R 299.9107 Definitions; R, S.

Rule 107.  As used in these rules:

(a)  "RCRA" means the solid waste disposal act, as amended by the resource conservation and recovery act of 1976, as amended, 42 U.S.C. §6901 et seq.

(b)  "Reclamation" means either processing to recover a usable product or regeneration, such as in the recovery of lead values from spent batteries and the regeneration of spent solvents.

(c)  "Recreational property" means all lands that are predominately intended to provide outdoor recreational activities under the control and operation of a governmental agency, such as outdoor parks, preserves, campgrounds, and wildlife refuges.

(d)  "Recycle" means use, reuse, or reclamation.  Material is "used" or "reused" if it is either of the following:

            (i)  Employed as an ingredient in an industrial process to make a product, unless distinct components of the material are recovered as separate end products, such as when metals are recovered from metal-containing secondary materials.

            (ii)  Employed in a particular function or application as an effective substitute for a commercial product, such as spent pickle liquor used as phosphorus precipitant and sludge conditioner in wastewater treatment.

(e)  "Recyclable material" means hazardous waste that is recycled.

(f)  "Re-refining distillation bottoms" means the heavy fraction produced by vacuum distillation of filtered and dehydrated used oil.  The composition of still bottoms varies with column operation and feedstock.

(g)  "Regional administrator" means the regional administrator or his or her designee for the EPA region in which the facility is located.

(h)  "Regulated unit" means a surface impoundment, waste pile, land treatment unit, or landfill that received hazardous waste after July 26, 1982.

(i)  "Remedial action plan" or "RAP" means a special form of an operating license that a facility owner or operator may obtain instead of a construction permit or operating license issued pursuant to part 5 of these rules.  The RAP shall authorize the treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous remediation waste at a remediation waste management site.

(j)  "Remediation waste" means all wastes and hazardous wastes, and all media, including groundwater, surface water, soils, and sediments, and debris, that are managed for implementing cleanup.

(k)  "Remediation waste management site" means a facility where an owner or operator is or will be treating, storing, or disposing of hazardous remediation wastes.  A remediation waste management site is not a facility that is subject to corrective action under R 299.9629, but is subject to the corrective action requirements of part 111 of the act and these rules if the site is located in such a facility.

(l)  "Representative sample" means a sample of a universe or whole that can be expected to exhibit the average properties of the universe or whole.

(m)  "Retention time" means the minimum time hazardous waste is subjected continuously to a required combustion zone temperature in an incinerator.

(n)  "Run-off" means any rainwater, leachate, or other liquid that drains over land from any part of a facility.

(o)  "Run-on" means any rainwater, leachate, or other liquid that drains over land onto any part of a facility.

(p)  "Saturated zone" or "zone of saturation" means that part of the earth's crust in which all voids are filled with water.

(q)  "Scrap metal" means bits and pieces of metal parts, such as bars, turnings, rods, sheets, wire, or metal pieces, which may be combined together with bolts or by soldering, such as radiators, scrap automobiles, and railroad car boxes, and which, when worn or superfluous, may be recycled.

(r)  "Secondary monitoring parameter" means ions such as calcium, sodium, magnesium, iron, chloride, sulfate, bicarbonate, and carbonate; waste constituents; reaction products; or other parameters which provide an indication of the presence of hazardous constituents in groundwater and which are not subject to the requirements of 40 C.F.R. part 264, subpart F.

(s)  "Site identification number" means the number that is assigned by the EPA or the EPA's designee to each generator, transporter, and treatment, storage, or disposal facility.  If a generator, transporter, or treatment, storage, or disposal facility manages wastes that are hazardous pursuant to these rules, but are not hazardous pursuant to RCRA, then "site identification number" shall mean an equivalent number that is assigned by the director.

(t)  "Sludge" means any solid, semisolid, or liquid waste generated from a municipal, commercial, or industrial wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, exclusive of the treated effluent from a wastewater treatment plant.

(u)  "Sludge dryer" means any enclosed thermal treatment device that is used to dehydrate sludge and that has a maximum total thermal input, excluding the heating value of the sludge itself, of 2,500 BTU per pound of sludge treated on a wet-weight basis.

(v)  "Small quantity generator" means a generator who generates less than 1,000 kilograms of hazardous waste in a calendar month.

(w)  "Sole source aquifer" means an aquifer designated pursuant to section 1424(e) of the federal safe drinking water act.

(x)  "Sorb" means to adsorb or absorb, or both.

(y)  "Sorbent" means a material that is used to soak up free liquids by either adsorption or absorption, or both.

(z)  "Speculative accumulation" means accumulation before recycle.  A material is not accumulated speculatively, however, if the person accumulating the material shows that both of the following requirements are met:

            (i)  That the material is potentially recyclable and has a feasible means of being recycled.

            (ii)  That during the calendar year commencing on January 1, the amount of material that is recycled or transferred to a different site for recycling equals not less than 75% by weight or volume of the amount of that material accumulated at the beginning of the period.  In calculating the percentage of turnover, the 75% requirement is to be applied to each material of the same type that is recycled in the same way.  Materials accumulating in units which would be exempt from regulation under R 299.9204(3)(a) or which are already defined as wastes shall not be included in making the calculation.  Materials are no longer in this category once they are removed from accumulation for recycling.

(aa)  "Spent material" means any material that has been used and as a result of contamination can no longer serve the purpose for which it was produced without processing.

(bb)  "Staging pile" means an accumulation of solid, non-flowing remediation waste that is not a containment building and that is used only during remedial operations for temporary storage at a facility.  Staging piles shall be designated by the director pursuant to R 299.9638.

(cc)  "State" means any of the following:

            (i)  The several states.

            (ii)  The District of Columbia.

            (iii)  The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

            (iv)  The Virgin Islands.

            (v)  Guam.

            (vi)  American Samoa.

            (vii)  The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

(dd)  "Storage" means the holding of hazardous waste for a temporary period at the end of which the hazardous waste is treated, disposed of, or stored elsewhere.

(ee)  "Sump" means any pit or reservoir which satisfies the definition of "tank" in R 299.9108(a) and those troughs or trenches connected to it that serve to collect hazardous waste for transport to hazardous waste storage, treatment, or disposal facilities.  When used in conjunction with the regulation of a landfill, surface impoundment, and waste pile, a sump means any lined pit or reservoir that serves to collect liquids drained from a leachate collection and removal system or leak detection system for later removal from the system.

(ff)  "Surface impoundment" or "impoundment" means a treatment, storage, or disposal facility or part of a treatment, storage, or disposal facility which is a natural topographic depression, man-made excavation, or diked area formed primarily of earthen materials, although it may be lined with man-made materials, which is designed to hold an accumulation of liquid wastes or wastes containing free liquids, and which is not an injection well.  Examples of surface impoundments are holding, storage, settling and aeration pits, ponds, and lagoons.

(gg)  "Surface water" means a body of water whose top surface is exposed to the atmosphere and includes the Great Lakes, their connecting waters, all inland lakes and ponds, rivers and streams, impoundments, open drains, and other watercourses, except for drainage ways and ponds used solely for wastewater conveyance, treatment, or control.