California Code of Regulations
Title 14 - Natural Resources
Division 7 - Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery
Chapter 3 - Minimum Standards for Solid Waste Handling and Disposal
Article 5.7 - Hazardous Waste Disposal Facilities Disposing Nonhazardous, Nonputrescible, Industrial Solid Waste Regulatory Requirements
Section 17368 - Definitions

Universal Citation: 14 CA Code of Regs 17368

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024

For the purposes of this Article:

(a) "Air District" means Air Pollution Control District or Air Quality Management District.

(b) "Board" means the California Integrated Waste Management Board.

(c) "Codisposal" means the final deposition of nonhazardous, nonputrescible, industrial solid waste disposed with hazardous waste in a waste management unit.

(d) "Cover" mean soils or alternative materials used in covering the nonhazardous, nonputrescible, industrial solid waste in a hazardous waste disposal facility waste management unit.

(e) "DTSC" means Department of Toxic Substances Control.

(f) "EA" means enforcement agency as defined in Public Resources Code section 40130.

(g) "Hazardous waste disposal facility," or "facility" means a disposal facility that holds and maintains a valid Hazardous Waste Facility Permit issued by the Department of Toxic Substances Control pursuant to section 25200 of the California Health and Safety Code.

(h) "Nonhazardous, Nonputrescible, Industrial Solid Waste" means solid waste (as defined in Public Resources Code Section 40191) which also meets all of the following criteria:

(1) Nonputrescible: Solid wastes which are not capable of being decomposed by micro-organisms with sufficient rapidity as to cause odors, gases, attraction of vectors or other offensive conditions. For example, wastes that are putrescible, and do not qualify as nonputrescible, include without limitation food wastes, offal and dead animals.

(2) Liquid Content: Solid wastes that contain no free liquid, whether such wastes are in bulk or in containers. The absence of free liquid shall be determined by the method specified in Title 22 California Code of Regulations section 66264.314(b).

(3) Nonhazardous, Nonputrescible, Industrial Solid Waste expressly excludes:
(A) Household waste as defined in Title 27 California Code of Regulations section 20164;

(B) Wastes which are prohibited at any hazardous waste disposal facility by applicable statutes or regulations of any governmental body having jurisdiction; and

(C) With respect to a specific hazardous waste disposal facility, wastes which are prohibited at that particular hazardous waste disposal facility by the terms and conditions of any permit or entitlement to use issued by a governmental body.

(i) "Operating Record" means a facility's records of compliance with the requirements set forth in this Article.

(j) "RWQCB" means the Regional Water Quality Control Board.

(k) "Waste management unit" or "unit" means an area within a hazardous waste disposal facility where hazardous wastes may be disposed pursuant to a hazardous waste facility permit issued by the Department of Toxic Substances Control, expressly excluding surface impoundments.

1. New section filed 7-31-2000 as an emergency; operative 10-1-2000 (Register 2000, No. 31). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 1-29-2001 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
2. New section refiled 1-29-2001 as an emergency; operative 1-29-2001 (Register 2001, No. 5). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 5-29-2001 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
3. New section refiled 5-17-2001 as an emergency; operative 5-30-2001 (Register 2001, No. 20). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 9-27-2001 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
4. New section refiled 9-24-2001 as an emergency; operative 9-28-2001 (Register 2001, No. 39). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 1-28-2002 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
5. New section refiled 12-11-2001 as an emergency; operative 1-23-2002 (Register 2001, No. 50). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 5-23-2002 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
6. Certificate of Compliance as to 12-11-2001 order, including repealer of subsections (h)(3)-(h)(4)(C) and subsection renumbering, transmitted to OAL 4-10-2002 and filed 5-21-2002 (Register 2002, No. 21).

Note: Authority cited: Sections 40502, 43020 and 43021, Public Resources Code. Reference: Sections 40053, 43020 and 43021, Public Resources Code.

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