Mich. Admin. Code R. 299.9105 - Definitions; L to N
Rule 105. As used in these rules:
(a) "Lamp" means the bulb or tube portion of
a lighting device specifically designed to produce radiant energy, most often
in the ultraviolet, visible, and infrared regions of the electromagnetic
spectrum. Examples of common lamps include incandescent, fluorescent, high
intensity discharge, sodium vapor, mercury vapor, and neon lamps.
(b) "Land-based unit" means an area where
hazardous secondary materials are placed in or on the land before recycling.
This definition does not include land-based production units.
(c) "Land disposal" means placement in or on
the land and includes, but is not limited to, placement in any of the
following:
(i) A landfill.
(ii) A surface impoundment.
(iii) A waste pile.
(iv) An injection well.
(v) A land treatment facility.
(vi) A salt dome formation.
(vii) A salt bed formation.
(viii) An underground mine or cave.
(ix) A concrete vault or bunker intended for
disposal purposes. "Land disposal" also means placement in or on the land by
means of open detonation and open burning where the residues continue to
exhibit 1 or more of the characteristics of hazardous waste. "Land disposal"
does not include ocean disposal.
(d) "Land disposal restriction treatment
standards" means the treatment standards under 40 CFR part 268 that a hazardous
waste must meet.
(e) "Landfill"
means a disposal facility or part of a facility where hazardous waste is placed
in or on land. "Landfill" does not include any of the following:
(i) A pile.
(ii) A land treatment facility.
(iii) A surface impoundment.
(iv) An underground injection well.
(v) A salt dome formation.
(vi) A salt bed formation.
(vii) An underground mine or cave.
(viii) A corrective action management
unit.
(f) "Landfill cell"
means a discrete volume of a hazardous waste landfill that uses a liner to
provide isolation of wastes from adjacent cells or wastes. Examples of landfill
cells are trenches and pits.
(g)
"Land treatment facility" means a treatment facility or part of a treatment
facility at which hazardous waste is applied onto or incorporated into the soil
surface. The facilities are disposal facilities if the waste will remain after
closure.
(h) "Large quantity
generator" means a generator who generates any of the following amounts in a
calendar month:
(i) Greater than or equal to
1000 kilograms of non-acute hazardous waste.
(ii) Greater than 1 kilogram of acute
hazardous waste.
(iii) Greater than
1 kilogram of severely toxic hazardous waste.
(iv) Greater than 100 kilograms of any
residue or contaminated soil, water, or other debris resulting from the cleanup
of a spill, into or on any land or water, of any acute hazardous waste or
severely toxic hazardous waste.
(i) "Leachate" means any liquid, including
any suspended components in the liquid, that has percolated through or drained
from hazardous waste.
(j) "Leak
detection system" means a system capable of detecting the failure of either the
primary or secondary containment structure or the presence of a release of
hazardous waste or accumulated liquid in the secondary containment structure.
The system must employ operational controls, such as daily visual inspections
for releases into the secondary containment system or aboveground tanks, or
consist of an interstitial monitoring device designed to continuously and
automatically detect the failure of the primary or secondary containment
structure or the presence of a release of hazardous waste into the secondary
containment structure.
(k) "Lift"
means a layer of placed materials, including a layer of compacted clay in a
landfill liner or cap, or a layer of waste in a landfill.
(l) "Liner" means a continuous layer of
natural or man-made materials beneath or on the sides of a surface impoundment,
landfill, or landfill cell that restricts the downward or lateral escape of
hazardous waste, hazardous waste constituents, or leachate.
(m) "Low-level mixed waste" or "LLMW" means a
waste that contains both LLRW and hazardous waste.
(n) "Low-level radioactive waste" or "LLRW"
means a radioactive waste that contains source, special nuclear, or byproduct
materials, and that is not classified high-level radioactive waste, transuranic
waste, spent nuclear fuel, or byproduct materials as defined in section
11(e)(2) of the atomic energy act of 1954,
42
USC 2014(e)(2).
(o) "Management" or "hazardous waste
management" means the systematic control of the collection, source separation,
storage, transportation, processing, treatment, recovery, and disposal of
hazardous waste.
(p) "Manifest"
means the shipping document EPA Form 8700-22, including, if necessary, EPA Form
8700-22A, or the electronic manifest, in accordance with the applicable
requirements of parts 3, 4, and 6 of these rules.
(q) "Manifest tracking number" means the
alphanumeric identification number which is preprinted in item 4 of the
manifest by a registered source.
(r) "Method of treatment or disposal" means 1
of the major categories of treatment or disposal used for hazardous waste,
including any of the following:
(i)
Landfill.
(ii) Land
treatment.
(iii) Thermal
treatment.
(iv) Chemical
treatment.
(v) Physical
treatment.
(vi) Biological
treatment.
(s) "Military"
means the DOD, the United States Armed Services, Coast Guard, National Guard,
DOE, or other parties under contract or acting as agent for any of the parties,
who handle military munitions.
(t)
"Military munitions" means all ammunition products and components produced or
used by or for the DOD or the United States Armed Services for national defense
and security, including military munitions under the control of the DOD, the
United States Coast Guard, the DOE, and National Guard personnel. The term
military munitions includes any of the following: confined gaseous, liquid, and
solid propellants, explosives, pyrotechnics, chemical and riot control agents,
smokes, and incendiaries used by DOD components, including bulk explosives and
chemical warfare agents, chemical munitions, rockets, guided and ballistic
missiles, bombs, warheads, mortar rounds, artillery ammunitions, small arms
ammunitions, grenades, mines, torpedoes, depth charges, cluster munitions and
dispensers, demolitions charges, and devices and components thereof. Military
munitions do not include wholly inert items, improvised explosive devices, and
nuclear weapons, nuclear devices, and nuclear components thereof. However, the
term military munitions does include nonnuclear components of nuclear devices,
managed under the DOE's nuclear weapons program after all required sanitization
operations under the atomic energy act of 1954,
42 USC
2011 to
2296b-7, as amended,
have been compiled.
(u) "Military
range" means designated land and water areas set aside, managed, and used to
conduct research on, develop, test, and evaluate military munitions and
explosives, other ordnance, or weapon systems, or to train military personnel
in their use and handling. Ranges include firing lines and positions, maneuver
areas, firing lanes, test pads, detonation pads, impact areas, and buffer zones
with restricted access and exclusionary areas.
(v) "Mining overburden returned to the mine
site" means any material overlying an economic mineral deposit that is removed
to gain access to the deposit and is then used for reclamation of a surface
mine.
(w) "Miscellaneous unit"
means a hazardous waste management unit where hazardous waste is treated,
stored, or disposed of. "Miscellaneous unit" does not include any of the
following:
(i) A container.
(ii) A tank.
(iii) A surface impoundment.
(iv) A pile.
(v) A land treatment unit.
(vi) A landfill.
(vii) An incinerator.
(viii) A boiler.
(ix) An industrial furnace.
(x) An underground injection well with
appropriate technical standards pursuant to 40 CFR part 146.
(xi) A unit that is eligible for a temporary
operating license for research under
R 299.9501.
(xii) A corrective action management
unit.
(xiii) A staging
pile.
(x) "Movement"
means that hazardous waste transported to a facility in an individual
vehicle.
(y) "Mixed waste" means a
waste that contains both hazardous waste and source, special nuclear, or
byproduct material subject to the atomic energy act of 1954,
42 USC
2011 to
2296b-7, as
amended.
(z) "Naturally occurring
and/or accelerator-produced radioactive material" or "NARM" means radioactive
material that is regulated by a state under state law, or by the DOE, as
authorized by the atomic energy act of 1954,
42 USC
2011 to
2296b-7, as amended,
under DOE orders, and meets either of the following requirements:
(i) Is radioactive material that is naturally
occurring and is not source, special nuclear, or byproduct material as defined
by the atomic energy act of 1954,
42 USC
2011 to
2296b-7, as
amended.
(ii) Is radioactive
material that is produced by an accelerator.
(aa) "New tank system" or "new tank
component" means a tank system or component that will be used for the storage
or treatment of hazardous waste and for which installation has commenced after
July 14, 1986. For purposes of
40 CFR
264.193(g)(2) and
265.193(g)(2),
a new tank system is one for which construction commences after July 14,
1986.
(bb) "NFPA" means the
National Fire Protection Association.
(cc) "No free liquids" as used in
R
299.9204, means that solvent-contaminated wipes may
not contain free liquids as determined by Method 9095B, the Paint Filter
Liquids Test, included in Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Waste,
Physical/Chemical Methods, EPA publication SW-846 or by another standard or
test method approved by the director, and that there is no free liquid in the
container holding the wipes.
(dd)
"Non-acute hazardous waste" means all hazardous waste that are not acute
hazardous waste or severely toxic hazardous waste as defined in these
rules.
(ee) "NRC" means the United
States Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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