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<br />KCHD ORDINANCE 1999- 10 SOLID WASTE REGULATIONS
<br />quantity generator who generates in excess of the quantity exclusion limits or, accumulates, or stores
<br />waste in excess of the accumulation limits becomes subject to the full requirements of WAC 173-303
<br />and cannot again be a small quantity generator until after all dangerous waste on-site at the time he or
<br />she became fully regulated have been removed, treated, or disposed.
<br />Sole Source Aquifer: An aquifer designated by the EPA pursuant to Section 1424e of the Safe Drinking
<br />Water Act (PL 93-523).
<br />Solid Waste: All putrescible and nonputrescible solid and semi-solid wastes including, but not limited to,
<br />garbage, rubbish, ashes, industrial wastes, swill, demolition and construction wastes, junk vehicles or parts
<br />thereof, and discarded commodities. This includes all liquid, solid and semi-solid, materials which are not the
<br />primary products of public, private, industrial, commercial, mining and agricultural operations. Solid waste also
<br />includes, but is not limited to, woodwaste, dangerous waste and problem wastes.
<br />Solid Waste Collection Service: Any agency, business, or service operated by a person for the purpose of
<br />collecting and transporting solid waste.
<br />Solid Waste Handling: The management, storage, collection, transportation, treatment, utilization, processing
<br />or final disposal of solid wastes, including the recovery and recycling of materials from solid wastes, the
<br />recovery of energy resources from such wastes or the conversion of the energy in such wastes to more useful
<br />forms or combinations thereof.
<br />Solid Waste Management: The systematic administration of activities which provide for the collection, source
<br />separation, storage, transportation, transfer, processing, treatment and disposal of solid waste.
<br />Storage: The holding of solid waste materials for a temporary period.
<br />Stream: The point at which any confined freshwater body of surface water reaches a mean annual flow of
<br />twenty (20) cubic feet per second.
<br />Surface Impoundment: A facility or part of a facility which is a natural topographic depression, manmade
<br />excavation, or diked area formed primarily of earthen materials (although it may be lined with manmade
<br />materials), and which is designed to hold an accumulation of liquids or sludges. The term includes holding,
<br />storage, settling and aeration pits, ponds or lagoons, but does not include injection wells.
<br />Surface Water: All lakes, rivers, ponds, streams, inland waters, salt waters and all other water and water
<br />courses within the jurisdiction of the State of Washington.
<br />Transfer Station: A permanent, fixed, supplemental collection and transportation facility, used by persons and
<br />route collection vehicles to deposit collected solid waste from off-site into a larger transfer vehicle for transport
<br />to a solid waste handling facility. Transfer stations may also include recycling facilities.
<br />Treatment: The physical, chemical or biological processing of solid waste to make such solid wastes safer for
<br />storage or disposal, amenable for energy or material resource recovery or reduced in volume.
<br />Used Oil:
<br />1. Lubricating fluids that have been removed from an engine crankcase, transmission, gearbox, hydraulic
<br />device, or differential of an automobile, truck, bus, vessel, plane, heavy equipment, or machinery
<br />powered by an internal combustion engine; or
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