Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 33 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Part V - Hazardous Wastes and Hazardous Materials › Subpart 1 - Department of Environmental Quality-Hazardous Waste › Chapter 4 - Requirements for Commercial Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facility Permits › Section V-403 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. The definitions
				  used in this Chapter are intended to apply to commercial hazardous waste
				  facilities. Terms not defined herein shall have the meanings given them in LAC
				  33:V.109.
Aquifer Recharge Zone
- a land area in
					 which water reaches the zone of saturation from surface infiltration (e.g., an
					 area where rainwater soaks through the earth to reach an aquifer).
Day Care Center
- any place or facility
					 operated by any institution, society, agency, corporation, person or persons,
					 or any other group for the primary purpose of providing care, supervision, and
					 guidance of seven or more children not related to the caregiver and
					 unaccompanied by parent or guardian on a regular basis for at least 20 hours in
					 a continuous seven-day week.
Entertainment Facility
- any place where
					 the primary purpose is to amuse, please, or provide hospitality to patrons or
					 guests.
Food Storage Area
- any facility or
					 structure used to store or contain any foodstuff for human or animal
					 consumption.
Hospital
- a medical institution whose
					 principal activity or business is the diagnosis, care, and treatment of human
					 illness through the maintenance and operation of organized facilities
					 therefor.
Nursing Home
- a private home,
					 institution, building, residence, or other place, serving two or more persons
					 who are not related by blood or marriage to the operator, whether operated for
					 profit or not, and including those places operated by a political subdivision
					 of the state of Louisiana, which undertakes, through its ownership or
					 management, to provide maintenance, personal care, or nursing for persons who,
					 by reason of illness or physical infirmity or age, are unable to properly care
					 for themselves.
Prison
- a state or federal facility of
					 confinement for convicted criminals, especially felons.
Public Building
- a building or
					 appurtenance to a building that is built in whole or in part or leased with
					 public monies. Examples include, but are not limited to, federal, state, or
					 parish office buildings, courthouses, post offices, custom houses, public
					 record centers, public libraries, public schools, appraisers' stores, and
					 transportation facilities that accommodate traveling passengers.
Residential Area
- those areas where
					 people live or reside including the property on which housing is located, as
					 well as playgrounds, roadways, sidewalks, parks, and other similar areas within
					 a residential community.
School
- any profit or nonprofit, public
					 or private, day, night, or residential school that provides elementary,
					 secondary, college, or post-graduate education as determined under state law or
					 any school of any agency of the United States.
Wetland
- open water areas or areas that
					 are inundated or saturated by surface or groundwater at a frequency and
					 duration sufficient to support, and under normal circumstances do support, a
					 prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil
					 conditions.
Wildlife Management Area
- any area set
					 aside, maintained, and supervised by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and
					 Fisheries for the purpose of managing and harvesting wild birds, wild
					 quadrupeds, fish, and other aquatic life under controlled conditions to afford
					 maximum hunting and fishing opportunity.
Wildlife Preserve
- any area set aside and
					 designated by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries as a refuge on
					 which wild birds and animals are protected.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 30:2178.