Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3745 - Ohio Environmental Protection Agency › Chapter 3745-50 - Hazardous Waste Management System-General › Section 3745-50-10 - Definitions and computation of time

Current through all
			 regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
As used in the hazardous waste rules the following terms have
				the meanings given:
(A)
(1) "Aboveground tank" means a device that
			 meets the definition of "tank" in this rule and that is situated in such a way
			 that the entire surface area of the tank is completely above the plane of the
			 adjacent surrounding surface and the entire surface area of the tank (including
			 the tank bottom) is able to be visually inspected.
(2) "Active life of a facility" means the
			 period from the initial receipt of hazardous waste at the facility until the
			 director receives certification of final closure.
(3) "Active portion" means that portion of a
			 facility where treatment, storage, or disposal operations are being or have
			 been conducted after April 15, 1981 and which is not a closed portion. (See
			 also "closed portion" and "inactive portion.")
(4) "Acute hazardous waste" mean hazardous
			 wastes that meet the listing criteria in paragraph (A)(2) of rule
			 3745-51-11 of the Administrative
			 Code and therefore are either listed in rule
			 3745-51-31 of the Administrative
			 Code with the assigned hazard code of (H) or are listed in paragraph (E) of
			 rule 3745-51-33 of the Administrative
			 Code.
(5) "Administrator" means the
			 administrator of the U.S. EPA, or the administrator's authorized
			 representative.
(6) "AES filing
			 compliance date" means the date that U.S. EPA announced in the Federal Register
			 as December 31, 2017, on or after which exporters of hazardous waste and
			 exporters of cathode ray tubes for recycling are required to file U.S. EPA
			 information in the automated export system (AES) or the AES's successor system,
			 under the international trade data system platform.
(7) "Aerosol can" means a non-refillable
			 receptacle that contains a gas compressed, liquefied, or dissolved under
			 pressure, the sole purpose of which is to expel a liquid, paste, or powder, and
			 fitted with a self-closing release device that allows the contents to be
			 ejected by the gas.
(8) "Airbag
			 waste" means any hazardous waste airbag modules or hazardous waste airbag
			 inflators.
(9) "Airbag waste
			 collection facility" means any facility that receives airbag waste from airbag
			 handlers subject to regulation under paragraph (J) of rule
			 3745-51-04 of the Administrative
			 Code, and accumulates the waste for more than ten days.
(10) "Airbag waste handler" means any person,
			 by site, who generates airbag waste that is subject to regulation under Chapter
			 3745-51 of the Administrative Code.
(11) "Ancillary equipment" means any device
			 including, but not limited to, such devices as piping, fittings, flanges,
			 valves, and pumps, that is used to distribute, meter, or control the flow of
			 hazardous waste from the point of generation to a storage or treatment tank,
			 between hazardous waste storage and treatment tanks to a point of disposal
			 on-site, or to a point of shipment for disposal off-site.
(12) "Antifreeze" means propylene glycol or
			 ethylene glycol, including aggregated batches of propylene glycol or ethylene
			 glycol, used as a heat transfer medium in an internal combustion engine;
			 heating, ventilating, and air conditioning units; and electronics cooling
			 applications; or used for winterizing equipment.
(13) "Applicable law" means any applicable
			 provisions of Chapters 3704., 3734., 3745., 6109., and 6111. of the Revised
			 Code; the rules promulgated thereunder; orders of the director; the Resource
			 Conservation and Recovery Act,
			 42 U.S.C.
			 6921; the Toxic Substances Control Act,
			 15 U.S.C.
			 2601; the Safe Drinking Water Act,
			 42 U.S.C.
			 300f; the Clean Water Act, and the Clean Air
			 Act, 42 U.S.C.
			 7401; and the regulations of the
			 administrator promulgated thereunder.
(14) "Aquifer" means a geologic formation,
			 group of formations, or part of a formation capable of yielding a significant
			 amount of ground water to wells or springs.
(15) "Authorized representative of a
			 facility" means an individual responsible for the overall operation of a
			 facility or an operational unit (i.e., part of a facility), e.g., the plant
			 manager, superintendent, or person of equivalent responsibility.