Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2183.2

  • Department: means the Department of Environmental Quality. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2004
  • Hazardous waste: means any waste, or combination of wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, physical, or chemical characteristics may cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness, or pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed of, or otherwise managed. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2173
  • Waste: means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste 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, or agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges which are point sources subject to permits under La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2173

The department shall not issue or grant any permit for the operation of any new, commercial hazardous waste incinerator whose primary business activity involves accepting hazardous wastes or hazardous waste products for a fee, as defined by the department as of July 10, 1997, in any parish that is on the nonattainment list for ozone standards and classified as “serious” or worse by the United States Environmental Protection Agency as of January 1, 1997.  This Section shall not apply to temporary, mobile incinerators authorized by the department.

Acts 1997, No. 942, §1, eff. July 10, 1997.