ARTICLE 2. Definitions

Article 2 added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1236.

§§ 25110–25124 · 62 sections

§ 25110 Unless expressly incorporated by reference by another statute, the definitions in this article govern only the construction of this chapter. Until terms used…
§ 25110.02 “Acutely hazardous waste” means any hazardous waste classified as an acutely hazardous waste in regulations adopted by the department.
§ 25110.1 “Applicant” means any person seeking an original hazardous waste facilities permit, or an original hazardous waste hauler’s registration from the department to…
§ 25110.2 “Authorized local health officer” means a local health officer authorized by the department pursuant to Section 25187.7.
§ 25110.3 “Board” means the Board of Environmental Safety established pursuant to Section 25125.
§ 25110.4 “Buffer zone” means an area of land that surrounds a hazardous waste facility and on which certain land uses and activities are restricted to protect the…
§ 25110.5 “Business” means the conduct of activity and is not limited to a commercial or proprietary activity.
§ 25110.8 “Business concern” means any sole proprietorship, corporation, association, firm, partnership, trust, or other form of commercial organization.
§ 25110.8.5 “Class I violation” means any of the following: (a) A deviation from the requirements of this chapter, or any regulation, standard, requirement, or permit or…
§ 25110.9 (a) “Conditionally exempt small quantity treatment” means the operations of a generator conditionally exempted pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 25201.5.…
§ 25110.9.1 (a) “Conditional authorization” means a provision of this chapter, including, but not limited to, Section 25200.3, which provides that a person or activity is…
§ 25110.9.3 For purposes of this chapter, “consolidated manifest” means a hazardous waste manifest used by a milk run transporter to combine hazardous waste shipments from…
§ 25110.10 (a) “Consolidation site” means a site to which hazardous waste initially collected at a remote site, as defined in Section 25121.3, is transported. (b)…
§ 25110.10.1 For purposes of this chapter, “consolidated transporter” means a hazardous waste transporter registered pursuant to Section 25165 and the regulations adopted…
§ 25110.11 (a) “Contained gaseous material,” for purposes of subdivision (a) of Section 25124 or any other provision of this chapter, means any gas that is contained in…
§ 25111 “Department” means the Department of Toxic Substances Control.
§ 25111.1 “Designated local public officer” means a local public officer designated by the director pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 25180.
§ 25112 “Director” means the Director of Toxic Substances Control.
§ 25112.5 (a) “Disclosure statement” means a statement submitted to the department by an applicant, signed by the applicant under penalty of perjury, which includes all…
§ 25113 (a) “Disposal” means either of the following: (1) The discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any waste so that the waste or…
§ 25114 “Disposal site” means the location where any final deposition of hazardous waste occurs.
§ 25114.5 “Environmental assessor” means an environmental professional as defined in Section 312.10 of Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations. Notwithstanding…
§ 25115 “Extremely hazardous waste” means any hazardous waste or mixture of hazardous wastes which, if human exposure should occur, may likely result in death,…
§ 25115.1 “Federal act” means the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, as amended (42 U.S.C. Sec. 6901 et seq.).
§ 25116 “Handling” means the transporting or transferring from one place to another, or pumping, processing, storing, or packaging of hazardous waste, but does not…
§ 25116.5 (a) “Intermediate manufacturing process stream” means a material, or combination of materials, that meets all of the following conditions: (1) It is produced…
§ 25117 (a) Except as provided in subdivision (d), “hazardous waste” means a waste that meets any of the criteria for the identification of a hazardous waste adopted…
§ 25117.1 “Hazardous waste facility” means all contiguous land and structures, other appurtenances, and improvements on the land used for the treatment, transfer,…
§ 25117.2 “Hazardous waste management” or “management” means the transportation, transfer, recycling, recovery, disposal, handling, processing, storage, and treatment of…
§ 25117.4.1 (a) “Local health officer” means county health officers, city health officers, and district health officers, as defined in this code. (b) “Local officer” means…
§ 25117.5 (a) Waste that is hazardous only because it is medical waste, as defined in the Medical Waste Management Act (Part 14 (commencing with Section 117600) of…
§ 25117.6 (a) “Minor violation” means a deviation from the requirements of this chapter, or any regulation, standard, requirement, or permit or interim status document…
§ 25117.8 “Natural resources” includes, but is not limited to, disposal site capacity and substances which are hazardous waste, or which are in hazardous waste, the…
§ 25117.9 “Non-RCRA hazardous waste” means all hazardous waste regulated in the state, other than RCRA hazardous waste, as defined in Section 25120.2. A hazardous waste…
§ 25117.9.1 “Notice to comply” means a written method of alleging a minor violation which is in compliance with all of the following requirements: (a) The notice to comply…
§ 25117.10 “License” includes, but is not limited to any, permit, registration, or certification issued by any local, state, or federal agency for the generation,…
§ 25117.11 “Offsite facility” means a hazardous waste facility that is not an onsite facility.
§ 25117.12 “Onsite facility” means a hazardous waste facility at which a hazardous waste is produced and which is owned by, leased to, or under the control of, the…
§ 25117.13 “Land use restriction” means any limitation regarding the uses of property which may be provided by, but is not limited to, a written instrument which imposes…
§ 25117.14 “Permit-by-rule” means a provision of the regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter stating that a facility or activity is deemed to have a hazardous waste…
§ 25118 “Person” means an individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, business concern, partnership, limited liability company, association, and corporation,…
§ 25119 “Processing” means treatment, as defined in Section 25123.5.
§ 25120 “Producer” means any person who generates a waste material.
§ 25120.2 “RCRA hazardous waste” means all waste identified as a hazardous waste in Part 261 (commencing with Section 261.1) of Subchapter I of Chapter 1 of Title 40 of…
§ 25120.5 “Recyclable material” means a hazardous waste that is capable of being recycled, including, but not limited to, any of the following: (a) A residue. (b) A…
§ 25120.55 (a) Used or spent etchants, stripping solutions, and plating solutions are spent, contaminated, or used material for purposes of this chapter. (b) Used or…
§ 25121 (a) “Recycled material” means a recyclable material which has been used or reused, or reclaimed. (b) “Recycled material” does not include an intermediate…
§ 25121.1 (a) “Recycling” means using, reusing, or reclaiming a recyclable material. (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), for purposes of the fees, taxes, and charges…
§ 25121.2 “Release” has the same definition as in Section 78105.
§ 25121.3 (a) “Remote site” means a site operated by the generator where hazardous waste is initially collected, at which generator staff, other than security staff, is…
§ 25121.5 (a) “Retrograde material” means any hazardous material which is not to be used, sold, or distributed for use in an originally intended or prescribed manner or…
§ 25122.7 “Restricted hazardous waste” includes both of the following: (a) Any hazardous waste subject to land disposal restrictions pursuant to Section 25179.6 and the…
§ 25122.8 “State operational costs” means the costs to the state of overseeing removal and remedial action, as defined in Sections 78125 and 78135, to releases of…
§ 25122.9 “Secretary” means the Secretary for Environmental Protection.
§ 25123 “Storage” means the holding of hazardous wastes, for a temporary period.
§ 25123.3 (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “Liquid hazardous waste” means a hazardous waste that meets the…
§ 25123.4 “Transportable hazardous waste treatment unit” or “transportable treatment unit” means mobile equipment which performs treatment, is transported onto a…
§ 25123.5 (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), “treatment” means any method, technique, or process which is not otherwise excluded from the definition of…
§ 25123.6 “Volatile organic compound” means a compound which is a volatile organic compound according to Method No. 8240 in the Environmental Protection Agency Document…
§ 25123.7 (a) “Unified Program Facility” means all contiguous land and structures, other appurtenances, and improvements on the land which are subject to the…
§ 25123.8 “Universal waste” means a hazardous waste identified as a universal waste in Section 66273.9 of Title 22 of the California Code of Regulations, or as that…
§ 25124 (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), “waste” means any solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous discarded material that is not excluded by this…