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Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 131 - RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITIES AND DRINKING WATER CONSTRUCTION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM › Chapter 11 - GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR ELIGIBLE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FOR THE LINKED DEPOSIT PROGRAM (REPEALED)

Current through June 17, 2024
Enabling Legislation: Neb. Rev. Stat. §
										81-15,148;
		§ 81-15 -149; §§
										81-15,151
		to
		81-15,153
Legal Citation: Title 131, Ch. 11, Nebraska Department of
		Environmental Quality
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Appendix III - CONCENTRATION VALUES AT THE RELEVENT POINT OF COMPLIANCE

Current through June 17, 2024
Chemical
MCL (mg/l)
Arsenic
				  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0.05
Barium
				  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1.0
Benzene
				  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0.005
Cadmium
				  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0.01
Carbon tetrachloride
				  -------------------------------------------------------------------------
0.005
Chromium (hexavalent)
				  ---------------------------------------------------------------------
0.05
2,4-Dichlorophenoxy acetic acid
				  ----------------------------------------------------------
0.1
1,4-Dichlorobenzene
				  -------------------------------------------------------------------------
0.075
1,2-Dichloroethane
				  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
0.005
1,1-Dichloroethylene
				  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
0.007
Endrin
				  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0.0002
Fluoride
				  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
4.0
Lindane
				  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0.004
Lead
				  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0.05
Mercury
				  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0.002
Methoxychlor
				  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0.1
Nitrate
				  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
10.0
Selenium
				  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0.01
Silver
				  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0.05
Toxaphene
				  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0.005
1,1,1-Trichloroethane
				  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
0.2
Trichloroethylene
				  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
0.005
2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxy acetic acid
				  -------------------------------------------------------
0.01
Vinyl chloride
				  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0.002
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-004 - Agency

Current through June 17, 2024
"Agency" shall mean any combination of two or more municipalities or
	 counties acting together under the Interlocal Cooperation Act or the Joint
	 Public Agency Act, a natural resources district acting alone or together with
	 one or more counties and municipalities under either of such Acts, or any joint
	 entity as defined in
Neb
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Rev
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	 13-803,
	 or any joint public agency as defined in
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	 13-2503.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-005 - Agricultural Purposes

Current through June 17, 2024
"Agricultural Purposes" shall include the use of scrap tires as
	 bumpers on agricultural equipment, as ballast to maintain covers or structures
	 on the agricultural site, as feeders or water tanks for
	 livestock.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-007 - Aquifer

Current through June 17, 2024
"Aquifer" shall mean a geological formation, group of formations, or
	 part of a formation that is capable of yielding water to a well, spring, or
	 other point of discharge, in usable amounts.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-013 - Closure

Current through June 17, 2024
"Closure" shall mean those actions which are taken upon the cessation
	 of the use of a solid waste management facility, which prepares the facility
	 for post-closure care, and assures the protection of human health and the
	 environment.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-016 - Commencement of construction

Current through June 17, 2024
"Commencement of construction" shall mean any substantial action, such
	 as clearing of land, excavation or other action that reflects a substantially
	 irreversible commitment to physically construct a facility, or that may affect
	 the environment of a facility. The term does not include: site exploration,
	 necessary roads for site exploration, borings to determine foundation
	 conditions, or other preconstruction monitoring, or testing to establish
	 background information related to the suitability of the site for the
	 protection of environmental values.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-017 - Commercial solid waste

Current through June 17, 2024
"Commercial solid waste" means all types of solid waste generated by
	 stores, offices, restaurants, warehouses, and other non-manufacturing
	 activities, excluding residential and industrial wastes.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-018 - Composting

Current through June 17, 2024
"Composting" shall mean the controlled aerobic, thermophilic,
	 microbial degradation of solid organic material such as raw or treated sewage
	 sludge, animal manure, paunch manure, plant or food residue or their mixtures,
	 to a stabilized, humus-like material.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-019 - Conditionally exempt small quantity generator

Current through June 17, 2024
"Conditionally exempt small quantity generator" shall mean a generator
	 who generates no more than 100 kilograms of hazardous waste in a month, and
	 accumulates no more than a total of 1,000 kilograms of hazardous waste. If a
	 conditionally exempt small quantity generator also generates acute hazardous
	 waste, those hazardous wastes are subject to the exemptions and regulations of
	 Title 128 -
Nebraska Hazardous Waste
	 Regulations.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-020 - Construction

Current through June 17, 2024
"Construction" shall mean the erection or building of new structures
	 or containment systems for solid waste management facilities, or the
	 remodeling, alteration, modernization or extension of existing
	 structures.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-021 - Construction and demolition waste

Current through June 17, 2024
"Construction and demolition waste" shall mean waste which results
	 from land clearing, the demolition of buildings, roads or other structures,
	 including, but not limited to, fill materials, wood (including painted and
	 treated wood), land clearing debris other than yard waste, wall coverings
	 (including wall paper, paneling and tile), drywall, plaster, non-asbestos
	 insulation, roofing shingles and other roof coverings, plumbing fixtures,
	 glass, plastic, carpeting, electrical wiring, pipe and metals. Such waste shall
	 also include the above listed types of waste that result from construction
	 projects. Construction and demolition waste shall not include friable asbestos
	 waste, special waste, liquid waste, hazardous waste and waste that contains
	 polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB), putrescible waste, household waste, industrial
	 solid waste, corrugated cardboard, appliances, tires, drums, and fuel
	 tanks.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-024 - Containment system

Current through June 17, 2024
"Containment system" shall mean the system of engineered and designed
	 barriers surrounding the solid waste in a solid waste disposal area unit which
	 is intended to encapsulate and contain the emplaced solid waste and any
	 leachate.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-027 - County solid waste jurisdictional area

Current through June 17, 2024
"County solid waste jurisdictional area" shall mean all areas of a
	 county not located within the corporate limits of a municipality except a
	 facility which does not serve unincorporated areas of the
	 county.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-029 - Delisted Waste

Current through June 17, 2024
"Delisted Waste" shall mean hazardous waste which has been delisted
	 pursuant to the procedures outlined in Title 128 -
Nebraska
	 Hazardous Waste Regulations.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-034 - Discarded household appliances

Current through June 17, 2024
"Discarded household appliances" shall mean clothes washers and
	 dryers, water heaters, heat pumps, air conditioners, dehumidifiers,
	 refrigerators, freezers, trash compactors, dishwashers, conventional ovens,
	 ranges, stoves, and wood stoves.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-036 - Disposal

Current through June 17, 2024
"Disposal" shall mean the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping,
	 spilling, leaking or placing of any solid waste or hazardous waste into or on
	 any land or water so that such waste or any constituent thereof may enter the
	 environment or be emitted into the air, land or water of the
	 state.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-038 - Disposal fee rebate

Current through June 17, 2024
"Disposal fee rebate" shall mean a ten cents rebate of the quarterly
	 disposal fee based on the volume or weight of solid waste entering a municipal
	 solid waste disposal area.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-039 - End user

Current through June 17, 2024
"End user" shall mean a person who receives whole waste tires or
	 processed waste tires for use as a finished product, a raw material for a
	 manufacturing process or for an approved beneficial use
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-041 - Fill

Current through June 17, 2024
"Fill" shall mean solid waste that consists only of one or more of the
	 following: sand, gravel, stone, soil, rock, brick, concrete rubble, asphalt
	 rubble, or similar material.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-043 - Fossil fuel combustion ash

Current through June 17, 2024
"Fossil fuel combustion ash" shall mean flyash, bottom ash, slag, and
	 flue gas emission control ash generated from utility plants or other facilities
	 in which coal is the primary fuel source.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-045 - Garbage

Current through June 17, 2024
"Garbage" shall mean rejected food wastes, including waste
	 accumulation of animal, fruit or vegetable matter used or intended for food or
	 that attend the preparation, use, cooking, dealing in or storing of meat, fish,
	 fowl, fruit or vegetables, and dead animals rejected by rendering
	 plants.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-048

Current through June 17, 2024
"Hazardous waste" shall mean a solid waste, or a combination of solid
	 wastes which, because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical or
	 infectious characteristics or defined as a hazardous waste by N.A.C. Title 128
	 -
Nebraska Hazardous Waste Regulations,
may:
048.01 Cause, or significantly contribute to,
  an increase in mortality or an increase in serious, irreversible, or
  incapacitating reversible, illness; or
048.02 Pose a substantial present or
  potential hazard to human health or animal health or the environment when
  improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed of, or otherwise
  managed.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-049 - Household waste

Current through June 17, 2024
"Household waste" shall mean 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.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-051

Current through June 17, 2024
"Industrial solid waste" shall mean solid waste generated by
	 manufacturing or industrial processes that is not a hazardous waste.
051.01 Such waste may include, but is not
  limited to, waste resulting from the following manufacturing processes:
  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.
051.02 This term does not include mining
  waste or oil and gas waste.
051.03
  This term does not include steel slag which is a product that is a result of
  the steel manufacturing process and is managed as an item of value in a
  controlled manner and not as a discarded material.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-053 - Infectious waste

Current through June 17, 2024
"Infectious waste" shall mean a solid waste capable of causing an
	 infectious disease to humans. For a waste to be deemed infectious,
	 consideration will be given to those elements required in order for infection
	 to occur. These elements include the presence of a pathogen or causative
	 organism, of significant virulence, in an adequate dose, which is able to gain
	 a portal of entry in a susceptible host. Infectious waste shall include, but
	 not be limited to, substances from the following classifications:
053.01 Blood, Blood Products and Body Fluids
This classification includes fluid blood, blood products and body
	 fluids, and any items contaminated with any of these fluids, if a pourable
	 quantity (ability of a liquid or semi-solid form to drip or flow) is present.
	 The term blood and blood products includes serum, plasma, and other blood
	 components. The term body fluid includes semen, vaginal secretions,
	 cerebrospinal fluid, synovial fluid, pleural fluid, peritoneal fluid,
	 pericardial fluid, amniotic fluid and any other body fluid visibly contaminated
	 with blood.
053.02
  Infectious Sharps Waste
This classification includes all discarded items from diagnosis,
	 treatment, or immunization which can potentially transmit disease by breaking
	 the human skin, and includes hypodermic needles, scalpels, razor blades,
	 breakable glass containers, blood vials, culture dishes, used slides, glass
	 products and broken glass or other sharp items that have come into contact with
	 or have been contaminated by material considered infectious.
053.03 Laboratory Waste
This classification includes all cultures and stocks of infectious
	 agents, including specimen cultures from medical and pathological laboratories,
	 cultures and stocks from research and industrial laboratories, wastes from the
	 production of biologicals, discarded live and attenuated vaccines, and culture
	 dishes and devices used to transfer, inoculate, and mix
	 cultures.
053.04
  Contaminated Animal Waste
This classification includes blood and body fluids, carcasses, body
	 parts, excrement and bedding from animals contaminated with agents that may
	 cause human disease.
053.05
  Waste Identified by Infectious Waste Generators
This classification includes those wastes determined by the infectious
	 waste generator or the infectious waste generator's infectious control
	 staff/committee to be treated as infectious waste because of the risk of
	 disease posed by such waste.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-055 - Integrated solid waste management

Current through June 17, 2024
"Integrated solid waste management" shall mean solid waste management
	 which is focused on planned development of programs and facilities that reduce
	 waste toxicity and volume, recycle marketable materials, and provide for safe
	 disposal of residuals.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-056 - Junk

Current through June 17, 2024
"Junk" shall mean materials which will not be utilized if not
	 collected and processed for reuse or recycling, including but not limited to
	 mean: old scrap; copper; brass; iron; steel; rope; wire; glass; rags;
	 batteries; paper trash; rubber; debris; demolition waste; abandoned mobile
	 homes, dismantled or wrecked; untaxed, untitled or unlicensed vehicles or parts
	 thereof; and other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous
	 material.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-058 - Land pollution

Current through June 17, 2024
"Land pollution" shall mean the presence upon or within the land
	 resources of the state of one or more contaminants or combinations of
	 contaminants, including, but not limited to, refuse, garbage, rubbish, or junk,
	 in such quantities and of such quality as will or are likely to (a) create a
	 nuisance, (b) be harmful, detrimental, or injurious to public health, safety,
	 or welfare, (c) be injurious to plant and animal life and property, or (d) be
	 detrimental to the economic and social development, the scenic beauty, or the
	 enjoyment of the natural attractions of the state.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-059 - Landfill unit

Current through June 17, 2024
"Landfill unit" shall mean a discrete area of land which has been
	 developed and constructed with containment features according to an operational
	 plan and designed for disposal of solid waste.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-060 - Lateral expansion

Current through June 17, 2024
"Lateral expansion" shall mean a discrete area of land which has not
	 previously received solid waste, or any discrete area of land which has
	 previously received solid waste and which has been closed, and is proposed for
	 development as a landfill unit.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-062 - Lead-acid batteries

Current through June 17, 2024
"Lead-acid batteries" shall mean electrical storage batteries with
	 cells that contain lead electrodes and an acidic electrolyte, such as those
	 commonly used in motor vehicles.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-063 - Liquid waste

Current through June 17, 2024
"Liquid waste" shall mean any waste which contains free liquids which
	 will readily separate from the solid portion of a waste under ambient
	 temperature and pressure as determined by the Paint Filter Liquids Test Method
	 9095B (test method dated November 2004), included in "Test Methods for
	 Evaluating Solid Waste, Physical / Chemical Methods" (Environmental Protection
	 Agency Publication SW-846, Update IIIB).
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-064 - Livestock waste

Current through June 17, 2024
"Livestock waste" shall mean animal excreta and associated feed
	 losses, bedding, spillage or overflow from watering systems, wash and flushing
	 waters, sprinkling waters from livestock cooling, precipitation polluted by
	 falling on or flowing onto a livestock operation, and other material polluted
	 by livestock, or their direct products.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-065 - Lower explosive limit

Current through June 17, 2024
"Lower explosive limit" shall mean the lowest percent by volume of a
	 mixture of explosive gases in air that will propagate a flame at twenty-five
	 (25) degrees centigrade and atmosphere pressure.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-070 - Municipal Solid Waste Disposal Area

Current through June 17, 2024
"Municipal Solid Waste Disposal Area" shall mean a publicly or
	 privately owned discrete area of land or excavation that receives household
	 waste, alone or in combination with other types of wastes such as commercial
	 solid waste, industrial waste, nonhazardous sludge, or conditionally exempt
	 small quantity generator waste, and which is not a land application unit,
	 surface impoundment, injection well, or waste pile. For the purposes of these
	 regulations, the term "landfill" may be used interchangeably with this
	 term.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-072 - Natural disaster

Current through June 17, 2024
"Natural disaster" shall mean the occurrence of widespread or severe
	 damage or loss of property resulting from any natural cause, including but not
	 limited to, flood, earthquake, wind or storm.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-074 - One hundred-year flood

Current through June 17, 2024
"One hundred-year flood" shall mean a flood that has a one percent
	 (1%) or greater chance of recurring in any given year or a flood of a magnitude
	 equaled or exceeded once in 100 years on the average over a significantly long
	 time.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-075 - Open burning

Current through June 17, 2024
"Open burning" shall mean the combustion of solid waste
	 without:
075.01 Control of combustion
  air to maintain adequate temperature for efficient burning;
075.02 Containment of the combustion reaction
  in an enclosed device to provide sufficient residence time and mixing for
  complete combustion; and
075.03
  Control of the emission of the combustion products.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-081 - Particulate rubber

Current through June 17, 2024
"Particulate rubber" shall mean raw, uncured, compounded or vulcanized
	 rubber that has been transformed by means of a mechanical size reduction
	 process into a collection of particles, with or without a coating of a
	 partitioning agent to prevent agglomeration during production, transportation,
	 or storage.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-083 - Person

Current through June 17, 2024
"Person" shall mean any individual, partnership, limited liability
	 company, association, public or private corporation, trustee, receiver,
	 assignee, agent, municipality or other governmental subdivision, public agency,
	 officer or governing or managing body of any municipality, governmental
	 subdivision or public agency, or any other legal entity except the
	 Environmental Quality Council and the Department of Environmental
	 Quality.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-085 - Plastic bottle

Current through June 17, 2024
"Plastic bottle" shall mean a plastic container intended for a single
	 use that has a neck smaller than the body of the container, is designed for a
	 screw-top, snap cap, or other closure, and has a capacity of not less than
	 sixteen fluid ounces or more than five gallons.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-086 - Post-closure care

Current through June 17, 2024
"Post-closure care" shall mean the continued observation, maintenance
	 and monitoring, for a period of time, of a closed solid waste management
	 facility in order to protect human health and the
	 environment.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-087 - Post-consumer material

Current through June 17, 2024
"Post-consumer material" shall mean those products or other materials
	 generated by a business or consumer that have served their intended end uses,
	 and that have been recovered from or otherwise diverted from the solid waste
	 stream for the purpose of recycling. Post-consumer material does not include
	 manufacturing or converting scrap or by-products generated from, and commonly
	 reused within, an original manufacturing process.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-088 - PQL

Current through June 17, 2024
"PQL" shall mean practical quantitation limit and is the lowest
	 concentration that can be reliably achieved within specified limits of
	 precision and accuracy during routine laboratory operating
	 conditions.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-089 - Practicable waste management alternative

Current through June 17, 2024
"Practicable waste management alternative" shall mean another solid
	 waste disposal area, transfer station materials recovery facility, or other
	 facility that may serve as a viable substitute for the solid waste management
	 method(s) currently employed for solid waste management.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-091 - Processed waste tire

Current through June 17, 2024
"Processed waste tire" shall mean a waste tire that has been subjected
	 to a chemical or physical alteration, to the degree that it has been size
	 reduced to the form of crumb rubber, shreds or chips or reduced the waste tire
	 to the individual components consisting of the sidewalls and tread. This
	 definition does not include a tire bale composed of whole tires and/or any
	 components of waste tires.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-093 - Putrescible

Current through June 17, 2024
"Putrescible" shall mean capable of being decomposed by microorganisms
	 with sufficient rapidity as to cause nuisances from odors, gases, etc. Kitchen
	 wastes, offal, and dead animals are examples of putrescible components of solid
	 waste.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-097 - Recycling center

Current through June 17, 2024
"Recycling center" shall mean any facility which is maintained and
	 operated for the purpose of receiving, collecting and processing
	 source-separated recyclable materials for resale or transfer. For the purposes
	 of this definition, "processing" shall mean the modification of materials by
	 baling, crushing, grinding, chipping or other means to prepare the materials
	 for markets.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-098 - Recycling collection site

Current through June 17, 2024
"Recycling collection site" shall mean a premises which is maintained
	 and operated for the purposes of receiving and collecting source separated
	 recyclable materials, and shall not include on site activities for
	 significantly processing or modifying the collected
	 materials.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-099 - Refuse

Current through June 17, 2024
"Refuse" shall mean putrescible and non-putrescible solid wastes,
	 except body wastes, and includes garbage, rubbish, ashes, incinerator ash,
	 incinerator residue, street cleanings, and solid market and industrial
	 wastes.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-100 - Relevant Point of Compliance

Current through June 17, 2024
"Relevant Point of Compliance" shall mean the waste management unit
	 boundary. An alternate relevant point of compliance may be approved by the
	 Department, which is no more than 150 meters from the waste management unit
	 boundary and is located on land owned by the solid waste disposal area
	 permittee.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-103 - Resource recovery system

Current through June 17, 2024
"Resource recovery system" shall mean a solid waste management system
	 which provides for collection, separation, recycling, and recovery of solid
	 wastes, including disposal of nonrecoverable waste residues.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-105 - Rigid plastic container

Current through June 17, 2024
"Rigid plastic container" shall mean any formed or molded container
	 intended for a single use, composed predominately of plastic resin, that has a
	 relatively inflexible finite shape or form with a capacity of not less than
	 eight ounces or more than five gallons. Rigid plastic container shall not
	 include a plastic bottle.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-106 - Rough shred

Current through June 17, 2024
"Rough shred" shall mean a piece of a shredded tire that is larger
	 than 50 mm ( 2.0 inches) by 50 mm ( 2.0 inches) by 50 mm ( 2.0 inches), but
	 smaller than 762 mm ( 30.0 inches) by 50 mm ( 2.0 inches) by 100 mm ( 4.0
	 inches).
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-107 - Rubbish

Current through June 17, 2024
"Rubbish" shall mean non-putrescible solid wastes, excluding ashes,
	 consisting of both combustible and noncombustible wastes, such as paper,
	 cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, wood, glass, bedding, crockery, or litter
	 of any kind that will be a detriment to the public health and
	 safety.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-114 - Shredded tire

Current through June 17, 2024
"Shredded tire" shall mean a size reduced waste tire where the
	 reduction in size was accomplished by a mechanical processing device, commonly
	 referred to as a shredder.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-116 - Sludge

Current through June 17, 2024
"Sludge" shall mean any solid, semisolid or liquid waste generated
	 from a municipal, commercial, or industrial wastewater treatment plant, water
	 supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility exclusive of the
	 treated effluent from a wastewater treatment plant.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-117 - Solid waste

Current through June 17, 2024
"Solid waste" shall mean any garbage, refuse, or sludge from a waste
	 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, and mining
	 operations, and from community activities. Solid waste shall not include slag,
	 a product that is a result of the steel manufacturing process and is managed as
	 an item of value in a controlled manner and not as discarded material; solid or
	 dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges which
	 are point sources subject to permits under section 402 of the federal Clean
	 Water Act, as amended,
	 33 U.S.C.
	 1251 et seq.; or source, special nuclear, or
	 byproduct material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended,
	 42 U.S.C.
	 2011 et seq.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-119 - Solid waste disposal

Current through June 17, 2024
"Solid waste disposal" shall mean the disposal of solid waste,
	 including any household waste, commercial solid waste, fossil fuel combustion
	 ash, nonhazardous sludge, industrial solid waste, or construction and
	 demolition waste.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-120 - Solid waste disposal area

Current through June 17, 2024
"Solid waste disposal area" shall mean a discrete area of land or
	 excavation which receives solid waste and includes all contiguous land and
	 structures within the surveyed legal description of the permitted area, other
	 appurtenances and improvements on the land used for the disposal of solid
	 wastes or improvements necessary to carry out the disposal of solid wastes.
	 Solid waste disposal areas shall include, but not be limited to the following
	 disposal areas: municipal solid waste disposal areas, construction and
	 demolition disposal areas, fossil fuel combustion ash disposal areas,
	 industrial disposal areas, delisted hazardous waste disposal areas and land
	 application units for repeated disposal or treatment of special
	 wastes.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-121 - Solid waste management

Current through June 17, 2024
"Solid waste management" shall mean the systematic administration of
	 activities which provide for the collection, source separation, storage,
	 transportation, transfer, processing, treatment, and disposal of solid
	 waste.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-122 - Solid waste management facility

Current through June 17, 2024
"Solid waste management facility" shall mean a public or private site,
	 location, tract of land, installation or building which has been used for the
	 collection, source separation, storage, transportation, transfer, processing,
	 treatment, or disposal of solid waste, and shall include solid waste disposal
	 areas and solid waste processing facilities.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-124 - Solid waste processing

Current through June 17, 2024
"Solid waste processing" shall mean the process by which solid wastes
	 are physically or chemically changed, temporarily stored, or salvaged prior to
	 being transferred to a solid waste disposal area or to a secondary materials
	 recovery facility.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-125 - Solid waste processing facilities

Current through June 17, 2024
"Solid waste processing facilities" mean any facility where solid
	 wastes are processed, and shall include, but not be limited to solid waste
	 compost sites, materials recovery facilities, recycling centers and solid waste
	 transfer stations.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-126 - Solid waste transfer station

Current through June 17, 2024
"Solid waste transfer station" shall mean any site, location, tract of
	 land, installation, or building that is used or intended to be used primarily
	 for the purpose of transferring solid wastes that are generated off of the
	 premises of the facility from vehicles or containers, into other vehicles or
	 containers for transportation to a solid waste disposal area or solid waste
	 processing facility.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-127 - Source separated materials

Current through June 17, 2024
"Source separated materials" shall mean the waste products, for which
	 a market exists, that have not been commingled with solid waste but have been
	 kept separate from other wastes from the point of generation to final
	 disposition.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-128 - Special waste

Current through June 17, 2024
"Special waste" shall mean a solid waste, except waste which is
	 regulated as a hazardous waste, which possesses physical, chemical, or
	 biological characteristics that make it different from general municipal solid
	 waste, or construction and demolition waste, and which requires special
	 handling, treatment, or disposal methodologies in order to protect public
	 health, safety, and the environment.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-129 - Speculative accumulation

Current through June 17, 2024
"Speculative accumulation" shall mean the accumulation of waste tires
	 for the purpose of reuse, recycling or shipment out of state, whereby in a
	 calendar year, the amount of tire material reused, recycled or shipped out of
	 state does not equal at least seventy-five percent (75%) by weight of such
	 material in storage on January 1st of that calendar
	 year.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-132 - Surface impoundment

Current through June 17, 2024
"Surface impoundment" shall mean a facility or part of a facility that
	 is a natural topographic depression, human-made excavation, or diked area
	 formed primarily of earthen materials, or lined with synthetic materials, that
	 is designed to hold an accumulation of liquid wastes or wastes containing free
	 liquids, and which is not an injection well. Examples of surface impoundments
	 are holding, storage, settling, and aeration pits, ponds, and
	 lagoons.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-134 - Tire chips

Current through June 17, 2024
"Tire chips" shall mean pieces of waste tires that have a basic
	 geometrical shape and are generally between 12 mm ( 0.50 inches) and 50 mm (
	 2.0 inches) in size and have most of the wire removed.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-135 - Tire retailer

Current through June 17, 2024
"Tire retailer" shall mean a person, business, or other entity, which
	 engages in the retail sale of tires in any quantity for any use or purpose by
	 the purchaser other than for resale.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-136 - Tire shred

Current through June 17, 2024
"Tire shred" shall mean a piece of waste tire that has a basic
	 geometrical shape and is generally between 50 mm ( 2.0 inches) and 305 mm (
	 12.0 inches).
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-139 - TSCA regulated PCB waste

Current through June 17, 2024
"TSCA regulated PCB waste" shall mean polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB)
	 wastes in concentrations greater than or equal to 50 ppm as regulated by Toxic
	 Substances Control Act (TSCA). PCB wastes less than 50 ppm are not regulated by
	 TSCA and shall be considered special wastes.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-140 - Unregulated hazardous wastes

Current through June 17, 2024
"Unregulated hazardous wastes" shall mean a hazardous waste generated
	 by a conditionally exempt small quantity generator, which contains free
	 liquids, or is in solid form in a quantity greater in size or volume than 5
	 gallons or in a quantity greater in weight than 19.5 kilograms (43 pounds),
	 provided, however, that these quantity limits are daily maximum values. For
	 purposes of this definition, unregulated hazardous wastes, except household
	 hazardous waste, shall be prohibited from land disposal on and after September
	 1, 1996. This provision does not apply to household hazardous
	 waste.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-141 - Uppermost aquifer

Current through June 17, 2024
"Uppermost aquifer" shall mean 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.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-143 - Waste management unit boundary

Current through June 17, 2024
"Waste management unit boundary" means a vertical surface located at
	 the hydraulically downgradient limit of the landfill unit. This vertical
	 surface extends down into the uppermost aquifer.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-144 - Waste oil

Current through June 17, 2024
"Waste oil" shall mean any oil that has been refined from crude oil,
	 or any synthetic oil, that has been used, and as a result of such use, is
	 contaminated by physical or chemical impurities, or used oil as defined in
	 Title 128 -
Nebraska Hazardous Waste
	 Regulations.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-145 - Waste tire or scrap tire

Current through June 17, 2024
"Waste tire or scrap tire" shall mean a tire that is no longer
	 suitable for its intended purpose because of wear, damage, or
	 defect.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-146 - Waste tire hauler

Current through June 17, 2024
"Waste tire hauler" shall mean any person, business, or other entity
	 engaged in the business of picking up, hauling, and transporting scrap tires
	 for storage, processing, recycling or shipment out of state.
Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY › Title 132 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 132-1-148 - Waters of the state

Current through June 17, 2024
"Waters of the state" shall mean all waters within the jurisdiction of
	 this state, including streams, lakes, ponds, impounding reservoirs, marshes,
	 wetlands, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, irrigation systems, drainage
	 systems, and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface and
	 underground, natural or artificial, public or private, situated wholly or
	 partly within or bordering upon the state.