9 Sec. 1004 SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL ACT

(6) The term ‘‘hazardous waste generation’’ means the act or

process of producing hazardous waste.

(7) The term ‘‘hazardous waste management’’ means the systematic control of the collection, source separation, storage, transportation, processing, treatment, recovery, and disposal of hazardous wastes.

(8) For purposes of Federal financial assistance (other than

rural communities assistance), the term ‘‘implementation’’ does not

include the acquisition, leasing, construction, or modification of facilities or equipment or the acquisition, leasing, or improvement of

land.

(9) The term ‘‘intermunicipal agency’’ means an agency established by two or more municipalities with responsibility for planning or administration of solid waste.

(10) The term ‘‘interstate agency’’ means an agency of two or

more municipalities in different States, or an agency established by

two or more States, with authority to provide for the management

of solid wastes and serving two or more municipalities located in

different States.

(11) The term ‘‘long-term contract’’ means, when used in relation to solid waste supply, a contract of sufficient duration to assure the viability of a resource recovery facility (to the extent that

such viability depends upon solid waste supply).

(12) The term ‘‘manifest’’ means the form used for identifying

the quantity, composition, and the origin, routing, and destination

of hazardous waste during its transportation from the point of generation to the point of disposal, treatment, or storage.

(13) The term ‘‘municipality’’ (A) means a city, town, borough,

county, parish, district, or other public body created by or pursuant

to State law, with responsibility for the planning or administration

of solid waste management, or an Indian tribe or authorized tribal

organization or Alaska Native village or organization, and (B) includes any rural community or unincorporated town or village or

any other public entity for which an application for assistance is

made by a State or political subdivision thereof.

(14) The term ‘‘open dump’’ means any facility or site where

solid waste is disposed of which is not a sanitary landfill which

meets the criteria promulgated under section 4004 and which is not

a facility for disposal of hazardous waste.

(15) The term ‘‘person’’ means an individual, trust, firm, joint

stock company, corporation (including a government corporation),

partnership, association, State, municipality, commission, political

subdivision of a State, or any interstate body and shall include

each department, agency, and instrumentality of the United States.

(16) The term ‘‘procurement item’’ means any device, good, substance, material, product, or other item whether real or personal

property which is the subject of any purchase, barter, or other exchange made to procure such item.

(17) The term ‘‘procuring agency’’ means any Federal agency,

or any State agency or agency of a political subdivision of a State

which is using appropriated Federal funds for such procurement, or

any person contracting with any such agency with respect to work

performed under such contract.

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December 31, 2002