Texas Administrative Code › Title 30 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Part 1 - TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 281 - APPLICATIONS PROCESSING › Subchapter A - APPLICATIONS PROCESSING › Section 281.31 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
					 shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
					 otherwise.
(1) Commercial hazardous
				  waste management facility--Any hazardous waste management facility that accepts
				  hazardous waste or PCBs for a charge, except a captured facility or a facility
				  that accepts waste only from other facilities owned or effectively controlled
				  by the same person, where "captured facility" means a manufacturing or
				  production facility that generates an industrial solid waste or hazardous waste
				  that is routinely stored, processed, or disposed of on a shared basis in an
				  integrated waste management unit owned, operated by, and located within a
				  contiguous manufacturing complex.
(2) Current management practice(s)--The most
				  commonly used technologies for processing or land disposing of targeted waste
				  stream(s) generated in the State of Texas, as evidenced by the most recent
				  computerized annual or monthly waste management reports submitted by waste
				  handlers to the commission.
(3)
				  Needed technology--A technology included in Table 2 of the Executive Summary of
				  the most recent publication of the Needs Assessment. Technologies on Table 2 of
				  the Executive Summary of the Needs Assessment are demonstrated processing or
				  disposal technologies which are needed on a statewide basis.
(4) Needs assessment--Texas Natural Resource
				  Conservation Commission document entitled "Needs Assessment for Hazardous Waste
				  Commercial Management Capacity in Texas," dated February 28, 1992, and its
				  amendments or updates, a copy of which is available for inspection at the
				  library of the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, located at 12118
				  North Interstate Highway 35, Building A, Austin, Texas.
(5) New capacity--Unpermitted volume,
				  quantity, or rate of throughput for the management of hazardous waste at a
				  hazardous waste management facility provided by any of the following: proposed
				  units or systems; interim status units or systems; or modifications to permit
				  operating conditions, such that additional quantities or types of waste would
				  be managed.
(6) Table 2--Table 2 of
				  the Executive Summary of the most recent publication of the commission document
				  entitled "Needs Assessment for Hazardous Waste Commercial Management Capacity
				  in Texas" dated February 28, 1992, and its amendments or updates, a copy of
				  which is available for inspection at the library of the Texas Natural Resource
				  Conservation Commission, located at 12118 North Interstate Highway 35, Building
				  A, Austin, Texas.
(7) Targeted
				  waste stream(s)--A hazardous waste stream(s) generated in the State of Texas
				  which will be managed by a specific technology at a specific facility. The
				  applicant shall define targeted waste streams, by EPA hazardous waste numbers
				  and the form of the waste, or by other identifiers approved in writing by the
				  executive director.