Terms Used In Idaho Code 39-7408A

  • Commercial solid waste: means all types of solid waste generated by stores, offices, restaurants, warehouses and other nonmanufacturing activities, excluding residential and industrial wastes. See Idaho Code 39-7403
  • Commercial solid waste facility: means a facility owned and operated as an enterprise conducted with the intent of making a profit by any individual, association, firm, or partnership for the disposal of solid waste, but excludes a facility owned or operated by a political subdivision, state or federal agency, municipality or a facility owned or operated by any individual, association, firm or partnership exclusively for the disposal of solid waste generated by such individual, association, firm or partnership. See Idaho Code 39-7403
  • Director: means the director of the Idaho department of environmental quality. See Idaho Code 39-7403
  • Facility: means all contiguous land and structures, buffer zones, and other appurtenances and improvements on the land used for the disposal of solid waste. See Idaho Code 39-7403
  • Operator: means the person(s) responsible for the overall operation of a facility or part of a facility. See Idaho Code 39-7403
  • Owner: means the person(s) who owns a facility or part of a facility. See Idaho Code 39-7403
  • Solid waste: means any garbage or refuse, sludge from a waste water treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility and other discarded material including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations and from community activities, but does not include solid or dissolved materials in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges that are point sources subject to permit under 33 U. See Idaho Code 39-7403
In addition to obtaining site certification as provided in section 39-7408, Idaho Code, no owner or operator of a commercial solid waste facility shall construct, expand or enlarge such a facility without a siting license from the director. Commercial solid waste facilities constructed and in operation on the effective date of this section are not required to obtain a siting license except to expand or enlarge such facilities.