For the purposes of this Article:
Unless the context requires another construction, the definitions set forth in this Article and in Division 30 of the Public Resources Code shall govern the construction of this Article. Certain of the definitions in Division 30 are interpreted herein for the purposes of this Article. The definitions set forth in Title 14, California Code of Regulations, Division 7, Chapter 3, Article 4.1 do not apply to this Article 5.4.
(a) “Air District” means Air Pollution Control District or Air Quality Management District.
(b) “Altered Waste Tire” means a waste tire that has been baled, shredded, chopped or split apart. “Altered waste tire” does not mean crumb rubber.
(c) “Cell” means that portion of compacted waste tires in a waste tire monofill that is enclosed by cover material during a designated period.
(d) “Local Fire Control Authority” means the public agency responsible for fire prevention and fire suppression for the area where a waste tire monofill facility is located or is proposed to be located.
(e) “Operator” means the person responsible for the overall operation of a waste tire monofill facility or the owner if there is no operator.
(f) “Owner” means a person who owns, in whole or in part, a waste tire monofill facility, the waste tires located at a waste tire monofill facility, or the land on which a waste tire monofill facility is located.
(g) “Rubber fines” are small particles of ground rubber that result as a by-product of producing shredded rubber.
(h) “RWQCB” means the Regional Water Quality Control Board.
(i) “Uncontaminated Waste Tires” mean waste tires that are not hazardous waste, as defined in Title 22, California Code of Regulations Sections 66260.10 and 66261.3.
(j) “Waste Tire Monofill” means a discrete unit, as defined in Title 27, California Code of Regulations, Section 20164, for disposal of only uncontaminated waste tires together with cover.
(k) “Waste tire monofill facility” means a solid waste facility that has or will have one or more waste tire monofills and that may handle waste tires for the purposes of disposal to a waste tire monofill or mining for recovery of waste tires from a waste tire monofill.
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Note: Authority cited: Sections 40502, 43020 and 43021, Public Resources Code. Reference: Sections 40052, 40160, 42801.5, 42804, 42805, 43020 and 43021, Public Resources Code.
1. New section filed 10-14-2003; operative 11-13-2003 (Register 2003, No. 42).
This database is current through 4/26/24 Register 2024, No. 17.
Cal. Admin. Code tit. 14, § 17346.1, 14 CA ADC § 17346.1
