Illinois Administrative Code › Title 8 - AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS › Part 258 - LAND APPLICATION AUTHORIZATION PROGRAM › Section 258.30 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
Definitions for this Part can be located in Section 4 and
				Section 19 of the Illinois Pesticide Act [415 ILCS 60/4 and 19 ]. The following
				definitions shall also apply to this Part:
"Agrichemical" means pesticides or commercial fertilizers at an
				agrichemical facility, in transit from an agrichemical facility to the field of
				application, or at the field of application.
"Applicant" means an owner, operator or designated officer of
				an agrichemical facility who requests a Written Authorization for Land
				Application.
"Authorization" means a Written Authorization for Land
				Application.
"Commercial Fertilizer" is defined in
				505 ILCS
				80/3. For the purposes of this Part, commercial
				fertilizer also includes custom mixes as defined in
				505 ILCS
				80/3.
"Cropland" means land used for the agricultural production of
				plants and plant part commodities.
"Department" means the Illinois Department of
				Agriculture.
"Family of Pesticides" means a group of structurally similar
				compounds that exhibit common biochemical actions.
"Farmland" means lands utilized for agricultural purposes,
				including both areas used for cropland and areas used for field access
				lanes.
"Field Access Lane" means a private road utilized for
				admittance by vehicles of husbandry to cropland, but does not include private
				roads that provide primary access to a structure being used for human
				habitation.
"Groundwater" means groundwater as defined in the Illinois
				Groundwater Protection Act [415 ILCS 55/3 ].
"Incorporation" means mixing into the soil at a land
				application area.
"Label" means the written, printed graphic matter on or
				attached to the pesticide or device or any of its containers or wrappings.
				[415 ILCS 60/4
				]
"Land Application" means the environmental treatment of
				contaminated soil or groundwater by incorporation into farmland soils.
"Land Application Area" means the farmland upon which
				contaminated soil or groundwater is or will be applied.
"Pesticide" means any substance or mixture of substances
				intended for preventing, repelling, or mitigating any pest or any substance or
				mixture of substances intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant or
				desiccant [415 ILCS 60/4.29 ].
"Regulated Recharge Area" means a compact geographic area, as
				determined by the Pollution Control Board pursuant to Section 17.4 of the
				Environmental Protection Act [415 ILCS 5/17.4 ], the geology
				of which renders a potable resource groundwater particularly susceptible to
				contamination [415 ILCS 5/3.67 ].
"Release" means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring,
				emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or
				disposing of pesticides into the environment, but excludes application of
				pesticides at agronomic rates under regulations established by the Department
				in accordance with the Illinois Pesticide Act [415 ILCS 60 ].
"Remediation Suitability Determination Level" or "RSDL" means
				the concentration of a pesticide residue in soil or groundwater that represents
				a level below which the Department considers the contaminated soil or
				groundwater to be suitable for land application.
"Setback Zone" means a geographic area, designated pursuant to
				the Environmental Protection Act, containing a potable water supply well or a
				potential source or potential route having a continuous boundary, and within
				which certain prohibitions or regulations are applicable in order to protect
				groundwaters [415 ILCS 5/3.61 ].
"Sinkhole" means any natural depression formed as a result of
				subsurface removal of soil or rock materials causing the formation of a
				collapse feature that exhibits internal drainage. The existence of a sinkhole
				shall be indicated by the uppermost closed depression contour lines on the USGS
				71/2 minute quadrangle topographic maps or as determined by field
				investigations.
"Soil", for the purposes of this Part, means the unconsolidated
				earth materials present at a spill site, including natural soils, gravel and
				soil/gravel mixtures.
"Spill Site" means the land area at which a pesticide or
				commercial fertilizer was released.
"Stockpile" means the storage, temporary storage, or
				containment of contaminated soil or groundwater in such a manner as not to
				constitute final disposal or land application.
"Written Authorization for Land Application" means a written
				statement issued by the Department granting approval for the land application
				of contaminated soil or groundwater to farmland in accordance with the
				provisions of this Part.