Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia › Department 391 - RULES OF GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES › Chapter 391-3 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Subject 391-3-19 - HAZARDOUS SITE RESPONSE › Rule 391-3-19-.02 - Conventions

Current through Rules and Regulations filed through June 27,
				2024
(1)
Abbreviations.
CERCLA - Federal Comprehensive Environmental Response,
				  Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended
CFR - Code of Federal Regulations
HSRA - Georgia Hazardous Site Response Act, O.C.G.A. §
										12-8-90 et seq.
IEUBK - USEPA's Integrated Exposure Uptake Biokinetic Model
				  for Lead in Children
IRIS - USEPA's Integrated Risk Information System
MCL - Maximum Contaminant Levels - Drinking water standards
				  established pursuant to the Safe Drinking Water Act, promulgated at 40 CFR Part
				  141, Subpart G, including the treatment technique action level concentrations
				  found in 40 CFR
				  141.80(c).
NCP - The National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution
				  Contingency Plan, 40 CFR Part 300
O.C.G.A. - Official Code of Georgia, Annotated
PPRTV - USEPA's Provisional Peer Reviewed Toxicity
				  Values
RAGS, Part A - "Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund:
				  Volume 1 - Human Health Evaluation Manual (Part A)," USEPA document
				  EPA/540/1-89/002, as amended.
RAGS, Part B - "Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund:
				  Volume 1 - Human Health Evaluation Manual (Part B, Development of Risk-based
				  Preliminary Remediation Goals)," USEPA document EPA/540/R-92/003, as
				  amended.
RAGS, Part E - "Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund,
				  Volume I: Human Health Evaluation Manual (Part E, Supplemental Guidance for
				  Dermal Risk Assessment)," USEPA document EPA/540/R-99/005, as amended.
RAGS, Part F - "Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund,
				  Volume I: Human Health Evaluation Manual (Part F, Supplemental Guidance for
				  Inhalation Risk Assessment)," USEPA document EPA/540/R-070/002, as
				  amended.
SARA - Federal Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act
				  of 1986, as amended
SW-846 - "Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Waste,
				  Physical/Chemical Methods," USEPA Publication SW-846
USEPA - United States Environmental Protection
				  Agency
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Definitions.
Unless otherwise defined in this chapter, the
				definition of all terms included in the HSRA, O.C.G.A.
				12-8-90 et seq., as amended, the
				Georgia Hazardous Waste Management Act (HWMA) O.C.G.A. §
									12-8-60 et seq., as amended, and
				in the Rules for Hazardous Waste Management, Section
				391-3-11-.02, shall have the same
				meaning in this chapter. When used in this chapter, the following terms shall
				have the meaning given below:
(a)
Approved analytical test method
means SW-846 test methods that
				have been promulgated, recommended, or otherwise approved by USEPA, or methods
				approved for use by the Division;
(b)
Conditionally exempt small
				quantity generator
means a hazardous waste generator who generates 220
				pounds or less of hazardous waste in one month;
(c)
Defined release
means
				any release which is an event which has a known duration of less than 30
				consecutive days, which has a known source, and which involves quantities that
				are known or can be estimated;
(d)
Detection limit
means the practical quantitation limit (PQL),
				defined as the lowest concentration, for an approved analytical test method and
				for a given sample matrix, at which the quantity of a regulated substance can
				be measured with a stated degree of confidence under routine laboratory
				operating conditions;
(e)
Final receiving facility
means a receiving facility that
				receives a hazardous waste and from which that hazardous waste will not be
				reshipped for further off-site management;
(f)
Free product
means any
				non-aqueous phase liquid that contains a regulated substance and that has
				accumulated at a groundwater surface, has pooled above a low permeability
				boundary in an aquifer, or can move freely in the aquifer;
(g)
Ground water
means any
				subsurface water that is in a zone of saturation;
(h)
Large quantity generator
means a hazardous waste generator who generates 2.2 pounds or more of acute
				hazardous waste or 2200 pounds or more of hazardous waste in one
				month;
(i)
Non-residential
				property
means any real property or portion of a property not
				currently being used for human habitation or for other purposes with a similar
				potential for human exposure, at which activities have been or are being
				conducted that can be categorized in one of the 1987 Standard Industrial
				Classification (SIC) major groups 01- 97 inclusive (except the four-digit codes
				4941, 8051, 8059, 8062-3, 8069, 8211, 8221-2, 8351, 8661, and 9223).
				Non-residential property includes all of the contiguous block(s) and lot(s)
				controlled by the same owner or operator that are vacant land, or that are used
				in conjunction with such business. For leased properties, non-residential
				property includes the leasehold and any external tank, surface impoundment,
				septic system, or any other structure, vessel, contrivance, or unit that
				provides, or is utilized for the management of regulated substances to or from
				the leasehold;
(j)
Off-site
				management
means the movement of hazardous waste beyond the property
				boundary of the facility where it was generated for disposal, incineration,
				treatment, storage, burning for energy recovery, recycling and/or reuse at a
				receiving facility;
(k)
On-site management
means the disposal, incineration,
				treatment, storage, burning for energy recovery, recycling and/or reuse of
				self-generated hazardous waste by any large quantity generator before it is
				shipped for off-site management or discharged from an outfall regulated under
				the Georgia Water Quality Control Act;
(l)
Out-of-state generator
means any generator outside the State of Georgia that ships hazardous waste to
				a receiving facility located within the State of Georgia;
(m)
Receiving facility
means
				a facility that receives hazardous waste for disposal, incineration, treatment,
				storage, burning for energy recovery, recycling and/or reuse;
(n)
Regulated substance
means any substance defined in the Hazardous Waste Management Act, O.C.G.A.
				§
										12-8-62, by the terms "hazardous
				waste" or "hazardous constituent," or any substance defined in the Hazardous
				Site Response Act, O.C.G.A. §
										12-8-92, as "hazardous substance"
				(all such regulated substances are listed in Appendix I of this
				Chapter);
(o)
Release
means any intentional or unintentional act or omission
				resulting in the spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying,
				discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing into the
				environment, including without limitation the abandonment or discarding of
				barrels, containers, and other closed receptacles, of any hazardous waste,
				hazardous constituent, or hazardous substance; provided however, that such term
				shall not include any release which results in exposure to persons solely
				within a workplace, with respect to a claim which such persons may assert
				against the employer of such persons; emissions from the engine exhaust of any
				motor vehicle, rolling stock, aircraft, vessel, or pipeline pumping station; or
				the normal application of fertilizer;
(p)
Reportable quantity
means the amount of any released regulated substance which causes a site to
				meet the criteria for listing on the Hazardous Site Inventory pursuant to the
				screening method provided in Appendix II of this Chapter;
(q)
Reshipped for further off-site
				management
means when a receiving facility has received hazardous
				waste and where such hazardous waste has undergone disposal, incineration,
				treatment, storage, recycling and/or reuse at that receiving facility and the
				receiving facility subsequently signs the manifest accompanying such hazardous
				waste to send it to another receiving facility where it will undergo further
				disposal, incineration, treatment, storage, burning for energy recovery,
				recycling and/or reuse;
(r)
Residential property
means any property that does not
				exclusively meet the definition of non-residential property. In addition to
				recognized residential use, it also includes property used for establishments
				classified by those SIC codes that are excepted from the definition herein of
				"non-residential". Also, a portion of non-residential property that is used in
				part for residential activities, such as a day care center, is defined as
				residential;
(s)
Responsible party
means any person who has contributed or who
				is contributing to a release, as defined at O.C.G.A.
				12-8-92(9);
(t)
Self-generated hazardous
				waste
means hazardous waste generated by a large quantity generator or
				a small quantity generator;
(u)
Shipped for off-site management
means when a generator signs
				the manifest accompanying a hazardous waste shipment bound for a receiving
				facility where it will undergo disposal, incineration, treatment, storage,
				burning for energy recovery, recycling and/or reuse at that facility;
(v)
Site
means that portion
				of the owner's contiguous property and any other owner's property affected by a
				release exceeding a reportable quantity;
(w)
Small quantity generator
means a hazardous waste generator who generates greater than 220 pounds but
				less than 2200 pounds of hazardous waste in one month;
(x)
Soil
means any
				unconsolidated earth material, together with any unconsolidated plant or animal
				matter or foreign material that has become incorporated into it, that either
				consists of, remains within, or comes to be deposited on, native soil or
				regolith;
(y)
Source
				material
means any material that includes or contains regulated
				substances that act or may likely act as a reservoir for migration of regulated
				substances to groundwater, soil, surface water, or air, or acts as a source for
				direct exposure;
(z)
Ton of
				hazardous waste
means a standard short ton (2000 pounds) including any
				fraction thereof;
(aa)
Wastewate
r means any self-generated hazardous waste that
				undergoes on-site management in a wastewater treatment facility prior to its
				discharge from an outfall that is regulated under the Georgia Water Quality
				Control Act.