South Carolina Code of Regulations
Chapter 61 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL
Subchapter 61-107 - Solid Waste Management
Subchapter 61-107.2 - Solid Waste Management: Full Cost Disclosure
Section 61-107.2.B - Definitions

1. "Collection" means the act of picking up solid waste material from homes, businesses, governmental agencies, institutions, or industrial sites.

2. "Composting Facility" means any facility used to provide aerobic thermophilic decomposition of the solid organic constituents of solid waste to produce a stable, humas-like material.

3. "County Solid Waste Management Plan" means a solid waste management plan prepared, approved, and submitted by a single county pursuant to Section 44-96-80 of the South Carolina Solid Waste Policy and Management Act of 1991.

4. "Department" means the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control.

5. "Depreciation" means the decrease in value of property through wear, deterioration, or a decrease in usefulness (obsolescence).

6. "Facility" means all contiguous land, structures, other appurtenances and improvements on the land used for treating, storing, and/or disposing of solid waste. A facility may consist of several treatment, storage, and/or disposal operational units, including, but not limited to, one or more landfills, surface impoundments, or combination thereof.

7. "Full Cost Accounting" The use of an accounting system that isolates, and then consolidates for reporting purposes, the direct and indirect costs that relate to the operation of a solid waste management system.

8. "Incineration" means the use of controlled flame combustion to thermally break down solid, liquid, or gaseous combustible waste, producing residue that contains little or no combustible material.

9. "Industrial Waste" means solid waste that results from industrial processes including but not limited to, factories and treatment plants.

10. "Landfill" means a disposal facility or part of a facility where solid waste is placed in or on land, and which is not a land treatment facility, a surface impoundment, or an injection well.

11. "Local Government" means a county, any municipality located wholly or partly within the county, and any other political subdivision located wholly or partly within the county when such political subdivision provides solid waste management services.

12. "Materials Recovery Facility" means a solid waste management facility that provides for the extraction from solid waste of recoverable materials, materials suitable for use as a fuel or soil amendment, or any combination of such materials.

13. "Municipal Solid Waste Landfill" means any sanitary landfill or landfill unit, publicly or privately owned, that receives household waste. The landfill may also receive other types of solid waste, such as commercial waste, nonhazardous sludge, and industrial solid waste.

14. "Per Capita" means per unit of population or per person.

15. "Person" means an individual, corporation, company, association, partnership, unit of local government, state agency, federal agency, or other legal entity.

16. "Region" means a group of counties in South Carolina which is planning to or has prepared, approved, and submitted a Regional Solid Waste Management Plan to the Department pursuant to Section 44-96-80 of the South Carolina Solid Waste Policy and Management Plan of 1991.

17. "Regional Solid Waste Management Plan" means a solid waste management plan prepared, approved, and submitted by a group of counties in South Carolina pursuant to Section 44-96-80 of the South Carolina Solid Waste Policy and Management Act of 1991.

18. "Service Area" means the area in which the local government provides, directly or by contract, solid waste management services.

19. "Solid Waste" means any garbage, refuse, or sludge from a waste treatment facility, water supply plant, or air pollution control facility and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial mining, and agricultural operations and from community activities. This term does not include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage, recovered material, or solid or dissolved materials subject to NPDES permits under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, or the Pollution Control Act of South Carolina, as amended, or source, special nuclear, or by-product material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1964, as amended. Also excluded from this definition are application of fertilizer and animal manure during normal agricultural operations, or refuse as defined and regulated pursuant to the South Carolina Mining Act, including processed mineral waste, which will not have a significant adverse impact on the environment.

20. "Solid Waste Disposal Facility" means any solid waste management facility or part of a facility at which solid waste is intentionally placed into or on any land or water and at which waste will remain after closure.

21. "Solid Waste Management Services" means all activities that are involved with trash and other waste collection, transportation, recycling and processing, and disposal.

22. "State Solid Waste Management Plan" means the plan which the Department of Health and Environmental Control is required to submit to the General Assembly and to the Governor pursuant to Section 44-96-80 of the South Carolina Solid Waste Policy and Management Act of 1991.