South Carolina Code of Regulations › Chapter 61 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL › Subchapter 61-107 - Solid Waste Management › Subchapter 61-107.279 - SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT: USED OIL › Subpart A - SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT: USED OIL › Section 61-107.279.A.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 6, June 28, 2024
Terms that are defined in the South Carolina Hazardous
					 Waste Management RegulationsR.61-79.260.10, and 261.1, and South Carolina
					 Underground Storage Tank Control RegulationsR.61-92.280.12 but are not defined
					 in this regulation have the same meanings when used in this regulation.
a. "Aboveground tank" means a tank used
				  exclusively to store or process used oil that is not an underground storage
				  tank as defined in the South Carolina Underground Storage Tank Control
				  Regulations, R.61-92.280.12.
b.
				  "Container" means any portable device in which a material is stored,
				  transported, treated, disposed of, or otherwise handled.
c. "Department" means the South Carolina
				  Department of Health and Environmental Control.
d. "Do-it-yourselfer used oil collection
				  center" means any site or facility that accepts/aggregates and stores used oil
				  collected only from household do-it-yourselfers.
e. "Energy recovery" means the beneficial
				  use, reuse, recycling, or reclamation of solid waste through the use of the
				  waste to recover energy therefrom.
f. "Existing tank" means a tank that is used
				  for the storage or processing of used oil and that is in operation, or for
				  which installation has commenced on or prior to the effective date of the
				  authorized used oil program for the State in which the tank is located.
				  Installation will be considered to have commenced if the owner or operator has
				  obtained all federal, state, and local approvals or permits necessary to begin
				  installation of the tank and if either (1) a continuous on-site installation
				  program has begun, or (2) the owner or operator has entered into contractual
				  obligations --which cannot be canceled or modified without substantial loss
				  --for installation of the tank to be completed within a reasonable
				  time.
g. "Facility" means all
				  contiguous land, structures, other appurtenances and improvements on the land
				  used for treating, storing, or disposing of solid waste. A facility may consist
				  of several treatment, storage, or disposal operational units, including, but
				  not limited to, one or more landfills, surface impoundments, or combination
				  thereof.
h. "Hazardous substance"
				  means any substance the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has designated
				  for special consideration under the Clean Air Act (CAA), Clean Water Act (CWA),
				  or Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), and any hazardous waste, as
				  defined.
i. "Hazardous waste" has
				  the meaning provided in Section
				  44-56-20
				  of the South Carolina Hazardous Waste Management Act.
j. "Hot-drained" means that the oil filter is
				  drained near engine operating temperature and above room temperature.
k. "Household 'do-it-yourselfer' used oil"
				  means used oil that is derived from households, such as used oil generated by
				  individuals who generate used oil through the maintenance of their personal
				  vehicles.
l. "Household
				  'do-it-yourselfer' used oil generator" means an individual who generates
				  household "do-it-yourselfer" used oil.
m. "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.
n. "Motor oil" and "similar
				  lubricants" mean the fraction of crude oil or synthetic oil that is classified
				  for the use in the crankcase, transmission, gearbox, or differential of an
				  internal combustion engine, including automobiles, buses, trucks, lawn mowers
				  and other household power equipment, industrial machinery, and other mechanical
				  devices that derive their power from internal combustion engines. The terms
				  include re-refined oil but do not include heavy greases and specialty
				  industrial or machine oils, such as spindle oils, cutting oils, steam cylinder
				  oils, industrial oils, electrical insulating oils, or solvents which are not
				  sold at retail in this State.
o.
				  "New tank" means a tank that will be used to store or process used oil and for
				  which installation has commenced after the effective date of this
				  regulation.
p. "Owner/operator"
				  means the person who owns the land on which a solid waste management facility
				  is located or the person who is responsible for the overall operation of the
				  facility, or both.
q. "Person"
				  means an individual, corporation, company, association, partnership, unit of
				  local government, state agency, federal agency, or other legal
				  entity.
r. "Petroleum refining
				  facility" means an establishment primarily engaged in producing gasoline,
				  kerosene, distillate fuel oils, residual fuel oils, and lubricants, through
				  fractionation, straight distillation of crude oil, re-distillation of
				  unfinished petroleum derivatives, cracking or other processes (i.e., facilities
				  classified as SIC 2911).
s.
				  "Processing" means chemical or physical operations designed to produce from
				  used oil, or to make used oil more amenable for production of, fuel oils,
				  lubricants, or other used oil-derived product. Processing includes, but is not
				  limited to: blending used oil with virgin petroleum products, blending used
				  oils to meet the fuel specification, filtration, simple distillation, chemical
				  or physical separation and re-refining.
t. "Re-refining distillation bottoms" means
				  the heavy fraction produced by vacuum distillation of filtered and dehydrated
				  used oil. The composition of still bottoms varies with column operation and
				  feedstock.
u. "Recycling" means any
				  process by which materials which would otherwise become solid waste, are
				  separated or processed and reused or returned to use in the form of raw
				  materials or products (including composting).
v. "Resource recovery" means the process of
				  obtaining material or energy resources from solid waste which no longer has any
				  useful life in its present form and preparing the waste for
				  recycling.
w. "Tank" means any
				  stationary device, designed to contain an accumulation of used oil which is
				  constructed primarily of non-earthen materials (e.g., wood, concrete, steel,
				  plastic) which provides structural support.
x. "Terne plated" means oil filters which are
				  plated with an alloy of tin and lead.
y. "Used oil" means any oil which has been
				  refined from crude or synthetic oil and, as a result of use, storage, or
				  handling, has become unsuitable for its original purpose due to the presence of
				  impurities or loss of original properties, but which may be suitable for
				  further use and may be economically recyclable.
z. "Used oil aggregation point" means any
				  site or facility that accepts, aggregates, and/or stores used oil collected
				  only from other used oil generation sites owned or operated by the owner or
				  operator of the aggregation point, from which used oil is transported to the
				  aggregation point in shipments of no more than 55 gallons. Used oil aggregation
				  points may also accept used oil from household do-it-yourselfers.
aa. "Used oil burner" means a facility where
				  used oil not meeting the specification requirements in 279.11 is burned for
				  energy recovery in devices identified in 279.61.a.
bb. "Used oil collection center" means a
				  facility which, in the course of business, accepts used oil for subsequent
				  disposal or recycling. Used oil collection centers may also accept used oil
				  from household do-it-yourselfers.
cc. "Used oil generator" means any person, by
				  site, whose act or process produces used oil or whose act first causes used oil
				  to become subject to regulation.
dd. "Used oil fuel marketer" means any person
				  who conducts either of the following activities:
(i) Directs a shipment of off-specification
				  used oil from their facility to a used oil burner; or
(ii) First claims that used oil that is to be
				  burned for energy recovery meets the used oil fuel specifications set forth in
				  279.11 of this regulation.