A. ACCEPTABLE WASTE COUNTY COUNTY ORDINANCE or COUNTY WASTE FLOW ORDINANCE DATE OF WESTERN COUNTY SYSTEM OPERATION HAZARDOUS WASTE LANDFILL MUNICIPALITY MUNICIPAL WASTE NONPROCESSIBLE WASTE PERSON PLAN PLAN REVISIONS POINT OF ENTRY INTO THE WESTERN SYSTEM PROCESSIBLE WASTE RECYCLING or RECYCLED SOURCE SEPARATION UNACCEPTABLE WASTE(1) (a) (b) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) WASTE AUTHORITY WESTERN COUNTY SYSTEM or SYSTEM WHITE GOODS
The following terms shall have the following meanings in this article:
Municipal waste which is not unacceptable waste or nonprocessible waste.
County of Montgomery, Pennsylvania.
An ordinance enacted by the County creating the Western County System in the Western District, providing for the licensure of various persons, regulating waste flow and setting forth certain related provisions.
That date on which the Western County System shall be declared by the County to be ready to commence the disposal of acceptable waste on a sustained basis.
Any material or substance which by reason of its composition or characteristics is toxic or hazardous waste as defined in the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, 42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq.; in Section 6(e) of the Toxic Substances Control Act, 15 U.S.C. § 2605(e); under the Solid Waste Management Act, 35 P.S. § 6018.101 et seq., or under any other applicable laws of similar purpose or effect, including, but not limited to, any replacement, amendment, expansion or supplement thereto and any rules, regulations or policies thereunder; or special nuclear or by-product materials within the meaning of the Atomic Energy Act 1954, 42 U.S.C. § 2011 et seq., and any replacement, amendment, expansion or supplement thereto and any rules, regulations or policies thereunder and any other material that any governmental agency or unit having appropriate jurisdiction shall determine from time to time is harmful, toxic or dangerous or otherwise ineligible for disposal in the landfill.
A landfill with which the Waste Authority has contracted to dispose of acceptable waste.
The Township of Lower Pottsgrove, a Township of the First Class, located within the County of Montgomery, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Municipal waste as defined in § 103 of the Solid Waste Management Act, 35 P.S. § 6018.103, hereinafter "Act 97," and § 103 of the Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling and Reduction Act, 35 P.S. § 4000.1103, hereinafter "Act 101," and any rules, regulations or policies promulgated thereunder.
Any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, institution, cooperative enterprise, trust, municipal authority, federal institution or agency, state institution or agency, municipality, other governmental agency or any other legal entity or any group of such persons whatsoever which is recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties. In any provision of this article prescribing a fine, penalty, imprisonment or denial or grant of any license, or any combination of the foregoing, the term "person" shall include the officers and directors of any corporation or other legal entity having officers and directors.
The County-wide municipal waste management plan developed by the County and approved by DEP, as such has been and may hereafter be amended or revised in compliance with law.
The revision dated June 1990 to the County Municipal Waste Management Plan developed by the County to be submitted to DEP and approved by a majority of the affected municipalities within the County representing a majority of the County's population.
Any delivery point within the Western County System designated by the Waste Authority for delivery of acceptable waste.
That portion of acceptable waste which is not nonprocessible waste.
The collection, separation, recovery and sale or reuse of metals, glass, paper, leaf waste, plastics and other materials which would otherwise be disposed or processed as municipal waste or the mechanized separation and treatment of municipal waste (other than through combustion) and creation and recovery of reusable materials other than a fuel for the operation of energy.
The segregation and collection, prior to the point of entry into the Western County System, for the purpose of recycling of individual components of acceptable waste such as (without limitation) bottles, cans and other materials in accordance with Act 101.
Any material that, by reason of its composition, characteristics or quantity is ineligible for disposal at the landfill pursuant to the provisions of:
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, 42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq., and the regulations thereunder; or
Except for trace amounts normally found in household or commercial solid waste, any other similarly applicable law (including, but not limited to, the following laws and the regulations, if any, promulgated under each: the Toxic Substances Control Act, 15 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq.; the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, 7 U.S.C. § 136 et seq.; the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.; the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. § 9601 et seq., Act 97; the Hazardous Sites Cleanup Act, Act 108, enacted October 18, 1988; and any similar or substituted legislation or regulations or amendments to the foregoing, as well as any other laws coextensive with the foregoing).
Any other materials that any governmental body or unit having or claiming appropriate jurisdiction shall determine from time to time to be harmful, toxic, dangerous or otherwise ineligible for disposal at the landfill.
Any waste that a landfill or other applicable facility is precluded from accepting pursuant to any permit or governmental plan governing such landfill or other applicable facility.
Hazardous waste.
Residual waste as defined in Act 101 (except as otherwise provided in any landfill agreement to which the Waste Authority is a party).
Special nuclear or by-product materials within the meaning of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, 42 U.S.C. § 2011 et seq., and any similar or substituted legislation or regulation or amendments to the foregoing, including, but not limited to, any other laws coextensive with the foregoing.
Asbestos, sludge, infectious waste, chemotherapeutic waste and incinerator ash (except as otherwise provided in any landfill agreement to which the Waste Authority is a party).
White goods in quantity and/or automobile tires in quantity.
Any other material that the Waste Authority reasonably concludes would require special handling or present an endangerment to a disposal facility, the public health or safety or the environment.
The Waste System Authority of Western Montgomery County created by the County for purposes relating to municipal waste disposal and/or the IMA and the County Waste Flow Ordinance.
The solid waste management and disposal system created by the County for the Western District and every aspect thereof, including, but not limited to, equipment, transfer stations and resource-recovery facilities, residue disposal sites, contractual arrangements or other rights owned, acquired, leased, placed under contract, constructed or assumed, operated or to be owned, acquired, leased, placed under contract, constructed, operated or assumed by the Waste Authority, the County or any agent, designee or contractor of either in connection with the plan or the plan revision.
Refrigerators, washing machines, dryers, window air conditioners, hot water heaters and other major appliances.
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All other words and phrases shall have the same meaning as set forth in Act 97 or Act 101, as they may hereinafter be amended or supplemented by legislation regarding municipal waste management or planning, or as set forth in the IMA. To the extent that any definition herein varies from the definition in the IMA, the definition in the IMA shall control.