South Carolina Code of Regulations › Chapter 61 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL › Subchapter 61-79 - Hazardous Waste Management Regulations › Part 61-79.268 - LAND DISPOSAL RESTRICTIONS › Subpart A - GENERAL › Section 61-79.268.A.2 - Definitions applicable in this part

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 6, June 28, 2024
When used in this part the following terms have the
					 meanings given below: (amended 11/90)
(a) "Halogenated organic compounds" or HOC's
				  means those compounds having a carbon-halogen bond which are listed under
				  Appendix III to this part.
(b)
				  Hazardous constituent or constituents" means those constituents listed in
				  Appendix VIII to R.61-79.261 of these Regulations.
(c) "Land disposal" means placement in or on
				  the land, except in a corrective action management unit, or staging pile and
				  includes, but is not limited to, placement in a landfill, surface impoundment,
				  waste pile, injection well, land treatment facility, salt dome formation, salt
				  bed formation, underground mine or cave, or placement in a concrete vault or
				  bunker intended for disposal purposes (11/90; 12/92; 12/93).
(d) "Nonwastewaters" are wastes that do not
				  meet the criteria for wastewaters in paragraph (f) of this section. (amended
				  11/90, 12/92)
(e) "Polychlorinated
				  biphenyls" or PCB's are halogenated organic compounds defined in accordance
				  with 40 CFR 761.3.
				  (amended 11/90)
(f) "Wastewaters"
				  are wastes that contain less than 1% by weight total organic carbon (TOC) and
				  less than 1% by weight total suspended solids (TSS).(amended 11/90; moved
				  12/93)
(g) "Debris" means solid
				  material exceeding a 60 mm particle size that is intended for disposal and that
				  is: a manufactured object; or plant or animal matter; or natural geologic
				  material. However, the following materials are not debris: any material for
				  which a specific treatment standard is provided in subpart D, part 268, namely
				  lead acid batteries, cadmium batteries, and radioactive lead solids; process
				  residuals such as smelter slag and residues from the treatment of waste,
				  wastewater, sludges, or air emission residues; and intact containers of
				  hazardous waste that are not ruptured and that retain at least 75% of their
				  original volume. A mixture of debris that has not been treated to the standards
				  provided by 268.45 and other material is subject to regulation as debris if the
				  mixture is comprised primarily of debris, by volume, based on visual
				  inspection. (added 12/93; revised 5/96)
(h) "Hazardous debris" means debris that
				  contains a hazardous waste listed in subpart D of part 261, or that exhibits a
				  characteristic of hazardous waste identified in subpart C of part 261. Any
				  deliberate mixing of prohibited hazardous waste with debris that changes its
				  treatment classification (i.e., from waste to hazardous debris) is not allowed
				  under the dilution prohibition in 268.3. (12/93)
(i) Underlying hazardous constituent means
				  any constituent listed in 268.48, Table UTS - Universal Treatment Standards,
				  except fluoride, selenium, sulfides, vanadium, and zinc, which can reasonably
				  be expected to be present at the point of generation of the hazardous waste at
				  a concentration above the constituent-specific UTS treatment standards. (12/93,
				  5/96, 9/98)
(j) "Inorganic
				  metalbearing waste" is one for which EPA has established treatment standards
				  for metal hazardous constituents, and which does not otherwise contain
				  significant organic or cyanide content as described in 268.3(c)(1), and is
				  specifically listed in appendix XI of this part.
(k) Soil means unconsolidated earth material
				  composing the superficial geologic strata (material overlying bedrock),
				  consisting of clay, silt, sand, or gravel size particles as classified by the
				  U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service, or a mixture of such materials
				  with liquids, sludges or solids which is inseparable by simple mechanical
				  removal processes and is made up primarily of soil by volume based on visual
				  inspection. Any deliberate mixing of prohibited hazardous waste with soil that
				  changes its treatment classification (i.e., from waste to contaminated soil) is
				  not allowed under the dilution prohibition in 268.3. (11/99)