Water used in gardening, lawn care, landscape maintenance and related activities. Discharges from ponds used for watering livestock and wildlife. Landscaping rubble used to reclaim land. Mining industry off-road waste tires that are larger than three feet in outside diameter and that are buried at the site and rock, leachate material, tailing and slag that are produced and maintained at the site of the mining or metallurgical operation. Effluent as defined in section 45-101.
Return flows from irrigated agriculture.
Any person may petition the director to exempt a substance as solid waste by submitting a written request to the director. The request may be for a statewide or site-specific exemption. Within ninety days after receipt of a written request, the director shall determine whether to exempt the substance. The director's determination shall be based on a demonstration that the substance is unlikely to cause or substantially contribute to a threat to the public health or the environment. Within thirty days after the director's determination to add a substance on a site-specific basis, a notice of that determination shall be published in the Arizona administrative register.