Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Natural Resources › NR 600-699 - Environmental Protection - Hazardous Waste Management › Chapter NR 662 - Hazardous Waste Generator Standards › Subchapter K - Alternative Requirements for Hazardous Waste Determination and Accumulation of Unwanted Material for Laboratories Owned by Eligible Academic Entities › Section NR 662.200 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
The following definitions apply to this subchapter:
(1) "College or university" means a private
				  or public, post-secondary, degree-granting, academic institution that is
				  accredited by an accrediting agency listed annually by the U.S. department of
				  education.
(2) "Eligible academic
				  entity" means a college or university, or a non-profit research institute that
				  is owned by or has a formal written affiliation agreement with a college or
				  university, or a teaching hospital that is owned by or has a formal written
				  affiliation agreement with a college or university.
(3) "Formal written affiliation agreement"
				  for a non-profit research institute means a written document that establishes a
				  relationship between institutions for the purposes of research or education and
				  is signed by authorized representatives, as defined in s.
				  NR
				  660.10(6), from each institution. A
				  relationship on a project-by-project or grant-by-grant basis is not considered
				  a formal written affiliation agreement. A formal written affiliation agreement
				  for a teaching hospital means a master affiliation agreement and program letter
				  of agreement, as defined by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical
				  Education, with an accredited medical program or medical school.
(4) "Laboratory" means an area owned by an
				  eligible academic entity where relatively small quantities of chemicals and
				  other substances are used on a non-production basis for teaching or research,
				  or diagnostic purposes at a teaching hospital, and are stored and used in
				  containers that are easily manipulated by one person. Photo laboratories, art
				  studios, and field laboratories are considered laboratories. Areas such as
				  chemical stockrooms and preparatory laboratories that provide a support
				  function to teaching or research laboratories, or diagnostic laboratories at
				  teaching hospitals, are also considered laboratories.
(5) "Laboratory clean-out" means an
				  evaluation of the inventory of chemicals and other materials in a laboratory
				  that are no longer needed or that have expired and the subsequent removal of
				  those chemicals or other unwanted materials from the laboratory. A clean-out
				  may occur for several reasons. It may be on a routine basis, at the end of a
				  semester or academic year, or as a result of a renovation, relocation, or
				  change in laboratory supervisor or occupant.
Note:
A regularly scheduled removal of
					 unwanted material as required under s.
					 NR
					 662.208 does not qualify as a laboratory
					 clean-out.
(6) "Laboratory
				  worker" means a person who handles chemicals or unwanted material in a
				  laboratory and may include faculty, staff, post-doctoral fellows, interns,
				  researchers, technicians, supervisors or managers, and principal investigators.
				  A person does not need to be paid or otherwise compensated for his or her work
				  in the laboratory to be considered a laboratory worker. Undergraduate and
				  graduate students in a supervised classroom setting are not laboratory
				  workers.
(7) "Non-profit research
				  institute" means an organization that conducts research as its primary function
				  and files as a non-profit organization under the tax code of
				  26 USC
				  501(c) (3).
(8) "Reactive acutely hazardous unwanted
				  material" means an unwanted material that is one of the acutely hazardous
				  commercial chemical products listed in s. NR 661.0033(5) for
				  reactivity.
(9) "Teaching hospital"
				  means a hospital that trains students to become physicians, nurses or other
				  health or laboratory personnel.
(10) "Trained professional" means a person
				  who has completed the applicable RCRA training requirements under s. NR 662.017
				  for large quantity generators, or is knowledgeable about normal operations and
				  emergencies in accordance with s. NR 662.016 for small quantity generators and
				  very small quantity generators. A trained professional may be an employee of
				  the eligible academic entity or may be a contractor or vendor who meets the
				  requisite training requirements.
(11) "Unwanted material" means any chemical,
				  mixtures of chemicals, products of experiments or other material from a
				  laboratory that is no longer needed, wanted or usable in the laboratory and
				  that is destined for hazardous waste determination by a trained professional.
				  Unwanted materials include reactive acutely hazardous unwanted materials and
				  materials that may eventually be determined not to be solid waste under s. NR
				  661.0002, or a hazardous waste under s. NR 661.0003. If an eligible academic
				  entity elects to use another equally effective term in lieu of "unwanted
				  material," as allowed under s.
				  NR
				  662.206(1) (a) 1., the equally
				  effective term has the same meaning and is subject to the same requirements as
				  "unwanted material" under this subchapter.
(12) "Working container" means a container
				  that is 2 gallons or less, that is in use at a laboratory bench, hood, or other
				  work station, to collect unwanted material from a laboratory experiment or
				  procedure.