West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 33 - Waste Management, Division Of Water And Waste Management › Title 33 - LEGISLATIVE RULE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION WASTE MANAGEMENT › Series 33-10 - Recycling Assistant Grant Program › Section 33-10-2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
2.1. "Applicant"
				means the local government or other interested party applying for a grant
				pursuant to this rule.
2.2. "Bulky
				goods" means bulky appliances such as stoves, hot water heaters, sinks,
				washers, dryers, refrigerators, and dishwashers.
2.3. "Cure period" means the period between
				the submission deadline and the date designated by the department during which
				the applicant may remedy an error.
2.4. "Department" means the West Virginia
				Department of Environmental Protection.
2.5. "Financially benefitted" means to have
				received a benefit from a grant, whether by cash, purchases, use of assets, or
				payment of obligations, that if not received would have caused the beneficiary
				to avoid the purchase/service of that benefit or to incur and pay the costs or
				obligation from other financial resources.
2.6. "Grant period" means the period from
				January 1 to the last day in February of the following year. The total grant
				period consists of these fourteen months.
2.7. "Grant Recipient" or "Grantee" means an
				entity to whom a grant has been awarded.
2.8. "Incomplete proposal" means a proposal
				that does not meet Department submission requirements.
2.9. "Instrumentality" means an agency
				authorized by state law.
2.10.
				"Local government" means any unit of local government within the state,
				including a county, county board of education, municipality, and any other
				authority, board, commission, district, office, public authority, public
				corporation, or other instrumentality of a county, county board of education,
				or municipality or any combination of two or more local governments.
2.11. "Municipality" means an incorporated
				community.
2.12. "Other interested
				party" means private business and enterprise and nonprofit organizations,
				public and private schools, colleges and universities, and state agencies and
				municipalities.
2.13. "Proposal"
				means an application, on the proper forms, requesting a grant through the West
				Virginia Recycling Assistance Grant Program.
2.14. "Recyclable materials" means, for the
				purpose of this rule, any source separated material collected from the solid
				waste stream for the intended purpose of reprocessing or having that material
				reprocessed into a useable, marketable end product. This includes, but is not
				limited to, steel and bimetal cans, aluminum, glass, paper, plastic, tires,
				bulky goods, electronics, and yard waste. Provided, that sewage sludge
				processing facilities are not considered recycling facilities and sewage sludge
				compost is not considered a recyclable material within the meaning of W.Va.
				Code Chapter 22, Article 15.
2.15.
				"Recycle" means the process by which recovered products are transformed into
				new products and includes the collection, separation, recovery, processing and
				marketing, or reuse, of the recyclable materials.
2.16. "Recycling market procurement" means
				developing markets for the materials generated by recycling programs.
2.17. "Recycling program" means any program,
				project, endeavor, or facility created for the purpose of recycling or
				promoting recycling.
2.18.
				"Secretary" means the Cabinet Secretary of the West Virginia Department of
				Environmental Protection.
2.19.
				"Sewage" means water-carried human or animal wastes from residences, buildings,
				industrial establishments, or other places together with such groundwater
				infiltration and surface waters as may be present.
2.20. "Sewage sludge" means any solid,
				semi-solid or liquid residue generated during the treatment of domestic sewage
				in a treatment works. Sewage sludge includes, but is not limited to, domestic
				septic, scum or solids removed in primary, secondary or advanced wastewater
				treatment processes and a material derived from sewage sludge.
2.21. "Source separated" means materials
				separated from general solid waste at the point of origin for the purpose of
				reuse and recycling but does not include sewage sludge.
2.22. "Submission deadline" means the latest
				date and time that proposals must be received by the department to be
				considered for funding, which is 5:00 p.m. on the first business day in
				July.
2.23. "Yard waste" means
				grass clippings, weeds, leaves, brush, garden waste, shrub or tree prunings and
				other living or dead plant tissue, except that, such materials which, due to
				inadvertent contamination or mixture with other substances which render the
				waste unsuitable for composting, shall not be considered to be yard waste.
				Provided, that the same or similar waste generated by commercial agricultural
				enterprises is excluded.
2.24.
				"Yard waste composting" means the controlled decomposition of yard waste to
				produce a stable and beneficial humus-like material.