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Hazardous Waste Definitions Hazardous Waste Definitions Acceptable Closed Conveyance System: A The secondary materials are never system in which waste reclamation operations are accumulated in tanks for over twelve literally enclosed, or hard-plumbed with pipe to the months without being reclaimed. unit that generates the waste. A facility may be The reclaimed material is not used to allowed to consider this as an "in-line/continuous produce a fuel, or used to produce recycling/reclamation system" on a case-by-case products that are used in a manner Hazardous Waste 700 NE Multnomah St basis under 40 CFR 260.31(b). Refer to 51 FR constituting disposal. Suite 600 26442, July 14, 1986 for more discussion. Portland, OR 97232 Conditionally Exempt Generator (CEG): Phone: 503-229-6968 800-452-4011 Accumulation: A generator may accumulate You are a conditionally exempt generator, if Fax: 503-229-5675 hazardous waste for a short period of time before in every calendar month, you: www.oregon.gov/DEQ managing it on-site or shipping it off-site. The waste Generate 2.2 pounds or less of acute must be accumulated in either tanks, containers or hazardous wastes, or drip-pads; it may not be accumulated in surface Generate 220 pounds or less of impoundments. hazardous wastes, or Generate 220 pounds or less of spill cleanup Large quantity generators may accumulate their debris containing hazardous wastes, or waste for up to 90 days before shipping it off-site. Never had on-site more than 2,200 pounds of hazardous wastes. Small quantity generators may accumulate their waste for up to 180 days before shipping it off-site. DEQ Identification Number: See definition for If the nearest treatment, storage, disposal, or RCRA Site Identification Number. recycling facility to which they can send their waste is more than 200 miles away, they may accumulate Demilitarization Residue: Any solid waste their waste for 270 days. generated by demilitarization processes and activities defined in 340-100-0010(2)(f), except for: Acute Hazardous Waste: Acute hazardous waste Waste streams generated from processes or is any hazardous waste with a waste code activities prior to the introduction of nerve or beginning with the letter "P" or any state-only blister agent into the treatment unit; and hazardous waste with a waste code beginning with Waste streams generated from maintenance the letters "P", "ORP" or any of the following "F" or operation of non-agent contaminated codes: F020, F021, F022, F023, F026, and F027. process utility systems. These wastes are subject to stringent quantity standards for accumulation and generation. See Designated Facility: The hazardous waste also the definition of "Hazardous Waste". treatment, storage, disposal or recycling facility that has been designated on a manifest by the Closed-Loop Recycling System: A production generator. The facility must meet one of the system in which secondary materials are following: reclaimed, returned to, and reused in the original production process or processes from which they Has received a permit or interim status in were generated, provided: accordance with 40 CFR 270 & 124; Has received a permit or interim status from Only tank storage is involved and the entire an authorized state in accordance with 40 process through completion of reclamation CFR 271; is closed by being entirely connected with Is regulated under 40 CFR 261.6(c)(2); or pipes or comparable means of conveyance. Is regulated under Subpart F of 40 CFR 270. Reclamation does not involve controlled flame combustion such as in boilers, Designated Recycling Facility: A facility industrial furnaces or incinerators. designated on a manifest or any other shipping document by a hazardous waste generator that recycles hazardous waste received from Page 1 of 7 Last Updated: 2/14/2017 Oregon Department of Environmental Quality off-site in units that are exempt from the Hazardous Waste Code: A four character code identifying requirements to obtain a Resource Conservation wastes defined as hazardous under 40 CFR, or a five and Recovery Act permit for the management of character code identifying wastes defined as Oregon state- hazardous waste. only hazardous waste. Disposal: The discharge, deposit, injection, Hazardous Waste Minimization: The reduction, to the dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any extent feasible, of hazardous waste that is generated or hazardous waste or hazardous substance into or subsequently treated, stored, or disposed of as long as on any land or water so that the hazardous waste, the reduction is consistent with the goal of minimizing or hazardous substance or any constituent thereof, present and future threats to human health and the may enter the environment or be emitted into the environment. It includes any source reduction or air or discharged into any waters of the state as recycling activity undertaken by a generator that results defined in ORS 468.700. in: The reduction of total volume or quantity of Dry Cleaning Wastewater: Water from the hazardous waste; solvent/water separation process of the dry The reduction of toxicity of hazardous waste; or cleaning machine. Both Elementary Neutralization Unit: A device used Hazardous Waste Reduction: Any recycling or other for neutralizing wastes that are hazardous only activity applied after hazardous waste is generated that because they exhibit the corrosivity characteristic is consistent with the general goal of reducing present or are listed because of corrosivity only. The unit and future threats to public health, safety, and the must be a tank, tank system, container, transport environment. Reduction may be proportional to the vehicle or vessel. increase or decrease in production or other business changes. The recycling or other activity shall result in: Facility: For reporting purposes, facility refers to The reduction of total volume or quantity of hazardous waste generators; RCRA treatment, hazardous waste generated that would storage, and disposal facilities; and designated otherwise be treated, stored or disposed; recycling facilities. The term includes all contiguous land, structures, other appurtenances and The reduction of toxicity of hazardous waste that improvements on the land, owned or operated by would otherwise be treated, stored, or disposed; or the same person or by any person who controls, is Both controlled by, or under common control of any person. Hazardous waste reduction does not result in: (1) the transfer of hazardous constituents from one environmental medium to another; (2) concentration of Generator: A person who, by virtue of ownership, waste solely for the purposes of reducing volume; or (3) management, or control, is responsible for causing dilution as a means for reducing toxicity. or allowing to be caused the creation of hazardous waste. On-site or off-site treatment may be included where it can be shown that such treatment confers a higher Hazardous Waste: Hazardous waste is a solid degree of protection of the public health, safety, and waste (solid waste includes solids, liquids and the environment than other technically and compressed gases) that possesses at least one of economically practicable waste-reduction four characteristics (ignitibility, corrosivity, alternatives. reactivity, or toxicity), or that appears on federal or state official lists of hazardous wastes. A solid Hazardous Waste Transporter: A person engaged in waste is a hazardous waste if is: the off-site transportation of hazardous waste by air, rail, highway, or water. Defined by Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 261 as a hazardous Incinerator, Hazardous Waste: A device using waste; or controlled flame combustion to burn hazardous waste for A “state-only” waste defined as hazardous in treatment or disposal. Incinerators are regulated as the State of Oregon. Oregon includes six treatment, storage and disposal facilities, and are categories of waste in OAR 340-101- 0033. Page 2 of 7 Last Updated: 2/14/2017 Oregon Department of Environmental Quality subject to RCRA permit requirements. Incinerators Management: The treatment, storage, disposal, or do not include boilers or industrial furnaces. recycling of hazardous waste. For the purpose of annual reporting, management refers only to the final disposition Investigation Derived Waste (IDW): A subset of of the waste, i.e., whether it is recycled, landfilled, etc. remediation wastes that are generated from field investigation activities, that are approved and Management Facility: A facility that treats, stores, overseen by DEQ or the federal EPA, and are disposes of, or recycles hazardous waste. specifically designed to determine the nature and extent of contamination. IDW will normally be Manifest: The shipping document, EPA Form 8700-22 generated during the remedial investigation and and, if necessary, EPA Form 8700-22A, originated and feasibility study stage of a cleanup project. See signed by the generator in accordance with the DEQ Hazardous Waste Remediate Fee instructions included in the Appendix to CFR Part 262 as Directive. modified in OAR 340-102-0060. In-Line Continuous Recycling/Reclamation Manifest Document Number: A unique five-digit System: A system in which the process that document number assigned to the manifest by the generates the waste is hard-plumbed into the unit generator for recording and reporting purposes. that recycles/reclaims the material. Material Safety Data Sheet: Manufacturers are required Lab packs: Small containers of hazardous waste by law to provide material safety data sheets on all in over-packed drums. products they manufacture and sell. These data sheets provide information on the physical, chemical, and toxic Land Disposal Restrictions (LDR): A specific set properties of a product. of regulations designed to reduce the amount and/or toxicity of hazardous substances being Mixed Waste: Waste that contains both hazardous placed in or on the land. The regulations identify waste and source, special nuclear, or by-product certain wastes that are restricted, and the material subject to the Atomic Energy Act (e.g., waste standards to which they must be treated before that is both hazardous and radioactive).
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