Illinois Administrative Code › Title 35 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Part 855 - OPERATION OF THE HAZARDOUS WASTE FEE SYSTEM › Subpart A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 855.102 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
The following definitions shall apply to this Part:
"Agency": The Environmental Protection Agency established by
				  the Environmental Protection Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 1111/2, pars. 1001
				  et seq.).
"Disposal": The discharge, deposit, injection, dumping,
				  spilling, leaking or placing of any waste or hazardous waste into or on any
				  land or water or into any well so that such waste or hazardous waste or any
				  constituent thereof may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or
				  discharged into any waters, including ground waters.
"Garbage": Waste resulting from the handling, processing,
				  preparation, cooking, and consumption of food, and wastes from the handling,
				  processing, storage, and sale of produce.
"Generator Number": The number assigned by the Division of
				  Land Pollution Control of the Agency to a generator of special waste.
"Hazardous Hospital Waste": Waste generated in connection
				  with patient care that is contaminated with or may be contaminated with an
				  infectious agent that has the potential of inducing an infection and has not
				  been rendered innocuous by sterilization or incineration.
"Industrial Process Waste": Any liquid, solid, semi-solid, or
				  gaseous waste generated as a direct or indirect result of the manufacture of a
				  product or the performance of a service. Any such waste which would pose a
				  present or potential threat to human health or the environment or with inherent
				  properties which make the disposal of such waste in a landfill difficult to
				  manage by normal means is an industrial process waste. "Industrial process
				  waste" includes, but is not limited to spent pickling liquors, cutting oils,
				  chemical catalysts, distillation bottoms, etching acids, equipment cleanings,
				  paint sludges, incinerator ashes, core sands, metallic dust sweeping, asbestos
				  dust, hospital pathological wastes and off-specification, contaminated or
				  recalled wholesale or retail products. Specifically excluded are uncontaminated
				  packaging materials, uncontaminated machinery components, general household
				  waste, landscape waste and construction or demolition debris.
"Manifest": The form provided or prescribed by the Agency and
				  used for identifying the name and quantity, and the origin, routing, and
				  destination of special waste during its transportation from the point of
				  generation to the point of disposal, treatment, or storage, as required by 35
				  Ill. Adm. Code 809, and by 35 Ill. Adm. Code
				  722.120 to
				  722.123.
"Municipal Waste": Garbage, general household and commercial
				  waste, landscape waste and contruction or demolition debris.
"Off-Site Hazardous Waste Disposal Site": A hazardous waste
				  disposal site located off the site where such waste is produced.
"Off-Site Hazardous Waste Treatment Site": A hazardous waste
				  treatment site which is located off the site where such waste is produced and
				  is owned, controlled and operated by a person other than the generator of the
				  waste.
"On-Site Hazardous Waste Disposal Site": A hazardous waste
				  disposal site located on the site where such waste is produced.
"Pollution Control Waste": Any liquid, solid, semi-solid or
				  gaseous waste generated as a direct or indirect result of the removal of
				  contaminants from the air, water or land, and which pose a present or potential
				  threat to human health or to the environment or with inherent properties which
				  make the disposal of such waste in a landfill difficult to manage by normal
				  means. "Pollution control waste" includes but is not limited to water and
				  wastewater treatment plant sludges, baghouse dusts, scrubber sludges and
				  chemical spill cleanings.
"Recycling, Reclamation or Reuse": A method, technique, or
				  process designed to remove any contaminant from waste so as to render such
				  waste reusable.
"Site": Any location, place, tract of land, and facilities,
				  including but not limited to buildings, and improvements used for purposes
				  subject to regulation or control by the Environmental Protection Act (Ill. Rev.
				  Stat. 1983, ch. 1111/2, pars. 1001 et eq.) or regulations thereunder.
"Site Number": The number assigned by the Division of Land
				  Pollution Control of the Agency to a waste management site.
"Special Waste": Any industrial process waste, pollution
				  control waste or hazardous waste.
"Treatment": Any method, technique or process, including
				  neutralizaton, designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological
				  character or composition of any hazardous waste so as to neutralize such waste
				  or so as to render such waste nonhazardous, safer for transport, amenable for
				  recovery, amenable for storage, or reduced in volume. Such term includes any
				  activity or processing designed to change the physical form or chemical
				  composition of hazardous waste so as to render it nonhazardous, but shall not
				  include recycling, reclamation or reuse.
"Underground Injection": The subsurface emplacement of fluids
				  by well injection.
"Vehicle Number": The number assigned by the Division of Land
				  Pollution Control of the Agency to a vehicle which hauls special waste under a
				  special waste hauling permit issued pursuant to 35 Ill. Adm. Code 809.
"Waste": Any garbage, sludge from a waste treatment plant,
				  water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility or other
				  discarded material, including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous
				  material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and agricultural
				  operations, and from community activities, but does not include solid or
				  dissolved material in domestic sewage, or a solid or dissolved materials in
				  irrigation return flows or industrial discharges which are point sources
				  subject to permits under Section 402 of the Clean Water Act or source, special
				  nuclear, or by-product materials as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954,
				  as amended (
				  42 U.S.C.A.
				  2011 et seq.) or any solid or dissolved
				  material from any facility subject to the Federal Surface Mining Control and
				  Reclamation Act of 1977 (
				  30 U.S.C.A.
				  1201 et seq.) or the rules and regulations
				  thereunder or any law or rule or regulation adopted by the state of Illinois
				  pursuant thereto.
"Well": A bored, drilled or driven shaft, or dug hole, the
				  depth of which is greater than the largest surface dimension.