South Carolina Code of Regulations › Chapter 61 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL › Subchapter 61-107 - Solid Waste Management › Subchapter 61-107.7 - Solid Waste Management: Transfer of Solid Waste › Section 61-107.7.B - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 6, June 28, 2024
1. "Closure" means
				the discontinuance of operation by ceasing to accept, treat, store, or dispose
				of solid waste in a manner which minimizes the need for further maintenance and
				protects human health and the environment.
2. "Collection" means the act of picking up
				solid waste materials from homes, businesses, governmental agencies,
				institutions, or industrial sites.
3. "Construction" means any physical
				modification to the site at which a potential or proposed solid waste
				management facility is to be located including, but not limited to, site
				preparation.
4. "Contingency plan"
				means a document acceptable to the Department setting out an organized,
				planned, and coordinated course of action to be followed at or by the facility
				in case of a fire, explosion, or other incident that could threaten human
				health and safety or the environment.
5. "Department" means the South Carolina
				Department of Health and Environmental Control.
6. "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.
7. "Disclosure statement" means a sworn
				statement or affirmation, the form and content of which shall be determined by
				the Department as required by Code Section
				44-96-300.
8. "Expansion" means the process of
				increasing existing capacity of operations at an existing site when such
				increase is in conformity with the area served and scope of operations of the
				original permit.
9. "Financial
				responsibility mechanism" means a mechanism designed to demonstrate that
				sufficient funds will be available to meet specific environmental protection
				needs of solid waste management facilities. Available financial responsibility
				mechanisms include, but are not limited to, insurance, trust funds, surety
				bonds, letters of credit, personal bonds, certificates of deposit, financial
				tests, and corporate guarantees as determined by the Department by
				regulation.
10. "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.
11. "Hazardous waste" has the meaning
				provided in Section
				44-56-20
				of the South Carolina Hazardous Waste Management Act.
12. "Infectious waste" has the meaning given
				in Section
				44-93-20
				of the South Carolina Infectious Waste Management Act.
13. "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.
14.
				"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.
15. "Permit" means the process by which the
				Department can ensure cognizance of, as well as control over, the management of
				solid wastes.
16. "Person" means an
				individual, corporation, company, association, partnership, unit of local
				government, state agency, federal agency, or other legal entity.
17. "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.
18. "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.
19. "Solid waste management facility" means
				any solid waste disposal area, volume reduction plant, transfer station, or
				other facility, the purpose of which is the storage, collection,
				transportation, treatment, utilization, processing, recycling, or disposal, or
				any combination thereof, of solid waste. The term does not include a recovered
				materials processing facility or facilities which use or ship recovered
				materials, except that portion of the facilities which is managing solid
				waste.
20. "Surface water" means
				lakes, bays, sounds, ponds, impounding reservoirs, springs, rivers, streams,
				creeks, estuaries, marshes, inlets, canals, the Atlantic Ocean within
				territorial limits, and all other bodies of surface water, natural or
				artificial, inland or coastal, fresh or salt, public or private.
21. "Transfer station" means a combination of
				structures, machinery, or devices at a place or facility where solid waste is
				taken from collection vehicles and placed in other transportation units, with
				or without reduction of volume, for movement to another solid waste management
				facility.
22. "Transport" means
				the movement of solid waste from the point of generation to any intermediate
				point and finally to the point of ultimate processing, treatment, storage, or
				disposal.
23. "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.
24. "Vehicle" means any
				motor vehicle, water vessel, railroad car, airplane, or other means of
				transporting solid waste.