Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3745 - Ohio Environmental Protection Agency › Chapter 3745-52 - Generator Standards › Section 3745-52-200 - Definitions - university labs

Current through all regulations
			 passed and filed through July 1, 2024
The following definitions apply to rules 3745-52-200 to
				3745-52-216
				of the Administrative Code:
(A) "College" or "university" means a private or
			 public, post-secondary, degree-granting, academic institution, that is
			 accredited by an accrediting agency listed annually by the U.S. department of
			 education.
(B) "Eligible academic entity" means a college or
			 university, or a non- profit research institute that is owned by or has a
			 formal written affiliation agreement with a college or university, or a
			 teaching hospital that is owned by or has a formal written affiliation
			 agreement with a college or university.
(C) "Formal written
			 affiliation agreement for a non-profit research institute" means a written
			 document that establishes a relationship between institutions for the purposes
			 of research or education and is signed by an "authorized representative of a
			 facility," as defined in rule
			 3745-50-10
			 of the Administrative Code, from each institution. A relationship on a
			 project-by-project or grant-by-grant basis is not considered a formal written
			 affiliation agreement.
(D) "A formal written
			 affiliation agreement for a teaching hospital" means a master affiliation
			 agreement and program letter of agreement, as defined by the "Accreditation
			 Council for Graduate Medical Education," with an accredited medical program or
			 medical school.
(E) "Laboratory" means an area owned by an eligible
			 academic entity where relatively small quantities of chemicals and other
			 substances are used on a non-production basis for teaching or research (or
			 diagnostic purposes at a teaching hospital) and are stored and used in
			 containers that are easily manipulated by one person. Photo laboratories, art
			 studios, and field laboratories are considered laboratories. Areas such as
			 chemical stockrooms and preparatory laboratories that provide a support
			 function to teaching or research laboratories (or diagnostic laboratories at
			 teaching hospitals) are also considered laboratories.
(F)
			 "Laboratory clean-out" means an evaluation of the inventory of chemicals and
			 other materials in a laboratory that are no longer needed or that have expired
			 and the subsequent removal of those chemicals or other unwanted materials from
			 the laboratory. A clean-out may occur for several reasons. It may be on a
			 routine basis (e.g., at the end of a semester or academic year) or as a result
			 of a renovation, relocation, or change in laboratory supervisor or occupant. A
			 regularly scheduled removal of unwanted material as required by rule
			 3745-52-208
			 of the Administrative Code does not qualify as a laboratory
			 clean-out.
(G) "Laboratory worker" means a person who handles
			 chemicals or unwanted material in a laboratory and may include, but is not
			 limited to, faculty, staff, post-doctoral fellows, interns, researchers,
			 technicians, supervisors or managers, and principal investigators. A person
			 does not need to be paid or otherwise compensated for work in the laboratory to
			 be considered a laboratory worker. Undergraduate and graduate students in a
			 supervised classroom setting are not laboratory workers.
(H)
			 "Non-profit research institute" means an organization that conducts research as
			 the
			 organization's primary function and files as a non-profit organization
			 under the tax code of
			 26 U.S.C.
			 501(c)(3).
(I)
			 "Reactive acutely hazardous unwanted material" means an unwanted material that
			 is one of the acutely hazardous commercial chemical products listed in
			 paragraph (E) of rule
			 3745-51-33
			 of the Administrative Code for reactivity.
(J) "Teaching
			 hospital" means a hospital that trains students to become physicians, nurses,
			 or other health or laboratory personnel.
(K) "Trained professional" means a person who has
			 completed the applicable hazardous waste training requirements of rule
			 3745-52-17 of the Administrative Code for large
			 quantity generators, or is knowledgeable about normal operations and
			 emergencies in accordance with  rule 3745-52-16
			 of the Administrative Code for small quantity generators and
			 very small quantity generators. A trained professional
			 may be an employee of the eligible academic entity or may be a contractor or
			 vendor who meets the requisite training requirements.
(L)
			 "Unwanted material" means any chemical, mixtures of chemicals, products of
			 experiments, or other material from a laboratory that is no longer needed,
			 wanted, or usable in the laboratory and that is destined for hazardous waste
			 determination by a trained professional. Unwanted materials include reactive
			 acutely hazardous unwanted materials and materials that may eventually be
			 determined not to be waste pursuant to rule
			 3745-51-02 of
			 the Administrative Code, or a hazardous waste pursuant to rule
			 3745-51-03
			 of the Administrative Code. If an eligible academic entity elects to use
			 another equally effective term in lieu of unwanted material, as allowed by
			 paragraph (A)(1)(a) of rule
			 3745-52-206
			 of the Administrative Code, the equally effective term has the same meaning and
			 is subject to the same requirements as unwanted material under rules
			 3745-52-200 to
			 3745-52-216
			 of the Administrative Code.
(M) "Working
			 container" means a small container (i.e., two gallons or less) that is in use
			 at a laboratory bench, hood, or other work station, to collect unwanted
			 material from a laboratory experiment or procedure.
[Comment: For dates of non-regulatory government publications,
				publications of recognized organizations and associations, federal rules, and
				federal statutory provisions referenced in this rule, see rule
				3745-50-11
				of the Administrative Code titled "Incorporated by
				reference."]