South Carolina Code of Regulations › Chapter 61 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL › Subchapter 61-79 - Hazardous Waste Management Regulations › Part 61-79.273 - UNIVERSAL WASTE RULE › Subpart A - GENERAL › Section 61-79.273.A.9 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 6, June 28, 2024
Aerosol can means a non-refillable receptacle containing a
					 gas compressed, liquefied, or dissolved under pressure, the sole purpose of
					 which is to expel a liquid, paste, or powder and fitted with a self-closing
					 release device allowing the contents to be ejected by the gas.
Ampule means an airtight vial made of glass, plastic,
					 metal, or any combination of these materials.
Battery means a device consisting of one or more
					 electrically connected electrochemical cells which is designed to receive,
					 store, and deliver electric energy. An electrochemical cell is a system
					 consisting of an anode, cathode, and an electrolyte, plus such connections
					 (electrical and mechanical) as may be needed to allow the cell to deliver or
					 receive electrical energy. The term battery also includes an intact, unbroken
					 battery from which the electrolyte has been removed.
Destination facility means a facility that treats, disposes
					 of, or recycles a particular category of universal waste, except those
					 management activities described in subparagraphs (a) and (c) of sections273.13
					 and 273.33. A facility at which a particular category of universal waste is
					 only accumulated, is not a destination facility for purposes of managing that
					 category of universal waste.
FIFRA means the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and
					 Rodenticide Act (
					 7
					 U.S.C. 136 -
					 136 y ). Generator
					 means any person, by site, whose act or process produces hazardous waste
					 identified or listed in part 261 of this chapter or whose act first causes a
					 hazardous waste to become subject to regulation.
Generator means any person, by site, whose act or process
					 produces hazardous waste identified or listed in part 261 of this chapter or
					 whose act first causes a hazardous waste to become subject to
					 regulation.
Lamp, also referred to as "universal waste lamp" is defined
					 as the bulb or tube portion of an electric lighting device. A lamp is
					 specifically designed to produce radiant energy, most often in the ultraviolet,
					 visible, and infra-red regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Examples of
					 common universal waste electric lamps include, but are not limited to,
					 fluorescent, high intensity discharge, neon, mercury vapor, high pressure
					 sodium, and metal halide lamps. (8/00)
Large Quantity Handler of Universal Waste means a universal
					 waste handler (as defined in this section) who accumulates 5,000 kilograms or
					 more total of universal waste (batteries, pesticides, mercury-containing
					 equipment, lamps, or aerosol cans, calculated collectively) at any time. This
					 designation as a large quantity handler of universal waste is retained through
					 the end of the calendar year in which the 5,000-kilogram limit is met or
					 exceeded.
Mercury-containing equipment means a device or part of a
					 device (including thermostats, but excluding batteries and lamps) that contains
					 elemental mercury integral to its function.
Pesticide means any substance or mixture of substances
					 intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest, or
					 intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant, other than any
					 article that:
(1) is a new animal drug under FFDCA section 201(w);
					 or
(2) is an animal drug that has been determined by
					 regulation of the Secretary of Health and Human Services not to be a new animal
					 drug; or
(3) is an animal feed under FFDCA section 201(x) that bears
					 or contains any substances described by paragraph (1) or (2) of this
					 definition.
On-site means the same or geographically contiguous
					 property which may be divided by public or private right-of-way, provided that
					 the entrance and exit between the properties is at a cross-roads intersection,
					 and access is by crossing as opposed to going along the right of way.
					 Non-contiguous properties owned by the same person but connected by a
					 right-of-way which he controls and to which the public does not have access,
					 are also considered on-site property.
Pesticide means any substance or mixture of substances
					 intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest, or
					 intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant, other than any
					 article that:
(a) is a new animal drug
				  under FFDCA section201(w)(w), or
(b) is an animal drug that has been
				  determined by regulation of the Secretary of Health and Human Services not to
				  be a new animal drug, or
(c) is an
				  animal feed under FFDCA section201(x)(x) that bears or contains any substances
				  described by paragraph (a) or (b) of this section.
Small Quantity Handler of Universal Waste means a universal
					 waste handler (as defined in this section) who does not accumulate 5,000
					 kilograms or more of universal waste (batteries, pesticides, mercury-containing
					 equipment, lamps, or aerosol cans, calculated collectively) at any time.
Thermostat means a temperature control device that contains
					 metallic mercury in an ampule attached to a bimetal sensing element, and
					 mercury-containing ampules that have been removed from these temperature
					 control devices in compliance with the requirements of 273.13(c)(2) or
					 273.33(c)(2).
Universal Waste means any of the following hazardous wastes
					 that are subject to the universal waste requirements of part 273:
(1) Batteries as described in
				  273.2;
(2) Pesticides as described
				  in 273.3;
(3) Mercury-containing
				  equipment as described in 273.4;
(4)
				  Lamps as described in 273.5; and
(5)
				  Aerosol cans as described in 273.6 of this chapter.
(4) Lamps as described in 273.5.