Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 11 - Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality › Part 4 - Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management Regulations › Chapter 6 - Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality Nonhazardous Solid Waste Corrective Action Trust Fund Regulations › Rule 11-4-6.1 - Definitions

Current through June 25, 2024
A.
Closure
-
				activities conducted by the owner to properly secure a solid waste disposal
				facility in such a manner as to prevent or reduce the potential for
				contaminants to be released to an off-site location or to prevent or minimize
				the possibility of persons being exposed to the solid wastes disposed at the
				facility.
B.
Corrective
				Action
- actions considered necessary to assess and remediate
				contaminants at a nonhazardous solid waste management facility. In the case of
				an emergency, corrective action is the necessary action to eliminate the
				immediate or future threat to human health and the environment or to reduce
				said threat to a level acceptable by the Mississippi Department of
				Environmental Quality.
C.
Commission
- Mississippi Commission on Environmental
				Quality.
D.
Department
- Mississippi Department of Environmental
				Quality.
E.
Household
				Waste
- any solid waste (including garbage, trash, and sanitary
				waste in septic tanks) derived from households (including single and multiple
				residences, hotels and motels, bunkhouses, ranger stations, crew quarters,
				campgrounds, picnic grounds, and day-use recreation areas).
F.
Mississippi Nonhazardous Solid
				Waste Corrective Action Trust Fund
(Trust Fund) -a fund
				established for the purpose of providing reimbursements for the costs of
				emergency, preventive or corrective actions which may be required or determined
				necessary by the Department of Environmental Quality of any private and
				publicly owned nonhazardous solid waste disposal facility which received in
				whole or in part household waste and which closed prior to the effective date
				of Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Section 258.
G.
Owner
- the
				person to whom the Department issued a permit to operate a nonhazardous solid
				waste disposal facility and who was the permittee at the time the facility
				closed. In cases where the current owner of the facility property is different
				from the permittee, the Commission may declare the current property owner to be
				the owner or co-owner of the facility.
H.
Post-Closure Care
- those actions that are conducted after the closure of a nonhazardous solid
				waste disposal facility in order to maintain the integrity and effectiveness of
				any closure action and that are required by the Department to monitor the site
				and to continue the removal of any potential contaminants which may migrate
				from the site. Post-closure care may also include prevention of ponded water
				and migration of leachate and methane gas.
I.
Solid waste disposal
				facility
- any facility used for the purpose of disposing of
				nonhazardous solid waste, and receiving in whole or in part household waste at
				some time during its operation.
Miss Code Ann.
				  §§
										17-17-1,
				  et seq., 17-17-63, 17-17-201, et seq., 49-2-9(1)(b), 49-17-17(i), 49-2-1, et
				  seq. and 49-17-1, et seq.