Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 33 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Part VII - Solid Waste › Subpart 2 - Recycling › Chapter 104 - Credit for New Recycling Manufacturing or Process Equipment and/or Service Contracts › Section VII-10405 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. For the purpose
				  of this Chapter the terms below shall have the meaning specified herein as
				  follows.
Beneficial Use
- the use of waste material
					 for some profitable purpose (e.g., incorporating sludge into soil to amend the
					 soil). Avoidance of processing or disposal cost alone does not constitute
					 beneficial use.
Conventional Disposal
- the disposal as
					 waste in a cell at a landfill. It shall not include any application
					 specifically approved by the department as a beneficial use (e.g., alternate
					 daily cover).
Industrial Solid Waste
- solid waste
					 generated by a manufacturing, industrial, or mining process, or which is
					 contaminated by solid waste generated by such a process. Such waste may
					 include, but is not limited to, waste resulting from the following
					 manufacturing processes: electric power generation; fertilizer/agricultural
					 chemicals; food and related products; byproducts; inorganic chemicals; iron and
					 steel manufacturing; leather and leather products; nonferrous metals
					 manufacturing/foundries; organic chemicals; plastics and resins manufacturing;
					 pulp and paper industry; rubber and miscellaneous plastic products; stone,
					 glass, clay, and concrete products; textile manufacturing; and transportation
					 equipment. This term shall not include hazardous waste regulated under the
					 Louisiana hazardous waste regulations or under federal law, or waste which is
					 subject to regulation under the Office of Conservation's Statewide Order No.
					 29-B or by other agencies.
Post-Consumer Waste Material
- any product
					 generated by a business or consumer which has served its intended end use, and
					 which has been separated from solid waste for the purposes of collection,
					 marketing and disposition and which does not include secondary waste material,
					 hazardous waste, or demolition waste.
Process
- a method or technique, including
					 recycling, recovering, compacting (but not including compacting that occurs
					 solely within a transportation vehicle), composting, incinerating, shredding,
					 baling, recovering resources, pyrolyzing, or any other method or technique
					 designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological character or
					 composition of a solid waste to render it safer for transport, reduced in
					 volume, or amenable for recovery, storage, reshipment, or resale. The
					 definition of
process
shall not include treatment of
					 wastewaters to meet state or federal wastewater discharge permit limits.
					 Neither shall the definition include activities of an industrial generator to
					 simply separate wastes from the manufacturing process.
Qualified New Recycling Manufacturing or Process
					 Equipment
- new machinery or new apparatus used exclusively to process
					 post-consumer waste material, recovered material, or both, and manufacturing
					 machinery used exclusively to produce finished products, the composition of
					 which is at least 50 percent post-consumer waste material, recovered material,
					 or both. For purposes of this Chapter,
qualified new recycling
					 manufacturing or process equipment
shall not include vehicles,
					 structures, machinery, equipment, or devices used to store or incinerate waste
					 material, or construction equipment or farm equipment used in the
					 process.
Qualified Service Contract
- any service
					 contract utilized by a nonhazardous industrial waste generator or a
					 nonhazardous industrial waste beneficial user to implement Department of
					 Environmental Quality-approved beneficial use programs for nonhazardous
					 industrial waste streams as defined under the department's solid waste rules
					 and regulations so as to avoid conventional disposal of such waste in a
					 landfill.
Recovered Material
-
recovered
					 materials
as defined in
					 R.S.
					 30:2412 and which would otherwise be
					 processed or disposed of as nonhazardous solid waste.
Recycling
- any process by which
					 nonhazardous solid waste, or material which would otherwise become solid waste,
					 is collected, separated, or processed and reused or returned to use in the form
					 of raw material or products.
Secondary Waste Material
- waste material
					 generated after the completion of a manufacturing process.
Solid Waste
- any garbage, refuse, or
					 sludge from a wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air
					 pollution control facility, and other discarded material, including solid,
					 liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial,
					 commercial, mining, and agricultural operations, and from community activities.
Solid waste
shall not include solid or dissolved material in
					 domestic sewage; solid or dissolved materials in irrigation-return flows;
					 industrial discharges that are point sources subject to permits under
					 R.S.
					 30:2075; source, special nuclear, or
					 byproduct material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (68 Stat. 923 et
					 seq.), as amended; or hazardous waste subject to permits under
					 R.S. 30:2171
					 et seq.
Vehicle
- an automobile; motorcycle;
					 truck; trailer; semitrailer; truck, tractor and semitrailer combination; or any
					 other vehicle used to transport persons or property and propelled by
					 power.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 47:6005.