Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Natural Resources › NR 100-199 - Environmental Protection General › Chapter NR 185 - Solid Waste Management Planning Criteria › Section NR 185.03 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
The following definitions are applicable to the terms used
				  in this chapter:
(1) "Department"
				means department of natural resources.
(2) "Entity" means the person, governmental
				body, institution, industry or company for which the solid waste management
				plan is being prepared.
(3)
				"Environmentally sensitive areas" means those areas defined as environmentally
				sensitive in the federal criteria for classification of solid waste disposal
				facilities issued pursuant to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of
				1976. These areas include but are not limited to wetlands, areas inundated by
				the regional flood, recharge zones of sole source aquifers, and critical
				habitats of endangered species.
(4)
				"Plan" means a plan prepared pursuant to s.
				NR 185.07 to
				provide for solid waste management.
(5) "Planning area" means the geographical
				area for which the plan is being prepared.
(6) "Planning period" means the period of
				time for which the studies and solid waste management plans are made. The
				planning period shall extend at least 10 years from the projected plan approval
				date.
(7) "Planning process" is the
				process described in s.
				NR
				185.07.
(8) "Solid waste" means any garbage, refuse,
				sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air
				pollution control facility and other discarded or salvageable material,
				including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting
				from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations, and from
				community activities, but does not include solid or dissolved material in
				domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or
				industrial discharges which are point sources subject to permits under ch. 283,
				Stats., or source, special nuclear, or by-product material as defined under s.
				254.31, Stats.
Note:
The definition of "solid waste" in s.
				  289.01(33),
				  Stats., was amended by 2017 Wis. Acts 284 and 285 to exclude "slag generated by
				  the production or processing of iron or steel and that is managed as an item of
				  value in a controlled manner and is not discarded," and to exclude "post-use
				  plastics or nonrecycled feedstock that are processed at a pyrolysis or
				  gasification facility; that are held at a pyrolysis or gasification facility,
				  prior to processing at the facility where they are being held, to ensure that
				  production is not interrupted; or that are held off site before delivery to a
				  pyrolysis or gasification facility with the intent that they will be processed
				  at a pyrolysis or gasification facility."
(9) "Solid waste management" means the
				systematic administration of activities which provide for source reduction,
				source separation storage, collection, transportation, transfer, processing,
				treatment, resource recovery and disposal of solid waste.
(10) "Solid waste management functions" are
				source reduction, source separation, storage, collection, transportation,
				transfer, processing, treatment, resource recovery and disposal of solid
				waste.