Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 11 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Subtitle 1 - GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL PROVISIONS › Chapter 58.1 - SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT CONTROL › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL › Section 11-58.1-03 - Definitions

Current through June, 2024
When used in this chapter, the following terms have the
					 meanings given below:
"Active life" means the period of operation beginning with
					 the initial receipt of solid waste and ending at completion of closure
					 activities in accordance with section
					 11-58.1-17(a).
"Active portion" means that part of a facility or unit
					 that has received or is receiving wastes and that has not been closed in
					 accordance with section
					 11-58.1-17(a).
"Agricultural waste" means wastes resulting from the
					 production of agricultural products including but not limited to manures, and
					 carcasses of dead animals.
"Airport" means a public-use airport open to the public
					 without prior permission and without restrictions within the physical
					 capacities of available facilities.
"Appendix I" means Appendix I as it appears in 40 CFR
					 258.
"Appendix II" means Appendix II as it appears in 40 CFR
					 258.
"Aquifer" means a geological formation, group of
					 formations, or part of a formation capable of yielding a significant quantity
					 of ground water to wells or springs.
"Areas susceptible to mass movement" means those areas of
					 influence (i.e., areas characterized as having an active or substantial
					 possibility of mass movement) where the movement of earth material at, beneath,
					 or adjacent to the municipal solid waste landfill unit, because of natural or
					 artificial events, results in the downslope transport of soil and rock material
					 by means of gravitational influence. Areas of mass movement include, but are
					 not limited to, landslides, avalanches, debris slides and flows, soil fluction,
					 block sliding, and rock fall.
"Ashes" means the residue including any air pollution flue
					 dusts or bottom ash from combustion or incineration of material including solid
					 wastes.
"Best practicable technology" means current state of the
					 art methods and/or procedures which consider the economic capabilities of the
					 owner and/or operator.
"Bird hazard" means an increase in the likelihood of
					 aircraft collisions with birds that may cause damage to the aircraft or injury
					 to its occupants.
"Bioconversion" means the processing of the organic
					 fraction of the waste stream through biological or chemical means to perform
					 composting or generate products including, but not limited to, fertilizers,
					 feeds, methane, alcohols, tars, and other products. This term includes, but is
					 not limited to, biogassification, acid hydrolysis, pyrolysis, and fermentation.
					 This term does not include any form of incineration or methane gas extraction
					 from a municipal waste landfill.
"Buffer zone" means that part of a facility that lies
					 between the active area and the property boundary.
"Bulky waste" means large items of refuse, such as
					 appliances, furniture, and other oversize wastes which would typically not fit
					 into reusable or disposable containers.
"CFR" means Code of Federal Regulations.
"Clean Air Act" means the federal Clean Air Act,
					 42 U.S.C.
					 sections 7401 to
					 7671 q.
"Clean Water Act" means the federal Clean Water Act,
					 33 U.S.C. sections
					 1251 to
					 1387.
"Clear and grub material" means material consisting of any
					 rock, coral, sand, gravel, and soil in conjunction with a maximum of twenty per
					 cent vegetation which includes trees, timber shrubbery, and plants dislodged or
					 uprooted from the ground.
"Closure" means those actions taken by the owner or
					 operator of a solid waste site or facility to cease disposal operations and to
					 ensure that all such facilities are closed in conformance with applicable rules
					 at the time of such closures and to prepare the site for the post-closure
					 period.
"Commercial solid waste" means all types of solid waste
					 generated by stores, offices, restaurants, warehouses, and other
					 nonmanufacturing activities, excluding residential and industrial
					 wastes.
"Common water pollutants" means those industrial
					 discharges that are point sources subject to permits under
					 33 U.S.C. section
					 1342.
"Compliance schedule" means a written schedule of required
					 measures in a permit including an enforceable sequence leading to compliance
					 with these rules.
"Composting" means a process in which organic solid
					 wastes, such as biosolids (sewage sludge), green or yard waste materials,
					 manures, and non-treated wood chips and shavings, are biologically decomposed
					 and stabilized under controlled conditions to produce a stable humus-like mulch
					 or soil amendment. This term includes the processing of organic and non-treated
					 wood waste materials for the generation of wood chips or other materials that
					 can be used as soil amendment, planting mixes, mulches for horticultural and
					 agricultural applications, landfill cover, and land reclamation. The process of
					 composting under methods approved by the department is a recycling activity.
					 Land application of uncomposted organic solid waste shall not be considered an
					 approved solid waste management activity except as a portion of the United
					 States Department of Agriculture-Soil Conservation Service approved Land
					 Improvement, Soil Stabilization or Reclamation Plan.
"Construction and demolition waste" means solid waste,
					 largely inert waste, resulting from the demolition or razing of buildings, of
					 roads, or other structures, such as concrete, rock, brick, bituminous concrete,
					 wood, and masonry, composition roofing and roofing paper, steel, plaster, and
					 minor amounts of other metals, such as copper. Construction and demolition
					 waste does not include cleanup materials contaminated with hazardous
					 substances, friable asbestos, waste paints, solvents, sealers, adhesives, or
					 similar materials.
"Container" means a device used for the collection,
					 storage, or transportation of solid waste, including but not limited to,
					 reusable containers, disposable containers, detachable containers, and tanks,
					 whether fixed or detachable.
"Contaminate" means to allow to discharge a substance into
					 ground water that would cause the concentration of that substance in the ground
					 water to exceed the maximum contaminant level.
"Convenience center" means waste handling facilities
					 performing limited transfer station operation located at convenient areas
					 receiving less than forty tons per day of only household or residential solid
					 waste.
"Cover material" means soil or other suitable material
					 that has been approved by the department as cover for wastes.
"Department" means the state department of health.
"Director" means the director of health or the director's
					 authorized representative.
"Disease vectors" means any rodents, flies, mosquitoes, or
					 other animals, including insects, capable of transmitting disease to
					 humans.
"Displacement" means the relative movement of any two
					 sides of a fault measured in any direction.
"Disposal" means the discharge, deposit, injection,
					 dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any solid waste onto any land or
					 water so that such solid waste, or any constituent thereof, may enter the
					 environment, be emitted into the air, or discharged into any water, including
					 ground waters.
"Disposal facility" means a solid waste management
					 facility or part of one at which solid waste is intentionally placed into or on
					 any land or water, and at which solid waste will remain after closure.
"Disposal site" means the location where any final
					 treatment, utilization, processing, or deposition of solid waste occurs.
"Energy recovery" means the recovery of energy in a
					 useable form from mass burning or refuse derived fuel incineration, pyrolysis,
					 or any other means of using the heat of combustion or solid waste that involves
					 high temperature (over twelve hundred degrees Fahrenheit) processing.
"Existing facility" means a facility which is owned or
					 leased, and in operation, or for which construction has begun, on or before the
					 effective date of this chapter and the owner or operator has obtained permits
					 or approvals necessary under federal, state, and local statutes, regulations,
					 rules, and ordinances. This term does not include existing MSWLF units.
"Existing MSWLF unit" means any municipal solid waste
					 landfill unit that is receiving solid waste as of October 9, 1993. Waste
					 placement in existing units must be consistent with past operating practices or
					 modified practices to ensure good management.
"Facility" means all contiguous land including buffer
					 zones and structures, other appurtenances, and improvements on the land used
					 for the handling of solid waste.
"Facility structures" means, but is not limited to,
					 buildings, sheds, utility lines, and drainage pipes on the facility.
"Fault" means a fracture or a zone of fractures in any
					 material along which strata on one side have been displaced with respect to
					 that on the other side.
"Floodplain" means the lowland and relatively flat areas
					 adjoining inland and coastal waters, including flood-prone areas of offshore
					 islands, that are inundated by the one hundred-year flood.
"Foreign waste" means garbage generated by carriers which
					 left foreign ports and their first port of entry to the U.S. is Hawaii.
"Free liquids" means liquids from any solid waste which
					 produces measurable liquids as defined by the Paint Filter Liquids Test, Method
					 90 95 of EPA Publication Number SW-846.
"Garbage" means, but is not limited to, putrescible solid
					 waste including animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling,
					 storage, sale, preparation, cooking, or serving of food. Garbage originates
					 primarily in home kitchens, stores, markets, restaurants, and other places
					 where food is stored, prepared, or served.
"Gas condensate" means the liquid generated as a result of
					 gas recovery processes at the MSWLF unit.
"Green waste" means solid waste that includes leaves,
					 grass clippings, garden and yard wastes, tree trunks, holiday trees, tree
					 trimmings, and/or prunings.
"Ground water or "ground-water" means water below the land
					 surface in a zone of saturation.
"Hazardous waste" means regulated hazardous waste as
					 defined in 40 CFR 261 or the State of Hawaii's rules or statutes, whichever is
					 more stringent.
"Holocene" means the most recent epoch of the Quaternary
					 period, extending from the end of the Pleistocene Epoch to the present.
"Household waste" means any solid waste, including garbage
					 and trash, and sanitary waste in septic tanks derived from households,
					 including single and multiple residences, hotels and motels, bunkhouses, ranger
					 stations, crew quarters, campgrounds, picnic grounds, and day-use recreation
					 areas.
"Incineration" means the destruction of solid waste by
					 burning in a furnace designed for that purpose where solid waste is essentially
					 reduced to ash, carbon dioxide, and water vapor.
"Industrial solid waste" means solid waste generated by
					 manufacturing or industrial processes that is not a hazardous waste regulated
					 under subtitle C of RCRA. The waste may include, but is not limited to, waste
					 resulting from the following manufacturing processes: electric power
					 generation; fertilizer or agricultural chemicals; food and related products or
					 by-products; inorganic chemicals; iron and steel manufacturing; leather and
					 leather products; nonferrous metals manufacturing or foundries; organic
					 chemicals; plastics and resins manufacturing; pulp and paper industry; rubber
					 and miscellaneous plastic products; stone, glass, clay, and concrete products;
					 textile manufacturing; transportation equipment; and water treatment. This term
					 does not include mining waste or oil and gas waste.
"Inert wastes" means wastes which are limited to earth and
					 earth-like products, concrete, cured asphalt, rock, bricks, and material which
					 will not cause a leachate of environmental concern.
"Infectious waste" means any waste which may contain
					 pathogens capable of causing an infectious disease and shall include, but not
					 be limited to, wastes categorized in section 11-104-4 of the Hawaii
					 Administrative Rules.
"Karst terranes" means areas where karst topography, with
					 its characteristic surface and subterranean features, are developed as the
					 result of dissolution of limestone, dolomite, or other soluble rock.
					 Characteristic physiographic features present in karst terranes include, but
					 are not limited to, sinkholes, sinking streams, caves, large springs, and blind
					 valleys.
"Landfill" means a disposal facility or part of a facility
					 at which solid waste is permanently placed in or on land and which is not a
					 landspreading facility.
"Landspreading facility" means a facility that applies
					 sludges or other solid wastes onto or incorporates solid waste into the soil
					 surface at greater than vegetative utilization and soil conditioner and or
					 immobilization rates.
"Lateral expansion" means a horizontal expansion of the
					 waste boundaries of an existing MSWLF unit.
"Leachate" means water or other liquid that has percolated
					 or passed through or emerged from solid waste and contains dissolved, soluble,
					 suspended, or miscible materials removed from the waste or due to contact with
					 solid waste or gases therefrom.
"Lift" means a compacted layer of solid waste and its
					 overlying earth cover in a landfill.
"Limited purpose landfill" means a landfill that receives
					 solid waste of limited types, known and consistent composition, other than
					 woodwastes, garbage, inert waste, and demolition waste.
"Liquid" means a substance that flows readily and assumes
					 the form of its container but retains its independent volume.
"Liquid waste" means any waste material that is determined
					 to contain "free liquids" as defined by Method 9095 (Paint Filter Liquids
					 Test), as described in "Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Wastes, Physical
					 Chemical Methods" (EPA Pub. No. SW-846).
"Lithified earth material" means all rock, including all
					 naturally occurring and naturally formed aggregates or masses of minerals or
					 small particles of older rock that formed by crystallization of magma or by
					 induration of loose sediments. This term does not include artificial materials,
					 such as fill, concrete, and asphalt, or unconsolidated earth materials, soil,
					 or regolith lying at or near the earth surface.
"Lower explosive limit" means the lowest per cent by
					 volume of a mixture of explosive gases in air that will propagate a flame at
					 twenty-five degrees centigrade and atmospheric pressure.
"Maximum horizontal acceleration in lithified earth
					 material" means the maximum expected horizontal acceleration depicted on a
					 seismic hazard map, with a ninety per cent or greater probability that the
					 acceleration will not be exceeded in two hundred fifty years, or the maximum
					 expected horizontal acceleration based on a site-specific seismic risk
					 assessment.
"Medical waste" means all the infectious and injurious
					 waste originating from a medical, veterinary, or intermediate care
					 facility.
"Monofill" means a landfill which accepts only one type of
					 solid waste.
"Municipal solid waste landfill unit" or "MSWLF unit"
					 means a discrete area of land or an excavation that receives household waste,
					 and that is not a land application unit, surface impoundment, injection well,
					 or waste pile, as those terms are defined under
					 40
					 CFR section 257.2. A MSWLF unit also may
					 receive other types of RCRA subtitle D wastes, such as commercial solid waste,
					 nonhazardous sludge, conditionally exempt small quantity generator waste, and
					 industrial solid waste. The landfill may be publicly or privately owned. A
					 MSWLF unit may be a new MSWLF unit, an existing MSWLF unit, or a lateral
					 expansion.
"New MSWLF unit" means any municipal solid waste landfill
					 unit that has not received waste before October 9, 1993.
"Nuisance" consists of an act or an omission of an act
					 which annoys, injures, or endangers the comfort, health, or safety of others,
					 offends decency, or unlawfully interferes with, obstructs or tends to obstruct,
					 any public park, square, street, or highway; or in any way renders other
					 persons insecure in life, or in the use of property.
"One hundred-year flood" means a flood that has a one per
					 cent or greater chance of recurring in any given year or a flood occurring of a
					 magnitude equalled or exceeded once in one hundred years on the average over a
					 significantly long period.
"Open burning" means the combustion of solid waste
					 without:
(1) Control of combustion air to maintain adequate
					 temperature for efficient combustion;
(2) Containment of the combustion reaction in an enclosed
					 device to provide sufficient residence time and mixing for complete combustion;
					 and
(3) Control of the emission of the combustion
					 products.
"Operator" means the person(s) responsible for the overall
					 operation of a facility or part of a facility.
"Owner" means the person(s) who has legal title to a
					 facility or part of a facility.
"Performance standard" means the criteria for the
					 performance of solid waste handling facilities.
"Permeability" means the ease with which a porous material
					 allows liquid or gaseous fluids to flow through it. For water, this is usually
					 expressed in units of centimeters per second and termed hydraulic conductivity.
					 Soils and synthetic liners with a permeability for water of 1 x
					 10-7 cm/sec or less may be considered
					 impermeable.
"Permit" means written authorization from the director to
					 construct, modify, and operate any solid waste disposal system or any component
					 of any solid waste disposal system. A permit authorizes the grantee to
					 construct, modify, and operate any solid waste disposal system in a manner or
					 amount, not forbidden by this chapter, or by rules adopted pursuant to HRS 342
					 but requiring review by the department.
"Permit by rule" means an abbreviated procedure by which
					 "limited impact" solid waste facilities may begin operations in accordance with
					 section 11-58.1-04(i).
"Person" means an individual, firm, association,
					 co-partnership, political subdivision, government agency, municipality,
					 industry, public or private corporation, or any other entity whatsoever.
"Petroleum" means a regulated substance which includes
					 crude oil or any fraction thereof which is liquid at standard temperature and
					 pressure (60 degrees Fahrenheit and 14.7 pounds per square inch
					 absolute.)
"Pile" means any noncontainerized accumulation of solid
					 waste that is used for treatment or storage.
"Plan of operation" means the written plan developed by an
					 owner or operator of a facility detailing how a facility is to be operated
					 during its active life and during closure and post-closure.
"Poor foundation conditions" means those areas where
					 features exist which indicate that a natural or artificial event may result in
					 inadequate foundation support for the structural components of an MSWLF
					 unit.
"Post-closure" means the requirements placed upon landfill
					 disposal sites after closure to ensure their environmental safety for a
					 thirty-year period.
"Premises" means a tract or parcel of land with or without
					 habitable buildings.
"Processing" means an operation to convert solid waste
					 into a useful product or to prepare it for disposal.
"Putrescible waste" means solid waste which contains
					 material capable of being decomposed by micro-organisms.
"Pyrolysis" means the process in which solid waste is
					 heated in an enclosed device in the absence of oxygen to vaporize, producing a
					 hydrocarbon-rich gas capable of being burned for recovery of energy.
"Qualified ground-water scientist" means a scientist or
					 engineer who has received a baccalaureate or post-graduate degree in the
					 natural sciences or engineering and who has sufficient training and experience
					 in ground-water hydrology and related fields as may be demonstrated by state
					 registration, professional certifications, or completion of accredited
					 university programs that enable that individual to make sound professional
					 judgments regarding ground-water monitoring, contaminant fate and transport,
					 and corrective action.
"RCRA" means the federal Resource Conservation and
					 Recovery Act,
					 42 U.S.C. sections
					 6901 to
					 6992
					 k.
"Reclamation facility" means a location used for the
					 handling, processing, or storage of recoverable material, including but not
					 limited to composting and remediation facilities.
"Recoverable material" means material that can be diverted
					 from disposal for recycling or bioconversion. This term does not include those
					 materials that are generated and normally used on-site for manufacturing
					 purposes.
"Recycling" means the collection, separation, recovery,
					 and sale or reuse of secondary resources that would otherwise be disposed of as
					 municipal solid waste, and is an integral part of a manufacturing process aimed
					 at producing a marketable product made of postconsumer material.
"Recycling drop-off facility" means a structure or site
					 designated for collection and small scale (low technology) segregation of
					 recyclable materials. The manned or unmanned site will receive and temporarily
					 store recyclables "dropped-off" and no payment is made to the participants
					 depositing recyclables.
"Recycling processing or materials recovery facility"
					 means a facility which collects and bales, shreds, crushes, melts, sorts, or
					 otherwise treats, temporarily stores, and brokers, or transports recyclable
					 materials for reuse or re-manufacture.
"Refuse" means anything putrescible or non-putrescible
					 that is discarded or rejected.
"Regulated hazardous waste" means a solid waste that is a
					 hazardous waste, as defined in
					 40 CFR section
					 261.3, that is not excluded from regulation
					 as a hazardous waste under
					 40
					 CFR section 261.4(b) or was
					 not generated by a conditionally exempt small quantity generator as defined in
					 40 CFR
					 section 261.5.
"Remediation" means a process utilizing physical,
					 chemical, or biological conversion to mitigate or eliminate undesireable or
					 unsafe constituents within the waste material.
"Reserved" means a section having no requirements and
					 which is set aside for future possible rulemaking as a note to the regulated
					 community.
"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.
"Salvage" means the incidental removal of solid waste for
					 reuse under the control of the facility owner or operator.
"Saturated zone" means that part of the earth's crust in
					 which all voids are filled with water.
"Scavenging" means the removal of materials at a disposal
					 site, or interim solid waste handling site without the approval of the owner or
					 operator and the department of health.
"Secondary Resources" means postconsumer material
					 collected and processed for feedstock in a manufacturing process.
"Seismic impact zone" means an area with a ten per cent or
					 greater probability that the maximum horizontal acceleration in lithified earth
					 material, expressed as a per cent of the earth's gravitational pull(g), will
					 exceed 0.10g in two hundred fifty years.
"Sludge" means any solid, semi-solid, or liquid waste
					 generated from a municipal, commercial, or industrial wastewater treatment
					 plant, water supply treatment plant, industrial process, or air pollution
					 control facility exclusive of the treated effluent from a wastewater treatment
					 plant.
"Sole source aquifer" means an aquifer designated by the
					 Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to section 1424e of the Safe Drinking
					 Water Act ( P.L. 93-523 ).
"Solid waste" or "waste" means garbage, refuse, and other
					 discarded materials, including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous
					 materials resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural
					 operations, sludge from waste treatment plants and water supply treatment
					 plants, and residues from air pollution control facilities and community
					 activities, but does not include solid or dissolved materials in domestic
					 sewage or other substances in water sources such as silt, dissolved or
					 suspended solids in industrial waste water effluents, dissolved materials in
					 irrigation return flows, or other common water pollutants, or source, special
					 nuclear, or by-product material as defined by the federal Atomic Energy Act of
					 1954, as amended (68 Stat. 923).
"Solid waste disposal facility" means any facility which
					 receives solid waste for ultimate disposal through landfilling or incineration.
					 This term does not include facilities utilized for transfer, storage,
					 processing, or remanufacturing for recycling or reuse, or bioconversion.
"Solid waste handling" means the management, storage,
					 collection, transportation, treatment, utilization, processing, or final
					 disposal of solid wastes, including the recovery and recycling of materials
					 from solid wastes, the recovery of energy resources from such wastes, or the
					 conversion of the energy in such wastes to more useful forms or combinations
					 thereof.
"Solid waste management" means the systematic
					 administration of activities which provide for the collection, source
					 separation, storage, transportation, transfer, processing, treatment, and
					 disposal of solid waste.
"Source separation" means dividing solid waste into some
					 or all of its component parts at the point of generation.
"Special wastes" means any solid waste which, because of
					 its source or physical, chemical, or biological characteristics, require
					 special consideration for its proper processing or disposal, or both. This term
					 includes, but is not limited to, asbestos, used oil, lead acid batteries,
					 municipal waste combustion ash, sewage sludge that is non-hazardous, medical
					 wastes, tires, white goods, and derelict vehicles.
"Storage" means the holding of solid waste materials for a
					 temporary period.
"Stream" means the point at which any confined freshwater
					 body of surface water reaches a mean annual flow rate of twenty cubic feet per
					 second.
"Structural components" means liners, leachate collection
					 systems, final covers, run-on or run-off systems, and any other component used
					 in the construction and operation of the MSWLF that is necessary for protection
					 of human health and the environment.
"Surface impoundment" means a facility or part of a
					 facility which is a natural topographic depression, man-made excavation, or
					 diked area formed primarily of earthen material (although it may be lined with
					 man-made materials), and which is designed to hold an accumulation of liquids
					 or sludges. The term includes holding, storage, settling, and aeration pits,
					 ponds, or lagoons, but does not include injection wells.
"Surface water" means all lakes, rivers, ponds, streams,
					 inland waters, salt waters, and all other water and water courses within the
					 jurisdiction of the State of Hawaii.
"Table 1" means Table 1 as it appears in 40 CFR
					 258.
"Transfer station" means a permanent, fixed, supplemental
					 collection and transportation facility, used by persons and route collection
					 vehicles to deposit collected solid waste from off-site into a larger transfer
					 vehicle for transport to a solid waste handling facility. Transfer stations may
					 also include recycling activities.
"Treatment" means the physical, chemical, or biological
					 processing of solid waste to make such solid wastes safer for storage or
					 disposal, amenable for energy or material resource recovery, or reduced in
					 volume.
"Twenty-five year storm" means a storm of a particular
					 duration and of such intensity that it has a four per cent probability of being
					 equalled or exceeded in any year.
"Twenty-four hour, twenty-five year storm" means a
					 twenty-five year storm of twenty-four hours duration.
"Unstable area" means a location that is susceptible to
					 natural or artificial events or forces capable of impairing the integrity of
					 some or all of the landfill structural components responsible for preventing
					 releases from a landfill. Unstable areas can include poor foundation
					 conditions, areas susceptible to mass movements, and Karst terranes.
"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.
"Used oil transporter" means a person who transports more
					 than five hundred gallons of used oil annually, except a person who transports
					 used oil obtained solely from sources owned and operated by the person to a
					 storage facility owned and operated by the same person.
"Washout" means the carrying away of solid waste by waters
					 of the base flood.
"Waste management unit boundary" means a vertical surface
					 located at the hydraulically downgradient limit of the unit. This vertical
					 surface extends down into the uppermost aquifer.
"Waste recycling" means reusing waste materials and
					 extracting materials from a waste stream.
"Waste reduction" means reducing the amount or type of
					 waste generated.
"Water quality standard" means a standard set for maximum
					 allowable contamination in surface waters.
"Wetlands" means those areas that are defined in
					 40
					 CFR section 232.2(r). It
					 includes those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or ground water
					 at a frequency and duration sufficient to support a prevalence of vegetative or
					 aquatic life that requires saturated or seasonally saturated soil conditions
					 for growth and reproduction. Wetlands generally include swamps, marshes, bogs,
					 estuaries, and similar areas.
"White goods" means electrical and mechanical appliances
					 made primarily of metal parts such as refrigerators, clothes washers, and
					 dryers. Appliances of less than three cubic feet in volume before crushing
					 shall not be included in this definition.