Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 33 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Part V - Hazardous Wastes and Hazardous Materials › Subpart 1 - Department of Environmental Quality-Hazardous Waste › Chapter 38 - Universal Wastes › Subchapter A - General › Section V-3813 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
Ampule
-an airtight vial made of glass,
						plastic, metal, or any combination of these materials.
Antifreeze
-an ethylene glycol based
						mixture that lowers the freezing point of water and is used as an engine
						coolant.
Battery
-a device consisting of one or
						more electrically connected electrochemical cells which is designed to receive,
						store, and deliver electric energy. An electrochemical cell is a system
						consisting of an anode, cathode, and an electrolyte, plus such connections
						(electrical and mechanical) as may be needed to allow the cell to deliver or
						receive electrical energy. The term
battery
also includes an
						intact, unbroken battery from which the electrolyte has been removed.
Destination Facility
-a facility that
						treats, disposes of, or recycles a particular category of universal waste,
						except those management activities described in LAC 33:V.3821.A and C and
						3843.A and C. A facility at which a particular category of universal waste is
						only accumulated, is not a destination facility for purposes of managing that
						category of universal waste. A facility that shreds, crushes, heats, or
						otherwise treats electronic devices or any component thereof, shall be
						considered a destination facility. A facility shall not be considered a
						destination facility if it engages in the disassembly or demanufacturing of
						electronics:
1. for the purpose of marketing, reselling, reusing, or
						recycling the components of the electronic devices; and
2. without treating the electronic devices or any
						component thereof.
Electronics
or
Electronic
						Device
-a device or a component thereof that contains one or more
						circuit boards and is used primarily for data transfer or storage,
						communication, or entertainment purposes, including but not limited to, desktop
						and laptop computers, computer peripherals, monitors, copying machines,
						scanners, printers, radios, televisions, camcorders, video cassette recorders
						(VCRs), compact disc players, digital video disc players, MP3 players,
						telephones, including cellular and portable telephones, and stereos.
FIFRA
-The Federal Insecticide,
						Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7
						U.S.C. 136 -
						136 y).
Generator
-any person, by site, whose
						act or process produces hazardous waste identified or listed in LAC
						33:V.Chapter 49 or whose act first causes a hazardous waste to become subject
						to regulation.
Lamp
(also referred to as
Universal
W
aste Lamp
)-the bulb or tube
						portion of an electric lighting device. A lamp is specifically designed to
						produce radiant energy, most often in the ultraviolet, visible, and infra-red
						regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Examples of common universal waste
						electric lamps include, but are not limited to, fluorescent, high intensity
						discharge, neon, mercury vapor, high pressure sodium, and metal halide
						lamps.
Large Quantity Handler of Universal
						Waste
-a
universal waste handler
(as defined in this
						Section) who accumulates 5,000 kilograms or more total of universal waste
						(batteries, pesticides, mercury-containing equipment, lamps, electronics, or
						antifreeze, calculated collectively) at any time. This designation as a
large quantity handler of universal waste
is retained through
						the end of the calendar year in which the 5,000 kilogram-limit is met or
						exceeded.
Mercury-Containing Equipment
-a device
						or part of a device (including thermostats, but excluding batteries and lamps)
						that contains elemental mercury integral to its function.
Mercury-Containing Lamp
-an electric
						lamp in which mercury is purposely introduced by the manufacturer for the
						operation of the lamp.
On-Site
- the same or geographically
						contiguous property which may be divided by public or private right-of-way,
						provided that the entrance and exit between the properties is at a crossroads
						intersection, and access is by crossing as opposed to going along the right of
						way. Noncontiguous properties owned by the same person but connected by a
						right-of-way which he controls and to which the public does not have access,
						are also considered on-site property.
Pesticide
-any substance or mixture of
						substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any
						pest, or intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant, other
						than any article that:
1. is a new animal drug under FFDCA Section 201(w);
						or
2. is an animal drug that has been determined by
						regulation of the secretary of Health and Human Services not to be a new animal
						drug; or
3. is an animal feed under FFDCA Section 201(x) that
						bears or contains any substances described by Paragraph 1 or 2 of this
						Subsection.
Small Quantity Handler of Universal
						Waste
-a
universal waste handler
(as defined in this
						Section) who does not accumulate 5,000 kilograms or more total of universal
						waste (batteries, pesticides, mercury-containing equipment, lamps, electronics,
						or antifreeze, calculated collectively) at any time.
Thermostat
-a temperature control device
						that contains metallic mercury in an ampule attached to a bimetal sensing
						element, and mercury-containing ampules that have been removed from these
						temperature control devices in compliance with the requirements of LAC
						33:V.3821.C.2 or 3843.C.2.
Universal Waste
-any of the following
						hazardous wastes that are subject to the universal waste requirements of this
						Chapter:
1. batteries as described in LAC 33:V.3803;
2. pesticides as described in LAC 33:V.3805;
3. mercury-containing equipment as described in LAC
						33:V.3807;
4. lamps as described in LAC 33:V.3809;
5. electronics as described in LAC 33:V.3810; and
6. antifreeze as described in LAC 33:V.3811.
Universal Waste Handler
-a generator (as
						defined in this Section) of universal waste; or the owner or operator of a
						facility, including all contiguous property, that receives universal waste from
						other universal waste handlers, accumulates universal waste, and sends
						universal waste to another universal waste handler, to a destination facility,
						or to a foreign destination. A universal waste handler does not include a
						person who treats (except under the provisions of LAC 33:V.3821.A or C, or
						3843.A or C), disposes of, or recycles universal waste; or a person engaged in
						the off-site transportation of universal waste by air, rail, highway, or water,
						including a universal waste transfer facility.
Universal Waste Transfer Facility
-any
						transportation-related facility including loading docks, parking areas, storage
						areas and other similar areas where shipments of universal waste are held
						during the normal course of transportation for 10 days or less.
Universal Waste Transporter
-a person
						engaged in the off-site transportation of universal waste by air, rail,
						highway, or water.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
						Promulgated in accordance with
						R.S.
						30:2180 et
						seq.