Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 567 - Environmental Protection Commission › Title VIII - Solid Waste Management and Disposal › Chapter 108 - Beneficial Use Determinations: Solid By-products as Resources and Alternative Cover Material › Rule 567-108.3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall
				  have the meaning indicated in this chapter. The definitions set out in Iowa
				  Code section
				  455B301.
				  shall be considered to be incorporated verbatim in these rules.
"Alternative cover material"
means a
				  substitute material or mix of materials that can be utilized in lieu of soil as
				  cover material at a sanitary landfill.
"Beneficial use"
means a specific
				  utilization of a solid by-product as a resource, that constitutes reuse rather
				  than disposal, does not adversely affect human health or the environment, and
				  is approved by the department.
"Beneficial use determination"
means a
				  written formal decision or rule issued by the department as approval for a
				  solid by-product to be utilized in a specific manner as a beneficial
				  use.
"Coal combustion by-product"
means any solid
				  by-product produced by the burning of coal, by itself or in conjunction with
				  natural gas or other fossil fuel, which is suitable for disposal as solid waste
				  in a sanitary landfill. Examples include boiler slag, bottom ash, fly ash, and
				  flue gas desulfurization by-products from pollution control equipment. Coal
				  combustion by-products are also referred to as coal combustion residue.
"Cover material"
means soil placed as daily,
				  intermediate, or final cover at a sanitary landfill.
"Fill material"
means material that is used
				  to raise the elevation of, take up space in, or build up the level of the land.
				  For the purposes of this chapter, fill material is not considered subbase for
				  hard-surface road construction.
"Foundry sand"
means a solid by-product from
				  the foundry industry that is derived from molding, core-making, and casting
				  cleaning processes that primarily contain sand, olivine, or clay and that is
				  suitable for disposal as solid waste in a sanitary landfill.
"High water table"
is the position of the
				  water table which occurs in the spring in years of normal or above-normal
				  precipitation.
"Resource"
means a solid by-product that can
				  provide greater benefit to the environment or human welfare in its beneficial
				  use as a safe and effective substitute for a raw material, fuel or energy
				  source, or natural resource, rather than being disposed of as a solid waste in
				  a sanitary landfill.
"Solid by-product"
means a secondary
				  material or residual, produced or created by an industrial, commercial or
				  institutional process or activity, that has been source separated by the
				  generating entity and that would otherwise be disposed of as solid waste. Solid
				  by-products are composed of materials suitable for disposal as solid waste in a
				  sanitary landfill.
"Subbase for hard-surface road construction"
means material that is used in subsurface applications for the construction of
				  roads, including their shoulders, and parking lots that have hard surfaces such
				  as concrete or asphalt. For the purposes of this chapter, subbase for
				  hard-surface road construction is not considered fill material.
"Suitable for disposal as solid waste in a sanitary
				  landfill"
means that the material is in compliance with all state and
				  federal rules and regulations pertaining to what may be disposed of in an Iowa
				  sanitary landfill. Such materials are at a minimum nonhazardous and
				  nonradioactive, are solid or semisolid, and do not contain free liquids
				  pursuant to the Paint Filter Liquids Test (Reference:
				  40 CFR
				  25828.).
"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.
"Water table"
means the water surface below
				  the ground at which the unsaturated zone ends and the saturated zone
				  begins.