Arizona Administrative Code › Title 18 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 13 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY - SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT › Article 13 - SPECIAL WASTE › Section R18-13-1301 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
In addition to the terms prescribed in A.R.S. §
									49-851,
				  the terms in this Article shall have the following meanings:
1. "Disposal" means discharging, depositing,
				injecting, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing special waste into or on land
				or water so that the special waste or any constituent of the special waste may
				enter the environment, be emitted into the air, or discharged into any waters,
				including groundwater.
2. "Exception
				report" means a report that a generator shall submit to the Director which
				notifies the Director that the generator has not received a copy of the special
				waste manifest from the primary or alternate special waste receiving facility
				to which the special waste was sent pursuant to the generator's instructions on
				the special waste manifest, or from any special waste receiving facility to
				which special waste was sent.
3.
				"Generator" means a person whose act or process onsite produces a special waste
				listed in, or designated pursuant to, A.R.S. §§
									49-852,
				49-854,
				and
				49-855,
				or whose act or process first causes such special waste to be subject to
				regulation.
4. "Identification
				number" means an alphanumeric identifier issued by the Department to each
				generator, special shipper, and special waste receiving facility to be used on
				documents, as required pursuant to this Article, in conjunction with shipment
				of special waste.
5. "Off-site
				consignment" means a generator's delivery of materials or wastes for transport
				off-site to a special waste receiving facility within Arizona for treatment,
				storage, recycling, or disposal.
6.
				"Off-site" means any property located within Arizona that is not onsite as
				defined in A.R.S. §
									49-851(3).
7. "Operator" means a person who owns and
				controls all or part of a special waste receiving facility, or who leases,
				operates, or controls such facility, a person responsible for the overall
				operation of such a facility, a management agency, or an authorized
				representative.
8. "Recycling" means
				recycling as defined in A.R.S. § 49- 831(21).
9. "Shredder residue" means waste from the
				shredding of motor vehicles.
10.
				"Significant manifest discrepancy" means a difference of more than 10% by
				weight for bulk shipments, any variation in a piece count for a batch delivery,
				or any difference in the type of special waste received as compared to the type
				of special waste listed on the manifest.
11. "Special waste receiving facility" means
				an off-site location to which special waste is sent to be treated, recycled,
				stored, or disposed.
12. "Special
				waste manifest" means a form provided by the Department, shown as Appendix B to
				this Article, and used to identify the origin, quantity, composition, routing,
				and destination of special waste during its transportation from a generator's
				facility to a special waste receiving facility.
13. "Special waste shipper" means a person
				who transports special waste for off-site treatment, recycling, storage, or
				disposal.
14. "Treatment" means any
				method, technique, or process designed to change the physical, chemical, or
				biological character or composition of special waste.