When used in this title:
1. "Disposal" means the abandonment, discharge, deposit, injection,
dumping, spilling, leaking or placing of any substance so that such
substance or any related constituent thereof may enter the environment.
Disposal also means the thermal destruction of waste or hazardous waste
and the burning of such wastes as fuel for the purpose of recovering
useable energy.
2. "Industrial-commercial waste" means a waste which originates at, is
generated by, or occurs as a result of any industrial or commercial
activity. The forms of waste included are exemplified by but not limited
to the following:
a. liquids such as: acids, alkalis, caustics, leachate, petroleum (and
its derivatives), and process or treatment wastewaters;
b. sludges which are semisolid substances resulting from process or
treatment operations, or residues from storage or use of liquids;
c. solids such as: solidified chemicals, paints or pigments; the end
or by-products of incineration ash; foundry sand; dredge spoil;
d. contained gaseous materials;
e. hazardous waste as defined in title 9 of this article; and
f. any liquid, sludge, septage, solid, semisolid substance or
contained gaseous material in which any of the foregoing is intermixed
or absorbed, or onto which any of the foregoing is adhered.
3. "Person" means any individual, public or private corporation,
political subdivision, government agency, department or bureau of the
state or federal government, municipality, industry, co-partnership,
association, firm, trust, estate or any other legal entity.
4. "Regulated waste" means any one of the following types of waste:
raw sewage, septage, sludge from a sewage or water supply treatment
plant, industrial-commercial waste, low-level radioactive waste as
defined in subdivision nine of this section, waste tires or waste oil.
5. "Septage" means the contents of a septic tank, cesspool or other
individual sewage treatment facility which receives domestic sewage
wastes.
6. "Storage" means the holding of waste for a temporary period, at the
end of which the waste is processed, recovered, disposed of, or stored
elsewhere.
7. "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 article 17 of this
chapter, or source, special nuclear or by-product material as defined in
the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (68 Stat. 923) except as may
be provided by existing agreements between the state and the federal
government.
8. "Waste oil" means used engine lubricating oil and any other oil,
including but not limited to, fuel oil, motor oil, gear oil, cutting
oil, transmission fluid, hydraulic fluid, dielectric fluid, oil storage
tank residue, animal oil, and vegetable oil, which has been contaminated
by physical or chemical impurities, through use or accident, and has not
subsequently been rerefined.
* 9. "Low-level radioactive waste" means radioactive material that:
a. is not high-level radioactive waste, transuranic waste, spent
nuclear fuel, or the tailings or wastes produced by the extraction or
concentration of uranium or thorium from any ore processed primarily for
its source material content; and
b. the United States nuclear regulatory commission, consistent with
federal law and in accordance with paragraph a of this subdivision,
classifies as low-level radioactive waste.
* NB There are 2 sb 9's
* 9. "Environment" means any water, water vapor, any land including
land surface or subsurface, air, fish, wildlife, biota and all other
natural resources.
* NB There are 2 sb 9's
11. "Regulated medical waste" shall have the same meaning as such term
is defined in title 15 of this article.
12. "Waste tires" shall mean waste tires transported for a fee for the
purpose of reuse, recycling or disposal, except those tires collected
and transported incidental to the collection and transportation of solid
waste.