Illinois Administrative Code › Title 35 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Part 720 - HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM: GENERAL › Subpart B - DEFINITIONS AND REFERENCES › Section 720.110 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
When used in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 720 through 728, 733, 738, and
				  739 only, the following terms have the meanings given below:
"Aboveground tank" means a device meeting the definition of
				  tank that is situated so that the entire surface area of the tank is completely
				  above the plane of the adjacent surrounding surface and the entire surface area
				  of the tank (including the tank bottom) can be visually inspected.
"Active life" of a facility means the period from the initial
				  receipt of hazardous waste at the facility until the Agency receives
				  certification of final closure.
"Active portion" means that portion of a facility where
				  treatment, storage, or disposal operations are being or have been conducted
				  after May 19, 1980, and that is not a closed portion. (See also "closed
				  portion".)
"Acute hazardous waste" means hazardous waste that meets the
				  listing criteria in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 721.111(a)(2) and therefore is either
				  listed in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 721.131 with the assigned hazard code of (H) or is
				  listed in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 721.133(e).
BOARD NOTE: These are USEPA hazardous waste numbers F020,
				  F021, F022, F023, F026, and F027, and all USEPA hazardous waste numbers having
				  the prefix "P".
"Administrator" means the Administrator of the United States
				  Environmental Protection Agency or the Administrator's designee.
"Aerosol can" means a non-refillable receptacle containing a
				  gas compressed, liquefied, or dissolved under pressure, the sole purpose of
				  which is to expel a liquid, paste, or powder, and fitted with a self-closing
				  release device allowing the gas to eject the contents.
"Agency" means the Illinois Environmental Protection
				  Agency.
"Airbag waste" means any hazardous waste airbag modules or
				  hazardous waste airbag inflators.
"Airbag waste collection facility" means any facility that
				  receives airbag waste from airbag handlers subject to regulation under 35 Ill.
				  Adm. Code 721.104(j) and that accumulates the waste for more than ten
				  days.
"Airbag waste handler" means any person, by site, that
				  generates airbag waste that is subject to regulation under 35 Ill. Adm. Code
				  721.104(j).
"Ancillary equipment" means any devices, like piping,
				  fittings, flanges, valves, and pumps, that are used to distribute, meter, or
				  control the flow of hazardous waste from its point of generation to storage or
				  treatment tanks, between hazardous waste storage and treatment tanks to a point
				  of disposal onsite, or to a point of shipment for disposal off-site.
"Aquifer" means a geologic formation, group of formations, or
				  part of a formation capable of yielding a significant amount of groundwater to
				  wells or springs.
"Authorized representative" means the person overall
				  responsible for operating a facility or an operational unit (i.e., part of a
				  facility), e.g., the plant manager, superintendent, or person of equivalent
				  responsibility.
"Battery" means a device that consists of one or more
				  electrically connected electrochemical cells that is designed to receive,
				  store, and deliver electric energy. An electrochemical cell is a system
				  consisting of an anode, cathode, and an electrolyte, plus those connections
				  (electrical and mechanical) that are needed to allow the cell to deliver or
				  receive electrical energy. The term battery also includes an intact, unbroken
				  battery from which the electrolyte has been removed.
"Board" means the Illinois Pollution Control Board.
"Boiler" means an enclosed device using controlled flame
				  combustion and having the following characteristics:
Boiler by physical characteristics:
The unit must have physical provisions for recovering and
				  exporting thermal energy in the form of steam, heated fluids, or heated gases;
				  and the unit's combustion chamber and primary energy recovery sections must be
				  of integral design. To be of integral design, the combustion chamber and the
				  primary energy recovery sections (like waterwalls and superheaters) must be
				  physically formed into one manufactured or assembled unit. A unit in which the
				  combustion chamber and the primary energy recovery sections are joined only by
				  ducts or connections carrying flue gas is not integrally designed; however,
				  secondary energy recovery equipment (like economizers or air preheaters) need
				  not be physically formed into the same unit as the combustion chamber and the
				  primary energy recovery section. The following units are not precluded from
				  being boilers solely because they are not of integral design: process heaters
				  (units that transfer energy directly to a process stream) and fluidized bed
				  combustion units; and
While in operation, the unit must maintain a thermal energy
				  recovery efficiency of at least 60 percent, calculated in terms of the
				  recovered energy compared with the thermal value of the fuel; and
The unit must export and utilize at least 75 percent of the
				  recovered energy, calculated on an annual basis. In this calculation, no credit
				  may be given for recovered heat used internally in the same unit. (Examples of
				  internal use are the preheating of fuel or combustion air, and the driving of
				  induced or forced draft fans or feedwater pumps.); or
Boiler by designation. The unit is one that the Board has
				  determined, on a case-by-case basis, to be a boiler, after considering the
				  standards in Section 720.132.
"Carbon dioxide stream" means carbon dioxide that has been
				  captured from an emission source (e.g., a power plant), plus incidental
				  associated substances derived from the source materials and the capture
				  process, and any substances added to the stream to enable or improve the
				  injection process.
"Carbon regeneration unit" means any enclosed thermal
				  treatment device used to regenerate spent activated carbon.
"Cathode ray tube" or "CRT" means a vacuum tube, composed
				  primarily of glass, which is the visual or video display component of an
				  electronic device. A "used, intact CRT" means a CRT whose vacuum has not been
				  released. A "used, broken CRT" means glass removed from its housing or casing
				  whose vacuum has been released.
"Central accumulation area" means any on-site area where
				  hazardous waste is accumulating in units subject to either 35 Ill. Adm. Code
				  722.116 (for an SQG) or 35 Ill. Adm. Code 722.117 (for an LQG). A central
				  accumulation area at an eligible academic entity that chooses to operate under
				  Subpart K of 35 Ill. Adm. Code 722 is also subject to 35 Ill. Adm. Code 722.311
				  when accumulating unwanted material or hazardous waste.
"Certification" means a statement of professional opinion
				  based upon knowledge and belief.
"Closed portion" means that portion of a facility that an
				  owner or operator has closed in compliance with the approved facility closure
				  plan and all applicable closure requirements. (See also "active
				  portion".)
"Component" means either the tank or ancillary equipment of a
				  tank system.
"Confined aquifer" means an aquifer bounded above and below
				  by impermeable beds or by beds of distinctly lower permeability than that of
				  the aquifer itself; an aquifer containing confined groundwater.
"Contained" means held in a unit (including a land-based
				  unit, as defined in this Section) that meets either of the following
				  containment situations:
Containment situation 1 (non-hazardous waste
				  containment):
The unit is in good condition, with no leaks or other
				  continuing or intermittent unpermitted releases of the hazardous secondary
				  materials to the environment, and is designed, as appropriate for the hazardous
				  secondary materials, to prevent unpermitted releases of hazardous secondary
				  materials to the environment.
"Unpermitted releases" are releases that are not covered by a
				  permit (e.g., a permit to discharge to water or air) and may include releases
				  through surface transport by precipitation run-off, releases to soil and
				  groundwater, windblown dust, fugitive air emissions, and catastrophic unit
				  failures;
The unit is properly labeled or otherwise has a system (like
				  a log) to immediately identify the hazardous secondary materials in the unit;
				  and
The unit holds hazardous secondary materials that are
				  compatible with other hazardous secondary materials placed in the unit, is
				  compatible with the materials used to construct the unit and addresses any
				  potential risks of fires or explosions.
Containment situation 2 (hazardous waste containment):
Hazardous secondary materials in units that meet the
				  applicable requirements of 35 Ill. Adm. Code 724 or 725 are presumptively
				  contained.
"Container" means any portable device in which a material is
				  stored, transported, treated, disposed of, or otherwise handled.
"Containment building" means a hazardous waste management
				  unit that is used to store or treat hazardous waste under the provisions of
				  Subpart DD of 35 Ill. Adm. Code 724 and Subpart DD of 35 Ill. Adm. Code
				  725.
"Contingency plan" means a document setting out an organized,
				  planned and coordinated course of action to be followed in case of a fire,
				  explosion, or release of hazardous waste or hazardous waste constituents that
				  could threaten human health or the environment.
"Corrosion expert" means a person who, by reason of knowledge
				  of the physical sciences and the principles of engineering and mathematics,
				  acquired by a professional education and related practical experience, is
				  qualified to engage in the practice of corrosion control on buried or submerged
				  metal piping systems and metal tanks. The person must be certified as being
				  qualified by the National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) or be a
				  registered professional engineer who has certification or licensing that
				  includes education and experience in corrosion control on buried or submerged
				  metal piping systems and metal tanks.
"CRT collector" means a person that receives used, intact
				  CRTs for recycling, repair, resale, or donation.
"CRT exporter" means any person in the United States that
				  initiates a transaction to send used CRTs outside the United States or its
				  territories for recycling or reuse, or any intermediary in the United States
				  arranging for the export.
"CRT glass manufacturer" means an operation or part of an
				  operation that uses a furnace to manufacture CRT glass.
"CRT processing" means conducting the following
				  activities:
Receiving broken or intact CRTs;
Intentionally breaking intact CRTs or further breaking or
				  separating broken CRTs; and
Sorting or otherwise managing glass removed from CRT
				  monitors.
"Designated facility" means either of the following
				  entities:
A hazardous waste treatment, storage, or disposal facility
				  that has been designated on the manifest by the generator, under 35 Ill. Adm.
				  Code 722.120, of which any of the following is true:
The facility has received a RCRA permit (or interim status)
				  under 35 Ill. Adm. Code 702, 703, and 705;
The facility has received a RCRA permit from USEPA under  40
				  CFR 124 and 270 ;
The facility has received a RCRA permit from a state
				  authorized by USEPA under  40 CFR 271 ; or
The facility is regulated under 35 Ill. Adm. Code
				  721.106(c)(2) or Subpart F of 35 Ill. Adm. Code 726; or
A generator site designated by the hazardous waste generator
				  on the manifest to receive back its own waste as a return shipment from a
				  designated hazardous waste treatment, storage, or disposal facility that has
				  rejected the waste according to 35 Ill. Adm. Code 724.172(f) or
				  725.172(f).
If a waste is destined to a facility in a state other than
				  Illinois that has been authorized by USEPA under  40 CFR 271, but that has not
				  yet obtained authorization to regulate that waste as hazardous, then the
				  designated facility must be a facility allowed by the receiving state to accept
				  the waste.
"Destination facility" means a facility that treats, disposes
				  of, or recycles a particular category of universal waste, except those
				  management activities described in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 733.113(a) and (c) and
				  733.133(a) and (c). A facility at which a particular category of universal
				  waste is only accumulated is not a destination facility for the purpose of
				  managing that category of universal waste.
"Dike" means an embankment or ridge of either natural or
				  manmade materials used to prevent the movement of liquids, sludges, solids, or
				  other materials.
"Dioxins and furans" means tetra-, penta-, hexa-, hepta-, and
				  octa-chlorinated dibenzodioxins and furans.
"Director" means the Director of the Illinois Environmental
				  Protection Agency.
"Discharge" or "hazardous waste discharge" means the
				  accidental or intentional spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting,
				  emptying, or dumping of hazardous waste into or on any land or water.
"Disposal" means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping,
				  spilling, leaking, or placing of any solid waste or hazardous waste into or on
				  any land or water so that the solid waste or hazardous waste or any of its
				  constituent may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged
				  into any waters, including groundwaters.
"Disposal facility" means a facility or part of a facility at
				  which hazardous waste is intentionally placed into or on any land or water and
				  at which waste will remain after closure. The term disposal facility does not
				  include a corrective action management unit (CAMU) into which remediation
				  wastes are placed.
"Drip pad" means an engineered structure consisting of a
				  curbed, free-draining base, constructed of non-earthen materials and designed
				  to convey preservative kick-back or drippage from treated wood, precipitation
				  and surface water run-on to an associated collection system at wood preserving
				  plants.
"Electronic import-export reporting compliance date" means
				  the date that USEPA will announce in the Federal Register, on or after which
				  exporters, importers, and receiving facilities will be required to submit
				  certain export and import related documents to USEPA using USEPA's Waste Import
				  Export Tracking System, or its successor system.
BOARD NOTE: A compliance date in Illinois regulations is
				  limited to a date certain on or after the Board has adopted the date by
				  rulemaking. Adoption by rulemaking of the electronic import-export reporting
				  compliance date can occur only after USEPA has made its announcement in the
				  Federal Register. Until the Board has incorporated a date certain by
				  rulemaking, the Board intends that no "electronic import-export reporting
				  compliance date" will apply in the context of the Illinois rules. The federal
				  electronic import-export reporting compliance date named by USEPA, however, may
				  apply as provided by federal law.
"Electronic manifest" or "e-Manifest" means the electronic
				  format of the hazardous waste manifest that is obtained from USEPA's national
				  e-Manifest System and transmitted electronically to the e-Manifest System, and
				  that is the legal equivalent of USEPA Forms 8700-22 (Manifest) and 8700-22A
				  (Continuation Sheet).
"Electronic Manifest System" or "e-Manifest System" means
				  USEPA's national information technology system through which the e-Manifest may
				  be obtained, completed, transmitted, and distributed to users of the e-Manifest
				  System and to regulatory agencies.
"Elementary neutralization unit" means a device that meets
				  the following:
It is used for neutralizing wastes that are hazardous only
				  because they exhibit the corrosivity characteristic defined in 35 Ill. Adm.
				  Code 721.122 or that are listed in Subpart D of 35 Ill. Adm. Code 721 only for
				  this reason; and
It meets the definition of tank, tank system, container,
				  transport vehicle, or vessel in this Section.
"EPA region" or "USEPA region" means the states and
				  territories found in any one of the following ten regions:
Region I: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts,
				  Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
Region II: New York, New Jersey, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,
				  and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Region III: Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia,
				  Virginia, and the District of Columbia.
Region IV: Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Mississippi,
				  Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida.
Region V: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana,
				  and Ohio.
Region VI: New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and
				  Texas.
Region VII: Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, and Iowa.
Region VIII: Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota,
				  Utah, and Colorado.
Region IX: California, Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii, Guam,
				  American Samoa, and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
Region X: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Alaska.
"Equivalent method" means any testing or analytical method
				  approved by the Board under Section 720.120.
"Existing hazardous waste management (HWM) facility" or
				  "existing facility" means a facility that was in operation or for which
				  construction commenced on or before November 19, 1980. A facility commenced
				  construction if the owner or operator obtained the federal, State, and local
				  approvals or permits necessary to begin physically constructing the facility
				  and either of the following occurred:
A continuous on-site, physical construction program began;
				  or
The owner or operator entered contractual obligations that
				  could not be canceled or modified without substantial loss for physically
				  constructing the facility to be completed within a reasonable time.
"Existing portion" means that land surface area of an
				  existing waste management unit, included in the original RCRA Part A permit
				  application, on which wastes have been placed prior to the issuance of a
				  permit.
"Existing tank system" or "existing component" means a tank
				  system or component that is used for the storage or treatment of hazardous
				  waste and that was in operation, or for which installation was commenced, on or
				  prior to July 14, 1986. Installation will be considered to have commenced if
				  the owner or operator has obtained all federal, State, and local approvals or
				  permits necessary to begin physically constructing the site or installing the
				  tank system and if either of the following is met:
A continuous on-site physical construction or installation
				  program has begun; or
The owner or operator entered contractual obligations that
				  cannot be canceled or modified without substantial loss for physically
				  constructing the site or installing the tank system to be completed within a
				  reasonable time.
"Explosives or munitions emergency" means a situation
				  involving the suspected or detected presence of unexploded ordnance (UXO),
				  damaged or deteriorated explosives or munitions, an improvised explosive device
				  (IED), other potentially explosive material or device, or other potentially
				  harmful military chemical munitions or device, that creates an actual or
				  potential imminent threat to human health, including safety, or the
				  environment, including property, as determined by an explosives or munitions
				  emergency response specialist. These situations may require immediate and
				  expeditious action by an explosives or munitions emergency response specialist
				  to control, mitigate, or eliminate the threat.
"Explosives or munitions emergency response" means all
				  immediate response activities by an explosives and munitions emergency response
				  specialist to control, mitigate, or eliminate the actual or potential threat
				  encountered during an explosives or munitions emergency. An explosives or
				  munitions emergency response may include in-place render-safe procedures,
				  treatment, or destruction of the explosives or munitions or transporting those
				  items to another location to be rendered safe, treated, or destroyed. Any
				  reasonable delay in completing an explosives or munitions emergency response
				  caused by a necessary, unforeseen, or uncontrollable circumstance will not
				  terminate the explosives or munitions emergency. Explosives and munitions
				  emergency responses can occur on either public or private lands and are not
				  limited to responses at RCRA facilities.
"Explosives or munitions emergency response specialist" means
				  an individual trained in chemical or conventional munitions or explosives
				  handling, transportation, render-safe procedures, or destruction techniques.
				  Explosives or munitions emergency response specialists include United States
				  Department of Defense (USDOD) emergency explosive ordnance disposal (EOD),
				  technical escort unit (TEU), and USDOD-certified civilian or contractor
				  personnel and other federal, State, or local government or civilian personnel
				  who are similarly trained in explosives or munitions emergency
				  responses.
"Facility" means the following:
All contiguous land and structures, other appurtenances, and
				  improvements on the land used for treating, storing, or disposing of hazardous
				  waste or for managing hazardous secondary materials prior to reclamation. A
				  facility may comprise several treatment, storage, or disposal operational units
				  (e.g., one or more landfills, surface impoundments, or combinations of
				  them).
For implementing corrective action under 35 Ill. Adm. Code
				  724.201 or 35 Ill. Adm. Code 727.201, all contiguous property under the control
				  of the owner or operator seeking a permit under Subtitle C of RCRA. This
				  definition also applies to facilities implementing corrective action under RCRA
				  section 3008(h).
Despite the immediately-preceding paragraph of this
				  definition, a remediation waste management site is not a facility that is
				  subject to 35 Ill. Adm. Code 724.201, but a facility that is subject to
				  corrective action requirements if the site is located within the
				  facility.
"Federal agency" means any department, agency, or other
				  instrumentality of the federal government, any independent agency or
				  establishment of the federal government, including any government corporation
				  and the Government Printing Office.
"Federal, State, and local approvals or permits necessary to
				  begin physically constructing " means permits and approvals required under
				  federal, State, or local hazardous waste control statutes, regulations, or
				  ordinances.
"Final closure" means the closure of all hazardous waste
				  management units at the facility in accordance with all applicable closure
				  requirements so that hazardous waste management activities under 35 Ill. Adm.
				  Code 724 and 725 are no longer conducted at the facility unless subject to the
				  provisions of 35 Ill. Adm. Code 722.116.
"Food-chain crops" means tobacco, crops grown for human
				  consumption, and crops grown for feed for animals whose products are consumed
				  by humans.
"Freeboard" means the vertical distance between the top of a
				  tank or surface impoundment dike and the surface of the waste contained
				  therein.
"Free liquids" means liquids that readily separate from the
				  solid portion of a waste under ambient temperature and pressure.
"Generator" means any person, by site, whose act or process
				  produces hazardous waste identified or listed in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 721 or whose
				  act first causes a hazardous waste to become subject to regulation.
"Groundwater" means water below the land surface in a zone of
				  saturation.
"Hazardous secondary material" means a secondary material
				  (e.g., spent material, by-product, or sludge) that, when discarded, would be
				  identified as hazardous waste under 35 Ill. Adm. Code 721.
"Hazardous secondary material generator" means any person
				  whose act or process produces hazardous secondary materials at the generating
				  facility. For this definition, "generating facility" means all contiguous
				  property owned, leased, or otherwise controlled by the hazardous secondary
				  material generator. For Sections 721.102(a)(2)(B) and 721.104(a)(23), a
				  facility that collects hazardous secondary materials from other persons is not
				  the hazardous secondary material generator.
"Hazardous waste" means a hazardous waste as defined in 35
				  Ill. Adm. Code 721.103.
"Hazardous waste constituent" means a constituent that caused
				  the hazardous waste to be listed in Subpart D of 35 Ill. Adm. Code 721, or a
				  constituent listed in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 721.124.
"Hazardous waste management unit" is a contiguous area of
				  land on or in which hazardous waste is placed, or the largest area in which
				  there is significant likelihood of mixing hazardous waste constituents in the
				  same area. Examples of hazardous waste management units include a surface
				  impoundment, a waste pile, a land treatment area, a landfill cell, an
				  incinerator, a tank and its associated piping and underlying containment
				  system, and a container storage area. A container alone does not constitute a
				  unit; the unit includes containers, and the land or pad upon which they are
				  placed.
"Incinerator" means any enclosed device that:
Uses controlled flame combustion, and the device:
Does not meet the criteria for classification as a boiler,
				  sludge dryer, or carbon regeneration unit, nor
Is not listed as an industrial furnace; or
Meets the definition of infrared incinerator or plasma arc
				  incinerator.
"Incompatible waste" means a hazardous waste that is
				  unsuitable for the following:
Placement in a particular device or facility because it may
				  cause corrosion or decay of containment materials (e.g., container inner liners
				  or tank walls); or
Commingling with another waste or material under uncontrolled
				  conditions because the commingling might produce heat or pressure, fire, or
				  explosion, violent reaction, toxic dusts, mists, fumes or gases, or flammable
				  fumes or gases.
(See Appendix E to 35 Ill. Adm. Code 724 and Appendix E to 35
				  Ill. Adm. Code 725 for references that list examples.)
"Individual generator site" means the contiguous site at or
				  on which one or more hazardous wastes are generated. An individual generator
				  site, like a large manufacturing plant, may have one or more sources of
				  hazardous waste but is considered a single or individual generator site if the
				  site or property is contiguous.
"Industrial furnace" means any of the following enclosed
				  devices that are integral components of manufacturing processes and that use
				  thermal treatment to accomplish recovery of materials or energy:
Cement kilns;
Lime kilns;
Aggregate kilns;
Phosphate kilns;
Coke ovens;
Blast furnaces;
Smelting, melting, and refining furnaces (including
				  pyrometallurgical devices like cupolas, reverberator furnaces, sintering
				  machines, roasters, and foundry furnaces);
Titanium dioxide chloride process oxidation reactors;
Methane reforming furnaces;
Pulping liquor recovery furnaces;
Combustion devices used in the recovery of sulfur values from
				  spent sulfuric acid;
Halogen acid furnaces (HAFs) for producing acid from
				  halogenated hazardous waste generated by chemical production facilities where
				  the furnace is located on the site of a chemical production facility, the acid
				  product has a halogen acid content of at least three percent, the acid product
				  is used in a manufacturing process, and, except for hazardous waste burned as
				  fuel, hazardous waste fed to the furnace has a minimum halogen content of 20
				  percent, as generated; and
Any other device that the Agency determines to be an
				  industrial furnace based on one or more of the following factors:
The design and use of the device primarily to accomplish
				  recovery of material products;
The use of the device to burn or reduce raw materials to make
				  a material product;
The use of the device to burn or reduce secondary materials
				  as effective substitutes for raw materials, in processes using raw materials as
				  principal feedstocks;
The use of the device to burn or reduce secondary materials
				  as ingredients in an industrial process to make a material product;
The use of the device in common industrial practice to
				  produce a material product; and
Other relevant factors.
"Infrared incinerator" means any enclosed device that uses
				  electric powered resistance heaters as a source of radiant heat followed by an
				  afterburner using controlled flame combustion and that is not listed as an
				  industrial furnace.
"Inground tank" means a device meeting the definition of tank
				  with any portion of the tank wall situated within the ground, so that the
				  ground prevents visually inspecting that external surface area of the
				  tank.
"In operation" refers to a facility that is treating,
				  storing, or disposing of hazardous waste.
"Injection well" means a well into which fluids are being
				  injected. (See also "underground injection".)
"Inner liner" means a continuous layer of material placed
				  inside a tank or container that protects the construction materials of the tank
				  or container from the contained waste or reagents used to treat the
				  waste.
"Installation inspector" means a person who, by reason of
				  knowledge of the physical sciences and the principles of engineering, acquired
				  by a professional education and related practical experience, is qualified to
				  supervise installing tank systems.
"Intermediate facility" means any facility that stores
				  hazardous secondary materials for more than ten days and that is neither a
				  hazardous secondary material generator nor a reclaimer of hazardous secondary
				  material.
"International shipment" means transporting hazardous waste
				  into or out of the jurisdiction of the United States.
"Lamp" or "universal waste lamp" means the bulb or tube
				  portion of an electric lighting device. A lamp is specifically designed to
				  produce radiant energy, most often in the ultraviolet, visible, or infrared
				  regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Examples of common universal waste
				  lamps include fluorescent, high intensity discharge, neon, mercury vapor,
				  high-pressure sodium, and metal halide lamps.
"Land-based unit" means an area where hazardous secondary
				  materials are placed in or on the land before recycling. This definition does
				  not include land-based production units.
"Land treatment facility" means a facility or part of a
				  facility at which hazardous waste is applied onto or incorporated into the soil
				  surface; these facilities are disposal facilities if the waste will remain
				  after closure.
"Landfill" means a disposal facility or part of a facility
				  where hazardous waste is placed in or on land and that is not a pile, a land
				  treatment facility, a surface impoundment, an underground injection well, a
				  salt dome formation, a salt bed formation, an underground mine, a cave, or a
				  corrective action management unit (CAMU).
"Landfill cell" means a discrete volume of a hazardous waste
				  landfill that uses a liner to isolate wastes from adjacent cells or wastes.
				  Examples of landfill cells are trenches and pits.
"Large quantity generator" or "LQG" means a generator that
				  generates any of the following amounts of material in a calendar month:
Greater than or equal to 1,000 kg (2,200 lbs) of non-acute
				  hazardous waste;
Greater than 1 kg (2.2 lbs) of acute hazardous waste listed
				  in 35 Ill Adm. Code 721.131 or 721.133(e); or
Greater than 100 kg (220 lbs) of any residue or contaminated
				  soil, water, or other debris resulting from the cleanup of a spill, into or on
				  any land or water, of any acute hazardous waste listed in 35 Ill Adm. Code
				  721.131 or 721.133(e).
"LDS" means leak detection system.
"Leachate" means any liquid, including any suspended
				  components in the liquid, that has percolated through or drained from hazardous
				  waste.
"Liner" means a continuous layer of natural or manmade
				  materials beneath or on the sides of a surface impoundment, landfill, or
				  landfill cell that restricts the downward or lateral escape of hazardous waste,
				  hazardous waste constituents, or leachate.
"Leak-detection system" means a system capable of detecting
				  the failure of either the primary or secondary containment structure or the
				  presence of a release of hazardous waste or accumulated liquid in the secondary
				  containment structure. The system must employ operational controls (e.g., daily
				  visual inspections for releases into the secondary containment system of
				  aboveground tanks) or comprise an interstitial monitoring device designed to
				  detect continuously and automatically the failure of the primary or secondary
				  containment structure or the presence of a release of hazardous waste into the
				  secondary containment structure.
"Management" or "hazardous waste management" means the
				  systematic control of the collection, source separation, storage,
				  transportation, processing, treatment, recovery, and disposal of hazardous
				  waste.
"Manifest" means the shipping document USEPA Form 8700-22
				  (including, if necessary, USEPA Form 8700-22A), or the e-Manifest, originated
				  and signed in accordance with the applicable requirements of 35 Ill. Adm. Code
				  722 through 727.
"Manifest tracking number" means the alphanumeric
				  identification number (i.e., a unique three letter suffix preceded by nine
				  numerical digits) that is pre-printed in Item 4 of the manifest by a registered
				  source.
"Mercury-containing equipment" means a device or part of a
				  device (including thermostats but excluding batteries and lamps) that contains
				  elemental mercury integral to its function.
"Military munitions" means all ammunition products and
				  components produced or used by or for the United States Department of Defense
				  or the United States Armed Services for national defense and security,
				  including military munitions under the control of the United States Department
				  of Defense (USDOD), the United States Coast Guard, the United States Department
				  of Energy (USDOE), and National Guard personnel. The term military munitions
				  includes: confined gaseous, liquid, and solid propellants, explosives,
				  pyrotechnics, chemical and riot control agents, smokes, and incendiaries used
				  by USDOD components, including bulk explosives and chemical warfare agents,
				  chemical munitions, rockets, guided and ballistic missiles, bombs, warheads,
				  mortar rounds, artillery ammunition, small arms ammunition, grenades, mines,
				  torpedoes, depth charges, cluster munitions and dispensers, demolition charges,
				  and devices and components of these items and devices. Military munitions do
				  not include wholly inert items, improvised explosive devices, and nuclear
				  weapons, nuclear devices, and nuclear components of these items and devices.
				  However, the term does include non-nuclear components of nuclear devices,
				  managed under USDOE's nuclear weapons program after all sanitization operations
				  required under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2014  et seq.), as
				  amended, have been completed.
"Mining overburden returned to the mine site" means any
				  material overlying an economic mineral deposit that is removed to gain access
				  to that deposit and is then used for reclaiming a surface mine.
"Miscellaneous unit" means a hazardous waste management unit
				  where hazardous waste is treated, stored, or disposed of and that is not a
				  container; tank; surface impoundment; pile; land treatment unit; landfill;
				  incinerator; boiler; industrial furnace; underground injection well with
				  appropriate technical standards under 35 Ill. Adm. Code 730; containment
				  building; corrective action management unit (CAMU); unit eligible for a
				  research, development, and demonstration permit under 35 Ill. Adm. Code
				  703.231; or staging pile.
"Movement" means hazardous waste that is transported to a
				  facility in an individual vehicle.
"NAICS Code" means the code number assigned a facility using
				  the "North American Industry Classification System", incorporated by reference
				  in Section 720.111.
"New hazardous waste management facility", "new HWM
				  facility", or "new facility" means a facility that began operation, or for
				  which construction commenced after November 19, 1980. (See also "Existing
				  hazardous waste management facility".)
"New tank system" or "new tank component" means a tank system
				  or component that will be used for the storage or treatment of hazardous waste
				  and for which installation commenced after July 14, 1986; except for 35 Ill.
				  Adm. Code 724.293(g)(2) and 725.293(g)(2), a new tank system is one for which
				  construction commenced after July 14, 1986. (See also "existing tank
				  system".)
"No free liquids",as used in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 721.104(a)(26)
				  and (b)(18), means that solvent-contaminated wipes may not contain free
				  liquids, as determined by Method 9095B (Paint Filter Liquids Test), included in
				  "Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Waste, Physical/Chemical Methods",
				  incorporated by reference in Section 720.111, and that there is no free liquid
				  in the container holding the wipes. No free liquids may also be determined
				  using another standard or test method that the Agency has determined by permit
				  condition is equivalent to Method 9095B.
"Non-acute hazardous waste" means hazardous waste that is not
				  acute hazardous waste, as defined in this Section.
"On-ground tank" means a device meeting the definition of
				  tank whose bottom is situated on the same level as the adjacent surrounding
				  surfaces so that visually inspecting the external tank bottom is not
				  possible.
"On-site" means the same or geographically contiguous
				  property that may be divided by public or private right-of-way, provided the
				  entrance and exit between the properties is at a crossroads intersection and
				  access is by crossing as opposed to going along the right-of-way.
				  Non-contiguous properties owned by the same person but connected by a
				  right-of-way that the owner controls and to which the public does not have
				  access is also considered on-site property.
"Open burning" means combusting any material without the
				  following characteristics:
Controlling combustion air to maintain adequate temperature
				  for efficient combustion;
Containing the combustion reaction in an enclosed device to
				  provide sufficient residence time and mixing for complete combustion;
				  and
Controlling emission of the gaseous combustion
				  products.
(See also "incineration" and "thermal treatment".)
"Operator" means the person responsible for the overall
				  operating of a facility.
"Owner" means the person that owns a facility or part of a
				  facility.
"Partial closure" means the closure of a hazardous waste
				  management unit in compliance with the applicable closure requirements of 35
				  Ill. Adm. Code 724 or 725 at a facility that contains other active hazardous
				  waste management units. For example, partial closure may include the closure of
				  a tank (including its associated piping and underlying containment systems),
				  landfill cell, surface impoundment, waste pile, or other hazardous waste
				  management unit, while other units of the same facility continue to
				  operate.
"Person" means an individual, trust, firm, joint stock
				  company, federal agency, corporation (including a government corporation),
				  partnership, association, state, municipality, commission, political
				  subdivision of a state, or any interstate body.
"Personnel" or "facility personnel" means all persons who
				  work at or oversee the operations of a hazardous waste facility and whose
				  actions or failure to act may result in not complying with 35 Ill. Adm. Code
				  724 or 725.
"Pesticide" means any substance or mixture of substances
				  intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest or
				  intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant, other than any
				  article that fulfills one of the following descriptions:
It is a new animal drug under section 201(v) of the Federal
				  Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA;  21 U.S.C. 321(v)), incorporated by
				  reference in Section 720.111(c);
It is an animal drug that has been determined by regulation
				  of the federal Secretary of Health and Human Services under FFDCA section 512
				  (21 U.S.C. 360b), incorporated by reference in Section 720.111(c), to be an
				  exempted new animal drug; or
It is an animal feed under FFDCA section 201(w) (21 U.S.C. 321(w)), incorporated by reference in Section 720.111(c), that bears or
				  contains any substances described in either of the two preceding paragraphs of
				  this definition.
BOARD NOTE: The second exception of corresponding  40 CFR 260.10  reads as follows: "Is an animal drug that has been determined by
				  regulation of the Secretary of Health and Human Services not to be a new animal
				  drug". This is very similar to the language of section 2(u) of the Federal
				  Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA;  7 U.S.C. 136(u)). The three
				  exceptions, taken together, appear intended not to include as pesticide any
				  material within the scope of federal Food and Drug Administration regulation.
				  The Board codified this provision with the intent of retaining the same meaning
				  as its federal counterpart while adding the definiteness required under
				  Illinois law.
"Physical construction" or "physically constructing" (RCRA)
				  means excavating, moving earth, erecting forms or structures, or similar
				  activity to prepare an HWM facility for accepting hazardous waste.
"Pile" means any non-containerized accumulation of solid,
				  non-flowing hazardous waste that is used for treatment or storage, and that is
				  not a containment building.
"Plasma arc incinerator" means any enclosed device that uses
				  a high intensity electrical discharge or arc as a source of heat followed by an
				  afterburner using controlled flame combustion and that is not listed as an
				  industrial furnace.
"Point source" means any discernible, confined, and discrete
				  conveyance, including any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete
				  fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal feeding operation, or
				  vessel or other floating craft from which pollutants are or may be discharged.
				  This term does not include return flows from irrigated agriculture.
"Publicly owned treatment works" or "POTW" is as defined in
				  35 Ill. Adm. Code 310.110.
"Qualified groundwater scientist" means a scientist or
				  engineer who has received a baccalaureate or postgraduate degree in the natural
				  sciences or engineering and has sufficient training and experience in
				  groundwater hydrology and related fields, as demonstrated by state
				  registration, professional certification, or completing accredited university
				  courses that enable the individual to make sound professional judgments
				  regarding groundwater monitoring and contaminant rate and transport.
BOARD NOTE: State registration includes registration as a
				  professional engineer with the Department of Professional Regulation under 225
				  ILCS 325 and 68 Ill. Adm. Code 1380. Professional certification includes
				  certification under the certified groundwater professional program of the
				  National Ground Water Association.
"RCRA" means the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended by the
				  Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, as amended (42 U.S.C. 6901  et
				  seq.).
"RCRA standardized permit" means a RCRA permit issued under
				  Subpart J of 35 Ill. Adm. Code 703 and Subpart G of 35 Ill. Adm. Code 702 that
				  authorizes management of hazardous waste. The RCRA standardized permit may have
				  two parts: a uniform portion issued in all cases and a supplemental portion
				  issued at the discretion of the Agency.
"Recognized trader" means a person domiciled in the United
				  States, by site of business, who acts to arrange and facilitate transboundary
				  movements of wastes destined for recovery or disposal operations, either by
				  purchasing from and subsequently selling to United States and foreign
				  facilities, or by acting under arrangements with a United States waste facility
				  to arrange for the export or import of the wastes.
"Regional Administrator" means the Regional Administrator for
				  the USEPA region in which the facility is located or the Regional
				  Administrator's designee.
"Remanufacturing" means processing a higher-value hazardous
				  secondary material to manufacture a product that serves a similar functional
				  purpose as the original commercial-grade material. For this definition, a
				  hazardous secondary material is considered higher-value if it was generated
				  from the use of a commercial-grade material in a manufacturing process and can
				  be remanufactured into a similar commercial-grade material.
"Remediation waste" means all solid and hazardous wastes, and
				  all media (including groundwater, surface water, soils, and sediments) and
				  debris that are managed for implementing cleanup.
"Remediation waste management site" means a facility where an
				  owner or operator is or will be treating, storing, or disposing of hazardous
				  remediation wastes. A remediation waste management site is not a facility that
				  is subject to corrective action under 35 Ill. Adm. Code 724.201, but a
				  remediation waste management site is subject to corrective action requirements
				  if the site is in a facility that is subject to corrective action under 35 Ill.
				  Adm. Code 724.201.
"Replacement unit" means a landfill, surface impoundment, or
				  waste pile unit from which substantially all waste is removed, and that is
				  subsequently reused to treat, store, or dispose of hazardous waste. Replacement
				  unit does not include a unit from which waste is removed during closure, if the
				  subsequent reuse solely involves the disposal of waste from that unit and other
				  closing units or corrective action areas at the facility, in accordance with a
				  closure or corrective action plan approved by USEPA or the Agency.
"Representative sample" means a sample of a universe or whole
				  (e.g., waste pile, lagoon, groundwater) that can be expected to exhibit the
				  average properties of the universe or whole.
"Run-off" means any rainwater, leachate, or other liquid that
				  drains over land from any part of a facility.
"Run-on" means any rainwater, leachate, or other liquid that
				  drains over land onto any part of a facility.
"Saturated zone" or "zone of saturation" means that part of
				  the earth's crust in which all voids are filled with water.
"SIC code" means "Standard Industrial Classification code",
				  as assigned to a site by the United States Department of Transportation,
				  Federal Highway Administration, based on the particular activities that occur
				  on the site, as provided in "Standard Industrial Classification Manual",
				  incorporated by reference in Section 720.111(a).
"Sludge" means any solid, semi-solid, or liquid waste
				  generated from a municipal, commercial, or industrial wastewater treatment
				  plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility,
				  exclusive of the treated effluent from a wastewater treatment plant.
"Sludge dryer" means any enclosed thermal treatment device
				  that is used to dehydrate sludge and that has a total thermal input, excluding
				  the heating value of the sludge itself, of 2,500 Btu/lb or less of sludge
				  treated on a wet-weight basis.
"Small quantity generator" or "SQG" means a generator that
				  generates the following amounts of material in a calendar month:
Greater than 100 kg (220 lbs) but less than 1,000 kilograms
				  (2,200 lbs) of non-acute hazardous waste;
Less than or equal to 1 kg (2.2 lbs) of acute hazardous waste
				  listed in 35 Ill Adm. Code 721.131 or 721.133(e); and
Less than or equal to 100 kg (220 lbs) of any residue or
				  contaminated soil, water, or other debris resulting from the cleanup of a
				  spill, into or on any land or water, of any acute hazardous waste listed in 35
				  Ill Adm. Code 721.131 or 721.133(e).
"Solid waste" means a solid waste as defined in 35 Ill. Adm.
				  Code 721.102.
"Solvent-contaminated wipe" means the following:
A wipe that, after use or after cleaning up a spill, fulfills
				  one or more of the following conditions:
The wipe contains one or more of the F001 through F005
				  solvents listed in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 721.131 or the corresponding P- or
				  U-listed solvents found in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 721.133;
The wipe exhibits a hazardous characteristic found in Subpart
				  C of 35 Ill. Adm. Code 721 when that characteristic results from a solvent
				  listed in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 721; or
The wipe exhibits only the hazardous waste characteristic of
				  ignitability found in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 721.121 due to the presence of one or
				  more solvents that are not listed in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 721.
Solvent-contaminated wipes that contain listed hazardous
				  waste other than solvents, or exhibit the characteristic of toxicity,
				  corrosivity, or reactivity due to contaminants other than solvents, are not
				  eligible for the exclusions at 35 Ill. Adm. Code 721.104(a)(26) and
				  (b)(18).
"Sorbent" means a material that is used to soak up free
				  liquids by either adsorption or absorption, or both. "Sorb" means to either
				  adsorb or absorb, or both.
"Staging pile" means an accumulation of solid, non-flowing
				  "remediation waste" (as defined in this Section) that is not a containment
				  building and that is used only during remedial operations for temporary storage
				  at a facility. Staging piles must be designated by the Agency according to 35
				  Ill. Adm. Code 724.654.
"State" means any of the several states, the District of
				  Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American
				  Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
"Storage" means the holding of hazardous waste for a
				  temporary period, at the end of which the hazardous waste is treated, disposed
				  of, or stored elsewhere.
"Sump" means any pit or reservoir that meets the definition
				  of tank and those troughs or trenches connected to it that serve to collect
				  hazardous waste for transport to hazardous waste storage, treatment, or
				  disposal facilities; except that, as used in the landfill, surface impoundment,
				  and waste pile rules, sump means any lined pit or reservoir that serves to
				  collect liquids drained from a leachate collection and removal system or leak
				  detection system for subsequent removal from the system.
"Surface impoundment" or "impoundment" means a facility or
				  part of a facility that is a natural topographic depression, manmade
				  excavation, or diked area formed primarily of earthen materials (although it
				  may be lined with manmade materials) that is designed to hold an accumulation
				  of liquid wastes or wastes containing free liquids and that is not an injection
				  well. Examples of surface impoundments are holding, storage, settling and
				  aeration pits, ponds, and lagoons.
"Tank" means a stationary device, designed to contain an
				  accumulation of hazardous waste that is constructed primarily of non-earthen
				  materials (e.g., wood, concrete, steel, plastic) that provide structural
				  support.
"Tank system" means a hazardous waste storage or treatment
				  tank and its associated ancillary equipment and containment system.
"TEQ" means toxicity equivalence, the international method of
				  relating the toxicity of various dioxin and furan congeners to the toxicity of
				  2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin.
"Thermal treatment" means the treatment of hazardous waste in
				  a device that uses elevated temperatures as the primary means to change the
				  chemical, physical, or biological character or composition of the hazardous
				  waste. Examples of thermal treatment processes are incineration, molten salt,
				  pyrolysis, calcination, wet air oxidation, and microwave discharge. (See also
				  "incinerator" and "open burning".)
"Thermostat" means a temperature control device that contains
				  metallic mercury in an ampule attached to a bimetal sensing element and
				  mercury-containing ampules that have been removed from the temperature control
				  device complying with 35 Ill. Adm. Code 733.113(c)(2) or 733.133(c)(2).
"Totally enclosed treatment facility" means a facility for
				  the treatment of hazardous waste that is directly connected to an industrial
				  production process and that is constructed and operated in a manner that
				  prevents the release of any hazardous waste or any constituent thereof into the
				  environment during treatment. An example is a pipe in which waste acid is
				  neutralized.
"Transfer facility" means any transportation-related
				  facility, including loading docks, parking areas, storage areas, and other
				  similar areas where shipments of hazardous waste or hazardous secondary
				  materials are held during the normal course of transportation.
"Transport vehicle" means a motor vehicle or rail car used
				  for transporting cargo by any mode. Each cargo-carrying body (trailer, railroad
				  freight car, etc.) is a separate transport vehicle.
"Transportation" means the movement of hazardous waste by
				  air, rail, highway, or water.
"Transporter" means a person engaged in transporting
				  hazardous waste off-site by air, rail, highway, or water.
"Treatability study" means the following:
A study in which a hazardous waste is subjected to a
				  treatment process to determine the following:
Whether the waste is amenable to the treatment
				  process;
What pretreatment (if any) is required;
The optimal process conditions needed to achieve the desired
				  treatment;
The efficiency of a treatment process for a specific waste or
				  wastes; and
The characteristics and volumes of residuals from a
				  particular treatment process;
Also included in this definition for 35 Ill. Adm. Code
				  721.104(e) and (f) exemptions are liner compatibility, corrosion and other
				  material compatibility studies, and toxicological and health effects studies. A
				  treatability study is not a means to commercially treat or dispose of hazardous
				  waste.
"Treatment" means any method, technique, or process,
				  including neutralization, designed to change the physical, chemical, or
				  biological character or composition of any hazardous waste to neutralize the
				  waste, recover energy or material resources from the waste, or render the waste
				  non-hazardous or less hazardous; safer to transport, store, or dispose of; or
				  amenable for recovery, amenable for storage, or reduced in volume.
"Treatment zone" means a soil area of the unsaturated zone of
				  a land treatment unit within which hazardous constituents are degraded,
				  transformed, or immobilized.
"Underground injection" means the subsurface emplacement of
				  fluids through a bored, drilled, or driven well or through a dug well, if the
				  depth of the dug well is greater than the largest surface dimension. (See also
				  "injection well".)
"Underground tank" means a device meeting the definition of
				  tank whose entire surface area is totally below the surface of and covered by
				  the ground.
"Unfit-for-use tank system" means a tank system that has been
				  determined, through an integrity assessment or other inspection, to be no
				  longer capable of storing or treating hazardous waste without posing a threat
				  of release of hazardous waste to the environment.
"United States" means the 50 states, the District of
				  Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam,
				  American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
"Universal waste" means any of the following hazardous wastes
				  that are managed under the universal waste requirements of 35 Ill. Adm. Code
				  733:
Batteries, as described in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 733.102;
Pesticides, as described in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 733.103;
Mercury-containing equipment, as described in 35 Ill. Adm.
				  Code 733.104;
Lamps, as described in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 733.105; and
Aerosol cans, as described in 35 Ill. Adm. Code
				  733.106.
"Universal waste handler" means either of the
				  following:
A generator (as defined in this Section) of universal waste;
				  or
The owner or operator of a facility, including all contiguous
				  property, that receives universal waste from other universal waste handlers,
				  accumulates the universal waste, and sends that universal waste to another
				  universal waste handler, to a destination facility, or to a foreign
				  destination.
"Universal waste handler" does not mean either of the
				  following:
A person that treats (except under the provisions of Section
				  733.113(a) or (c) or 733.133(a) or (c)), disposes of, or recycles (except under
				  35 Ill. Adm. Code 733.113(e) or 733.133(e)) universal waste; or
A person engaged in transporting universal waste off-site by
				  air, rail, highway, or water, including a universal waste transfer
				  facility.
"Universal waste transporter" means a person engaged in
				  transporting universal waste off-site by air, rail, highway, or water.
"Unsaturated zone" or "zone of aeration" means the zone
				  between the land surface and the water table.
"Uppermost aquifer" means the geologic formation nearest the
				  natural ground surface that is an aquifer, as well as lower aquifers that are
				  hydraulically interconnected with this aquifer within the facility's property
				  boundary.
"USDOT" or "Department of Transportation" means the United
				  States Department of Transportation.
"Used oil" means any oil that has been refined from crude
				  oil, or any synthetic oil, that has been used and because of this use is
				  contaminated by physical or chemical impurities.
"USEPA" or "EPA" means the United States Environmental
				  Protection Agency.
"USEPA hazardous waste number" or "EPA hazardous waste
				  number" means the number assigned by USEPA to each hazardous waste listed in
				  Subpart D of 35 Ill. Adm. Code 721 and to each characteristic identified in
				  Subpart C of 35 Ill. Adm. Code 721.
"USEPA identification number" or "USEPA ID number" is the
				  unique alphanumeric identifier that USEPA assigns a hazardous waste generator;
				  transporter; treatment, storage, or disposal facility; or reclamation facility
				  upon notification complying with section 3010 of RCRAU.S.C..
"User of the Electronic Manifest System" or "user of the
				  e-Manifest System" means a hazardous waste generator, a hazardous waste
				  transporter, an owner or operator of a hazardous waste treatment, storage,
				  recycling, or disposal facility, or any other person or entity that fulfills
				  both of the following conditions:
The person or entity must use a manifest to comply with any
				  federal or state requirement to track the shipment, transportation, and receipt
				  of either of the following:
hazardous waste or other waste material that is shipped from
				  the site of generation to an off-site designated facility for treatment,
				  storage, recycling, or disposal; or
rejected wastes or regulated container residues that are
				  shipped from a designated facility to an alternative facility, or returned to
				  the generator; and
The person or entity elects to use either of the
				  following:
the e-Manifest System to obtain, complete and transmit an
				  e-Manifest format supplied by the USEPA e-Manifest System; or
the paper manifest form and submits to the e-Manifest System
				  for data processing purposes a paper copy of the manifest (or data from the
				  paper copy), in accordance with 35 Ill. Adm. Code 724.171(a)(2)(E) or
				  725.171(a)(2)(E).
A paper copy submitted for data processing purposes is
				  submitted for data exchange purposes only and is not the official copy of
				  record for legal purposes.
"USPS" means the United States Postal Service.
"Very small quantity generator" or "VSQG" means a generator
				  that generates less than or equal to the following amounts of material in a
				  calendar month:
100 kg (220 lbs) of nonacute hazardous waste;
1 kg (2.2 lbs) of acute hazardous waste listed in 35 Ill Adm.
				  Code 721.131 or 721.133(e); and
100 kg (220 lbs) of any residue or contaminated soil, water,
				  or other debris resulting from the cleanup of a spill, into or on any land or
				  water, of any acute hazardous waste listed in 35 Ill Adm. Code 721.131 or
				  721.133(e).
"Vessel" includes every description of watercraft used or
				  capable of being used for transporting on the water.
"Wastewater treatment unit" means a device that:
Is part of a wastewater treatment facility that has an NPDES
				  permit under 35 Ill. Adm. Code 309 or a pretreatment permit or authorization to
				  discharge under 35 Ill. Adm. Code 310;
Receives and treats or stores an influent wastewater that is
				  a hazardous waste as defined in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 721.103, or generates and
				  accumulates a wastewater treatment sludge that is a hazardous waste as defined
				  in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 721.103, or treats or stores a wastewater treatment sludge
				  that is a hazardous waste as defined in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 721.103; and
Meets the definition of tank or tank system in this
				  Section.
"Water (bulk shipment)" means transporting bulk hazardous
				  waste loaded or carried on board a vessel without containers or labels.
"Well" means any shaft or pit dug or bored into the earth,
				  generally of a cylindrical form, and often walled with bricks or tubing to
				  prevent the earth from caving in.
"Well injection" means "underground injection".
"Wipe" means a woven or non-woven shop towel, rag, pad, or
				  swab made of wood pulp, fabric, cotton, polyester blends, or other
				  material.
"Zone of engineering control" means an area under the control
				  of the owner or operator that, upon detecting a hazardous waste release, can be
				  readily cleaned up prior to the release of hazardous waste or hazardous
				  constituents to groundwater or surface water.