South Carolina Code of Regulations › Chapter 61 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL › Subchapter 61-107 - Solid Waste Management › Subchapter 61-107.2 - Solid Waste Management: Full Cost Disclosure › Section 61-107.2.B - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 6, June 28, 2024
1. "Collection"
				means the act of picking up solid waste material from homes, businesses,
				governmental agencies, institutions, or industrial sites.
2. "Composting Facility" means any facility
				used to provide aerobic thermophilic decomposition of the solid organic
				constituents of solid waste to produce a stable, humas-like material.
3. "County Solid Waste Management Plan" means
				a solid waste management plan prepared, approved, and submitted by a single
				county pursuant to Section
				44-96-80
				of the South Carolina Solid Waste Policy and Management Act of 1991.
4. "Department" means the South Carolina
				Department of Health and Environmental Control.
5. "Depreciation" means the decrease in value
				of property through wear, deterioration, or a decrease in usefulness
				(obsolescence).
6. "Facility" means
				all contiguous land, structures, other appurtenances and improvements on the
				land used for treating, storing, and/or disposing of solid waste. A facility
				may consist of several treatment, storage, and/or disposal operational units,
				including, but not limited to, one or more landfills, surface impoundments, or
				combination thereof.
7. "Full Cost
				Accounting" The use of an accounting system that isolates, and then
				consolidates for reporting purposes, the direct and indirect costs that relate
				to the operation of a solid waste management system.
8. "Incineration" means the use of controlled
				flame combustion to thermally break down solid, liquid, or gaseous combustible
				waste, producing residue that contains little or no combustible
				material.
9. "Industrial Waste"
				means solid waste that results from industrial processes including but not
				limited to, factories and treatment plants.
10. "Landfill" means a disposal facility or
				part of a facility where solid waste is placed in or on land, and which is not
				a land treatment facility, a surface impoundment, or an injection
				well.
11. "Local Government" means
				a county, any municipality located wholly or partly within the county, and any
				other political subdivision located wholly or partly within the county when
				such political subdivision provides solid waste management services.
12. "Materials Recovery Facility" means a
				solid waste management facility that provides for the extraction from solid
				waste of recoverable materials, materials suitable for use as a fuel or soil
				amendment, or any combination of such materials.
13. "Municipal Solid Waste Landfill" means
				any sanitary landfill or landfill unit, publicly or privately owned, that
				receives household waste. The landfill may also receive other types of solid
				waste, such as commercial waste, nonhazardous sludge, and industrial solid
				waste.
14. "Per Capita" means per
				unit of population or per person.
15. "Person" means an individual,
				corporation, company, association, partnership, unit of local government, state
				agency, federal agency, or other legal entity.
16. "Region" means a group of counties in
				South Carolina which is planning to or has prepared, approved, and submitted a
				Regional Solid Waste Management Plan to the Department pursuant to Section
				44-96-80
				of the South Carolina Solid Waste Policy and Management Plan of 1991.
17. "Regional Solid Waste Management Plan"
				means a solid waste management plan prepared, approved, and submitted by a
				group of counties in South Carolina pursuant to Section
				44-96-80
				of the South Carolina Solid Waste Policy and Management Act of 1991.
18. "Service Area" means the area in which
				the local government provides, directly or by contract, solid waste management
				services.
19. "Solid Waste" means
				any garbage, refuse, or sludge from a waste treatment facility, water supply
				plant, or air pollution control facility and other discarded material,
				including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous material resulting
				from industrial, commercial mining, and agricultural operations and from
				community activities. This term does not include solid or dissolved material in
				domestic sewage, recovered material, or solid or dissolved materials 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 1964, as
				amended. Also excluded from this definition are application of fertilizer and
				animal manure during normal agricultural operations, or refuse as defined and
				regulated pursuant to the South Carolina Mining Act, including processed
				mineral waste, which will not have a significant adverse impact on the
				environment.
20. "Solid Waste
				Disposal Facility" means any solid waste management facility or part of a
				facility at which solid waste is intentionally placed into or on any land or
				water and at which waste will remain after closure.
21. "Solid Waste Management Services" means
				all activities that are involved with trash and other waste collection,
				transportation, recycling and processing, and disposal.
22. "State Solid Waste Management Plan" means
				the plan which the Department of Health and Environmental Control is required
				to submit to the General Assembly and to the Governor pursuant to Section
				44-96-80
				of the South Carolina Solid Waste Policy and Management Act of
				1991.