Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Natural Resources › NR 100-199 - Environmental Protection General › Chapter NR 182 - Nonferrous Metallic Mineral Mining Waste Management › Section NR 182.103 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
In this chapter:
(1) "Active dam" means a dam and associated
				settling area into which tailings or wastewater, or both, are being introduced
				for purposes of clarification or that has not been reclaimed in an approved
				manner.
(2) "Active facility life"
				means the period of operation beginning with the initial receipt of mining
				waste at a facility until the facility ceases to accept waste and has completed
				all closure and reclamation activities in accordance with this chapter, chs.
				NR 131 and 132, and any applicable
				plan approvals and permits.
(3)
				"Alternative concentration limit" has the meaning specified in s.
				NR
				140.05(1m).
(4) "Applicant" means a person who has
				submitted a feasibility report or plan of operation or applied for a waste
				facility license under this chapter.
(5) "Aquifer" means a geologic formation,
				group of formations, or part of a formation that is saturated with water and
				can store and transmit water, such as to a well or a spring, in quantities
				sufficient to constitute a usable supply.
(6) "Asbestos" means the asbestiform
				varieties of serpentinite (chrysotile), riebeckite (crocidolite),
				cummingtonite-grunerite (amosite), anthophyllite, and
				actinolite-tremolite.
(7) "
				Background concentration" or "background water quality" means surface water or
				groundwater quality at or near a facility, practice or activity which has not
				been affected by that facility, practice or activity, established by monitoring
				at the proposed site, upgradient and downgradient of the proposed site and at
				representative reference sites, as necessary.
(8) "Baseline concentration" or "baseline
				water quality" means the concentration of a substance in groundwater or surface
				water as determined by monitoring at or near a proposed facility, practice, or
				activity before the facility has been constructed or the practice or activity
				has commenced.
(9) "Closure" means
				those actions to be taken by the owner or operator of a mining waste site or
				facility to prepare the site for long-term care and to make it suitable for
				other uses.
(10) "Closure plan"
				means a written report and supplemental engineering plans detailing those
				actions that will be taken by the owner or operator to effect proper closure of
				a nonferrous mining waste facility.
(11) "Closing" means the time at which a
				nonferrous mining waste site or facility ceases to accept wastes, and includes
				those actions taken by the owner or operator of the facility to prepare the
				site for long-term care and make it suitable for other uses.
(12) "Completeness" means a determination by
				the department that the minimum submittal requirements as established by this
				chapter for a plan or report have been met.
(12m) "Composite liner" or "composite capping
				system" means a liner or capping system consisting of 2 low permeability
				components installed in direct and uniform contact, with the upper component
				consisting of a geomembrane material and the lower component consisting of
				compacted low permeability soils or compacted fine-grained soils combined with
				a geosynthetic clay liner.
(13)
				"Construct" means to engage in construction and closure activities for a new or
				expanded mining waste facility including any of the following:
(a) Clearing and grading.
(b) Preparation and construction of facility
				base grade, leachate collection systems, liner systems, and final cover
				systems.
(c) Building of new
				structures.
(d) Replacement,
				expansion, remodeling, alteration, or extension of existing
				structures.
(e) Acquisition and
				installation of equipment associated with new, expanded, or remodeled
				structures.