Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 567 - Environmental Protection Commission › Title VIII - Solid Waste Management and Disposal › Chapter 106 - Citizen Convenience Centers and Transfer Stations › Rule 567-106.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
In addition to the definitions set out in Iowa Code section
				  455B301.,
				  which shall be considered incorporated by reference in these rules, the
				  following definitions shall apply:
"Citizen convenience center"
means a
				  permanent, fixed-location facility that has the primary purpose of receiving
				  solid waste from citizens and small businesses that do not utilize solid waste
				  collection vehicles or satellite solid waste collection vehicles. A citizen
				  convenience center is a sanitary disposal project and may hold solid waste for
				  a short period of time before collection. A citizen convenience center is not a
				  transfer station or final disposal facility.
"Hot load"
means solid waste that is
				  smoking, smoldering, emitting flames or hot gases or otherwise indicating that
				  the solid waste is in the process of combustion or close to igniting.
"Incidental solid waste transfer"
means the
				  truck-to-truck transfer of solid waste from a satellite solid waste collection
				  vehicle to a solid waste collection vehicle, if that solid waste could be
				  collected only by a satellite solid waste collection vehicle due to vehicle
				  access restrictions.
"Satellite solid waste collection vehicle"
means a small, specialized solid waste collection vehicle that has been
				  specifically designed to service locations that have vehicle access
				  restrictions that would otherwise render solid waste collection technically
				  prohibitive.
"Solid waste collection vehicle"
means a
				  vehicle that has the primary purpose of collecting solid waste from a variety
				  of locations, including at curbside and from dumpsters, compactors, and
				  roll-off boxes.
"Solid waste transport vehicle"
means a
				  vehicle that serves the purpose of transporting solid waste received by a
				  transfer station.
"Surgepit"
means a pit inside a transfer
				  station building that receives solid waste from the tipping floor or directly
				  from solid waste collection vehicles. Surge pits provide more space for
				  temporary storage during peak operating hours and allow for additional
				  compaction of the solid waste before it is loaded into solid waste transport
				  vehicles.
"Transfer station"
means a permanent,
				  fixed-location, enclosed transportation terminal that has the primary purpose
				  of receiving solid waste from solid waste collection vehicles and loading that
				  solid waste into solid waste transport vehicles. Truck-to-truck transfer of
				  solid waste that is not incidental solid waste transfer is not allowed outside
				  a transfer station building. A transfer station is a sanitary disposal project
				  and may hold or store solid waste before transport for a short period of time.
				  A transfer station is not a final disposal facility.
"Truck-to-truck transfer"
means the direct
				  transfer of solid waste from one vehicle to a second vehicle with no
				  intermediary handling. Truck-to-truck transfer of solid waste that is not
				  incidental solid waste transfer is not allowed outside a transfer station
				  building.
"Vector"
means a carrier organism that is
				  capable of transmitting a pathogen from one organism to another. Vectors
				  include, but are not limited to, birds, rats and other rodents, and
				  insects.
"Washwater"
means a water-based liquid that
				  has either originated from solid waste unloaded inside the enclosed portion of
				  a transfer station or that has come into contact with enclosed transfer station
				  areas that have come into contact with solid waste.