Illinois Administrative Code › Title 35 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Part 220 - NONMETHANE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS › Subpart A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 220.110 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
The definitions in this Section apply only to the provisions
				  of this Part. Unless otherwise defined herein and unless a different meaning of
				  a term is clear from its context, the definitions of terms used in this Part
				  shall have the meanings specified by 35 Ill. Adm. Code
				  201.102, 211, and
				  810.103.
"Active collection system" means a gas collection system that
				  uses gas mover equipment.
"Active landfill" means a landfill in which solid waste is
				  being placed or a landfill that is planning to accept waste in the
				  future.
"Commercial waste" means all types of solid waste generated
				  by stores, offices, restaurants, warehouses, and other nonmanufacturing
				  activities, excluding household and industrial wastes.
"Controlled landfill" means any landfill at which collection
				  and control systems are required under this Part as a result of the NMOC
				  emission rate. The landfill is considered controlled at the time an application
				  for a construction permit for a collection and control system is submitted to
				  the Agency in compliance with Sections
				  220.220
				  and
				  220.230
				  of this Part.
"Design capacity" means the maximum amount of solid waste a
				  landfill can accept, as indicated in terms of volume or mass, as specified in
				  the permit(s) issued pursuant to Section 21(d) of the Act for the source plus
				  any in-place waste not accounted for in the permit(s); if no design capacity is
				  specified in a permit, then the design capacity shall be calculated using good
				  engineering practices; or if the landfill is closed pursuant to the applicable
				  regulations in 35 Ill. Adm. Code.Subtitle G, the actual capacity specified in
				  the closure plan. If the owner or operator chooses to convert the design
				  capacity from volume to mass or from mass to volume to demonstrate its design
				  capacity is less than 2.5 million Mg or 2.5 million
				  m3, the calculation must include a site-specific
				  density, which must be recalculated annually.
"Disposal facility" means all contiguous land and structures,
				  and improvements on the land used for the disposal of solid waste. Portions of
				  the disposal facility may be separated by access roads.
"Emission rate cutoff" means the threshold annual emission
				  rate to which a landfill compares its estimated emission rate to determine if
				  control under this Part is required.
"Enclosed combustor" means an enclosed firebox. Examples
				  include, but are not limited to, an enclosed flare, a boiler, and an internal
				  combustion engine.
"Flare" means an open combustor without enclosure or
				  shroud.
"Gas mover equipment" means the equipment (i.e., fan, blower,
				  compressor) used to transport landfill gas through the header system.
"Household waste" means any solid waste (including garbage,
				  trash, and sanitary waste in septic tanks) derived from households (including,
				  but not limited to, single and multiple residences, hotels and motels,
				  bunkhouses, ranger stations, crew quarters, campgrounds, picnic grounds, and
				  day-use recreation areas). (Section 3.89 of the Act)
"Inactive landfill" means a landfill in which solid waste is
				  no longer being placed, and that is no longer permitted to accept waste under
				  Section 21 of the Act or has a federally enforceable permit condition
				  prohibiting the acceptance of additional waste. If an inactive landfill is
				  subsequently permitted to accept additional waste and additional solid waste is
				  placed in the landfill, the landfill is no longer inactive.
"Industrial waste" means solid waste generated by
				  manufacturing or industrial processes that is not a hazardous waste regulated
				  under Subtitle C of RCRA, 40 CFR 264 and 265. Such waste may include, but is
				  not limited to, waste resulting from the following manufacturing processes:
				  electric power generation; fertilizer/agricultural chemicals; food and related
				  products/by-products; inorganic chemicals; iron and steel manufacturing;
				  leather and leather products; nonferrous metals manufacturing/foundries;
				  organic chemicals; plastics and resins manufacturing; pulp and paper industry;
				  rubber and miscellaneous plastic products; stone, glass, clay, and concrete
				  products; textile manufacturing; transportation equipment; and water treatment.
				  This term does not include mining waste or oil and gas waste.
"Interior well" means any well or similar collection
				  component located inside the perimeter of the landfill. A perimeter well
				  located outside the landfilled waste is not an interior well.
"Landfill" means an area of land or an excavation in which
				  wastes are placed for permanent disposal, and that is not a land application
				  unit, surface impoundment, or an underground injection well. For the purposes
				  of this Part, landfills include waste piles.
"Lateral expansion" means a horizontal expansion of the waste
				  boundaries of an existing MSW landfill. A lateral expansion is not a
				  modification for the purposes of filing an amended design capacity report
				  pursuant to Section
				  220.210(a)
				  of this Part, unless it results in an increase in the design capacity of the
				  landfill.
"Modification" means an increase in the permitted volume
				  design capacity of the landfill by either horizontal or vertical
				  expansion.
"Municipal solid waste (MSW)" means household waste.
"Municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill" means an entire
				  disposal facility or landfill in a contiguous geographical space where
				  household waste is placed in or on land. An MSW landfill may also receive other
				  types of RCRA Subtitle D wastes such as commercial solid waste, nonhazardous
				  sludge, conditionally exempt small quantity generator waste, and industrial
				  solid waste. Portions of an MSW landfill may be separated by access roads. An
				  MSW landfill may be publicly or privately owned or operated.
"Municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill emissions" means gas
				  generated by decomposition of organic waste deposited in an MSW landfill or
				  derived from the evolution of organic compounds in the waste.
"Nondegradable waste" means any waste that does not decompose
				  through chemical breakdown or microbiological activity. Examples include, but
				  are not limited to, concrete, municipal waste combustor ash, and metals.
"Nonmethane organic compounds (NMOC)" means nonmethane
				  organic compounds, as measured according to the provisions of Section
				  220.260
				  of this Part.
"Passive collection system" means a gas collection system
				  that uses solely positive pressure within the landfill to move the gas rather
				  than using gas mover equipment.
"Putrescible waste" means a solid waste that contains organic
				  matter capable of being decomposed by microorganisms so as to cause a malodor,
				  gases, or other offensive conditions, or which is capable of providing food for
				  birds and vectors. Putrescible wastes may form a contaminated leachate from
				  microbiological degradation, chemical processes, and physical processes.
				  Putrescible waste includes, but is not limited to, garbage, offal, dead
				  animals, general household waste, and commercial waste. All solid wastes that
				  do not meet the definitions of inert or chemical wastes shall be considered
				  putrescible wastes.
"Sludge" means any solid, semisolid, or liquid waste
				  generated from a municipal, commercial, or industrial wastewater treatment
				  plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility,
				  exclusive of the treated effluent from a wastewater treatment plant.
"Solid waste" means a waste that is defined as an inert
				  waste, as a putrescible waste, as a chemical waste or as a special waste, and
				  which is also not defined as a hazardous waste pursuant to 35 Ill. Adm. Code
				  721.
"Sufficient density" means any number, spacing, and
				  combination of collection system components, including vertical wells,
				  horizontal collectors, and surface collectors, necessary to maintain emission
				  and migration control as determined by measures of performance set forth in
				  this Part.
"Sufficient extraction rate" means a rate sufficient to
				  maintain a negative pressure at all wellheads in the collection system without
				  causing air infiltration, including any wellheads connected to the system as a
				  result of expansion or excess surface emissions, for the life of the
				  blower.