Section 324.11504 - Definitions; H to T.
NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT (EXCERPT)
Act 451 of 1994
324.11504 Definitions; H to T.
Sec. 11504.
(1) “Health officer” means a full-time administrative officer of a certified city, county, or district department of health.
(2) “Inert material” means a substance that will not decompose, dissolve, or in any other way form a contaminated leachate upon contact with water, or other liquids determined by the department as likely to be found at the disposal area, percolating through the substance.
(3) “Insurance” means insurance that conforms to the requirements of 40 C.F.R. 258.74(d) provided by an insurer who has a certificate of authority from the Michigan commissioner of insurance to sell this line of coverage. An applicant for an operating license shall submit evidence of the required coverage by submitting both of the following to the department:
(a) A certificate of insurance that uses wording approved by the department.
(b) A certified true and complete copy of the insurance policy.
(4) “Landfill” means a disposal area that is a sanitary landfill.
(5) “Letter of credit” means an irrevocable letter of credit that complies with 40 C.F.R. 258.74(c).
(6) “Medical waste” means that term as it is defined in part 138 of the public health code, Act No. 378 of the Public Acts of 1978, being sections 333.13801 to 333.13831 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.
(7) “Municipal solid waste incinerator” means an incinerator that is owned or operated by any person, and meets all of the following requirements:
(a) The incinerator receives solid waste from off site and burns only household waste from single and multiple dwellings, hotels, motels, and other residential sources, or this household waste together with solid waste from commercial, institutional, municipal, county, or industrial sources that, if disposed of, would not be required to be placed in a disposal facility licensed under part 111.
(b) The incinerator has established contractual requirements or other notification or inspection procedures sufficient to assure that the incinerator receives and burns only waste referred to in subdivision (a).
(c) The incinerator meets the requirements of this part and the rules promulgated under this part.
(d) The incinerator is not an industrial furnace as defined in 40 C.F.R. 260.10.
(e) The incinerator is not an incinerator that receives and burns only medical waste or only waste produced at 1 or more hospitals.
(8) “Municipal solid waste incinerator ash” means the substances remaining after combustion in a municipal solid waste incinerator.
(9) “Perpetual care fund” means a perpetual care fund provided for in section 11525.
(10) “Trust fund” means a trust fund held by a trustee which has the authority to act as a trustee and whose trust operations are regulated and examined by a federal or state agency. A trust fund shall comply with section 11523b.
History: 1994, Act 451, Eff. Mar. 30, 1995 ;-- Am. 1996, Act 359, Imd. Eff. July 1, 1996
Popular Name: Act 451
Popular Name: NREPA
Popular Name: Solid Waste Act