Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 567 - Environmental Protection Commission › Title VIII - Solid Waste Management and Disposal › Chapter 113 - Sanitary Landfills for Municipal Solid Waste: Groundwater Protection Systems for the Disposal of Nonhazardous Wastes › Rule 567-113.3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
Unless otherwise noted, the definitions set forth in Iowa
				  Code section
				  455B301.
				  and 567-Chapter 100, which are incorporated by reference; the definitions that
				  appear in specific rules within this chapter; and the following definitions
				  shall apply to this chapter: [See Objection
at end of chapter]
"Active life"
means the period of operation
				  beginning with the initial receipt of solid waste and ending at completion of
				  closure activities in accordance with rule 113.12(455B).
"Active portion "
means that part of a
				  facility or unit that has received or is receiving wastes and that has not been
				  closed in accordance with rule 113.12(45 5B).
"Aquifer"
has the same meaning as in
				  567-Chapter 100.
"Commercial solid waste "
means all types of
				  solid waste generated by stores, offices, restaurants, warehouses, and other
				  nonmanufacturing activities, excluding residential and industrial
				  wastes.
"Existing MSWLF unit"
means any municipal
				  solid waste landfill unit that has received solid waste as of the most recent
				  permit renewal.
"Facility "
means all contiguous land and
				  structures, other appurtenances, and improvements on the land used for the
				  disposal of solid waste. The facility is formally defined in the permit issued
				  by the department. Buffer lands around a facility are not required to be
				  included in the permitted boundary of a facility.
"High water table"
has the same meaning as
				  in 567-Chapter 100.
"Household waste"
means 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).
"Industrial solid waste "
means solid waste
				  generated by manufacturing or industrial processes that is not a hazardous
				  waste regulated under Subtitle C of RCRA. Such waste may include, but is not
				  limited to, waste resulting from the following manufacturing processes:
				  electric power generation; fertilizer and agricultural chemicals; food and
				  related products and by-products; inorganic chemicals; iron and steel
				  manufacturing; leather and leather products; nonferrous metals manufacturing
				  and foundries; organic chemicals; plastics and resins manufacturing; pulp and
				  paper industry; rubber and miscellaneous plastic products; stone, glass, clay,
				  and concrete products; textile manufacturing; transportation equipment; and
				  water treatment. "Industrial solid waste" does not include mining waste or oil
				  and gas waste.
"Lateral expansion "
means a horizontal
				  expansion of the waste boundaries of an existing MSWLF unit.
"Municipal solid waste landfill (MSWLF)
				  unit"
means a discrete area of land or an excavation that receives
				  household waste, and that is not a land application site, surface impoundment,
				  injection well, or waste pile, as those terms are defined under 40 CFR Part
				  257.2. An MSWLF unit also may receive other types of RCRA Subtitle D wastes,
				  such as commercial solid waste, nonhazardous sludge, construction and
				  demolition debris, and industrial solid waste. An MSWLF unit may be publicly or
				  privately owned. An MSWLF unit may be a new MSWLF unit, an existing MSWLF unit,
				  or a lateral expansion. A construction and demolition landfill that receives
				  residential lead-based paint waste and does not receive any other household
				  waste is not an MSWLF unit.
"New MSWLF unit"
means any municipal solid
				  waste landfill unit that has not received waste prior to the most recent permit
				  renewal.
"Open burning"
has the same meaning as in
				  567-Chapter 100.
"Operator"
has the same meaning as in
				  567-Chapter 100.
"Owner "
means the person(s) who owns a
				  facility or part of a facility.
"Point of compliance"
or
"POC"
means the point at which the MSWLF owner or operator
				  demonstrates compliance with the liner performance standard, if applicable, and
				  with the groundwater protection standard. The point of compliance is a vertical
				  surface located hydraulically downgradient of the waste management area that
				  extends down into the uppermost aquifer underlying the regulated MSWLF unit(s)
				  and where groundwater monitoring shall be conducted.
"Residential lead-based paint waste "
means
				  waste containing lead-based paint that is generated as a result of activities
				  such as abatement, rehabilitation, renovation and remodeling in homes and other
				  residences. "Residential lead-based paint waste" includes, but is not limited
				  to, lead-based paint debris, chips, dust, and sludges.
"Runoff"
means any rainwater, leachate, or
				  other liquid that drains over land from any part of a facility.
"Run-on "
means any rainwater, leachate, or
				  other liquid that drains over land onto any part of a facility.
"Saturated zone "
means that part of the
				  earth's crust in which all voids are filled with water.
"Sewage sludge"
has the same meaning as in
				  567-Chapter 67.
"Sludge "
means any solid, semisolid, or
				  liquid waste generated from a commercial or industrial wastewater treatment
				  plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, or any
				  other such waste having similar characteristics and effects exclusive of the
				  treated effluent from a wastewater treatment plant.
"Statistically significant increase "
or
"SSI"
means a statistical difference large enough to account
				  for data variability and not thought to be due to chance alone.
"Uppermost aquifer"
means the geologic
				  formation nearest the natural ground surface that is an aquifer, as well as
				  lower aquifers that are hydraulically interconnected with this aquifer within
				  the facility's property boundary.
"Vertical expansion"
means additional waste
				  placement on top of or against the side slopes of a previously filled MSWLF
				  unit, whether active, closed, or inactive.
"Waste management unit boundary"
means a
				  vertical surface located at the hydraulically downgradient limit of the unit.
				  This vertical surface extends down into the uppermost aquifer.
[Editorial change: IAC Supplement 2/25/09]