42 U.S.C. § 6903 : US Code - Section 6903: Definitions

Search 42 U.S.C. § 6903 : US Code - Section 6903: Definitions

As used in this chapter:
(1) The term "Administrator" means the Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency.
(2) The term "construction," with respect to any project of
construction under this chapter, means (A) the erection or building
of new structures and acquisition of lands or interests therein, or
the acquisition, replacement, expansion, remodeling, alteration,
modernization, or extension of existing structures, and (B) the
acquisition and installation of initial equipment of, or required
in connection with, new or newly acquired structures or the
expanded, remodeled, altered, modernized or extended part of
existing structures (including trucks and other motor vehicles, and
tractors, cranes, and other machinery) necessary for the proper
utilization and operation of the facility after completion of the
project; and includes preliminary planning to determine the
economic and engineering feasibility and the public health and
safety aspects of the project, the engineering, architectural,
legal, fiscal, and economic investigations and studies, and any
surveys, designs, plans, working drawings, specifications, and
other action necessary for the carrying out of the project, and (C)
the inspection and supervision of the process of carrying out the
project to completion.
(2A) The term "demonstration" means the initial exhibition of a
new technology process or practice or a significantly new
combination or use of technologies, processes or practices,
subsequent to the development stage, for the purpose of proving
technological feasibility and cost effectiveness.
(3) The term "disposal" means the discharge, deposit, injection,
dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any solid waste or
hazardous waste into or on any land or water so that such solid
waste or hazardous waste or any constituent thereof may enter the
environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any
waters, including ground waters.
(4) The term "Federal agency" means any department, agency, or
other instrumentality of the Federal Government, any independent
agency or establishment of the Federal Government including any
Government corporation, and the Government Printing Office.
(5) The term "hazardous waste" means a solid waste, or
combination of solid wastes, which because of its quantity,
concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics
may -
(A) cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in
mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or
incapacitating reversible, illness; or
(B) pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human
health or the environment when improperly treated, stored,
transported, or disposed of, or otherwise managed.
(6) The term "hazardous waste generation" means the act or
process of producing hazardous waste.
(7) The term "hazardous waste management" means the systematic
control of the collection, source separation, storage,
transportation, processing, treatment, recovery, and disposal of
hazardous wastes.
(8) For purposes of Federal financial assistance (other than
rural communities assistance), the term "implementation" does not
include the acquisition, leasing, construction, or modification of
facilities or equipment or the acquisition, leasing, or improvement
of land.
(9) The term "intermunicipal agency" means an agency established
by two or more municipalities with responsibility for planning or
administration of solid waste.
(10) The term "interstate agency" means an agency of two or more
municipalities in different States, or an agency established by two
or more States, with authority to provide for the management of
solid wastes and serving two or more municipalities located in
different States.
(11) The term "long-term contract" means, when used in relation
to solid waste supply, a contract of sufficient duration to assure
the viability of a resource recovery facility (to the extent that
such viability depends upon solid waste supply).
(12) The term "manifest" means the form used for identifying the
quantity, composition, and the origin, routing, and destination of
hazardous waste during its transportation from the point of
generation to the point of disposal, treatment, or storage.
(13) The term "municipality" (A) means a city, town, borough,
county, parish, district, or other public body created by or
pursuant to State law, with responsibility for the planning or
administration of solid waste management, or an Indian tribe or
authorized tribal organization or Alaska Native village or
organization, and (B) includes any rural community or
unincorporated town or village or any other public entity for which
an application for assistance is made by a State or political
subdivision thereof.
(14) The term "open dump" means any facility or site where solid
waste is disposed of which is not a sanitary landfill which meets
the criteria promulgated under section 6944 of this title and which
is not a facility for disposal of hazardous waste.
(15) The term "person" means an individual, trust, firm, joint
stock company, corporation (including a government corporation),
partnership, association, State, municipality, commission,
political subdivision of a State, or any interstate body and shall
include each department, agency, and instrumentality of the United
States.
(16) The term "procurement item" means any device, good,
substance, material, product, or other item whether real or
personal property which is the subject of any purchase, barter, or
other exchange made to procure such item.
(17) The term "procuring agency" means any Federal agency, or any
State agency or agency of a political subdivision of a State which
is using appropriated Federal funds for such procurement, or any
person contracting with any such agency with respect to work
performed under such contract.
(18) The term "recoverable" refers to the capability and
likelihood of being recovered from solid waste for a commercial or
industrial use.
(19) The term "recovered material" means waste material and
byproducts which have been recovered or diverted from solid waste,
but such term does not include those materials and byproducts
generated from, and commonly reused within, an original
manufacturing process.
(20) The term "recovered resources" means material or energy
recovered from solid waste.
(21) The term "resource conservation" means reduction of the
amounts of solid waste that are generated, reduction of overall
resource consumption, and utilization of recovered resources.
(22) The term "resource recovery" means the recovery of material
or energy from solid waste.
(23) The term "resource recovery system" means a solid waste
management system which provides for collection, separation,
recycling, and recovery of solid wastes, including disposal of
nonrecoverable waste residues.
(24) The term "resource recovery facility" means any facility at
which solid waste is processed for the purpose of extracting,
converting to energy, or otherwise separating and preparing solid
waste for reuse.
(25) The term "regional authority" means the authority
established or designated under section 6946 of this title.
(26) The term "sanitary landfill" means a facility for the
disposal of solid waste which meets the criteria published under
section 6944 of this title.
(26A) The term "sludge" means any solid, semisolid or liquid
waste generated from a municipal, commercial, or industrial
wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air
pollution control facility or any other such waste having similar
characteristics and effects.
(27) The term "solid waste" means any garbage, refuse, sludge
from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air
pollution control facility and other discarded material, including
solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting
from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations,
and from community activities, but does not include solid or
dissolved material in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved
materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges which
are point sources subject to permits under section 1342 of title
33, or source, special nuclear, or byproduct material as defined by
the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (68 Stat. 923) [42 U.S.C.
2011 et seq.].
(28) The term "solid waste management" means the systematic
administration of activities which provide for the collection,
source separation, storage, transportation, transfer, processing,
treatment, and disposal of solid waste.
(29) The term "solid waste management facility" includes -
(A) any resource recovery system or component thereof,
(B) any system, program, or facility for resource conservation,
and
(C) any facility for the collection, source separation,
storage, transportation, transfer, processing, treatment or
disposal of solid wastes, including hazardous wastes, whether
such facility is associated with facilities generating such
wastes or otherwise.
(30) The terms "solid waste planning", "solid waste management",
and "comprehensive planning" include planning or management
respecting resource recovery and resource conservation.
(31) The term "State" means any of the several States, the
District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin
Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern
Mariana Islands.
(32) The term "State authority" means the agency established or
designated under section 6947 of this title.
(33) The term "storage", when used in connection with hazardous
waste, means the containment of hazardous waste, either on a
temporary basis or for a period of years, in such a manner as not
to constitute disposal of such hazardous waste.
(34) The term "treatment", when used in connection with hazardous
waste, means any method, technique, or process, including
neutralization, designed to change the physical, chemical, or
biological character or composition of any hazardous waste so as to
neutralize such waste or so as to render such waste nonhazardous,
safer for transport, amenable for recovery, amenable for storage,
or reduced in volume. Such term includes any activity or processing
designed to change the physical form or chemical composition of
hazardous waste so as to render it nonhazardous.
(35) The term "virgin material" means a raw material, including
previously unused copper, aluminum, lead, zinc, iron, or other
metal or metal ore, any undeveloped resource that is, or with new
technology will become, a source of raw materials.
(36) The term "used oil" means any oil which has been -
(A) refined from crude oil,
(B) used, and
(C) as a result of such use, contaminated by physical or
chemical impurities.
(37) The term "recycled oil" means any used oil which is reused,
following its original use, for any purpose (including the purpose
for which the oil was originally used). Such term includes oil
which is re-refined, reclaimed, burned, or reprocessed.
(38) The term "lubricating oil" means the fraction of crude oil
which is sold for purposes of reducing friction in any industrial
or mechanical device. Such term includes re-refined oil.
(39) The term "re-refined oil" means used oil from which the
physical and chemical contaminants acquired through previous use
have been removed through a refining process.
(40) Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, the term
"medical waste" means any solid waste which is generated in the
diagnosis, treatment, or immunization of human beings or animals,
in research pertaining thereto, or in the production or testing of
biologicals. Such term does not include any hazardous waste
identified or listed under subchapter III of this chapter or any
household waste as defined in regulations under subchapter III of
this chapter.
(41) The term "mixed waste" means waste that contains both
hazardous waste and source, special nuclear, or by-product material
subject to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.).