North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 33.1 - Department of Environmental Quality › Article 33.1-24 - Hazardous Waste Management › Chapter 33.1-24-03 - Standards for Generators › Section 33.1-24-03-51 - Definitions

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
In addition to the definitions set forth in section
				  33.1-24-01-04, the following definitions apply to sections 33.1-24-03-50
				  through 33.1-24-03-59:
1. "Competent
				authority" means the regulatory authority or authorities of concerned countries
				having jurisdiction over transboundary movements of wastes.
2. "Countries concerned" means the countries
				of export or import and any countries of transit.
3. "Country of export" means any designated
				country from which a transboundary movement of hazardous wastes is planned to
				be initiated or is initiated.
4.
				"Country of import" means any country to which a transboundary movement of
				hazardous wastes is planned or takes place for the purpose of submitting the
				wastes to recovery or disposal operations therein.
5. "Country of transit" means any country
other than the country of export or country of import across
				  which a transboundary movement of hazardous wastes is planned or takes
				  place.
6. "Disposal
				operations" means activities that do not lead to the possibility of resource
				recovery, recycling, reclamation, direct re-use or alternate uses, which
				include the following categories:
a. D1 -
				Release or deposit into or onto land, other than by any of operations D2
				through D5 or D12.
b. D2 - Land
				treatment, such as biodegradation of liquids or sludges in soils.
c. D3 - Deep injection, such as injection
				into wells, salt domes, or naturally occurring repositories.
d. D4 - Surface impoundment, such as placing
				of liquids or sludges into pits, ponds, or lagoons.
e. D5 - Specially engineered landfill, such
				as placement into lined discrete cells which are capped and isolated from one
				another and the environment.
f. D6
				- Release into a water body other than a sea or ocean, and other than by
				operation D4.
g. D7 - Release into
				a sea or ocean, including sea-bed insertion, other than by operation
				D4.
h. D8 - Biological treatment
				not specified elsewhere in operations D1 through D12, which results in final
				compounds or mixtures which are discarded by means of any of operations D1
				through D12.
i. D9 - Physical or
				chemical treatment not specified elsewhere in operations D1 through D12, such
				as evaporation, drying, calcination, neutralization, or precipitation, which
				results in final compounds or mixtures which are discarded by means of any of
				operations D1 through D12.
j. D10 -
				Incineration on land.
k. D11 -
				Incineration at sea.
l. D12 -
				Permanent storage.
m. D13 -
				Blending or mixing, prior to any of operations D1 through D12.
n. D14 - Repackaging, prior to any of
				operations D1 through D13.
o. D15 -
				(or DC17 for transboundary movements with Canada only) Interim storage, prior
				to any of operations D1 through D12.
p. DC15 - Release, including the venting of
				compressed or liquefied gases, or treatment, other than by any of operations D1
				to D12 (for transboundary movements with Canada only).
q. DC16 - Testing of a new technology to
				dispose of a hazardous waste (for transboundary movements with Canada
				only).