Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 10 Sec. 6606b

  • Facility: means all contiguous land, structures, other appurtenances, and improvements on the land, used for treating, storing, or disposing of waste. See
  • Hazardous waste: means any waste or combination of wastes of a solid, liquid, contained gaseous, or semi-solid form, including those that are toxic, corrosive, ignitable, reactive, strong sensitizers, or that generate pressure through decomposition, heat, or other means, that in the judgment of the Secretary may cause or contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness, taking into account the toxicity of such waste, its persistence and degradability in nature, and its potential for assimilation, or concentration in tissue, and other factors that may otherwise cause or contribute to adverse acute or chronic effects on the health of persons or other living organisms, or any matter that may have an unusually destructive effect on water quality if discharged to ground or surface waters of the State. See
  • Hazardous waste management: means the systematic and comprehensive management of the generation; storage; transport; treatment, including recycling and recovery; or disposal of hazardous waste materials. See
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Secretary: means the Secretary of Natural Resources or his or her duly authorized representative. See
  • Waste: means a material that is discarded or is being accumulated, stored, or physically, chemically, or biologically treated prior to being discarded or has served its original intended use and is normally discarded or is a manufacturing or mining by-product and is normally discarded. See

§ 6606b. Permits issued by the Secretary related to hazardous waste facilities

The Secretary shall coordinate and administer the programs under the jurisdiction of the Agency of Natural Resources so that, to the extent possible, there is concurrent review, concurrent public participation, and concurrent permit issuances for hazardous waste management facilities. The Secretary shall assign a permit manager to handle all applications related to a particular waste management facility. (Added 1989, No. 282 (Adj. Sess.), § 14, eff. June 22, 1990; amended 1993, No. 92, § 13; 2003, No. 115 (Adj. Sess.), § 62, eff. Jan. 31, 2005.)