25205.1
. For purposes of this article, the following definitions
apply:
(a) "Board" means the State Board of Equalization.
(b) "Facility" means any units or other structures, and all
contiguous land, used for the treatment, storage, disposal, or
recycling of hazardous waste, for which a permit or a grant of
interim status has been issued by the department for that activity
pursuant to Article 9 (commencing with Section 25200).
(c) "Large storage facility," in those cases in which total
storage capacity is provided in a permit, interim status document, or
federal Part A application for the facility, means a storage
facility with capacity to store 1,000 or more tons of hazardous
waste. In those cases in which it is not so provided, "large storage
facility" means a storage facility that stores 1,000 or more tons of
hazardous waste during any one month of the current reporting period
commencing on or after July 1, 1991.
(d) "Large treatment facility," in those cases in which total
treatment capacity is provided in a permit, interim status document,
or federal Part A application for the facility, means a treatment
facility with capacity to treat, land treat, or recycle 1,000 or more
tons of hazardous waste. In those cases in which it is not so
provided, "large treatment facility" means a treatment facility that
treats, land treats, or recycles 1,000 or more tons of hazardous
waste during any one month of the current reporting period commencing
on or after July 1, 1991.
(e) "Generator" means a person who generates hazardous waste at an
individual site commencing on or after July 1, 1988. A generator
includes, but is not limited to, a person who is identified on a
manifest as the generator and whose identification number is listed
on that manifest, if that identifying information was provided by
that person or by an agent or employee of that person.
(f) "Ministorage facility," in those cases in which total storage
capacity is provided in a permit, interim status document, or federal
Part A application for the facility, means a storage facility with
capacity to store 0.5 tons (1,000 pounds) or less of hazardous waste.
In those cases in which it is not so provided, "ministorage facility"
means a storage facility that stores 0.5 tons (1,000 pounds) or less
of hazardous waste during any one month of the current reporting
period commencing on or after July 1, 1991.
(g) "Minitreatment facility," in those cases in which total
treatment capacity is provided in a permit, interim status document,
or federal Part A application for the facility, means a treatment
facility with capacity to treat, land treat, or recycle 0.5 tons
(1,000 pounds) or less of hazardous waste. In those cases in which it
is not so provided, "minitreatment facility, means a treatment
facility that treats, land treats, or recycles 0.5 tons (1,000
pounds) or less of hazardous waste during any one month of the
current reporting period commencing on or after July 1, 1991.
(h) "Site" means the location of an operation that generates
hazardous wastes and is noncontiguous to any other location of these
operations owned by the generator.
(i) "Small storage facility," in those cases in which total
storage capacity is provided in a permit, interim status document, or
federal Part A application for the facility, means a storage
facility with capacity to store more than 0.5 tons (1,000 pounds),
but less than 1,000 tons of hazardous waste. In those cases in which
it is not so provided, "small storage facility" means a storage
facility that stores more than 0.5 tons (1,000 pounds), but less than
1,000 tons, of hazardous waste during any one month of the current
reporting period commencing on or after July 1, 1991.
(j) "Small treatment facility," in those cases in which total
treatment capacity is provided in a permit, interim status document,
or federal Part A application for the facility, means a treatment
facility with capacity to treat, land treat, or recycle more than 0.5
tons (1,000 pounds), but less than 1,000 tons of hazardous waste. In
those cases in which this is not provided, "small treatment facility"
means a treatment facility that treats, land treats, or recycles
more than 0.5 tons (1,000 pounds), but less than 1,000 tons, of
hazardous waste during any month of the current reporting period
commencing on or after July 1, 1991.
(k) "Unit" means a hazardous waste management unit, as defined in
regulations adopted by the department. If an area is designated as a
hazardous waste management unit in a permit, it shall be conclusively
presumed that the area is a "unit."
(l) "Class 1 modification," "class 2 modification," and "class 3
modification" have the meanings provided in regulations adopted by
the department.
(m) "Hazardous waste" has the meaning provided in Section 25117.
The total tonnage of hazardous waste, unless otherwise provided by
law, includes the hazardous substance as well as any soil or other
substance that is commingled with the hazardous substance.
(n) "Land treat" means to apply hazardous waste onto or
incorporate it into the soil surface for the sole and express purpose
of degrading, transforming, or immobilizing the hazardous
constituents.
(o) "Treatment," "storage," and "disposal" mean only that
treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous waste engaged in at a
facility pursuant to a permit or grant of interim status issued by
the department pursuant to Article 9 (commencing with Section 25200).
Treatment, storage, or disposal that does not require this permit or
grant of interim status shall not be considered treatment, storage,
or disposal for purposes of this article.
(1) "Disposal" includes only the placement of hazardous waste onto
or into the ground for permanent disposition and does not include
the placement of hazardous waste in surface impoundments, as defined
in regulations adopted by the department, or the placement of
hazardous waste onto or into the ground solely for purposes of land
treatment.
(2) "Storage" does not include the ongoing presence of hazardous
wastes in the ground or in surface impoundments after the facility
has permanently discontinued accepting new hazardous wastes for
placement into the ground or into surface impoundments.