The following terms shall have the followings meanings
in this article:
COUNTY
The County of Lancaster.
EXISTING CONTRACT
Any agreement or contract fully executed prior to the effective
date of this article for the collection, disposal or transportation
of municipal waste generated within this municipality.
FACILITY
The waste-to-energy incinerator to be constructed by or on
behalf of LCSWMA pursuant to the Plan.
FULL SYSTEM OPERATION or FULLY OPERATIONAL
That date which is 60 days from the date upon which the county
and other municipalities representing in the aggregate not less than
60% of the population of the county, as determined by the 1980 Decennial
Census of the United States, execute the intermunicipal agreement
and enact waste flow ordinances.
LCSWMA
The Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority, its
assigns, its successors in interest and its predecessor in interest,
the Lancaster Area Refuse Authority.
MUNICIPALITY
The Township of Elizabeth, a township of the second class
located with the County of Lancaster, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association,
cooperative enterprise, trust, municipal authority, federal institution
or agency, state institution or agency, municipality, other governmental
agency or any other entity or any group of such persons which is recognized
by law as the subject of rights and duties. In any provisions of this
article prescribing a fine, penalty, imprisonment or denial or grant
of any license, the term "person" shall include the officers and directors
of a corporation or other legal entity having officers and directors.
PLAN
The municipal waste management plan for the county adopted
by the county or municipalities therein and approved by the Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental Protection.
RECYCLING
The collection, separation, recovery and sale or reuse of
metals, glass, paper, yard waste and other materials which would otherwise
become municipal waste.
REGULATED MUNICIPAL WASTE
Any garbage, refuse, industrial, lunchroom or office waste,
and other material including solid or semisolid material resulting
from operation of residential, municipal, commercial or institutional
establishments and from community activities, and any other solid
waste which is within the definition "municipal waste" set forth in
Section 103 of the Pennsylvania Solid Waste Management Act, Act of
July 2, 1980, P.L. 380, No. 97, 35 P.S. § 6018.103 (P.S.
1985), and which LCSWMA, the county, or any contractor ("contractor")
selected by the county or LCSWMA to construct and/or operate a resource
recovery facility or facilities to be located within the municipal
boundaries of the county by ordinance or regulation, is willing to
accept at the facility, but excluding any liquid waste or sludge,
any waste which is defined by existing or future federal or state
law or regulation as hazardous waste or residual waste, infectious
waste, pathological waste or other waste for which treatment or handling
requirements different from those normally applicable to municipal
waste apply, polychlorinated biphenyls, any waste which may be marketable
and which is intentionally segregated for purposes of recycling and
materials specifically excluded under applicable county or LCSWMA
ordinances, rules or regulations.
SOURCE SEPARATION
The segregation and collection, prior to delivery to a point
of entry into the system, of materials for the sole purpose of recycling.
SYSTEM
The overall solid waste management and disposal system and
every aspect thereof owned or operated by or on behalf of LCSWMA,
including without limitation equipment, transfer stations, resource
recovery facilities and landfills, owned or operated, or to be acquired,
constructed or operated by LCSWMA or any agent, designee or contractor
thereof in implementation of the Plan.
TRANSFER FACILITY
Any solid waste facility which is now or hereafter may be
established by LCSWMA or the county for the purpose of accepting solid
waste for processing and economical consolidation for subsequent delivery
to the facility or other solid waste disposal site.