South Carolina Code of Regulations › Chapter 61 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL › Subchapter 61-9 - Water Pollution Control Permits › Subchapter 61-9.504 - STANDARDS FOR THE USE OR DISPOSAL OF INDUSTRIAL SLUDGE › Part A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 61-9.504.A.9 - General definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 6, June 28, 2024
All terms not defined herein have the meaning given them in
					 R.61-9.122, R.61-9.124, R.61-9.129, R.61-9.133, R.61-9.403, or
					 R.61-9.505.
(a) "Apply industrial
				  sludge or industrial sludge applied to the land" means land application of
				  industrial sludge. Disposal of industrial sludge in a permitted solid waste
				  unit or in accordance with a wastewater facility closeout plan approved
				  pursuant to Regulation Regulation 61-82 is not land application.
(b) "Base flood" is a flood that has a one
				  percent chance of occurring in any given year (i.e., a flood with a magnitude
				  equalled once in 100 years).
(c)
				  "Cover crop" is a small grain crop, such as oats, wheat, or barley; grasses; or
				  other crop grown for agronomic use.
(d) "CWA" see
				  R.61-9.122.2(b)(b)Definitions.
(e)
				  "Domestic septage" is either liquid or solid material removed from a septic
				  tank, portable toilet, Type III marine sanitation device, or similar treatment
				  works that receives only domestic sewage. Domestic septage does not include
				  liquid or solid material removed from a septic tank, cesspool, or similar
				  treatment works that receives industrial wastewater and does not include grease
				  removed from a grease trap at a restaurant.
(f) "Domestic sewage" is waste and wastewater
				  from humans, which is generated from industrial, commercial, or household
				  operations that is discharged to or otherwise enters a treatment
				  works.
(g) "Dry weight basis" means
				  calculated on the basis of having been dried at 105 degrees Celsius until
				  reaching a constant mass (i.e., essentially 100 percent solids
				  content).
(h) "EPA" means the
				  United States Environmental Protection Agency.
(i) "Feed crops" are crops produced primarily
				  for consumption by animals.
(j)
				  "Fiber crops" are crops such as flax and cotton.
(k) "Food crops" are crops consumed by
				  humans. These include, but are not limited to, fruits, vegetables, and
				  tobacco.
(l) "Ground water" is
				  water below the land surface in the saturated zone.
(m) "Industrial wastewater" is wastewater
				  generated in a commercial or industrial process (including waste and wastewater
				  from humans when combined with commercial or industrial wastewater). By
				  definition, waste or wastewater from humans not combined with commercial or
				  industrial wastewater will be considered domestic sewage covered under
				  R.61-9.503.
(n) "Industrial
				  Septage" is either liquid or solid material removed from a septic tank that
				  receives industrial wastewater. This does not include grease removed from
				  grease traps at restaurants or other similar establishments.
(o) "Industrial Sludge" is solid, semi-solid,
				  or liquid residue generated during the treatment of industrial wastewater in a
				  treatment works. Industrial sludge includes, but is not limited to, industrial
				  septage; scum or solids removed in primary, secondary, or advanced wastewater
				  treatment processes; and a material derived from industrial sludge. Industrial
				  sludge does not include ash generated during the firing of industrial sludge in
				  an industrial sludge incinerator or grit and screenings generated during
				  preliminary treatment of industrial wastewater in a treatment works. Industrial
				  sludge by definition does not include sludge covered under 40 CFR Part 503 or
				  R.61-9.503.
(p) "Municipality" see
				  R.61-9.122.2(b)Definitions. The definition includes under R.61-9.503 a special district
				  created under State law, such as a water district, sewer district, sanitary
				  district, utility district, drainage district, or similar entity, or an
				  integrated waste management facility as defined in section201(e)(e) of the CWA,
				  as amended, that has as one of its principal responsibilities the treatment,
				  transport, use, or disposal of sewage sludge.
(q) "Permitting authority" means the
				  Department.
(r) "Person" see
				  definition in R.61-9.122.2(b)Definitions.
(s) "Person who prepares industrial sludge"
				  is the person who generates industrial sludge during the treatment of
				  industrial wastewater in a treatment works and/or the person who derives a
				  material from industrial sludge when the industrial sludge does not meet the
				  ceiling concentrations in Table 1 of section504.13; the pollutant
				  concentrations Table 3 of section504.13; the Class A pathogen requirements in
				  section504.32(a)(a); one of the vector attraction reduction requirements in
				  section504.33(b)(1)(b)(1) through section504.33(b)(8)(b)(8) or an equivalent
				  vector attraction reduction requirement (as determined by the Department), or
				  the sludge contains other pollutants that may cause a public health or
				  environmental problem.
(t) "Place
				  industrial sludge or industrial sludge placed" means disposal of industrial
				  sludge on a land disposal site.
(u)
				  "Pollutant" is an organic substance, an inorganic substance, a combination of
				  organic and inorganic substances, or a pathogenic organism that, after
				  discharge and upon exposure, ingestion, inhalation, or assimilation into an
				  organism either directly from the environment or indirectly by ingestion
				  through the food chain, could, on the basis of information available to the
				  Department, cause death, disease, behavioral abnormalities, cancer, genetic
				  mutations, physiological malfunctions (including malfunction in reproduction),
				  or physical deformations in either organisms or offspring of the
				  organisms.
(v) "Pollutant limit" is
				  a numerical value that describes the amount of a pollutant allowed per unit
				  amount of industrial sludge (e. g., milligrams per kilogram of total solids);
				  the amount of a pollutant that can be applied to a unit area of land (e. g.,
				  kilograms per hectare); or the volume of a material that can be applied to a
				  unit area of land (e.g., gallons per acre).
(w) "Runoff" is rainwater, leachate, or other
				  liquid that drains overland on any part of a land surface and runs off of the
				  land surface.
(x) "State" means the
				  State of South Carolina.
(y) "Store
				  or storage of industrial sludge" is the placement of industrial sludge on land
				  on which the industrial sludge remains for two years or less. This does not
				  include the placement of industrial sludge on land for treatment.
(z) "Treat or treatment of industrial sludge"
				  is the preparation of industrial sludge for final use or disposal. This
				  includes, but is not limited to, thickening, stabilization, and dewatering of
				  industrial sludge. This does not include storage of industrial
				  sludge.
(aa) "Treatment works" is
				  either a commercially, or privately owned device or system used to treat
				  (including recycle and reclaim) either industrial, commercial sewage or a
				  combination of domestic sewage and industrial waste of a liquid
				  nature.
(bb) "Wetlands" see
				  R.61-9.122.2(b)Definitions.
(cc)
				  "Commercial Wastewater" is any other wastewater (other than process wastewater)
				  which is not included under industrial wastewater and does not include domestic
				  sewage (e.g. centralized special waste collection and processing).
(dd) "Person who applies industrial sludge"
				  may be the generator, preparer, or a land applier.