Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Natural Resources › NR 500-599 - Environmental Protection - Solid Waste Management › Chapter NR 500 - General Solid Waste Management Requirements › Section NR 500.03 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
The following definitions as well as the definitions in chs.
				  289 and 299, Stats., are applicable to the terms used in chs. NR 500 to 538
				  unless the context requires otherwise.
(1) "ACL" means alternative concentration
				limit.
(2) "Active facility life"
				means the period of operation beginning with the initial receipt of solid waste
				at a facility until the department issues a closure and long term care license
				in accordance with s. NR 520.04 (3) or, if a closure and long term care license
				is not required, until the facility ceases to accept waste and has completed
				all closure activities in accordance with chs. NR 500 to 538 and any applicable
				plan approvals.
(2m) "Active
				portion" means that part of a CCR landfill that has received or is receiving
				CCR or non-CCR waste and that has not completed closure in accordance with ch.
				NR 506.
(3) "Air curtain
				destructor" means a solid waste facility that combines a fixed wall, open pit
				and mechanical air supply which uses an excess of oxygen and turbulence to
				accomplish the smokeless combustion of clean wood, brush, stumps or
				trees.
(4) "Airport" means a
				public-use airport open to the public without prior permission and without
				restrictions within the physical capacities of available airport
				facilities.
(5) "Alternative
				concentration limit" has the meaning specified in s. NR 140.05 (1m).
(6) "Anti-seep collar" means a device which
				is attached to a leachate transfer pipe to prevent the migration of leachate
				along the pipe.
(7) "Applicant"
				means a person applying for a license or approval for a solid waste
				facility.
(8) "Approved facility"
				has the meaning specified in s.
				289.01(3),
				Stats.
(9) "Approved plan of
				operation" means a plan of operation approved under s.
				289.30(3),
				Stats.
(9m) "Areas of special
				natural resource interest" has the meaning in s.
				30.01(1am),
				Stats., and as identified in s. NR 1.05.
(10) "Areas susceptible to mass movement"
				means those areas characterized as having an active or substantial possibility
				of mass movement where the movement of earth material at, beneath, or adjacent
				to the landfill, because of natural or human-induced events, results in the
				downslope transport of soil and rock material by means of gravitational
				influence. Areas of mass movement include, but are not limited to, landslides,
				avalanches, debris slides and flows, solifluction, block sliding, and rock
				fall.
(11) "Aquifer" means a
				geologic formation, group of formations or part of a formation which are
				saturated and can transmit economic quantities of groundwater.
(12) "Asbestos" means any material which
				contains fibrous chrysotile, crocidolite, amosite minerals or the fibrous
				varieties of anthopyllite, tremolite and actinolite.
Note:
Asbestos containing material is further
				  defined in subs. (25), (26), and (91).
(13) "Assessment monitoring" means
				groundwater monitoring conducted at Subtitle D wells in accordance with s. NR
				508.04 when a groundwater standard is attained or exceeded at a Subtitle D
				well.
(14) "ASTM method", "ASTM
				standard" or "ASTM-" means a method or standard recognized and published by
				ASTM International.
(14m) "ASTM
				International" means American Society for Testing and Materials International,
				located at 100 Barr Harbor Drive, West Conshohocken, PA 19428-2959, (610)
				832-9585,
www.astm.org
(15) "Background groundwater quality" has the
				meaning specified in s. NR 140.05 (3).
(16) "Base grade" means the elevation of a
				facility or portion of a facility following placement of the liner but prior to
				the placement of any granular drainage blanket.
(17) "Baseline" means groundwater quality at
				a point that is measured after the parameters have stabilized following
				installation of a monitoring well.
(18) "Bedrock" means all rock formations at
				or beneath the land surface.
(19)
				"Beneficial use" or "beneficial reuse" means the utilization of a solid waste
				or an industrial by-product in a productive manner.
(19m) "Beneficial use of CCR" means the
				utilization of a solid waste or an industrial by-product in a "productive
				manner," which has the meaning given in s. NR 538.03 (10).
(20) "Bird hazard" means an increase in the
				likelihood of a bird and aircraft collision that may cause damage to the
				aircraft or injury to its occupants.
(20m) "Borrow source" means a location where
				nonmetallic mining, as defined in s. NR 135.03 (13), is conducted for soils and
				aggregates used in landfill construction, operation and closure.
(20r) "Botanical residuals" means compostable
				materials and associated mineral soils derived from commercial and
				noncommercial horticultural activities such as greenhouse and plant nursery
				operations.
(21) "Building
				materials" means non-combustible construction material including brick,
				concrete and drywall.
(22) "Bulk
				blood and body fluids" means drippable or pourable quantities or items
				saturated with whole blood or blood components, blood specimens, semen, vaginal
				secretions, cerebrospinal fluid, synovial fluid, amniotic fluid, peritoneal
				fluid, peritoneal dialysate, pericardial fluid, pleural fluid and other body
				fluids visibly contaminated with blood.
(23) "Capital expenditures" has the meaning
				specified in s. 289.41(1) (am),
				Stats.
(24) "Captive insurance
				company" means a closely-held company owned by one or more organizations,
				parents, whose original purpose was and may continue to be, to insure some or
				all of the risks of shareholders or affiliated organizations.
(25) "Category I nonfriable asbestos
				containing material" has the meaning specified in s. NR 447.02 (1) (a).
Note:
Section NR 447.02 (1) (a) defines category
				  I nonfriable asbestos-containing matter to mean "asbestos-containing packings,
				  gaskets, resilient floor covering and asphalt roofing products containing more
				  than 1% asbestos as determined using the method specified in Appendix E to
				  Subpart E, 40 CFR part 763,
				  section 1, Polarized Light Microscopy,
				  incorporated by reference in s. NR 484.04, that, when dry, cannot be crumbled,
				  pulverized or reduced to powder by hand pressure."
(26) "Category II nonfriable asbestos
				containing material" has the meaning specified in s. NR 447.02 (1) (b).
Note:
Section NR 447.02 (1) (b) defines category
				  II nonfriable asbestos-containing matter to mean "any material, excluding
				  Category I nonfriable ACM, containing more than 1% asbestos as determined using
				  the method specified in Appendix E to Subpart E,
				  40 CFR part 763, section
				  1, Polarized Light Microscopy that, when dry,
				  cannot be crumbled, pulverized or reduced to powder by hand
				  pressure."
(26b) "CCR" means
				coal combustion residuals, including fly ash, bottom ash, boiler slag, and flue
				gas desulfurization materials generated from burning coal for the purpose of
				generating electricity by electric utilities and independent power
				producers.
(26f) "CCR fugitive
				dust" means solid airborne particulate matter that contains or is derived from
				CCR, emitted from any source other than a stack or chimney.
(26k)
(a)
				"CCR landfill" means a landfill that receives CCR, including nonmetallic mining
				sites under s. 295.11(6),
				Stats., that receive CCR, and any area of land or excavation that receives CCR,
				including sand and gravel pits and quarries that receive CCR, CCR piles, and
				any practice that does not meet the definition of a beneficial use of CCR under
				sub. (19m).
(b) "CCR landfill" does
				not include a CCR surface impoundment or municipal solid waste landfill that
				receives CCR.