Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 46 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS › Part XXIII - Certified Solid Waste Operators › Chapter 1 - General › Section XXIII-107 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. As used in these rules, the following words shall have the
				  meanings ascribed to them in this Section unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise.
Board
-the Board of Certification and
				  Training for Solid Waste Disposal System Operators.
Certificate
-the document or documents issued
				  by the board which attest to the competency of the operator.
Certification
-the process or act whereby an
				  operator meets the requirements for obtaining a certificate of
				  competency.
Certified
-holding a currently valid
				  certificate.
Commercial Solid Waste
-all types of solid
				  waste generated by stores, offices, restaurants, warehouses, and other
				  non-manufacturing activities, excluding residential and industrial solid
				  wastes.
Conditional Certification
-allows an operator
				  to operate only the facility at which he is employed at the time of
				  certification for a period not to exceed six months.
Department-
the Department of Environmental
				  Quality, as created by
				  R.S.
				  30:2001 et seq.
Disposal
-the discharge, deposit, injection,
				  dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any solid waste on or into any land
				  or water so that such solid waste, or any constituent thereof, may have the
				  potential for entering the environment or being emitted into the air or
				  discharged into any waters of Louisiana.
Examination
-a written examination taken by
				  applicants in order to measure their knowledge of solid waste
				  management.
Industrial Solid Waste
-solid waste generated
				  by a manufacturing, industrial, or mining process or which is contaminated by
				  solid waste generated by such a process. Such waste may include, but is not
				  limited to, waste resulting from the following manufacturing processes:
				  electric power generation; fertilizer/agricultural chemicals; food and related
				  products; by-products; inorganic chemicals; iron and steel manufacturing;
				  leather and leather products; nonferrous metals manufacturing/foundries;
				  organic chemicals; plastics and resins manufacturing; pulp and paper industry;
				  rubber and miscellaneous plastic products; stone, glass, clay, and concrete
				  products; textile manufacturing; and transportation equipment. This term does
				  not include hazardous waste regulated under the Louisiana Hazardous Waste
				  Regulations or under federal law or waste which is subject to regulation under
				  the Office of Conservation's Statewide Order No. 29-B or by other
				  agencies.
Operator
-any person employed in responsible
				  charge of operating all or a portion of a solid waste processing or disposal
				  facility.
Process
-a method or technique, including
				  recycling, recovering, compacting (but not including compacting which occurs
				  solely within a transportation vehicle), composting, incinerating, shredding,
				  baling, recovering resources, pyrolyzing, or any other method or technique
				  designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological character or
				  composition of a solid waste to render it safer for transport; reduced in
				  volume; or amenable for recovery, storage, reshipment, or resale. The
				  definition of process does not include treatment of wastewaters to meet state
				  or federal wastewater discharge permit limits. Neither does the definition
				  include activities of an industrial generator to simply separate wastes from
				  the manufacturing process.
Recertification
-the process whereby an
				  operator renews an expiring certificate.
Regular Certification
-allows an operator to
				  operate any facility of the type for which the certificate is issued. Regular
				  certificates are issued for a four-year period.
Residential Solid Waste
-any solid waste
				  (including garbage, trash, and sludges from residential septic tanks and
				  wastewater treatment facilities) derived from households (including single and
				  multiple residences, hotels and motels, bunkhouses, ranger stations, crew
				  quarters, campgrounds, picnic grounds, and day-use recreation areas).
Solid Waste
-garbage, refuse, or sludge from
				  a wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution
				  control facility, and other discarded material, including solid, liquid,
				  semi-solid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial,
				  commercial, mining, or agricultural operations, and from community activities;
				  but does not include or mean solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage or
				  solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial
				  discharges that are point sources subject to permits under
				  R.S.
				  30:2075, or source, special nuclear, or
				  by-product material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, or
				  hazardous waste subject to permits under
				  R.S.
				  30:2171 et seq.
Solid Waste Disposal Facility
-actual land
				  and associated appurtenances used for the function of disposing of solid
				  wastes, except those facilities that dispose of only industrial solid
				  waste.
Solid Waste Management Facility (SWMF)
-any
				  facility classified under the solid waste management system including, but not
				  limited to, nonhazardous solid waste landfills, landfarming operations,
				  incinerators, transfer stations, non-industrial surface impoundments,
				  construction and demolition debris facilities, and composting, refuse-derived,
				  and separation facilities.
Solid Waste Management System
-the entire
				  process of collection, transportation, storage, processing, and disposal of
				  solid waste by any person engaged in such process as a business, municipality,
				  authority, trust, parish or by any combination thereof.
Solid Waste Processing Facility
-actual land
				  or appurtenances used for processing solid wastes, except those facilities that
				  process only industrial wastes.
Training
-the process whereby an operator
				  obtains required formal instruction in the area of solid waste
				  management.
Type II Facility
-a facility used for
				  disposing of residential or commercial solid waste.
Type II-A Facility
-a facility used for
				  processing residential, infectious, or commercial solid waste (e.g., a transfer
				  station, incinerator waste-handling facility, refuse-derived fuel facility,
				  shredder, baler, autoclave, or compactor).
Type III Facility
-a facility used for
				  disposing or processing of construction/demolition debris or woodwaste,
				  composting organic waste to produce a usable material, or separating recyclable
				  wastes (a separation facility). Residential, commercial, or industrial solid
				  waste must not be disposed of in a Type III facility.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
				  Promulgated in accordance with
				  R.S.
				  37:3151 and
				  R.S.
				  37:3154.