Washington Administrative Code › Title 173 - Ecology, Department of (See also Titles 197, 317, 372, and 508) › Chapter 173-312 - Local Solid Waste Financial Assistance › Section 173-312-020 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
"Cash expenditure" means any cash outlay by the recipient for
				project-eligible costs. Expenditures may include direct costs of goods and
				services; recipient salaries and benefits; overhead; and payments made to
				contractors.
"Conditionally exempt small quantity generator (CESQG)" means a
				dangerous waste generator whose dangerous wastes are not subject to regulation
				under chapter 70.105 RCW, Hazardous waste management, solely because the waste
				is generated or accumulated in quantities below the threshold for regulation
				and meets the conditions prescribed in WAC
				173-303-070(8)(b).
"Coordination" means notification by the local government (with
				primary responsibility for maintaining the local solid waste plan) that
				financial assistance is available for solid and hazardous waste planning and
				implementation. Notification must be provided to local solid waste plan
				signatories and the local government that is required by chapter 70.105 RCW to
				adopt the local hazardous waste plan. Coordination also includes consultation
				between local governments where the partnering local government requests
				financial assistance through a primary responsible local government for the
				purposes of determining its project eligibility and a budget.
"Department" means the Washington state department of
				ecology.
"Disposal site" means a facility where final disposal of solid
				waste occurs, including a transfer station, but not a drop box facility.
"Eligible applicant" means a local government with primary
				responsibility for maintaining the department-approved local solid waste plan,
				or a partnering local government that complies with coordination requirements,
				or a jurisdictional health department authorized to adopt the local solid waste
				ordinance.
"Household hazardous waste (HHW)" means any waste that exhibits
				any of the properties of dangerous wastes and is exempt from regulation under
				chapter 70.105 RCW, Hazardous waste management, solely because the waste is
				generated by households. Household hazardous waste can also include other solid
				waste identified in the local hazardous waste management plan prepared pursuant
				to chapter 70.105 RCW, Hazardous waste management.
"Incineration" means a process of reducing the volume of solid
				waste by use of an enclosed device using controlled flame combustion, operating
				under federal and state environmental laws and rules.
"Independent city" means a city that has a department-approved
				local solid waste plan, used a solid waste advisory committee (SWAC) or a
				SWAC-like entity to develop the plan, and can provide for solid waste disposal
				sites wholly within its jurisdiction.
"In-kind interlocal" means in-kind contributions made to a
				project by another government under a valid written agreement between the
				recipient and the other government that details the work to be accomplished,
				the goods and services to be provided, and the value thereof. If the recipient
				reimburses another governmental entity for any portion of its contributions,
				the amount paid to the other entity is not an interlocal cost. It is a cash
				expenditure on the part of the recipient. Only the nonreimbursed portion of the
				other governmental entity's contributions is an interlocal cost.
"Jurisdiction" means a particular geographic area containing a
				defined legal authority, such as the boundary lines of a county or city.
"Jurisdictional health department" means city, county,
				city-county, or district public health department.
"Landfill" means a disposal facility or part of a facility at
				which solid waste is permanently placed in or on land including facilities that
				use solid waste as a component of fill.
"Local contribution" means the required portion of
				project-eligible costs borne by the recipient as cash expenditures or in-kind
				interlocal.
"Local government" means any political subdivision, regional
				governmental unit, solid waste disposal district, municipal or public
				corporation, and includes cities, towns, and counties. The term encompasses but
				does not refer specifically to the departments within a city, town, or
				county.
"Local hazardous waste plan" means the plan to manage
				moderate-risk waste that a local government is required to prepare under
				RCW
				   70.105.220.
"Moderate risk waste (MRW)" means solid waste that is limited
				to conditionally exempt small quantity generator (CESQG) waste, and household
				hazardous waste (HHW).
"Partnering local government" means a local government that
				does not have the primary responsibility for maintaining the local solid waste
				plan, and may become an eligible applicant for solid and hazardous waste
				planning and implementation financial assistance through coordination with a
				primary responsible local government.
"Population" means the most recent United States census data
				accepted by the department or official estimates provided by the state office
				of financial management.
"Recipient" means the applicant to which the funding is awarded
				and that is accountable for the use of the funds provided. The recipient is the
				entire legal entity even if only one component or department is designated in
				the agreement document.
"Recyclable materials" means those solid wastes separated for
				recycling or reuse, and are identified as recyclable material under a local
				solid waste plan.
"Recycling" means transforming or remanufacturing waste
				materials into usable or marketable materials for use other than landfill
				disposal or incineration or recycling as defined in chapter 173-350 WAC.
"Retroactive costs" means project-eligible costs incurred
				between the effective start date of the agreement and before the department
				signature date on the agreement.
"Solid waste" or "wastes" means all putrescible and
				non-putrescible solid and semisolid wastes including, but not limited to,
				garbage, rubbish, ashes, industrial wastes, swill, demolition and construction
				wastes, abandoned vehicles or parts thereof, and recyclable materials.
"Solid waste advisory committee (SWAC)" means the local
				committee as described in and required by
				RCW
				   70.95.165; and the SWAC-like entity required
				by the department for independent cities requesting financial assistance. The
				SWAC or SWAC-like entity must actively assist and participate in development of
				a new plan, and the development or maintenance of existing plans in order to
				meet financial assistance eligibility requirements under this chapter.
"Solid waste handling" means the management, storage,
				collection, transportation, treatment, use, processing or final disposal of
				solid wastes, including the recovery and recycling of materials from solid
				wastes, the recovery of energy resources from such wastes or the conversion of
				the energy in such wastes to more useful forms or combinations thereof.
"Total eligible cost" means an amount not to exceed the sum of
				the state assistance funding level plus the local contribution of twenty-five
				percent.
Statutory Authority:
				  Chapters
				  70.105D and 43.21 RCW.
				  02-05-070 (Order 01-11), § 173-312-020, filed 2/19/02, effective 3/22/02.
				  Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				     70.105D.070(3). 00-19-016
				  (Order 00-19), § 173-312-020, filed 9/8/00, effective 10/9/00. Statutory
				  Authority:
				  RCW
				     43.21A.080. 91-11-090 (Order 90-65), §
				  173-312-020, filed 5/21/91, effective 6/21/91. Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				     43.21A.080 and
				  chapter
				  70.105D RCW. 90-18-064
				  (Order 90-17), § 173-312-020, filed 9/4/90, effective 10/5/90. Statutory
				  Authority: RCW 70.105B.220 and
				  
											70.95.220. 88-17-001 (Order
				  88-26), § 173-312-020, filed
				  8/4/88.