Illinois Administrative Code › Title 35 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Part 807 - SOLID WASTE › Subpart A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 807.104 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
Except as hereinafter stated, and unless a different meaning
				  of a word or term is clear from its context, the definitions of words or terms
				  as are used in this Part shall be the same as those used in the Environmental
				  Protection Act.
"Abandonment" means the failure to initiate closure within 30
				  days after receipt of the "final volume of waste".
"Bedrock" means the solid rock exposed at the surface of the
				  earth or overlain by unconsolidated material.
"Cell" means compacted refuse completely enclosed by cover
				  material.
"Compaction" means the reduction of volume of material under
				  load. Compaction is a "treatment".
"Cover material" means soil or other material that is used to
				  cover compacted solid waste in a sanitary landfill and that is free of objects
				  that would hinder compaction and free of content that would be conducive to
				  vector harborage, feeding or breeding.
"Development" means construction or installation of a
				  unit.
"Disposal" means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping,
				  spilling, leaking or placing of any waste into or on any land or water or into
				  any well so that such waste or any constituent thereof may enter the
				  environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any waters, including
				  groundwater. As used in this Part, "disposal" includes methods of storage or
				  treatment in which there is no certain plan to remove wastes or waste residues
				  from the storage or treatment unit to another unit for ultimate
				  disposal.
"Facility", as used in this Part, means the same thing as
				  "unit".
"Final volume of waste" means the last quantity of waste
				  received by the operator at the site. A quantity of waste is assumed to be the
				  final volume if the operator receives no additional waste within 30 days after
				  receiving that quantity, unless the operator demonstrates that the operator
				  expects additional waste. Waste arriving at the site for disposal in a manner
				  which is not controlled by the operator does not affect the determination of
				  when the final volume of waste was received by the operator.
"Groundwater" means water occurring in the zone of saturation
				  in any aquifer or soil.
"Hazardous waste" is as defined in 35 Ill. Adm. Code
				  721.
"Indefinite storage" means "treatment" or "storage" in such a
				  manner that a person would face technical difficulties or high costs in
				  removing the wastes or waste residues from the treatment or storage unit to a
				  disposal unit, so that it may become necessary to close the treatment or
				  storage unit as a disposal unit. A treatment or storage unit in which wastes or
				  waste residues remain for more than one year is assumed to be "indefinite
				  storage" unless the operator demonstrates that it will be technically feasible
				  and economically reasonable to remove the waste for ultimate disposal prior to
				  or upon closure.
"Leachate" means liquid containing materials removed from
				  solid waste.
"Lift" means an accumulation of refuse which is compacted
				  into a cell and over which compacted cover is placed.
"Modification" means any physical change, or change in the
				  method of operation, of a solid waste management unit. For purposes of permits
				  issued pursuant to this Part, the Agency may specify conditions under which a
				  solid waste management unit may be operated without causing a modification as
				  herein defined.
"Operator" means a person who conducts a waste treatment,
				  waste storage or waste disposal operation.
"Owner" means a person who has an interest, directly or
				  indirectly, in land, including a leasehold interest, on which a person conducts
				  a waste treatment, waste storage or waste disposal operation. The "owner" is
				  the "operator" if there is no other person who is conducting a waste treatment,
				  waste storage or waste disposal operation.
"Permeability" means the capability of a material to pass a
				  fluid.
"Professional Engineer" means an engineer registered to
				  practice engineering in the State of Illinois.
"Refuse" means waste.
"Salvaging" means the return of waste materials to beneficial
				  use.
"Scavenging" means the removal of materials from a solid
				  waste management unit in a manner not in conformity with the regulations
				  governing salvaging.
"Site" means any location, place or tract of land used for
				  waste management. A site may include one or more units.
"Solid waste" means waste.
"Solid waste management" means "waste management".
"Storage" means the containment of waste, either on a
				  temporary basis or for a period of years, in such a manner as not to constitute
				  disposal of such waste.
"Surface water" means all water the surface of which is
				  exposed to the atmosphere.
"Treatment" means any method, technique or process designed
				  to change the physical, chemical or biological character or composition of any
				  waste so as to neutralize such waste or so as to render such waste safer for
				  transport, amenable for storage or reduced in volume.
"Unit" means any device, mechanism, equipment or area used
				  for storage, treatment or disposal of waste.
"Vector" means any living agent, other than human, capable of
				  transmitting, directly or indirectly, an infectious disease.
"Waste" means any garbage, sludge from a waste treatment
				  plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility or other
				  discarded material, including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous
				  material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and agricultural
				  operations, or from community activities, but does not include solid or
				  dissolved materials in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in
				  irrigation return flows or industrial discharges which are point sources
				  subject to permits under 35 Ill. Adm. Code
				  309.102 or
				  source, special nuclear, or by-product materials as defined by the Atomic
				  Energy Act of 1954, as amended (
				  42 U.S.C.A.
				  2011 et seq.) or any solid or dissolved
				  material from any facility subject to the Federal Surface Mining Control and
				  Reclamation Act of 1977 ( P.L. 95-87 ) or the rules and regulations thereunder
				  (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983 ch. 961/2, par. 7901.01 et seq. and 62 Ill. Adm. Code
				  1700 through 1845) (Section 3 (11) of the Act).
"Waste management" means the process of storage, treatment or
				  disposal of waste, not including hauling or transport.
"Water table" means that surface in unconfined water at which
				  the pressure is atmospheric and is defined by the levels at which water stands
				  in wells that penetrate the water just far enough to hold standing
				  water.
"Working face" means any part of a sanitary landfill where
				  waste is being disposed.