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<br />KCHD ORDINANCE 1999- 8 SOLID WASTE REGULATIONS
<br />industrial solid waste. Such a landfill may be publicly or privately owned. A MSWLF unit may be a new
<br />MSWLF unit, an existing MSWLF unit, or a lateral expansion.
<br />New Facility: A facility which begins operation or construction after the effective date of Chapter 173-304
<br />WAC (see also definition of "Existing Facility").
<br />Nonconforming Site: A solid waste handling facility which does not currently comply with the facility
<br />requirements of WAC 173-304-400, but does comply with a compliance schedule issued in a solid waste permit
<br />by the Health Officer.
<br />Nuisance: Consists in unlawfully doing an act, or omitting to perform a duty, which act or omission either
<br />annoys, injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health or safety of others; or unlawfully interferes with,
<br />obstructs or tends to obstruct, any lake or navigable river, bay, stream, canal or basin, or any public park,
<br />square, street or highway; or in any way renders other persons insecure in life, or in the use of property.
<br />One-Hundred Year Floodplain: Any land area which is subject to one percent or greater chance of flooding
<br />in any given year from any source.
<br />Operation: Means those actions taken by an owner or operator of a facility or MSWLF unit beginning with
<br />waste acceptance at a facility or MSWLF unit up to and including closure of the facility or MSWLF unit.
<br />Permit: An authorization issued by the Health Officer which allows a person to perform solid waste handling
<br />activities at a specific location and which includes specific conditions for such facility operations.
<br />Person: An individual, firm, association, copartnership, political subdivision, government agency,
<br />municipality, industry, public or private corporation, or any other entity whatsoever.
<br />Pesticide: Means, but is not limited to: Any substance or mixture of substances intended to prevent, destroy,
<br />control, repel, or mitigate any insect, rodent, nematode, mollusk, fungus, weed, and any other form of plant or
<br />animal life, or virus (except virus on or in living man or other animal which is normally considered to be a pest
<br />or which the department of agriculture may declare to be a pest; any substance or mixture of substances
<br />intended to be used as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant; any substance or mixture of substances intended
<br />to be used as spray adjuvant; and, any other substance intended for such use as may be named by the department
<br />of agriculture by regulation. Herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, and rodenticides are pesticides for the
<br />purposes of this ordinance.
<br />Pile: Any non-containerized accumulation of solid waste that is used for treatment or storage.
<br />Plan of Operation: The written plan developed by an owner or operator of a facility, and approved by the
<br />Health Department and Ecology, detailing how a facility is to be operated during its active life and during
<br />closure and post-closure.
<br />Point of Compliance: That part of ground water that lies beneath the perimeter of a solid waste facility's active
<br />area as that active area would exist at closure of the facility.
<br />Post-Closure: The requirements placed upon disposal facilities after closure to ensure their environmental
<br />safety for a thiry-year period or until the site becomes stabilized (i.e., little or no settlement, gas production, or
<br />leachate generation). Post-closure includes the development of a written plan which complies with the
<br />requirements of Chapter 173-303 WAC, Chapter 173-304 WAC, Chapter 173-351 WAC, and the Solid Waste
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