A. The director shall adopt rules by September 1, 1993 that include an Arizona special waste manifest form designed to implement the provisions of this article.

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 49-856

  • Best management practices: means a method or combination of methods that is used in the treatment, storage and disposal of a special waste and that achieves the maximum practical cost effective protection of public health or the environment. See Arizona Laws 49-851
  • Director: means the director of environmental quality who is also the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 49-101
  • Person: means any public or private corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society of persons, the federal government and any of its departments or agencies, this state or any of its agencies, departments, political subdivisions, counties, towns or municipal corporations, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 49-701
  • Special waste: means a solid waste as defined in Section 49-701. See Arizona Laws 49-851
  • Storage: means the holding of special waste for a period of not more than one year unless a lesser period of time is designated by the director pursuant to best management practices rules. See Arizona Laws 49-851
  • Treatment: means any method, technique or process used to change the physical, chemical or biological character of solid waste so as to render that waste safer for transport, amenable for processing, amenable for storage or reduced in volume. See Arizona Laws 49-701
  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215

B. Within three months of the adoption of best management practices for a special waste pursuant to section 49-855:

1. A person who generates, transports, offers for transportation or receives special waste for off-site treatment, recycling, storage or disposal shall comply with the rules adopted pursuant to subsection A of this section.

2. A person who transports a special waste that is defined as a hazardous material, hazardous substance or hazardous waste in Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 171 shall do so in accordance with the applicable motor carrier safety provisions of 49 United States Code appendix sections 1801 through 1819 and Title 28, Chapter 14.

3. A person who arranges for the treatment, storage or disposal of a special waste shall do so only at a facility approved by the director pursuant to section 49-857 or 49-858.

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