Section 62-710.201 - DefinitionsIn addition to applicable definitions in rule 62-701.200, F.A.C., and the definition of "used oil" in section 403.75(7), F.S., the following words, phrases, or terms as used in this rule, unless the context indicates otherwise, shall have the following meaning:
(1) "Oily wastes" means those materials which are mixed with used oil and have become separated from that used oil. Oily wastes also means materials, including wastewaters, centrifuge solids, filter residues or sludges, bottom sediments, tank bottoms, and sorbents which have come into contact with, and have been contaminated by, used oil.(2) "Processing" means chemical or physical operations designed to produce from used oil, or to make used oil more amenable for production of, fuel oils, lubricants, or other used oil-derived products. Processing includes blending used oil with virgin petroleum products, blending used oils to meet the fuel specification found in 40 C.F.R. Part 279.11 [as adopted in subsection 62-710.210(2), F.A.C.], filtration, simple distillation, chemical or physical separation and rerefining.(3) "Processor" means any person processing used oil. The term also includes any transfer facility that stores used oil for longer than 35 days at a time, any used oil fuel marketer who receives used oil from transporters and who has at least 25, 000 gallons of used oil storage capacity, and any person who blends used oil with on-specification used oil fuel or with virgin petroleum products for the purpose of producing on-specification used oil fuel.(4) "Public used oil collection center" means:(a) An automotive service facility or government-sponsored collection facility which accepts for disposal small quantities of used oil from households, or(b) A facility which stores used oil and which accepts small quantities of used oil from households.(5) "Used oil transporter" means any person who transports used oil over public highways, any person who collects used oil from more than one generator and transports the collected oil over public highways, and owners and operators of used oil transfer facilities.(6) "Used oil filter" means any device which is an integral part of an oil flow system, the primary purpose of which is to remove contaminants from the flowing oil contained within the system and which, as a result of use, has become contaminated and unsuitable for its original purpose, is removed from service, and contains entrapped used oil.(7) "Used oil filter processor" means a person who removes oil from used oil filters to prepare them for recycling. Generators of used oil filters who consolidate, drain or crush used oil filters for off-site recycling are not used oil filter processors providing the generator complies with the requirements of subsection 62-710.850(2), F.A.C.(8) "Used oil filter transporter" means any person who transports, over public highways, for hire used oil filters to a used oil filter transfer or processing facility.(9) "Used oil filter transfer facility" means any facility which is used to store, for more than 10 days, used oil filters which were not generated at that facility. A person who stores its own used oil filters generated at its own non-contiguous operations on its own property is not considered a used oil filter transfer facility provided the used oil filters are processed by a registered used oil filter processor.(10) "Used oil fuel marketer" means any person who conducts either of the following activities: (a) Directs a shipment of off-specification used oil from their facility to a used oil burner, or(b) First claims that used oil that is to be burned for energy recovery meets the used oil fuel specifications set forth in 40 C.F.R. Part 279.11 [as adopted in subsection 62-710.210(2), F.A.C.].(11) "Used oil transfer facility" means any transportation related facility including loading docks, parking areas, and other areas where shipments of used oil are held for more than 24 hours during the normal course of transportation over public highways. Transfer facilities that store used oil for more than 35 days are "processors" as defined in subsection 62-710.201(3), F.A.C., and are subject to regulation under subpart F of 40 C.F.R. Part 279 [as adopted in subsection 62-710.210(2), F.A.C.]Fla. Admin. Code Ann. R. 62-710.201
Rulemaking Authority 403.061, 403.704 FS. Law Implemented 403.703, 403.75, 403.760, 403.767, 403.769 FS.
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