California Code of Regulations › Title 22 - Social Security › Division 4.5 - Environmental Health Standards for the Management of Hazardous Waste › Chapter 12 - Standards Applicable to Generators of Hazardous Waste › Article 8 - Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Waste for Recovery or Disposal › Section 66262.81 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
The following definitions apply to 40 Code of Federal
					 Regulations Part 262, Subpart H and this article.
(a) "Competent authority" means the
				  regulatory authority or authorities of concerned countries having jurisdiction
				  over transboundary movements of wastes.
(b) "Countries concerned" means the countries
				  of export and import and any countries of transit.
(c) "Consignee" means the person to whom
				  possession or other form of legal control of the waste is assigned at the time
				  the waste is received in the importing country.
(d) "Country of export" means any country
				  from which a transboundary movement of hazardous wastes is planned to be
				  initiated or is initiated.
(e)
				  "Country of import" means any country to which a transboundary movement of
				  hazardous wastes is planned or takes place for the purpose of submitting the
				  wastes to recovery or disposal operations therein.
(f) "Country of transit" means any country
				  other than the country of export or country of import across which a
				  transboundary movement of hazardous wastes is planned or takes place.
(g) "Disposal operations" means activities
				  which do not lead to the possibility of resource recovery, recycling,
				  reclamation, direct re-use or alternate uses, which include:
(1) D1 Release or Deposit into or onto land,
				  other than by any of operations D2 through D5 or D12.
(2) D2 Land treatment, such as biodegradation
				  of liquids or sludges in soils.
(3)
				  D3 Deep injection, such as injection into wells, salt domes or naturally
				  occurring repositories.
(4) D4
				  Surface impoundment, such as placing of liquids or sludges into pits, ponds or
				  lagoons.
(5) D5 Specially
				  engineered landfill, such as placement into lined discrete cells which are
				  capped and isolated from one another and the environment.
(6) D6 Release into a water body other than a
				  sea or ocean, and other than by operation D4.
(7) D7 Release into a sea or ocean, including
				  sea-bed insertion, other than by operation D4.
(8) D8 Biological treatment not specified
				  elsewhere in operations D1 through D12, which results in final compounds or
				  mixtures which are discarded by means of any of operations D1 through
				  D12.
(9) D9 Physical or chemical
				  treatment not specified elsewhere in operations D1 through D12, such as
				  evaporation, drying, calcination, neutralization, or precipitation, which
				  results in final compounds or mixtures which are discarded by means of any of
				  operations D1 through D12.
(10) D10
				  Incineration on land.
(11) D11
				  Incineration at sea.
(12) D12
				  Permanent storage.
(13) D13 Interim
				  blending or mixing, before an operation that bears any of the disposal
				  operations D1 to D12.
(14) D14
				  Interim repackaging, before an operation that bears any of the disposal
				  operations D1 to D12.
(15) D15
				  Interim storage, before an operation that bears any of the disposal operations
				  D1 to D12.
(16) DC1 Release,
				  including the venting of compressed or liquified gases, or treatment, other
				  than by any of disposal operation codes D1 to D12 (for transboundary movements
				  with Canada only).
(17) DC2 Testing
				  of a new technology to dispose of a hazardous waste (for transboundary
				  movements with Canada only).