The following terms shall have the following meanings in this Part:
COUNTY
The County of Lancaster.
EXISTING CONTRACT
Any agreement or contract fully executed prior to the effective
date of this Part for the collection, disposal or transportation of
municipal waste generated within this County.
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.
PARTICIPATING MUNICIPALITY
Any municipality which is party to the intermunicipal agreement with the County, as described in §
20-111 hereof, and has enacted a waste flow ordinance in substantially the same form as this Part.
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
Part 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 Resources.
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
§ 103 of the Pennsylvania Solid Waste Management Act ("SWMA"),
Act of July 2, 1980, P.L. 380, No. 97, 35 P.S. § 6018.103,
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.