Conn. Agencies Regs. § 22a-116-B-2 - Definitions
As used in Sections 22a-116 -B-1 to 22a-116-B-11, inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies and Section 22a-122-1 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies:
(1) "Active Part" for the purposes of minimum
distance requirements set forth in Section
22a-122-1
of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies means that portion of a
hazardous waste facility where handling, storage, treatment, recovery, or
disposal of hazardous waste will be, is being, or has in the past been
conducted;
(2) "Aquifer" means a
geologic formation, group of formations, or part of a formation capable of
yielding a usable amount of ground water to wells or springs;
(3) "Certificate" means the certificate of
public safety and necessity required by Section
22a-117
of the Connecticut General Statutes to commence construction or modification of
a hazardous waste facility;
(4)
"Closure Period" means the first 180 days after the hazardous waste facility
receives its final volume of hazardous waste or any other period fixed by the
Council;
(5) "Construction" means
the fabrication, erection, installation, or excavation of a hazardous waste
facility which does not constitute a modification;
(6) "Container" means any portable device in
which a material is stored, transported, treated, disposed of, or otherwise
handled;
(7) "Groundwater" means
water present in the zone of saturation or an aquifer;
(8) "Incinerator" means an enclosed device
using controlled flame combustion, the primary purpose of which is to thermally
break down hazardous waste. Examples of incinerators are rotary kiln, fluidized
bed, and liquid injection incinerators;
(9) "Landfill" means a disposal facility or
part of a facility where hazardous waste is placed in or on land and which is
not a land treatment facility, a surface impoundment, or an injection
well;
(10) "Land treatment
facility" means a facility or part of a facility at which hazardous waste is
applied onto or incorporated into the soil surface; such facilities are
disposal facilities if the waste will remain after closure;
(11) "Local project review committee" means
the committee which may be established pursuant to Section
22a-127
of the Connecticut General Statutes;
(12) "Management" means the treatment,
disposal, or long term storage of hazardous waste;
(13) "Neighboring municipality" means any
municipality which:
(A) shares a common
border with the municipality within which the largest portion of the proposed
facility is located;
(B) occupies
any area within a ten-mile radius of the proposed facility site; or
(C) petitions the Council pursuant to Section
22a-116 -B-5 of the
Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies for consideration as the neighboring
municipality likely to be most affected by the proposed facility;
(14) "Operator" means the person
responsible for the overall operation of a facility;
(15) "Owner" means the person who owns a
facility or part of a facility;
(16) "Surface impoundment" or "impoundment"
means a facility or part of 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 designated 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;
(17) "Surface water" means the tidal waters,
harbors, estuaries, rivers, brooks, watercourses, waterways, lakes, ponds,
springs, marshes, drainage systems, and all other surfaces, bodies, or
accumulations of water, natural or artificial, public or private, which are
contained within, flow through, or border upon this state or any portion
thereof;
(18) "Tank" means a
stationary device designed to contain an accumulation of hazardous waste which
is constructed primarily of non-earthen materials which provide structural
support;
(19) "Thermal treatment"
means the treatment of hazardous waste in a device which uses elevated
temperatures as the primary means to change the chemical, physical, or
biological character or composition of the hazardous waste. Examples of thermal
treatment processes are incineration, molten salt, pyrolysis, calcination, wet
air oxidation, and microwave discharge;
(20) "Transferee" means a person who becomes
an owner or operator after a certificate has been issued for the
facility;
(21) "Waste pile" or
"pile" means any noncontainerized accumulation of solid, nonflowing hazardous
waste that is used for treatment or storage.
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