South Carolina Code of Regulations › Chapter 61 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL › Subchapter 61-107 - Solid Waste Management › Subchapter 61-107.5 - Solid Waste Management: Collection, Temporary Storage and Transportation of Municipal Solid Waste › Section 61-107.5.B - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 6, June 28, 2024
1. "Collection"
				means the act of picking up solid waste materials from homes, businesses,
				governmental agencies, institutions, or industrial sites.
2. "Department" means the South Carolina
				Department of Health and Environmental Control.
3. "Discharge" means the accidental or
				intentional spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, or dumping
				of solid waste, including leachate, into or on any land or water.
4. "Flood plain" means the lowland and
				relatively flat areas adjoining inland and coastal areas of the mainland and
				off-shore islands including, at a minimum, areas subject to a one percent or
				greater chance of flooding in any given year.
5. "Industrial solid waste" means solid waste
				generated by manufacturing or industrial processes that is not a hazardous
				waste regulated under subtitle C of RCRA. Such waste may include, but is not
				limited to, waste resulting from the following manufacturing processes:
				Electric power generation; fertilizer/agricultural chemicals; food and related
				products/by-products; inorganic chemicals; iron and steel manufacturing;
				leather and leather products; nonferrous metals manufacturing/foundries;
				organic chemicals; plastics and resins manufacturing; pulp and paper industry;
				rubber and miscellaneous plastic products; stone, glass, clay, and concrete
				products; textile manufacturing; transportation equipment; and water treatment.
				This term does not include mining waste or oil and gas waste.
6. "Leachate" means the liquid that has
				percolated through or drained from solid waste or other man-emplaced materials
				and that contains soluble, partially soluble, or miscible components removed
				from such waste.
7. "Municipal
				solid waste" means any solid waste (including garbage, trash, and sanitary
				waste in septic tanks) derived from households (including single and multiple
				residences, hotels and motels, bunkhouses, ranger stations, crew quarters,
				campgrounds, picnic grounds, and day-use recreation areas), generated by
				commercial establishments (stores, offices, restaurants, warehouses, and other
				nonmanufacturing activities, excluding industrial facilities) and nonhazardous
				sludge.
8. "Nonputrescible" means
				solid waste that contains no putrescible waste.
9. "Person" means an individual, corporation,
				company, association, partnership, unit of local government, state agency,
				federal agency, or other legal entity.
10. "Putrescible" means solid waste composed
				of items, such as foods, that will decompose and rot to produce a foul smelling
				odor.
11. "Recovered materials"
				means those materials which have known use, reuse, or recycling potential; can
				be feasibly used, reused, or recycled; and have been diverted or removed from
				the solid waste stream for sale, use, reuse, or recycling, whether or not
				requiring subsequent separation and processing, but does not include materials
				when recycled or transferred to a different site for recycling in an amount
				which does not equal at least seventy-five percent by weight of materials
				received during the previous calendar year.
12. "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 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 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.
13. "Solid waste storage container" as
				defined by this Regulation means large receptacles, e.g., green boxes,
				dumpsters, rolloff containers, which are used as a central collection point for
				the temporary storage of solid waste. This definition does not apply to storage
				containers used by a single family unit or to litter receptacles which are
				regulated under Code Section
				16-11-700.
				Any solid waste storage container used at a food service facility, e.g.
				restaurants, etc., regardless of size, is subject to the requirements of this
				regulation.
14. "Temporary storage"
				as defined by this Regulation means the containment of solid waste for a period
				of not more than seven (7) days prior to the ultimate disposal of the waste,
				e.g., green boxes are used for temporary storage of solid waste.
15. "Vector" means a carrier that is capable
				of transmitting a pathogen from one organism to another including, but not
				limited to, flies and other insects, rodents, birds, and vermin.
16. "Vehicle" means any motor vehicle, water
				vessel, railroad car, airplane, or other means of transporting solid
				waste.
17. "Waters of the State"
				means lakes, bays, sounds, ponds, impounding reservoirs, springs, wells,
				rivers, streams, creeks, estuaries, marshes, inlets, canals, the Atlantic Ocean
				within the territorial limits, and all other bodies of surface or underground
				water, natural or artificial, public or private, inland or coastal, fresh or
				salt, which are wholly or partially within or bordering the State or within its
				jurisdiction.