Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 35 - Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry › Chapter 30 - Consumer Protection › Subchapter 17 - Combined Pesticide › Part 21 - STANDARDS FOR DISPOSAL OF PESTICIDE AND PESTICIDE CONTAINERS › Section 35:30-17-90 - Definitions

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
In addition to terms defined in the Oklahoma Pesticide
					 Applicator Law the following words or terms, when used in this part, shall have
					 the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Container"
means any portable device in which
					 a material is stored, transported, treated, disposed of, or otherwise
					 handled.
"Disposal"
means the final disposition of
					 controlled industrial waste and shall include any discharge, deposit,
					 injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of waste into or on the land
					 or water so that the waste or any constituent may enter the environment, be
					 emitted to the air, or be discharged to any waters, including ground
					 waters.
"Generator"
means any person, by geographic
					 location, whose act or process produces controlled industrial waste or
					 recyclable materials identified or listed in Appendix A or whose act first
					 causes a controlled industrial waste or recyclable material to become subject
					 to this subchapter.
"Hazardous materials"
means those materials of
					 commerce or manufacture which, if discarded, would be classified as controlled
					 industrial waste.
"Incompatible wastes"
means two (2) or more
					 separate and distinct wastes which, when allowed to come into contact with each
					 other, will mix or react so as to generate steam, toxic gases, pressure,
					 extreme heat, flammable volatile gasses or liquids, shock-sensitive substances,
					 or cause fire, explosion, or violent reactions.
"Industrial waste"
means a collective term
					 which may include both controlled industrial waste, controlled industrial waste
					 to be recycled, and other industrial wastes.
"Operation"
means the receiving, handling,
					 treating, storing, or disposing of controlled industrial wastes in daily
					 operations and the closing of controlled industrial waste facilities during
					 closure operations.
"Other industrial waste"
means refuse products
					 which are designated by the Department of Environmental Quality to require
					 special handling, but are not designated as "controlled industrial
					 waste."
"Spill"
means the accidental spilling,
					 leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, or dumping of controlled industrial waste,
					 recyclable materials, or hazardous materials which when spilled become
					 controlled industrial waste into or on any land or water.
"Surface impoundment"
or
"impoundment"
means a facility or part of a facility which is a
					 natural topographic depression, man-made excavation, or diked area formed
					 primarily of earthen materials, although it may be lined with man-made
					 materials, which 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.
"Tank"
means a stationary device designed to
					 contain an accumulation of controlled industrial waste, which is constructed
					 primarily of nonearthen materials (e.g., wood, concrete, steel, plastic) which
					 provide structural support.
Amended at 17 Ok Reg
					 1018, eff 5-11-00