AR Code § 8-7-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 8 - Environmental Law|Chapter 7 - Hazardous Substances|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Hazardous Waste Management Act of 1979|§ 8-7-203. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:   (1) “Commission” means the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission;  (2) [Repealed.]  (3) [Repealed.]  (4) “Disposal” means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any hazardous waste into or on any land or water in whatever manner so that such hazardous waste or any constituent thereof might or might not enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any waters including groundwaters;  (5) “Facility” means any land and appurtenances thereon and thereto used for the treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous waste;  (6) “Generation” means the act or process of producing waste materials;  (7)  (A) “Hazardous waste” means any waste or combination of wastes of a solid, liquid, contained gaseous, or semisolid form which, because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics, may in the judgment of the Division of Environmental Quality:  (i) Cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness; or  (ii) Pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, or disposed of, or otherwise improperly managed.    (B) “Hazardous waste” includes, but is not limited to, those which are radioactive, toxic, corrosive, flammable, irritants, or strong sensitizers or those which generate pressure through decomposition, heat, or other means;    (8) “Hazardous waste management” means the systematic control of the generation, collection, distribution, marketing, source separation, storage, transportation, processing, recovery, disposal, and treatment of hazardous waste;  (9) “Manifest” means the form used for identifying the quantity, composition, and the origin, routing, and destination of hazardous waste during its transport;  (10) “Person” means any individual, corporation, company, firm, partnership, association, trust, joint-stock company, state agency, government instrumentality or agency, institution, county, city, town, or municipal authority or trust, venture, or any other legal entity, however organized;  (11) “Site” means any real property located within the boundary of the State of Arkansas contemplated or later acquired for the purpose of, but not limited to, landfills or other facilities to be used for treatment, storage, disposal, or generation of hazardous waste;  (12)  (A) “Storage” means the containment of hazardous waste, either on a temporary basis or for a period of years, in such a manner as not to constitute disposal of hazardous waste.  (B) Storage by means of burial shall be deemed to constitute disposal within the meaning of this subchapter;    (13) “Transport” means the movement of wastes from the point of generation to any intermediate points and finally to the point of ultimate storage or disposal;  (14) “Treatment” means any method, technique, or process, including neutralization, designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological character or composition of any hazardous waste so as to neutralize the hazardous waste or to render the hazardous waste less hazardous, safer for transport, amenable to recovery, amenable to storage, amenable to disposal, or reduced in volume; and  (15) “Treatment facility” means a location at which waste is subjected to treatment and may include a facility where waste has been generated.