Illinois Administrative Code › Title 35 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Part 830 - STANDARDS FOR COMPOST FACILITIES › Subpart A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 830.102 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
Except as stated in this Section, the definition of each word
				  or term used in this Part, 35 Ill. Adm. Code 831 and 35 Ill. Adm. Code 832
				  shall be the same as that applied to the same word or term in the Environmental
				  Protection Act ("Act") [415 ILCS 5 ].
"Act" means the Environmental Protection Act [415 ILCS 5
				  ].
"Additive" means components, other than landscape waste,
				  added to composting material to maximize the decomposition process by adjusting
				  any of the following: moisture, temperature, oxygen transfer, pH, carbon to
				  nitrogen ratio, biology or biochemistry of the composting material.
"Aerated static pile" means a composting system that uses a
				  series of perforated pipes or equivalent air distribution systems running
				  underneath a compost pile and connected to a blower that either draws or blows
				  air through the piles. Little or no pile agitation or turning is
				  performed.
"Aerobic composting" means a process managed and maintained
				  to promote maturation of organic materials by microbial action in the presence
				  of free oxygen contained within the gas in the composting material.
"Aerobic" means done in the presence of free oxygen.
"Agency" means the Illinois Environmental Protection
				  Agency.
"Agronomic Rates" means the application of not more than 20
				  tons per acre per year, except that the Agency may allow a higher rate for
				  individual sites where the owner or operator has demonstrated to the Agency
				  that the site's soil characteristics or crop needs require a higher rate.
				  (Section 21(q) of the Act.)
"Anaerobic composting" means a process managed and maintained
				  to promote maturation of organic materials by microbial action in the absence
				  of free oxygen within the gas in the composting material.
"Bad Load" means a load of material that would, if accepted,
				  cause or contribute to a violation of the Act, even if managed in accordance
				  with these regulations and any facility permit conditions.
"Batch" means material used to fill the vessel of a contained
				  composting system.
"Board" means the Illinois Pollution Control Board.
"Bulking agent" means a material used to increase porosity,
				  to improve aeration, or to absorb moisture from decomposing waste.
"Closure" means the process of terminating composting
				  facility operations pursuant to applicable Sections in this Part, 35 Ill. Adm.
				  Code 831 and 35 Ill. Adm. Code 832, beginning upon permit expiration without
				  filing for renewal, intentional cessation of waste acceptance or cessation of
				  waste acceptance for greater than 180 consecutive days, unless an alternative
				  time frame is approved in a closure plan.
"Commercial activity" means any activity involving the
				  transfer of money.
"Compost" means the humus-like product of the process of
				  composting waste, which may be used as a soil conditioner. (Section 3.70 of the
				  Act.)
"Composting" means the biological treatment process by which
				  microorganisms decompose the organic fraction of the waste, producing compost.
				  (Section 3.70 of the Act.) Land application is not composting.
"Composting area" means the area of a composting facility in
				  which waste, composting material or undistributed end-product compost is
				  unloaded, stored, staged, stockpiled, treated or otherwise managed.
"Composting material" means solid wastes that are in the
				  process of being composted.
"Composting operation" means an enterprise engaged in the
				  production and distribution of end-product compost.
"Contained composting process" means a method of producing
				  compost in which the composting material is confined or contained in a vessel
				  or structure which both protects the material from the elements and controls
				  the moisture and air flow.
"Designated use compost" means end-product compost which does
				  not meet the standards set forth in Section
				  830.503
				  of this Part.
"Dewar flask" means an insulated container used especially to
				  store liquefied gases, having a double wall, an evacuated space between the
				  walls and silvered surfaces.
"Domestic sewage" means waste water derived principally from
				  dwellings, business or office buildings, institutions, food service
				  establishments, and similar facilities.
"End-product compost" means organic material that has been
				  processed to maturity and classified as general use compost or designated use
				  compost in accordance with this Part.
"Facility" means any landscape waste compost facility.
"Garbage" is waste resulting from the handling, processing,
				  preparation, cooking, and consumption of food, and wastes from the handling,
				  processing, storage, and sale of produce. (Section 3.11 of the Act.)
"Garden compost operation" means an operation which (1) has
				  no more than 25 cubic yards of landscape waste, composting material or
				  end-product compost on-site at any one time and (2) is not engaging in
				  commercial activity.
"General use compost" means end-product compost which meets
				  the standards set forth in Section
				  830.503
				  of this Part.
"Groundwater" means underground water which occurs within the
				  saturated zone and geologic materials where the fluid pressure in the pore
				  space is equal to or greater than atmospheric pressure. (Section 3(b) of the
				  Groundwater Protection Act [415 ILCS 55 ].)
"In-vessel composting" means a diverse group of composting
				  methods in which composting materials are contained in a building, reactor, or
				  vessel.
"In-vessel continuous feed system" means a method of
				  producing compost in which the raw composting material is delivered on a
				  continuous basis to a reactor.
"Insulating material" means material used for the purpose of
				  preventing the passage of heat out of a windrow or other pile. Insulating
				  material includes, but is not limited to, end-product compost, foam, or soil.
				  Insulating material does not include composting material that has not reached
				  maturity.
"Land application" means the spreading of waste, at an
				  agronomic rate, as a soil amendment to improve soil structure and crop
				  productivity.
"Landscape Waste" means all accumulations of grass or
				  shrubbery cuttings, leaves, tree limbs and other materials accumulated as the
				  result of the care of lawns, shrubbery, vines and trees. (Section 3.20 of the
				  Act.)
"Landscape waste compost facility" means an entire landscape
				  waste composting operation, with the exception of a garden compost
				  operation.
"Landscape waste leachate" means a liquid containing any of
				  the following: waste constituents originating in landscape waste; landscape
				  waste composting material; additives; and end-product compost.
"Maturity" means a state which is characteristically:
				  generally dark in color; humus-like; crumbly in texture; not objectionable in
				  odor; resembling rich topsoil; and bearing little resemblance in physical form
				  to the waste from which it is derived.
"Modification" means a permit revision authorizing either an
				  extension of the current permit term or a physical or operational change at a
				  composting facility which involves different or additional processes, increases
				  the capacity of the operation, requires construction, or alters a requirement
				  set forth as a special condition in the existing permit.
"MPN" means most probable number, a mathematical inference of
				  the viable count from the fraction of cultures that fail to show growth in a
				  series of tubes containing a suitable medium.
"Nearest residence" means an occupied dwelling and adjacent
				  property commonly used by inhabitants of the dwelling.
"Non-compostable material" means items not subject to
				  microbial decomposition under conditions used to compost waste.
"Off-site" means not on-site.
"On-farm landscape waste compost facility" means a landscape
				  compost facility which satisfies all of the criteria set forth in Section
				  830.106.
"On-site" means on the same or geographically contiguous
				  property which may be divided by public or private right-of-way, provided the
				  entrance and exit between the properties is at a crossroads intersection and
				  access is by crossing as opposed to going along the right-of-way. Noncontiguous
				  properties owned by the same person but connected by a right-of-way which the
				  owner controls and to which the public does not have access are also considered
				  on-site property.
"On-site commercial facility" means a landscape waste compost
				  facility at which the landscape waste composted is generated only on-site and
				  the end-product is offered for off-site sale or use.
"On-site facility" means a landscape waste compost facility
				  at which the landscape waste composted is generated only on-site and the
				  end-product is not offered for off-site sale or use.
"Open composting process" means a method of producing compost
				  without protecting the compost from weather conditions.
"Operator" means the individual, partnership, co-partnership,
				  firm, company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate,
				  political subdivision, State agency, or any other legal entity that is
				  responsible for the operation of the facility. The property owner, if different
				  from the operator, shall be deemed the operator in the event that the operator
				  abandons the facility.
"Origin" means the legal entity from which a substance has
				  been obtained.
"Processing into windrows or other piles" means placement of
				  waste materials into windrows or other piles of a size, structure, and mixture
				  adequate to begin the composting process.
"Property owner" means the owner of the land on which the
				  composting operation is located or proposed to be located, except that if the
				  operator has obtained a lease for at least the duration of the proposed
				  facility permit plus one year, then "property owner" shall mean the operator of
				  the composting operation.
"Registered professional engineer" means a person registered
				  under the Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act [225 ILCS 325
				  ].
"Relatively impermeable soil" means a soil located above the
				  water table that has a hydraulic conductivity no greater than 1 x
				  10(-5) centimeters per second for a thickness of at
				  least one foot.
"Runoff" means water resulting from precipitation that flows
				  overland before it enters a defined stream channel, excluding any portion of
				  such overland flow that infiltrates into the ground before it reaches the
				  stream channel, and any precipitation that falls directly into a stream
				  channel.
"Runon" means any rainwater, leachate or other liquid that
				  drains over land onto any part of a facility.
"Salvaging" means the return of waste materials to beneficial
				  use.
"Salvaging operations" means those activities that recover
				  waste for beneficial use, so long as the activity is done under the supervision
				  of the compost facility's operator, does not interfere with or otherwise delay
				  the operations of the compost facility, and results in the removal of all
				  materials for salvaging from the compost facility daily or separation by type
				  and storage in a manner that does not create a nuisance, harbor vectors, or
				  cause an unsightly appearance.
"Septage" means the liquid portions and sludge residues
				  removed from septic tanks.
"Sewage" means water-carried human and related waste from any
				  source.
"Site" means any location, place, tract of land, and
				  facilities, including but not limited to buildings, and improvements used for
				  purposes subject to regulation or control by the Act and 35 Ill. Adm. Code 830,
				  831 and 832. (Section 3.43 of the Act.)
"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, or any
				  other such waste having similar characteristics and effects. (Section 3.44 of
				  the Act.)
"Special waste" means any industrial process waste, pollution
				  control waste or hazardous waste, except as determined pursuant to Section 22.9
				  of the Act and 35 Ill. Adm. Code 808. (Section 3.45 of the Act.)
"Stability" means a state in which the compost decomposes
				  slowly even under conditions favorable for microbial activity.
"Staging area" means an area within a facility where raw
				  material for composting is processed, temporarily stored in accordance with the
				  standards set forth in
				  830.205(a)(1)(A),
				  loaded or unloaded.
"Surface water" means all tributary streams and drainage
				  basins, including natural lakes and artificial reservoirs, which may affect a
				  specific water supply above the point of water supply intake. Such term does
				  not include treatment works (such as a retention basin).
"Ten (10) year, 24 hour precipitation event" means a
				  precipitation event of 24 hour duration with a probable recurrence interval of
				  once in 10 years.
"20-20-20 NPK" means a fertilizer containing 20 percent total
				  nitrogen (N), 20 percent available phosphoric acid
				  (P[2]O[5]) and 20 percent
				  soluble potash (K[2]O).
"Unacceptable load" means a load containing waste a facility
				  is not authorized to accept.
"Underground water" means all water beneath the land
				  surface.
"Vector" means any living agent, other than human, capable of
				  transmitting, directly or indirectly, an infectious disease.
"Water table" means the boundary between the unsaturated and
				  saturated zones of geologic materials or the surface on which the fluid
				  pressure in the pores of a porous medium is exactly at atmospheric
				  pressure.
"Windrow" means an elongated pile of solid waste or
				  composting material constructed to promote composting.
"Woody landscape waste" means plant material greater than two
				  inches in diameter.