Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Natural Resources › NR 600-699 - Environmental Protection - Hazardous Waste Management › Chapter NR 660 - Hazardous Waste Management: General › Subchapter B - Definitions › Section NR 660.10 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
Terms not defined in this section or elsewhere in chs.
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					 660 to 679 have the meanings given them in ch. 291,
					 Stats. When used in chs.
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					 660 to 679, the following terms have the following
					 meanings:
(1) "Above ground tank"
				  means a device meeting the definition of "tank" in this section and that is
				  situated in such a way that the entire surface area of the tank is completely
				  above the plane of the adjacent surrounding surface and the entire surface area
				  of the tank (including the tank bottom) is able to be visually
				  inspected.
(2) "Active life" of a
				  facility means the period from the initial receipt of hazardous waste at the
				  facility until the department receives certification of final
				  closure.
(3) "Active portion" means
				  that portion of a facility where treatment, storage or disposal operations are
				  being or have been conducted after August 1, 2006 and which is not a closed
				  portion.
(3m) "Acute hazardous
				  waste" means a hazardous waste that meets the listing criteria specified in s.
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				  661.0011(1) (b) and therefore is
				  either listed in s.
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				  661.0031 with the assigned hazard code of (H) or is
				  listed in s.
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				  661.0033(5).
(3p) "AES filing compliance date" means the
				  date that EPA announces in the Federal Register, on or after which exporters of
				  hazardous waste and exporters of cathode ray tubes for recycling are required
				  to file EPA information in the Automated Export System or its successor system,
				  under the International Trade Data System, ITDS, platform.
(3t) "Airbag waste" means any hazardous waste
				  airbag module or hazardous waste airbag inflator.
(3w) "Airbag waste collection facility" means
				  any facility that receives airbag waste from an airbag waste handler subject to
				  regulation under s.
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				  661.0004(10), and accumulates the
				  waste for more than 10 days.
(3y)
				  "Airbag waste handler" means any person, by site, who generates airbag waste
				  that is subject to regulation under this chapter.
(4) "Ancillary equipment" means any device
				  including, but not limited to, such devices as piping, fittings, flanges,
				  valves and pumps, that is used to distribute, meter or control the flow of
				  hazardous waste from its point of generation to a storage or treatment tank or
				  tanks, between hazardous waste storage and treatment tanks to a point of
				  disposal onsite, or to a point of shipment for disposal off-site.
(5) "Aquifer" means a geologic formation,
				  group of formations or part of a formation capable of yielding a significant
				  amount of ground water to wells or springs.
(6) "Authorized representative" means the
				  person responsible for the overall operation of a facility or an operational
				  unit (i.e., part of a facility), e.g., the plant manager, superintendent or
				  person of equivalent responsibility.
(7) "Battery" means a device consisting of
				  one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells which is designed to
				  receive, store and deliver electric energy. An electrochemical cell is a system
				  consisting of an anode, cathode and an electrolyte, plus such connections
				  (electrical and mechanical) as may be needed to allow the cell to deliver or
				  receive electrical energy. The term battery also includes an intact, unbroken
				  battery from which the electrolyte has been removed.
(8) "Boiler" means an enclosed device using
				  controlled flame combustion and having all of the characteristics in par. (a)
				  or the characteristic in par. (b):
(a)
1. The unit shall have physical provisions
				  for recovering and exporting thermal energy in the form of steam, heated fluids
				  or heated gases.
2. The unit's
				  combustion chamber and primary energy recovery sections shall be of integral
				  design. To be of integral design, the combustion chamber and the primary energy
				  recovery sections (such as waterwalls and superheaters) shall be physically
				  formed into one manufactured or assembled unit. A unit in which the combustion
				  chamber and the primary energy recovery sections are joined only by ducts or
				  connections carrying flue gas is not integrally designed; however, secondary
				  energy recovery equipment (such as economizers or air preheaters) need not be
				  physically formed into the same unit as the combustion chamber and the primary
				  energy recovery section. The following units are not precluded from being
				  boilers solely because they are not of integral design: process heaters (units
				  that transfer energy directly to a process stream), and fluidized bed
				  combustion units.
3. While in
				  operation, the unit shall maintain a thermal energy recovery efficiency of at
				  least 60%, calculated in terms of the recovered energy compared with the
				  thermal value of the fuel.
4. The
				  unit shall export and utilize at least 75% of the recovered energy, calculated
				  on an annual basis. In this calculation, no credit shall be given for recovered
				  heat used internally in the same unit. (Examples of internal use are the
				  preheating of fuel or combustion air, and the driving of induced or forced
				  draft fans or feedwater pumps).