| UNIVERSAL WASTE |
Any of the following hazardous wastes that are managed under the universal waste
requirements of 40 CFR Part 273: batteries, pesticides, mercury-containing equipment, and lamps.
Some States may have State-specific universal wastes defined as well. |
| USED OIL |
Any oil that has been refined from crude oil, or any synthetic oil, that has been used, and as a
result of such use, is contaminated by physical or chemical impurities. |
| WASTE OIL (BIENNIAL REPORT ONLY) |
Any oil that has been refined from crude oil, or any synthetic oil, that
has been used, and as a result of such use, is contaminated by physical or chemical impurities and is
managed as a hazardous waste. |
| HAZARDOUS WASTE GENERATOR |
Any person, by site, whose act or process produces hazardous waste
identified or listed in 40 CFR Part 261. |
| USED OIL FUEL MARKETER |
Any person who conducts either of the following activities:
1. Directs a shipment of off-specification used oil from their site to an off-specification used oil
burner; or
2. First claims that used oil that is to be burned for energy recovery meets the used oil fuel
specifications set forth in 40 CFR 279.11. |
| UNITED STATES IMPORTER |
Any person who imports hazardous waste from a foreign country into the
United States. This does not include hazardous waste shipped from a foreign Department of
Defense site, Maquiladora, United States territory or protectorate. |
| USED OIL TRANSPORTER |
Any person who transports used oil, any person who collects used oil from more
than one generator and transports the collected oil, and owners and operators of used oil transfer
facilities. Used oil transporters may consolidate or aggregate loads of used oil for purposes of
transportation but, with the following exception, may not process used oil. Used oil transporters
may conduct incidental processing operations that occur in the normal course of used oil
transportation (e.g., settling and water separation), but that are not designed to produce (or make
more amenable for production of) used oil-derived products or used oil fuel. |
| SLUDGE |
Any solid, semi-solid, or liquid waste generated from a municipal, commercial, or industrial
wastewater treatment plan, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility exclusive
of the treated effluent from a wastewater treatment plant (40 CFR 260.10). |
| USED OIL TRANSFER FACILITY |
Any transportation-related facility, including loading docks, parking areas,
storage areas, and other areas where shipments of used oil are held for more than 24 hours during
the normal course of transportation and not longer than 35 days. Transfer facilities that store used
oil for more than 35 days are subject to regulation under 40 CFR Part 279, Subpart F. |
| TRANSFER FACILITY |
Any transportation-related facility including loading docks, parking areas, storage
areas, and other similar areas where shipments of hazardous waste are held for 10 days or less
during the normal course of transportation (40 CFR 260.10 and 40 CFR 263.12). |
| TRANSPORTER |
A person engaged in the off-site transportation of hazardous waste by air, rail, highway,
or water. |
| SPECIAL NUCLEAR MATERIAL |
As defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954: (1) plutonium, uranium
enriched in the isotope 233 or in the isotope 235, and any other material which the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, pursuant to the provisions of Section 2071 of this title, determines to be
special nuclear material, but does not include source material; or (2) any material artificially
enriched by any of the foregoing, but does not include source material. |
| SOURCE MATERIAL |
As defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954: (1) Uranium, thorium, or any other
material determined by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission pursuant to the provisions of Section
2091 of this title to be source material; or (2) ores containing one or more of the foregoing materials
in such concentration as the Commission may by regulation determine from time to time. |
| HAZARDOUS WASTE SECONDARY MATERIAL (HSM) |
A secondary material (e.g., spent material, by-product, or
sludge) that, when discarded, would be identified as hazardous waste under 40 CFR Part 261.
Facilities managing hazardous secondary material under 40 CFR 261.2(a)(2)(ii), 40 CFR 261.4(a)(23),
(24), or (25) must complete the Addendum to the Site Identification Form: Notification for
Managing Hazardous Secondary Material. You must check with your State to determine if you are
eligible to manage hazardous secondary material under these exclusions (see also
http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/hazard/dsw/statespf.htm). |
| 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. |
| USED OIL PROCESSOR |
A site that processes on-specification or off-specification used oil. |
| USED OIL RE-REFINER |
A site that produces lubricating oils and greases, industrial fuel, asphalt extender,
gasoline, and other products from on-specification or off-specification used oil. |
| OFF-SPECIFICATION USED OIL BURNER |
A site where used oil not meeting the specification requirements in
40 CFR 279.11 (off-specification used oil) is burned for energy recovery in devices identified in
Section 279.61(a) |
| AUTHORIZED STATE |
A State that has obtained authorization from the EPA to direct its own RCRA program. |
| LARGE QUANTITY HANDLER OF UNIVERSAL WASTE (LQHUW) |
A universal waste handler (as defined in 40 CFR
273.9) who accumulates 5,000 kg or more total of universal wastes (batteries, pesticides, mercurycontaining equipment, or lamps ? calculated collectively) at any time. This designation is retained
through the end of the calendar year in which the 5,000 kg limit is met or exceeded. |
