Mich. Admin. Code R. 299.9104 - Definitions; G to I
Rule 104. As used in these rules:
(a) "Generator" means any person, by site,
whose act or process produces hazardous waste identified or listed in part 2 of
these rules or whose act first causes a hazardous waste to become subject to
regulation.
(b) "Geologist" means a
person who, by reason of his or her knowledge of geology, mathematics, and the
physical and life sciences, acquired by education and experience, is equipped
to practice geology.
(c)
"Groundwater" means water below the land surface in a zone of
saturation.
(d) "Hazardous
secondary material" means a secondary material such as a spent material,
by-product, or sludge that, when discarded, would be identified as hazardous
waste under part 2 of these rules.
(e) "Hazardous secondary material generator"
means a person whose act or process produces hazardous secondary materials at
the generating facility. For the purpose of this definition, a generating
facility includes all contiguous property owned, leased, or otherwise
controlled by the hazardous secondary material generator.
(f) "Hazardous waste" means a hazardous waste
as defined in
R
299.9203.
(g) "Hazardous waste fuel" means hazardous
waste burned for energy recovery in any boiler or industrial furnace that is
not regulated as an incinerator or fuel produced from hazardous waste for this
purpose by processing, blending, or other treatment.
(h) "Hazardous waste management unit" means a
contiguous area of land on or in which hazardous waste is placed or is the
largest area in which there is a significant likelihood of mixing hazardous
waste constituents in the same area. Examples of hazardous waste management
units include all of the following:
(i) A
surface impoundment.
(ii) A waste
pile.
(iii) A land treatment
area.
(iv) A landfill
cell.
(v) An incinerator.
(vi) A tank and its associated piping and
underlying containment system.
(vii) A container storage area. A container
alone does not constitute a unit. The unit includes containers and the land or
pad upon which they are placed.
(viii) A miscellaneous unit.
(i) "Hazardous waste number" means
the code number that is used to identify a particular type of hazardous
waste.
(j) "Holocene" means the
most recent epoch of the quaternary period extending from the end of the
Pleistocene to the present.
(k)
"Home scrap metal means scrap metal as generated by steel mills, foundries, and
refineries such as turnings, cuttings, punchings, and borings.
(l) "Household do-it-yourselfer used oil"
means oil that is derived from households, such as used oil generated by
individuals through the maintenance of their personal vehicles.
(m) "Household do-it-yourselfer used oil
generator" means an individual who generates household do-it-yourselfer used
oil.
(n) "Import" means the act of
bringing hazardous waste into the United States from a foreign
country.
(o) "Inactive portion"
means that portion of a facility that is not operated after November 19, 1980.
(See also "active portion" and "closed portion.")
(p) "Inactive range" means a military range
that is not currently being used, but that is still under military control and
considered by the military to be a potential range area, and that has not been
put to a new use that is incompatible with range activities.
(q) "Incinerator" means an enclosed device
that satisfies either of the following criteria:
(i) Uses controlled flame combustion, does
not meet the criteria for classification as a boiler, sludge dryer, or carbon
regeneration unit, and is not listed as an industrial furnace.
(ii) Meets the definition of an infrared
incinerator or plasma arc incinerator.
(r) "Incompatible waste" means a hazardous
waste that is unsuitable for either of the following:
(i) Placement in a particular device or
facility because it may cause the corrosion or decay of containment materials,
for example, container inner liners or tank walls.
(ii) Commingling with another waste or
material under uncontrolled conditions because the commingling might produce
heat or pressure; fire or explosion; a violent reaction; toxic dusts, mists,
fumes, or gases; or flammable fumes or gases. Examples of incompatible wastes
are described in 40 CFR part 264, appendix V, and part 265, appendix
V.
(s) "Independent
requirement" means a requirement in part 3 of the rules that states an event,
action, or standard that must occur or be met, and that applies without
relation to, or irrespective of, the purpose of obtaining a conditional
exemption from the operating license, interim status, and operating standards
under
R
299.9304 to
R
299.9307, R 299.9315, or R 299.9316.
(t) "Individual generation site" means the
contiguous site at or on which 1 or more hazardous wastes are generated. An
individual generation site, such as a large manufacturing plant, may have 1 or
more sources of hazardous waste, but is considered a single or individual
generation site if the site or property is contiguous.
(u) "Industrial furnace" means any of the
following enclosed devices that are integral components of manufacturing
processes and that use thermal treatment to accomplish the recovery of
materials or energy:
(i) Cement
kilns.
(ii) Lime kilns.
(iii) Aggregate kilns.
(iv) Phosphate kilns.
(v) Coke ovens.
(vi) Blast furnaces.
(vii) Smelting, melting, and refining
furnaces, including pyrometallurgical devices, such as cupolas, reverberator
furnaces, sintering machines, roasters, and foundry furnaces.
(viii) Titanium dioxide chloride process
oxidation reactors.
(ix) Methane
reforming furnaces.
(x) Pulping
liquor recovery furnaces.
(xi)
Combustion devices that are used in the recovery of sulfur values from spent
sulfuric acid.
(xii) Halogen acid
furnaces for the production of acid from halogenated hazardous waste generated
by chemical production facilities where the furnace is located on the site of a
chemical production facility, the acid product has a halogen acid content of at
least 3%, the acid product is used in a manufacturing process, and, except for
hazardous waste burned as a fuel, hazardous waste fed to the furnace has a
minimum halogen content of 20% as-generated.
(xiii) Other devices that the administrator
may, after notice and comment, add to this subdivision on the basis of 1 or
more of the following factors:
(A) The design
and use of the device primarily to accomplish the recovery of material
products.
(B) The use of the device
to burn or reduce raw materials to make a material product.
(C) The use of the device to burn or reduce
secondary materials as effective substitutes for raw materials in processes
using raw materials as principal feedstocks.
(D) The use of the device to burn or reduce
secondary materials as ingredients in an industrial process to make a material
product.
(E) The use of the device
in common industrial practice to produce a material product.
(F) Other factors, as appropriate.
(v) "Infrared
incinerator" means any enclosed device that uses electric powered resistance
heaters as a source of radiant heat followed by an afterburner using controlled
flame combustion and that is not listed as an industrial furnace.
(w) "In-ground tank" means a device that
satisfies the definition of "tank" specified in
R
299.9108(a) and that has a portion of
its wall situated, to any degree, within the ground, thereby preventing visual
inspection of the external surface area of the device that is in the
ground.
(x) "Injection well" means
a well into which fluids are injected. (See also "underground
injection.")
(y) "Inner liner"
means a continuous layer of material that is placed inside a tank or container
and that protects the construction materials of the tank or container from the
contained waste or reagents used to treat the waste.
(z) "In operation" means that a facility is
treating, storing, or disposing of hazardous waste.
(aa) "Installation inspector" means a person
who, by reason of his or her knowledge of the physical sciences and the
principles of engineering acquired by a professional education and related
practical experience, is qualified to supervise the installation of tank
systems
(bb) "Intermediate
facility" means any facility that stores hazardous secondary materials for more
than 10 days, other than a hazardous secondary material generator or reclaimer
of the material.
(cc)
"International shipment" means the transportation of hazardous waste into or
out of the jurisdiction of the United States.
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