Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 128 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 25 - STANDARDS FOR UNIVERSAL WASTE MANAGEMENT › Section 128-25-008

Current through June 17, 2024
The following definitions are for the purposes of Chapter 25.
008.01 Battery
"Battery" means a device consisting of one or more electrically
	 connected electrochemical cells which is designed to receive, store, and
	 deliver electric energy. An electrochemical cell is a system consisting of an
	 anode, cathode, and an electrolyte, plus such connections (electrical and
	 mechanical) as may be needed to allow the cell to deliver or receive electrical
	 energy. The term battery also includes an intact, unbroken battery from which
	 the electrolyte has been removed.
008.02 Destination facility
"Destination facility" means a facility that treats, disposes of, or
	 recycles a particular category of universal waste, except those management
	 activities described in
012.01
,
012.03
,
012.04
,
023.01
,
023.03
, and
023.04
of this chapter. A facility at which a
	 particular category of universal waste is only accumulated, is not a
	 destination facility for purposes of managing that category of universal
	 waste.
008.03 Electronic
  item
"Electronic item" means electronic equipment that contains one or more
	 electronic circuit boards or other complex circuitry, including but not limited
	 to computer monitors, televisions, central processing units (CPUs), laptop
	 computers, printers, terminals, keyboards, mainframes, stereo equipment,
	 telephones, and recording/playback devices. Electronic items include components
	 and subassemblies or other parts derived from the disassembly of electronic
	 devices. While many waste electronic items do not fail the toxicity
	 characteristic leaching procedure test for heavy metals if left intact,
	 individual components generated by disassembly may fail the toxicity
	 characteristic leaching procedure test. "Electronic items" does not include
	 discarded household appliances as defined by Title 132 -
Integrated
	 Solid Waste Management Regulations
, Chapter 1,
034
.
008.04 FFDCA
"FFDCA" means Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act (
	 21
	 U.S.C. §
											301 et seq).
008.05 FIFRA
"FIFRA" means the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (
	 7 U.S.C.
	 136-136y ).
008.06 LAMP
"Lamp", also referred to as "universal waste lamp", is defined as the
	 bulb or tube portion of an electric lighting device. A lamp is specifically
	 designed to produce radiant energy, most often in the ultraviolet, visible, and
	 infra-red regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Examples of common universal
	 waste electric lamps include, but are not limited to, fluorescent, high
	 intensity discharge, neon, mercury vapor, high pressure sodium, and metal
	 halide lamps.
008.07 Large
  quantity handler of universal waste
"Large quantity handler of universal waste" means a universal waste
	 handler (as defined in this section) who accumulates 5,000 kilograms or more
	 total of universal waste (batteries, pesticides, mercury-containing items,
	 lamps, or electronic items, calculated collectively) at any time. This
	 designation as a large quantity handler of universal waste is retained through
	 the end of the calendar year in which 5,000 kilograms or more total of
	 universal waste is accumulated.
008.08 Mercury-containing item
"Mercury-containing item" means any electrical, mechanical, or medical
	 product or component (excluding batteries and lamps) which contains elemental
	 mercury and the elemental mercury is necessary for its operation where the
	 mercury acts as a conductor of temperature, pressure, or electricity, or acts
	 as a weight damper. The mercury must be housed within an outer metal, glass, or
	 plastic casing. Mercury-containing devices include but are not limited to;
	 barometers, sphygmomanometers, electrical switches and relays, gauges and flow
	 regulators, manometers, bow stabilizers, thermometers, thermocouples, and
	 mercury-filled pumps.
008.09
  OSHA
"OSHA" means Occupational Safety and Health Act
	 29
	 U.S.C §
											651 et seq).
008.10 Pesticide
"Pesticide" means any substance or mixture of substances intended for
	 preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest, or intended for use
	 as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant, other than any article
	 that:
008.10A Is a new animal drug
  under FFDCA section 201(w), or
008.10B Is an animal drug that has been
  determined by regulation of the Secretary of Health and Human Services not to
  be a new animal drug, or
008.10C Is
  an animal feed under FFDCA section 201(x) that bears or contains any substances
  described by
008.08A
or
008.08B
of this chapter.