| 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). |
| HAZARDOUS WASTE STORAGE |
The holding of hazardous waste for a temporary period, at the end of which
the hazardous waste is treated, disposed of, or stored elsewhere. |
| HAZARDOUS WASTE TRANSFER FACILITY |
Refer to 'Transfer Facility' definition. |
| HAZARDOUS WASTE TRANSPORTER |
Refer to 'Transporter' definition. |
| HAZARDOUS WASTE TREATMENT |
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 hazardous waste, or so as to recover energy or material resources from the
hazardous waste, or so as to render such hazardous waste nonhazardous, or less hazardous; safer to
transport, store, or dispose of; or amenable for recovery, amenable for storage, or reduced in
volume. Such term includes any activity or processing designed to change the physical form or
composition of hazardous waste so as to render it nonhazardous |
| INCINERATION |
Burning of certain types of solid, liquid, or gaseous materials; or a treatment technology |
| INDUSTRIAL FURNACE |
Any of the following enclosed devices that are integral components of
manufacturing processes and that use thermal treatment to accomplish recovery of materials or
energy: cement kilns; lime kilns; aggregate kilns; phosphate kilns; coke ovens; blast furnaces;
smelting, melting, and refining furnaces; titanium dioxide chloride process oxidation reactors;
methane reforming furnaces; pulping liquor recovery furnaces; combustion devices used in the
recovery of sulfur values from spent sulfuric acid; halogen acid furnaces, as defined under industrial
furnace in 40 CFR 260.10; and such other devices as the Administrator may add to this list. |
| INTERIM (PERMIT) STATUS |
Period during which the owner/operator of an existing TSD facility is treated as
having been issued a RCRA permit even though he/she has not yet received a final determination.
An existing facility should have automatically qualified for interim status if the owner/operator filed
both timely 'notification' and the first part (Part A) of the RCRA permit application. Interim status
continues until a final determination is made to issue or deny the permit. Owner/operator of new
facilities cannot by definition qualify for interim status; rather, they need a RCRA permit prior to
beginning construction of a hazardous waste management facility. |
| LARGE QUANTITY GENERATOR (LQG) OF HAZARDOUS WASTE |
A generator that meets any of the following
criteria:
1. Generates, in a calendar month, 1,000 kg (2,200 lbs.) or more of non-acute RCRA hazardous
waste; or
2. Generates, in a calendar month, or accumulates at any time, more than 1 kg (2.2 lbs.) of RCRA
acute hazardous waste; or
3. Generates, in a calendar month, or accumulates at any time, more than 100 kg (220 lbs.) of spill
cleanup material contaminated with RCRA acute hazardous waste. |
| 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. |
| MANAGEMENT, OR HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT |
Systematic control of the collection, source
separation, storage, transportation, processing, treatment, recovery, or disposal of hazardous waste
(40 CFR 260.10). |
| MANIFEST, UNIFORM HAZARDOUS WASTE |
The shipment document EPA Form 8700-22 and, if necessary,
Form 8700-22A, originated and signed by a generator in accordance with the instructions included in
the appendix to 40 CFR Part 262. The 'cradle-to-grave' paperwork must accompany a shipment of
hazardous waste as it moves from the generator to the transporter and eventually to the hazardous
waste management facility. |
| MIXED WASTE |
Waste that contains both hazardous and source, special nuclear, or by-product material
subject to the Atomic Energy Act (AEA), RCRA section 1004(41), 42 U.S.C. 6903 (63 FR 17414; April 9,
1998). |
| MUNICIPALITY |
A city, village, town, borough, county, parish, district, association, Indian tribe or
authorized Indian tribal organization, designated and approved management agency under Section
208 of the Clean Water Act, or any other public body created by or under State law and having
jurisdiction over disposal of sewage, industrial wastes, or other wastes. |
| OFF-SITE FACILITY |
A hazardous waste treatment, storage, disposal, or recycling area located at a place
away from the generating site. |
| 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) |
| OFF-SPECIFICATION USED OIL FUEL |
Used oil fuel that does not meet the specification provided under 40
CFR 279.11. |
| OI FORM |
Off-site Identification Form |
| ON-SITE FACILITY |
A hazardous waste treatment, storage, disposal, or recycling area located on the
generating site. |
| ON-SPECIFICATION USED OIL FUEL |
Used oil fuel that meets the specification provided under 40 CFR
279.11. |
