| 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). |
| 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. |
| 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). |
| RCRA PERMIT |
A complete RCRA permit is comprised of an operating permit for hazardous waste
treatment, storage, and disposal, and a corrective action permit addressing releases from solid
waste management unit (SWMUs). To apply for a permit, a site must file a two-part application
(Part A and Part B). A facility is not considered to have a complete RCRA permit until both parts
have been issued. |
| SMALL QUANTITY GENERATOR (SQG)OF HAZARDOUS WASTE |
A generator that meets all the following criteria:
1. Generates, in any calendar month, more than 100 kg (220 lbs.) but less than 1,000 kg (2,200 lbs.)
of RCRA hazardous waste; and
2. Does not generate, in any calendar month, or accumulates at any time, more than 1 kg (2.2 lbs.)
of acute hazardous waste; and
3. Does not generate more than 100 kg (220 lbs.) of material from the cleanup of a spill of acute
hazardous waste.
OR, a site is a Small Quantity Generator if the site:
1. Meets 1) and 3) of the Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generator criteria (see definition),
but
2. Is storing more than 1,000 kg (2,200 lbs.) of RCRA hazardous waste on-site. If the site
accumulates, at any time, more than 1,000 kg (2,200 lbs.) of RCRA hazardous waste, the site
must apply for an EPA ID Number using this form. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| SHORT-TERM GENERATOR |
A generator whose generator status is the result of a one-time, non-recurring,
temporary event that is not related to normal production processes. In other words, short-term
generators produce hazardous waste from a particular activity for a limited time and then cease
conducting that activity. Short-term generators would not be considered episodic generators
because episodic generators have the potential to generate on a regular basis. Examples of short-term generators include: one-time highway bridge waste generation, underground storage tank
removals, generation of off-spec or out-of-date chemicals at a site that normally doesn?t generate
hazardous waste, remediate or spill clean-up sites with no previous RCRA ID, and site or production
process decommissions by a new operator. |
| HAZARDOUS WASTE |
A hazardous waste as defined in 40 CFR 261.3. |
| RESIDUAL |
A hazardous waste derived from the treatment, disposal, or recycling of a previously existing
hazardous waste (e.g., the sludge remaining after initial wastewater treatment). |
| OFF-SITE FACILITY |
A hazardous waste treatment, storage, disposal, or recycling area located at a place
away from the generating site. |
| ON-SITE FACILITY |
A hazardous waste treatment, storage, disposal, or recycling area located on the
generating site. |
| SUBPART K |
An alternative set of generator requirements for managing laboratory hazardous waste at
eligible academic entities. Generators that are eligible academic entities with laboratories may elect
to opt into 40 CFR 262 Subpart K and manage their laboratory hazardous waste under Subpart K in
lieu of 40 CFR 262.34(c) (or 40 CFR 261.5 for CESQGs). In order for eligible academic entities (see
definition) to opt into Subpart K or subsequently withdraw from Subpart K, they must use the Site ID
Form to notify the appropriate State or EPA Regional Office. Refer to 40 CFR 262.203 and 262.204.
Note: You must check with your State to determine if you are eligible to manage laboratory
hazardous waste pursuant to 40 CFR Part 262 Subpart K and for any state-specific requirements. |
| SURFACE IMPOUNDMENT |
A natural topographic depression, man-made excavation, or diked area formed
primarily from earthen materials (though it may be lined with man-made materials) that is designed
to accumulate liquid wastes or wastes containing free liquids, and that is not an injection well (40
CFR 260.10). |
| 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. |
| PERSON |
An individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, Federal Agency, corporation (including a
government corporation), partnership, association, State, municipality, commission, political
subdivision of a State, or any interstate body. |
| SOLID WASTE |
Any garbage, refuse, or sludge, or other materials not excluded under 40 CFR 261.4(a).
Exclusions include, for example, domestic sewage and any mixture of other wastes that pass
through a sewer system to a publicly owned treatment works (POTWs); industrial wastewater
discharges that are point source discharges subject to regulation under the Clean Water Act;
irrigation return flows; nuclear materials defined by the Atomic Energy Act; and in situ mining
materials (see the 'Other Reference Information and Code Lists' section of this booklet).
Wastewaters being collected, stored, or treated before discharge and sludges generated by
wastewater treatment are not excluded. The EPA defines hazardous waste as a subset of solid
waste. |
| 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)). |
| 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 |
| 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. |
