Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 11 - Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality
Part 4 - Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management Regulations
Chapter 8 - Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality Regulations For The Certification Of Operators of Solid Waste Disposal Facilities
Rule 11-4-8.2 - Definitions

A. "Certificate" means the written certification of competency issued by the Commission stating that the operator of a landfill or class I rubbish site has met the requirements for the specified operator classification.

B. "Commercial Class I rubbish site" means a permitted rubbish site, which accepts for disposal Class I rubbish, as defined by the Commission, for compensation or from more than one (1) generator.

C. "Commercial nonhazardous solid waste management facility" means any facility engaged in the storage, treatment, processing or disposal of nonhazardous solid waste for compensation or which accepts nonhazardous solid waste from more than (1) generator not owned by the facility owner.

D. "Commission" means the Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality.

E. "Department" means the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality.

F. "Experience" means direct observation of and/or participation in the operation and maintenance of a commercial nonhazardous solid waste management facility or other relevant work activities as determined by the Department.

G. "Operator" means the person who directly supervises and is personally responsible for the daily operation and maintenance of a commercial nonhazardous solid waste management facility.

H. "Rubbish" means nonputrescible solid wastes (excluding ashes) consisting of both combustible and noncombustible wastes. Combustible rubbish includes paper, rags, cartons, wood, furniture, rubber, and plastics, yard trimmings, leaves and similar material. Noncombustible rubbish includes glass, crockery, metal cans, metal furniture and like material which will not burn at ordinary incinerator temperatures (not less than 1600 degrees F.)

I. "Rubbish site" means, for the purposes of these regulations, a commercial class I rubbish site.