§ 49-761 Rulemaking authority for solid waste facilities; exemption; financial assurance; recycling facilities
§ 49-762 Facilities requiring solid waste facility plans; exemption
§ 49-762.01 Facilities requiring self-certification
§ 49-762.02 Facilities subject to best management practices; rules
§ 49-762.03 Solid waste facility plan approval
§ 49-762.04 Solid waste facility plan review procedures
§ 49-762.05 Self-certification procedures; rules
§ 49-762.06 Changes to solid waste facilities and amended plans
§ 49-762.07 Notices; exemptions; extensions; enforcement; operating standards
§ 49-762.08 Corrective actions; application
§ 49-763 Inspections
§ 49-763.01 Variances
§ 49-764 Orders; monitoring; pollution control devices
§ 49-765 Local regulation of solid waste collection
§ 49-766 Agricultural landfills; notice
§ 49-767 Government owned solid waste facilities; permission; notice of site to property owners; hearing; exemption
§ 49-768 Civil penalties
§ 49-769 Agency orders; appeal
§ 49-770 Financial assurance requirements for solid waste facilities
§ 49-771 Restrictive covenants for solid waste landfills
§ 49-772 Location restrictions for solid waste landfills; definitions
§ 49-773 Disposal of waste; definition
§ 49-774 Landfill washout; abatement costs; definitions

Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 49 > Chapter 4 > Article 4 - Regulation of Solid Waste

  • Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Administratively complete plan: means an application for a solid waste facility plan approval that the department has determined contains each of the components required by statute or rule but that has not undergone technical review or public notice by the department. See Arizona Laws 49-701
  • Administrator: means the administrator of the United States environmental protection agency. See Arizona Laws 49-701
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • CCR: means fly ash, bottom ash, boiler slag and flue gas desulfurization materials generated from burning coal for the purpose of generating electricity by electric utilities and independent power producers. See Arizona Laws 49-701
  • CCR program approval: means United States environmental protection agency approval of the Arizona coal combustion residuals program in accordance with 42 United States Code § 6945(d)(1). See Arizona Laws 49-701
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • County: means :

    (a) The board of supervisors in the context of the exercise of powers or duties. See Arizona Laws 49-701

  • Director: means the director of environmental quality who is also the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 49-101
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Existing solid waste facility: means a solid waste facility other than a CCR unit that begins construction or is in operation on the effective date of the design and operation rules adopted by the director pursuant to section 49-761 for that type of solid waste facility. See Arizona Laws 49-701
  • Facility plan: means any design or operating plan for a solid waste facility or group of solid waste facilities other than a permit issued under article 11 of this chapter. See Arizona Laws 49-701
  • Household hazardous waste: means solid waste as described in 40 C. See Arizona Laws 49-701
  • including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • 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.
  • Land disposal: means placement of solid waste in or on land. See Arizona Laws 49-701
  • Landscaping rubble: means material that is derived from landscaping or reclamation activities and that may contain inert material and not more than ten percent by volume of vegetative waste. See Arizona Laws 49-701
  • Lateral expansion: means , for the purposes of the coal combustion residuals program established pursuant to article 11 of this chapter, a horizontal expansion of the waste boundaries of an existing CCR landfill or existing CCR surface impoundment made after October 19, 2015. See Arizona Laws 49-701
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Management agency: means any person responsible for the day-to-day operation, maintenance and management of a particular public facility or group of public facilities. See Arizona Laws 49-701
  • Minor: means a person under eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Municipal solid waste landfill: means any solid waste landfill that accepts household waste, household hazardous waste or conditionally exempt small quantity generator waste. See Arizona Laws 49-701
  • New solid waste facility: means a solid waste facility that begins construction or operation after the effective date of design and operating rules that are adopted pursuant to section 49-761 or article 11 of this chapter for that type of solid waste facility. See Arizona Laws 49-701
  • On site: means the same or geographically contiguous property that may be divided by public or private right-of-way if the entrance and exit between the properties are at a crossroads intersection and access is by crossing the right-of-way and not by traveling along the right-of-way. See Arizona Laws 49-701
  • 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
  • Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • processing: means the reduction, separation, recovery, conversion or recycling of solid waste. See Arizona Laws 49-701
  • Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Public solid waste facility: means a transfer facility and any site owned, operated or used by any person for the storage, processing, treatment or disposal of solid waste that is not generated on site. See Arizona Laws 49-701
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Recycling facility: means a solid waste facility that is owned, operated or used for the storage, treatment or processing of recyclable solid waste and that handles wastes that have a significant adverse effect on the environment. See Arizona Laws 49-701
  • Solid waste facility: means a transfer facility and any site owned, operated or used by any person for the storage, processing, treatment or disposal of solid waste, conditionally exempt small quantity generator waste or household hazardous waste but does not include the following:

    (a) A site at which less than one ton of solid waste that is not household waste, household hazardous waste, conditionally exempt small quantity generator waste, medical waste or special waste and that was generated on site is stored, processed, treated or disposed in compliance with Section 49-762. See Arizona Laws 49-701

  • Solid waste management: means the systematic administration of activities that provide for the collection, source separation, storage, transportation, transfer, processing, treatment or disposal of solid waste in a manner that protects public health and safety and the environment and prevents and abates environmental nuisances. See Arizona Laws 49-701
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Storage: means the holding of solid waste. See Arizona Laws 49-701
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • 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
  • Waste tire facility: means a solid waste facility at which five thousand or more waste tires are stored outdoors on any day. See Arizona Laws 49-701
  • Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215