Specific terms. As used in these regulations, terms
or words shall be defined as follows. Unless otherwise expressly stated,
the following definitions shall, for the purpose of these regulations,
have the meanings herein indicated. Any pertinent word or term not
a part of this listing but vital to the interpretation of these regulations
shall be construed to have its legal definition.
AGRICULTURAL WASTE
Poultry and livestock manure or residual materials, in liquid
or solid form, generated in the production and marketing of poultry,
livestock, fur-bearing animals and their products, provided that such
agricultural waste is not hazardous. The term includes the residual
materials generated in the producing, harvesting and marketing of
all agronomic, horticultural and silvicultural crops or commodities
grown on what are usually recognized and accepted as farms, forests
or other agricultural lands.
AUTHORITY
The Northern Tier Solid Waste Authority, an authority organized
by the Counties of Bradford, Sullivan and Tioga and existing under
the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, with an office at Blossburg,
Pennsylvania.
COLLECTOR
Any person collecting or transporting municipal waste for
owners or occupants of property in the municipality, including the
municipality itself if it undertakes the collection of municipal waste
directly, and any business or institution within the municipality
which generates sufficient municipal waste to require disposal directly
by its own employees and equipment.
COUNTY
The County of Bradford, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
DISPOSAL
The incineration, deposition, injection, dumping, spilling,
leaking or placing of solid waste into or on the land or water in
a manner such that the solid waste or a constituent of the solid waste
enters the environment, is emitted into the air or is discharged to
the waters of the commonwealth.
HAZARDOUS WASTE
Any garbage, refuse, sludge from an industrial or other wastewater
treatment plant, sludge from a water supply treatment plant or air
pollution control facility and other discarded materials, including
solid, liquid, semisolid or maintained gaseous material resulting
from municipal, commercial, industrial or institutional mining or
agricultural operations and from community activities, or any combination
of the above, but does not include solid or dissolved material in
domestic sewage or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return
flows or industrial discharges which are point sources subject to
permits under Section 402 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act,
as amended (86 Stat. 880), or source, special nuclear or by-product
material as defined by the U.S. Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended
(68 Stat. 923), which, because of its quantity, concentration or physical,
chemical or infectious characteristics may cause or significantly
contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in morbidity
in either an individual or the total population or pose a substantial
present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when
improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed of or otherwise
managed. The term "hazardous waste," shall not include coal refuse
as defined in the Act of September 24, 1968 (P.L. 1040, No. 318),
known as the "Coal Refuse Disposal Control Act." "Hazardous waste" shall not include treatment sludged
from coal mine drainage treatment plants, disposal of which is being
carried on pursuant to and in compliance with a valid permit issued
pursuant to the Act of June 22, 1937 (P.L. 1987, No. 394), known as
the "Clean Streams Law."
MANAGEMENT
The entire process, or any part thereof, of storage, collection,
transportation, processing, treatment and disposal of solid wastes
by any person engaging in such process.
MUNICIPAL WASTE
Any garbage, refuse, industrial, lunchroom or office waste
and other material including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained
gaseous material resulting from operation of residential, municipal,
commercial or institutional establishments and from community activities
and any sludge not meeting the definition of residual or hazardous
waste hereunder from a municipal, commercial or institutional water
supply treatment plant, wastewater treatment plant or facility and
air pollution control facility, whether generated within or without
Athens Township.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, corporation, association, institution,
cooperative enterprise, municipal authority, federal government or
agency, state institution or agency or any other legal entity whatsoever
which is recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties. In
any provisions of this article prescribing a fine, imprisonment or
penalty, 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.
POLLUTION
Contamination of any air, water, land or other natural resources
of the commonwealth such as will create or is likely to create a public
nuisance or to render such air, water, land or other natural resources
harmful, detrimental or injurious to public health, safety or welfare,
or to domestic, municipal, commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational
or other legitimate beneficial uses, or to livestock, wild animals,
birds, fish or other life.
REGIONAL FACILITIES
All solid waste disposition facilities heretofore or hereafter
acquired or constructed by the Authority.
RESIDUAL WASTE
Any garbage, refuse, sludge and other discarded material
or other waste including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous
materials resulting from industrial, mining and agricultural operations
and any sludge from an industrial, mining or agricultural water supply
treatment facility, wastewater treatment facility or air pollution
control facility, provided that it is not hazardous. The term "residual
waste shall not include cool refuse as defined in the Coal Refuse
Disposal Control Act. "Residual waste" shall not include treatment
sludges from coal mine drainage treatment plants, disposal of which
is being carried on pursuant to and in compliance with a valid permit
issued pursuant to the Clean Streams Law.
SOLID WASTE
Any waste, including but not limited to municipal, residual
or hazardous wastes, including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained
gaseous materials.
STORAGE
The containment of any waste on a temporary basis in such
a manner as not to constitute disposal of such waste. It shall be
presumed that the containment of any waste in excess of one year constitutes
disposal. This presumption can be overcome by clear and convincing
evidence to the contrary.
TRANSFER STATION
Any property where solid waste, as defined by the applicable
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania rules and regulations, is stored temporarily
or transferred by vehicle storage container or any other means, except
that storage containers for the solid waste generated on a specific
site (i.e., trash cans and dumpsters) and solid waste on the immediate
property of its ultimate disposal (i.e., a properly permitted sanitary
landfill) shall not be considered a transfer station for the purposes
of this article.
TREATMENT
Treatment means approved methods of solid waste reduction
and/or disposal as prescribed and approved by the Pennsylvania Department
of Environmental Protection.