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§27A-2-10-103.
§27A-2-10-103.
As used in the Oklahoma Solid Waste Management Act:
1. "Affiliated person" means:
a. any officer, director or partner of the applicant,
b. any person employed by the applicant as general or key manager who
directs the operations of the site, transfer station, or facility
which is the subject of the application, or
c. any person owning or controlling more than five percent (5%) of the
applicant's debt or equity;
2. "Disclosure statement" means a written statement by the applicant
which contains:
a. the full name, business address, and social security number of the
applicant, and all affiliated persons,
b. the full name and business address of any legal entity in which the
applicant holds a debt or equity interest of at least five percent
(5%) or which is a parent company or subsidiary of the applicant, and
a description of the ongoing organizational relationships as they may
impact operations within the state,
c. a description of the experience and credentials of the applicant,
including any past or present permits, licenses, certifications, or
operational authorizations relating to environmental regulation,
d. a listing and explanation of any administrative, civil or criminal
legal actions against the applicant and affiliated person which
resulted in a final agency order or final judgment by a court of
record, including final order or judgment on appeal, in the ten (10)
years immediately preceding the filing of the application relating to
solid or hazardous waste. Such action shall include, without
limitations, any permit denial or any sanction imposed by a state
regulatory agency or the United States Environmental Protection
Agency, and
e. a listing of any federal environmental agency and any state
environmental agency that has or has had regulatory responsibility
over the applicant;
3. "Disposal site" means any place, including a transfer station, or
any other place at which solid waste is dumped, abandoned, or accepted
or disposed of by incineration, land filling, composting, shredding,
compaction, baling or any other method or by processing by pyrolysis,
resource recovery or any other method, technique or process designed
to change the physical, chemical or biological character or
composition of any solid waste so as to render such waste safe or
nonhazardous, amenable to transport, recovery or storage or reduced in
volume. A disposal site shall not include a manufacturing facility
which processes scrap materials which have been separated for
collection and processing as industrial raw materials;
4. "Dwelling" means a permanently-constructed, habitable structure
designed and constructed for full-time occupancy in all weather
conditions, which is not readily mobile and shall include but not be
limited to a manufactured home as such term is defined by paragraph 11
of Section 1102 of Title 47 of the Oklahoma Statutes;
5. "Final closure" means those measures for providing final capping
material, proper drainage, perennial vegetative cover, maintenance,
monitoring and other closure actions required for the site by rules of
the Board;
6. "Inert waste" means any solid waste that is insoluble in water,
chemically inactive, that will not leach contaminants, or is commonly
found as a significant percentage of residential solid waste;
7. "History of noncompliance" means any past operations by an
applicant or affiliated persons which clearly indicate a reckless
disregard for environmental regulation, or a demonstrated pattern of
prohibited conduct which could reasonably be expected to result in
adverse environmental impact if a permit were issued, as evidenced by
findings, conclusions and rulings of any final agency order or final
order or judgment of a court of record;
8. "Integrated solid waste management plan" means a plan that provides
for the integrated management of all solid waste within the planning
unit and embodies sound principles of solid waste management, natural
resources conservation, energy production, and employment-creating
opportunities;
9. "Lithified earth material" means all rock, including all naturally
occurring and naturally formed aggregates or masses of minerals or
small particles of older rock that formed by crystallization of magma
or by induration of loose sediments. The term "lithified earth
material" shall not include man-made materials, such as fill,
concrete, and asphalt, or unconsolidated earth materials, soil, or
regolith lying at or near the earth's surface;
10. "Maximum horizontal acceleration in lithified earth material"
means the maximum expected horizontal acceleration depicted on a
seismic hazard map, with a ninety percent (90%) or greater probability
that the acceleration will not be exceeded in two hundred fifty (250)
years, or the maximum expected horizontal acceleration based on a
site-specific seismic risk assessment;
11. "Monofill" means a landfill which is used to dispose of a single
type of specified nonhazardous industrial solid waste, except for
other nonhazardous industrial solid wastes which are not readily
separable from the specified waste;
12. "Nonhazardous industrial solid waste" means any of the following
wastes deemed by the Department to require special handling:
a. unusable industrial or chemical products,
b. solid waste generated by the release of an industrial product to
the environment, or
c. solid waste generated by a manufacturing or industrial process.
The term "nonhazardous industrial solid waste" shall not include waste
that is regulated as hazardous waste or is commonly found as a
significant percentage of residential solid waste;
13. "Person" means any individual, corporation, company, firm,
partnership, association, trust, state agency, government
instrumentality or agency, institution, county, any incorporated city
or town or municipal authority or trust in which any governmental
entity is a beneficiary, venture, or other legal entity however
organized;
14. "Recycling" means to reuse a material that would otherwise be
disposed of as waste, with or without reprocessing;
15. "Seismic impact zone" means an area with a ten percent (10%) or
greater probability that the maximum horizontal acceleration in
lithified earth material, expressed as a percentage of the earth's
gravitational pull (g), will exceed 0.10g in two hundred fifty (250)
years;
16. "Solid waste" means all putrescible and nonputrescible refuse in
solid or semisolid form including, but not limited to, garbage,
rubbish, ashes or incinerator residue, street refuse, dead animals,
demolition wastes, construction wastes, solid or semisolid commercial
and industrial wastes including explosives, biomedical wastes,
chemical wastes, herbicide and pesticide wastes. The term "solid
waste" shall not include:
a. scrap materials which are source separated for collection and
processing as industrial raw materials, except when contained in the
waste collected by or in behalf of a solid waste management system, or
b. used motor oil, which shall not be considered to be a solid waste,
but shall be considered a deleterious substance, if the used motor oil
is recycled for energy reclamation and is ultimately destroyed when
recycled;
17. "Solid waste management system" means the system that may be
developed for the purpose of collection and disposal of solid waste by
any person engaging in such process as a business or by any
municipality, authority, trust, county or by any combination thereof
at one or more disposal sites;
18. "Solid waste planning unit" means any county or any part thereof,
incorporated city or town, or municipal authority or trust in which
any governmental entity is a beneficiary, venture, or other legal
entity however organized, which the Department determines to be
capable of planning and implementing an integrated solid waste
management program;
19. "Transfer station" means any disposal site, processing facility or
other place where solid waste is transferred from a vehicle or
container to another vehicle or container for transportation,
including but not limited to a barge or railroad unloading facility
where solid waste, in bulk or in containers, is unloaded, stored,
processed or transported for any purpose. The term "transfer station"
shall not include the following:
a. a facility, such as an apartment complex or a large manufacturing
plant, where the solid waste that is transferred has been generated by
the occupants, residents, or functions of the facility,
b. a citizens' collection station, or
c. a waste collection system which leaves collected solid waste in
enclosed containers along the collection route for later transport to
a recycling or disposal facility serving the area; and
20. "Waste reduction" means to reduce the volume of waste requiring
disposal.
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