Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 860 - WASTE OIL MANAGEMENT RULES › Section 096-860-3 - Definitions

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
A.
Board.
"Board" means Board of
				Environmental Protection.
B.
Commissioner.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the
				Department of Environmental Protection.
C.
Conveyance.
"Conveyance"
				means any vehicle used for transportation on land, water or in the air. For the
				requirement that a license be obtained, the term includes only the
				cargo-carrying portion of a conveyance. For all other requirements the term
				includes the entire conveyance.
D.
Department.
"Department" means the Department of Environmental
				Protection.
E.
Discharge.
"Discharge" means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring,
				emitting, emptying or dumping.
F.
Disposal.
"Disposal" means the discharge, deposit, injecting,
				spilling, leaking or placing of any hazardous or solid waste, waste oil, sludge
				or septage into or on any land or water so that the hazardous or solid waste,
				waste oil, sludge or septage or any constituent thereof may enter the
				environment or be emitted into the air, or discharged into any waters,
				including ground waters.
G.
Handle.
"Handle" means to store, transfer, collect, separate, salvage,
				process, reduce, recover, incinerate, treat or dispose of.
H.
Industrial Boiler or Industrial
				Furnace.
"Industrial boiler or industrial furnace" means any boiler or
				furnace which produces energy for use in a manufacturing process. Boilers or
				furnaces which provide energy for space heating and other non-manufacturing
				purposes in addition to providing energy for a manufacturing process are
				considered to be industrial boilers or furnaces. Except for utility boilers,
				boilers or furnaces used solely to produce heat or to cool air are
				non-industrial boilers or furnaces for the purpose of these
				regulations.
I.
Manifest.
"Manifest" means the form used for identifying the quantity,
				composition and the origin, routing and destination of hazardous waste during
				its transport.
J.
Non-Industrial Boiler or Non-Industrial Furnace.
"Non-industrial boiler
				or non-industrial furnace" means any boiler or furnace located in the following
				types of establishments: commercial (e.g., office building, shopping area,
				greenhouse), institutional (e.g., school, hospital), or residential (e.g.,
				apartment building).
K.
Primary Sand and Gravel Recharge Area.
"Primary sand and gravel recharge
				area" means the surface area overlying sand and gravel formations that provides
				replenishment of ground water in sand and gravel and fractured bedrock
				aquifers. The term does not include areas overlying formations that have been
				identified as unsaturated and are not contiguous with saturated
				formations.
L.
Run-off.
"Run-off" means any rainwater, leachate or other liquid that
				drains from the facility property over land.
M.
Significant Ground Water
				Aquifer.
"Significant ground water aquifer" means a porous formation of
				ice-contact and glacial outwash sand and gravel that contains significant
				recoverable quantities of water which is likely to provide drinking water
				supplies.
N.
Storage.
"Storage" means the containment of waste oil, either on a temporary basis or
				for a period of years, in such a manner so as not to constitute disposal of the
				waste oil.
O.
Substantial
				Modification.
"Substantial modification" means any change in size,
				volume handled or operation of a licensed facility which may pose a risk to
				health, safety, welfare or the environment which is significantly different in
				kind or degree from that posed by the facility without the modification, or may
				pose a significant risk which was not considered in the original application or
				is not addressed in the existing license.
P.
Surface Impoundment.
"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 materials, although it may be lined with man-made materials, which is
				designed to hold or holds an accumulation of liquid wastes or wastes containing
				free liquids, and which is not an injection well. Examples of surface
				impoundments are holding, storage, treatment, settling and aeration pits, ponds
				and lagoons.
Q.
Transport.
"Transport" means the movement of hazardous or solid waste,
				waste oil, sludge or septage from the point of generation to any intermediate
				points and finally to the point of ultimate disposition. Movement of hazardous
				waste on the site where it is generated or on the site of a licensed waste
				facility for hazardous waste is not "transport". Movement of waste oil on the
				site where it is generated or on the site of a licensed waste oil dealer's
				facility is not "transport".
R.
Utility Boiler.
''Utility boiler" means any boiler which produces
				electric power, steam, or heated or cooled air for sale.
S.
Waste Oil.
''Waste oil" means
				a petroleum-based oil which, through use or handling, has become unsuitable for
				its original purpose due to the presence of impurities or loss of original
				properties. It must have sufficient liquid content to be free flowing. Waste
				oil is further defined in Section 4 of this rule.
T.
Waste Oil Dealer.
''Waste oil
				dealer" means any person in the business of transporting or handling more than
				1,000 gallons of waste oil for the purpose of resale in a calendar month. A
				person who collects or stores waste oil on the site of generation, whether or
				not for the purpose of resale, is not a waste oil dealer.
U.
Waste Oil Storage Facility.
'Waste oil storage facility" means any land area, structure, equipment or
				combination thereof which is owned or operated by a waste oil dealer and which
				is either used, or is capable of being used, for the storage and handling of
				1,000 gallons of waste oil per calendar mouth.