As used in this part unless the context otherwise requires:
 1. “Disposal” means the isolation of waste from the biosphere in a permanent facility designed for that purpose.

Terms Used In Iowa Code 455B.482

  • Closure: means actions that will prevent, mitigate, or minimize the threat to public health and the environment posed by a closed sanitary landfill, including but not limited to application of final cover, grading and seeding of final cover, installation of an adequate monitoring system, and construction of ground and surface water diversion structures, if necessary. See Iowa Code 455B.301
  • Hazardous waste: means the same as defined in section 455B. See Iowa Code 455B.751
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, firm, corporation, or association. See Iowa Code 462A.2
  • Release: means a threatened or real emission, discharge, spillage, leakage, pumping, pouring, emptying, or dumping of a hazardous substance into or onto the land, air, or waters of the state unless one of the following applies:
     a. See Iowa Code 455B.381
  • Rule: includes "regulation". See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Solid waste: means garbage, refuse, rubbish, and other similar discarded solid or semisolid materials, including but not limited to such materials resulting from industrial, commercial, agricultural, and domestic activities. See Iowa Code 455B.301
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Toxic: means causing or producing a dangerous physiological, anatomic, or biochemical change in a biological system. See Iowa Code 455B.381
  • United States: includes all the states. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Use: means to operate, navigate, or employ a vessel. See Iowa Code 462A.2
 2. “Facilities” means land and improvements on land, buildings and other structures, and other appurtenances used for the management of solid, toxic, hazardous, or low-level radioactive wastes, including but not limited to waste collection sites, waste transfer stations, waste reclamation and recycling centers, waste processing centers, waste treatment centers, waste storage sites, waste reduction and compaction centers, waste incineration centers, waste detoxification centers, and waste disposal sites.
 3. “Hazardous waste” means hazardous waste as defined in section 455B.411, subsection 3.
 4. “Long-term monitoring and maintenance” means the continued observation and care of a facility after closure in order to ensure that the site poses no threat to the public health, the groundwater, and the environment. In the case of a low-level radioactive waste facility, the time period constituting “long-term” is the number of years of monitoring and maintenance based upon the half-life properties of the wastes, and in the case of a hazardous waste facility is the number of years based upon the projected active toxicity of the waste.
 5. “Low-level radioactive waste” means low-level radioactive waste as defined in section 457B.1, article II, paragraph “m”, and as defined in the federal Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Amendments Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2021.
 6. “Management of waste” means the storage, transportation, treatment, or disposal of waste.
 7. “Person” means person as defined in section 4.1.
 8. “Pollution prevention” means employment of a practice that reduces the industrial use of toxic substances or reduces the environmental and health hazards associated with an environmental waste without diluting or concentrating the waste before the release, handling, storage, transport, treatment, or disposal of the waste.
 9. “Regulatory agency” means a federal, state, or local agency that issues a license or permit required for the siting, construction, operation, or maintenance of a facility pursuant to federal or state statute or rule, or local ordinance or resolution.
 10. “Site” means the geographic location of a facility.
 11. “Solid waste” means solid waste as defined in section 455B.301.
 12. “State” means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands or any other territorial possession of the United States.
 13. “Storage” means the temporary holding of waste for treatment or disposal.
 14. “Treatment” means any method, technique, or process designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological characteristics or composition of any waste in order to render the waste safer for transport or management, amenable to recovery, convertible to another usable material, or reduced in volume.
 15. “Waste” means solid waste, hazardous waste, and low-level radioactive waste as defined in this section.
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