The following terms shall have the following 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 Lancaster, a Township of the second class located
within 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
(Purdon Supp. 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:
(1)
Any liquid waste or sludge;
(2)
Any waste which is defined by existing or future federal or state law
or regulation as hazardous waste or residual waste;
(3)
Infectious waste, pathological waste, or other waste for which treatment
or handling requirements different from those normally applicable to municipal
waste apply;
(4)
Polychlorinated biphenyls;
(5)
Any waste which may be marketable and which is intentionally segregated
for purposes of recycling; and
(6)
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.