72-0501 - Definitions.

§ 72-0501. Definitions.    1. "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 of 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 nine of article twenty-seven of  this chapter; 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.    2. "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.    3. "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 or waste oil.    4. "Septage" means the contents of a septic tank,  cesspool  or  other  individual  sewage  treatment  facility  which  received domestic sewage  wastes.    5. "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 materials in domestic  sewage,  or  solid  or  dissolved  materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges  which are point sources subject to permits under  article  seventeen  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 governments.    6. "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.    7. "Regulated medical waste" shall have the same meaning as such  term  is defined in title 15 of article 27 of this chapter.