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<br />KCHD ORDINANCE 1999- 9 SOLID WASTE REGULATIONS <br />Handling Permit issued by the Health Department. The post-closure plan is approved by the Health Department <br />and Ecology and implemented by an owner or operator of a facility or MSWLF unit after closure. <br />Premises: A tract or parcel of land with or without habitable buildings. <br />Processing: An operation to convert a solid waste into a useful product or to prepare it for disposal. <br />Putrescible Waste: Solid waste which contains material capable of being decomposed by microorganisms. <br />Pyrolysis: The process in which solid wastes are heated in an enclosed device in an oxygen-deficient <br />environment to vaporization, producing a hydrocarbon-rich gas capable of being burned for recovery of energy. <br />Quantity Exclusion Limits (QEL): These limits are used to distinguish when a dangerous waste is only subject <br />to the small quantity generator provisions, and when a dangerous waste is subject to the full requirements of <br />WAC 173-303. <br />Recycling: The source separation of recyclable materials from solid waste or the processing of solid waste <br />mechanically or by hand to segregate recyclable materials for sale or reuse. <br />Recyclable Materials: Materials which can be removed from solid waste through recycling include, but are not <br />limited to, paper and paperboard products, newsprint, cardboard, magazines, aluminum, glass, plastics, <br />chemicals, oil, wood, compostable organics (food, yard and land clearing wastes), scrap metal, waste tires, <br />construction and demolition debris, gypsum wallboard, and inert material. <br />Reusable Containers: Containers that are used more than once to handle solid waste such as garbage cans. <br />Rubbish: All nonputrescible wastes from all public and private establishments and from all residences. <br />Run-Off: Any rainwater, leachate or other liquid which drains over land from any part of the facility. <br />Run-On: Any rainwater or other liquid which drains over land onto any part of a facility. <br />Scavenging: The removal of materials at a disposal site, without the approval of the owner or operator and the <br />Health Officer. <br />Small Quantity Generator (SQG): <br />a) a business whose waste is dangerous waste under WAC 173-303-070 subsection (3) and the quantity of <br />waste generated per month (or the aggregated quantity if more than one kind of waste is generated) does <br />not equal or exceed the quantity exclusion limit (QEL) for such waste (or wastes) as described in WAC <br />173-303-979(7); and <br />b) the quantity accumulated or stored does not exceed 2200 pounds for wastes with a 220 pound Quantity <br />Exclusion Limit (QEL) and 2.2 pounds for waste with a 2.2 pound QEL. (Exception: The <br />accumulation limit for the acute hazardous wastes described in WAC 173-303-081 (2)(iv) and 173-303- <br />082(2)(b) is 220 lbs.); and <br />c) the total quantity of dangerous waste generated in one month, all DW and EHW regardless of their <br />QEL’s, does not equal or exceed 220 pounds. If a person generates any dangerous wastes that exceed <br />the QEL or accumulates or stores waste that exceeds the accumulation limits, then all dangerous waste <br />generated, accumulated, or stored by that person is subject to the requirements of this chapter. A small