§ 8-6-603 - Definitions. - Arkansas Statutes

8-6-603. 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) "Landfill" means all landfills permitted under the Arkansas Solid Waste Management Act, 8-6-201 et seq., except those permitted landfills operated by a regulated public utility for ash generated by the combustion of coal to produce electric energy;

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

(5) "Recycling" means the systematic collection, sorting, decontamination, and return of waste materials to commerce as commodities for use or exchange;

(6) "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;

(7) "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;

(8) "Solid waste management" means the management of, but is not limited to, the storage, collection, transfer, transportation, treatment, utilization, processing, and final disposal of solid waste, including, but not limited to, the prevention, reduction, or recycling of wastes;

(9) "Solid waste management plan" means a plan which is developed according to the provisions of the Arkansas Solid Waste Management Act, 8-6-201 et seq., and guidelines of the department, and which is subject to approval by the department; and

(10) "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 the state.