North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 15A - Environmental Quality › Chapter 13 - SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT › Subchapter B - SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT › Section .0800 - SEPTAGE MANAGEMENT › Section 13B .0831 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
In addition to the terms defined in
					 G.S.
					 130A-290, as used in this Section the
					 following terms are defined as follows:
(1) "Agronomic rates" means those rates that
				  provide the nitrogen and other nutrient needs of the crop based on available
				  realistic yield expectations (RYE) established for a soil series through
				  published Cooperative Extension Service bulletins, Natural Resources
				  Conservation Service publications, or county soil surveys, but do not overload
				  the soil with nutrients or other constituents that may eventually leach to
				  groundwater, limit crop growth, or degrade soil quality.
(2) "Annual septage application rate" means
				  the maximum amount, in gallons, of septage that may be applied to a unit area
				  of land during a 365-day period.
(3) "Land application" means the spraying or
				  spreading of septage onto the land surface; the injection of septage below the
				  land surface; or the incorporation of septage into the soil so that the septage
				  conditions the soil or fertilizes crops or vegetation grown in the
				  soil.
(4) "Licensed Geologist"
				  means licensed geologist as defined in
				  G.S.
				  89E-3.
(5) "Licensed Soil Scientist" means licensed
				  soil scientist as defined in
				  G.S.
				  89F-3.
(6) "Nutrient Management Plan" means a plan
				  to define the management requirements and nutrient needs of crops to be grown
				  on a septage land application site, including the amount, sources, placement,
				  and timing of nutrient applications to maximize the nutrient uptake of the
				  crop. Plan implementation shall protect the environment and maintain crop
				  productivity.
(7) "Place of
				  business" means place of business as defined in
				  G.S.
				  130A-334.
(8) "Place of public assembly" means place of
				  public assembly as defined in
				  G.S.
				  130A-334.
(9) "Professional Engineer" means
				  professional engineer as defined in
				  G.S.
				  89C-3.
(10) "Residence" means residence as defined
				  in G.S.
				  130A-334.
(11) "Rock" means the consolidated or
				  partially consolidated mineral matter or aggregate, including bedrock or
				  weathered rock, not exhibiting the properties of soil.
(12) "Seasonal High Water Table" or "SHWT"
				  means the highest level of the saturated zone in the soil during a year with
				  normal rainfall. SHWT may be determined in the field through identification of
				  redoximorphic features in the soil profile, monitoring of the water table
				  elevation, or modeling of predicted groundwater elevations.
(13) "Septage Management Facility" means
				  land, personnel, and equipment used in the management of septage, including
				  septage management firms as defined in
				  G.S.
				  130A-290(a)(33), septage
				  detention and treatment facilities, and septage land application
				  sites.
(14) "Soil" means the
				  unconsolidated mineral and organic material of the land surface. It consists of
				  sand, silt, and clay minerals and variable amounts of organic
				  materials.
(15) "Soil textural
				  classes" means soil classification based upon size distribution of mineral
				  particles in the fine-earth fraction less than two millimeters in diameter. The
				  fine-earth fraction includes sand (2.0 - 0.05 mm in size), silt (0.05 mm -
				  0.002 mm), and clay (less than 0.002 mm in size) particles. The specific
				  textural classes shall be defined as follows:
(a) "Sand" means soil material that contains
				  85 percent or more of sand; the percentage of silt plus 1.5 times the
				  percentage of clay less than 15;
(b) "Loamy sand" means soil material that
				  contains 70 to 91 percent sand, and the percentage silt plus 1.5 times the
				  percentage of clay is not less than 15, and the percentage of silt plus twice
				  the percentage of clay is less than 30;
(c) "Sandy loam" means soil material that
				  contains either:
(i) 7 to 20 percent clay, 52
				  percent or more sand, and the percentage of silt plus twice the percentage of
				  clay exceeds 30; or
(ii) less than
				  7 percent clay, less than 50 percent silt, and more than 43 percent
				  sand;
(d) "Loam" means
				  soil material that contains 7 to 27 percent clay, 28 to 50 percent silt, and 52
				  percent or less sand;
(e) "Silt
				  loam" means soil material that contains either:
(i) 50 percent or more silt and 12 to 27
				  percent clay; or
(ii) 50 to 80
				  percent silt and less than 12 percent clay;
(f) "Silt" means soil material that contains
				  80 percent or more silt and less than 12 percent clay;
(g) "Sandy clay loam" means soil material
				  that contains 20 to 35 percent clay, less than 28 percent silt, and more than
				  45 percent sand;
(h) "Clay loam"
				  means soil material that contains 27 to 40 percent clay and 20 to 46 percent
				  sand;
(i) "Silty clay loam" means
				  solid material that contains 27 to 40 percent clay and 20 percent or less
				  sand;
(j) "Sandy clay" means soil
				  material that contains 35 percent or more clay and 45 percent or more
				  sand;
(k) "Silty clay" means soil
				  material that contains 40 percent or more clay and 40 percent or more silt;
				  and
(l) "Clay" means soil material
				  that contains 45 percent or less sand and less than 40 percent silt.