Alabama Administrative Code › Title 335 - ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT › LAND DIVISION - SOLID WASTE PROGRAM › Chapter 335-13-16 - ORGANIZATION › Section 335-13-16-.02 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 9, June 28, 2024
For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms have the
				  meaning given below:
(1) "Agronomic
				Rate" means the land application of by-products at rates of application which
				provide the crop or forage growth with needed nutrients for optimum health and
				growth in accordance with acceptable industry technical standards and
				guidelines to ensure the protection of human health and the
				environment.
(2) "Beneficial Use"
				means the use of a by-product material as a soil amendment or fertilizer, where
				the by-product material replaces a natural or other resource material by its
				utilization.
(3) "Biosolids" are a
				solid, semi-solid or liquid residue generated during the treatment of domestic
				sewage in a treatment works. During this treatment process the domestic sewage
				is treated physically and chemically to produce this nutrient-containing
				product.
(4) "By-Product" means a
				material that is generated as a result of water or wastewater treatment or
				residual materials from industrial or manufacturing processes that, barring any
				form of alternate or beneficial use of that material, would otherwise be
				discarded at a landfill or other solid waste disposal facility.
(5) "Class A Biosolids" is a designation that
				meets U.S. EPA guidelines pursuant to
				40
				C.F.R. §
										503.32 for land
				application.
(6) "Class B
				Biosolids" is a designation for biosolids that meets U.S. EPA guidelines,
				pursuant to
				40
				C.F.R. §
										503.32, for land application,
				but does not meet the requirements for Class A Biosolids.
(7) "Distributor" means the person,
				organization, business, industry, agency, or institution who utilizes and/or
				resells by-product material for beneficial use.
(8) "Dry Short Ton" means 2,000 pounds (lbs)
				of material with 0% moisture content.
(9) "Feed Crops" means crops produced
				primarily for consumption by animals.
(10) "Fiber Crops" means crops such as flax
				and cotton.
(11) "Food Crops" means
				crops consumed by humans.
These include, but not limited to, fruits, vegetables, and
				  tobacco.
(12) "Food
				Processing Residuals" or "FPR" means by-product that is generated from food
				processing facilities and may include other materials with pathogen
				potential.
(13) "FPR Treatment"
				means the usage of biological, physical, chemical, and/or mechanical processes
				along with retention time to characteristically change FPR into Treated FPR
				Material.
(14) "FPR Treatment
				Facility" means the person, organization, business, industry, agency or
				institution that operates FPR treatment impoundments.
(15) "FPR Treatment Impoundment" is a surface
				feature certified in accordance with ADEM Admin. Code r.
				335-13-16-.08(54)
				capable of containing FPR materials for the storage and treatment of
				FPR.
(16) "Generator" means the
				person, organization, business, industry, agency or institution whose
				activities or business results in the initial generation of a by-product
				material to be used for beneficial use.
(17) "Mine-Land Recovery" means the use of
				biosolids at mine spoil areas which have been released from regulatory control
				by the Alabama Surface Mining Commission or the Alabama Department of Labor, as
				appropriate, in an effort to rehabilitate otherwise unusable land.
(18) "Multi-Owner Property" means contiguous
				parcels of land, which are owned by two (2) or more different individuals, and
				operated as a single farm.
(19)
				"Property Boundary" means the outer boundary of a property owner's contiguous
				property, which may consist of one or more parcels.
(20) "Residential End-User" means a person(s)
				who obtain(s) Class A Biosolids for use in lawns and gardens on their private
				residential properties.
(21)
				"Staging" means the transportation and positioning of by-product material
				immediately [within forty-eight (48) hours] preceding land
				application.
(22) "Storage" means
				the temporary [a period exceeding forty-eight (48) hours] holding of by-product
				material prior to land application activities when not immediately possible due
				to outside constraints.
(23)
				"Treated FPR Material" means FPR treated to the extent described in ADEM Admin.
				Code r. 335-13-16-.08 as the result of
				biological, physical, chemical, or mechanical processes and retention time in
				FPR treatment impoundment(s).
(24)
				"Yield Goal" means the expected production of the intended crop per acre in the
				given calendar year.
Authors:
S. Scott Story, Richard T.
					 Kelsey
Statutory Authority
:
Code of Ala.
					 1975
, §§
											22-27-9,
					 22-27-12.