Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 020 - Environmental Quality, Dept. of › Sub-Agency 0009 - Solid Waste Management › Chapter 15 - SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT RULES AND REGS › Section 15-2 - Definitions

Current through July 13, 2024
For the purpose of these Regulations the following terms
				  shall have the meaning or interpretations set out below and shall be used in
				  conjunction with, and as supplemental to, those definitions contained in W.S.
				  Section 35 - 502.3.
(a) "Cell" means
				compacted solid wastes that are enclosed by natural soil or cover material in
				land disposal site.
(b)
				"Construction/Demolition Landfill" means a solid waste disposal site that
				accepts only construction waste, demolition waste and/or brush. This does not
				include garbage, liquids, sludges, paints, solvents, putrescibles, dead animals
				and hazardous or toxic waste which will be prohibited from being disposed of in
				this type site.
(c) "Cover
				Material" means soil or other suitable material that is used to cover compacted
				solid wastes in a land disposal site.
(d) "Daily Cover" means six inches of cover
				material that is spread and compacted on the top and side slopes of compacted
				solid wastes at the end of each operating day in order to control vectors,
				fire, moisture and erosion and to assure an aesthetic appearance.
(e) "Final Cover" means cover material that
				is used to completely cover the top of a landfill. This cover is at least
				twenty-four inches thick.
(f)
				"Facility" means any solid waste disposal area, site, process, or system and
				the operation thereof including, but not limited to personnel, equipment and
				buildings.
(g) "Garbage" means any
				putrescible solid or semi-solid animal and/or vegetable waste material
				resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, serving and consumption of
				food.
(h) "Ground Water" means any
				water found beneath the surface of the earth.
(i) "Hazardous Waste" means any waste or
				combination of wastes which pose a substantial present or potential hazard to
				human health, the environment, and plants or animals because such wastes are
				nondegradable or persistent in nature or because they can be biologically
				magnified, or because they can be lethal, or because they may otherwise cause
				or tend to cause detrimental cumulative effects.
(j) "Incineration" means the controlled
				process by which combustible solid, liquid or gaseous wastes are burned and
				changed into noncombustible gases and other residues.
(k) "Incinerator" means a controlled facility
				consisting of one or more chambers or furnaces in which wastes are
				burned.
(l) "Industrial Landfill"
				means a disposal facility utilizing an engineered method of disposing of
				industrial solid waste on land without creating a hazard to the public health,
				the environment, plants or animals.
(m) "Industrial Solid Waste" means waste
				resulting from, or incidental to, any process of industry, manufacturing,
				mining or development of any agricultural or natural resources. This does not
				include waste materials, the discharge of which is subject to the rules and
				regulations of the Water Quality Division or mining materials subject to the
				Land Quality Rules and Regulations.
(n) "Leachate" means liquid that is the
				result of the percolations of fluids through solid waste and which consists of
				chemicals and microbial waste products from the solid waste in a dissolved or
				suspended state.
(o) "Letter of
				Approval" means the written approval from the Department to construct and/or
				operate a solid waste disposal facility.
(p) "Modified Landfill" means an adaptation
				of sanitary landfill, differing only in that coverage with a layer of earth is
				applied to deposited refuse at a frequency less than daily.
(q) "Municipality" means a city, town,
				county, district, association or other public body.
(r) "Municipal Solid Waste" means solid waste
				resulting from or incidental to residential, community, trade or business
				activities, including garbage, rubbish, ashes, street sweepings, dead animals,
				abandoned automobiles and all other solid waste other than industrial solid
				waste.
(s) "New Facility" means any
				facility which requires new or additional construction, such as access roads,
				fencing, surface water diversion, etc. or the working area is not included in a
				plan which has been previously submitted to and approved by the
				Department.
(t) "Open Burning"
				means uncontrolled burning of solid waste in the open.
(u) "Open Dump" means an uncontrolled solid
				waste disposal site at which solid wastes are dumped in the open in such a
				manner that they present a real or potential hazard to public health and the
				environment.
(v) "Person" means an
				individual, partnership, firm, association, joint venture, public or private
				corporation, trust, estate, commission, board, public or private institution,
				utility, cooperative, municipality or any other political subdivision of the
				state, or any interstate body or any other legal entity.
(w) "Plans" means maps, drawings and
				narrative description, prepared to describe the solid waste disposal facility
				and its operation.
(x) "Processing
				Plant" means a facility used or designed to transfer, shred, grind, bale,
				compost, salvage, separate, reclaim, or provide other treatment of solid
				wastes.
(y) "Promiscuous Dumping"
				means the unauthorized deposition of solid waste in an area that is not
				approved by the Department as a solid waste disposal site.
(z) "Public Road" means a road which all the
				people have a right to use, or which all the people have used, or which are
				under the control of governmental instrumentalities and maintained at public
				expense.
(aa) "Refuse" means any
				putrescible or nonputrescible solid waste, except human excreta, but including
				garbage, rubbish, ashes, street sweepings, dead animals, offal and solid
				agricultural, commercial, industrial, hazardous, institutional, demolition and
				construction wastes.
(bb) "Sanitary
				Landfill" means a method of disposing of refuse on land without creating
				nuisances or hazards to public health or safety by utilizing the principles of
				engineering to confine the refuse to the smallest practical area, to reduce it
				to the smallest practical volume, and to cover it with a layer of earth at the
				conclusion of each day's operation or at such more frequent intervals as may be
				necessary. (American Society of Civil Engineers)
(cc) "Salvaging" means the controlled removal
				of solid waste for the purpose of reuse.
(dd) "Scavenging" means the uncontrolled
				removal of solid waste by unauthorized persons.
(ee) "Sludge" means the accumulated
				semi-liquid suspension of settled solids.
(ff) "Solid Waste" means garbage, and other
				discarded solid materials resulting from industrial, commercial and
				agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include
				solids or dissolved material in domestic sewage or other significant pollutants
				in water resources such as silt, dissolved or suspended solids in industrial
				waste water effluents, dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or other
				common water pollutants.
(gg)
				"Solid Waste Disposal Site" means any facility that processes, transports or
				disposes of solid waste.
(hh)
				"Vector" means a carrier, usually an arthropod, capable of transmitting a
				pathogen from one organism to another.
(ii) "Water Table" means the upper water
				level of a body of ground water.
(jj) "Working Face" means that portion of the
				land disposal site where solid wastes are being deposited and are being spread
				and compacted prior to the placement of cover materials.