Texas Administrative Code › Title 30 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Part 1 - TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 330 - MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE › Subchapter O - REGIONAL AND LOCAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT PLANNING AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 330.633 - Definitions of Terms and Abbreviations

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this
					 subchapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
					 otherwise.
(1) Advisory council--The
				  Municipal Solid Waste Management and Resource Recovery Advisory
				  Council.
(2) City--An incorporated
				  city or town in the state.
(3)
				  Closed municipal solid waste landfill unit--A discrete area of land or an
				  excavation that has received only municipal solid waste or municipal solid
				  waste combined with other solid wastes, including, but not limited to,
				  construction/demolition waste, commercial solid waste, nonhazardous sludge,
				  conditionally exempt small-quantity generator hazardous waste, and industrial
				  solid waste, and the area of land is not a land application unit, surface
				  impoundment, injection well, or waste pile as those terms are defined by 40
				  Code of Federal Regulations §257.2.
(4) Council of governments--A regional
				  planning commission created under Local Government Code, Chapter 391.
(5) Governing body--The city council,
				  commissioners court, board of directors, trustees, or similar body charged by
				  law with governing a public agency.
(6) Inactive facility--A facility that no
				  longer receives solid waste.
(7)
				  Planning fund--The municipal solid waste management planning fund created in
				  the state treasury by the Comprehensive Municipal Solid Waste Management,
				  Resource Recovery, and Conservation Act (Texas Health and Safety Code, Chapter
				  363).
(8) Planning period--The
				  period of time that an adopted solid waste management plan is designed to
				  remain effective.
(9) Planning
				  region--A region of the state identified by the governor as an appropriate
				  region for municipal solid waste planning.
(10) Private operator--A person, other than a
				  government or governmental subdivision or agency, engaged in some aspect of
				  operating a solid waste management system. The term includes any entity other
				  than a government or governmental subdivision or agency, owned and operated by
				  investment of private capital.
(11)
				  Property--Land, structures, interests in land, air rights, water rights, and
				  rights that accompany interests in land, structures, water rights, and air
				  rights and includes easements, rights of way, uses, leases, incorporeal
				  hereditaments, legal and equitable estates, interest, or rights such as terms
				  for years and liens.
(12) Public
				  agency--A city, county, district, or authority created and operating under the
				  Texas Constitution, Article III, §52(b)(1) or (2), or Article XVI,
				  §59, or a combination of two or more of these governmental entities acting
				  under an interlocal agreement and having the authority under state laws to own
				  and operate a solid waste management system.
(13) Regional or local solid waste management
				  plan--A plan adopted by a council of governments or local government under
				  authority of the Municipal Solid Waste Management, Resource Recovery, and
				  Conservation Act (Texas Health and Safety Code, Chapter 363).
(14) Regional Solid Waste Grants Program--The
				  program established to utilize funds dedicated under Texas Health and Safety
				  Code, §
										361.014,
				  for local and regional solid waste projects and to update and maintain regional
				  solid waste management plans.
(15)
				  Resolution--A resolution, order, ordinance, or other action of a governing
				  body.
(16) Solid waste
				  management--The systematic control of any or all of the following activities:
(A) generation;
(B) source separation;
(C) collection;
(D) handling;
(E) storage;
(F) transportation;
(G) processing;
(H) treatment;
(I) resource recovery; or
(J) disposal of solid waste.