South Carolina Code of Regulations › Chapter 61 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL › Subchapter 61-107 - Solid Waste Management › Subchapter 61-107.15 - Solid Waste Management: Land Application of Solid Waste › Section 61-107.15.B - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 6, June 28, 2024
1. "Agricultural
				Laboratory" means a laboratory that performs a standard agricultural soil test,
				such as that performed by the Clemson Soil Test Laboratory for the purpose of
				recommending lime and plant nutrients needed or appropriate for good crop or
				forest production purposes based on Best Management Practices.
2. "Agricultural land" means any land managed
				for the production of food, animal feed, or fiber crops, including timber and
				wood products.
3. "Agronomic rate,
				silvicultural rate, and horticultural rate" is that application rate of solid
				waste which supplies the amount of one or more plant nutrients needed for good
				crop and forest growth or which will neutralize excess soil acidity; but the
				nutrient requirement is not exceeded to the extent that groundwater exceeds
				applicable South Carolina groundwater quality standards.
4. "Bark" means the outer covering of the
				woody stems, branches, roots, and the main trunks of trees and other woody
				plants.
5. "Certified Laboratory"
				means a laboratory that has been certified by the State Environmental
				Laboratory Certification Program to perform specific analyses. All analyses
				required by this Regulation to be performed by a Certified Laboratory must be
				done by the methodology outlined in the most current issue of the EPA
				Publication SW-846 "Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Waste, Physical/Chemical
				Methods".
6. "Class I Solid Waste,"
				for the purposes of this regulation, means those solid wastes which have the
				potential to add some nutrient and/or pH adjustment benefit to the soil and
				require permitting by the Department prior to land application of that waste,
				e.g., wood ash, coal ash, green liquor dregs, and slaker grit.
7. "Class II Solid Waste," for the purposes
				of this regulation, means those solid wastes which, due to lack of
				substantiating data needed to calculate agronomic rate or to document that the
				material is non-toxic to plants and wildlife normally associated with the crop
				ecosystem, require issuance of a Department Research, Development, and
				Demonstration Permit pursuant to R.61-107.10.
8. "Class III Solid Waste," for the purposes
				of this regulation, means those solid wastes which have less potential to add
				nutrients to the soil or correct soil acidity than Class I wastes, and are
				considered to be innocuous with regard to effects on soil, plants and water
				resources when applied at approved rates. Prior to application, registration by
				the Department in lieu of permitting is required for Class III wastes, e.g.,
				cotton mote waste, cotton gin trash, bark, woodyard waste, flume
				grit.
9. "Class IV Solid Waste,"
				for the purposes of this regulation, means those solid wastes used for land
				reclamation and other projects when the application rate exceeds ten (10) dry
				tons per acre per year and scientific/technical data is submitted to ensure the
				proposed application rate will have no detrimental impact on the environment
				and public health, and is non-toxic to plants and wildlife normally associated
				with the crop ecosystem. Class IV solid wastes require permitting by the
				Department prior to application.
10. "Coal ash" means the residue remaining
				after combustion of coal and includes bottom ash, fly ash, boiler slag and flue
				gas desulfurization ("FGD") products.
11. "Commercial fertilizer," as defined in
				the South Carolina Fertilizer Law of 1954, S.C. Code Section
				46-25-20,
				means any substance containing one or more recognized plant nutrients which are
				used for plant nutrient content and designed for use or claimed to have value
				in promoting plant growth, except unmanipulated animal and vegetable manures,
				marl, lime, limestone, and wood ashes.
12. "Cotton gin trash" means the residual
				material left as a result of ginning and cleaning cotton; it includes burs,
				stems, leaves, weed seed, waste cotton fiber, other plant material, and
				soil.
13. "Cotton mote waste" means
				the residual material remaining after processing of cotton mote and residue
				from cotton carding operations; it includes immature cotton fiber and many of
				the same materials found in cotton gin trash.
14. "Cumulative metal loading rate" means the
				maximum amount of an element which can be applied to an area of land.
15. "Department" means the South Carolina
				Department of Health and Environmental Control.
16. "Flume grit" means a mixture of tree
				bark, sand, soil, small twigs and leaves, and other debris that settles out of
				water used in a woodyard log flume.
17. "Generator" means any person who produces
				solid waste that is land applied.
18. "Green liquor dregs" means residues from
				the paper pulp-making process removed by sedimentation from green liquor
				clarification. The material is predominantly insoluble carbonates, oxides and
				sulfates of calcium, magnesium, aluminum and silicon.
19. "Horticultural" means land used for
				production of flowers, shrubs, fruits and ornamentals.
20. "Inorganic constituent" is one of the
				ninety-two (92) naturally occurring chemical elements or combination of those
				elements; generally, this excludes constituents which consist of carbon
				compounds other than carbonates.
21. "Land application" means the spreading of
				non-hazardous solid waste on the land surface and/or the mechanical
				incorporation of non-hazardous solid waste into the soil at agronomic or
				silvicultural rates.
22. "Land
				Reclamation" means the restoration of land for useful purposes and protection
				of the natural resources of the surrounding area by establishing on a
				continuous basis the vegetative cover, soil stability, water conditions, and
				the safety conditions of the area.
23. "Lime" means calcium carbonate or other
				calcium and magnesium compounds or mixtures which are alkaline in nature and
				used to neutralize excess soil acidity.
24. "Metal," for purposes of these
				regulation, means any of the eight (8) naturally occurring elements as listed
				in Section C.13., and which include arsenic, cadmium, copper, lead, mercury,
				nickel, selenium, and zinc.
25.
				"Open dumping" means any unpermitted solid waste disposal activity.
26. "Pasture" means land used for grazing
				livestock or forage crop production.
27. "Permit" means the process by which the
				Department can ensure cognizance of, as well as control over, the management of
				solid wastes.
28. "Person" means an
				individual, corporation, company, association, partnership, unit of local
				government, state agency, federal agency, or other legal entity.
29. "Representative sample and representative
				analysis," for the purposes of this regulation, mean that the chemical analyses
				of at least three samples (each sample being a composite of several subsamples)
				shall be used to calculate the amount of waste to be applied to a specific area
				for crop production purposes with a tolerance of +-25%, unless otherwise
				approved by the Department. That tolerance applies to whichever constituent or
				characteristic, such as alkalinity, metal concentration, or nitrogen content,
				that limits or establishes the application rate.
30. "Silvicultural" means land used for
				growing trees, i.e., forestry.
31.
				"Slaker grit" means the unburned residues and particulate, predominantly
				carbonates, oxides and sulfates of calcium, magnesium and sodium removed from
				the causticizing process that recycles green liquor to white liquor for making
				paper pulp.
32. "Solid waste," for
				the purposes of this regulation, means any garbage, refuse, or other discarded
				material from industrial, commercial, mining, agricultural, silvicultural, and
				horticultural operations and from community activities. This term does not
				include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage, recovered materials, or
				solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial
				discharges which are point sources subject to NPDES permits under the Federal
				Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, or the Pollution Control Act of South
				Carolina, as amended, or source, special nuclear, or by-product material as
				defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, 42 USCA 2011 et seq. Also excluded
				from this definition are application of fertilizer and animal manure during
				normal agricultural, silvicultural, and horticultural operations, or refuse as
				defined and regulated pursuant to the South Carolina Mining Act, S.C. Code
				Section
				48-20-10,
				et seq., including processed mineral waste, which will not have a significant
				adverse impact on the environment.
33. "Soluble salts" means the amount of
				chemical constituents in non-hazardous solid waste which are readily soluble in
				water as estimated by electrical conductivity.
34. "Surface water body," for the purposes of
				this regulation, means any body of water on the land's surface which holds
				visible water for greater than six (6) consecutive months, excluding drainage
				ditches, sedimentation ponds and other man-made operational features on the
				site.
35. "Total alkalinity" means
				a measure of the ability of a substance to neutralize acidity and is expressed
				as the calcium carbonate equivalent.
36. "Wood ash" means the residue derived from
				the combustion of wood, wood waste, bark or other plant tissue or products,
				including both bottom ash, fly ash and their mixtures.
37. "Woodyard wastes" means non-contaminated
				residues from woodyard operations, which may include bark, portions of tree
				limbs and logs, sand or soil, sawdust and wood chips.