| ACCUMULATION |
A site that does not hold RCRA Interim Status or a RCRA permit may accumulate hazardous waste for a short period of time before shipping it off-site. The waste must be accumulated in either tanks or containers; it may not be accumulated in surface impoundments. Generators of more than 1,000 kg (2,200 lbs) of hazardous waste per month may accumulate their waste for up to 90 days before shipping it off-site. Generators of 100 kg (220 lbs) to 1,000 kg (2,200 lbs) of hazardous waste per month may accumulate their waste for up to 180 days before shipping it off-site. If the nearest treatment, storage, disposal, or recycling facility to which they can send their waste is more than 200 miles away, they may accumulate their waste for 270 days. See 40 CFR 262.34. |
| ACT or RCRA |
The Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, as amended by the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984, 42 U.S.C. Section 6901 et seq. |
| ACUTE HAZARDOUS WASTE |
Any hazardous waste with an EPA hazardous waste code beginning with the letter "P" (40 CFR 261.33(e)) or any of the following "F" codes: F020, F021, F022, F023, F026, and F027 (40 CFR 261.31). These wastes are subject to stringent quantity standards for accumulation and generation (40 CFR 261.5(e)). |
| AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE |
The person responsible for the overall operation of the site or an operational unit (i.e. part of a site), e.g., superintendent or plant manager, or person of equivalent responsibility. |
| AUTHORIZED STATE |
A State that has obtained authorization from the EPA to direct its own RCRA program. |
| BOILER |
An enclosed device using controlled flame combustion and having the following characteristics: the unit has physical provisions for recovering and exporting energy in the form of steam, heated fluids or heated gases; the unit's combustion chamber and primary energy recovery section(s) are an integral design (i.e. they are physically formed into one manufactured or assembled unit); the unit continuously maintains an energy recovery efficiency of at least 60 percent, calculated in terms of the recovered energy compared with the thermal value of the fuel; the unit exports and utilizes at least 75 percent of the recovered energy, calculated on an annual basis (excluding recovered heat used internally in the same unit, for example, to preheat fuel or combustion air or drive fans or feedwater pumps); or the unit is one which the Regional Administrator has determined, on a case-by-case basis, to be a boiler, after considering the standards in 40 CFR 260.32. |
| BY-PRODUCT MATERIAL |
A by-product material is 1. any radioactive material (except special nuclear
material) yielded in or made radioactive by exposure to the radiation incident to the process of
producing or utilizing special nuclear material; and 2. the tailings or wastes produced by the
extraction or concentration of uranium or thorium from any ore processed primarily for its source
material content (defined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954). |
| CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS (CFR) |
Codification of the general and permanent rules published in the
Federal Register by the Executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government. The Code
is divided into 50 titles which represent broad areas subject to Federal regulation. Each title is
divided into chapters that usually bear the name of the issuing agency. Each chapter is further
subdivided into parts covering specific regulatory areas. The CFR title applicable for the Hazardous
Waste Report is '40,' as in 40 CFR 262.34. |
| CONDITIONALLY EXEMPT SMALL QUANTITY GENERATOR (CESQG) |
A generator that meets the following criteria:
In every month during the year, the site did all of the following:
1. Generates no more than 100 kg (220 lbs.) of RCRA hazardous waste in any calendar month; and
2. Did not accumulate, at any time, more than 1,000 kg (2,200 lbs.) of RCRA hazardous waste; and
3. Did not generate, in any calendar month, or accumulate at any time, more than 1 kg (2.2 lbs.) of
acute hazardous waste, and no more than 100 kg (220 lbs.) of material from the cleanup of a
spill of acute hazardous waste. |
| CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS INFORMATION (CBI) |
Information a facility does not wish to make available to the
general public for competitive business reasons. Confidential Business Information (CBI) may be
claimed for certain information in your submittal. A claim may be made in accordance with 40 CFR
Part 2, Subpart B. |
| DELISTED WASTE |
Site-specific wastes excluded from regulation under 40 CFR 260.20 and 260.22. A
waste at a particular generating site may be excluded by petitioning the EPA Administrator for a regulatory amendment. These wastes are listed in Appendix IX of 40 CFR Part 261. |
| DISPOSAL |
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 groundwaters. |
| ELIGIBLE ACADEMIC ENTITY |
A college or university, or a non-profit research institute that is owned by or
has a formal written affiliation with a college or university, or a teaching hospital that is owned by or
has a formal written affiliation with a college or university pursuant to 40 CFR Part 262 Subpart K
(See 40 CFR 262.200). |
| ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) |
EPA, also called U.S. EPA, means the United States
Environmental Protection Agency. Some State environmental authorities may be called the EPA
also, as in 'Illinois EPA.' |
| EPA IDENTIFICATION (ID) NUMBER |
The number assigned by the EPA to each hazardous waste generator,
hazardous waste transporter, and treatment, storage, or disposal facility; United States importer of
hazardous waste; mixed waste (hazardous and radioactive) generator; recycler of hazardous waste;
exempt boiler and/or industrial furnace burning or processing hazardous waste; large quantity
handler of or destination facility for universal wastes; disposer of hazardous waste with an
underground injection permit; used oil transporter, used oil processor/re-refiner, off-specification
used oil fuel burner, used oil fuel marketer; eligible academic entity managing laboratory hazardous
waste under Subpart K; or site undergoing corrective action. Additionally, facilities that must notify
using the Site ID Form and Addendum to the Site ID Form that they are managing hazardous
secondary material will also be assigned an EPA ID number. |
| EXCLUDED WASTES |
Wastes excluded from the definition of solid or hazardous waste under 40 CFR 261.3
and 261.4. For a partial listing, see the 'Other Reference Information and Code Lists' section of this
booklet. |
| GM FORM |
Waste generation and management form. |
| HAZARDOUS WASTE |
A hazardous waste as defined in 40 CFR 261.3. |
| HAZARDOUS WASTE GENERATOR |
Any person, by site, whose act or process produces hazardous waste
identified or listed in 40 CFR Part 261. |
| HAZARDOUS WASTE NUMBER OR CODE, EPA |
The number (or code) assigned by the EPA to each hazardous
waste listed in 40 CFR Part 261, Subpart D and to each characteristic identified in 40 CFR Part 261,
Subpart C. The codes consist of one letter (D, F, P, U, or K) and three numbers. For a list of EPA
hazardous waste codes see the 'Other Reference Information and Code Lists' section of this
booklet. |
