Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 22a - Environmental Protection › 208a - Solid Waste Permit Fee › Section 22a-208a-1 - Solid waste permit fee regulations

Current through July 10, 2024
(a)
Definitions.
For the purposes of this Regulation,
(1) "Alter" means "alter" as defined in
			 subsection (d) of section
			 22a-208a
			 of the General Statutes.
(2)
			 "Annual fee" means any annual fee required under section
			 22a-208a
			 of the General Statutes.
(3)
			 "Applicant" means a person that submits an application to the
			 Commissioner.
(4) "Application"
			 means an application submitted to the Commissioner for issuance, renewal,
			 amendment or transfer of an individual solid waste permit or authorization to
			 conduct a regulated activity under section
			 22a-208a
			 of the General Statutes.
(5)
			 "Asbestos" means "asbestos" or "asbestos-containing material" as defined in
			 section
			 19a-332 of
			 the General Statutes.
(6)
			 "Biomedical waste" means "biomedical waste" as defined in section
			 22a-207
			 of the General Statutes.
(7)
			 "Biomedical waste generator" means "generator of biomedical waste" as defined
			 in section
			 22a-207
			 of the General Statutes.
(8)
			 "Biomedical waste transporter" means a person engaged in the transportation of
			 biomedical waste by air, rail, highway, or water.
(9) "Biomedical waste treatment facility"
			 means "biomedical waste treatment facility" as defined in section
			 22a-207
			 of the General Statutes.
(10)
			 "Bulky waste" means land clearing debris and waste resulting directly from
			 demolition activities other than clean fill.
(11) "Clean wood" means any wood which is
			 derived from such products as pallets, skids, spools, packaging materials,
			 bulky wood waste, or scraps from newly built wood products, provided such wood
			 is not treated wood as defined in section
			 22a-209a
			 of the General Statutes or demolition wood.
(12) "Commissioner" means the "commissioner"
			 as defined in subsection (b) of section
			 22a-2
			 of the General Statutes.
(13)
			 "Construction and demolition waste" means the waste building materials or
			 packaging resulting from construction, remodeling, repair or demolition
			 operations on houses, commercial buildings, and other structures, excluding
			 asbestos, clean fill as defined in regulations adopted under section
			 22a-209
			 of the general statutes, or solid waste containing greater than de minimis
			 quantities, as determined by the commissioner of environmental protection, of
			 (A) radioactive material regulated pursuant to section
			 22a-148
			 of the general statutes, (B) hazardous waste as defined in section
			 22a-115 of the
			 general statutes, and (C) liquid and semi-liquid materials including but not
			 limited to adhesives, paints, coatings, sealants, preservatives, strippers,
			 cleaning agents, oils and tars.
(14) "Construction and demolition waste
			 processing facility" means a volume reduction plant, the operations of which
			 involve solely the reduction in volume of construction and demolition waste
			 generated elsewhere.
(15)
			 "Department" means the Department of Environmental Protection.
(16) "Disposal" means "disposal" as defined
			 in section
			 22a-207
			 of the General Statutes.
(17)
			 "Horizontal expansion" means the lateral expansion of a solid waste disposal
			 area authorized under section
			 22a-208a
			 of the General Statutes.
(18)
			 "Intermediate processing center" means a facility which can recycle an item or
			 items and market or deliver for reuse the resulting material product or
			 products. Such facilities may be owned by public or private entities or
			 combinations thereof and may offer service on a state, regional, municipal or
			 submunicipal level.
(19) "Land
			 clearing debris" means trees, stumps, branches, or other wood generated from
			 clearing land for commercial or residential development, road construction,
			 routine landscaping, agricultural land clearing, storms, or natural
			 disasters.
(20) "Land
			 clearing/clean wood processing facility" means a volume reduction plant, the
			 operations of which involve solely the reduction in volume of land clearing
			 debris or clean wood generated elsewhere.
(21) "Minor change" means any change in the
			 facility design, capacity, practice, process or equipment which, in the
			 judgment of the Commissioner, would not significantly alter the nature of the
			 facility or its impact on the environment.
(22) "Municipality" means "municipality" as
			 defined in section
			 22a-207
			 of the General Statutes.
(23)
			 "Municipal solid waste" means "municipal solid waste" as defined in section
			 22a-207
			 of the General Statutes.
(24)
			 "Person" means "person" as defined in subsection (c) section
			 22a-2
			 of the General Statutes.
(25)
			 "Residue" means bottom ash, air pollution control residue, and other residues
			 from the combustion process at resources recovery facilities, wood-burning
			 facilities, municipal solid waste incinerators, and biomedical waste
			 incinerators.
(26) "Resources
			 recovery facility" means "resources recovery facility" as defined in section
			 22a-207
			 of the General Statutes.
(27)
			 "Sludge processing facility" means a volume reduction plant, the operations of
			 which involve solely the reduction in volume of water treatment, sewage
			 treatment or industrial sludge generated elsewhere.
(28) "Solid waste" means "solid waste" as
			 defined in section
			 22a-207
			 of the General Statutes.
(29)
			 "Solid waste facility" means "solid waste facility" as defined in section
			 22a-207
			 of the General Statutes.
(30)
			 "Solid waste disposal area" means "solid waste disposal area" as defined in
			 section
			 22a-207
			 of the General Statutes.
(31)
			 "Source-separated organic material composting facility" means land, including
			 structures and appurtenances thereon, where the composting of organic material
			 that has been separated at the point or source of generation from non-organic
			 material, takes place. For purposes of this section "organic material" means
			 substances composed primarily of carbon and nitrogen, including but not limited
			 to food scraps, food processing residue, soiled or unrecyclable paper and yard
			 trimmings.
(32) "Special waste"
			 means the following waste, so long as it is not hazardous waste pursuant to
			 section
			 22a-115 of the
			 General Statutes or radioactive material subject to section
			 22a-148
			 of the General Statutes: (1) water treatment, sewage treatment or industrial
			 sludges, liquids, solids and contained gases; fly-ash and casting sands or
			 slag; and contaminated dredge spoils; (2) scrap tires; (3) bulky waste; (4)
			 asbestos; (5) residue; and (6) biomedical waste.
(33) "Transfer Station" means "transfer
			 station" as defined in section
			 22a-207
			 of the General Statutes.
(34)
			 "Vertical expansion" means an expansion of an existing solid waste disposal
			 area such that future disposal of municipal solid waste will take place only
			 where solid waste has previously been disposed of and is still
			 present.
(35) "Volume reduction
			 plant" means "volume reduction plant" as defined in section
			 22a-207
			 of the General Statutes.
(36) "Yard
			 trimmings" means leaves, grass clippings, weeds, branches up to one (1?) inch
			 in diameter and prunings from yards or gardens.