Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Natural Resources › NR 600-699 - Environmental Protection - Hazardous Waste Management › Chapter NR 662 - Hazardous Waste Generator Standards › Subchapter H - Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Waste for Recovery or Disposal › Section NR 662.081 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
In addition to the definitions under s.
					 NR
					 660.10, the following definitions apply to this
					 subchapter:
(1) "Competent authority"
				  means the regulatory authority or authorities of concerned countries having
				  jurisdiction over transboundary movements of wastes.
(2) "Countries concerned" means the countries
				  of export or import and any countries of transit.
(3) "Country of export" means any country
				  from which a transboundary movement of hazardous wastes is planned to be
				  initiated or is initiated.
(4)
				  "Country of import" means any country to which a transboundary movement of
				  hazardous wastes is planned or takes place for the purpose of submitting the
				  wastes to recovery or disposal operations therein.
(5) "Country of transit" means any country
				  other than the country of export or country of import across which a
				  transboundary movement of hazardous wastes is planned or takes place.
(6) "Disposal operations" means activities
				  that do not lead to the possibility of resource recovery, recycling,
				  reclamation, direct re-use or alternate uses, which includes all of the
				  following:
(a) D1 Release or Deposit into or
				  onto land, other than by any of operations D2 to D5 or D12.
(b) D2 Land treatment, such as biodegradation
				  of liquids or sludges in soils.
(c)
				  D3 Deep injection, such as injection into wells, salt domes or naturally
				  occurring repositories.
(d) D4
				  Surface impoundment, such as placing of liquids or sludges into pits, ponds or
				  lagoons.
(e) D5 Specially
				  engineered landfill, such as placement into lined discrete cells that are
				  capped and isolated from one another and the environment.
(f) D6 Release into a water body other than a
				  sea or ocean, and other than by operation D4.
(g) D7 Release into a sea or ocean, including
				  sea-bed insertion, other than by operation D4.
(h) D8 Biological treatment not specified
				  elsewhere in operations D1 to D12, which results in final compounds or mixtures
				  that are discarded by means of any of operations D1 to D12.
(i) D9 Physical or chemical treatment not
				  specified elsewhere in operations D1 to D12, such as evaporation, drying,
				  calcination, neutralization, or precipitation, which results in final compounds
				  or mixtures that are discarded by means of any of operations D1 to
				  D12.
(j) D10 Incineration on
				  land.
(k) D11 Incineration at sea.
(l) D12 Permanent
				  storage.
(m) D13 Blending or
				  mixing, prior to any of operations D1 to D12.
(n) D14 Repackaging, prior to any of
				  operations D1 to D13.
(o) D15
				  Interim Storage, prior to any of operations D1 to D12, or DC17 for
				  transboundary movements with Canada only, Interim Storage, prior to any of
				  operations D1 to D12.
(p) DC15
				  Release, including the venting of compressed or liquefied gases, or treatment,
				  other than by any of operations D1 to D12, for transboundary movements with
				  Canada only.
(q) DC16 Testing of a
				  new technology to dispose of a hazardous waste for transboundary movements with
				  Canada only.