Florida Administrative Code › 62 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 62 - Departmental › Chapter 62-640 - BIOSOLIDS › Section 62-640.200 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
Terms used in this chapter shall have the meaning specified
				  below. The meaning of any term not defined below may be taken from definitions
				  in other rules of the Department.
(1)
				"Aerosol" means suspension of ultramicroscopic solid or liquid particles in
				air.
(2) "Agricultural site" means
				a biosolids application site consisting of land on which a food crop, a feed
				crop, or a fiber crop is grown, forest land, or land on which turf or
				ornamental plants are grown. This includes range land and land used as
				pasture.
(3) "Application site"
				means a property (such as a farm, a ranch or a mining property) where biosolids
				or septage are applied to land. Application sites are identified as either
				agricultural sites or reclamation sites.
(4) "Application zone" means a parcel of land
				(e.g., a field) within an application site to which biosolids are
				applied.
(5) "Average daily flow
				(ADF)" means the total volume of wastewater flowing into a wastewater facility
				during some defined period of time, divided by the number of days in that
				period of time, expressed in units of million gallons per day (mgd).
(6) "Biosolids" means the solid, semisolid,
				or liquid residue generated during the treatment of domestic wastewater in a
				domestic wastewater treatment facility, formerly known as "domestic wastewater
				residuals" or "residuals." Not included is the treated effluent or reclaimed
				water from a domestic wastewater treatment plant. Also not included are solids
				removed from pump stations and lift stations, screenings and grit removed from
				the preliminary treatment components of domestic wastewater treatment
				facilities, other solids as defined in subsection
				 62-640.200(30),
				F.A.C., and ash generated during the incineration of biosolids. Biosolids
				include products and treated material from biosolids treatment facilities and
				septage management facilities regulated by the Department.
(7) "Biosolids management facility" means a
				biosolids treatment facility, a septage management facility regulated by the
				Department, or an application site.
(8) "Biosolids treatment facility" means a
				facility that treats biosolids from other facilities for the purpose of meeting
				the requirements of this chapter, before use or land application. Biosolids
				treatment facilities can also treat domestic septage and combinations of
				biosolids, domestic septage, food establishment sludges, wastes removed from
				portable toilets, and wastes removed from holding tanks associated with boats,
				marinas, and onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems, before use or land
				application.
(9) "Capacity Index"
				means a measure of the capacity of soil to store phosphorus which is determined
				using soil test Mehlich-3 extraction results for phosphorus, iron, and aluminum
				in the following equation (units for the capacity index (CI) and for soil test
				results are mg/kg).
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(10) "Class
				A biosolids" means biosolids that meet the Class A pathogen reduction
				requirements of paragraph
				 62-640.600(1)(a),
				F.A.C., the vector attraction reduction requirements of paragraph
				 62-640.600(2)(a),
				F.A.C., and the parameter concentrations of paragraph
				 62-640.700(5)(a),
				F.A.C.
(11) "Class AA biosolids"
				means biosolids that meet the Class AA pathogen reduction requirements of
				paragraph  62-640.600(1)(a),
				F.A.C., the vector attraction reduction requirements of paragraph
				 62-640.600(2)(b),
				F.A.C., and the parameter concentrations of paragraphs
				 62-640.700(5)(a) and
				(b), F.A.C.
(12) "Class B biosolids" means biosolids that
				meet the Class B pathogen reduction requirements of paragraph
				 62-640.600(1)(b),
				F.A.C., the vector attraction reduction requirements of paragraph
				 62-640.600(2)(a),
				F.A.C., and the parameter concentrations of paragraph
				 62-640.700(5)(a),
				F.A.C.
(13) "Composting facility"
				means a facility, as defined in subsection
				 62-640.200(19),
				F.A.C., that uses composting technology for treatment of biosolids. Processing
				can include physical turning, windrowing, aeration, or other mechanical
				handling of biosolids.
(14)
				"Delegated local program" means any county, municipality, or combination
				thereof that has established and administers a pollution control program
				approved by the Department in compliance with Section
				 403.182, F.S.
(15) "Department" means the Florida
				Department of Environmental Protection.
(16) "Design capacity" shall be as defined in
				Chapter 62-600, F.A.C. The design capacity for biosolids treatment facilities
				shall be expressed in units of dry tons per day.
(17) "Distribution and Marketing" is the
				giveaway or sale of biosolids meeting the criteria of Rule
				 62-640.850, F.A.C., or a product
				derived from such biosolids, either packaged or in bulk form, by owners or
				operators of treatment works or by a person who receives biosolids or biosolids
				products from treatment works.
(18)
				"Dry weight basis" means calculated on the basis of having been dried at 105
				degrees Celsius until reaching a constant mass (i.e., essentially 100 percent
				solids content).
(19) "Facility"
				means a domestic wastewater treatment facility, a biosolids management
				facility, or a septage management facility.
(20) "Feed crops" means crops produced
				primarily for consumption by animals.
(21) "Fertilizer" means a material regulated
				as a fertilizer under Chapter 576, F.S., and Chapter 5E-1, F.A.C.
(22) "Fiber crops" mean crops such as flax
				and cotton which are produced primarily for the manufacture of products and are
				not consumed by humans or animals.
(23) "Food crops" means crops consumed by
				humans.
(24) "Food establishment
				sludge" means oils, fats, greases, food scraps, and other grease interceptor
				contents generated by a food operation or institutional food preparation
				facility.
(25) "Incorporation"
				means the mixing of biosolids with topsoil by such means as discing, plowing,
				tilling, or equivalent means to reduce exposure to the biosolids.
(26) "Industrial sludges" means all sludges
				that are primarily composed of materials generated through an industrial
				process or from an industrial wastewater activity.
(27) "Injection" means the subsurface
				placement of liquid biosolids to reduce exposure to the biosolids.
(28) "Liquid biosolids" means any biosolids
				that are less than 12% solids by weight, or that are determined to contain free
				liquids as defined by Method 9095B (Paint Filter Liquids Test), November 2004,
				as described in "Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Wastes, Physical/Chemical
				Methods" (EPA Pub. No. SW-846), January 3, 2008, 73 FR 486, which is hereby
				adopted and incorporated by reference, and available at
http://www.flrules.org/Gateway/reference.asp?No=Ref-13249
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				and from the Wastewater Management Program, M.S. 3545, 2600 Blair Stone Road,
				Tallahassee, Florida 32399-2400.
(29) "Nutrient Management Plan" (NMP) means a
				site-specific plan, developed in accordance with Rule
				 62-640.500, F.A.C., establishing
				the rate at which all biosolids, soil amendments, and sources of nutrients can
				be applied to the land for crop production while minimizing the amount of
				pollutants and nutrients discharged to waters of the state.
(30) "Other solids" means material, primarily
				sand and inorganic matter, removed from domestic wastewater treatment processes
				during primary and secondary treatment. Not included are solids removed from
				pump stations and lift stations, solids from sewer line cleaning operations,
				and screenings and grit removed from the preliminary treatment components of
				domestic wastewater treatment facilities.
(31) "Pathogens" or "pathogenic organisms"
				means disease-causing organisms. These include certain bacteria, protozoa,
				viruses, and viable helminth ova and any other organisms that cause
				disease.
(32) "Permitted capacity"
				shall be as defined in Chapter 62-600, F.A.C. The permitted capacity for
				biosolids treatment facilities shall be expressed in units of dry tons per
				day.
(33) "Percent Water
				Extractable Phosphorus" (PWEP) means the percentage of phosphorus that is water
				extractable in a biosolids sample. PWEP is equal to the monitoring results of
				water extractable phosphorus (WEP) divided by total phosphorus (TP), with the
				values of WEP and TP in the same units, and multiplied by 100.
(34) "Person" is as defined in Section
				 403.031, F.S.
(35) "pH" means as defined in Rule
				 62-600.200, F.A.C., except for
				the purposes of Pathogen Reduction and Vector Attraction Reduction under Rule
				 62-640.600, F.A.C., for which
				"pH" means the logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration
				measured at 25 degrees Centigrade (i.e. Celsius) or measured at another
				temperature and then converted to an equivalent value at 25 degrees
				Centigrade.
(36) "pH of
				biosolids-soil mixture" means the pH value obtained by taking a core sample of
				soil to at least the depth of six inches or to the depth of biosolids placement
				if deeper than six inches.
(37)
				"Private drinking water supply well" means a well serving a private or
				multifamily water system as defined in Rule
				 62-532.200, F.A.C.
(38) "Public drinking water supply well"
				means a well serving a public water system as defined in Rule
				 62-550.200, F.A.C.
(39) "Reclaimed water" shall be as defined in
				Chapter 62-610, F.A.C.
(40)
				"Reclamation site" means a biosolids application site consisting of drastically
				disturbed land that is reclaimed using biosolids, such as strip mines and
				construction sites.
(41)
				"Restricted public access" means that access to a land application site by the
				general public is both controlled and infrequent. Restricted public access
				application sites are accessible to persons authorized by the site owner, site
				manager, or facility permittee, such as farm personnel, wastewater facility
				operators, and biosolids or septage haulers provided the authorized persons are
				informed by the site owner, site manager, or facility permittee regarding the
				nature of the application site. For informational purposes, the NIOSH manual
Guidance for Controlling Potential Risks to Workers Exposed to Class B
				Biosolids
, paragraph
				 62-640.210(1)(j),
				F.A.C., provides guidance regarding potential risks.
(42) "Seasonal high water" means the
				elevation to which the ground and surface water may be expected to rise due to
				a normal wet season.
(43) "Septage"
				means a mixture of sludge, fatty materials, human feces, and wastewater removed
				during pumping of an onsite sewage treatment and disposal system. Excluded from
				this definition are the contents of portable toilets, holding tanks, and grease
				interceptors.
(44) "Septage
				management facility" means a stationary facility that treats only domestic
				septage or combinations of domestic septage, food establishment sludges, wastes
				removed from portable toilets, and wastes removed from holding tanks associated
				with boats, marinas, and onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems, before
				use or land application.
(45) "Site
				manager" means the person who operates or manages the application site to
				ensure biosolids are applied in accordance with the requirements of this
				chapter.
(46) "Source facility"
				means a facility that sends biosolids to a biosolids treatment facility for
				treatment before use or land application.
(47) "Ton" means a short ton (2, 000 pounds
				or 0.90718 metric ton).
(48) "Toxic
				substances" means either of the following:
(a)
				Hazardous wastes as defined in Chapter 62-730, F.A.C.
(b) A substance which is present in
				sufficient concentration to pose a serious danger to the public health, safety,
				or welfare.