South Carolina Code of Regulations › Chapter 61 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL › Subchapter 61-79 - Hazardous Waste Management Regulations › Part 61-79.262 - STANDARDS APPLICABLE TO GENERATORS OF HAZARDOUS WASTE › Subpart K - ALTERNATIVE REQUIREMENTS FOR HAZARDOUS WASTE DETERMINATION AND ACCUMULATION OF UNWANTED MATERIAL FOR LABORATORIES OWNED BY ELIGIBLE ACADEMIC ENTITIES › Section 61-79.262.K.200 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 6, June 28, 2024
"College/University" means a private or public,
					 post-secondary, degree-granting, academic institution, that is accredited by an
					 accrediting agency listed annually by the U.S. Department of Education
"Eligible academic entity" means a college or university,
					 or a non-profit research institute that is owned by or has a formal written
					 affiliation agreement with a college or university, or a teaching hospital that
					 is owned by or has a formal written affiliation agreement with a college or
					 university.
"Formal written affiliation agreement" for a non-profit
					 research institute means a written document that establishes a relationship
					 between institutions for the purposes of research and/or education and is
					 signed by authorized representatives, as defined by 260.10, from each
					 institution. A relationship on a project-by-project or grant-by-grant basis is
					 not considered a formal written affiliation agreement. A formal written
					 affiliation agreement for a teaching hospital means a master affiliation
					 agreement and program letter of agreement, as defined by the Accreditation
					 Council for Graduate Medical Education, with an accredited medical program or
					 medical school.
"Laboratory" means an area owned by an eligible academic
					 entity where relatively small quantities of chemicals and other substances are
					 used on a non-production basis for teaching or research (or diagnostic purposes
					 at a teaching hospital) and are stored and used in containers that are easily
					 manipulated by one person. Photo laboratories, art studios, and field
					 laboratories are considered laboratories. Areas such as chemical stockrooms and
					 preparatory laboratories that provide a support function to teaching or
					 research laboratories (or diagnostic laboratories at teaching hospitals) are
					 also considered laboratories.
"Laboratory clean-out" means an evaluation of the inventory
					 of chemicals and other materials in a laboratory that are no longer needed or
					 that have expired and the subsequent removal of those chemicals or other
					 unwanted materials from the laboratory. A clean-out may occur for several
					 reasons. It may be on a routine basis (e.g., at the end of a semester or
					 academic year) or as a result of a renovation, relocation, or change in
					 laboratory supervisor/occupant. A regularly scheduled removal of unwanted
					 material as required by 262.208 does not qualify as a laboratory
					 clean-out.
"Laboratory worker" means a person who handles chemicals
					 and/or unwanted material in a laboratory and may include, but is not limited
					 to, faculty, staff, post-doctoral fellows, interns, researchers, technicians,
					 supervisors/managers, and principal investigators. A person does not need to be
					 paid or otherwise compensated for his/her work in the laboratory to be
					 considered a laboratory worker. Undergraduate and graduate students in a
					 supervised classroom setting are not laboratory workers.
"Non-profit research institute" means an organization that
					 conducts research as its primary function and files as a non-profit
					 organization under the tax code of 26 U.S.C. 501(c)(3).
"Reactive acutely hazardous unwanted material" means an
					 unwanted material that is one of the acutely hazardous commercial chemical
					 products listed in 261.33(e) for reactivity.
"Teaching hospital" means a hospital that trains students
					 to become physicians, nurses or other health or laboratory personnel.
"Trained professional" means a person who has completed the
					 applicable RCRA training requirements of R.61-79.262.17 for large quantity
					 generators, or is knowledgeable about normal operations and emergencies in
					 accordance with R.61-79.262.16 for small quantity generators and very small
					 quantity generators. A trained professional may be an employee of the eligible
					 academic entity or may be a contractor or vendor who meets the requisite
					 training requirements.
"Unwanted material" means any chemical, mixtures of
					 chemicals, products of experiments or other material from a laboratory that is
					 no longer needed, wanted or usable in the laboratory and that is destined for
					 hazardous waste determination by a trained professional. Unwanted materials
					 include reactive acutely hazardous unwanted materials and materials that may
					 eventually be determined not to be solid waste pursuant to 261.2, or a
					 hazardous waste pursuant to 261.3. If an eligible academic entity elects to use
					 another equally effective term in lieu of "unwanted material," as allowed by
					 262.206(a)(1)(i), the equally effective term has the same meaning and is
					 subject to the same requirements as "unwanted material" under this
					 subpart.
"Working container" means a small container (i.e., two
					 gallons or less) that is in use at a laboratory bench, hood, or other work
					 station, to collect unwanted material from a laboratory experiment or
					 procedure.