Definitions. For purposes of Subsection
C the following words, terms and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this subsection:
BIOMASS
A renewable energy source from living or recently living
plant and animal materials which can be used as fuel.
BIOMEDICAL WASTE
Untreated solid waste generated during the administration
of medical care or the performance of medical research involving humans
or animals and which, because of its quantity, character or composition,
has been determined by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental
Protection to require special handling, including infectious waste,
pathological waste and chemotherapy waste, but excluding any solid
waste which has been classified by the State Department of Energy
and Environmental Protection as a hazardous waste pursuant to § 22a-115
of the Connecticut General Statutes or is a radioactive material regulated
pursuant to § 22a-148 of the Connecticut General Statutes.
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BIOMEDICAL WASTE TREATMENT FACILITY
A solid waste facility capable of storing, treating or disposing
of any amount of biomedical waste, excluding any facility where the
only biomedical waste treated, stored or disposed of is biomedical
waste generated at the site.
GEOTHERMAL
Energy sources from heat generated and stored in the earth.
INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES
A category of uses for businesses involving assembly, production,
storing, transferring and disposal of goods or products, and which
may also include associated facilities such as offices, maintenance
facilities, and fuel pumps and both indoor and outdoor activities
and storage of goods.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, partnership, association, syndicate,
company, trust, corporation, municipality, agency or political or
administrative subdivision of the state, or other legal entity of
any kind.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS
Includes, but shall not be limited to, the construction of
new roads to be constructed to standards approved by the Planning
and Zoning Commission, whether such roads are to be privately owned
or conveyed to the Town, improvements to existing roads, storm drainage
facilities, water and sewer lines, the planting of trees or other
landscaping and the installation of retaining walls or other structures.
SOLAR
The conversion of sunlight into electricity, either directly
using photovoltaics (PV) or indirectly using concentrated solar power
(CSP). Concentrated solar power (CSP) systems use lenses or mirrors
and tracking systems to focus a large area of sunlight into a small
beam.
SOLID WASTE
Unwanted or discarded materials, including solid, liquid,
semisolid or contained gaseous material.
SOLID WASTE FACILITY
Any solid waste disposal area, volume reduction plant, or
resource recovery facility or biomedical waste treatment facility
operated by any municipal or regional authority or any person if such
area, plant or facility handles more than five tons a year of solid
waste or any amount of biomedical waste.
UTILITY-SCALE RENEWABLE ENERGY FACILITY
One which generates more renewable energy than can be used
by the business where it is installed; feeds the power directly into
the grid, supplying a utility with energy; and has a power purchase
agreement (PPA) with a utility, guaranteeing a market for its energy
for a fixed term of time. This definition does not apply to facilities
using net metering or virtual net meter.
VOLUME REDUCTION PLANT
A plant designed primarily for the purpose of reducing the
volume of solid waste which must finally be disposed of, including
but not limited to incinerators, pulverizers, compactors, shredding
and baling plants, transfer stations, and compost plants or other
plants which accept and process refuse for recycling, reuse and resource
recovery.
WIND
The use of air flow through wind turbines to mechanically
power generators for electric power.