South Carolina Code of Regulations › Chapter 61 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL › Subchapter 61-107 - Solid Waste Management › Subchapter 61-107.3 - Solid Waste Management: Waste Tires › Part I - General Provisions › Section 61-107.3.I.B - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 6, June 28, 2024
1. "Department"
				  means the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental
				  Control.
2. "Local government"
				  means a county, any municipality located wholly or partly within the county,
				  and any other political subdivision located wholly or partly within the county
				  when such political subdivision provides solid waste management
				  services.
3. "Person" means an
				  individual, corporation, company, association, partnership, unit of local
				  government, state agency, federal agency, or other legal entity.
4. "Processed tire" means a waste tire that
				  has been cut, shredded, burned, or otherwise altered so that it is no longer
				  whole; or waste tires that have been baled or compacted. The term does not
				  include tire products as described in the waste tire processing permit
				  application and approved by the Department in the permit.
5. "Quantity" means either volume as measured
				  by cubic yard, weight as measured in tons or pounds, or actual number of tires
				  by type.
6. "Residual" means any
				  liquid, sludge, metal, fabric, or by-product resulting from the processing or
				  storage of tires. Residual does not include processed tires held for recycling
				  or disposal.
7. "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 facility that is
				  managing solid waste.
8. "Tire"
				  means a continuous solid or pneumatic rubber covering encircling the wheel of a
				  motor vehicle, trailer, or motorcycle, as defined in S. C. Code Section
				  56-3-20(2),
				  (4), and (13). It does not include an
				  industrial press-on tire, with a metal or solid compound rim, which may be
				  retooled.
9. "Tire derived product"
				  means processed tire material that has been sold and removed from the
				  processing facility.
10. "Tire
				  disposal" means to deposit, dump, spill, or place any waste tire, processed
				  tire, or residuals into or upon any land or water.
11. "Tire recycling" means any process by
				  which waste tires, processed tires, or residuals are reused or returned to use
				  in the form of products or raw materials.
12. "Waste tire" means a whole tire that is
				  no longer suitable for its originally intended purpose because of wear, damage,
				  or defect.
13. "Waste tires for
				  agricultural purposes" means waste tires that are generated during the normal
				  production of plants and livestock, and which are kept on-site for beneficial
				  re-use.
14. "Waste tire collection
				  facility" means a permitted facility or a facility exempted from the permit
				  requirement, used for the temporary storage of waste tires.
15. "Waste tire generator" means any person
				  whose action or process produces a waste tire, or whose action first causes a
				  waste tire to become subject to regulation.
16. "Waste tire hauler" means a person
				  engaged in the transportation of greater than fifteen (15) waste tires at one
				  (1) time for the purpose of storage, processing, or disposal.
17. "Waste tire processing facility" means a
				  site where equipment is used to recapture reusable by-products from waste tires
				  or to cut, burn, or otherwise alter whole waste tires so that they are no
				  longer whole. The term includes mobile waste tire processing equipment, waste
				  tire pyrolysis units, and waste tire baling or compacting equipment.
18. "Wetlands" means those areas that are
				  inundated or saturated by surface or groundwater at a frequency and duration
				  sufficient to support, and under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence
				  of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. Wetlands
				  generally include swamps, marshes, bogs, and similar areas.