North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 33 - State Department of Health › Article 33-24 - Hazardous Waste Management › Chapter 33-24-03 - Standards for Generators › Section 33-24-03-51 - Definitions

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
In addition to the definitions set forth in section
				  33-24-01-04, the following
				  definitions apply to sections 33-24-03-50 through 33-24-03-59:
1. "Competent authority" means the regulatory
				authority or authorities of concerned countries having jurisdiction over
				transboundary movements of wastes destined for recovery operations.
2. "Countries concerned" means the
				Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development member countries of
				export or import and any Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
				member countries of transit.
3.
				"Country of export" means any designated Organization for Economic Cooperation
				and Development member country listed in subdivision a of subsection 1 of
				section 33-24-03-25 from which a transboundary movement of hazardous wastes is
				planned to be initiated or is initiated.
4. "Country of import" means any designated
				Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development member country listed in
				subdivision a of subsection 1 of section 33-24-03-25 to which a transboundary
				movement of hazardous wastes is planned or takes place for the purpose of
				submitting the wastes to recovery operations therein.
5. "Country of transit" means any designated
				Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development member country listed in
				subdivisions a and b of subsection 1 of section 33-24-03-25 other than the
				country of export or country of import across which a transboundary movement of
				hazardous wastes is planned or takes place.
6. "Exporter" means the person under the
				jurisdiction of the country of export who has, or will have at the time the
				planned transboundary movement commences, possession or other forms of legal
				control of the wastes and who proposes transboundary movement of the hazardous
				wastes for the ultimate purpose of submitting them to recovery operations. When
				the United States is the country of export, exporter is interpreted to mean a
				person domiciled in the United States.
7. "Importer" means the person to whom
				possession or other form of legal control of the waste is assigned at the time
				the waste is received in the country of import.
8. "Organization for Economic Cooperation and
				Development area" means all land or marine areas under the national
				jurisdiction of any Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
				member country listed in section 33-24-03-25. When the regulations refer to
				shipments to or from an Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
				member country, this means Organization for Economic Cooperation and
				Development area.
9. "OECD" means
				the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
10. "Recognized trader" means a person who,
				with appropriate authorization of countries concerned, acts in the role of
				principal to purchase and subsequently sell wastes; this person has legal
				control of such wastes from time of purchase to time of sale; such a person may
				act to arrange and facilitate transboundary movements of wastes destined for
				recovery operations.
11. "Recovery
				facility" means a facility which, under applicable domestic law, is operating
				or is authorized to operate in the country of import to receive wastes and to
				perform recovery operations on them.
12. "Recovery operations" means activities
				leading to resource recovery, recycling, reclamation, direct reuse or
				alternative uses, which include:
a. R1 - Use
				as a fuel (other than in direct incineration) or other means to generate
				energy.
b. R2 - Solvent
				reclamation/regeneration.
c. R3 -
				Recycling/reclamation of organic substances which are not used as
				solvents.
d. R4 -
				Recycling/reclamation of metals and metal compounds.
e. R5 - Recycling/reclamation of other
				inorganic materials.
f. R6 -
				Regeneration of acids or bases.
g.
				R7 - Recovery of components used for pollution abatement.
h. R8 - Recovery of components used from
				catalysts.
i. R9 - Used oil
				rerefining or other reuses of previously used oil.
j. R10 - Land treatment resulting in benefit
				to agriculture or ecological improvement.
k. R11 - Uses of residual materials obtained
				from any of the operations numbered R1 through R10.
l. R12 - Exchange of wastes for submission to
				any of the operations numbered R1 through R11.
m. R13 - Accumulation of material intended
				for any operation numbered R1 through R12.