§ 8-6-1001 - Definitions. - Arkansas Statutes

8-6-1001. Definitions.

As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "Commission" means the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission;

(2) "Department" means the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality;

(3) "Director" means the Director of the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality;

(4) "Landfill" means all landfills permitted under the Arkansas Solid Waste Management Act, 8-6-201 et seq., except those landfills where a private industry bears the expense of operating and maintaining the landfill solely for the disposal of wastes generated by the industry or wastes of a similar kind or character;

(5) "Permittee" means any person holding a solid waste disposal permit as provided in the Arkansas Solid Waste Management Act, 8-6-201 et seq.;

(6) "Post-closure corrective action" means any measures deemed necessary by the director to prevent or abate contamination of the environment from any landfill which has been certified as properly closed by the department;

(7) "Solid waste" means any garbage or refuse, sludge from a wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include solid or dissolved materials in domestic sewage or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges that are point sources subject to permit under 33 U.S.C. 1342 or source, special nuclear, or by-product material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, 68 Stat. 923;

(8) "Solid waste disposal permit" means a permit issued by the State of Arkansas under the provisions of the Arkansas Solid Waste Management Act, 8-6-201 et seq. for the construction and operation of a landfill waste disposal facility; and

(9) "Transporter" or "solid waste transporter" means any individual, corporation, company, firm, partnership, association, trust, local solid waste authority, institution, county, city, town, or municipal authority or trust, venture, or other legal entity transporting solid waste within the state that is to be disposed of outside of the state.