California Code of Regulations › Title 14 - Natural Resources › Division 7 - Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery › Chapter 7 - Special Waste Standards › Article 1.1 - Definitions › Section 18502 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) The following
				  definitions shall apply to the regulations contained in this chapter.
(1) "Act" means the Solid Waste Disposal Site
				  Hazard Reduction Act of 1989 (Statutes of 1989, chapter 1095).
(2) "Account" means the Solid Waste Disposal
				  Site Cleanup and Maintenance Account described in section
				  46800
				  of the Public Resources Code.
(3)
				  "Applicant" means a city, county or local agency applying for a grant
				  award.
(4) "Board" means the
				  California Integrated Waste Management Board.
(5) "DTSC" means the Department of Toxic
				  Substances Control.
(6) "Fiscal
				  Year" means the year commencing on the first day of July and ending on June 30
				  of each year.
(7) "Grant" means an
				  award of funds in either one of the following manners
(A) "Discretionary Grant" means an award of
				  funds to a city, county or local agency which is based on the evaluation and
				  selection of the applicant's proposed or implemented Household Waste Program
				  pursuant to section
				  18533.1 of article 2.2, and which
				  is subject to fund availability in the Account after all non-discretionary
				  grants have been awarded.
(B)
				  "Non-discretionary Grant" means an award of funds to a city, county or local
				  agency which has implemented a Household Hazardous Waste Program during the
				  fiscal year prior to the grant application; and which meets the specific
				  criteria for the non-discretionary award pursuant to section
				  18515 of article
				  2.1.
(8) "Grant
				  Agreement" means the written document, any amendment(s) and written change
				  orders thereto, which is signed by the Board or its designated representative
				  and the grant recipient and which defines the terms, provisions and conditions
				  governing the grant. The terms of the grant agreement shall be for a period
				  negotiated between the grant recipient and the Board.
(9) "Grant Recipient" means the city, county
				  or local agency which receives a grant award from the Board.
(10) "Grant Year" means that time period in
				  which the grant application submittal process, selection and award distribution
				  will occur. The time period will begin on the first day of July in one year and
				  end on June 30 of the next calendar year.
(11) "Hazardous Waste" (HW) means waste as
				  defined in section
				  40141
				  of the Public Resources Code and section
				  25117 Health and Safety Code: that
				  is, waste or combination of wastes, which because of its quantity,
				  concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may do
				  either of the following:
(A) Cause, or
				  significantly contribute to, an increase in mortality or an increase in serious
				  irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness.
(B) Pose a substantial present or potential
				  hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored,
				  transported, or disposed of, or otherwise managed.
(12) "Household Hazardous Waste" (HHW) means
				  waste materials determined by the Board, the Department of Toxic Substances
				  Control (DTSC), the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB), or the Air
				  Resources Board (ARB) to be:
(A) Of such a
				  nature that they must be listed as hazardous in state statutes and regulations;
				  or are
(B)
				  Toxic/ignitable/corrosive/reactive; and
(C) Carcinogenic/mutagenic/teratogenic; which
				  is discarded from householders as opposed to businesses.
(13) "HHW Program" means a program sponsored
				  by a city, county or local agency which results in the separation of HW and/or
				  HHW from the solid waste stream. An HHW Program may include, but is not limited
				  to, the following activities:
(A) Load
				  Checking Programs;
(B) Collection
				  Programs
1) Periodic
2) Permanent
3) Mobile Collection Program
4) Residential Pick-up
				  Service;
(C) Waste
				  Control and Enforcement Programs;
(D) Educational Programs; and/or
(E) Other program activities incorporating
				  reuse, reduction, or recycling of HW and HHW.
(14) "Jurisdiction" means a city, county, or
				  local agency with responsibility for waste management.
(15) "Load Checking Program" means a program
				  which provides for physical inspection and removal of hazardous wastes from the
				  incoming waste stream at any solid waste facility, as defined in section
				  40194
				  of the Public Resources Code.
(16)
				  "Local agency" means any public agency which is responsible for waste
				  management and which sponsors a program(s) to prevent the disposal of H and/or
				  HHW at a solid waste disposal facility.
(17) "Local Funding" means those monies
				  originating solely from a jurisdiction which are to be used or were used to
				  conduct a HHW collection program.
(18) "Mobile Collection Program" means two or
				  more permanent household hazardous waste collection sites utilizing at least
				  one transportable container for the sites and operated on an intermittent
				  schedule.
(19) "Periodic HHW
				  Collection Program" means a program in which a jurisdiction sponsors HHW
				  collection activities at least once a year with each collection event beginning
				  and ending within a one week period (seven days).
(20) "Permanent HHW Collection Program" means
				  a program in which a jurisdiction sponsors the maintenance of a permanent HHW
				  collection program at a specific site which is open to the public at least for
				  one day, or a portion of that day, each week.
(21) "Proposal" means that part of a
				  discretionary grant application from a jurisdiction specifying its intent to
				  establish or implement a HHW Program, commencing in the fiscal year following
				  the application period, which consists of a newly established program or
				  incorporates a new or added service or capability to an existing HHW
				  program.
(22) "Recycling
				  Activities" means those projects which divert hazardous materials from
				  non-hazardous solid waste landfills; and which utilize one or more of the
				  processes for collecting, sorting, cleansing, treating, and reconstituting
				  materials that would otherwise become solid waste, and returning them to the
				  economic mainstream in the form of raw material for new, reused, or
				  reconstituted products which meet the quality standards necessary to be used in
				  the market place. "Recycling" does not include transformation, as defined in
				  section
				  40201
				  of the Public Resources Code.
(23)
				  "Reduction" means to use only the required amount of a product which contains a
				  hazardous ingredient(s) for a specific task; and/or to use a product containing
				  a lesser amount of a hazardous ingredient(s) in comparison with other brands of
				  the same type of product.
(24)
				  "Regional" means any area which included two or more jurisdictions responsible
				  for waste management. This includes two or more cities, two or more counties,
				  or two or more local agencies, or the combination of a city (cities), a county
				  (counties) and/or local agency (agencies).
(25) "Residential Pick-up Service" means the
				  service sponsored by a city, county or local agency for the residents of a
				  community whereby HHW is picked up from each resident's home.
(26) "Reuse" means the use of a product
				  containing a hazardous ingredient after it is no longer needed by the person
				  who originally purchased and/or used the product.
(27) "Waste Control and Enforcement Programs"
				  means a program as provided in section
				  46400(b)
				  of the Public Resources Code.