Illinois Administrative Code › Title 32 - ENERGY › Part 622 - HANDLING AND DISPOSAL OF WATER TREATMENT RESIDUALS › Section 622.20 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
The following terms found in this Part have the definitions set
				forth in this Section:
"Agency" means the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and
				Office of Homeland Security.
"As low as is reasonably achievable" or "ALARA" means making
				every reasonable effort to maintain exposures to radiation as far below the
				dose limits of Sections 622.30 and 622.40 as is practical, consistent with the
				purpose for which the registered activity is undertaken, taking into account
				the state of technology and the economics of improvements in relation to the
				state of technology, the economics of improvements in relation to benefits to
				public health and safety and other societal and socioeconomic considerations,
				and to the use of nuclear energy and licensed or registered sources of
				radiation in the public interest.
"Combined Radium" means the sum of the results of the analysis
				for radium-226 and the analysis for radium-228.
"Curie" or "Ci" is as defined in 32 Ill. Adm. Code
				310.20.
"Dry weight basis" is as defined in 32 Ill. Adm. Code
				310.20.
"Groundwater" means underground water which occurs
				within the saturated zone and geologic materials where the fluid pressure in
				the pore space is equal to or greater than atmospheric pressure.
[415 ILCS
				5/3.210 ]
"IEPA" means the Illinois Environmental Protection
				Agency.
"Low-level radioactive waste" means the definition
				contained in Section 3 of the Low Level Radioactive Waste Management
				Act
[420 ILCS 20]
.
"Naturally occurring radioactive material" or "NORM" means
				materials that are undisturbed as a result of human activities and that contain
				any of the primordial radionuclides or radioactive elements as they occur in
				nature, such as radium, uranium, thorium, potassium, and their radioactive
				decay products. NORM does not include accelerator-produced, byproduct, source,
				or special nuclear material.
"Occupied" means any frequently occupied areas, including but
				not limited to offices, conference rooms, and breakrooms, as well as restricted
				areas when entered by workers. "Occupied" does not include infrequently used
				areas such as storage rooms, stairwells, restrooms, utility closets, elevator
				shafts, or hallways unless posted as a restricted area.
"Picocurie" or "pCi" means the quantity of radioactive material
				producing 2.22 nuclear transformations per minute.
"Person" means any individual, corporation,
				partnership, firm, association, trust, estate, public or private institution,
				group, agency, political subdivision of this State, any other State or
				political subdivision or agency thereof, and any legal successor,
				representative, agent, or agency of the foregoing, other than the United States
				Nuclear Regulatory Commission, or any successor thereto, and other than federal
				government agencies licensed by the United States Nuclear Regulatory
				Commission, or any successor thereto. "Person" also includes a federal entity
				(and its contractors) if the federal entity agrees to be regulated by the State
				or as otherwise allowed under federal law.
[420 ILCS
				40/4(e) ]
"Publicly regulated treatment works" means private companies
				that the Illinois Commerce Commission regulates as public utilities engaged in
				the disposal of domestic and industrial wastes.
"Publicly owned treatment works" or "POTW" is as defined in
				Subpart A of 35 Ill. Adm. Code 310.
"Registrant" means persons who, due to the nature of the water
				treatment residuals they produce or possess, have additional regulatory
				requirements under this Part.
"Rem" means the special unit of any of the quantities expressed
				as dose equivalent. The dose equivalent in rem is equal to the absorbed dose in
				rad multiplied by the quality factor (1 rem = 0.01 Sv).
"Sludge" means any solid, semisolid, or liquid waste
				generated from a municipal, commercial, or industrial wastewater treatment
				plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility or any
				other such waste having similar characteristics and effects.
[415 ILCS
				5/3.465 ]
"Technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive
				material" or "TENORM" means naturally occurring radioactive material whose
				radionuclide concentrations are increased by or as a result of past or present
				human practices. TENORM does not include background radiation or the natural
				radioactivity of rocks or soils. TENORM does not include "source material" and
				"by-product material" as both are defined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954
				(42 U.S.C.
				2011 et seq.), as amended, and relevant
				regulations implemented by the NRC.
"Total effective dose equivalent" or "TEDE" means the sum of
				the deep dose equivalent for external exposures and the committed effective
				dose equivalent for internal exposures.
"Treatment" means, for purposes of water treatment residuals
				only, any process that changes the physical, chemical, microbiological, or
				radiological properties of water, is under the control of the supplier, and is
				not a point-of-use treatment device or a point-of-entry treatment device as
				defined in 35 Ill. Adm. Code
				611.101. Treatment includes, but
				is not limited to, aeration, coagulation, sedimentation, filtration, activated
				carbon treatment, disinfection, and fluoridation.
"USEPA" means the United States Environmental Protection
				Agency.
"Wastewater" means sewage, industrial waste, or other waste, or
				any combination of these, whether treated or untreated, plus any admixed land
				runoff.
"Wastewater treatment facility" means a treatment works owned
				by a municipality, sanitary district, county, or State agency that treats
				domestic and industrial wastes collected by a publicly owned or regulated sewer
				system. For the purposes of this Part, "wastewater treatment facility"
				encompasses both publicly owned treatment works and publicly regulated
				treatment works.
"Water treatment facility" means a plant or facility whose
				primary function is to treat raw water and to produce potable water for
				distribution, together with all the other real and personal property reasonably
				necessary to collect, treat, or distribute the water.
"Water treatment residuals" or "WRS" means biosolids, sludge,
				filter media, anthracite, scales, or other solids, either alone or as a
				component of liquid mixtures or solutions, that are technologically enhanced in
				combined radium concentration (radium-226, radium-228 or associated progeny) as
				a result of the treatment of water or sewage containing naturally occurring
				radium from groundwater.
"Working level" or "WL" means any combination of short-lived
				radon daughters in 1 liter of air that will result in the ultimate emission of
				1.3 x 105 MeV of potential alpha
				particle energy. The short-lived radon daughters are for:
radon-222: polonium-218, lead-214, bismuth-214 and
				polonium-214; and
radon-220: polonium-216, lead-212, bismuth-212 and
				polonium-212.
"Working level month" or "WLM" means an exposure to 1 working
				level (WL) for 170 hours. (2,000 working hours per year divided by 12 months
				per year is approximately equal to 170 hours per month.)