(1) Aboveground tank means a device meeting the definition of tank in this subdivision whereby the entire surface area of the tank is completely above the plane of the adjacent surrounding surface area of the tank (including the tank bottom) is able to be visually inspected.

(2) Accumulation area means an area located at or near the point of manufacturer or other activity where the generation of hazardous waste initially occurs and the accumulation is done in accordance with the requirements of section 372.2(a)(8)(i) of this Title.

(3) Act or RCRA means the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, 42 USC 6901 et seq. (see section 370.1[e] of this Part).

(4) Active life of a facility means the period from the initial receipt of hazardous waste at the facility until the commissioner receives certification of final closure.

(5) Active portion means that portion of a facility where treatment, storage or disposal operations are being or have been conducted and which is not a closed portion. (See also closed portion and inactive portion.)

(6) Acute hazardous waste means hazardous wastes that meet the listing criteria in section 371.2(b)(1)(ii) of this Title and therefore are either listed in section 371.4(b) of this Title with the assigned hazard code of (H) or are listed in section 371.4(d)(5) of this Title.

(7) Administrator means the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or the administrator’s designee.

(8) Airport means a public-use airport open to the public without prior permission and without restrictions within the physical capabilities of available facilities.

(9) Ancillary equipment means any device, including but not limited to such devices as piping, fittings, flanges, valves, and pumps, that is used to distribute, meter, or control the flow of hazardous waste from its point of generation to storage or treatment tanks, between hazardous waste and storage treatment tanks to a point of disposal onsite or to a point of shipment for disposal offsite.

(10) Application means the department's standard forms for applying for a permit under Part 373 of this Title, including any additions, revisions or modifications to the forms. Application also includes the information required by the department under Part 373.

(11) Approved program or approved state means a state which has been approved or authorized by EPA under 40 CFR part 271 (see section 370.1[e] of this Part).

(12) Aquifer means a geologic formation, group of formations, or part of a formation capable of yielding a significant amount of ground water to wells or springs.

(13) Authorized representative means the person responsible for the overall operation of a facility or an operational unit (i.e., part of a facility), such as the plant manager, superintendent or person of equivalent responsibility.

(14) Authorized treatment, storage or disposal facility or authorized facility with respect to a particular hazardous waste means a treatment, storage or disposal facility which is authorized, under the laws and regulations of both the Federal government and the state in which it is located, to accept the hazardous waste for treatment, storage or disposal.

(15) Battery means a device consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells which is designed to receive, store and deliver electric energy. An electrochemical cell is a system consisting of an anode, cathode, and an electrolyte, plus such connections (electrical and mechanical) as may be needed to allow the cell to deliver or receive electrical energy. The term battery also includes an intact, unbroken battery from which the electrolyte has been removed.

(16) Bodily injury means injury to the body, sickness or disease, including death resulting from any of these.

(17) Boiler means an enclosed device using controlled flame combustion and having the following characteristics:

(18) Carbon regeneration unit means any enclosed thermal treatment device used to regenerate spent activated carbon.

(19) Cathode ray tube or CRT means a vacuum tube, composed primarily of glass, which is a visual or video display component of an electronic device.

(20) Certification means a statement of professional opinion based upon knowledge and belief.

(21) Class A explosive defined in 49 CFR 173.53 (see section 370.1[e] of this Part).

(22) Class B explosive defined in 49 CFR 173.88 (see section 370.1[e] of this Part).

(23) CFR means the Code of Federal Regulations.

(24) Characteristic hazardous waste means a waste which is hazardous solely because it possesses at least one of the characteristics given in section 371.3 of this Title.

(25) Closed portion means that portion of a facility which an owner or operator has closed in accordance with the approved facility closure plan and all applicable closure requirements. (See also active portion and inactive portion.)

(26) Closure means the act of securing a hazardous waste management facility pursuant to the requirements of Part 373 of this Title.

(27) Commercial hazardous waste facilities or commercial facilities means a facility that receives from offsite any hazardous waste from any person that is not a part of the same trust, firm, joint-stock company, corporation (including a government corporation), partnership, association state, Federal government and any agency thereof, municipality, commission, political subdivision of a state, or any interstate body, except when small quantities of hazardous wastes from public bodies are accepted on an emergency basis with the approval of the commissioner on a no-cost basis. Treatment, storage and disposal units located at commercial facilities are not considered part of the commercial facility if they manage only hazardous waste initially generated onsite resulting from the recycling of characteristic hazardous wastes or the reclamation of precious metals.

(28) Commissioner means the Commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation or the commissioner's designee.

(29) Component means any constituent part of a unit or any group of constituent parts of a unit which are assembled to perform a specific function (e.g., a pump seal, pump, kiln liner, kiln thermocouple).

(30) Confined aquifer means an aquifer bound above and below by impermeable beds or by beds of distinctly lower permeability than that of the aquifer itself; an aquifer containing confined ground water.

(31) Consignee means the ultimate treatment, storage or disposal facility in a receiving country to which the hazardous waste will be sent.

(32) Constituent or hazardous waste constituent means a constituent which caused the commissioner to list the hazardous waste in section 371.4 of this Title or a constituent listed in table 1 of section 371.3(e) of this Title.

(33) Container means any portable device in which a material is stored, transported, treated, disposed of, or otherwise handled.

(34) Containment building means a hazardous waste management unit that is used to store or treat hazardous waste under the provisions of sections 373-2.30 and 373-3.30 of this Title.

(35) Contingency plan means a document setting out an organized, planned and coordinated course of action to be followed in case of a fire, explosion or release of hazardous waste or hazardous waste constituents which could threaten human health or the environment.

(36) Corrective action management unit (CAMU) means an area within a facility that is used only for managing remediation wastes for implementing corrective action or cleanup at the facility.

(37) Corrosion expert refers to persons who, by reason of their knowledge of the physical sciences and the principles of engineering and mathematics acquired by a professional education and related practical experience, is qualified to engage in the practice of corrosion control on buried or submerged metal piping systems and metal tanks. Such a person must be certified as being qualified by the National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) or be a professional engineer registered in New York who has licensing or certification that includes education and experience in corrosion control on buried or submerged metal piping systems and metal tanks.

(38) Cover material means soil and other suitable material acceptable to the department that is used to cover compacted solid waste, including hazardous waste, in a land disposal site.

(39) CRT collector means a person who receives used, intact CRTs for recycling, repair, resale, or donation.

(40) CRT exporter means any person in the United States who initiates a transaction to send used CRTs outside the United States or its territories for recycling or reuse, or any intermediary in the United States arranging for such export.

(41) CRT glass manufacturer means a party that conducts an operation or part of an operation that uses a furnace to manufacture CRT glass.

(42) CRT processing means conducting the following activities:

(43) CWA means the Clean Water Act, 33 USC 1251 et seq. (formerly referred to as the Federal Water Pollution Control Act or Federal Water Pollution Control Act amendments of 1972) (see section 370.1[e] of this Part).

(44) Daily cover means a compacted layer of at least six inches or cover material that is placed on all exposed solid waste, including hazardous waste, in a landfill at the end of each day of operation.

(45) Department means the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.

(46) Designated treatment, storage or disposal facility or designated facility means:

(47) Destination facility means a facility that treats, disposes of, or recycles a particular category of universal waste, except those management activities described in sections 374-3.2(d)(1) and (3) and 374-3.3(d)(1) and (3) of this Title. A facility at which a particular category of universal waste is only accumulated, is not a destination facility for purposes of managing that category of universal waste.

(48) Dike means an embankment or ridge of either natural or man-made materials used to prevent the movement of liquids, sludges, solids or other materials.

(49) Dioxins and furans (D/F) means tetra, penta, hexa, hepta, and octa-chlorinated dibenzo dioxins and furans.

(50) Director means the Director of the Division of Hazardous Substance Regulation of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation or the Director's designee.

(51) Discharge or hazardous waste discharge means the accidental or intentional spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying or dumping of solid or hazardous waste into or on any land or water.

(52) Disposal means the abandonment, discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking or placing of any solid waste, including hazardous waste, into or onto any lands or waters of the State, so that such waste or hazardous waste or any related constituent thereof may enter the environment, or be emitted to the air, or discharged to any waters, including ground waters thereof. Disposal also means the thermal destruction of wastes or hazardous waste and the burning of such wastes as fuel for the purpose of recovering usable energy.

(53) Disposal facility means a facility or part of a facility at which solid waste, including hazardous waste, is intentionally placed into or on any air, land or water, and at which waste will remain after closure. The term disposal facility does not include a correction action management unit into which remediation wastes are placed.

(54) Disposer state means the state in which the designated treatment, storage or disposal facility is located.

(55) Division means the Division of Solid and Hazardous Materials of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.

(56) Drip pad is an engineered structure consisting of a curbed, free-draining base, constructed of non-earthen materials and designed to convey preservative kick-back or drippage from treated wood, precipitation, and surface water run-on to an associated collection system at wood preserving plants.

(57) ECL or Environmental Conservation Law means chapter 43-B of the Consolidated Laws of New York State, entitled the Environmental Conservation Law.

(58) Elementary neutralization unit means a device which:

(59) Energy recovery means the beneficial use or reuse or legitimate recycling or reclamation of solid waste, including hazardous waste, through the combustion of such waste to recover energy.

(60) Environmental Notice Bulletin (ENB) means the publication of the department published pursuant to section 3-0306 of the Environmental Conservation Law.

(61) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) means the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

(62) EPA acknowledgment of consent means the cable sent to EPA from the U.S. Embassy in a receiving country that acknowledges the written consent of the receiving country to accept the hazardous waste and describes the terms and conditions of the receiving country's consent to the shipment.

(63) EPA hazardous waste number means the number assigned by the EPA or the commissioner to each hazardous waste listed in section 371.4 of this Title and to each characteristic identified in section 371.3.

(64) EPA identification number means the number assigned by EPA or the commissioner to each generator, transporter, and treatment, storage or disposal facility.

(65) Equivalent method means any testing or analytical method approved by the commissioner under this Part.

(66) Exception report means the report made by the generator if shipment receipt is not acknowledged by the designated facility pursuant to section 372.2(c)(3) of this Title.

(67) Existing hazardous waste management (HWM) facility or existing facility means a facility which was in operation or for which construction commenced on or before November 19, 1980. A facility has commenced construction if the owner or operator has obtained the Federal, State and local approvals or permits necessary to begin physical construction, and either:

(68) Existing portion means that land, surface area of an existing waste management unit, included in the original RCRA part. A permit application, on which wastes have been placed prior to the issuance of a permit.

(69) Existing tank system or existing component means a tank system or component that is used for the storage or treatment of hazardous waste and that is in operation, or for which installation has commenced on or prior to July 14, 1986. Installation will be considered to have commenced if the owner or operator has obtained all Federal, State and local approvals or permits necessary to begin physical construction of the site or installation of the tank system and if either:

(70) Explosives or munitions emergency means a situation involving the suspected or detected presence of unexploded ordnance (UXO), damaged or deteriorated explosives or munitions, an improvised explosive device (IED), other potentially explosive material or device, or other potentially harmful military chemical munitions or device, that creates an actual or potential imminent threat to human health, including safety, or the environment, including property, as determined by an explosives or munitions emergency response specialist. Such situations may require immediate and expeditious action by an explosives or munitions emergency response specialist to control, mitigate, or eliminate the threat.

(71) Explosives or munitions emergency response means all immediate response activities by an explosives and munitions emergency response specialist to control, mitigate, or eliminate the actual or potential threat encountered during an explosives or munitions emergency. An explosives or munitions emergency response may include in-place render-safe procedures, treatment or destruction of the explosives or munitions and/or transporting those items to another location to be rendered safe, treated, or destroyed. Any reasonable delay in the completion of an explosives or munitions emergency response caused by a necessary, unforeseen, or uncontrollable circumstance will not terminate the explosives or munitions emergency. Explosives and munitions emergency responses can occur on either public or private lands and are not limited to responses at RCRA facilities.

(72) Explosives or munitions emergency response specialist means an individual trained in chemical or conventional munitions or explosives handling, transportation, render-safe procedures, or destruction techniques. Explosives or munitions emergency response specialists include Department of Defense (DOD) emergency explosive ordnance disposal (EOD), technical escort unit (TEU), and DOD-certified civilian or contractor personnel; and other Federal, State, or local government, or civilian personnel similarly trained in explosives or munitions emergency responses.

(73) Facility means:

(74) Facility mailing list means the contact list for a facility maintained by the department for communicating in accordance with section 621.7(i)(7) of this Title.

(75) Federal agency means any department, agency or other instrumentality of the Federal government, and any independent agency or establishment of the Federal government including any government corporation and the Government Printing Office.

(76) Federal, State and local approvals or permits necessary to begin physical construction means permits and approvals required under Federal, State or local hazardous waste control statutes, regulations or ordinances.

(77) Final closure means the closure of all hazardous waste management units at the facility in accordance with all applicable closure requirements, so that hazardous waste management activities under Subparts 373-2 and 373-3 of this Title are no longer conducted at the facility unless subject to the provisions in section 373.2(a)(8) of this Title.

(78) Final cover means the cover material placed on all surfaces of a landfill where no additional refuse will be deposited within one year. These areas must be designed and constructed in accordance with the requirements of section 373-2.14 of this Title.

(79) Flood plain shall mean any land susceptible to being inundated by water from any source. A 100-year flood plain is that land inundated by a 100-year flood that has a one-percent chance of occurring in any given year.

(80) Food-chain crops means tobacco, crops grown for human consumption, and crops grown for feed for animals whose products are consumed by humans.

(81) Forbidden explosive is defined in 49 CFR section 173.51 (see section 370.1[e] of this Part).

(82) Freeboard means the vertical distance between the lowest elevation of the top of a tank of surface impoundment dike and the surface of the waste contained therein.

(83) Free liquids means liquids which readily separate from the solid portion of a waste under ambient temperature and pressure.

(84) Functionally equivalent component means a component which performs the same function or measurement and which meets or exceeds the performance specifications of another component.

(85) Generator means any person, by site, whose act or process produces hazardous waste as defined in Part 371 of this Title, or whose act first causes a hazardous waste to become subject to regulation.

(86) Generator state means the state which is the point of origin for a hazardous waste shipment.

(87) Ground water means those waters in the zone of saturation, including perched water areas.

(88) Hazardous waste means a hazardous waste as defined in Part 371 of this Title.

(89) Hazardous waste constituent means a constituent that caused the commissioner to list the hazardous waste in section 371.4 of this Title, or a constituent listed in section 371.3(e).

(90) Hazardous waste management means the systematic control of the collection, source separation, storage, transportation, processing, treatment, recovery and disposal of hazardous waste.

(91) Hazardous waste management facility (HWM facility) means all contiguous land, and structures, other appurtenances and improvements on the land, used for treating, storing or disposing of hazardous waste. A facility may consist of several treatment, storage or disposal operational units.

(92) Hazardous waste management unit is a contiguous area of land on or in which hazardous waste is placed, or the largest area in which there is significant likelihood of mixing hazardous waste constituents in the same area. Examples of hazardous waste management units include a surface impoundment, a waste pile, a land treatment area, a landfill cell, an incinerator, a tank and its associated piping and underlying containment system, and 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.

(93) Households include, but are not limited to, single and multiple residences, hotels and motels, bunkhouses, ranger stations, crew quarters, campgrounds, picnic grounds, and day use recreation areas. (See household hazardous waste.)

(94) Household hazardous waste means household waste which but for its point of origin would be a hazardous waste under Part 371 of this Title and includes all pesticides as defined in ECL article 33, that originate from a household. (See households.)

(95) Household hazardous waste collection facility means any facility or site authorized, under Subpart 362-4 of this Title, to accept household hazardous waste, or waste from conditionally exempt small quantity generators or eligible farmers on a temporary, periodic, or permanent basis.

(96) Inactive portion means that portion of a facility which is not operated after November 19, 1980.

(97) Incinerator means any enclosed device that:

(98) Incompatible waste means a hazardous waste which is unsuitable for:

(99) Individual generation site means the contiguous site at or on which one or more hazardous wastes are generated. An individual generation site, such as a large manufacturing plant, may have one or more sources of hazardous waste, but is considered a single or individual generation site if the site or property is contiguous.

(100) Industrial furnace means any of the following enclosed devices that are integral components of manufacturing processes and use thermal treatment to accomplish recovery of materials or energy:

(101) 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 which is not listed as an industrial furnace.

(102) Inground tank means a device meeting the definition of tank in this subdivision whereby a portion of the tank wall is situated to any degree within the ground thereby preventing visual inspection of that external surface area of the tank that is in the ground.

(103) Injection well means a well into which fluids are injected. See also underground injection.

(104) Inner liner means a continuous layer of material placed inside a tank or container which protects the construction materials of the tank or container from the contained waste or reagents used to treat the waste.

(105) In operation means a facility which is treating, storing or disposing of hazardous waste.

(106) Installation inspector means persons who, by reason of their 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.

(107) Interconnected tanks means tanks that have interconnected piping such that equipment failure at any point in the tank system or operator error could result in the release of hazardous waste from more than one tank into the secondary containment system.

(108) International shipment means the transportation of hazardous waste into or out of the jurisdiction of the United States.

(109) Lamp, also referred to as universal waste lamp, is defined as the bulb or tube portion of an electric lighting device. A lamp is specifically designed to produce radiant energy, most often in the ultraviolet, visible, and infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Examples of common universal waste electric lamps include, but are not limited to, fluorescent, high intensity discharge, neon, mercury vapor, high pressure sodium, and metal halide lamps.

(110) Land disposal means placement of hazardous waste in or on the land, except in a corrective action management unit, and includes but is not limited to, placement in a landfill, surface impoundment, waste pile, injection well, land treatment facility, salt dome formation, salt bed formation, an underground mine or cave, or placement in a concrete vault or bunker intended for disposal purposes.

(111) Landfill means a disposal facility or part of a facility where solid waste, including hazardous waste, is placed in or on land, and which is not a pile, a land treatment facility, a surface impoundment, or underground injection well, a salt dome formation, a salt bed formation, an underground mine, a cave, or a corrective action management unit.

(112) Landfill cell means a discrete volume of a solid or hazardous waste landfill which uses a liner to provide isolation of wastes from adjacent cells or wastes. Examples of landfill cells are lined trenches and pits.

(113) Land treatment facility means a facility or part of a facility at which solid waste, including hazardous waste, is applied onto or incorporated into the soil surface. Such facilities are disposal facilities if the waste will remain after closure.

(114) Leachate means a liquid, including any suspended components or dissolved compounds in the liquid, which has been in contact with or passed through solid waste, including hazardous waste.

(115) 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. Such a system must employ operational controls (e.g., daily visual inspections for releases into the secondary containment system of aboveground tanks) or consist of an interstitial monitoring device designed to detect continuously and automatically the failure of the primary or secondary containment structure or the presence of a release or hazardous waste into the secondary containment structure.

(116) Liner means a continuous layer of natural or synthetic materials, beneath or on the sides of a surface impoundment, landfill or landfill cell, which restricts the downward or lateral escape of solid waste, including hazardous waste, any constituents of such waste, or leachate.

(117) Listed hazardous waste means a hazardous waste that is listed in section 371.4 of this Title.

(118) Management or hazardous waste management means the systematic control of the collection, source separation, storage, transportation, processing, treatment, recovery and disposal of hazardous waste.

(119) Manifest means the shipping document EPA form 8700-22 (including, if necessary, EPA form 8700-22A), originated and signed by the generator or offeror in accordance with the instructions in Appendix 30 of this Title and the applicable requirements of Parts 372 and 373 of this Title.

(120) Manifest tracking number means the alphanumeric identification number (i.e., a unique three-letter suffix preceded by nine numerical digits), which is pre-printed in item 4 of the manifest by a registered source (see section 372.2[b][9] of this Title).

(121) Mercury-containing equipment means a device or part of a device (including thermostats, but excluding batteries and lamps) that contains elemental mercury integral to its function.

(122) Military munitions means all ammunition products and components produced or used by or for the U.S. Department of Defense or the U.S. Armed Services for national defense and security, including military munitions under the control of the Department of Defense, the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and National Guard personnel. The term military munitions includes: 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 ammunition, small arms ammunition, grenades, mines, torpedoes, depth charges, cluster munitions and dispensers, demolition 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 does include non-nuclear components of nuclear devices, managed under DOE’s nuclear weapons program after all required sanitization operations under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, have been completed.

(123) Mining overburden returned to the mine site means any material overlying an economic mineral deposit which is removed to gain access to that deposit and is then used for reclamation of a surface mine.

(124) Miscellaneous unit means a hazardous waste management unit where the hazardous waste is treated, stored, or disposed of and that is not a container, tank, surface impoundment, pile, land treatment unit, landfill, incinerator, boiler, industrial furnace, underground injection well with appropriate technical standards under 40 CFR part 146 (see section 370.1[e] of this Part), containment building, corrective action management unit, unit eligible for a research, development and demonstration permit under section 373-1.9(c) of this Title, or staging pile.

(125) Movement means that volume of hazardous waste transported to a facility in an individual vehicle.

(126) New hazardous waste management facility or new facility means a facility which began operation or for which construction commenced after November 19, 1980. See also existing hazardous waste management facility.

(127) 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; except, however, for purposes of sections 373-2.10(d)(7)(ii) and 373-3.10(d)(7)(ii) of this Title, a new tank system is one for which construction commences after July 14, 1986. (See also existing tank system.)

(128) NYCRR means the Official Compilation of Codes, Rules and Regulations of the State of New York.

(129) Offsite means any property which is not onsite.

(130) Onground tank means a device meeting the definition of tank in this subdivision whereby the bottom of the tank is on the same level as the adjacent surrounding surface so that the external tank bottom cannot be visually inspected.

(131) Onsite means:

(132) Open burning means the combustion of any material in the absence of the following characteristics:

(133) Operator means the person responsible for the overall operation of a facility.

(134) Owner means the person who owns a facility or part of a facility.

(135) [Reserved]

(136) Partial closure means the closure of a hazardous waste management unit in accordance with the applicable closure requirements of Subparts 373-2 and 373-3 of this Title at a facility that contains other active hazardous waste management units. For example, partial closure may include the closure of a tank (including its associated piping and underlying containment systems), landfill cell, surface impoundment, waste pile, or other hazardous waste management unit, while other units of the same facility continue to operate.

(137) Permit means an authorization, license or equivalent control document issued by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to implement the requirements of Part 373 of this Title. Permit does not include interim status (section 373-1.3 of this Title), or any permit which has not yet been the subject of final agency action, such as a draft permit or a proposed permit.

(138) Person means an individual, trust, firm, joint-stock company, corporation (including a government corporation), partnership, association, state, Federal government and any agency thereof, municipality, commission, political subdivision of a state, or any interstate body.

(139) Personnel or facility personnel means all persons who work at or oversee the operations of a hazardous waste facility, and whose actions or failure to act may result in noncompliance with the requirements of Part 373 of this Title.

(140) Pesticide means any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest, or intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant, other than any article that:

(141) Physical construction means excavation, movement of earth, erection of forms or structures, or similar activity to prepare an HWM facility to accept hazardous waste.

(142) Pile means any noncontainerized accumulation of solid, nonflowing solid waste, including hazardous waste, that is used for treatment or placement and that is not a containment building.

(143) Plasma arc incinerator means any enclosed device using a high intensity electrical discharge or arc as a source of heat followed by an afterburner using controlled flame combustion and which is not listed as an industrial furnace.

(144) Point source means any discernible, confined and discrete conveyance, including but not limited to any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal feeding operation, or vessel or other floating craft, from which pollutants are or may be discharged.

(145) Primary exporter means any person who is required to originate the manifest for a shipment of hazardous waste in accordance with Part 372 of this Title which specifies a treatment, storage or disposal facility in a receiving country as the facility to which the hazardous waste will be sent and any intermediary arranging for the export.

(146) Processing facility means a combination of structures, machinery or devices utilized to reduce or alter the volume, chemical or physical characteristics of solid waste, including hazardous waste, through processes such as baling or shredding prior to delivery of such waste to a resource recovery facility, sanitary landfill or incinerator, or hazardous waste treatment, storage or disposal facility, and excludes collection vehicles.

(147) Publicly owned treatment works or POTW means any device or system used in the treatment (including recycling and reclamation) of municipal sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature which is owned by a state or municipality, as defined by section 502 of the Clean Water Act, 33 USC 1362 (see section 370.1[e] of this Part). This definition includes sewers, pipes or other conveyances only if they convey wastewater to a POTW providing treatment.

(148) Qualified ground water scientist means a scientist or engineer who has received a baccalaureate or post-graduate degree in the natural sciences or engineering and has sufficient training and experience in ground water hydrology and related fields as may be demonstrated by State registration, professional certification, or completion of accredited university courses that enable that individual to make sound professional judgments regarding ground water monitoring and containment fate and transport.

(149) RCRA or Resource Conservation and Recovery Act means the Solid Waste Disposal Act as amended by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, 42 USC 6901 et seq. 1988 (see section 370.1[e] of this Part).

(150) RCRA delegated permit means a permit issued by the department for a program for which a comparable permit may be required under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) of 1976, 42 USC 6901 et seq. 1988 (see section 370.1[e] of this Part for hazardous waste management facilities [HWMF]).

(151) Receiving country means a foreign country to which a hazardous waste is sent for the purpose of treatment, storage or disposal (except short-term storage incidental to transport).

(152) Reclaim, recover or recycle means any method, technique or process utilized to separate, process, modify, convert or treat or otherwise prepare hazardous waste so that component materials or substances may be used or reused as raw materials or energy sources.

(153) Regional permit administrator means an employee of the department located in each of the nine regional offices of the department and designated by the commissioner to act on the commissioner's behalf in carrying out Part 621 of this Title. Regional permit administrators' addresses and the counties under their jurisdiction can be found in Appendix 1 of this Title.

(154) Regional administrator means the regional administrator of the appropriate regional office of the Environmental Protection Agency or the regional administrator's designee.

(155) Remedial action plan (RAP) means a special form of Part 373 permit that a facility owner or operator may obtain instead of a permit issued under Subpart 373-1 of this Title, except sections 373-1.3 and 373-1.11 of this Title, to authorize the treatment, storage or disposal of hazardous remediation waste (as defined in this subdivision) at a remediation waste management site.

(156) Remediation waste means all solid and hazardous waste, and all media (including ground water, surface water, soils and sediments) and debris, that are managed for implementing cleanup.

(157) 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 section 373-2.6(l) of this Title, but is subject to corrective action requirements if the site is located in such a facility.

(158) Replacement unit means a landfill, surface impoundment, or waste pile unit:

(159) Representative sample means a sample of a universe or whole (e.g., waste pile, lagoon, ground water) which can be expected to exhibit the average properties of the universe or whole.

(160) Resource recovery facility means a combination of structures, machinery or devices, utilized to separate, process, modify, convert, treat or prepare collected solid or hazardous waste so that component materials or substances or recoverable material may be used as a raw material or energy source.

(161) Runoff means any rainwater, leachate or other liquid that drains over land from any part of a facility.

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

(163) Sanitary landfill means a land disposal site employing an engineered method of disposing of solid wastes on land in a manner that minimizes environmental hazards and meets the design and operation requirements of Parts 360 and 363 of this Title.

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

(165) Schedule of compliance means a schedule of remedial measures included in a permit, including an enforceable sequence of interim requirements (for example, actions, operations or milestone events) leading to compliance with the regulations of Parts 370, 371, 372, 373, 374 and 376 of this Title.

(166) Secure landburial facility means a land disposal facility meeting the design and operation requirements of Part 373 of this Title for the proper disposal of hazardous wastes, so that such wastes are immobilized or otherwise prevented from release to the environment or rendered harmless or decomposed into harmless materials within the facility.

(167) Site means the land or water areas where any facility or activity is physically located or conducted, including adjacent land used in connection with the facility or activity.

(168) 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. Sludge does not include the treated effluent from a wastewater treatment plant.

(169) 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/lb of sludge treated on a wet-weight basis.

(170) Small quantity generator is a generator who generates the following amounts in a calendar month:

(171) Sole source aquifer means an aquifer system that the United States Environmental Protection Agency, pursuant to the Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 USC 300h-3(e) (see section 370.1[e] of this Part), has determined to be the sole or principal drinking water source for an area and which, if contaminated, would create a significant hazard to public health. The following have been designated sole source aquifers:

(172) Solid waste or waste has the meaning defined in Part 371 of this Title.

(173) Solid waste management facility means a facility employed beyond the initial solid waste collection process, including but not limited to: storage areas or facilities; transfer stations; rail-haul or barge facilities; processing facilities, including resource recovery facilities, sanitary landfills; secure landburial facilities; incinerators; composting facilities; surface impoundments; and waste oil storage, reprocessing and rerefining facilities.

(174) Sorbent means a material that is used to soak up free liquids by either adsorption or absorption, or both. Sorb means to either adsorb or absorb, or both.

(175) State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (SPDES) means those regulations in Part 750 of this Title prescribing procedures and substantive rules concerning the State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System pursuant to ECL article 17, title 8.

(176) Spill means the accidental leaking, pumping, emitting, emptying or dumping of hazardous wastes or materials which, when spilled, become hazardous wastes, into or on any land or water.

(177) Staging pile means an accumulation of solid, non-flowing remediation waste (as defined in this subdivision) that is not a containment building and that is used only during remedial operations for temporary storage at the facility. Staging piles must be designated by the department according to the requirements of section 373-2.19(c) of this Title.

(178) State means any of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa and the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands.

(179) State manifest document number means the number found in box A of the manifest.

(180) Storage means the holding of hazardous waste on a temporary basis, in such a manner as not to constitute disposal, at the end of which time the hazardous waste is treated, disposed of, or stored elsewhere.

(181) Sump means any pit or reservoir that meets the definition of tank and those troughs and trenches connected to it that serve to collect hazardous waste for transport to hazardous waste storage, treatment, or disposal facilities; except that as used in the landfill, surface impoundment, and waste pile rules, 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 subsequent removal from the system.

(182) Surface impoundment or impoundment means a facility or part of a facility which is a natural topographic depression, human-made excavation, or diked area formed primarily of earthen materials (although it may be line with human-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.

(183) Surface water means lakes, bays, sounds, ponds, impounding reservoirs, springs, rivers, streams, creeks, estuaries, marshes, inlets, canals, the Atlantic Ocean within the territorial limits of New York State and all other bodies of surface water, natural or artificial, inland or coastal, fresh or salt, public or private.

(184) Tank means a stationary device designed to contain an accumulation of solid waste, including hazardous waste, which is constructed primarily of nonearthen material (e.g., wood, concrete, steel, plastic) which provides structural support.

(185) Tank system means a hazardous waste storage or treatment tank and its associated ancillary equipment and containment system.

(186) TEQ means toxicity equivalence, the international method of relating the toxicity of various dioxin/furan congeners to the toxicity of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin.

(187) Thermal treatment means the treatment of solid waste, including 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 waste. Examples of thermal treatment processes are incineration, molten salt, pyrolysis, calcination, wet air oxidation, and microwave discharge. (See also incinerator and open burning.)

(188) Thermostat means a temperature control device that contains metallic mercury in an ampule attached to a bimetal sensing element, and mercury-containing ampules that have been removed from these temperature control devices in compliance with the requirements of section 374-3.2(d)(3)(ii) or 374-3.3(d)(3)(ii) of this Title.

(189) Title means Title 6 of the Official Compilation of Codes, Rules and Regulations of the State of New York.

(190) Totally enclosed treatment facility means a facility for the treatment of hazardous waste which is directly connected to an industrial production process and which is constructed and operated in a manner which prevents the release of any hazardous waste or any constituent thereof into the environment during treatment. An example is a pipe in which waste acid is neutralized.

(191) Transfer facility means any transportation-related facility, including loading docks, parking areas, storage areas and other similar areas where shipments of hazardous waste are held during the normal course of transportation.

(192) Transit country means any foreign country, other than a receiving country, through which a hazardous waste is transported.

(193) Transporter means a person engaged in the offsite transportation of hazardous waste by air, rail, highway or water.

(194) Transport vehicle. See definition of vehicle.

(195) Treatability study means a study in which a hazardous waste is subject to a treatment process to determine:

Also included in this definition for the purpose of section 371.1(e)(4)(iv) and (v) exemptions are liner compatibility, corrosion, and other material compatibility studies and toxicological and health effect studies. A treatability study is not a means to commercially treat or dispose of hazardous waste.

(196) Treatment means any method, technique or process, including neutralization, designed to change the physical, chemical or biological character or composition of any hazardous waste to:

(197) Treatment, storage, or disposal facility (TSD) means all contiguous land and structures, other appurtenances and improvements on the land, used for treating, storing or disposing of hazardous waste. A facility may consist of several treatment, storage or disposal operations units (e.g., one or more landfills, surface impoundments or combinations of them).

(198) Treatment zone means a soil area of the unsaturated zone of a land treatment unit within which hazardous constituents are degraded, transformed or immobilized.

(199) UIC means the underground injection control program under part C of the Safe Drinking Water Act, including an approved program (see section 370.1[e] of this Part).

(200) Ultimate disposal method means the final method used to treat or dispose of a hazardous waste. The term does not include storage or initial treatments used to prepare a hazardous waste for final disposition. The following are considered ultimate disposal methods: landfills; burning, including thermal treatment; incineration, open burning or energy recovery; treatment which will render the waste nonhazardous or less hazardous, including neutralization; and material recovery which is any method used to reclaim, recover or recycle so that at least 75 percent of component materials or substances may be beneficially used or reused as raw materials.

(201) Underground injection means the subsurface emplacement of fluids through a bored, drilled or driven well or through a dug well, where the depth of the dug well is greater than the largest surface dimensions. (See also injection well.)

(202) Underground source of drinking water (USDW) means an aquifer or its portion:

(203) Underground tank means a device meeting the definition of tank in this subdivision whose entire surface area is totally below the surface of and covered by the ground.

(204) Unfit-for use tank system means a tank system that has been determined through an integrity assessment or other inspection to be no longer capable of storing or treating hazardous waste without posing a threat of release of hazardous waste to the environment.

(205) Universal waste means any of the following hazardous wastes that are managed under the universal waste requirements of Subpart 374-3 of this Title:

(206) Universal waste handler:

(207) Universal waste transporter means a person engaged in off-site transportation of universal waste by air, rail, highway, or water.

(208) Unsaturated zone or zone of aeration means the zone between the land surface and the saturated zone.

(209) Uppermost aquifer means the geologic formation nearest the natural ground surface that is an aquifer, as well as lower aquifers that are hydraulically interconnected with this aquifer within the facility's property boundary.

(210) Used engine lubricating oil means petroleum-based lubricating oil from internal combustion engines that through use has been contaminated by physical or chemical impurities.

(211) Used engine lubricating oil retention facility means any facility employed to store used lubricating oil by a service establishment or any other person, industrial operation, airport, trucking terminal or State or local government facility that generates at least 500 gallons of used lubricating oil annually.

(212) Used oil means any oil that has been refined from crude oil, or any synthetic oil, that has been used, and, as a result of such use, is contaminated by physical or chemical impurities.

(213) Vehicle or transport vehicle means any device or contrivance which is required by law to be registered with a state or province, or with the Federal government, for conveyance over public roads and which actually contains or carries a regulated waste. For example, in the case of tractor-trailer combination, the trailer is considered to be the vehicle; in the case of a roll-off container or other removable containment device, it is the mobile flatbed or the undercarriage that is considered to be the vehicle.

(214) Vessel includes every description of watercraft, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on the water.

(215) Waste oil means used engine lubricating oil and any other oil including, but not limited to, used oil, fuel oil, motor oil, gear oil, cutting oil, transmission fluid, hydraulic fluid, dielectric fluid, oil storage tank residues, animal oil and vegetable oil, which has been contaminated by physical or chemical impurities, through use or accident, and has not subsequently been rerefined. Gasoline and wastes derived from gasoline are not considered waste oil for the purposes of this Part.

(216) Wastewater treatment unit means a device which:

(217) Water (bulk shipment) means the bulk transportation of hazardous waste that is loaded or carried on board a vessel without containers or labels.

(218) Well means any shaft or pit dug or bored into the earth, generally cylindrical, and often walled with bricks, tubing or casing to prevent the earth from caving in.

(219) Zone of engineering control means an area under the control of the owner or operator, that upon detection of a hazardous waste release, can be readily cleaned up prior to the release of hazardous waste or hazardous constituents to ground water or surface water.