Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 11 - Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality
Part 4 - Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management Regulations
Chapter 6 - Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality Nonhazardous Solid Waste Corrective Action Trust Fund Regulations
Rule 11-4-6.1 - Definitions

A. Closure - activities conducted by the owner to properly secure a solid waste disposal facility in such a manner as to prevent or reduce the potential for contaminants to be released to an off-site location or to prevent or minimize the possibility of persons being exposed to the solid wastes disposed at the facility.

B. Corrective Action - actions considered necessary to assess and remediate contaminants at a nonhazardous solid waste management facility. In the case of an emergency, corrective action is the necessary action to eliminate the immediate or future threat to human health and the environment or to reduce said threat to a level acceptable by the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality.

C. Commission - Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality.

D. Department - Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality.

E. Household Waste - any solid waste (including garbage, trash, and sanitary waste in septic tanks) derived from households (including single and multiple residences, hotels and motels, bunkhouses, ranger stations, crew quarters, campgrounds, picnic grounds, and day-use recreation areas).

F. Mississippi Nonhazardous Solid Waste Corrective Action Trust Fund (Trust Fund) -a fund established for the purpose of providing reimbursements for the costs of emergency, preventive or corrective actions which may be required or determined necessary by the Department of Environmental Quality of any private and publicly owned nonhazardous solid waste disposal facility which received in whole or in part household waste and which closed prior to the effective date of Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Section 258.

G. Owner - the person to whom the Department issued a permit to operate a nonhazardous solid waste disposal facility and who was the permittee at the time the facility closed. In cases where the current owner of the facility property is different from the permittee, the Commission may declare the current property owner to be the owner or co-owner of the facility.

H. Post-Closure Care - those actions that are conducted after the closure of a nonhazardous solid waste disposal facility in order to maintain the integrity and effectiveness of any closure action and that are required by the Department to monitor the site and to continue the removal of any potential contaminants which may migrate from the site. Post-closure care may also include prevention of ponded water and migration of leachate and methane gas.

I. Solid waste disposal facility - any facility used for the purpose of disposing of nonhazardous solid waste, and receiving in whole or in part household waste at some time during its operation.