Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 11 - Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality › Part 4 - Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management Regulations › Chapter 7 - Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality Hazardous and Nonhazardous Solid Waste Applicant Disclosure Regulations › Rule 11-4-7.3 - Definitions

Current through June 25, 2024
The following words and phrases shall have the meanings
				  ascribed herein unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. Terms not
				  defined herein shall have their ordinary meanings unless such terms have a
				  specialized meaning within the nonhazardous solid waste and hazardous waste
				  field. Terms having such a specialized meaning are to be given that specialized
				  meaning unless otherwise defined.
A.
				"Act" means Mississippi Code Annotated section
				17-17-501
				(Supp. 1993), as amended by House Bill No. 1345 effective March 29, 1994,
et seq.
[Miss. Laws, 1991, ch. 583, Miss. Laws, 1992,
				ch. 583 and Miss. Laws, 1994, Ch. 540.].
B. "Applicant" means any person (except a
				public agency) applying for a permit to operate and/or construct a commercial
				nonhazardous solid waste management facility or commercial hazardous waste
				management facility. If a public agency applies for a permit and proposes to
				operate a facility by contract, the contractor shall also be required to file a
				disclosure statement as described in Miss. Code Ann. Section
				17-17-503
				(Supp. 1993), as amended by House Bill No.1345 effective March 29, 1994, and
				the Permit Board shall evaluate such statement as described in Miss. Code Ann.
				Section
				17-17-505
				(Supp. 1993).
C. "Application" means
				an application (other than an application submitted by a public agency) for the
				issuance, reissuance or transfer of a permit to operate and/or construct a
				commercial nonhazardous solid waste management facility or commercial hazardous
				waste management facility.
D.
				"Business concern" means any corporation, association, firm, partnership,
				trust, joint venture or other form of commercial organization.
E. "Chartered lending institution" means any
				bank or banking institution chartered under the laws of the United States or of
				any state.
F. "Commercial hazardous
				waste management facility" means any facility engaged in the storage,
				treatment, recovery or disposal of hazardous waste for a fee and which accepts
				hazardous waste from more than one (1) generator.
G. "Commercial nonhazardous solid waste
				management facility" means any facility engaged in the storage, treatment,
				processing or disposal of nonhazardous solid waste for compensation or which
				accepts nonhazardous solid waste from more than one (1) generator not owned by
				the facility owner.
H. "Commission"
				means the Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality.
I. "Debt liability" means the total actual
				debt of an applicant business concern or any disclosed business concern
				including, but not limited to, bonds, debentures, notes, surety agreements,
				mortgages and loans of any kind, secured or unsecured, and other similar debt
				instruments.
J. "Department" means
				the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality.
K. "Disclosure Statement" means the signed
				and sworn statement required by Miss. Code Ann. Section
				17-17-503
				(Supp. 1993), as amended by House Bill No. 1345 effective March 29, 1994, and
				Rules
				1.1,
				et. seq. of this Chapter to be filed by each applicant at the time the
				application is filed, together with any other information required by the
				Permit Board to be furnished by the Applicant pursuant to these
				regulations.
L. "Enforcement Action"
				means any action that is pending or has concluded in a finding of violation or
				entry of a consent agreement resulting from an alleged violation of any
(1) environmental ordinance, regulation, rule
				or statute,
(2) environmental permit
				or
(3) order issued to prohibit,
				control or abate an environmental problem.