Code of Maryland Regulations › Title 26 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT › Part 1 - SUBTITLES 01-07 › Subtitle 03 - WATER SUPPLY, SEWERAGE, SOLID WASTE, AND POLLUTION CONTROL PLANNING AND FUNDING › Chapter 26.03.03 - Development of County Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plans › Section 26.03.03.01 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 14, July 12, 2024
A. In this chapter,
				  the following terms have the meanings indicated.
B. Terms Defined.
(1) "County" means any of the 23 Maryland
				  counties or Baltimore City.
(2)
				  County Plan.
(a) "County plan" means a
				  comprehensive plan for adequately providing throughout the county (including
				  all towns, municipal corporations, and sanitary districts) the following
				  facilities and services by public or private ownership:
(i) Solid waste disposal systems;
(ii) Solid waste acceptance facilities;
				  and
(iii) Systematic collection and
				  disposal of solid waste, including litter.
(b) "County plan" includes all revisions to
				  the plan.
(3)
				  "Department" means the Department of the Environment.
(4) "Governing body" means the Board of
				  County Commissioners, or the County Executive and Council, or the Mayor and
				  City Council of Baltimore.
(5)
				  "Litter" means any waste materials, refuse, garbage, trash, debris, dead
				  animals, or other discarded material.
(6) "Refuse" means any solid, liquid,
				  semi-solid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial,
				  commercial, mining, or agricultural operations, or from community activities,
				  which:
(a) Is discarded, or is being
				  accumulated, stored, or physically, chemically, or biologically treated before
				  being discarded; or
(b) Has served
				  its original intended use and sometimes is discarded; or
(c) Is a manufacturing or mining by-product
				  and sometimes is discarded.
(7) "Revision" means either an adopted
				  amendment to, or a periodic update of, a county plan.
(8) "Solid waste" means any garbage, refuse,
				  sludge, or liquid from industrial, commercial, mining, or agricultural
				  operations, and from community activities, but does not include solid or
				  dissolved material in domestic sewage or in irrigation return flows.
(9) "Solid waste acceptance facility" means
				  any sanitary landfill, incinerator, transfer station or plant, whose primary
				  purpose is to dispose of, treat, or process solid waste.
(10) Solid Waste Disposal System.
(a) "Solid waste disposal system" means any
				  publicly or privately owned system that:
(i)
				  Provides a scheduled or systematic collection of solid waste;
(ii) Transports the solid waste to a solid
				  waste acceptance facility; and
(iii) Treats or otherwise disposes of the
				  solid waste at the solid waste acceptance facility.
(b) A solid waste disposal system includes
				  each solid waste acceptance facility that is used in connection with
				  it.
(11) "Solid waste
				  management" means the systematic administration of activities which provide for
				  the collection, source separation, storage, transportation, transfer,
				  processing, treatment, re-use, or disposal of of solid waste.