Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 51 > Chapter 7 - Hunting Island, Beaufort County

• Board: means the South Carolina Board of Health and Environmental Control which is charged with responsibility for implementation of the Hazardous Waste Management Act. See South Carolina Code 44-56-20
• Contaminated site: means any drycleaning facility or wholesale supply facility and surrounding area where drycleaning solvent has been deposited, stored, disposed of, released, placed, or otherwise come to be located; but does not include any consumer product in consumer use or any container. See South Carolina Code 44-56-410
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the Department of Health and Environmental Control, including personnel thereof authorized by the board to act on behalf of the department or board. See South Carolina Code 44-56-20
• Department: means the Department of Health and Environmental Control. See South Carolina Code 44-56-410
• Discharge: means leakage, seepage, or other release. See South Carolina Code 44-56-310
• Disposal: means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any hazardous waste into or on any land or water so that such substance or any constituent thereof may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any waters, including groundwater. See South Carolina Code 44-56-20
• Dry drop-off facility: means a commercial retail business (including routes) that receives clothing and other fabrics, from customers, for drycleaning or laundering at an off-site drycleaning facility. See South Carolina Code 44-56-410
• Drycleaning facility: includes laundry facilities that are using or have used drycleaning solvent as part of their cleaning process but does not include textile mills, uniform rental and linen supply facilities, or drycleaning facilities owned or operated by a local, state, or federal government. See South Carolina Code 44-56-410
• Drycleaning solvent: includes solvent that has been recycled for use at a drycleaning facility and applies only to those solvents used at a drycleaning facility or handled by a wholesale supply facility. See South Carolina Code 44-56-410
• Employee: means a natural person employed and paid by the owner of a drycleaning facility for thirty-five or more hours a week for forty-five or more weeks a year and on whose behalf the owner contributes payments to the South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce or Department of Revenue as required by law. See South Carolina Code 44-56-410
• 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.
• Fund: means Drycleaning Facility Restoration Trust Fund. See South Carolina Code 44-56-410
• Halogenated drycleaning fluid: means any nonaqueous solvent formulated, in whole or in part, with ten percent or more by volume of any of the halogenated compounds including, but not limited to, chlorine, bromine, fluorine, or iodine. See South Carolina Code 44-56-410
• Hazardous materials: means all materials and substances defined as hazardous by any state or federal law or regulation. See South Carolina Code 44-56-310
• Hazardous waste: means any waste, or combination of wastes, of a solid, liquid, contained gaseous, or semisolid form which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may in the judgment of the department:
  
  a. See South Carolina Code 44-56-20
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Nonaqueous solvent: means any cleaning formulation designed to minimize swelling of fabric fibers and containing less than fifty-one percent of water by volume. See South Carolina Code 44-56-410
• Nonhalogenated drycleaning fluid: means any nonaqueous solvent used in a drycleaning facility that contains less than ten percent by volume of any halogenated drycleaning fluid. See South Carolina Code 44-56-410
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Permit: means the process by which the department can ensure cognizance of, as well as control over the management of hazardous wastes. See South Carolina Code 44-56-20
• Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other entity. See South Carolina Code 44-56-310
• Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, trust, estate, receiver, company, limited liability company, or another entity or group. See South Carolina Code 44-56-410
• Property owner: means a person who is vested with ownership, dominion, or legal or rightful title to the real property or who has a ground lease interest in the real property on which a drycleaning or wholesale supply facility is or has ever been located. See South Carolina Code 44-56-410
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Release: means the accidental or intentional spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing into the environment of drycleaning solvent. See South Carolina Code 44-56-410
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Treatment: means any method, technique, or process, including neutralization, designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological character or composition of any hazardous waste, so as to neutralize such waste or so as to render such waste nonhazardous, safer for transport, amenable for recovery, amenable for storage, reduced in volume, or suitable for final disposal. See South Carolina Code 44-56-20
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Wholesale supply facility: means a commercial establishment that supplies drycleaning solvent to drycleaning facilities. See South Carolina Code 44-56-410