Wisconsin Administrative Code
Department of Natural Resources
NR 100-199 - Environmental Protection General
Chapter NR 157 - Management of PCBs and products containing PCBs
FOREWORD
Section NR 157.02 - Definitions

(1) "Department" means the department of natural resources.

(2) "Full service contractor" means any person who accepts ownership and responsibility from a generator for delivery of PCBs or products containing PCBs for disposal to a service, incineration or landfill facility and who meets the requirements of s. NR 157.05(1).

(3) "Generator" means any person who possesses for disposal PCBs or products containing PCBs.

(4) "PCBs" is defined in s. 299.45(1) (a), Stats., as follows: PCB's means the class of organic compounds generally known as polychlorinated biphenyls and includes any of several compounds produced by replacing 2 or more hydrogen atoms on the biphenyl molecule with chlorine atoms.

(5) "Product containing PCBs" is defined in s. 299.45(1) (c), Stats., as follows: Product containing PCBs means any item, device or material to which PCBs are intentionally added during or after manufacture as plasticizers, heat transfer media, hydraulic fluids, dielectric fluids, solvents, surfactants, insulators or coating, adhesive, printing or encapsulating materials or for other uses related to the function of such item, device or material. (For the purposes of this chapter, PCBs and products containing PCBs excludes materials specified in s. 299.45(3) (b), (c) or (7), Stats.)

(6) "Person" is defined in s. 283.01(1), Stats., as follows: "Person means ... an individual, owner or operator, corporation, partnership, association, municipality, interstate agency or state agency."

(7) "Service facility" means any business which contracts with a generator or full-service contractor for servicing, dismantling and salvaging products containing PCBs preceding disposal or salvaging PCBs preceding disposal.

(8) "Transporter" means any person who transports PCBs or products containing PCBs for disposal.

(9) "Waste tracking form" is a form provided or approved by the department for use in recording all movement of PCBs or products containing PCBs for disposal or shipment to a service facility, and includes the Wisconsin hazardous waste manifest form.