that
contaminants enter the environment at concentrations that pose a threat to
human health or the environment, or cause a violation of any applicable
environmental regulation.
“Contaminated Soils and Contaminated
Dredged Material” means soils and dredged material that contain
contaminants at concentrations which could negatively impact the existing
quality of air, waters of the state, soils or sediments, or pose a threat to
the health of humans or other living organisms.
“Corrosion Expert” means a
Person certified by the National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) or
a registered professional engineer who has certification or licensing that
includes education and experience in corrosion control.
“Crop Residues” means
vegetative material leftover from the harvesting of crops, including leftover
pieces or whole fruits or vegetables, crop leaves and stems. Crop residue does
not include food Processing waste.
“Dangerous Wastes” means any
Solid Waste designated as dangerous waste by the Department under chapter
173-303 WAC, Dangerous waste regulations.
“Department” means the
Washington state Department of ecology.
“Detachable Containers” means
Reusable Containers that are mechanically loaded or handled, such as a
dumpster or drop box.
“Disposable Containers” means
Containers that are used once to handle Solid Waste, such as plastic bags,
cardboard boxes and paper bags.
“Disposal” or “Deposition” means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping,
leaking, or placing of any Solid Waste into or on any land or water.
“Domestic Septage” means Class
I, II or III Domestic Septage as defined in chapter 173-308 WAC, Biosolids
management.
“Domestic Wastewater Facility”
means all structures, equipment, or processes required to collect, carry away,
treat, reclaim, or dispose of domestic wastewater together with such
industrial waste as may be present.
“Drop Box Facility” means a
Facility used for the placement of a detachable Container including the area
adjacent for necessary entrance and exit roads, unloading and turn-around
areas. Drop box facilities normally serve the general public with loose loads
and receive waste from off-site.
“Energy Recovery” means the
recovery of energy in a useable form from mass burning or refuse-derived fuel
Incineration, Pyrolysis or any other means of using the heat of combustion of
Solid Waste that involves high temperature (above twelve hundred degrees
Fahrenheit) Processing.
“Existing Facility” means a
Facility which is owned or leased, and in operation, or for which Facility
Construction has begun, on or before the effective date of this chapter and
the owner or operator has obtained Permits or approvals necessary under
federal, state and local statutes, regulations and ordinances.
“Facility” means all contiguous
land (including Buffers and Setbacks) and structures, other appurtenances, and
improvements on the land used for Solid Waste Handling.
“Facility Construction” means
the continuous on-site physical act of constructing Solid Waste Handling
Unit(s) or when the owner or operator of a Facility has entered into
contractual obligations for physical construction of the Facility that cannot
be canceled or modified without substantial financial loss.
“Facility Structures” means
constructed infrastructure such as buildings, sheds, utility lines, and piping
on the Facility.
“Garbage” means animal and
vegetable waste resulting from the handling, Storage, sale, preparation,
cooking, and serving of foods.
“Ground Water” means that part
of the subsurface Water that is in the Zone of Saturation.
“Hazardous Substance” shall
include any Liquid, solid, gas, or sludge, including any material, substances,
products, commodity, or waste, regardless of quantity, that exhibits any of
the characteristics or criteria of hazardous waste as described in rules
adopted under RCW 70.105.220
“Health Department”
shall mean the Island County Health Department.
“Health
Officer”
shall mean the Island County Health Officer or his authorized representative.
“Holocene
Fault”
means a plane along which earthen material on one side has been displaced with
respect to that on the other side and has occurred in the most recent epoch of
the Quaternary period extending from the end of the Pleistocene to the
present.
“Home Composting” means
Composting of on-site generated wastes, and incidental materials beneficial to
the Composting process, by the owner or Person in control of a single-family
residence, or for a dwelling that houses two to five families, such as a
duplex or clustered dwellings.
“Household Hazardous Wastes”
means any waste which exhibits any of the properties of Dangerous Wastes that
is exempt from regulation under chapter 70.105 RCW, Hazardous waste
management, solely because the waste is generated by households. Household
hazardous waste can also include other Solid Waste identified in the local
hazardous waste management plan prepared pursuant to chapter 70.105 RCW,
Hazardous waste management.
“Hydrostratigraphic Unit” means
any water-bearing geologic unit or units hydraulically connected or grouped
together on the basis of similar hydraulic conductivity which can be
reasonably monitored; several geologic formations or part of a geologic
formation may be grouped into a single Hydrostratigraphic Unit; perched sand
lenses may be considered a Hydrostratigraphic Unit or part of a
Hydrostratigraphic Unit, for example.
“Incineration” means reducing
the volume of Solid Wastes by use of an enclosed device using controlled flame
combustion.
“Incompatible Waste” means a
waste that is unsuitable for mixing with another Waste or material because the
mixture might produce excessive heat or pressure, fire or explosion, violent
reaction, Toxic dust, fumes, mists, or gases, or flammable fumes or gases.
“Industrial Solid Wastes” means
Solid Waste generated from manufacturing operations, food Processing, or other
industrial processes.
“Industrial Wastewater Facility"
means all structures, equipment, or processes required to collect, carry away,
treat, reclaim, or dispose of industrial wastewater.
“Infectious Control
Staff/Committee” shall mean those individuals designated by an
Infectious Waste Generator or an Infectious Waste Storage/Treatment operator
whose responsibility includes but is not limited to developing and maintaining
the Infectious Waste Generator’s or Infectious Waste Storage/Treatment
operator’s Infectious Waste Management Plan.
“Infectious
Waste”
shall include but is not limited to:
1.
Cultures
and Stocks of Infectious Agents and associated biologicals, including, without limitation, specimen
cultures, cultures and stocks of microbiological agents, wastes from
production of biologicals and serums, and discarded live and attenuated
vaccines.
2.
Laboratory
Waste
which has come into contact with Cultures and Stocks of Infectious Agents or
blood specimens. Such waste includes but is not limited to culture dishes,
blood specimen tubes, devices used to transfer, inoculate and mix cultures,
paper and cloth which has come into contact with Cultures and Stocks of
Infectious Agents.
3.
Contaminated
Sharps
means medical and Laboratory equipment generated by an Infectious Waste
Generator that may cause punctures or cuts. Such waste includes, but is not
limited to, needles, syringes, lancets, scalpel blades, broken or sharp
Laboratory glassware including slides, coverslips, and pasteur pipettes.
4.
Pathological
Waste
means all human tissues and anatomical parts which emanate from surgery,
obstetrical procedures, autopsy, and the Laboratory.
5.
Human
Blood and Blood Products,
including but not limited to serum and plasma, in fluid form.
6.
Isolation
Wastes,
including waste that have come into contact with human body substances
infected with anthrax, smallpox, rabies, plague, and viral hemorrhagic fevers
such as Lassa fever and Ebole-Marburg virus disease.
7.
Surgical
Waste,
consisting of but not limited to soiled dressing, gloves or other sources
which may contain infectious agents or biologically active materials in
sufficient concentration to pose a risk of infection.
8.
Animal
Carcasses
exposed to pathogens in research, their bedding, and Other Waste from such
animals.
9.
Other
Waste
identified by the Health Officer as Infectious Waste.
10.
The
following are not considered Infectious Waste:
a)
All
Laboratory Solid Waste not Contaminated.
b)
Absorbent
material containing small volumes (<20 milliliters) of blood or body fluids
from nursing units, outpatients clinics and laboratories.
c)
Solid
Waste from isolation rooms and operating rooms, not otherwise defined as
Infectious Waste.
d)
All
other soiled or Liquid Waste generated during patient care not classified as
Infectious Waste. Examples include soiled dressings, bandages, catheters,
swabs, plaster casts, latex gloves, and masks.
“Infectious
Waste Collection/Transportation Vehicle” shall include any collection/transportation Vehicle
used for the collection and transportation of Infectious Waste.
“Infectious
Waste Generator”
shall include any producer of Infectious Waste to include without limitation
the following categories: general acute care hospitals, skilled nursing
facilities or convalescent hospitals, intermediate care facilities, in-patient
care facilities for the developmentally disabled, chronic dialysis clinics,
community clinics, health maintenance organizations, surgical clinics, urgent
care clinics, acute psychiatric hospitals, laboratories, medical buildings,
physicians offices and clinics, veterinary offices and clinics, dental offices
and clinics, funeral homes, or other similar facilities.
“Infectious
Waste Storage/Treatment Operators” shall
mean a Person who stores and/or treats Infectious Waste if required by this
section, and is not an Infectious Waste Generator.
“Infectious
Waste Transporter”
shall mean a Person who transports Infectious Waste over the highways in
quantity equal to or exceeding one hundred (100) pounds per month.
“Infectious
Waste Treatment”
shall include Infectious Waste Treatment through:
1.
Steam
Sterilization
by heating in a steam sterilizer so as to kill all microbiological agents as
determined by chemical and biological indicator monitoring requirements.
2.
Incineration
is to be conducted at sufficient temperatures and for sufficient duration that
all combustible material is reduced to ash; that no unburned combustible
material is evident in the ash.
3.
Other
Treatment approved by the Health Officer.
“Inert Waste” means
Solid Wastes that meet the criteria for Inert Waste in ICC
8.08B.260.
“Inert
Waste Landfill”
means a Landfill that receives only Inert Wastes.
“Intermediate Solid Waste Handling
Facility” means any intermediate use or Processing site engaged in Solid
Waste Handling which is not the final site of Disposal. This includes material
recovery facilities, Transfer Stations, drop boxes, baling and compaction
sites.
“Intermodal Facility” means any
Facility operated for the purpose of transporting closed Containers of waste
and the Containers are not opened for further Treatment, Processing or
consolidation of the waste.
“Junk
Vehicles” means a Vehicle
certified under RCW 46.55.230 as meeting at least three of the following
requirements:
1.
Is apparently inoperable; or
2. Is without valid, current registration plate or
license tabs; and
3.
Is
extensively damaged, including but not limited to any of the followint: A
damaged window or windshield, or missing wheels, tires, motor, or
transmission; or
4.
Has an approximate fair market value equal only to the approximate
value of the scrap in it.
“Laboratory”
shall include a room or building equipped for scientific experimentation,
research, testing, or clinical studies of specimens, fluids, tissues, cultures
or stocks of etiologic agents and associated biologicals or other biologically
active agents.
“Land
Application Site”
means a contiguous area of land under the same ownership or operational
control on which Solid Wastes are beneficially utilized for their agronomic or
soil-amending capability.
“Land Reclamation” means using
Solid Waste to restore drastically disturbed lands including, but not limited
to, construction sites and surface mines. Using Solid Waste as a component of
fill is not Land Reclamation.
“Landfill” means a Disposal
Facility or part of a Facility at which Solid Waste is permanently placed in
or on land including facilities that use Solid Waste as a component of fill.
“Leachate” means water or other
Liquid within a Solid Waste Handling Unit that has been Contaminated by
dissolved or suspended materials due to contact with Solid Waste or gases.
“Limited Moderate Risk Waste”
means waste batteries, waste oil, and waste antifreeze generated from
households.
“Limited Moderate Risk Waste
Facility” means a Facility that collects, stores, and consolidates only
limited Moderate Risk Waste.
“Limited Purpose Landfill”
means a Landfill which is not regulated or Permitted by other state or federal
environmental regulations that receives Solid Wastes limited by type or
source. Limited Purpose Landfills include, but are not limited to, Landfills
that receive segregated industrial Solid Waste, construction, demolition and
landclearing debris, Wood Waste, ash (other than special incinerator ash), and
dredged material. Limited Purpose Landfills do not include Inert Waste
Landfills, Municipal Solid Waste Landfills regulated under chapter 173-351 WAC,
Criteria for Municipal Solid Waste Landfills, Landfills disposing of special
incinerator ash regulated under chapter 173-306 WAC, Special incinerator ash
management standards, Landfills regulated under chapter 173-303 WAC, Dangerous
waste regulations, or chemical waste Landfills used for the Disposal of
polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) regulated under Title 40 CFR Part 761,
Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) Manufacturing, Processing, Distribution in
Commerce, and Use Prohibitions.
“Liquid” means a substance that
flows readily and assumes the form of its Container but retains its
independent volume.
“Liquid Waste” means any Solid
Waste which is deemed to contain free Liquids as determined by the Paint
Filter Liquids Test, Method 9095, in "Test Methods for Evaluating
Solid Waste, Physical/Chemical Methods," EPA Publication SW-846.
“Lithified Earth Material”
means all rock, including all naturally occurring and naturally formed
aggregates or masses of minerals or small particles of older rock that formed
by crystallization of magma or by induration of loose sediments. This term
does not include man-made materials, such as fill, concrete or asphalt, or
unconsolidated earth materials, soil or regolith lying at or near the earth's
surface.
“Local Fire Control Agency”
means a public or private agency or corporation providing fire protection such
as a local fire Department, the Department of natural resources or the United
States Forest Service.
“Lower Explosive Limits” means
the lowest percentage by volume of a mixture of explosive gases that will
propagate a flame in air at twenty-five degrees centigrade and atmospheric
pressure.
“Material Recovery Facility” means any Facility that collects,
compacts, repackages, sorts, or processes for transport source separated Solid
Waste for the purpose of Recycling.
“Mobile Systems and Collection
Events” means activities conducted at a temporary location to collect
Moderate Risk Waste.
“Moderate Risk Waste (MRW)”
means Solid Waste that is limited to Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity
Generator (CESQG) waste and household hazardous waste (HHW) as defined in this
chapter.
“MRW Facility” means a Solid
Waste Handling Unit that is used to collect, treat, recycle, exchange, store,
consolidate, and/or transfer Moderate Risk Waste. This does not include Mobile
Systems and Collection Events or limited MRW facilities that meet the
applicable terms and conditions of ICC
8.08B.230 (2) or (3).
“Municipal Solid Waste (MSW)”
means a subset of Solid Waste which includes unsegregated Garbage, refuse and
similar Solid Waste material discarded from residential, Commercial,
institutional and industrial sources and community activities, including
residue after recyclables have been separated. Solid Waste that has been
segregated by source and characteristic may qualify for management as a non-MSW
Solid Waste, at a Facility designed and operated to address the waste's
characteristics and potential environmental impacts. The term MSW does not
include:
▪ Dangerous Wastes other than wastes excluded from the requirements of
chapter 173-303 WAC, Dangerous waste regulations, in WAC 173-303-071 such as
Household Hazardous Wastes;
▪ Any Solid Waste, including Contaminated soil and debris, resulting
from response action taken under section 104 or 106 of the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C.
9601), chapter 70.105D RCW, Hazardous waste cleanup -- Model Toxics Control
Act, chapter 173-340 WAC, the Model Toxics Control Act cleanup regulation or a
remedial action taken under those rules; nor
▪ Mixed or segregated recyclable material that has been source-separated
from Garbage, refuse and similar Solid Waste. The residual from source
separated recyclables is MSW.
“Natural Background” means the concentration of chemical, physical,
biological, or radiological substances consistently present in the environment
that has not been influenced by regional or localized human activities. Metals
at concentrations naturally occurring in bedrock, sediments and soils due
solely to the geologic processes that formed the materials are Natural
Background. In addition, low concentrations of other persistent substances due
solely to the global use or formation of these substances are Natural
Background.
“New Solid Waste Handling Unit”
means a Solid Waste Handling Unit that begins operation or Facility
Construction, and significant modifications to existing Solid Waste Handling
Units, after the effective date of this chapter.
“Nonconforming Site” shall include a Solid Waste Handling Facility which does not
currently comply with the Facility requirements of WAC 173-304-400 but does
comply with a Compliance Schedule issued in a Solid Waste Permit by the Health
Department.
“Nuisance”
shall mean unlawfully doing an act, or failing to perform an act, which act or
omission either unreasonably annoys or injures or unreasonably endangers the
comfort, repose, health, or safety of others, or unlawfully interferes with,
obstructs, or could obstruct any navigable waterway or any publicly traveled
place, or unreasonably renders other Persons, acting in good faith, insecure
in their actions of the use of their property.
“Nuisance
Odor”
means any odor which is found offensive or may unreasonably interfere with any
Person's health, comfort, or enjoyment beyond the property boundary of a
Facility.
“One Hundred Year Flood Plain” means any land area that is subject to
one percent or greater chance of flooding in any given year from any source.
“Open Burning” means the
burning of Solid Waste materials in an open fire or an outdoor Container
without providing for the control of combustion or the control of emissions
from the combustion.
“Outdoor Fire” shall mean a
fire where any material is burned in the open, in a receptacle other than a
furnace, incinerator, or other equipment connected to a stack or chimney.
“Overburden”
means the earth, rock, soil, and topsoil that lie above mineral deposits.
“Permeability” means the ease with which a porous material allows
Liquid or gaseous fluids to flow through it. For water, this is usually
expressed in units of centimeters per second and termed hydraulic
conductivity.
“Permit” means an authorization
issued by the jurisdictional Health Department which allows a Person to
perform Solid Waste activities at a specific location and which includes
specific conditions for such Facility operations.
“Person” means an individual,
firm, association, copartnership, political subdivision, government agency,
municipality, industry, public or private corporation, or any other entity
whatever.
“Pile” means any
non-Containerized accumulation of Solid Waste that is used for Treatment or
Storage.
“Plan of Operation” means the
written plan developed by an owner or operator of a Facility detailing how a
Facility is to be operated during its active life.
“Point of Compliance” means a
point established in the Ground Water by the jurisdictional Health Department
as near a possible source of release as technically, hydrogeologically and
geographically feasible.
“Post-Closure” means the
requirements placed upon Disposal facilities after Closure to ensure their
environmental safety for at least a twenty-year period or until the site
becomes stabilized (i.e., little or no settlement, gas production, or Leachate
generation).
“Post-Closure Plan” means a
written plan developed by an owner or operator of a Facility detailing how a
Facility is to meet the post-Closure requirements for the Facility.
“Premises” means a tract or
parcel of land with or without habitable buildings.
“Private Facility” means a
privately owned Facility maintained on private property solely for the purpose
of managing waste generated by the entity owning the site.
“Processing” means an operation
to convert a material into a useful product or to prepare it for reuse,
Recycling, or Disposal.
“Product Take-Back Center”
means a retail outlet or distributor that accepts household hazardous waste of
comparable types as the products offered for sale or distributed at that
outlet.
“Public Facility” means a
publicly or privately owned Facility that accepts Solid Waste generated by
other Persons.
“Public Nuisance” or common Nuisance shall be considered as that which is
set up, maintained or continued so as to be injurious to the health, or an
obstruction to the use of property by interfering with the repose, health,
safety or life of any considerable number of Persons.
“Putrescible Waste”
means Solid Waste which contains material capable of being readily decomposed
by microorganisms and which is likely to produce offensive odors.
“Pyrolysis” means the process
in which Solid Wastes are heated in an enclosed device in the absence of
oxygen to vaporization, producing a hydrocarbon-rich gas capable of being
burned for recovery of energy.
“Recyclable Materials” means those Solid Wastes that are separated for
Recycling or reuse, including, but not limited to, papers, metals, and glass,
that are identified as recyclable material pursuant to a local comprehensive
Solid Waste plan.
“Recycling” means transforming
or remanufacturing waste materials into usable or marketable materials for use
other than Landfill Disposal or Incineration. Recycling does not include
collection, compacting, repackaging, and sorting for the purpose of transport.
“Representative Sample” means a
sample that can be expected to exhibit the average properties of the sample
source.
“Residential Burning” shall mean small Outdoor Fires, at a one or two family
residence, consisting of paper, leaves, clippings, pruning and other yard and
gardening refuse originating on lands immediately adjacent and in close
proximity to a human dwelling and resulting activities connected with said
dwelling and burned on such lands by the property owner or his designee.
“Reserved”
means a section having no requirements and which is set aside for future
possible rule making as a note to the regulated community.
“Reusable Containers” means
Containers that are used more than once to handle Solid Waste, such as Garbage
cans.
“Runoff” means any rainwater,
Leachate or other Liquid that drains over land from any part of the Facility.
“Run-on” means any rainwater or
other Liquid that drains over land onto any part of a Facility.
“Scavenging” means the removal of materials at a Disposal Facility, or
intermediate Solid Waste-handling Facility, without the approval of the owner
or operator and the jurisdictional Health Department.
“Seismic Impact Zone” means an
area with a ten percent or greater probability that the maximum horizontal
acceleration in Lithified Earth Material, expressed as a percentage of the
earth's gravitational pull, will exceed 0.10g in two hundred fifty years.
“Setback” means that part of a
Facility that lies between the Active Area and the property boundary.
“Sewage Sludge” means solid,
semisolid, or Liquid residue generated during the Treatment of domestic sewage
in a Treatment works. Sewage Sludge includes, but is not limited to, Domestic
Septage; scum or solids removed in primary, secondary, or advanced wastewater
Treatment processes; and a material derived from Sewage Sludge. Sewage Sludge
does not include ash generated during the firing of Sewage Sludge in a Sewage
Sludge incinerator or grit and screenings generated.
“Small Fire” shall
include a fire not more than four feet in diameter or more than three feet
high.
“Soil Amendment”
means any substance that is intended to improve the physical characteristics
of soil, except Composted Material, Commercial fertilizers, agricultural
liming agents, unmanipulated animal manures, unmanipulated vegetable manures,
food wastes, food Processing wastes, and materials exempted by rule of the
Department, such as Biosolids as defined in chapter 70.95J RCW, Municipal
Sewage Sludge -- Biosolids and wastewater, as regulated in chapter 90.48 RCW,
Water pollution control.
“Solid Waste” shall include all putrescible and nonputrescible solid and semisolid
Wastes, including but not limited to Garbage, rubbish, ashes, industrial
wastes, swill, demolition and construction wastes, abandoned Vehicles or parts
thereof, and discarded commodities. This includes all Liquids, solid and
semisolid materials which are not the primary products of public, private,
industrial, Commercial, mining, and agricultural operations. Solid Waste
includes but is not limited to Contaminated Soils and Contaminated Dredged
Material, Recyclable Materials, sludge from a wastewater Treatment plant and
septage from septic Tanks, woodwaste, dangerous waste, and problem wastes.
“Solid Waste Handling” means
the management, Storage, collection, transportation, Treatment, use,
Processing or final Disposal of Solid Wastes, including the recovery and
Recycling of materials from Solid Wastes, the recovery of energy resources
from such wastes or the conversion of the energy in such wastes to more useful
forms or combinations thereof.
“Solid
Waste Handling Facility”
shall mean a Facility and/or Person that manages, stores, collects,
transports, treats, utilizes, processes or is a final Disposal site of Solid
Waste. This includes the recovery and Recycling of materials from Solid
Wastes, the recovery of energy resources from such wastes or the conversion of
the energy in such wastes to more useful forms or combinations thereof.
“Solid Waste Handling Unit”
means discrete areas of land, sealed surfaces, liner systems, excavations,
Facility Structures, or other appurtenances within a Facility used for Solid
Waste Handling.
“Solid Waste Management” shall
include the systematic administration of activities which provide for the
collection, Source Separation, Storage, transportation, transfer, Processing,
Treatment, and Disposal of Solid Waste.
“Source
Separation”
means the separation of different kinds of Solid Waste at the place where the
waste originates.
“Storage” means the holding of
Solid Waste materials for a temporary period.
“Surface Impoundment” means a
Facility or part of a Facility which is a natural topographic depression,
man-made excavation, or diked area formed primarily of earthen materials
(although it may be lined with man-made materials), and which is designed to
hold an accumulation of Liquids or sludges. The term includes holding,
Storage, settling, and aeration pits, ponds, or lagoons, but does not include
injection wells.
“Surface Water” means all
lakes, rivers, ponds, Wetlands, streams, inland waters, salt waters and all
other Surface Water and Surface Water courses within the jurisdiction of the
state of Washington.
“Tank” means a stationary device designed to contain an accumulation
of Liquid or semisolid materials meeting the definition of Solid Waste or
Leachate, and which is constructed primarily of nonearthen materials to
provide structural support.
“Tipping Floor” shall include
the unloading area for delivering Solid Waste to an incinerator, Transfer
Station, resource recovery, or reclamation site.
“Toxic”
shall mean having the properties to cause or to significantly contribute to
death, injury or illness to man or wildlife.
“Transfer Station”
means a permanent, fixed, supplemental collection and transportation Facility,
used by Persons and route collection Vehicles to deposit collected Solid Waste
from off-site into a larger transfer Vehicle for transport to a Solid Waste
Handling Facility.
“Treated Wood” shall include
wood of any species that has been chemically impregnated, coated, painted,
similarity modified or treated with antimicrobial chemicals.
“Treatment”
means the physical, chemical, or biological Processing of Solid Waste to make
such Solid Wastes safer for Storage or Disposal, amenable for Recycling or
Energy Recovery, or reduced in volume.
“Twenty-Five-Year Storm” means
a storm of twenty-four hours duration and of such intensity that it has a four
percent probability of being equaled or exceeded each year.
“Type 1 Feedstocks” means
source-separated yard and garden wastes, Wood Wastes, agricultural Crop
Residues, wax-coated cardboard, preconsumer vegetative food wastes, other
similar source-separated materials that the jurisdictional Health Department
determines to have a comparable low level of risk in Hazardous Substances,
human pathogens, and physical contaminants.
“Type 2 Feedstocks” means
manure and bedding from herbivorous animals that the jurisdictional Health
Department determines to have a comparable low level of risk in Hazardous
Substances and physical contaminants when compared to a type 1 feedstock.
“Type 3 Feedstocks” means meat
and postconsumer source-separated food wastes or other similar
source-separated materials that the jurisdictional Health Department
determines to have a comparable low level of risk in Hazardous Substances and
physical contaminants, but are likely to have high levels of human pathogens.
“Type 4 Feedstocks” means mixed
Municipal Solid Wastes, postcollection separated or processed Solid Wastes,
Industrial Solid Wastes, industrial biological Treatment sludges, or other
similar compostable materials that the jurisdictional Health Department
determines to have a comparable high level of risk in Hazardous Substances,
human pathogens and physical contaminants.
“Universal Wastes” means Universal Wastes as defined in chapter
173-303 WAC, Dangerous waste regulations. Universal Wastes include, but may
not be limited to, dangerous waste batteries, mercury-containing thermostats,
and universal waste lamps generated by fully regulated dangerous Waste
Generators or CESQGs.
“Unstable Area” means a
location that is susceptible to forces capable of impairing the integrity of
the Facility's liners, monitoring system or structural components. Unstable
Areas can include poor foundation conditions and areas susceptible to mass
movements.
“Used Oil” shall include (1)
lubrication fluids that have been removed from an engine crankcase,
transmission, gearbox, hydraulic device, or differential of an automobile,
bus, truck, vessel, plane, heavy equipment, or machinery powered by an
internal combustion engine; (2) any oil that has been refined from crude oil,
used, and as a result of use, has been Contaminated with physical or chemical
impurities; and (3) any oil that has been refined from crude oil and, as a
consequence of extended Storage, spillage, or contamination, is no longer
useful to the original purchaser.
“Utilization”
shall include consuming, expending, or exhausting by use, Solid Waste
materials.
“Vadose
Zone”
means that portion of a geologic formation in which soil pores contain some
water, the pressure of that water is less than atmospheric pressure, and the
formation occurs above the Zone of Saturation.
“Vector” means a living animal,
including, but not limited to, insects, rodents, and birds, which is capable
of transmitting an infectious disease from one organism to another.
“Vehicle” shall include every
device physically capable of being moved upon a public or private highway,
road, street, or watercourse and in, upon, or by which any Person or property
is or may be transported or drawn upon a public or private highway, road,
street, or watercourse, except devices moved by human or animal power or used
exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
“Vehicle
Batteries”
shall include batteries capable for use in any Vehicle, having a core
consisting of elemental lead, and a capacity of six or more volts.
“Vermicomposting”
means the controlled and managed process by which live worms convert organic
residues into dark, fertile, granular excrement.
“Waste
Generator” shall include any individual, business, government agency, or
any other organization that generates waste.
“Waste
Tire Carrier”
shall include a Person who picks up or transports Waste Tires for the purpose
of Storage or Disposal. This does not include the following:
1.
Any
Person transporting five tires or less.
2.
Any
Person transporting tire-derived products.
3.
Any
Person transporting used tires back to a retail tire outlet for repair or
exchange.
4.
Any
Person regulated by the utilities and transportation commission.
5.
Solid
Waste collections operating under a license or franchise from any local
government unit and transporting tires as part of Solid Waste Handling
activities.
6.
The
United States, the State of Washington, any county, City, town, or
municipality in this state, when involved in the clean up of illegal waste
tire Piles.
7.
Tire
retailers associated with retreading facilities who use company-owned Vehicles
to transport Waste Tires for the purpose of retreading.
“Waste
Tire Storage Site Owner”
shall mean any Person that owns a waste tire Facility with a county Solid
Waste Permit.
“Waste
Tires”
means any tires that are no longer suitable for their original intended
purpose because of wear, damage or defect. Used tires, which were originally
intended for use on public highways that are considered unsafe in accordance
with RCW 46.37.425, are Waste Tires. Waste Tires also include quantities of
used tires that may be suitable for their original intended purpose when mixed
with tires considered unsafe per RCW 46.37.425.
“Wetlands” means those areas
that are inundated or saturated by surface or Ground Water at a frequency and
duration sufficient to support, and under normal circumstances do support, a
prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil
conditions. Wetlands generally include swamps, marshes, bogs, and similar
areas.
“Wood Derived Fuel” means wood
pieces or particles used as a fuel for Energy Recovery, which contain paint,
bonding agents, or creosote. Wood Derived Fuel does not include wood pieces or
particles coated with paint that contains lead or mercury, or wood treated
with other chemical preservatives such as pentachlorophenol, copper
naphthanate, or copper-chrome-arsenate.
“Wood Waste” means Solid Waste
consisting of wood pieces or particles generated as a by-product or waste from
the manufacturing of wood products, construction, demolition, handling and
Storage of raw materials, trees and stumps. This includes, but is not limited
to, sawdust, chips, shavings, bark, pulp, hogged fuel, and log sort yard
waste, but does not include wood pieces or particles containing paint,
laminates, bonding agents or chemical preservatives such as creosote,
pentachlorophenol, or copper-chrome-arsenate.
“Yard Debris” means plant material commonly created in the course of
maintaining yards and gardens and through horticulture, gardening, landscaping
or similar activities. Yard Debris includes, but is not limited to, grass
clippings, leaves, branches, brush, weeds, flowers, roots, windfall fruit, and
vegetable garden debris.
“Zone of Saturation” means that part of a geologic formation in which
soil pores are filled with water and the pressure of that water is equal to or
greater than atmospheric pressure.